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Albania Will Close TikTok for One Year, Saying It Encourages Violence Among Children
The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), "children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers."
But "Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government will shut down the video service TikTok for one year, blaming it...
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Sea Levels are Already Rising in America's Southeast. A Preview of the Future?
The Washington Post visits one of over 100 tide-tracking stations around the U.S. — Georgia's Fort Pulaski tide gauge:
Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest rates in the country, according to a Washington Post analysis of Nati...
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OpenAI's Next Big AI Effort GPT-5 is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive
"From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5..." reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But "OpenAI's new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn't clear when — or if — it'll work."
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Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data. .
The outage had started Sunday December 15...
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Scientists Build a Nuclear-Diamond Battery That Could Power Devices for Thousands of Years
The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol.
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience:
The diam...
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