Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)
Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules...
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Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules...
Japan’s biggest steelmaker, Nippon Steel Corp. has hired former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to help with its effort to acquire U.S. Steel the Japanese company said on Saturday....
As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure...
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cross-posted from: baraza.africa/post/1757994
Sky-high prices and electricity shortages could hit Hungarians within “weeks” after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on Russian oil passing through its territory....
Eka Gigauri is used to harsh words from officials about the anti-corruption work she does in Georgia. But seeing her face on posters, accusing her of being an agent of foreign influence, a traitor and a spy, rattled her....
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18147280...
The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair....
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/19768980...
This isn’t a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn’t log in....
We’re now at a point where transitioning fully to the open-source GPU kernel modules is the right move, and we’re making that change in the upcoming R560 driver release.