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Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights(2025-08-29 05:00:06)

Longtime Slashdot reader cristiroma shares a report from New Atlas: Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to upgrade them into soft glowing night l...
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Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population(2025-08-29 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their hiding spots. It's the latest effort by the South Flo...
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FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly(2025-08-28 20:00:16)

FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan -- and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition. From a report: At the start of the week, the FFmpeg project released its eighth major version. It's codenamed "Huffman" after the Huffman code algorithm,...
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Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts(2025-08-28 15:00:06)

Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. The Verge: It's also extending its data retention policy to five years -- again, for users that don't choose to opt out. All users will have to make a decisio...
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Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned(2025-08-28 10:00:07)

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S., which correlates with an increased consumption of other digital media, ...
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