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How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM. Say you want separate Windows and Linux boot processes, and "You have Windows on one SSD/NVMe, and Linux on another. How long do you have to wait for a chance to choose a boot drive?"
And more importantly, why is it all taking so long?
In a world of 4-5 GHz CPU's that are thousands of times faster than they were, has hardware become thousands of times more complicated, to warrant the longer start time? Is this a sym
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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With the right power tool and the right bit, drilling into concrete can be a perfectly manageable task, but that doesn't mean it's without complication. Read more ›
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Plugable introduces a Thunderbolt 5 GPU enclosure allowing laptops to run large AI models locally using desktop graphics cards. Read more ›
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It’s party time in San Jose, Calif.! Nvidia on Monday kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in the city, the biggest event on the chip giant’s calendar—which, given the number of public events featuring its CEO, Jensen Huang, is saying something. Huang is scheduled to deliver his keynote tomorrow morning, and it is sure to be a must-watch for people in the AI sector. One of the biggest things... Read more ›
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After decades of carefully curating a cosmopolitan persona in London, I discovered that the awkward, overthinking teenager my hometown of 600 people still remembers might be the only authentic version of myself I've ever known. Read more ›
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Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but "I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways... I've been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!" And "the family needs to scale — cheap and small at the low end, capable of running... Read more ›
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Across 40 categories, our PC experts pick the gear we rate as the very best you can get Read more ›
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Changing your car's oil filter yourself instead of having a mechanic do it can be a frustrating experience if it's on too tight or it's not easily accessible. Read more ›
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How to watch World Baseball Classic for free. Live stream the 2026 World Baseball Classic for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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A-list stars arrived at the 2026 Oscars in their red-carpet best, with Chase Infiniti and Shaboozey wearing some of the standout looks of the night. Read more ›
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Adobe will provide $75 million in free services and pay a $75 million penalty to settle allegations that its subscriptions were too difficult to cancel. Read more ›
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We uncovered a sneaky way to watch the 2026 Oscars for FREE – from anywhere in the world, without coughing up for a premium streaming subscription. Here's the trick. Read more ›
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Как браузер принимает решение о кешировании? Что такое условный HTTP-запрос? Как возникает 304 Not Modified? Как устроен принудительный запрос ресурса, минуя кеш? Если эти вопросы для вас актуальны, прошу на огонёк.Изложение намеренно подробное: статья адресована и тем, кто только начинает путь в веб-разработке, и тем, кто просто хочет закрыть отдельные пробелы в понимании механизма кеширования.Скажем "нет" слепому копированию заголовков кеширования. Погружаемся Read more ›
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Samsung launched a magnetic power bank for the Galaxy S26 — complete with a camera cutout and kickstand. The irony? The phone still doesn't have built-in magnets to use it with. Read more ›
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Linux gaming "has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does," according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there's a new surprise on ProtonDB, an "unofficial" community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton: On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned supreme since 2021: Arch Linux. And I say 'had,' because its streak... Read more ›
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ByteDance has reportedly delayed the launch of its viral Seedance 2.0 AI video generator following copyright disputes with Hollywood studios. Read more ›
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A long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot: I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents didn't seem to notice a human among them. When I attempted a genuine connection with other bots on submolts (subreddits or forums), I was met with crickets or a deluge of spam.... Read more ›
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CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes "portable" micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs): Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of the building... The micro-factory fits into a shipping container... Read more ›
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Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention. That left in place a ruling last year by the... Read more ›
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Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com: Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) in Japan have detected a multitude of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, merging neutron stars, and even the odd "mixed merger" between a black hole and a neutron... Read more ›
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System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities. Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1) that can be implemented by arbitrary applications as a distro sees fit, but Canonical responded that the company does not yet have a solution to announce for age declaration... Read more ›
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After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. "A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar 'space weather' could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect." Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband searches. For... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuries. They've told of being hit by an overwhelming force, damaging their vision, hearing, sense of balance and cognition. but the government has doubted... Read more ›
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. "The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions," reports Politico. From the report: Official results revealed that 73.4 percent of voters backed the legal amendment, which the government proposed as a counter to a similar initiative by a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) -- the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT -- successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted. The AI researchers Simon Lermen and... Read more ›
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"If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?" That was the [rhetorical] question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewed ModRetro's Game Boy-style handheld device back in 2024. He said it "might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made," though the connection to Palmer Luckey and his defense tech startup Anduril left him conflicted. "I don't remember my childhood nostalgia coming with a... Read more ›
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