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Professor Ends Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest After 43 Years(2025-03-09 15:00:03)

Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it's been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jose State University (which sponsored the contest...
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America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome(2025-03-09 10:00:06)

Last week Google urged the U.S. government not to break up the company — but apparently, it didn't work. In a new filing Friday, America's Justice Department "reiterated its November proposal that Google be forced to sell its Chrome web browser," reports the Washington Post, "to address a fede...
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Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?(2025-03-09 05:00:04)

U.S. president Donald Trump called Daylight Saving Time "very costly to our nation" and "inconvenient" in December. Today the Washington Post remembers he'd vowed his Republican party would use their "best efforts" to eliminate it. But it's still proving to be politically difficult... Polls have ...
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Reddit and Digg Cofounders Plan Relaunch of 'Human-Centered' Digg With AI Innovations(2025-03-09 00:00:04)

"The early web was fun," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. "It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. "Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg." The amount of that purchase is "undisclosed," reports CNBC: The deal is backed by ventur...
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Free Software Foundation Rides To Defend AGPLv3 Against Neo4j License Add-ons(2025-03-08 20:00:08)

This week the Free Software Foundation "backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 — the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3," reports the Register. "At stake is the future of not just the AGPLv3, but...
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