Day: July 9, 2023
Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground
Many American cities have been excavating water mains, revealing lead pipes and leaving them there.
Nine AI-Powered Humanoid Robots Hold Press Conference at UN Summit
We’ve just had the world’s first press conference with AI-enabled, humanoid social robots. Click here to jump straight to Slashdot’s transcript of all the robots’ answers during the press conference, or watch the 40-minute video here.
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Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers’ clips this fall, both on its mobile app (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
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Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers’ clips this fall, both on its mobile app — The features will arrive this fall. &…
Mexican journalist found dead days after being reported missing
Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez was one of three current or former journalists to have disappeared in the western Mexican state of Nayarit in recent days.
personal encryption script
So I wrote a fairly simple encryption script that I felt was worth mentioning. It’s not algorithm based, and instead uses a bank of data to create complicated ciphers. Is it out of character to ask if people would like to attempt to crack it here? Or if so, could someone point me towards where it would be appropriate? I’m fairly new to the idea, so I suppose it would require me submitting the same sentence encoded 10, 20, 100, 1000 times in order to try and find patterns? Or would it be better if I provide a paragraph and repeated it several times?
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/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 501, Part 1 (Thread #647)
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UK’s soaring liver cancer death rate blamed on alcohol and obesity
Charity calls on government to do more to restrict unhealthy lifestyle choicesOne of the country’s leading health charities is calling for urgent action to reduce the “carcinogenic effects” of cheap alcohol and unhealthy food after a 40% increase in de…