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Are Technologies of Connection Tearing Us Apart?(2025-02-16 20:00:12)

Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies "are changing us individually and collectively," writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title? Superbloom: How Technologies of Co...
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Argentinian President Promotes Memecoin. It Then Crashed 95% as Insiders Cashed Out(2025-02-16 15:00:05)

gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei tweeted, "This private project w...
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Alleged 'CEO Shooter' Luigi Mangione Raises $297K Online(2025-02-16 10:00:13)

Luigi Mangione faces first-degree murder charges. On Valentine's Day he posted his first public comments online, reports People magazine, with Mangione saying he's grateful for the support he's receiving: Earlier this week, Mangione accepted $297,000 in donations to cover his legal bills from the D...
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Are Fast Programming Languages Gaining in Popularity?(2025-02-16 05:00:04)

In January the TIOBE Index (estimating programming language popularity) declared Python their language of the year. (Though it was already #1 in their rankings, it had showed a 9.3% increase in their ranking system, notes InfoWorld.) TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen says this reflects how easy Python is to lea...
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Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You to Trust an AI?(2025-02-16 00:00:04)

Long-time Slashdot reader shanen has been testing AI clients. (They report that China's DeepSeek "turned out to be extremely good at explaining why I should not trust it. Every computer security problem I ever thought of or heard about and some more besides.") Then they wondered if there's also go...
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