Scientists need to learn marketing. With just a few wording changes, they could attract billions in investments and subsidies to explore Enceladus. Simply replace "life" with "vast amounts of oil, just beneath the surface". All we need to do is get there and drill it out.

Training wheels? Rust is more like a unicycle. If you add a second wheel, good luck figuring out which wheel should own the chain and which should borrow it.

They have an answer for this in their Frequently Asked Questions. They plan incremental adoption of Swift.

Prop 65 is a good thing. It causes consumers, and eventually manufacturers to avoid toxic chemicals. It could be implemented differently, instead of a warning when the product uses a toxic chemical, there could be a certification that the product does not use known toxic chemicals.

Are we about to "see" truck drivers who drive their trucks remotely? Is this allowed anywhere? Trucks could be driven practically non-stop, by rotating remote drivers. Truck drivers would have a more comfortable ride, and no commuting to/from the truck.

I suppose the consequences of a truck crashing out of control are a lot more serious than a car crashing.

This would be my concern, which is probably why they don't advertise driving customers remotely too. How much do you trust someone to drive you remotely, if you cannot see them? I suppose they could be cameras that let you see the remote driver...

Firefox has an option to delete cookies when you quit the browser.

The Desktop (Linux) version of Firefox also has the additional option to specify exceptions to this deletion for specific sites. Unfortunately the Android version of Firefox does not have this option (or I couldn't get it to work).

Cookies and site data (local storage) are treated the same (since a site can store a user identifier in local storage). Local storage is a great way for a websites to store personal data. It avoids tracking and it simplifies website functionality, since the server can be entirely stateless, without storing anything for its users. On the other hand, it means that the data is device-specific and is not shared across devices of the same user.

Deleting cookies when a tab is closed wouldn't be appropriate, because cookies are site-specific, not tab-specific and browsers easily go back and forth between tabs. For example, when clicking on a link in a page that takes you to another website, the current tab is replaced by the new site. Should cookies of the old tab be deleted? What if you then hit the back button and go back to the old tab? Would you be left without cookies, presumably losing information?

Instead of you waiting for someone to answer your question on slashdot, this agent would answer it for you by reading the article that the story links to, and quoting something like the following:

“It’s almost like having a little angel on your shoulder doing the boring hard work of reading reviews, doing price comparisons, synthesizing research, but instead of it happening away from you, you can actually see it in real time unfolding before your eyes,” says Suleyman.

I understand the value of doing it all in real time, so you are not dependent on a search engine and AI model having done this in advance, but I'm not sure that I would want to see these webpages open before my eyes.

It could even start producing electricity as it lands, with generative breaking. The problem is... it will need a 250-meter diameter landing pad.

Seriously now, what kind of lift could such a turbine produce, it it runs in reverse (as a fan)?

They can select snails they like by licking them, at a snail's pace.

Are dating apps used for procreation?

The Defense Department, or any other Org-T that you consider trustworthy, could review and certify open source software that they use and also make their certifications public for others to rely upon.

Instead of specifying a specific version of project X, I could specify the latest version of X that is certified by Org-T, or I could specify the latest version of Org-T's fork of X.

If you sample several points along the way, you may be able to take these changes into account. For example, let's say the magnetic field shifts by a couple of miles (is that typical?), it may also get distorted and you might be able to compute the amount it shifted, by using the distortion. The article has very little information about how it works.

This slashdot story is simply a poll to determine who reads only the story titles, and who actually even looks at the summary or the original article. I wish some AI could summarize the results.