An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group. The PhD is aiming to build an all-encompassing platform that can take a C repository running into hundreds of thousands of lines and translate it into Rust that's "safe, behaviourally correct and maintainable Rust." The work will be carried out by a student, Alex Wood, who will be supported by Professor Meng Wang leading the work, with Dr. Cristina David and Canonical's Jon Seager serving as co-supervisors.

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2026年3月15日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。日差しの厳しい夏、活躍するアイテムと言えばサングラスでしょう。紫外線を感じる季節には欲しくなるものです。そんなサングラスのスタンダードになりつつある調光タイプ。どれでも同じかと思うなかれ…

米Analogue社が開発する「Analogue Pocket（アナログ・ポケット）」は、ゲームボーイの物理ゲームカートリッジを遊べるレトロゲーム互換機です。5年ほど前、最初にリリースされたときはそりゃ大いに盛り上がりました。それから時は流…

日本公開から15年。4Kリマスターされた『ムカデ人間』のリバイバル上映が８月21日(金)に初日を迎えた。シネマート新宿では、“ムカデ人間の先頭”カツロー役の北村昭博と映画評論家の江戸木純が舞台挨拶に登壇。グッズの販売も行われ、『ムカデ人間』を愛するファン...続きを読む

2023年9月14日にリリースされた位置情報ゲーム『モンハンNow』もついに3周年。記念すべき特別な瞬間を彩るイベントの1つ「狩人たちの夏祭り2026」がついに開催される。イベント限定のガンランス「トロピカルキャノン」や汎用性の高い武器の生産や強化を促進...続きを読む

太陽の光がまったく届かない、水深2,000mの海の底。そこには、地面から噴き出す熱水の化学エネルギーだけを頼りに生きる、地球でいちばん人間から遠い生態系があります。そこに暮らす貝の体を調べたら、発泡スチロールの粒が出てきました。えぇ、マイク…

Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America's grids "are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in," with supplies straining for the necessary equipment. Demand for batteries has skyrocketed as electricity use across the U.S. swells, driven by data centers' booming energy needs and increasing electrification. It's also getting harder to get them connected to power grids... As those upgrades get delayed, storage projects are piling up in interconnection queues from coast to coast. For example, Consolidated Edison Inc., a major utility in New York state, says over the last two years the volume of battery storage projects waiting to be connected has grown by 300%... "The whole process of interconnecting these new power plants got really log-jammed and bottlenecked," said Joseph Rand, an energy policy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory... Nationwide, some 750 gigawatts of energy storage projects — roughly equivalent to the generating capacity of more than 700 nuclear reactors — are in line to get grid connections, according to the lab's research. Not all of these projects will get built. Many developers already abandoned the queue because of delays. Still, the waiting time is increasing; the median was five years in 2025, up from a year and a half in 2015. The flood of battery projects is expected to continue. Wood Mackenzie, an energy consultancy, projects the U.S. energy storage market will quadruple in the next six years... [Shortages in key equipment] have driven up construction costs and time lines for grid upgrades, leaving utilities struggling to build fast enough. A drought of skilled workers is further slowing them down... In California, PG&E Corp., the state's largest utility, told regulators in January that a key driver of delays was long lead times for specialized equipment. Procuring certain breakers could take nearly four years, according to the utility, which reported a 300% increase in its interconnection workload compared to prior years. In Northern California, for example, holdups to circuit breaker upgrades to a substation in Solano County led to projected delays for two battery projects worth a combined 450 megawatts. Transmission line work in the Bay Area has put another 800 megawatts of energy storage at risk of delay, according to PG&E. Last year New York's Con Ed started requiring developers to help pay for upgrades if their projects will push power demand and strain infrastructure. But that also drew criticism: According to a survey conducted by the trade group New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), the new methodology raised costs by an average of $21 million per project, a 14-fold increase. At least 25 projects have been canceled as a result, according to the group. Battery advocates have appealed to state regulators to get Con Ed to abandon the new policy. Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.

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たしかに。天体望遠鏡でのぞいたらヤバい気はしますね…。カリフォルニア州発のスタートアップ企業が｢夜間の地上へ人工衛星で太陽光を届ける｣という、なにやら宇宙世紀的で大胆な構想を掲げているんですけど、その一方で専門家たちは夜空を見上げる人々に深…

最終的に行き着くのは、なんだかんだモンベルなわけですよ。アウトドアブランドなのに、日常でも使えるものがけっこう揃っているので、あったらいいなが見つかるんです。「こんなの持ってたら超便利じゃん！」がいっぱいですよ。ペットボトルにも接続可。携帯…

2025年8月9日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。「クルマの中が暑い！」を回避したい。酷暑の際、クルマ移動は比較的ラクな交通手段です。一方、駐車したクルマに戻ってきたときがかなりの地獄。「快適なはずの車内がサウナ状態に……！」という経験は…

サメもクーラーとか欲しがっているかもね…。アメリカの沿岸部では、サメの目撃件数が過去最高を記録しているそうです。海水温の上昇を受けて、海の食物連鎖の頂点に君臨する捕食者であるサメが、涼しい海域を求めて移動しているのだとか。この夏、ニューヨー…

2026年6月4日の記事を編集して再掲載しています。「古くて新しい」技術が、電力の未来を変えていく。太陽光や風力を使う再生可能エネルギー（再エネ）の最大の弱点は、天候に左右されること。いろいろな方法でこの弱点を補おうとする動きが進む中、ある…

Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a "None of the above" option. The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions by changing the Debian Social Contract. This would stop generative AI from being used for direct Debian work like packaging, software, documentation, translations, websites, and project communication. However, upstream projects made with AI help would not be affected. The proposal gives several reasons for the ban, such as unclear copyright and licensing, doubts about the reliability of AI-generated work, extra review work for maintainers, aggressive scraping of Free Software resources, and the high resource use of large AI systems... The second option would clearly allow contributions that are partly or fully made by an LLM, as long as contributors check their technical quality, security, licensing, and usefulness, fully understand the changes, and disclose major AI help. It would also ban sending private or sensitive Debian information to untrusted external AI services. A similar fourth option recognizes worries about generative AI but says banning it would be hard to enforce and not helpful. This proposal would accept AI-assisted Debian work if it follows the Debian Free Software Guidelines, is properly reviewed and understood by the contributor, and is marked as AI-assisted when needed. The fifth proposal is even more open. It says Debian should not support or ban generative AI tools, but should apply the same standards for quality, correctness, maintainability, and legality to all contributions, no matter how they were made... One unique proposal is called "Debian is created by humans." Instead of banning AI tools for contributors, it focuses on what actually gets included in Debian. With this approach, contributors could use generative AI for research, analysis, exploration, or critique, but could not submit AI-generated output directly as Debian packaging, patches, documentation, bug reports, project communications, or other Debian work. As the proposal says: humans create Debian. Another, much stricter proposal asks Debian contributors to avoid LLM use as much as possible. It would require all Debian communication, like bug reports, mailing-list messages, Salsa discussions, and Planet Debian posts, to be written only by humans. Any AI use in Debian work would have to be disclosed, and violations could be handled under the project's Code of Conduct. The CEO/founder of AI-native compliance management platform company Strike Graph believes a Debian AI ban is "the wrong fix for the actual problem" at hand, reports The New Stack: "Debian's ban isn't really about banning AI," [CEO Justin] Beals says. "It's an admission that nobody has built a reliable way to verify what an AI agent actually produced before it lands in a codebase this many systems depend on, including infrastructure running in orbit. That's a legitimate thing to be worried about...." He thinks that any policy statement that says AI isn't allowed simply won't hold up, as the tooling keeps getting harder to detect... Looking across the complete set of tabled propositions, proposal A (no LLM contributions to Debian via social contract) needs a 3:1 majority to pass; the other seven proposals (B to H) need a simple majority.

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ナマズの代わりに光ファイバーケーブル。アメリカ太平洋岸北西部（アメリカ西海岸）に縁がある人じゃなければ、｢ShakeAlert｣について耳にしたことなんてないと思います。アメリカ地質調査所（USGS）が運用する、お堅い機関のわりにちょっと愛…

ROOMIE 2026年1月4日掲載の記事より転載水筒を選ぶとき、保温・保冷力や容量はもちろん大事。でも最近は、「いかにストレスなく使えるか」が、いちばんの決め手になってきた気がします。ワンアクションで快適水筒のフタをいちいち回して開けるの…

8月24日20時まで『ポケモンGO』で開催中の「ウルトラアンロック：ウォーターフェスティバル」では、野生に「コソクムシ」が出現中。コソクムシは進化に必要なアメが400個。これが中々集められずに図鑑埋めに難儀する種別のポケモンですが、イベント中のボーナスを...続きを読む

8月24日20時まで『ポケモンGO』で開催中の「ウルトラアンロック：ウォーターフェスティバル」では「ウッウ」が初実装。ただし、少なくとも現状は野生で出現しないポケモンとなっているので、まだ図鑑が埋まっていないトレーナーも多いはず。しかし、実は誰でも1分で...続きを読む

8月24日20時まで『ポケモンGO』で開催中の「ウルトラアンロック：ウォーターフェスティバル」では、「ヒンバス」が野生に出現中。普段あまり見かけないポケモンなので、単純にレア枠としても狙い目ですが、進化後の「ミロカロス」がジム防衛において非常に優秀という...続きを読む

Retraction Watch reports: A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers. The case has already cost Elsevier a $10,000 sanction from a judge. Global Plasma Solutions (GPS), which makes air quality products, sued Elsevier in 2022 after the publisher declined to retract a 2021 paper in Building and Environment about GPS' needlepoint bipolar ionization technology, which it heavily marketed during the COVID-19 pandemic as an air purifier. The complaint claims Elsevier is responsible for the authors' alleged omission of data and misleading conclusions in the paper that fueled "massive" financial losses for the company, its lawyers claim. Elsevier knew the paper "failed peer review" under its "own standards," but moved forward with the article despite this knowledge, according to GPS, which now goes by GPS Air. The complaint has survived a bid by Elsevier to dismiss the case, and a trial has been set for Dec. 7. In allowing the case to proceed, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler said in a May 2024 opinion that GPS has "plausibly alleged actual malice" by Elsevier defined as "knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth." Chief Judge Martin Reidinger of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina upheld Keesler's recommendation in July 2025... Citing internal and discovery documents, GPS alleges an assessment of 19 journals revealed Elsevier has published more than 1,200 articles either without any peer review, or against the recommendations of the reviewers. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger for sharing the article.

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8月24日20時まで『ポケモンGO』で開催中の「ウルトラアンロック：ウォーターフェスティバル」では、野生に「パールル」が出現中。ピックアップされる機会が少ないうえに、進化後も含めた図鑑埋めの難易度がとにかく凶悪なポケモンなので、野生で湧いている今のうちに...続きを読む