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Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit(2025-03-16 05:00:04)

"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit," reports the BBC, "in the Brazilian city of Belém." The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people at the conferenc...
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Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?(2025-03-16 00:00:14)

"Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally," asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that "doesn't spy... and no one else owns it." We download it, from souce-code if you like, install ...
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Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers(2025-03-15 20:00:08)

Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with pr...
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Last Year Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Got 589 Parking Tickets in San Francisco(2025-03-15 15:00:04)

"Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road..." notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also "routinely violate parking rules." Waymo vehicles driving themselves received 589 tickets fo...
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NAB Calls For End of ATSC 1.0(2025-03-15 10:00:14)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Broadband TV News: The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to establish a clear, industry-wide transition plan for the full deployment of Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0). Th...
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