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Renewable Energy is Surging in Africa
Almost a fifth of the earth's population lives in Africa. And Africa's next generation of power projects "is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage," reports the Associated Press, "as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search...
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Zig Bans AI Code Contributions Because They're 'Invariably Garbage'
The Zig programming language wants to be a modern alternative to C (including better memory safety features). It's maintained by as an open-source project by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a network of contributors.
But Business Insider notes that Zig bans the submission of AI-assisted code:
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UK-Based Rockstar Games North Workers Formally Announce Union
Rockstar Games has a 2,000-employee studio in Scotland called Rockstar North. And Thursday its workers announced they'd formed a union, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:
The union [part of the wider Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union] includes workers from Rockstar Games offi...
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Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App
It all started when the German developer behind an open-source app for Java testing "added hidden instructions to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents," reports Ars Technica:
The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5... The salient change in the update was a line t...
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Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, accordi...
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