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2024-04-17T15:20:00Z	**Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat**
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of threatening to censor content on smartphones [YouTube link]. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Durov claimed that these companies told Telegram to comply with their guidelines or face removal from their app stores.

"Those two platforms, they could bas ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1520201/telegram-founder-accuses-google-and-apple-of-censorship-threat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T16:00:00Z	**A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages**
404 Media: An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service's creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1556242/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T16:40:00Z	**Amazon Cloud Unit Kills Snowmobile Data Transfer Truck Service**
At Amazon's annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd's attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage. Andy Jassy, now Amazon's CEO, called it the Snowmobile, and said the company would be using the truck to help customers speedily transfer data to Amazon Web Services facilities. Less than eight years later, the semi is out of commissio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1614227/amazon-cloud-unit-kills-snowmobile-data-transfer-truck-service?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T17:22:00Z	**Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name**
Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, can't be registered as a trademark in the European Union after judges said that approving his brother's bid would go against "principles of morality." From a report: The public "associate that name with drug trafficking and narco-terrorism and with the crimes and suffering resulting there ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1524249/escobar-brother-barred-by-eu-court-from-trademarking-family-name?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T18:01:00Z	**Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says**
Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. From a report: Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are proj ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1645219/average-world-incomes-to-drop-by-nearly-a-fifth-by-2050-study-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T18:42:00Z	**AI Computing Is on Pace To Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says**
AI's voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas. From a report: By 2030, the world's data centers are on course to use more electricity than India, the world's most populous country, Haas said. Fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1741230/ai-computing-is-on-pace-to-consume-more-energy-than-india-arm-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T19:21:00Z	**What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill?**
An anonymous reader shares a report: A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. [...] In the UAE, a record 254 millimetres (10 inches) of rainfall was recorded in Al Ain, a city bordering Oman. It was the largest ever in a 24-hou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/1756223/what-caused-the-storm-that-brought-dubai-to-a-standstill?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T20:25:00Z	**Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Futurism: In a new blog post from LastPass, the password management firm used by countless personal and corporate clients to help protect their login information, the company explains that someone used AI voice-cloning tech to spoof the voice of its CEO in an attempt to trick one of its employees. As the company writes in the post, o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2021229/hackers-voice-cloned-the-ceo-of-lastpass-for-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T21:02:00Z	**Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming**
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which has been called the "mother of all meme stocks" after it made its stock market debut in late March, announced that its Truth Social platform is moving to launch a live TV streaming platform. Following the news, shares of DJT closed more than 14% lower Tuesday. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2030230/trump-media-shares-down-14-after-company-says-truth-social-to-launch-tv-streaming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T21:40:00Z	**AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU**
AltStore PAL has become one of the first alternative app marketplaces to launch in the European Union. Developed by Riley Testut, AltStore PAL is marketed as an open-source project designed to distribute apps from independent developers. MacRumors reports: At launch, it features two apps, including Testut's Delta game emulator and clipboard ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2041240/altstore-pal-alternative-app-marketplace-launches-on-iphone-in-eu?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T22:20:00Z	**Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US AI Safety Institute -- part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced its leadership team after much speculation. Appointed as head of AI safety is Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI researcher who pioneered a foundational AI safety technique called reinforcement learn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2052256/feds-appoint-ai-doomer-to-run-us-ai-safety-institute?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T23:00:00Z	**Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare**
Jess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: It's alive! A day after announcing it was retiring Atlas, its hydraulic robot, Boston Dynamics has introduced a new, all-electric version of its humanoid machine. The next-generation Atlas robot is designed to offer a far greater range of movement than its predecessor. Boston Dynamics want ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/215218/boston-dynamics-new-atlas-robot-is-a-swiveling-shape-shifting-nightmare?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-17T23:40:00Z	**TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes'**
TikTok has started testing its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in Canada and Australia. TechCrunch reports: The company said on X that it is in the "early stage" of the app's rollout and that the app is "a dedicated space for photo and text content." "We hope that the TikTok community will use TikTok Notes to continue sharing their moments through ph ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2114208/tiktok-starts-testing-its-instagram-competitor-tiktok-notes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T00:20:00Z	**Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office**
CNBC reports that nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night in protest of the company's $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government. The sit-in happened at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons of Google's New York office. From ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/236253/google-workers-arrested-after-nine-hour-protest-in-cloud-chiefs-office?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T03:30:00Z	**House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from third parties — legislation that scored a vote after negotiations with a group of GOP colleagues who briefly tanked a vote on warrantless spy powers. Dubbed the Fourth Amendment is Not  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2313239/house-passes-bill-requiring-warrant-to-purchase-data-from-third-parties?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T07:00:00Z	**Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration**
Sweden is the newest nation to sign onto NASA's Artemis Accords -- a series of non-binding bilateral arrangements for peaceful and responsible exploration. Space.com reports: During a signing event in Stockholm on Tuesday (April 16), Swedish Minister for Education Mats Persson penned the agreement alongside U.S. Am ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2331211/sweden-becomes-38th-country-to-sign-nasas-artemis-accords-for-moon-exploration?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T10:00:00Z	**Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac?**
Apple is doubling down on 8GB of RAM for many of its entry-level Macs, claiming that it's "suitable for many tasks," including browsing, video streaming and even "light" video and image editing. As of this writing, all MacBook Air laptops, the Mac Mini, and the MacBook Pro 14 all start with a base configuration of 8GB RAM -- which can't be upgraded at a later date since the RAM is soldered onto the motherboa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/17/2324242/is-8gb-of-ram-enough-for-a-mac?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T12:00:00Z	**Inside Amazon's Secret Operation To Gather Intel on Rivals**
Amazon staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called "Big River," WSJ reports. The mission: to scoop up information on pricing, logistics and other business practices. From the report: For nearly a decade, workers in a warehouse in Seattle's Denny Triangle neighborhood have shipped boxes of shoes, beach chairs, Marvel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/0636230/inside-amazons-secret-operation-to-gather-intel-on-rivals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T13:07:00Z	**Google Terminates 28 Employees For Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract**
Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. From a report: The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations. "Physically impeding other employee ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/136235/google-terminates-28-employees-for-protest-of-israeli-cloud-contract?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T14:07:00Z	**US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight**
The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot's seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year. From a report: DARPA began experimenting with AI applications in December 2022 as part of its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/148205/us-air-force-confirms-first-successful-ai-dogfight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T14:45:00Z	**Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support**
U.S. lawmakers have moved closer to enacting a countrywide ban on TikTok. From a report: Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill by a wide margin that would ban distribution of TikTok in U.S. unless TikTok's Chinese parent, ByteDance, sells its ownership in the app  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1437245/odds-of-us-tiktok-ban-increase-after-house-fast-tracks-revised-bill-picking-up-key-senate-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T15:24:00Z	**Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years**
Researchers in Canada got most of what they were hoping for in the country's 2024 federal budget, with a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure. From a report: "We are investing over $5 billion in Canadian brainpower," said finance minister Chrystia Freeland in her budget speech on ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1452205/canadian-science-gets-biggest-boost-to-phd-and-postdoc-pay-in-20-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T16:00:00Z	**Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams**
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called "Platforms and Devices" that will oversee all of Google's Pixel products, all of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Photos, and more. From a report: The team will be run by Rick Osterloh, who was previously the SVP of devices and services, overseeing all  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1550204/google-is-combining-its-android-and-hardware-teams?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T16:40:00Z	**Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance**
Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters respectively, as a "major leap" in performance compared to their predecessors.

Meta claims that the Llama 3 m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1640213/meta-releases-llama-3-ai-models-claiming-top-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T17:22:00Z	**Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist**
An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1722241/hackers-are-threatening-to-publish-a-huge-stolen-sanctions-and-financial-crimes-watchlist?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T18:00:00Z	**Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text - With a Twist**
The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel "AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words," which extensively used OpenAI's ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text, but with a significan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1741255/author-granted-copyright-over-book-with-ai-generated-text---with-a-twist?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T18:41:00Z	**Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions**
Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Nigeria's works ministry, which supervises federal road constructors, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1614201/nigeria-to-criminalise-fiber-cable-damage-costing-telecoms-billions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T19:22:00Z	**Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030**
U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region's traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron revealed the plans in an interview with Nikkei. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft at s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/188205/boeing-aims-to-bring-flying-cars-to-asia-by-2030?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T20:01:00Z	**Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme**
A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws governing fraud and market manipulation apply to the world of decentr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1941251/crypto-trader-eisenberg-convicted-of-fraud-in-110-million-mango-markets-scheme?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T20:42:00Z	**Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students**
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech -- formerly known as Lambda School -- with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices. From a report: The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their "dream job" in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/1946251/feds-hit-coding-boot-camp-with-big-fine-for-allegedly-conning-students?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T21:20:00Z	**Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and genetic ancestry, are being collected and often resold by the apps and the digital services they use. With the advent of consumer neurotechnologies, the data being collected is beco ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2017226/colorado-bill-aims-to-protect-consumer-brain-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T22:00:00Z	**Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp**
WhatsApp users in the U.S. will soon see support for real-time AI image generation. The Verge reports: As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you'll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta, a user types in the prompt, "Imagine a soccer game on mars." The gen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://meta.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2026247/meta-is-adding-real-time-ai-image-generation-to-whatsapp?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T22:40:00Z	**Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash**
A software glitch in the "ticket in, cash out" (TICO) machines at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away $2.05 million over several weeks. This glitch allowed gamblers to reuse a receipt for slot machine winnings, leading to unwarranted cash payouts which went undetected due to systematic failures in oversight and audit processe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2037259/software-glitch-saw-aussie-casino-give-away-millions-in-cash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-18T23:20:00Z	**Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2047225/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T00:02:00Z	**Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack**
U.S. telecom provider Frontier Communications shut down its systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack. BleepingComputer reports: Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a fiber-optic network to millions of consumers and businesses across 25 states. After dis ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/232242/frontier-communications-shuts-down-systems-after-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T00:45:00Z	**Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16%**
Netflix on Thursday reported a 16% rise in memberships in the first quarter, reaching 269.6 million, beating Wall Street expectations. Starting next year, the company will no longer provide quarterly membership numbers or average revenue per user starting next year. CNBC reports: "As we've noted in previous letters, we're focused on revenue and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/238242/netflix-blows-past-earnings-estimates-as-subscribers-jump-16?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T01:25:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop**
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2321230/ubuntu-2404-yields-a-20-performance-advantage-over-windows-11-on-ryzen-7-framework-laptop?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T03:30:00Z	**Reddit Is Taking Over Google**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: If you think you've been seeing an awful lot more Reddit results lately when you search on Google, you're not imagining things. The internet is in upheaval, and for website owners the rules of "winning" Google Search have never been murkier. Google's generative AI search engine is coming from one direction. It's creeping closer to mainstream deployment and br ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2330236/reddit-is-taking-over-google?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T07:00:00Z	**Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System**
Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from Reuters: Aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman is working with SpaceX [...] on a classified spy satellite project already capturing high-resolution imagery of the Earth, according to people familiar with the program. The program, details of which were first reported by Reuters last m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/2345215/northrop-grumman-working-with-spacex-on-us-spy-satellite-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T10:00:00Z	**FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure**
schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully gained access to numerous American co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/0419214/fbi-says-chinese-hackers-preparing-to-attack-us-infrastructure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T13:00:00Z	**Chinese Cities Are Sinking Rapidly**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Major cities across China are sinking, putting a substantial portion of the country's rapidly urbanizing population in harm's way in the coming decades, according to a sweeping new analysis by Chinese scientists. Subsidence is the technical term for when land sinks relative to its surroundings, and it's a major threat for cities around the world. It accelerates loc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/0433234/chinese-cities-are-sinking-rapidly?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T14:00:00Z	**Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store**
China ordered Apple to remove some of the world's most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country, the latest example of censorship demands on the iPhone seller in the company's second-biggest market. WSJ: Meta's WhatsApp and Threads as well as messaging platforms Signal, Telegram and Line were taken off the Chinese App Store ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/0926227/apple-removes-whatsapp-threads-and-telegram-from-china-app-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T14:40:00Z	**Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts**
Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. From a report: This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account. As first noticed by the outlet Windows Latest, the most recent Windows 10 update Release Preview includes some information about ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/0956230/windows-10-will-start-pushing-users-to-use-microsoft-accounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T15:21:00Z	**Samsung Shifts To Emergency Mode With 6-day Work Week for Executives**
Korean newspaper KED Global: Executives at all Samsung Group units will work six days a week from as early as this week in a shift to emergency mode. The move comes as the won's sharp depreciation, rising oil prices and high borrowing costs aggravate business uncertainties after some of the group's mainstay businesses delivered poorer-tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1148209/samsung-shifts-to-emergency-mode-with-6-day-work-week-for-executives?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T16:01:00Z	**Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace'**
Google, once known for its unconventional approach to business, has taken a decisive step towards becoming a more traditional company by firing 28 employees who participated in protests against a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government. The move comes after sit-in demonstrations on Tuesday at Google offices in Silicon Valley and New York City, where employees opposed the company's supp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/124205/google-to-employees-we-are-a-workplace?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T16:40:00Z	**Microsoft Does Not Want You To Use iPerf3 To Measure Network Performance on Windows**
An anonymous reader shares a report: iPerf is a fairly popular cross-platform tool that is used by many to measure network performance and diagnose any potential issues in this area. The open-source utility is maintained by an organization called Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and officially supports Linux,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1212256/microsoft-does-not-want-you-to-use-iperf3-to-measure-network-performance-on-windows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T17:22:00Z	**Meta's Not Telling Where It Got Its AI Training Data**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Today Meta unleashed its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI, across its apps and as a standalone. The company boasts that it is running on its latest, greatest AI model, Llama 3, which was trained on "data of the highest quality"! A dataset seven times larger than Llama2! And includes 4 times more code! What is that training data? There the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1236256/metas-not-telling-where-it-got-its-ai-training-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T18:02:00Z	**Porn Sites Face Strict EU Rules, Commission Says**
Adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take measures to address systemic risks linked to their services to comply with new EU online content rules, the European Commission said on Friday. From a report: The three companies were designated as very large online platforms last December under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1244224/porn-sites-face-strict-eu-rules-commission-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T18:41:00Z	**Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Cut 60,000 Jobs in First Layoffs in 20 Years**
An anonymous reader shares a report: TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, India's top three IT outsourcing firms, have collectively seen their workforce shrink for the first time in at least 20 years. The trio reported a combined reduction of more than 63,750 employees in the financial year ending March 31, 2024.

[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1255222/indian-it-outsourcing-firms-cut-60000-jobs-in-first-layoffs-in-20-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T19:30:00Z	**Microsoft's VASA-1 Can Deepfake a Person With One Photo and One Audio Track**
Microsoft Research Asia earlier this week unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. ArsTechnica: In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds -- or allow anyone with si ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1931210/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T20:05:00Z	**Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype**
Linus Torvalds, discussing the AI hype, in a conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Verizon's Head of the Open Source Program Office: Torvalds snarked, "It's hilarious to watch. Maybe I'll be replaced by an AI model!" As for Hohndel, he thinks most AI today is "autocorrect on steroids." Torvalds summed up his attitude as, "Let's wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before we make all these crazy ann ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1944235/linus-torvalds-on-hilarious-ai-hype?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T20:45:00Z	**EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two 'Forever Chemicals'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Biden administration is designating two "forever chemicals," man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers. The new rule announced on Friday empowers the government to force the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/1949228/epa-will-make-polluters-pay-to-clean-up-two-forever-chemicals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T21:25:00Z	**A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: In October 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created his first viral site: not Facebook, but FaceMash. Then a college freshman, he hacked into Harvard's online dorm directories, gathered a massive collection of students' headshots, and used them to create a website on which Harvard students could rate classmates by their attractiveness, literally a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2017244/a-chess-formula-is-taking-over-the-world?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T22:02:00Z	**'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly**
Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding. "It is with profound sadness that, today, on April 18, 2024, we are announcing the difficult decision to close Women Who Code, following a vote by the Board of Directors to dissolve the organization," the organization said in a blog post. "Thi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2024202/women-who-code-shuts-down-unexpectedly?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T22:40:00Z	**23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki Considers Taking Company Private**
Ashley Capoot reports via CNBC: Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe, is considering a proposal to take the genetic testing company private after its stock price tumbled more than 95% from its 2021 highs. A late Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wojcicki is working with advisors and plans to speak with possible financing sources and p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2031224/23andme-ceo-anne-wojcicki-considers-taking-company-private?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-19T23:20:00Z	**Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government's Facebook pages. "People that visit a government's page need to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2035240/dutch-privacy-watchdog-recommends-government-organizations-stop-using-facebook?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T00:02:00Z	**Firefox Nightly Expands To Linux On ARM64**
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Mozilla has announced Firefox Nightly for ARM64. This release will cater to the growing demand for support on ARM64 platforms, commonly referred to as AArch64. Feedback from the community has led Mozilla to expand the availability of Firefox Nightly. Users can now access the browser as both .tar archives and .deb packages, depending on their prefere ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/216227/firefox-nightly-expands-to-linux-on-arm64?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T00:45:00Z	**Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder**
Ben Schoon reports via 9to5Google: Google's Arif Dikici confirmed on LinkedIn this week that Android is now using VideoLAN's (the makers of VLC) "dav1d" software decoder to allow AV1 to work on more devices. This is now available on all devices running Android 12 or higher via a software update. Mishaal Rahman points out that this started to roll out with the March 2024 Google Play s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2113226/android-gets-a-new-software-based-av1-decoder?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T01:25:00Z	**Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story**
Earlier this week, Netflix found itself embroiled in an AI scandal when Futurism spotted AI-generated images used in the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did.. The movie's credits do not mention any uses of AI, causing critics to call out the filmmakers for "potentially embellishing a movie that's supposed to be based on real-life events,"  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2131204/netflix-doc-accused-of-using-ai-to-manipulate-true-crime-story?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T20:34:00Z	**JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky'**
A large-screen IMAX documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope "has just opened in 300 theaters across North America," write an anonymous Slashdot reader, noting that it's playing for one week only. "And it gets a rave review in Forbes."

Imagine venturing to the beginning of time and space, exploring cosmic landscapes so vast and beautiful that they've remained unseen by human eyes unt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/203254/jwst-gets-an-imax-documentary-deep-sky?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T19:34:00Z	**The Legendary Zilog Z80 CPU Is Being Discontinued After Nearly 50 Years**
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares an article from TechSpot: Zilog is retiring the Z80 after 48 years on the market. Originally developed as a project stemming from the Intel 8080, it eventually rose to become one of the most popular and widely used 8-bit CPUs in both gaming and general computing devices.

 The iconic IC d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/1916203/the-legendary-zilog-z80-cpu-is-being-discontinued-after-nearly-50-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T18:34:00Z	**Sell or Be Banned:  Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives**
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed its long-delayed Ukraine aid bill. But along with it they also approved a bill banning TikTok "if its Chinese owner does not sell the video app," according to NPR:

While lawmakers in the House advanced a similar bill last month, this effort is different for two reasons: It is attached to a sweeping f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/1818209/sell-or-be-banned-anti-tiktok-bill-passed-by-us-representatives?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T17:34:00Z	**Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power:  Coal**
The Washington Post reports on a new situation in Virginia:

There, massive data centers with computers processing nearly 70 percent of global digital traffic are gobbling up electricity at a rate officials overseeing the power grid say is unsustainable unless two things happen: Several hundred miles of new transmission lines must be built, slicing through n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0319223/data-centers-are-turning-to-an-old-source-of-power-coal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T16:34:00Z	**Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools**
SiliconANGLE reports that to help organizations detect vulnerabilities earlier, Red Hat has "announced updates to its Trusted Software Supply Chain that enable organizations to shift security 'left' in the software supply chain."

Red Hat announced Trusted Software Supply Chain in May 2023, pitching it as a way to address the r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0424211/red-hat-upgrades-its-pipeline-securing-and-verification-automating-tools?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T15:34:00Z	**Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Ocean waves crashing on the world's shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world's industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines. The study measured levels of PFAS released from the bubbles that bur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2145216/ocean-spray-emits-more-pfas-than-industrial-polluters-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T14:34:00Z	**'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles**
Today is Record Store Day, which according to Wikipedia is happening in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Australia.

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Los Angeles Times:
420 isn't just for stoners. This year, Record Store Day — the worldwide celebration for independent re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0234247/record-store-day-2024-includes-talking-heads-daft-punk-cheech-chong-beatles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T13:00:00Z	**British Columbia Bans Level 3 and Above Autonomous Cars**
New submitter Baloo Uriza writes: In a rare display of sanity in the automotive space, British Columbia has banned autonomous cars from its highways after years of watching autonomous cars hamper emergency response efforts in California and outright kill a pedestrian in Arizona. Let's hope this regulatory trend continues and moves into the human space by pulling l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2219216/british-columbia-bans-level-3-and-above-autonomous-cars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T10:00:00Z	**openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds**
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: While Fedora 41 in late 2024 is aiming to have more reproducible package builds, openSUSE Factory has already achieved a significant milestone in bit-by-bit reproducible builds. Since last month openSUSE Factory has been producing bit-by-bit reproducible builds sans the likes of embedded signatures. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed pack ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/2148247/opensuse-factory-achieves-bit-by-bit-reproducible-builds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T07:00:00Z	**NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery**
Longtime Slashdot reader garyisabusyguy shares a report from The Debrief: Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that his company's propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract E ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/19/223206/nasa-veteran-behind-propellantless-propulsion-drive-announces-major-discovery?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T03:33:00Z	**Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:

U.S. government officials were scrambling Friday night to prevent what they fear could be a significant loss of access to critical national security information, after two major U.S. communications providers said they would stop complying with orders under a controversial survei ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0254226/two-major-isps-threaten-theyll-stop-complying-with-us-fisa-orders?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-20T22:34:00Z	**Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era?**
South America's Amazon River has reached its lowest level since measurements began, according to the Washington Post, while temperatures "hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit" for nearly a week as April began in the capital of Mali. "Nights offered little relief, with temperatures often staying above 90 degrees..."

"An overtaxed electrical grid sputtere ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0348215/could-the-earths-record-hot-streak-signal-a-new-climate-era?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T01:34:00Z	**Volla Successfully Crowdfunds a Privacy-Focused Tablet on Kickstarter**
It's "the new generation of Tablet for simplicity and privacy..." according to its Kickstarter page. "Top-tier performance, lightweight design and completely Google-free." And it's already reached its funding goal of $53,312 — climbing to over $75,000 from 115 backers with another 26 days still to go.

 9to5Linux reports:

Volla, the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/2119248/volla-successfully-crowdfunds-a-privacy-focused-tablet-on-kickstarter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T03:34:00Z	**Insufficient Redundancy?  Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage**
"Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line," reports the Associated Press, knocking out 911 phone service "for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the line said Thursday."

In Kansas City, Missou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/2334218/insufficient-redundancy-light-pole-installation-cut-fiber-line-triggered-three-state-911-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T07:34:00Z	**Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion**
Several "high-profile astronomers" will meet at London's Royal Society (the UK's national academy of sciences), "to question some of the most fundamental aspects of our understanding of the universe.reports Futurism:

As The Guardian reports, the luminaries of cosmology will be re-examining some basic a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/0518255/some-astronomers-will-re-examine-a-102-year-old-theory-about-the-universes-expansion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T11:34:00Z	**Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles**
San Francisco-based drone-delivery service Zipline "said Friday that it hit its 1 millionth delivery to customers," reports CNBC, "and that it's eyeing restaurant partnerships in its next phase of growth."

Zipline's clients already include more than 4,700 hospitals, according to the article, as well as major brand ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/016239/ziplines-drones-complete-their-1-millionth-delivery-flying-over-70-million-miles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T14:34:00Z	**EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay'**
The EU's European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies.

Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that nearly two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits wrote the Board an open letter "urging it not to endorse a strategy used by Meta that they say is intended to bypass the EU's privacy protections for commercial gain."

Meta's strategy is sometimes called "Pay or Okay," w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/0041224/eu-meta-cannot-rely-on-pay-or-okay?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T15:34:00Z	**How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa**
CNBC visited a small group of bitcoin miners who "set up shop at the site of an extinct volcano" near Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park.

Their mine "consists of a single 500-kilowatt mobile container that, from the outside, looks like a small residential trailer." But what's more interesting is it's operated by a startup ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/0221237/how-a-renewable-energy-powered-bitcoin-startup-helps-electrify-rural-africa?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T16:34:00Z	**LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible**
This week saw the release of the LXQt 2.0 desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. And besides bringing Qt 6 support (and a new default application menu), it also brings support for the Wayland display protocol to more components:

The LXQt development is confident that the next major release, LXQt 2.1, will be fully Wayland compatible. The co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/20/2143224/lxqt-20-released-lightweight-desktop-is-almost-wayland-compatible?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T17:34:00Z	**Should Automakers Feel Threatened by China's Exports of Electric Cars?**
The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S.-China rivalry "has a new flashpoint in the battle for technology supremacy: electric cars."

"So far, the U.S. is losing."

Last year, China became the world's foremost auto exporter, according to the China Passenger Car Assn., surpassing Japan with more than 5 million sales overseas. New energ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/174245/should-automakers-feel-threatened-by-chinas-exports-of-electric-cars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T19:05:00Z	**Lying to Investors?  Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud**
The co-founder of Silicon Valley-based software testing startup HeadSpin was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and a $1 million fine, reports SFGate — for defrauding investors.

Lachwani pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and a count of securities fraud in April 2023, after federal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/192254/lying-to-investors-co-founder-of-startup-headspin-gets-18-month-prison-sentence-for-fraud?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T20:05:00Z	**Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip?**
Remember when Apple filed a lawsuit against chip startup Rivos (saying that in one year Rivos hired more than 40 former Apple employees to work on competing system-on-a-chip technology)? Apple settled that suit in February.

And now Tuesday Rivos announced that it raised $250 million, according to Reuters, "in a funding round that will enable it to manufacture its first server chip geared for artif ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/1938213/is-rivos-building-an-risc-v-ai-chip?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T21:05:00Z	**GPT-4 Can Exploit Real Vulnerabilities By Reading Security Advisories**
Long-time Slashdot reader tippen shared this report from the Register:

AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.

In a newly released paper, four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/2030236/gpt-4-can-exploit-real-vulnerabilities-by-reading-security-advisories?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-21T22:25:00Z	**The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Just Sent Its Last Message Home**
Two months ago the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter released a video reflecting on its historic explorations of Mars, flying 10.5 miles (17.0 kilometers) in 72 different flights over three years. It was the team's way of saying goodbye, according to NASA's video.

And this week, LiveScience reports, Ingenuity answered back:

On April 16, Inge ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/2221239/the-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-just-sent-its-last-message-home?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T02:09:00Z	**Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable**
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:
On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce "green" hydrogen — a much-hyped clean fuel.

The cluster of low-s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/026240/startup-is-building-the-worlds-largest-ocean-based-carbon-plant---and-its-scalable?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T04:59:00Z	**Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director:  Microsoft is a National Security Risk**
This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft:
"If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago ... [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies" instead of ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/0337218/ex-white-house-cyber-policy-director-microsoft-is-a-national-security-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T07:44:00Z	**What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet?**
Bloomberg looks at America's biggest operator of private electrical vehicle charging infrastructure: Amazon. "In a little more than two years, Amazon has installed more than 17,000 chargers at about 120 warehouses around the U.S." — and had Rivian build 13,500 custom electric delivery vans.

Amazon has a long way to go. The Seattle-based company says its  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/21/1816225/what-happened-after-amazon-electrified-its-delivery-fleet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T11:34:00Z	**How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems**
50 years ago this week, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall "demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system in Pacific Grove, California," according to a blog post from Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum. It tells the story of "how his company, Digital Research Inc., established CP/M as an industry standard and its subs ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/0427255/how-cpm-launched-the-next-50-years-of-operating-systems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T14:01:00Z	**North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say**
North Korean animators have been secretly working on major international TV shows, including an Amazon superhero series and an upcoming HBO Max children's anime, according to a report by cybersecurity researchers. The findings, detailed in a report by the Stimson Center think tank's 38 North Project and Google-owned security firm Mandiant, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1335234/north-koreans-secretly-animated-amazon-and-max-shows-researchers-say?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T14:40:00Z	**Marketing Cancer Drugs To Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality**
Abstract of a paper on National Bureau of Economic Research: Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships on the prescribing of physician-administered cancer drugs in Medicare. We find that prescribing of the associated drug inc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1412256/marketing-cancer-drugs-to-physicians-increases-prescribing-without-improving-mortality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T15:20:00Z	**Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation'**
A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism," a verdict handed down in absentia, RIA news agency reported. Reuters: Meta itself is designated an extremist organisation in Russia and its ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/158257/russian-court-sentences-meta-spokesperson-to-six-years-in-absentia-calls-meta-extremist-organisation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T16:01:00Z	**AI Needs So Much Electricity That Tech Companies Are Getting Into Energy Business**
An anonymous reader shares a report: To accommodate tech companies' pivots to artificial intelligence, tech companies are increasingly investing in ways to power AI's immense electricity needs. Most recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invested in Exowatt, a company using solar power to feed data centers, accordin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1427219/ai-needs-so-much-electricity-that-tech-companies-are-getting-into-energy-business?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T16:40:00Z	**Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants**
President Joe Biden travels to Triangle, Virginia, Monday to mark Earth Day, where he'll unveil $7 billion in grant funding for solar power under the Inflation Reduction Act and announce new steps to stand up his administration's American Climate Corps -- a program popular with youth climate groups. From a report: The announcements come da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1629217/biden-marks-earth-day-by-announcing-7-billion-in-solar-power-grants?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T17:20:00Z	**Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories**
Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories, according to reliable Apple leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami." From a report: In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kosutami explained that Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories due to its poor durability. The company may move to another non-leather material for its premium  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/150251/apple-reportedly-stops-production-of-finewoven-accessories?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T18:00:00Z	**Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE**
Yet another international cop shop has come out swinging against end-to-end encryption - this time it's Europol which is urging an end to implementation of the tech for fear police investigations will be hampered by protected DMs. The Register: In a joint declaration of European police chiefs published over the wee ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1714217/europol-becomes-latest-law-enforcement-group-to-plead-with-big-tech-to-ditch-e2ee?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T18:41:00Z	**Chinese Flying Taxi Sector Claims Global Lead Thanks To Regulatory Support**
A Shanghai flying taxi company says that China's "low altitude" industry is edging ahead of western rivals, thanks to more supportive regulators, technological breakthroughs and cut-throat competition in the Chinese logistics sector. From a report: The total market created by electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1636200/chinese-flying-taxi-sector-claims-global-lead-thanks-to-regulatory-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T19:20:00Z	**Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo**
In a huge move for the mixed reality industry, Meta announced today that it's opening the Quest's operating system to third-party companies, allowing them to build headsets of their own. From a report: Think of it like moving the Quest's ecosystem from an Apple model, where one company builds both the hardware and software, to more of a hardware fre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1718249/meta-opens-quest-os-to-third-parties-including-asus-and-lenovo?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T20:00:00Z	**Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries**
Amazon confirmed it is ending Prime Air drone delivery operations in Lockeford, California. The Central California town of 3,500 was the company's second U.S. drone delivery site, after College Station, Texas. Operations were announced in June 2022. From a report: The retail giant is not offering details around the setback, only noting, "We'll offer all current employees opportunities at other s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1834249/amazon-ends-california-drone-deliveries?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T20:41:00Z	**Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading**
AmiMoJo writes: Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade. An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/190217/study-alphabetical-order-of-surnames-may-affect-grading?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T21:21:00Z	**Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs**
Scorching weather has baked Europe in more days of "extreme heat stress" than its scientists have ever seen. The Guardian: Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helped push temperatures in Europe last year to the highest or second-highest levels ever recorded, according to the EU's Earth-watching service Copernicus a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1914219/europe-baked-in-extreme-heat-stress-pushing-temperatures-to-record-highs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T22:00:00Z	**Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform is an open source OS you can run anywhere that aims to connect all your devices together. But it's also bespoke Raspberry Pi hardware, in Yellow and Green. It's entirely fre ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1946245/home-assistant-has-a-new-foundation-goal-to-become-a-consumer-brand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T22:40:00Z	**EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design**
The European Union has opened a second formal investigation into TikTok under its Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework. The investigation centers around TikTok Lite's "Task and Reward" feature that may harm mental health, especially among minors, by promoting addictive behavior. TechCrunch rep ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1954244/eu-opens-probe-of-tiktok-lite-citing-concerns-about-addictive-design?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-22T23:20:00Z	**Gaming Giant Embracer Group Is Splitting Into Three Companies**
Jess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group announced plans on Monday to split itself into three distinct games and entertainment companies: Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. These will be separate, publicly listed companies, according to Embracer, which says the move w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1959202/gaming-giant-embracer-group-is-splitting-into-three-companies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T00:02:00Z	**Huawei Wants To Take Homegrown HarmonyOS Phone Platform Worldwide**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Huawei plans to expand its native HarmonyOS smartphone platform worldwide, despite coming under US-led sanctions that have deprived it of access to key technologies. "We will work hard to build up the HarmonyOS app ecosystem in the China market first, then, from country to country, we will ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/209252/huawei-wants-to-take-homegrown-harmonyos-phone-platform-worldwide?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T00:45:00Z	**Apple Acquires Datakalab, a French Startup Behind AI and Computer Vision Tech**
According to French business magazine Challenges, Apple has acquired Datakalab -- a Paris-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. 9to5Mac reports: Datakalab described itself as "experts in low power, runtime efficient, and deep learning algorithms" that work on de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2320251/apple-acquires-datakalab-a-french-startup-behind-ai-and-computer-vision-tech?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T01:25:00Z	**Pareto's Economic Theories Used To Find the Best Mario Kart 8 Racer**
Data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz, PhD, applied Vilfredo Pareto's (the early 20th-century Italian economist) theories to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to determine the best racer combinations. "When you break down the build options (including driver stats and various vehicle details) in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there are over 700,000 possible combination ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2331216/paretos-economic-theories-used-to-find-the-best-mario-kart-8-racer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T03:33:00Z	**California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: In sunny California, solar panels are everywhere. They sit in dry, desert landscapes in the Central Valley and are scattered over rooftops in Los Angeles's urban center. By last count, the state had nearly 47 gigawatts of solar power installed -- enough to power 13.9 million homes and p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2313206/california-is-grappling-with-a-growing-problem-too-much-solar?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T07:00:00Z	**Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth**
quonset writes: Just over two weeks ago, NASA figured out why its Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending useful data. They suspected corrupted memory in its flight data system (FDS) was the culprit. Today, for the first time since November, Voyager 1 is sending useful data about its health and the status of its onboard systems back to NASA. How did NASA accomplish this feat of long distan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2343257/voyager-1-resumes-sending-updates-to-earth?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T10:00:00Z	**NASA Officially Greenlights $3.35 Billion Mission To Saturn's Moon Titan**
NASA last week formally approved a $3.35 billion mission to explore Saturn's largest moon with a quadcopter drone. "Dragonfly is a spectacular science mission with broad community interest, and we are excited to take the next steps on this mission," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA's science mission directorate. "Ex ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2338219/nasa-officially-greenlights-335-billion-mission-to-saturns-moon-titan?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T13:00:00Z	**Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks**
Toyota's Mirai, a hydrogen-powered Fuel Cell EV initially heralded as the future of driving, has faced significant challenges due to inadequate hydrogen fueling infrastructure. As chronicled by InsideEVs, many owners have become disillusioned with the vehicle's high operational costs, unreliable refueling options, an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/2353248/toyotas-hydrogen-future-is-crumbling-as-owners-file-lawsuits-call-for-buybacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T14:07:00Z	**Google Fires More Employees Over Protest of Cloud Contract With Israel**
Google has fired another 20 workers for participating in protests against its $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, according to an activist group representing the workers. From a report: In total, the company has now fired around 50 employees over sit-in protests held in Google offices last week that were  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/148207/google-fires-more-employees-over-protest-of-cloud-contract-with-israel?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T14:45:00Z	**Microsoft Launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-Parameter Model Rivaling GPT-3.5 Capabilities**
Microsoft has launched Phi-3 Mini, a lightweight AI model with 3.8 billion parameters, as part of its plan to release three small models. Phi-3 Mini, trained on a smaller data set compared to large language models, is available on Azure, Hugging Face, and Ollama. Microsoft claims Phi-3 Mini performs as well as models ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1433204/microsoft-launches-phi-3-mini-a-38b-parameter-model-rivaling-gpt-35-capabilities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T15:20:00Z	**China's Ageing Tech Workers Hit By 'Curse of 35'**
Chinese tech giant Kuaishou is laying off employees in their mid-30s as part of a company-wide restructuring plan dubbed "Limestone," FT reported Tuesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The move highlights the pervasive ageism in China's tech sector, where younger workers are favored for their perceived willingness to work long hours and keep up with the latest techn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/154206/chinas-ageing-tech-workers-hit-by-curse-of-35?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T16:01:00Z	**Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released**
prisoninmate writes: Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released -- powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series, and featuring the GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environments, reports 9to5Linux: "Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.8 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 40 release ships with the GNOME 46 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition and the KDE Pl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1452255/fedora-linux-40-officially-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T16:40:00Z	**No One Buys Books Any More**
The U.S. publishing industry is driven by celebrity authors and repeat bestsellers, according to testimony from a blocked merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Only 50 authors sell over 500,000 copies annually, with 96% of books selling under 1,000 copies. Publishing houses spend most of their advance money on celebrity books, which along with backlist titles like The Bible, account for the bulk of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1632227/no-one-buys-books-any-more?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T17:20:00Z	**FTC To Vote On Noncompete Ban**
The Federal Trade Commission is set to vote Tuesday afternoon on a proposal to ban noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from taking positions at competitors for a period of time after they leave a job. From a report: The ban could be a win for workers -- particularly at the low end of the income scale. Critics of these agreements say they stifle innovation and wage growth by restricting workers' ability to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1657246/ftc-to-vote-on-noncompete-ban?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T18:01:00Z	**Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments As Demand Falls 'Sharply Beyond Expectations'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple has dropped the number of Vision Pro units that it plans to ship in 2024, going from an expected 700 to 800k units to just 400k to 450k units, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Orders have been scaled back before the Vision Pro has launched in markets outside of the United ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1722254/apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments-as-demand-falls-sharply-beyond-expectations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T18:45:00Z	**How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On**
General Motors (GM) has been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to insurance companies, leading to higher premiums for some drivers, according to a recent investigation. The affected drivers were not informed about the tracking, which was carried out through GM's OnStar connected services plan and the Smart Driver program. The New York Time ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1843214/how-gm-tricked-millions-of-drivers-into-being-spied-on?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T19:22:00Z	**AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, people who have found Google search frustrating have been adding "Reddit" to the end of their search queries. This practice is so common that Google even acknowledged the phenomenon in a post announcing that it will be scraping Reddit posts to train its AI. And so, naturally, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1847240/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T20:02:00Z	**iPhone Sales Drop 19% in China**
Apple's iPhone sales dropped sharply in China in the first quarter of this year as the company saw strong competition from domestic brand Huawei, according to a new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research. CNBC: Apple saw sales of its iPhones fall 19.1% in the first three months of the year, Counterpoint's data showed, as Chinese telecommunications and consumer electronics giant Huawei saw a resur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/1852251/iphone-sales-drop-19-in-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T20:40:00Z	**Linux Can Finally Run Your Car's Safety Systems and Driver-Assistance Features**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it's the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements. [... ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2023220/linux-can-finally-run-your-cars-safety-systems-and-driver-assistance-features?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T21:22:00Z	**Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI**
A lawsuit is alleging Amazon was so desperate to keep up with the competition in generative AI it was willing to breach its own copyright rules. From a report: The allegation emerges from a complaint accusing the tech and retail mega-corp of demoting, and then dismissing, a former high-flying AI scientist after it discovered she w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2034256/ex-amazon-exec-claims-she-was-asked-to-ignore-copyright-law-in-race-to-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T22:00:00Z	**HashiCorp Reportedly Being Acquired By IBM**
According to the Wall Street Journal, a deal for IBM to acquire HashiCorp could materialize in the next few days. Shares of HashiCorp jumped almost 20% on the news. CNBC reports: Developers use HashiCorp's software to set up and manage infrastructure in public clouds that companies such as Amazon
 and Microsoft operate. Organizations also pay HashiCorp for managing security credentials. Founded ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2041238/hashicorp-reportedly-being-acquired-by-ibm?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T22:40:00Z	**The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Have Multimodel AI Now**
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses now feature support for multimodal AI -- without the need for a projector or $24 monthly fee. (We're looking at you, Humane AI.) With the new update, the Meta AI assistant will be able to analyze what you're seeing, and it'll give you smart, helpful answers or suggestions. The Verge reports: First off, there are some expectations that ne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://meta.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2056254/the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-have-multimodel-ai-now?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-23T23:20:00Z	**What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Quantum dots are already moving in the premium display category, particularly through QD-OLED TVs and monitors. The next step could be QDEL, short for "quantum dot electroluminescent," also known as NanoLED, screens. Not to be confused with the QLED (quantum light emitting diode) tech already available in TVs, QDEL displays don't have a backlight. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2144258/what-comes-after-oled-meet-qdel?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T00:02:00Z	**Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers**
Andy Greenberg reports via Wired: More than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthcare finally confirmed what cybercriminals, security researchers, and Bitcoin's blockchain had already made all too clear: that it did indeed pay a ransom to the hacke ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2158231/change-healthcare-finally-admits-it-paid-ransomware-hackers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T00:45:00Z	**Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville**
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter. CNBC reports: In a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Frist, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Ellison said Oracle is moving a "huge campus" to Nashville, "which will ultimately be our world headq ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2234216/oracle-is-moving-its-world-headquarters-to-nashville?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T01:25:00Z	**Try Something New To Stop the Days Whizzing Past, Researchers Suggest**
Nicola Davis reports via The Guardian: If every day appears to go in a blur, try seeking out new and interesting experiences, researchers have suggested, after finding memorable images appear to dilate time. Researchers have previously found louder experiences seem to last longer, while focusing on the clock also makes time dilate, or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2248219/try-something-new-to-stop-the-days-whizzing-past-researchers-suggest?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T03:30:00Z	**Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, new A.I. technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA, poin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2211235/generative-ai-arrives-in-the-gene-editing-world-of-crispr?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T04:36:00Z	**US Bans Noncompete Agreements For Nearly All Jobs**
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own. From a report: The FTC received more than 26,000 public comments in the months leading up to the vote. Chair Lina Khan referenced on Tuesday some of the stories she had heard f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/0436227/us-bans-noncompete-agreements-for-nearly-all-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T07:00:00Z	**US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail**
Construction has begun on a $12 billion high-speed rail project to connect Las Vegas and Los Angeles by the end of the decade. The project, backed by $3 billion in federal support, aims to reduce travel time to under two hours and significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. Popular Science reports: Brightline expects its trains will depart every 40 minutes from a station ou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/0238217/us-breaks-ground-on-its-first-ever-high-speed-rail?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T10:00:00Z	**Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000**
Okian Warrior writes: For $10,000, you can now get a flamethrower mounted on a robotic dog. Just load the webpage and scroll down. I saw this on the news today. \*Definitely\* we need to have a conversation about where AI is going. The robot, called the Thermonator, is constructed by Ohio flame throwing manufacturer Throwflame and features one of the company's ARC fla ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/0258249/flame-throwing-robot-dog-now-available-under-10000?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T13:00:00Z	**Veteran PC Game 'Sopwith' Celebrates 40th Anniversary**
Longtime Slashdot reader sfraggle writes: Biplane shoot-'em up, Sopwith, is celebrating 40 years today since its first release back in 1984. The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today, originating as an MS-DOS game for the original IBM PC. The 40th anniversary site has a detailed history of how the game was written as a tech demo for the n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/0349255/veteran-pc-game-sopwith-celebrates-40th-anniversary?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T13:38:00Z	**NVIDIA To Acquire Run:ai**
Nvidia, in a blog post: To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across cloud, edge and on-premises data center infrastructure.

Managing and orches ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1338225/nvidia-to-acquire-runai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T14:00:00Z	**NVIDIA To Acquire Run:ai**
Nvidia, in a blog post: To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across cloud, edge and on-premises data center infrastructure.

Managing and orches ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1338225/nvidia-to-acquire-runai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T14:40:00Z	**Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Qualcomm is cheating on the Snapdragon X Plus/Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press. SemiAccurate doesn't use these words lightly but there is no denying what multiple sources are telling us. [...] Then there were the actual 'briefings' for the X Pro SoC. To call them pathetic is giving them more than their  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1432240/qualcomm-is-cheating-on-their-snapdragon-x-elitepro-benchmarks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T15:14:00Z	**Biden Signs TikTok 'Divest or Ban' Bill Into Law**
President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year. The Verge: The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months to sort out a deal, though the president could extend that another three mo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1514216/biden-signs-tiktok-divest-or-ban-bill-into-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T15:25:00Z	**Diamond Market Shows Serious Cracks From Man-Made Stones**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Diamonds may be forever but they are also seriously on sale. Natural rough diamond prices have collapsed 26 per cent in the past couple of years. Tepid US and Chinese demand for diamond jewellery hasn't helped. But most ring fingers point at the increasing popularity of cheaper laboratory grown diamonds (LGD). This fracturing of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1529240/diamond-market-shows-serious-cracks-from-man-made-stones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T16:05:00Z	**Diamond Market Shows Serious Cracks From Man-Made Stones**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Diamonds may be forever but they are also seriously on sale. Natural rough diamond prices have collapsed 26 per cent in the past couple of years. Tepid US and Chinese demand for diamond jewellery hasn't helped. But most ring fingers point at the increasing popularity of cheaper laboratory grown diamonds (LGD). This fracturing of t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1529240/diamond-market-shows-serious-cracks-from-man-made-stones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T16:41:00Z	**Windows 11 Now Comes With Its Own Adware**
An anonymous reader shares a report: It used to be that you could pay for a retail version of Windows 11 and expect it to be ad-free, but those days are apparently finito. The latest update to Windows 11 (KB5036980) comes out this week and includes ads for apps in the "recommended" section of the Start Menu, one of the most oft-used parts of the OS. "The Recommended section of the Start menu w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1559252/windows-11-now-comes-with-its-own-adware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T17:20:00Z	**'The Man Who Killed Google Search'**
Edward Zitron, citing emails released as part of the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, writes about Prabhakar Raghavan: And Raghavan -- a manager, hired by Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man and a manager by trade -- is an example of everything wrong with the tech industry. Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze ac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1641235/the-man-who-killed-google-search?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T18:02:00Z	**Framework Won't Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore**
Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. From a report: That's one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding -- it wants to expand beyond the laptop into "additional product categories." Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan. The company or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1711252/framework-wont-be-just-a-laptop-company-anymore?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T18:41:00Z	**Apple Releases OpenELM: Small, Open Source AI Models Designed To Run On-device**
Just as Google, Samsung and Microsoft continue to push their efforts with generative AI on PCs and mobile devices, Apple is moving to join the party with OpenELM, a new family of open source large language models (LLMs) that can run entirely on a single device rather than having to connect to cloud servers. From a repor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1738234/apple-releases-openelm-small-open-source-ai-models-designed-to-run-on-device?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T18:41:00Z	**Apple Releases OpenELM: Small, Open Source AI Models Designed To Run On-device**
Just as Google, Samsung and Microsoft continue to push their efforts with generative AI on PCs and mobile devices, Apple is moving to join the party with OpenELM, a new family of open source large language models (LLMs) that can run entirely on a single device rather than having to connect to cloud servers. From a repor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1738234/apple-releases-openelm-small-open-source-ai-models-designed-to-run-on-device?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T19:20:00Z	**Steam Closes Early Access Playtime Loophole**
An anonymous reader shares a report: "Early Access" was once a novel, quirky thing, giving a select set of Steam PC games a way to involve enthusiastic fans in pre-alpha-level play-testing and feedback. Now loads of games launch in various forms of Early Access, in a wide variety of readiness. It's been a boon for games like Baldur's Gate 3, which came a long way across years of Early A ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1817253/steam-closes-early-access-playtime-loophole?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T20:01:00Z	**Google-Backed Glance Pilots Android Lockscreen Platform in US**
Glance, which operates a popular lockscreen platform targeting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S. market. From a report: The Indian startup recently commenced a pilot program in partnership with Motorola and Verizon in the U.S., with plans for a full launch in the country later this year, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1826223/google-backed-glance-pilots-android-lockscreen-platform-in-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T20:41:00Z	**Adobe's Impressive AI Upscaling Project Makes Blurry Videos Look HD**
Adobe researchers have developed a new generative AI model called VideoGigaGAN that can upscale blurry videos at up to eight times their original resolution. From a report: Introduced in a paper published on April 18th, Adobe claims VideoGigaGAN is superior to other Video Super Resolution (VSR) methods as it can provide more fine-grained det ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1836221/adobes-impressive-ai-upscaling-project-makes-blurry-videos-look-hd?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T21:00:00Z	**HashiCorp Reportedly Being Acquired By IBM [UPDATE]**
According to the Wall Street Journal, a deal for IBM to acquire HashiCorp could materialize in the next few days. Shares of HashiCorp jumped almost 20% on the news.

UPDATE 4/24/24: IBM has confirmed the deal valued at $6.4 billion. "IBM will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp, a 42.6% premium to Monday's closing price," reports Reuters. "The acquisition will be funded by cash on h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/23/2041238/hashicorp-reportedly-being-acquired-by-ibm-update?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T21:20:00Z	**Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop**
Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks. From a report: While Lenovo has largely focused on the AI performance of its new laptop, which is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra CPU and Nvidia RTX 3000 Ada GPU, the company also noted that its device was the first in the world to use the LPCAMM2 mem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1841231/lenovo-first-to-implement-lpcamm2-in-laptop?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T22:00:00Z	**Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two researchers at the University of California, Davis -- Yanning Li and Alan Jenn -- have determined that nearly two-thirds of [California's] feeder lines don't have the capacity that will likely be needed for car charging. Updating to handle the rising demand might set its utilities back as much as ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2110253/updating-californias-grid-for-evs-may-cost-up-to-20-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T22:40:00Z	**Meta Opens Quest Operating System To Third-Party Device Makers**
Similar to the way Google makes its mobile OS Android open source, Meta announced it is opening up its Quest headset's operating system to rival device makers. Reuters reports: The move will allow partner companies to build their headsets using Meta Horizon OS, a rebranded operating system that brings capabilities like gesture recognition, passthroug ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2117214/meta-opens-quest-operating-system-to-third-party-device-makers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-24T23:20:00Z	**Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports**
Axon on Tuesday announced a new tool called Draft One that uses artificial intelligence built on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model to transcribe audio from body cameras and automatically turn it into a police report. Axon CEO Rick Smith told Forbes that police officers will then be able to review the document to ensure accuracy. F ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2146210/taser-company-axon-is-selling-ai-that-turns-body-cam-audio-into-police-reports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T00:02:00Z	**'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the weak link that lets them pillage the very systems those devices are meant to protect. In the case of one hacking campaign over recent months ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2137210/arcanedoor-cyberspies-hacked-cisco-firewalls-to-access-government-networks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T00:45:00Z	**Google Delays Third-Party Cookie Demise Yet Again**
Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in Chrome -- again. This marks the third time Google pushed back its original deadline set in January 2020, when the company said it would phase out third-party cookies "within two years" to improve internet security. Digiday reports: The announcement was made on Tuesday ahead of quarterly reports from Google and the ever-watc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2327213/google-delays-third-party-cookie-demise-yet-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T01:25:00Z	**Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon For AI Servers**
Hartley Charlton reports via MacRumors: Apple is said to be developing its own AI server processor using TSMC's 3nm process, targeting mass production by the second half of 2025. According to a post by the Weibo user known as "Phone Chip Expert," Apple has ambitious plans to design its own artificial intelligence server processor. The user, wh ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2331204/apple-reportedly-developing-its-own-custom-silicon-for-ai-servers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T02:02:00Z	**Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users**
Samantha Cole reports via 404 Media: A Japan-based online art platform is banning kink content for users based in the US and UK, as laws in these countries continue to tighten around sites that allow erotic content. Pixiv is an image gallery site where artists primarily share illustrations, manga, and novels. The site announced on April 22 that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2343217/manga-site-blocks-adult-content-but-only-for-us-and-uk-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T03:30:00Z	**Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what users are typing. The vulnerability, which allows the keystroke data that these apps send to the cloud to be intercepted, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2337208/almost-every-chinese-keyboard-app-has-a-security-flaw-that-reveals-what-users-type?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T07:00:00Z	**Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights**
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced new rules for the airline industry that will require airlines to automatically give cash refunds to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights. They will also require airlines to give cash refunds if your bags are lost and not delivered within 12 hours.

"This i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/2349248/airlines-required-to-refund-passengers-for-canceled-delayed-flights?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T10:00:00Z	**Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team**
An international team of scientists used 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species covering almost 8,000 known flowering plant genera to create the most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life. The research has been published in the journal Nature. Phys.Org reports: The major milestone for plant science ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/0655249/vast-dna-tree-of-life-for-plants-revealed-by-global-science-team?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T13:00:00Z	**US Fertility Rate Falls To Lowest In a Century**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it's been in more than century. There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, according to provisional da ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/074224/us-fertility-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-a-century?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T14:00:00Z	**AI Could Kill Off Most Call Centres, Says TCS Head**
The head of Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services has said AI will result in "minimal" need for call centres in as soon as a year, with AI's rapid advances set to upend a vast industry across Asia and beyond. From a report: K Krithivasan, TCS chief executive, told the Financial Times that while "we have not seen any job reduction" so far, wider adoption of generative AI amo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1349237/ai-could-kill-off-most-call-centres-says-tcs-head?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T14:40:00Z	**Spotify Says Apple Has Rejected Its App Update With Price Information for EU Users**
Apple has rejected Spotify's new version of its iOS app with in-app pricing information for users in the European Union, the audio streaming firm said on Thursday. Reuters: The Swedish company submitted a new version of its app to Apple with basic pricing and website information, which is a minimum requirement ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1415216/spotify-says-apple-has-rejected-its-app-update-with-price-information-for-eu-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T15:21:00Z	**Ford Just Reported a Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold**
Ford's electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. From a report: Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional gas-powered  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1458246/ford-just-reported-a-massive-loss-on-every-electric-vehicle-it-sold?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T16:00:00Z	**Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback**
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote to restore net neutrality on Thursday in the latest volley of a yearslong game of political ping-pong. From a report: The commission is expected to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) -- e.g., broadband companies like AT&T and Comcast -- as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. That classification would open  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1537203/net-neutrality-is-about-to-make-a-comeback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T16:41:00Z	**iPhone Activation Market Share Hits New Low as Android Dominates**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Consumer Intelligence Research Partners is out with a report on how iPhone activations compare to Android in the US. The latest data shows a notable drop over the last year bringing Apple's US smartphone market share of new activations back in time six years. CIRP shared its new iPhone report on its Substack  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1512229/iphone-activation-market-share-hits-new-low-as-android-dominates?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T17:22:00Z	**New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down**
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). From a report: New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration's most ambitious effort yet to rol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/176209/new-rule-compels-us-coal-fired-power-plants-to-capture-emissions---or-shut-down?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T18:02:00Z	**ByteDance Prefers TikTok Shutdown in US if Legal Options Fail, Report Says**
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources. From the report: The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1741238/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-in-us-if-legal-options-fail-report-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T19:50:00Z	**FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to restore regulations that expand government oversight of broadband providersand aim to protect consumer access to the internet, a move that will reignite a long-running battle over the open internet. Known as net neutrality, the regulations were first put in place nearly a d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/1948234/fcc-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-rules?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T20:32:00Z	**Stripe To Start Taking Crypto Payments, Starting With USDC Stablecoin**
Fintech giant Stripe announced on Thursday that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon. TechCrunch reports: This will be the first time that Stripe has taken crypto payments since 2018, when it dropped support for Bitcoin due to it being too un ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2031208/stripe-to-start-taking-crypto-payments-starting-with-usdc-stablecoin?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T20:50:00Z	**Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion'**
Jeff Lawson, the cofounder of cloud computing company Twilio, appears to have purchased the satirical news website The Onion from G/O Media. Business Insider reports: A trust linked to Lawson is behind a San Francisco-based company called Global Tetrahedron, which shares the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag, business records show. G/O Media CEO  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2044216/twilio-founder-buys-satire-site-the-onion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T21:10:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released**
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) as the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software. Powered by Linux kernel 6.8, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS features the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment, an all-new graphical firmware updat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2036234/ubuntu-2404-lts-noble-numbat-officially-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T21:50:00Z	**US 'Know Your Customer' Proposal Will Put an End To Anonymous Cloud Users**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services, with the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/210238/us-know-your-customer-proposal-will-put-an-end-to-anonymous-cloud-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T22:30:00Z	**Garry's Mod Is Taking Down Decades of Nintendo-Related Add-Ons**
Following copyright takedown requests from Nintendo, the popular physics sandbox game Garry's Mod said it would be pulling all of its Nintendo-related add-ons. "Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo's content and what they allow and don't allow is up to them," said the developers in a post on Steam. "They don't want you playing with that stu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/227224/garrys-mod-is-taking-down-decades-of-nintendo-related-add-ons?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-25T23:10:00Z	**US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip**
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks. Darien, of Baltimore, Maryland, was subseque ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2215233/us-teacher-charged-with-using-ai-to-frame-principal-with-hate-speech-clip?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T00:01:00Z	**Open Sourcing DOS 4**
Microsoft releases one of the most popular versions of MS-DOS as open source today. stikves shares a post:Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a fascinating read of an operating system that was written entirely in 8086 assembly code nearly 45 years ago.

Today, in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2253254/open-sourcing-dos-4?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T00:41:00Z	**Seagate Joins the HDD Price Hike Party, Blames AI for Spike in Demand**
Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI is also behind a rapid growth in orders for Enterprise solid state drives. From a report: One of the big three makers of traditional rotating hard disk drives, Seagate informed cu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2245207/seagate-joins-the-hdd-price-hike-party-blames-ai-for-spike-in-demand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T01:25:00Z	**Alphabet Shares Jump 14% On Earnings Beat, First-Ever Dividend**
Alphabet has reported first quarter results that topped analysts' estimates with soaring profits in its cloud division. It also announced its first-ever dividend. CNBC shares the results: Earnings per share: $1.89 vs. $1.51 per share expected by LSEG
Revenue: $80.54 billion vs. $78.59 billion expected by LSEG
Wall Street is also watching several other  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2318251/alphabet-shares-jump-14-on-earnings-beat-first-ever-dividend?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T03:30:00Z	**TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: TSMC announced its leading-edge 1.6nm-class process technology today, a new A16 manufacturing process that will be the company's first Angstrom-class production node and promises to outperform its predecessor, N2P, by a significant margin. The technology's most important innovation w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2231235/tsmc-unveils-16nm-process-technology-with-backside-power-delivery?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T10:00:00Z	**Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America**
Jonathan M. Gitlin reports Ars Technica: Honda announced today that it will spend $11 billion to expand its electric vehicle manufacturing presence in North America. The Japanese automaker already has a number of factories in the US, Mexico, and Canada, and it's this last one that will benefit from the expansion, with four EV-related plants planne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/25/2325228/honda-to-spend-11-billion-on-four-ev-factories-in-north-america?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T12:49:00Z	**OpenAI's Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders To Serve on AI Safety Board**
Sam Altman of OpenAI and the chief executives of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet are among technology-industry leaders joining a new federal advisory board focused on the secure use of AI within U.S. critical infrastructure, in the Biden administration's latest effort to fill a regulatory vacuum over the rapidly proliferating technology. Fro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1249215/openais-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T14:03:00Z	**Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps From App Store**
404 Media: Apple has removed a number of AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media found these apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images, a sign that app store operators are starting to take more action against these types of apps.

Overall, Apple removed three apps from the App Store, but only after we provided the company  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/144218/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-from-app-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T14:40:00Z	**Windows 11 Will Display Watermark If Your PC Does Not Support AI Requirements**
An anonymous reader shares a report: With Windows 11 24H2 all geared up to have AI-intensive applications, Microsoft has added a code that will warn you if your PC does not meet the hardware requirements, according to code dug up by Twitter/X sleuth Albacore. The warning will be displayed as a watermark so you know that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1437237/windows-11-will-display-watermark-if-your-pc-does-not-support-ai-requirements?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T15:20:00Z	**Encrypted Email Service Files DMA Complaint Claiming It Vanished from Google Search**
Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search. From a report: Google Search rankings are all too familiar to search engine optimization (SEO) specialists charged with ensuring web pages rise to the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1454216/encrypted-email-service-files-dma-complaint-claiming-it-vanished-from-google-search?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T16:00:00Z	**Europeans 'Less Hard-Working' Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss**
Europe is less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US, according to the boss of Norway's giant oil fund, with the gap between the two continents only getting wider. FT: Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.6tn fund, told the Financial Times it was "worrisome" that American companies were outp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1543214/europeans-less-hard-working-than-americans-says-norway-oil-fund-boss?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T16:40:00Z	**Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes**
Some Android-powered TVs can expose the contents of users' email inboxes if an attacker has physical access to the TV. Google initially told the office of Senator Ron Wyden that the issue, which is a quirk of how software is installed on these TVs, was expected behavior, but after being contacted by 404 Media, Google now says it is addressing the issue. From the report: The attack is an edge c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/151228/android-tvs-can-expose-user-email-inboxes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T17:20:00Z	**Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US**
U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it [non-paywalled link], prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial and consumer drone markets. The New York Times: DJI is on a Defense Department list of Chinese military companies whose products the U.S. armed forces will be prohibited fro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1612231/chinese-drone-maker-dji-might-get-banned-next-in-the-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T18:02:00Z	**GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit**
The GNOME Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the GNOME desktop environment, has been operating at a deficit for several years, depleting its financial reserves. Robert McQueen, the foundation's president, has announced plans to increase fundraising efforts in a new blog post.

McQueen adds: As you may be aware, the GNOME ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1714201/gnome-foundation-to-focus-on-fundraising-after-years-running-a-deficit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T18:40:00Z	**Captchas Are Getting Harder**
Captchas that aim to distinguish humans from nefarious bots are demanding more brain power. WSJ: The companies and cybersecurity experts who design Captchas have been doing all they can to stay one step ahead of the bad actors figuring out how to crack them. A cottage industry of third-party Captcha-solving firms -- essentially, humans hired to solve the puzzles all day -- has emerged. More alarmingly, so has technology  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1736254/captchas-are-getting-harder?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T19:22:00Z	**Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead**
A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years since its creators lost control of it and remains active on thousands, possibly millions, of machines, researchers said Thursday. ArsTechnica: The worm -- which first came to light in a 2023 post published by ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1753250/millions-of-ips-remain-infected-by-usb-worm-years-after-its-creators-left-it-for-dead?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T20:02:00Z	**Noise From Traffic Stunts Growth of Baby Birds, Study Finds**
Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. From a report: Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long-term negative effects on their health, growth and reproduction, the study found. "Sound has a much stronger and more direct impact on bird develop ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/180256/noise-from-traffic-stunts-growth-of-baby-birds-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T20:43:00Z	**British Intelligence Moves To Protect Research Universities From Espionage**
The head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency warned the country's leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperilling national security. The Record: "We know that our universities are being actively targeted by hostile actors and need to guard against the threat  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1818223/british-intelligence-moves-to-protect-research-universities-from-espionage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T21:20:00Z	**Judge Dismisses Superconductivity Physicist's Lawsuit Against University**
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by superconductivity physicist Ranga Dias against his employer, the University of Rochester in New York. From a report: In February, a university investigation found that he had committed scientific misconduct by, among other things, fabricating data to claim the discovery of superconducto ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/1831256/judge-dismisses-superconductivity-physicists-lawsuit-against-university?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T22:00:00Z	**Thoma Bravo To Take UK Cybersecurity Company Darktrace Private In $5 Billion Deal**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Darktrace is set to go private in a deal that values the U.K.-based cybersecurity giant at around $5 billion. A newly formed entity called Luke Bidco Ltd., formed by private equity giant Thoma Bravo, has tabled an all-cash bid of $7.75 per share, which represent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2043204/thoma-bravo-to-take-uk-cybersecurity-company-darktrace-private-in-5-billion-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T22:40:00Z	**45 Drives Adds Linux-Powered Mini PCs, Workstations To Growing Compute Lineup**
Tobias Mann reports via The Register: Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now low-power clients and workstations aimed at enterpr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2051204/45-drives-adds-linux-powered-mini-pcs-workstations-to-growing-compute-lineup?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-26T23:20:00Z	**IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees**
The free tax filing pilot from the IRS that rolled out in 12 states last month saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for federal returns, said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. CNBC reports: This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed returns using IRS Direct File, a free tax filing pilot from the IRS, acc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/214211/irs-free-tax-filing-pilot-saved-consumers-56-million-in-prep-fees?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T00:02:00Z	**Fake Job Interviews Target Developers With New Python Backdoor**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new campaign tracked as "Dev Popper" is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). The developers are asked to perform tasks supposedly related to the interview, like downloading and running co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/219218/fake-job-interviews-target-developers-with-new-python-backdoor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T00:45:00Z	**Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband**
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating that ISPs offer $15 broadband plans to low-income families. Ars Technica reports: The ruling (PDF) is a loss for six trade groups that represent ISPs, although it isn't clear right now whether t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2248235/court-upholds-new-york-law-that-says-isps-must-offer-15-broadband?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T01:25:00Z	**Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking As Microsoft Brings Games To PS5**
In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft reported a 30% drop in Xbox console sales, after reporting a 30% drop last April. "It blamed the nosedive on a 'lower volume of consoles sold' during the start of 2024," reports Kotaku. From the report: In February, Grand Theft Auto VI parent company Take-Two claimed in a presentation to inv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/230237/xbox-console-sales-are-tanking-as-microsoft-brings-games-to-ps5?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T02:02:00Z	**Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement**
The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers' private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2326208/ring-customers-get-56-million-in-refunds-in-privacy-settlement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T03:30:00Z	**Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026**
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly available, providing scientists with a tool for quantum calculations and simulations. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2313254/europe-plans-to-build-100-qubit-quantum-computer-by-2026?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T07:00:00Z	**China Reveals Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon Ever Created**
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile, reveals a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins and 17 rock types, alon ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2359241/china-reveals-most-detailed-geological-map-of-the-moon-ever-created?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T10:00:00Z	**EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them**
Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it was adding a new clause to its Terms & Conditions that would gra ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/26/2334248/eyeem-will-license-users-photos-to-train-ai-if-they-dont-delete-them?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T14:34:00Z	**A Windows Vulnerability Reported by the NSA Was Exploited To Install Russian Malware**
"Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years," Ars Technica reported this week, "in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented tool, the software maker disclosed Monday.

"When Microsoft patched the vulnerability in Octo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/0420253/a-windows-vulnerability-reported-by-the-nsa-was-exploited-to-install-russian-malware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T15:34:00Z	**Intel's Stock Drops 9%.  Are They Struggling to Remain Relevant?**
"Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry," writes CNBC. But now "it's struggling to stay relevant."

Intel's long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares down 9% on Friday to their lowest level of the year. Although Intel's revenue is no longer shrinking and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/0522239/intels-stock-drops-9-are-they-struggling-to-remain-relevant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T16:34:00Z	**Two Lifeforms Merge Into One Organism For First Time In a Billion Years**
"For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism," reports the Independent:

The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/0429216/two-lifeforms-merge-into-one-organism-for-first-time-in-a-billion-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T17:34:00Z	**The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution**
1,000 petabytes.
A million terabytes.
One quintillion bytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000).

That's the amount of storage reported by users of the Ceph storage solution (across more than 3,000 Ceph clusters).

The Ceph Foundation is a "directed fund" of the Linux Foundation, providing a neutral home for Ceph, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/043219/the-ceph-community-now-stores-1000-petabytes-in-its-open-source-storage-solution?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T18:34:00Z	**$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations**
America's Federal Trade Commission "is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers," reports the Associated Press, "as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access."

In a 2023 complaint, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/0537203/56-million-in-refunds-sent-to-ring-customers-settling-unauthorized-access-and-privacy-violations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T19:34:00Z	**Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022**
Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration "is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets."

The employees' union "said the two unidentified engineers were representatives of the FAA, which delegates some of its ove ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/061242/boeing-accused-of-retaliating-against-two-engineers-in-2022?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T20:34:00Z	**A School Principal Was Framed With an AI-Generated Rant**
"A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning," reports CBS News, "after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording..."

One-time Pikesville High School employee Dazhon Darien is facing charges that include theft, stalking, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness. Inve ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/1831204/a-school-principal-was-framed-with-an-ai-generated-rant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T21:34:00Z	**Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Nuclear Weapons In Space**
This week Russia vetoed a UN resolution that proposed banning nuclear weapons in space, CNN reports.

But it all happened "amid U.S. intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites."

In February, President Joe Biden confirmed the US has intelligence that Russia is developing a nuclear anti-satel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/1936235/russia-vetoes-un-resolution-on-nuclear-weapons-in-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-27T22:35:00Z	**Apple ID Lock-Out Affects Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iCloud Services**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Times of India:

Several Apple customers were inexplicably locked out of their Apple ID accounts Friday evening in a major service disruption, forcing them to reset their passwords across all devices and services. According to user reports on social media, the widespread outage began around 8 p. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/2229235/apple-id-lock-out-affects-macs-iphones-ipads-and-icloud-services?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T01:34:00Z	**Cisco Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge For Ethical AI Use and Development**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:

Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit the common good... The pledge outlines key pillars of ethical and resp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/2134208/cisco-joins-microsoft-ibm-in-vatican-pledge-for-ethical-ai-use-and-development?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T03:34:00Z	**What Happened After India Banned TikTok?**
What happened after India banned TikTok? The move "mostly drew widespread support" notes the Associated Press, in a country "where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods since the deadly confrontation in the remote Karakoram mountain border region."

"There was a clamour leading up to this, and the popular narrative was how can we allow Chinese companies to do business in In ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/2026217/what-happened-after-india-banned-tiktok?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T07:34:00Z	**Japan's Lunar Lander Made It Through Another Lunar Night**
Japan's moon lander "has woken up again," reports the Register, "having survived three lunar nights."

A post on social media from the lander's X account confirmed that once more, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds and snapped a picture of the lunar surface using its navigation camera.
SLIM was revived a few weeks ago, after ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/0054242/japans-lunar-lander-made-it-through-another-lunar-night?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T11:34:00Z	**How Good is the Rabbit R1 Handheld AI Assistant?**
It's another speech-recognizing, AI-powered handheld device "about half the size of a phone," writes CNET. (Though the $199 device comes with a keyboard and a tiny 2.8-inch screen.) "The Rabbit R1 can identify items in its environment. Point it at a plant, and it can tell you what kind it is. Aim it at your lunch, and it can tell you what's in it.

"it also feels a bit like a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/2331237/how-good-is-the-rabbit-r1-handheld-ai-assistant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T14:34:00Z	**Why is South Korea's Military Set To Ban IPhones Over 'Security' Concerns?**
"South Korea is considering prohibiting the use of iPhones and smart wearable devices inside military buildings," reports the Defense Post, "due to increasing security concerns."

But the blog Apple Insider argues the move "has less to do with security and more to do with a poorly crafted mobile device management suite coupled wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/0011253/why-is-south-koreas-military-set-to-ban-iphones-over-security-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T15:34:00Z	**Behold the World's Largest 3D Printer**
They're calling it "the world's largest 3D printer," but also "the factory of the future" — not just a 3D printer, but a manufacturing system.

It's the succcessor to a 3D printer that could create an entire house, cutting construction time and labor, according to the Associated Press. And this one "may one day create entire neighborhoods."

It has a voracious appetite, consuming as much as 500 p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/0322238/behold-the-worlds-largest-3d-printer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T16:34:00Z	**Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:

Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surve ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/27/2124238/pegasus-spyware-used-on-hundreds-of-people-says-polands-prosecutor-general?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T17:34:00Z	**How Space Telescopes Spotted an Exoplanet With a Possible Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere**
In September NASA's James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and "revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide."

 Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one whi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/1718236/how-space-telescopes-spotted-an-exoplanet-with-a-possible-hydrogen-rich-atmosphere?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T19:13:00Z	**Why Are Laptops Moving to Soldered RAM?**
This year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital Trends, which "makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair."

"This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both celebrated for their upgradability."

Of course, Dell isn't the first to make the transition. In fact, they're one of the last, which is what makes the decision so much tougher to swa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/1910249/why-are-laptops-moving-to-soldered-ram?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T20:13:00Z	**Plunge in Storage Battery Costs Will Speed Shift to Renewable Energy, Says IEA**
"In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%," according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, "one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies."

And it's expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters:

An expected sharp fall in battery costs for energy storag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/203214/plunge-in-storage-battery-costs-will-speed-shift-to-renewable-energy-says-iea?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T21:19:00Z	**How Einstein Lost the Battle To Explain Quantum Reality**
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares "an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics," published this week in Nature.

Its title? "'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality."
[T]he views of Danish physicist Niels Bohr came to dominate. Albert Einstein famously disagreed with him and, in the 1920s an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/1837255/how-einstein-lost-the-battle-to-explain-quantum-reality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T22:19:00Z	**Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators**
Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now "accused" Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times:


The newspaper notes that the app "can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to the FTC's ongoing antitrust investigation into the company."
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/2140203/bezos-other-amazon-execs-used-signal---a-problem-for-ftc-investigators?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-28T23:19:00Z	**America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips**
An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters:

The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers...

The technology is being used by major Chinese tech firms such as Alibaba Group Holding and has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/2235258/americas-commerce-department-is-reviewing-chinas-use-of-risc-v-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T01:41:00Z	**A Coal Billionaire is Building the World's Biggest Clean Energy Plant - Five Times the Size of Paris**
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:

Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/004219/a-coal-billionaire-is-building-the-worlds-biggest-clean-energy-plant---five-times-the-size-of-paris?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T04:35:00Z	**Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old**
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC.

"A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system."

The problem occurs because American Airlines' systems apparently ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://idle.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/2345217/airline-ticketing-system-keeps-mistaking-a-101-year-old-woman-for-a-1-year-old?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T07:34:00Z	**The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star**
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a "new" star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September:
By "star", I do not mean "comet", "meteorite" or "firefly", but genuine [star] photons arriving here after about 3000 years in flight, causing your eyes to see a bright point on the nighttime sky. When it happens, the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/186241/the-naked-eye-sky-will-briefly-host-a-new-star?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T11:34:00Z	**America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California**
Oakland, California is now home to "the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the United States," according to the Los Angeles Times — serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks.
The newspaper says the facility "could mark the start of a nationwide network for fuel-cell truck refueling. It could also flop."

Hydrogen fuel is exp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/28/2113241/americas-first-big-rig-hydrogen-fuel-station-opens-in-california?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T14:02:00Z	**UK Becomes First Country To Ban Default Bad Passwords on IoT Devices**
The United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted. From a report: The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturer ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/142211/uk-becomes-first-country-to-ban-default-bad-passwords-on-iot-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T14:42:00Z	**Austria Calls For Rapid Regulation as It Hosts Meeting on 'Killer Robots'**
Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to regulate the use of AI in weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a conference aimed at reviving largely stalled discussions on the issue. From a report: With AI technology advancing rapidly, weapons systems that could kill without human interventi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1442229/austria-calls-for-rapid-regulation-as-it-hosts-meeting-on-killer-robots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T15:25:00Z	**Amazon Says Its Prime Deliveries Are Getting Even Faster**
Amazon says its deliveries are getting even faster, announcing that it delivered over 2 billion items the same or next day to Prime members during the first three months of 2024, breaking its record for 2023. From a report: The company says it delivered almost 60 percent of Prime orders the same or next day in 60 of the biggest metropolitan areas in the US.

[![](htt ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1526207/amazon-says-its-prime-deliveries-are-getting-even-faster?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T16:02:00Z	**Countries Consider Pact To Reduce Plastic Production By 40% in 15 Years**
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic -- to reduce it by 40% in 15 years -- in an attempt to protect human health and the environment. From a report: As the world attempts to make a treaty to cut plastic waste at UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, two countries have put forward the fir ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1541253/countries-consider-pact-to-reduce-plastic-production-by-40-in-15-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T16:50:00Z	**Razer Made a Million Dollars Selling a Mask With RGB, And the FTC is Not Pleased**
Razer will have to fork over $1.1 million in refunds to customers who purchased its RGB-clad Zephyr face mask, according to a proposed settlement announced by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. From a report: The company claimed the face mask used N95-grade filters, but the FTC alleges Razer never submitted the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1650210/razer-made-a-million-dollars-selling-a-mask-with-rgb-and-the-ftc-is-not-pleased?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T17:50:00Z	**Motherboard Makers Apparently To Blame For High-end Intel Core i9 CPU Failures**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause. An Intel statement obtained by Igor's Lab suggests that Intel's investig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1750257/motherboard-makers-apparently-to-blame-for-high-end-intel-core-i9-cpu-failures?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T18:15:00Z	**'The Apple Vision Pro's eBay Prices Are Making Me Sad'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: I paid a lot of money for the privilege of getting an Apple Vision Pro brand-new in February. All-in, with optical inserts and taxes, I financed a little over $3,900 for the 256GB version of the headset. A day or so ago, I made a mistake that I'm sure many early adopters are familiar with: I looked up how much it's been selling for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1813239/the-apple-vision-pros-ebay-prices-are-making-me-sad?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T18:55:00Z	**Walmart and Roblox Are Teaming Up To Make Virtual E-commerce a Reality**
As of today, Walmart is able to sell physical goods directly to users inside Roblox. Digiday adds: The introduction of real-life e-commerce could be a watershed moment for the company's ambitions to become an all-encompassing destination for virtual life. Walmart's Roblox e-commerce experience launches later today, with users inside the pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1819210/walmart-and-roblox-are-teaming-up-to-make-virtual-e-commerce-a-reality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T19:37:00Z	**Sales of Samsung's Foldable Phones Have Nosedived in China**
The latest figures from IDC shows that Samsung's share in China's foldable smartphone market was 5.9% in Q1 2024. At one point, Samsung was pulling in a quarterly foldable market share of nearly 30% in China. From a report: It essentially came in dead last, as Samsung finds itself comprehensively beaten by the handful of companies that make foldable phones. This i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1937223/sales-of-samsungs-foldable-phones-have-nosedived-in-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T20:10:00Z	**FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 Million For Sharing Customer Data**
The Federal Communications Commission has fined the nation's largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without consent and without taking reasonable measures to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure. From a report: Sprint and T-Mobile -- which have merged since the investigatio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1946256/fcc-fines-wireless-carriers-200-million-for-sharing-customer-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T20:49:00Z	**Canceling Your Credit Card May Not Stop Netflix's Recurring Charges**
Millions of Americans pay for Netflix, doling out anywhere from $6.99 to $22.99 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by canceling your credit card. Netflix won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing it, but it's a myth that canceling a cred ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1951229/canceling-your-credit-card-may-not-stop-netflixs-recurring-charges?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T21:25:00Z	**In Race To Build AI, Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade**
If 2023 was the tech industry's year of the A.I. chatbot, 2024 is turning out to be the year of A.I. plumbing. From a report: It may not sound as exciting, but tens of billions of dollars are quickly being spent on behind-the-scenes technology for the industry's A.I. boom. Companies from Amazon to Meta are revamping their data centers to support artificial intelligen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/1956257/in-race-to-build-ai-tech-plans-a-big-plumbing-upgrade?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T22:02:00Z	**Roku Wants To Use Home Screen For New Types of Ads**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Streamable: Roku wants to take the term "ad-supported" to another level. The company held its quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday, and revealed that 81.6 million households used a Roku device or smart TV to stream video in the first three months of the year. As part of the report, company CEO Anthony Wood laid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2135237/roku-wants-to-use-home-screen-for-new-types-of-ads?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T22:40:00Z	**Google Lays Off Staff From Flutter, Dart and Python Teams**
Ahead of its annual I/O developer conference in May, Google has decided to lay off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python and others. "As we've said, we're responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," said a Google spokesperson. "To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2141259/google-lays-off-staff-from-flutter-dart-and-python-teams?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-29T23:20:00Z	**Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov**
Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from The Mirror: The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi region, announced it had arrested [former world chess champion Garry Kasparov] in absentia alongside former Russian parliament member Gennady Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin co-founder of the Free Russia Forum - ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2148239/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-chess-champion-garry-kasparov?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T00:02:00Z	**WeWork Rejects Adam Neumann's Acquisition Bid, Unveils Restructuring**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: WeWork has a new plan to get out of bankruptcy -- and it doesn't involve Adam Neumann, who wants to acquire the flexible office provider he created. WeWork announced Monday that it has raised $450 million in equity funding, which it could use to emerge from Chapter 11. The company a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2159200/wework-rejects-adam-neumanns-acquisition-bid-unveils-restructuring?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T00:45:00Z	**The EU Will Force Apple To Open Up iPadOS**
As reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple's iPadOS will need to abide by EU's DMA rules, as it is now designated as a gatekeeper alongside the Safari web browser, iOS operating system and the App Store. "Apple now has six months to ensure full compliance of iPadOS with the DMA obligations," reads the EU's blog post about the change. Engadget reports: What does Apple have to do to ensure iP ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/233244/the-eu-will-force-apple-to-open-up-ipados?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T01:25:00Z	**T2 Linux 24.5 Released**
ReneR writes: A major T2 Linux milestone has been released, shipping with full support for 25 CPU architectures and several C libraries, as well as restored support for Intel IA-64 Itanium. Additionally, many vintage X.org DDX drivers were fixed and tested to work again, as well as complete support for the latest KDE 6 and GNOME 46.

T2 is known for its sophisticated cross compile support and support for nearly all existing CPU a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2325210/t2-linux-245-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T02:02:00Z	**Tether Buys $200 Million Majority Stake In Brain-Computer Interface Company**
Crypto company Tether announced Monday that it has invested $200 million to acquire a majority stake in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech via its venture capital division Tether Evo. [The firm is not related to the asset management giant BlackRock.] CoinDesk reports: Blackrock Neurotech develops medical  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2335248/tether-buys-200-million-majority-stake-in-brain-computer-interface-company?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T03:30:00Z	**G7 Reaches Deal To Exit From Coal By 2035**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants in the first half of the 2030s, in a significant step towards the transition away from fossil fuels. "There is a technical agreement, we will seal the final political deal on Tuesday," said Italian energy minister Gilberto ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2312241/g7-reaches-deal-to-exit-from-coal-by-2035?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T07:00:00Z	**Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original**
Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor light. Real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia as Ruwiki; the new one is called Ruviki, has "ruwik ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/0045208/russia-clones-wikipedia-censors-it-bans-original?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T10:00:00Z	**NASA's Psyche Hits 25 Mbps From 140 Miles Away**
Richard Speed reports via The Register: NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away. The payload is riding aboard the Psyche probe, which is headed for an asteroid of the same name. On December 11, when the spacecraft was 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/0053223/nasas-psyche-hits-25-mbps-from-140-miles-away?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T13:00:00Z	**Copilot Workspace Is GitHub's Take On AI-Powered Software Engineering**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ahead of its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco early this fall, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace, a dev environment that taps what GitHub describes as "Copilot-powered agents" to help developers brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language. Jonathan Cart ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/0119235/copilot-workspace-is-githubs-take-on-ai-powered-software-engineering?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T14:01:00Z	**Apple Targets Google Staff To Build AI Team**
Apple has poached dozens of AI experts from Google and has created a secretive European laboratory in Zurich, as the tech giant builds a team to battle rivals in developing new AI models and products. From a report: According to a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of LinkedIn profiles as well as public job postings and research papers, the $2.7tn company has undertaken a hiring spree  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/142210/apple-targets-google-staff-to-build-ai-team?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T14:30:00Z	**Apple Confirms iPhone Alarm Failure Reports**
Apple has confirmed reports [video link] of a software glitch causing some iPhone alarms to fail to play a sound.

[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png)](http://twitter.com/home?status=Apple+Confirms+iPhone+Alarm+Failure+Reports%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F24%2F04%2F30%2F1430252%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter)[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/fa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1430252/apple-confirms-iphone-alarm-failure-reports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T15:20:00Z	**Major US Newspapers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft For Copyright Infringement**
Eight prominent U.S. newspapers owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, in a complaint filed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York. From a report: Until now, the Times was the only major newspaper to take legal action against AI firms for copyright infringement. Many o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1513242/major-us-newspapers-sue-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T16:00:00Z	**Bill Gates Is Still Pulling the Strings At Microsoft**
theodp writes: Reports of the death of Bill Gates' influence at Microsoft have been greatly exaggerated: "Publicly, [Bill] Gates has been almost entirely out of the picture at Microsoft since 2021, following allegations that he had behaved inappropriately toward female employees. In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft's  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1523247/bill-gates-is-still-pulling-the-strings-at-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T16:41:00Z	**Cyber Criminal Jailed For Blackmailing Therapy Patients**
One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole. From a report: Julius Kivimaki obtained them after breaking into the databases of Finland's largest psychotherapy company, Vastaamo. After his attempt to extort the company failed, he emailed patients directly, threatening ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1415206/cyber-criminal-jailed-for-blackmailing-therapy-patients?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T17:20:00Z	**Even Walmart Thinks American Healthcare Is Too Expensive**
Walmart isn't making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop. From a report: The retail giant announced today that it'll shutter all 51 health centers it opened up across five states since 2019. Walmart is also getting rid of its virtual care program after acquiring telehealth provider MeMD in 2021. "We determined there is not  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1653219/even-walmart-thinks-american-healthcare-is-too-expensive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T18:25:00Z	**Biden Administration Moves To Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy**
The Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for clean energy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the climate and on low-income communities before approving projects like highways and oil wells. From a report: As part of a deal to raise the country's debt limit last year, Con ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1826213/biden-administration-moves-to-speed-up-permits-for-clean-energy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T19:10:00Z	**How an Empty S3 Bucket Can Make Your AWS Bill Explode**
Maciej Pocwierz, a senior software engineer Semantive, writing on Medium: A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/199238/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T19:40:00Z	**Supreme Court Declines To Block Texas Porn Restriction**
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block on free speech grounds a provision of Texas law aimed at preventing minors from accessing pornographic content online. From a report: The justices turned away a request made by the Free Speech Coalition, a pornography industry trade group, as well as several companies. The challengers said the 2023 law violates the Consti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1913215/supreme-court-declines-to-block-texas-porn-restriction?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T20:20:00Z	**Extreme Heat Continues To Scorch Large Parts of Asia**
Large swathes of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school. From a report: In India, record temperatures have triggered a deadly heatwave and concerns about voter turnout in the nation's marathon election. Extreme heat has also forced Bangladesh to c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/1921210/extreme-heat-continues-to-scorch-large-parts-of-asia?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T21:00:00Z	**Change Healthcare Hackers Broke In Using Stolen Credentials, No MFA**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access the company's systems that weren't protected by multifactor authentication (MFA), according to the chief executive of its parent company, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2019222/change-healthcare-hackers-broke-in-using-stolen-credentials-no-mfa?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T21:40:00Z	**Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License**
After convincing the world to buy open source and give up the Morse Code test for ham radio licenses, Bruce Perens has a new gambit: develop a license that ensures software developers receive compensation from large corporations using their work. The new Post-Open Zero Cost License seeks to address the financial disparities in open source software use and includes provi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2036241/bruce-perens-emits-draft-post-open-zero-cost-license?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T22:20:00Z	**Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced To 4 Months In Prison**
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to enabling money laundering through his cryptocurrency exchange. CNBC reports: The sentence handed down to Zhao in Seattle federal court was significantly less than the three years that federal prosecutors had been seeking for him. The defe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2048242/binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-sentenced-to-4-months-in-prison?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T23:00:00Z	**Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Foss Outpost: Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacement called "run0". The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface. For example, sudo supports network access, LDAP configurations, other  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/219252/systemd-announces-run0-sudo-alternative?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-04-30T23:40:00Z	**Dave & Buster's To Allow Customers To Bet On Arcade Games**
Arcade giant Dave & Buster's said it will begin allowing customers to bet on arcade games. "Customers can soon make a friendly $5 wager on a Hot Shots basketball game, a bet on a Skee-Ball competition or on another arcade game," reports CNBC. "The betting function, expected to launch in the next few months, will work through the company's app." From the repo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2152203/dave-busters-to-allow-customers-to-bet-on-arcade-games?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T00:20:00Z	**Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android Common Kernel, Denies Abandoning Its Efforts**
Mishaal Rahman reports via Android Authority: Earlier today, a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google who, according to their LinkedIn, leads the Android Systems Team and works on Android's Linux kernel fork, submitted a series of patches to AOSP that "remove ACK's support for riscv64." The descriptio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/223247/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android-common-kernel-denies-abandoning-its-efforts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T01:00:00Z	**13.4 Million Kaiser Insurance Members Affected by Data Leak to Online Advertisers**
Kaiser Permanente is the latest healthcare giant to report a data breach. Kaiser said 13.4 million current and former insurance members had their patient data shared with third-party advertisers, thanks to an improperly implemented tracking code the company used to see how its members navigated through its websites ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2218205/134-million-kaiser-insurance-members-affected-by-data-leak-to-online-advertisers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T01:48:00Z	**Is Self Hosting Going Mainstream?**
An anonymous reader shares that IPv6rs has debuted a new one-click self hosting system:

Everyone seemed like they were talking about self hosting, but we didn't understand why it wasn't more prolific. Thus, we conducted a survey to hear reasons. It turned out the two most common reasons were:

1\. Lack of an external IP address
2\. Too difficult to setup and maintain

Our service already solves the first is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/0151240/is-self-hosting-going-mainstream?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T03:30:00Z	**America's Wind Power Production Drops For the First Time In 25 Years**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: U.S. wind power slipped last year for the first time in a quarter-century due to weaker-than-normal Midwest breezes, underscoring the challenge of integrating volatile renewable energy sources into the grid. Power produced by turbines slipped 2% in 2023, even after developers added 6. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2229245/americas-wind-power-production-drops-for-the-first-time-in-25-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T07:00:00Z	**Satellite Operator SES Acquiring Intelsat In $3.1 Billion Deal**
Satellite operator SES plans to buy fellow satellite operator Intelsat, in a $3.1 billion deal that's expected to close next year. According to Space Magazine, the combined company could help it "compete with SpaceX's huge Starlink broadband network." From the report: SES and Intelsat both operate communications satellites in geostationary orbit, which ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2248237/satellite-operator-ses-acquiring-intelsat-in-31-billion-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T10:00:00Z	**China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship**
AmiMoJo shares a report from Tech Times: China has reached a major landmark in green transportation with the launch of the world's largest fully electric container ship. Developed and manufactured by China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco), the vessel is now operating a regular service route between Shanghai and Nanjing, aiming to reduce emissions significantly along  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/04/30/2243243/china-launches-worlds-largest-electric-container-ship?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T13:00:00Z	**Mysterious 'gpt2-chatbot' AI Model Appears Suddenly, Confuses Experts**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named "gpt2-chatbot" that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may be a secret test version of OpenAI's upcoming GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 large language model (LLM). The paid version of ChatGPT ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/0410231/mysterious-gpt2-chatbot-ai-model-appears-suddenly-confuses-experts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T14:00:00Z	**Star Scientist's Claim of 'Reverse Aging' Draws Hail of Criticism**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard geneticist David Sinclair, who has said his "biological age" is roughly a decade younger than his actual one, has put forward his largely unlined face as a spokesman for the longevity movement. The 54-year-old has built his brand on the idea that aging is a treatable disease. The notion has proven so ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1322234/star-scientists-claim-of-reverse-aging-draws-hail-of-criticism?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T14:40:00Z	**LinkedIn Now Has Wordle-style Games You Can Play Every Day**
LinkedIn, the professional network known for job listings and unsolicited career advice, is jumping into gaming. From a report: The platform is officially introducing a set of Wordle-style puzzle games, weeks after they were first spotted in the app. The company is starting with three games: Pinpoint, a word game where players must guess the theme that ties ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1422219/linkedin-now-has-wordle-style-games-you-can-play-every-day?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T15:20:00Z	**Global Debt Hasn't Been This Bad Since the Napoleonic Wars, Says WEF President**
The massive volumes of debt piling up around the globe forced the president of the World Economic Forum to reach back more than 200 years for a comparable period. Fortune: In an interview Sunday with CNBC at a WEF conference in Saudi Arabia, Borge Brende warned overall debt is approaching the world's total economic outpu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1513253/global-debt-hasnt-been-this-bad-since-the-napoleonic-wars-says-wef-president?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T16:02:00Z	**Microsoft Concern Over Google's Lead Drove OpenAI Investment**
Microsoft's motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department's antitrust case against the search giant. Bloomberg: The Windows software maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, was "very, very worried" when h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1437245/microsoft-concern-over-googles-lead-drove-openai-investment?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T16:41:00Z	**LastPass Separates From GoTo**
LastPass, the password manager company, has officially separated from its parent company, GoTo, following a series of high-profile hacks in recent years. The company will now operate under a shareholder holding company called LMI Parent.

LastPass -- owned by private equity firms Francisco Partners and Elliott Management -- has faced criticism for its handling of the breaches, which resulted in the theft of customer dat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/167255/lastpass-separates-from-goto?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T17:20:00Z	**Windows 10 Reaches 70% Market Share as Windows 11 Keeps Declining**
Windows 11's market share dropped in April 2024, falling below 26% after reaching an all-time high of 28.16% in February. According to Statcounter, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, while Windows 10 gained 0.96 points, crossing the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023. Neowin adds: Some argue that Windows 11 still offers little to no bene ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1658204/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T18:01:00Z	**Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Attract More AI Talent**
The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor. From a report: Google says policies like Schedule A, a list of occupations the government "pre-certified" as not having enough American workers, have to be more flexible an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1725208/google-urges-us-to-update-immigration-rules-to-attract-more-ai-talent?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T18:41:00Z	**The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60**
ArsTechnica: Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's General Electric GE-225 mainframe.

L ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1751243/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T19:22:00Z	**Tens of Millions Secretly Use WhatsApp Despite Bans, Company Says**
"Tens of millions" of people are using technical workarounds to secretly access WhatsApp in countries where it is banned, the messaging platform's boss has said. From a report: "You'd be surprised how many people have figured it out," Will Cathcart told BBC News. Like many Western apps, WhatsApp is banned in Iran and North Korea and, intermittent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/183251/tens-of-millions-secretly-use-whatsapp-despite-bans-company-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T19:59:00Z	**UnitedHealthCare CEO Says 'Maybe a Third' of US Citizens Were Affected By Recent Hack**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it's still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty, the CEO of Change Healthcare's parent company UnitedHealth Group, sai ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1959251/unitedhealthcare-ceo-says-maybe-a-third-of-us-citizens-were-affected-by-recent-hack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T20:42:00Z	**Microsoft Says April Windows Updates Break VPN Connections**
Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms. From a report: The company explains on the Windows health dashboard that "Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update."

"We are invest ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/198248/microsoft-says-april-windows-updates-break-vpn-connections?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T21:22:00Z	**National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT**
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to "protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT," 404 Media reported Wednesday. From the report: "NARA will block access to commercial ChatGPT on NARANet [an internal network] and on NARA issued laptops, tablets, d ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1840256/national-archives-bans-employee-use-of-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T22:01:00Z	**Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Dropbox said its digital-signature product, Dropbox Sign, was breached by hackers, who accessed user information including emails, user names and phone numbers. The software company said it became aware of the cyberattack on April 24, sought to limit the incident and reported it to law enforcement and regulatory aut ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/220214/dropbox-says-hackers-breached-digital-signature-product?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T22:40:00Z	**Roblox Players To Start Seeing Video Ads In Its Virtual Realms**
Roblox announced it'll be rolling out virtual billboards with video advertisements that will be displayed in its virtual worlds. Reuters reports: Users will now see billboards featuring content from brands such as e.l.f beauty, Walmart and Warner Bros Discovery, just as they would in real life. That would give advertisers access to Roblox's nearly 72 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/2123226/roblox-players-to-start-seeing-video-ads-in-its-virtual-realms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-01T23:20:00Z	**Anthropic Brings Claude AI To the iPhone and iPad**
Anthropic has released its Claude AI chatbot on the App Store, bringing the company's ChatGPT competitor to the masses. Compared to OpenAI's chatbot, Claude is built with a focus on reducing harmful outputs and promoting safety, with a goal of making interactions more reliable and ethically aware. You can give it a try here. 9to5Mac reports: Anthropic highlights three launch ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/2147233/anthropic-brings-claude-ai-to-the-iphone-and-ipad?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T00:02:00Z	**Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money to continue a broadband-affordability program that gave out its last round of $30 discounts to people with low incomes in April. The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has lowere ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/2115225/congress-lets-broadband-funding-run-out-ending-30-low-income-discounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T00:45:00Z	**Unity Appoints Ex-Zynga Exec Matthew Bromberg As CEO**
Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former CEO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member. "Filling a role that has been temporarily filled by former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, Bromberg will formally join Unity as CEO on May 15," reports VentureBeat. "Whitehurst will serve as executive chair of the Unity board, and Roelof Botha will transition from chairma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/2238224/unity-appoints-ex-zynga-exec-matthew-bromberg-as-ceo?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T01:25:00Z	**Google Lays Off Hundreds of 'Core' Employees, Moves Some Positions To India and Mexico**
According to CNBC, Google is laying off at least 200 employees from its "Core" teams and moving some roles to India and Mexico. From the report: The Core unit is responsible for building the technical foundation behind the company's flagship products and for protecting users' online safety, according to Go ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/2258218/google-lays-off-hundreds-of-core-employees-moves-some-positions-to-india-and-mexico?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T02:02:00Z	**PFAS Increase Likelihood of Death By Cardiovascular Disease, Study Shows**
New submitter berghem shares a report from The Guardian: For the first time, researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, adding a new level of concern to the controversial chemicals' wide use. The findings are especially significant because proving an as ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/236221/pfas-increase-likelihood-of-death-by-cardiovascular-disease-study-shows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T03:30:00Z	**AM Radio Law Opposed By Tech and Auto Industries Is Close To Passing**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/015209/am-radio-law-opposed-by-tech-and-auto-industries-is-close-to-passing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T07:05:00Z	**A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It**
A new battery from Energizer comes with "color alert technology" to alert parents if their child has swallowed one. When the coin lithium battery comes into contact with saliva, it activates a blue dye "so parents and caregivers know that medical attention could be required," reports the New York Times. The battery also features more secure packaging an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/072208/a-new-battery-warns-parents-if-their-child-has-swallowed-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T10:00:00Z	**Google Phone Starts Rolling Out 'Audio Emoji'**
The Google Phone app is rolling out "Audio Emoji" to some users as part of an incoming update in the beta channel, version 128. As 9to5Google reports, they are "essentially stock sound effects attached to one of six different emoji." The list includes: clapping (applause), laughing, party, crying (trombone), poop, and sting (ba dum tss). From the report: When you, as the caller, select ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/0724243/google-phone-starts-rolling-out-audio-emoji?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T13:00:00Z	**Microsoft To Invest $2.2 Billion In Cloud and AI Services In Malaysia**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft said on Thursday it will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in Malaysia to expand cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services in the company's latest push to promote its generative AI technology in Asia. The investment, the largest in Microsoft's 32-year history in Malay ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/0730241/microsoft-to-invest-22-billion-in-cloud-and-ai-services-in-malaysia?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T14:00:00Z	**Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Has Died**
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. Seattle Times: Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Sp ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1256249/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T14:40:00Z	**Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes**
Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation. From a report: Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its inception in 2022 and attracted hun ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/133222/huawei-secretly-backs-us-research-awarding-millions-in-prizes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T15:20:00Z	**Google's Payments To Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show**
Alphabet paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google. From a report: The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1320207/googles-payments-to-apple-reached-20-billion-in-2022-antitrust-court-documents-show?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T16:01:00Z	**Microsoft Launches Passkey Support For All Consumer Accounts**
Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. From a report: After enabling them in Windows 11 last year, Microsoft account owners can also now generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS. This makes it effortless to sign in to a Microsoft account without having to type a password in every time.

[![](https://a.fs ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1426235/microsoft-launches-passkey-support-for-all-consumer-accounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T16:42:00Z	**Apple Adds More Carve-outs To Its EU Core Tech Fee After Criticism From Devs**
Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues to configure its approach to the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA): Developers of free apps will be able to avoid the fee entirely under changes it announced Thursday, which apply from today, while other develo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1633217/apple-adds-more-carve-outs-to-its-eu-core-tech-fee-after-criticism-from-devs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T17:34:00Z	**Google Defends 'Better' Search Product as Antitrust Trial Concludes**
Google is making its last attempt to fight back against a historic effort by the US Department of Justice to break the tech giant's grip on online search, as the most significant antitrust trial in 25 years comes to a close in Washington. From a report: A federal court in Washington began hearing closing arguments on Thursday after a 10-week  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1734237/google-defends-better-search-product-as-antitrust-trial-concludes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T18:05:00Z	**Warrantless FBI Searches of American Communications Drop 50 Percent**
The FBI cut its warrantless searches of American data in half in 2023, according to a government report released on Tuesday. From a report: According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's annual transparency report, the FBI conducted 57,094 searches of "US person" data under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveil ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1759221/warrantless-fbi-searches-of-american-communications-drop-50-percent?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T18:42:00Z	**The Last Thing the iPad Needs Is a Spec Bump**
An anonymous reader shares a column: When Apple CEO Tim Cook and a bunch of his deputies take the virtual stage next week to announce new iPads, they're going to spend a lot of time talking about specs. If the rumors are true, we're going to get new iPad Pros with OLED screens and thinner bodies, new Airs with faster chips and a correctly placed front camera, and a couple of new acces ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1837226/the-last-thing-the-ipad-needs-is-a-spec-bump?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T19:22:00Z	**The Original Smart Thermostat, Unveiled 16 Years Ago, is About To Get Dumb**
Ecobee, the company that pioneered smart thermostats with its Ecobee Smart in 2008, has announced it will end online support for the device and its commercial counterpart, the Ecobee Energy Management System, on July 31, 2024. The move will disable internet-dependent features such as web portal control, smart integrations, and wea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1856256/the-original-smart-thermostat-unveiled-16-years-ago-is-about-to-get-dumb?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T20:02:00Z	**Microsoft Bans US Police Departments From Using Enterprise AI Tool**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft has changed its policy to ban U.S. police departments from using generative AI through the Azure OpenAI Service, the company's fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI technologies. Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service prohibits integ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1918222/microsoft-bans-us-police-departments-from-using-enterprise-ai-tool?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T20:40:00Z	**Maximum-Severity GitLab Flaw Allowing Account Hijacking Under Active Exploitation**
Dan Goodin reports via Ars Technica: A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now under active exploitation, federal government officials warned as data showed that thousands of users had yet to install a patch released in January. A change  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1934220/maximum-severity-gitlab-flaw-allowing-account-hijacking-under-active-exploitation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T21:20:00Z	**Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion**
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management have made a bid to acquire Paramount for $26 billion and take it private. Variety reports: Sony and private-equity giant Apollo submitted a letter with the non-binding offer Wednesday to Paramount Global, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The bid, which would include the assumption of debt and c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/2116210/sony-apollo-offers-to-buy-paramount-for-26-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T22:00:00Z	**Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Last week, hundreds of nurses protested the implementation of sloppy AI into hospital systems in front of Kaiser Permanente. Their primary concern: that systems incapable of empathy are being integrated into an already dysfunctional sector without much thought toward patient care: "No computer, no AI ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/2111253/nurses-say-hospital-adoption-of-half-cooked-ai-is-reckless?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T22:40:00Z	**Spotify Hides Song Lyrics Behind Paywall**
Several users on Reddit have noticed that Spotify has started hiding song lyrics behind a paywall. "This means you won't be able to sing along unless you know the lyrics already, or are willing to look them up in another app," reports Android Police. From the report: Still, you lose the convenience of real-time sync with the track and automatic scrolling. Like skips per hour, it appears Spotif ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/1940215/spotify-hides-song-lyrics-behind-paywall?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-02T23:20:00Z	**Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos**
When given the choice, pet parrots prefer to video-call each other instead of watch pre-recorded videos of other birds. Those are the findings from a new paper (PDF) set to appear next week at a conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hawaii. Phys.Org reports: The study, led by animal-computer interaction specialists at t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/2145258/pet-parrots-prefer-live-video-calls-over-watching-pre-recorded-videos?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T03:30:00Z	**FDA Qualifies Apple Watch's AFib History For Use In Clinical Studies**
In a first for "digital health technology," the Apple Watch's atrial fibrillation (AFib) history feature has been approved by the FDA to join the FDA's Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) program. This means the wearable is now usable in clinical studies. The Verge reports: The FDA announcement describes using it as a noninvasive wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/2159209/fda-qualifies-apple-watchs-afib-history-for-use-in-clinical-studies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T07:00:00Z	**Hubble Network Makes Bluetooth Connection With a Satellite For the First Time**
Aria Alamalhodaei reports via TechCrunch: Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite -- a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to connecting millions more devices anywhere in the world. The Seattle-based start ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/222205/hubble-network-makes-bluetooth-connection-with-a-satellite-for-the-first-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T10:00:00Z	**Back From the Dead: Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released**
"Aamrok 3.0, ported to Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5, has been released," writes Slashdot reader serafean. "With the heavy lifting being done, the Qt6/KF6 version is expected later in the year." Originally developed for Linux as part of the KDE desktop environment, Amarok is a free, cross-platform music player that supports various audio formats and a user interface that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/0020208/back-from-the-dead-amarok-30-music-player-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T13:00:00Z	**Hyundai Spending Nearly $1 Billion To Keep Self-Driving Startup 'Motional' Alive**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Hyundai has agreed to spend nearly $1 billion on Motional, an investment that will give the automaker a majority stake while providing the self-driving startup with the necessary capital to keep operating. The Korean automaker invested $475 million directly into Mot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/0548244/hyundai-spending-nearly-1-billion-to-keep-self-driving-startup-motional-alive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T14:00:00Z	**Individual Gets 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fake Cisco Gear on Amazon, eBay**
A Miami-based CEO will serve over six years in prison for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to numerous buyers on Amazon and eBay, with some of the shoddy hardware ending up in sensitive US government systems. From a report: On Wednesday, 40-year-old Onur Aksoy was sentenced to six years and six months in prison for rak ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/0853238/individual-gets-6-years-in-prison-for-selling-fake-cisco-gear-on-amazon-ebay?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T14:49:00Z	**Google Defends App Store, Fighting Epic Games' Bid For Major Reforms**
Google has asked a U.S. judge not to impose sweeping changes to the Alphabet unit's app store Play that were proposed by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games in the companies' closely-watched antitrust fight. From a report: Google made its filing late on Thursday in San Francisco federal court, where Epic last year persuaded a jury that the tech gia ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1449230/google-defends-app-store-fighting-epic-games-bid-for-major-reforms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T15:20:00Z	**An Open Database Leaked Submissions To Utah's 'Bathroom Bill' Snitch Form**
samleecole writes: Utah set up an online form for people to accuse other citizens and public establishments of violating the state's recently-enacted transphobic "bathroom bill." The submission form is being flooded with memes and troll comments, and the auditor also left the submissions database open to the public -- without a passw ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/150213/an-open-database-leaked-submissions-to-utahs-bathroom-bill-snitch-form?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T16:02:00Z	**German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center**
Plumpaquatsch writes: Investigators teamed up with colleagues from the Balkans and Lebanon in raids set up by months of intense surveillance. Authorities say the operation thwarted over 10 million euro in damages and led to 21 arrests.

Dubbed 'Operation Pandora,' the sting began in Germany in December 2023, after a suspicious bank teller contacted police when a 76-year- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/156209/german-police-bust-europes-largest-scam-call-center?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T16:40:00Z	**Microsoft Overhaul Treats Security as 'Top Priority' After a Series of Failures**
Microsoft is making security its number one priority for every employee, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. The Verge: After a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board recently concluded that "Microsoft's security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul," it's doing just that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1547250/microsoft-overhaul-treats-security-as-top-priority-after-a-series-of-failures?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T17:30:00Z	**Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years**
An anonymous reader shares a report: A software engineer has been keeping nearly 7,500 Firefox tabs open on her Mac computer for over two years -- and doesn't plan on closing them anytime soon. The Firefox power user, who goes by the pseudonym "Hazel" online, posted a screenshot showing 7,470 tabs open earlier this week after finding the browser initiall ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1731211/firefox-power-user-keeps-7400-browser-tabs-open-for-2-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T18:11:00Z	**China Launches Moon Probe**
China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country's ambitious space program. From a report: The Chang'e-6 probe -- China's most complex robotic lunar mission to date -- blasted off on a Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan island, where space fan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1811253/china-launches-moon-probe?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T19:41:00Z	**Britain's Climate Action Plan Unlawful, High Court Rules**
The UK government's climate action plan is unlawful, the high court has ruled, as there is not enough evidence that there are sufficient policies in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. From a report: The energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, will now be expected to draw up a revised plan within 12 months. This must ensure that the UK achieves its legally bindin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1942206/britains-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court-rules?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T20:10:00Z	**Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat**
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill this week banning and criminalizing the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat in the state. From a report: The legislation joins similar efforts from three other states -- Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee -- that have also looked to stop the sale of lab-grown meat, which is believed to still be years away from commercial viability. "Florida is fighting back against the global elit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1957226/florida-bans-lab-grown-meat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T20:50:00Z	**Germany Says Russia Will Face Consequences For 'Intolerable' Cyberattack**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Russian state hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that targeted the Social Democrats, the leading party i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/208224/germany-says-russia-will-face-consequences-for-intolerable-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T21:30:00Z	**AI Engineers Report Burnout, Rushed Rollouts As 'Rat Race' To Stay Competitive Hits Tech Industry**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Late last year, an artificial intelligence engineer at Amazon was wrapping up the work week and getting ready to spend time with some friends visiting from out of town. Then, a Slack message popped up. He suddenly had a deadline to delive ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2119214/ai-engineers-report-burnout-rushed-rollouts-as-rat-race-to-stay-competitive-hits-tech-industry?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T22:10:00Z	**Senators Want Limits On TSA Use of Facial Recognition Technology For Airport Screening**
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Jeff Merkley, John Kennedy, and Roger Marshall, is advocating for limitations on the Transportation Security Administration's use of facial recognition technology due to concerns about privacy and civil liberties. PBS reports: In a letter on Thursday, the group of 1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2138236/senators-want-limits-on-tsa-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-for-airport-screening?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T22:50:00Z	**Sony Will Soon Require 'Helldivers 2' PC Gamers To Link Their Steam Accounts To PSN, Angering Users**
"Players who made Steam purchases of Helldivers 2 are now, months after the fact, being told by Sony that their games will be useless unless linked to a PSN account," writes longtime Slashdot reader Baron\_Yam. From a report: Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment announced tod ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2146232/sony-will-soon-require-helldivers-2-pc-gamers-to-link-their-steam-accounts-to-psn-angering-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-03T23:30:00Z	**Humans Now Share the Web Equally With Bots, Report Warns**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent, published last month: Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report -- as some fear that the internet is dying. In recent months, the so-called "dead internet theory" has gained new popularity. It suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2153233/humans-now-share-the-web-equally-with-bots-report-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T00:10:00Z	**Apple Announces Largest-Ever $110 Billion Share Buyback As iPhone Sales Drop**
Apple reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that topped estimates, despite a 10% drop in iPhone sales. The company also announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, "a 22% increase over last year's $90 billion authorization," notes CNBC. "It's the largest buyback in history, ahead of Apple's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2217202/apple-announces-largest-ever-110-billion-share-buyback-as-iphone-sales-drop?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T00:50:00Z	**US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons**
Senior Department arms control official Paul Dean on Thursday urged China and Russia to declare that artificial intelligence would never make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons. Washington had made a "clear and strong commitment" that humans had total control over nuclear weapons, said Dean. Britain and France have m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/224203/us-official-urges-china-russia-to-declare-ai-will-not-control-nuclear-weapons?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T03:30:00Z	**Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2255226/methane-emissions-from-gas-flaring-being-hidden-from-satellite-monitors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T07:00:00Z	**Star Wars Day 2024 Celebrated With Videogames, Movie Marathons, Cartoons, and Mark Hamill**
"It all started with the fans," says 72-year-old actor Mark Hamill, in a montage of fans and actors in a newly-released video commemorating this year's Star Wars day.

Or, as Tom's Guide writes, "It's such a nice feeling to be a part of a huge community since fans are the ones who created th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1852252/star-wars-day-2024-celebrated-with-videogames-movie-marathons-cartoons-and-mark-hamill?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T10:00:00Z	**Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Exit the Lab, Enter US Production**
Natron Energy, a pioneer in sodium-ion battery technology, has officially commenced mass production of its lithium-free sodium batteries in its Holland, Michigan facility, offering an alternative energy storage solution with benefits such as faster cycling, longer lifespan, and safer usage compared to lithium-ion batteries. New Atlas reports: No ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2317204/lithium-free-sodium-batteries-exit-the-lab-enter-us-production?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T13:00:00Z	**Extremist Militias Are Coordinating In More Than 100 Facebook Groups**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Join your localMilitia or III% Patriot Group," a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group called the Free American Army. Accompanied by the logo for the Three Percenters militia network and an image of a man in tactical gear holding a long rifle, the post continues: "Now more ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/2325205/extremist-militias-are-coordinating-in-more-than-100-facebook-groups?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T14:34:00Z	**Geek-Friendly 'Free Comic Book Day' Titles Include Two Star Wars Books for May the Fourth**
This year's Free Comic Book Day coincided with Star Wars Day. So there's two new free Star Wars titles being handed out today in comic shops around the world.

They're among several geek-friendly titles among the 48 free comics that fans will get to choose from during this once-a-year event ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/1928201/geek-friendly-free-comic-book-day-titles-include-two-star-wars-books-for-may-the-fourth?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T15:34:00Z	**The Highest Observatory On Earth Is Now Open**
The world's highest astronomical site is officially open for business after being in the works for 26 years. Space.com reports: The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolution of galaxies and exoplanets, is perched on top of a tall mountain in the Chilean Andes at 5,640 meters (18,500 feet) above sea lev ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/233253/the-highest-observatory-on-earth-is-now-open?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T16:34:00Z	**When a Politician Sues a Blog to Unmask Its Anonymous Commenter**
Markos Moulitsas is the poll-watching founder of the political blog Daily Kos. Thursday he wrote that in 2021, future third-party presidential candidate RFK Jr. had sued their web site.

"Things are not going well for him."

Back in 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued Daily Kos to unmask the identity of a community member who posted a critical story ab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/0316216/when-a-politician-sues-a-blog-to-unmask-its-anonymous-commenter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T17:34:00Z	**Jack Dorsey's Block Is Investing 10% Of Its Bitcoin Profits Into Monthly Bitcoin Purchases**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog Bitcoinist:

Jack Dorsey's financial services and digital payments company, Block Inc., announced it will begin investing 10% of its monthly Bitcoin-related gross profits into BTC purchases. This announcement was made following the release of Block's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/0356205/jack-dorseys-block-is-investing-10-of-its-bitcoin-profits-into-monthly-bitcoin-purchases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T18:34:00Z	**Finding Land for US Wind Farms Might Be Easier Than We Thoughth**
The Washington Post reports that wind turbines "only take up five percent of the land where they've been built, new research shows."

 The rest of the space can be used for other purposes, such as agriculture, according to a study published recently in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology. This means developers could f ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/0435251/finding-land-for-us-wind-farms-might-be-easier-than-we-thoughth?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T19:34:00Z	**NASA's Moon Capsule Suffered Extensive Damage During 2022's Test Flight**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:

The heat shield of the Orion spacecraft intended one day to carry astronauts to the moon under NASA's Artemis program suffered unexpected damage in more than 100 places as the spacecraft returned to Earth during an uncrewed test flight in 2022, according to a watchdog ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/054256/nasas-moon-capsule-suffered-extensive-damage-during-2022s-test-flight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T20:03:00Z	**Ubuntu Criticized For Bug Blocking Installation of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Deb Packages**
The blog It's FOSS is "pissed at the casual arrogance of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical..... The sheer audacity of not caring for its users reeks of Microsoft-esque arrogance."
If you download a .deb package of a software, you cannot install it using the official graphical software center on Ubuntu anymore. When you doubl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/202207/ubuntu-criticized-for-bug-blocking-installation-of-deb-packages?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T21:25:00Z	**Multinational ISP Offers $206M In Secured Notes Backed By IPv4 Addresses**
CircleID reports that Multinational internet service provider Cogent recently announced that it was offering $206 million in secured notes (a corporate bond backed by assets). "The unusual part is what it's using as security: some of its IPv4 addresses and the leases on those IPv4 addresses."

All internet service providers (ISPs)  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/2122251/multinational-isp-offers-206m-in-secured-notes-backed-by-ipv4-addresses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-04T22:25:00Z	**U.S. Seeks to Build World Pressure on Russia Over Space Nuclear Weapon**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:

American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an antisatellite nuclear weapon in space, and have obtained information that undermines Moscow's explanation that the device it is developing is for peaceful scientific purposes, a s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/225252/us-seeks-to-build-world-pressure-on-russia-over-space-nuclear-weapon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T01:33:00Z	**AI-Powered 'HorseGPT' Fails to Predict This Year's Kentucky Derby Winner**
In 2016, an online "swarm intelligence" platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers, in order. (But the next year their predictions weren't even close, with TechRepublic suggesting 2016's race had an unusual cluster of just a few top racehorses.)

So this year Decrypt.co tried crafti ... ⌘ [Read more](https://idle.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0037217/ai-powered-horsegpt-fails-to-predict-this-years-kentucky-derby-winner?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T04:34:00Z	**The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029**
Come 2029, all cars sold in the U.S. "must be able to stop and avoid contact with a vehicle in front of them at speeds up to 62 mph," reports Car and Driver.

"Additionally, the system must be able to detect pedestrians in both daylight and darkness. As a final parameter, the federal standard will require the system to apply the brakes automatical ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/2250221/the-us-just-mandated-automated-emergency-braking-systems-by-2029?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T07:34:00Z	**Microsoft Details How It's Developing AI Responsibly**
Thursday the Verge reported that a new report from Microsoft "outlines the steps the company took to release responsible AI platforms last year."

Microsoft says in the report that it created 30 responsible AI tools in the past year, grew its responsible AI team, and required teams making generative AI applications to measure and map risks throughout the development cycle. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0521206/microsoft-details-how-its-developing-ai-responsibly?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T11:34:00Z	**Breakthrough Achieved In Nanometer-Resolution Imaging of 3D Chemistry**
"A leap in our ability to see the chemistry of matter in three-dimensions at the nanoscale was achieved, allowing scientists to understand how nanomaterials are chemically arranged," writes Slashdot reader Hovden:

Traditionally, seeing matter at the smallest sizes requires too many high-energy electrons for 3D chemical imaging. The  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/04/2350234/breakthrough-achieved-in-nanometer-resolution-imaging-of-3d-chemistry?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T14:34:00Z	**Plato's Final Hours Recounted In Scroll Found In Vesuvius Ash**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:

Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy. In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0314231/platos-final-hours-recounted-in-scroll-found-in-vesuvius-ash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T15:34:00Z	**Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers?**
The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems:

When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right? With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a link preview is not generated by just one Mastodon instance. There are many instances connected to it ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0241211/is-mastodons-link-previewing-overloading-servers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T16:34:00Z	**Will Calls to Scrutinize Digital-Currency Purchases of Oil Bring New Regulations For Crypto?**
Last month Reuters reported that Venezuela's state-run oil company "plans to increase digital currency usage in its crude and fuel exports as the U.S. reimposes oil sanctions on the country, three people familiar with the plan said."

[The oil company] since last year had been slowly moving o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0410237/will-calls-to-scrutinize-digital-currency-purchases-of-oil-bring-new-regulations-for-crypto?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T17:34:00Z	**AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test**
The Associated Press reports that an F-16 performing aerial combat tests at 550 miles per hour was "controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot."
And riding in the front seat was the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force...

AI marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of st ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/1630222/ai-operated-f-16-jet-carries-air-force-official-into-550-mph-aerial-combat-test?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T18:34:00Z	**Some San Francisco Tech Workers are Renting Cheap 'Bed Pods'**
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate:
Late last year, tales of tech workers paying $700 a month for tiny "bed pods" in downtown San Francisco went viral. The story provided a perfect distillation of SF's wild (and wildly expensive) housing market — and inspired schadenfreude when the city deemed the situation illegal. But the provocative living ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/1749244/some-san-francisco-tech-workers-are-renting-cheap-bed-pods?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T20:18:00Z	**Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech's Polarizing Power?**
"What if the big tech companies achieved their ultimate business goal — maximizing engagement on their platforms — in a way that has undermined our ability to function as an open society?"

That's the question being asked by Chuck Todd, chief political analyst for NBC News:

 What if they realized that when folks agree on a solution to a problem, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/2016246/could-better-data-protections-reduce-big-techs-polarizing-power?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T21:18:00Z	**America's Federal Regulators Are Preparing More Lawsuits Against Crypto Companies**
A "string of legal victories" by America's market-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission "has jolted some of crypto's biggest players," reports Politico — even as they're seeking more credibility with U.S. lawmakers:
Judges have recently rebuked claims that the SEC lacks authority to police the market. Coinb ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/2057223/americas-federal-regulators-are-preparing-more-lawsuits-against-crypto-companies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T22:18:00Z	**Can Technology Help Reduce Drunk-Driving Deaths?**
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arrests for driving under the influence have plummeted, as police grapple with challenges like hiring woes and heightened concern aroun ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/2214210/can-technology-help-reduce-drunk-driving-deaths?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-05T23:18:00Z	**Microsoft's 'Responsible AI' Chief Worries About the Open Web**
From the Washington Post's "Technology 202" newsletter:

As tech giants move toward a world in which chatbots supplement, and perhaps supplant, search engines, the Microsoft executive assigned to make sure AI is used responsibly said the industry has to be careful not to break the business model of the wider web. Search engines citing and linking to the websit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0527224/microsofts-responsible-ai-chief-worries-about-the-open-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T01:35:00Z	**Scientists Find a 'Missing Link' Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk**
Science Alert reports that a team of researchers found "that changes in glucose metabolism could help cancer grow by temporarily disabling a gene that protects us from tumors called BRCA2."

The team first examined people who inherited one faulty copy of BRCA2. They found that cells from these people were more sensitive to meth ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/2333251/scientists-find-a-missing-link-between-poor-diet-and-higher-cancer-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T03:34:00Z	**How 'Star Wars' was Influenced by San Francisco - and Architecture**
"Without San Francisco, Star Wars wouldn't exist," says David Reat, the culture studies director of the architecture department at Glasgow's University of Strathclyde.

SFGate reports:

Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, where his father expected him to run the family stationery store once he turned 18, but Lucas instead left for Lo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/1715226/how-star-wars-was-influenced-by-san-francisco---and-architecture?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T07:34:00Z	**Elon Musk's X Launches Grok AI-Powered 'Stories' Feature**
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mint:

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new Grok AI-powered feature called 'Stories', which allows users to read summaries of a trending post on the social media platform. The feature is currently only available to X Premium subscribers on the iOS and web versions, and hasn't found its  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/0028235/elon-musks-x-launches-grok-ai-powered-stories-feature?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T11:34:00Z	**In Argentina, Facing Surging Inflation, 500K  Accept Worldcoin's Offer of $50 for Iris-Scanning**
Wednesday Rest of World noticed an overlooked tech story in Argentina:

Olga de León looked confused as she walked out of a nightclub on the edge of Buenos Aires on a recent Tuesday afternoon. She had just had her iris scanned. "No one told me what they'll do with my eye," de León, 57, told  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/0140229/in-argentina-facing-surging-inflation-500k-accept-worldcoins-offer-of-50-for-iris-scanning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T14:00:00Z	**More Than 90% of Stablecoin Transactions Aren't From Real Users, Visa Study Finds**
More than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren't coming from genuine users, according to a new metric co-developed by Visa, suggesting such crypto tokens may be far away from becoming a commonly used means of payment. Bloomberg: The dashboard from Visa and Allium Labs is designed to strip out transactions initi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/048208/more-than-90-of-stablecoin-transactions-arent-from-real-users-visa-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T14:40:00Z	**Microsoft Readies New AI Model To Compete With Google, OpenAI**
For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough to compete with state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI itself. The Information: The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being oversee ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1437231/microsoft-readies-new-ai-model-to-compete-with-google-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T15:20:00Z	**PlayStation Reverses Course on Helldivers 2 PSN Account Requirement**
PlayStation has reversed course on the Helldivers 2 PSN account requirement, walking back the unpopular policy after a weekend long backlash that included tens of thousands of negative reviews, some of which spread to Sony's other Steam games. From a report: "Helldivers fans -- we've heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1515220/playstation-reverses-course-on-helldivers-2-psn-account-requirement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T16:00:00Z	**Police Resurrect Lockbit's Site and Troll the Ransomware Gang**
An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the group. From a report: On Sunday, what was once LockBit's official darknet site reappeared online with new posts that suggest the authorities are planning to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1546218/police-resurrect-lockbits-site-and-troll-the-ransomware-gang?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T16:41:00Z	**Poorer Nations Must Be Transparent Over Climate Spending, Says Cop29 Leader**
Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said. From a report: Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan, who will lead the Cop29 UN climate summit in November, urged governm ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1536206/poorer-nations-must-be-transparent-over-climate-spending-says-cop29-leader?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T17:20:00Z	**40,000 AI-Narrated Audiobooks Flood Audible**
A new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves -- ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It's an AI audiobook revolution that has been turbo-charged by Amazon. From a report: Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated title ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1720210/40000-ai-narrated-audiobooks-flood-audible?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T18:42:00Z	**Google is Changing How You Set Up 2FA**
Google is streamlining the process of setting up two-factor authentication (2FA). From a report: Instead of entering your phone number first to enable 2FA, you can now add a "second step method" to your account such as an authenticator app or a hardware security key to get things set up. This should make it safer to turn on 2FA, as it lets you avoid using less secure SMS verification. You can choose t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1841237/google-is-changing-how-you-set-up-2fa?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T19:31:00Z	**North Yorkshire Apostrophe Fans Demand Road Signs With Nowt Taken Out**
A council has provoked the wrath of residents and linguists alike after announcing it would ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems. From a report: North Yorkshire council is ditching the punctuation point after careful consideration, saying it can affect geographical databases. The council said all new s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/1932203/north-yorkshire-apostrophe-fans-demand-road-signs-with-nowt-taken-out?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T20:04:00Z	**Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits**
Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place [non-paywalled link] to Canada's largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. FT: As part of a subsidy scheme to boost the industry, the Alberta provincial government allowed Shell to register and sell carbon credits equivalent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/204257/shell-sold-millions-of-phantom-carbon-credits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T20:42:00Z	**'The Good Enough Trap'**
An anonymous reader shares an essay: Software designers refer to "the good enough principle." It means, simply put, that sometimes you should prioritise functionality over perfection. As a relentless imperfectionist, I'm inclined to embrace this idea. I gave this newsletter its name to encourage myself to post rough versions of my pieces rather than not to write them at all. When it comes to parenting, I'm a Winnicottian: I believ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/2014239/the-good-enough-trap?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T21:21:00Z	**OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT**
OpenAI and the developer platform Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that could potentially improve the performance of AI models and bring more technical information into ChatGPT. From a report: OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow's API and will receive feedback from the developer community to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/2025215/openai-and-stack-overflow-partner-to-bring-more-technical-knowledge-into-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T22:02:00Z	**Alternative Clouds Are Booming As Companies Seek Cheaper Access To GPUs**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion in new funding from investors, including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. The round brings its valuation to $19 billion post-money and its total raised  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/2122229/alternative-clouds-are-booming-as-companies-seek-cheaper-access-to-gpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T22:40:00Z	**The Rabbit R1 Could've Just Been a Mobile App**
The Rabbit R1 is one of the first standalone AI companion devices to hit the market, offering the ability to translate languages, identify objects in your environment, and order DoorDash, among other things. It's been in the news last week for its all around poor reviews that cite poor battery life, painfully slow responses, and missing features (sound familiar?). Now, it's been confirmed  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/2151226/the-rabbit-r1-couldve-just-been-a-mobile-app?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-06T23:20:00Z	**Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky**
Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the Twitter alternative he helped start. The announcement comes shortly after Dorsey unfollowed all but three accounts on X and referred to Elon Musk's platform as "freedom technology." The Verge reports: In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and adding that it's searching for a new board member "who shares our commitment to building a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/221247/jack-dorsey-departs-bluesky?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T00:02:00Z	**Pokemon Go Players Are Vandalizing Real Maps With Fake Data To Catch Rare Pokemon**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Pokemon Go players are creating a headache for members of the open source map tool OpenStreetMaps by adding fake beaches where they don't exist in hopes of more easily catching Wigletts, a Pokemon that only spawns on beaches. OpenStreetMaps is a free, open sour ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/06/2113229/pokemon-go-players-are-vandalizing-real-maps-with-fake-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T00:53:00Z	**Google Fit Dev APIs Shutdown Set, Fate of Android and Wear OS Apps Go Unannounced**
Abner Li reports via 9to5Google: Since the launch of Health Connect in 2022, Google has been winding down the Google Fit developer APIs. Earlier this week, the company fully detailed how the "Google Fit APIs have been deprecated and will be supported until June 30, 2025." Fitness and exercise apps that previously  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0051233/google-fit-dev-apis-shutdown-set-fate-of-android-and-wear-os-apps-go-unannounced?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T01:41:00Z	**Novel Attack Against Virtually All VPN Apps Neuters Their Entire Purpose**
Researchers have discovered a new attack that can force VPN applications to route traffic outside the encrypted tunnel, thereby exposing the user's traffic to potential snooping or manipulation. This vulnerability, named TunnelVision, is found in almost all VPNs on non-Linux and non-Android systems. It's believe that the vulnerabi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0140212/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T02:10:00Z	**Stockholm Exergi Lands World's Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft**
Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have announced a 10-year deal that will provide the tech giant with more than 3.3 million tons of carbon removal certificates through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. While the value of the deal was not disclosed, it stands as the largest of its k ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0126256/stockholm-exergi-lands-worlds-largest-permanent-carbon-removal-deal-with-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T03:30:00Z	**Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: In April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they'd been targeted with spyware. "Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID," the notification reads. Users quickly took to social media site ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0157234/apples-iphone-spyware-problem-is-getting-worse?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T07:00:00Z	**Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed**
"Out of an abundance of caution," Boeing says its historic Starliner launch has been postponed, citing an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. It was expected to launch tonight at 10:34 p.m. ET. TechCrunch reports: There are backup launch opportunities on May 7, 10 and 11. After years of delays and over $1 billion in cost overruns, the missi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0212231/boeing-starliners-first-crewed-mission-scrubbed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T10:00:00Z	**Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off**
The Register provides a retrospective look at how Microsoft "absorbed the handset division of Nokia" ten years ago, only to kill the unit two years later and write it off as a tax loss. What went wrong? "It was a fatal combination of bad management, a market evolving in ways hidebound people didn't predic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/0230217/ten-years-ago-microsoft-bought-nokias-phone-unit-then-killed-it-as-a-tax-write-off?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T13:36:00Z	**Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda**
Wesley Yin-Poole, reporting for IGN: Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm. Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1336240/microsoft-shuts-down-arkane-austin-tango-gameworks-and-more-in-devastating-cuts-at-bethesda?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T14:00:00Z	**Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda**
Wesley Yin-Poole, reporting for IGN: Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm. Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1336240/microsoft-shuts-down-arkane-austin-tango-gameworks-and-more-in-devastating-cuts-at-bethesda?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T14:42:00Z	**Apple Unveils Redesigned iPad Pro with OLED Display and M4 Chip**
Apple revealed its refreshed iPad Pro lineup at its "Let Loose" virtual event Tuesday, featuring a slimmer design, OLED displays, and the company's latest M4 chip. The new 13-inch and 11-inch models boast enhanced brightness, color saturation, and contrast, with the 13-inch model measuring just 5.1 millimeters thick, making it Apple's thinnest dev ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1441239/apple-unveils-redesigned-ipad-pro-with-oled-display-and-m4-chip?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T15:20:00Z	**Marvel Will Release No More Than Three Movies and Two Shows Per Year, Bob Iger Says**
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is shrinking the MCU with a new mission to drop the number of Marvel TV series to two a year and the film output to no more than three movies per year. The comment follows Iger conceding last year that Marvel had diluted audience's focus by making too many TV shows. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/151255/marvel-will-release-no-more-than-three-movies-and-two-shows-per-year-bob-iger-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T16:00:00Z	**US, UK Police Identify and Charge Russian Leader of LockBit Ransomware Gang**
The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed. From a report: On Tuesday, a coalition of law enforcement led by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency announced that Russian national, Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, is the person behind the nickname LockBitSupp, the ad ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1538226/us-uk-police-identify-and-charge-russian-leader-of-lockbit-ransomware-gang?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T16:10:00Z	**TikTok Sues US Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban**
Less than two weeks after President Biden signed a bill that will force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media app or face a ban in the United States, TikTok said it sued the federal government on Tuesday, arguing the law was unconstitutional. From a report: TikTok said that the law violated the First Amendment by effectively removing an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1610237/tiktok-sues-us-government-over-law-forcing-sale-or-ban?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T17:20:00Z	**Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service Divorced From the Internet for US Spies**
Microsoft has deployed a generative AI model entirely divorced from the internet, saying US intelligence agencies can now safely harness the powerful technology to analyze top-secret information. From a report: It's the first time a major large language model has operated fully separated from the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/162220/microsoft-creates-top-secret-generative-ai-service-divorced-from-the-internet-for-us-spies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T18:03:00Z	**Motional Delays Commercial Robotaxi Plans Amid Restructuring**
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup borne out of a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and automotive supplier Aptiv, will pause its commercial operations and delay plans to launch a driverless taxi service as it undergoes a restructuring, TechCrunch reported Tuesday. From a report: The aim is make progress on the core technology and the busines ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/183233/motional-delays-commercial-robotaxi-plans-amid-restructuring?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T18:40:00Z	**Jane Street Gets Into Mobile Gaming**
Financial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it's a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. So it was hard to resist writing about the trading shop entering the mobile phone game space (kinda). Back in 2013 Jane Street developed a card game called "Figgie," which it made to simulate open outcry trading, teach trading nous, and generally burnish its reputa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1839227/jane-street-gets-into-mobile-gaming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T19:20:00Z	**Apple Quietly Kills the Old-school iPad and Its Headphone Jack**
Along with introducing a new iPad Air and iPad Pro during its Let Loose event, Apple quietly killed its ninth-gen iPad -- also known as the last iPad with a headphone jack. From a report: The 10th-gen iPad is now the sole entry-level iPad in Apple's official lineup and, as such, has received a $100 price cut. Released in late 2022, the 10th-generatio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/197221/apple-quietly-kills-the-old-school-ipad-and-its-headphone-jack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T20:01:00Z	**Boeing Says Workers Skipped Required Tests on 787 But Recorded Work as Completed**
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether Boeing failed to complete required inspections on 787 Dreamliner planes and whether Boeing employees falsified aircraft records, the agency said this week. The investigation was launched after an employee reported the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/1954212/boeing-says-workers-skipped-required-tests-on-787-but-recorded-work-as-completed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T20:42:00Z	**Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console 'Within This Fiscal Year'**
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console "within this fiscal year," so at some point before March 31, 2025. From a report: In a statement published to X / Twitter, Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, confirmed the new console as Nintendo published its financial report fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/203233/nintendo-confirms-it-will-announce-switch-successor-console-within-this-fiscal-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T21:22:00Z	**Google's Pixel 8A is a Midrange Phone That Might Actually Go the Distance**
The Pixel 8A is officially here. The 8A gets Google's latest processor, adds a bunch of new AI features, and still starts at $499 in the US. But the very best news is that the 8A adopts the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro's seven years of software support, which is just unheard of in a midrange phone. From a report: The 8A retains the same gen ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2010245/googles-pixel-8a-is-a-midrange-phone-that-might-actually-go-the-distance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T22:00:00Z	**Apple Announces M4 With More CPU Cores and AI Focus**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a major shake-up of its chip roadmap, Apple has announced a new M4 processor for today's iPad Pro refresh, barely six months after releasing the first MacBook Pros with the M3 and not even two months after updating the MacBook Air with the M3. Apple says the M4 includes "up to" four high-performance CPU cores,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2029240/apple-announces-m4-with-more-cpu-cores-and-ai-focus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T22:40:00Z	**Theranos Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes Has Prison Sentence Reduced Again**
For the second time, the disgraced former CEO of Theranos has had her federal prison sentence shortened. In July, it was reduced by two years. Now, 40-year-old Holmes is scheduled for release on August 16, 2032 instead of December 29, 2032 -- a reduction of more than four months. The Guardian reports: People incarcerated in the U.S. c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/212206/theranos-fraudster-elizabeth-holmes-has-prison-sentence-reduced-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-07T23:20:00Z	**UK Startup 'Wayve' Gets $1 Billion Funding For Self-Driving Car Tech**
Wayve, a UK-based AI firm focused on developing self-driving car technology, has secured a record $1.05 billion in funding, with Microsoft and Nvidia participating in the round led by SoftBank. According to the BBC, this investment is the largest for an AI company in Europe. The BBC reports: Wayve says the funding will allow it to help build  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/219202/uk-startup-wayve-gets-1-billion-funding-for-self-driving-car-tech?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T00:02:00Z	**Amazon's Delivery Drones Won't Fly In Arizona's Summer Heat**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Amazon plans to start flying delivery drones in Arizona this year -- but don't count on them to bring you a refreshing drink on a hot day. The hexacopter can't operate when temperatures top 104 degrees Fahrenheit, or 40 degrees Celsius, the company says, and average daily highs exceed that for three months of th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2121257/amazons-delivery-drones-wont-fly-in-arizonas-summer-heat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T00:45:00Z	**Minor Car Crashes Mean High Tech Repairs**
"With all the improvements in car safety over the decades, the recent addition of a plethora of high tech sensors and warnings comes with increased costs," writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. "And not just to have to have them on your car. Any time you get into an accident, even a minor one, it will most likely require a detailed examination of any sensors which may have been affect ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2245251/minor-car-crashes-mean-high-tech-repairs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T01:25:00Z	**OpenAI Exec Says Today's ChatGPT Will Be 'Laughably Bad' In 12 Months**
At the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said today's ChatGPT chatbot "will be laughably bad" compared to what it'll be capable of a year from now. "We think we're going to move toward a world where they're much more capable," he added. Business Insider reports: Lightcap says large language model ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2254226/openai-exec-says-todays-chatgpt-will-be-laughably-bad-in-12-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T02:02:00Z	**Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer's**
Pam Belluck reports via the New York Times: Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer's that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would be considered to have a genetically caused form of the disease. Currently, the vast majority of Alzheimer's cases do not have a clearly identified cause. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/2316228/study-suggests-genetics-as-a-cause-not-just-a-risk-for-some-alzheimers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T03:30:00Z	**Defense Think Tank MITRE To Build AI Supercomputer With Nvidia**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a $20 million supercomputer with buzzy chipmaker Nvidia to speed deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities across the U.S. federal government, the MITRE think tank said Tuesday. MITRE, a federally funded, not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/233210/defense-think-tank-mitre-to-build-ai-supercomputer-with-nvidia?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T06:25:00Z	**FTX Customers Poised to Recover All Funds Lost in Collapse**
Lawyers for the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX said customers would receive all the money they lost when the firm collapsed in 2022 and receive interest on top of it. "But the recoveries come with a caveat," reports the New York Times. "The amount owed to customers was calculated based on the value of their holdings at the time of FTX's bankruptcy in No ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/0622219/ftx-customers-poised-to-recover-all-funds-lost-in-collapse?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T07:00:00Z	**Renewable Energy Passes 30% of World's Electricity Supply**
Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world's electricity for the first time last year, according to climate thinktank Ember. The Guardian reports: Clean electricity has already helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the past 10 years, according to the report by climate thinktank Ember. It found that renewables have g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/0243217/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T10:00:00Z	**Heat Waves In North Pacific May Be Due To China Reducing Aerosols**
Computer models have found that recent heat waves in the north Pacific may be due to a large reduction in aerosols emitted by factories in China. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Phys.Org reports: In this new effort, the research team noted that the onset of the heat waves appeared to foll ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/0255242/heat-waves-in-north-pacific-may-be-due-to-china-reducing-aerosols?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T11:17:00Z	**Venture Firms Double, Then Halve, In Stunning Reversal**
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to data analyzed by Morgan Stanley and Pitchbook, the number of active venture capital firms worldwide surged from 2014 levels, more than doubling by 2021, before sharply contracting to below 2014 figures in a stunning reversal.

[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png)](http://twitter.com/home?status=Venture+Fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1117230/venture-firms-double-then-halve-in-stunning-reversal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T13:00:00Z	**US Revokes Intel, Qualcomm Licenses To Sell Chips To Huawei**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSN: The US has revoked licenses allowing Huawei to buy semiconductors from Qualcomm and Intel, according to people familiar with the matter, further tightening export restrictions against the Chinese telecom equipment maker. Withdrawal of the licenses affects US sales of chips for use in Huawei phones and laptops, ac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/031232/us-revokes-intel-qualcomm-licenses-to-sell-chips-to-huawei?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T14:05:00Z	**US Eyes Curbs on China's Access To AI Software Behind Apps Like ChatGPT**
The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, the core software of artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, Reuters reported Wednesday. From the report: The Commerce Department is considering a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/145244/us-eyes-curbs-on-chinas-access-to-ai-software-behind-apps-like-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T14:40:00Z	**AstraZeneca To Withdraw COVID Vaccine Globally as Demand Dips**
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic. From a report: The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria's marketing authorizations within Europe. "As multiple, variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been de ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1425225/astrazeneca-to-withdraw-covid-vaccine-globally-as-demand-dips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T15:20:00Z	**Apple Slammed By Users Over iPad Pro 'Crush' Ad**
Less than 24 hours after Apple held a special event to unveil the new, record-thin (0.20 inch, the thinnest Apple device yet) iPad Pro with M4 chip inside, which the company says is optimized for AI, it is facing a loud and fast-spreading public backlash to one of its new marquee video advertisements promoting the device -- a spot called "Crush." VentureBeat: The video features a  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1521256/apple-slammed-by-users-over-ipad-pro-crush-ad?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T16:10:00Z	**Full Repairs To Damaged Red Sea Internet Cables Delayed by Yemen Political Splits**
Full repairs to three submarine internet cables damaged in the Red Sea in February are being held up by disputes over who controls access to infrastructure in Yemeni waters. From a report: The Yemeni government has granted permits for the repair of two out of three cables, but refused the third because of a dispu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1610238/full-repairs-to-damaged-red-sea-internet-cables-delayed-by-yemen-political-splits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T16:44:00Z	**Google DeepMind's 'Leap Forward' in AI Could Unlock Secrets of Biology**
Researchers have hailed another "leap forward" for AI after Google DeepMind unveiled the latest version of its AlphaFold program, which can predict how proteins behave in the complex symphony of life. From a report: The breakthrough promises to shed fresh light on the biological machinery that underpins living organisms and drive breakth ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1643234/google-deepminds-leap-forward-in-ai-could-unlock-secrets-of-biology?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T17:20:00Z	**Stack Overflow is Feeding Programmers' Answers To AI, Whether They Like It or Not**
Stack Overflow's new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data has users who've posted their questions and answers about coding problems in conversations with other humans rankled. From a report: Users say that when they attempt to alter their posts in protest, the site is retaliating by revers ... ⌘ [Read more](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1711205/stack-overflow-is-feeding-programmers-answers-to-ai-whether-they-like-it-or-not?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T18:01:00Z	**Researchers Warned Against Using AI To Peer Review Academic Papers**
Researchers should not be using tools like ChatGPT to automatically peer review papers, warned organizers of top AI conferences and academic publishers worried about maintaining intellectual integrity. From a report: With recent advances in large language models, researchers have been increasingly using them to write peer reviews -- a time-ho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1746201/researchers-warned-against-using-ai-to-peer-review-academic-papers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T18:01:00Z	**Researchers Warned Against Using AI To Peer Review Academic Papers**
Researchers should not be using tools like ChatGPT to automatically peer review papers, warned organizers of top AI conferences and academic publishers worried about maintaining intellectual integrity. From a report: With recent advances in large language models, researchers have been increasingly using them to write peer reviews -- a time-ho ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1746201/researchers-warned-against-using-ai-to-peer-review-academic-papers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T18:40:00Z	**Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds**
Several large-scale, human-driven changes to the planet -- including climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the spread of invasive species -- are making infectious diseases more dangerous to people, animals and plants, according to a new study. From a report: Scientists have documented these effects before in  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1827200/environmental-changes-are-fueling-human-animal-and-plant-diseases-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T19:54:00Z	**Raspberry Pis Get a Built-in Remote-Access Tool: Raspberry Pi Connect**
An anonymous reader shares a report: One Raspberry Pi often leads to another. Soon enough, you're running out of spots in your free RealVNC account for your tiny boards and "real" computers. Even if you go the hardened route of SSH or an X connection, you have to keep track of where they all are. All of this is not the easiest thing to tac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/1954242/raspberry-pis-get-a-built-in-remote-access-tool-raspberry-pi-connect?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T20:30:00Z	**Prime Video Subs Will Soon See Ads for Amazon Products When They Hit Pause**
Amazon Prime Video subscribers will see new types of advertisements this broadcast year. Amazon announced today that it's adding new ad formats to its video streaming service, hoping to encourage people to interact with the ads and shop on Amazon. From a report: In January, Prime Video streams included commercials unle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/209228/prime-video-subs-will-soon-see-ads-for-amazon-products-when-they-hit-pause?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T21:12:00Z	**Smart Home Startup Brilliant Runs Out of Cash, Which Could Mean Lights Out For Its Light Switches**
Smart home device maker Brilliant has laid off most of its staff and is seeking a buyer after failing to secure funding, CEO Aaron Emigh told The Verge. The company has shut down its support center and halted sales of its smart light switches and controllers, which integrate with va ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2019248/smart-home-startup-brilliant-runs-out-of-cash-which-could-mean-lights-out-for-its-light-switches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T22:00:00Z	**FCC Explicitly Prohibits Fast Lanes, Closing Possible Net Neutrality Loophole**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of fast lanes. While the FCC voted to restore net neutrality rules on April 25, it didn't release the final text of the order until yesterday. The final text (PDF) has some ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2033216/fcc-explicitly-prohibits-fast-lanes-closing-possible-net-neutrality-loophole?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T22:40:00Z	**Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices**
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems. Fedora Asahi Remix continues to be one of the best ways of enjoying a Linux experience atop recent Apple Macs making use of their in-house M ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2038240/fedora-asahi-remix-40-now-available-for-apple-silicon-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-08T23:20:00Z	**US Libraries Are Battling High Prices For Better E-Book Access**
Librarians are fighting a nationwide battle against high e-book prices, which so far has yielded minimal results. Despite efforts and temporary legislative victories, strict renewal and loan policies imposed by publishers keep e-book costs high, limiting the number of popular titles libraries can offer and leading to frustration among patrons. Axios  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2057218/us-libraries-are-battling-high-prices-for-better-e-book-access?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T00:02:00Z	**Ransomware Crooks Now SIM Swap Executives' Kids To Pressure Their Parents**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ransomware infections have morphed into "a psychological attack against the victim organization," as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant. "We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/211245/ransomware-crooks-now-sim-swap-executives-kids-to-pressure-their-parents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T00:45:00Z	**81% of Young People Say a 4-Day Workweek Would Boost Productivity, Survey Finds**
A new national survey (PDF) from CNBC/Generation Lab of 1,033 people aged 18 to 34 found that an overwhelming 81% of respondents believe a four-day workweek would boost their company's productivity, while 19% said productivity would decline. CNBC reports: Those results from the "Youth & Money in the USA" survey come ami ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/229210/81-of-young-people-say-a-4-day-workweek-would-boost-productivity-survey-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T01:25:00Z	**Google Will Exit Prominent San Francisco Waterfront Office Tower**
Google announced on Tuesday that it will be exiting One Market Plaza, a prominent office complex in San Francisco that it had been occupying since 2018. The company's lease for the 300,000-square-foot-office will expire next April. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Many of Google's employees are already working outside of the giant waterfront  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2221245/google-will-exit-prominent-san-francisco-waterfront-office-tower?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T02:02:00Z	**Dell Makes Return-To-Office Push With VPN, Badge Tracking**
Dell is making sure its employees follow the company's updated return-to-office policy through a series of new tracking techniques. According to The Register, Dell will track employees' badge swipes and VPN connections and include a color-coded attendance grading system that summarizes employee presence.

"In the latest Jeff Clarke return-to-grade-school initiative, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2152247/dell-makes-return-to-office-push-with-vpn-badge-tracking?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T03:30:00Z	**Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he faces as a middle-aged man, and thoughts that he doesn't even discuss with his wife. His mother will occasionally make a comment, like telling him to take care of himself -- he's her only  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/08/2323247/deepfakes-of-your-dead-loved-ones-are-a-booming-chinese-business?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T07:00:00Z	**Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' In Whale Songs**
Carl Zimmer reports via the New York Times: Ever since the discovery of whale songs almost 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher their lyrics. Are the animals producing complex messages akin to human language? Or sharing simpler pieces of information, like dancing bees do? Or are they communicating something else we don't yet understand? In 2020, a team of marine biolo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/0031231/scientists-find-an-alphabet-in-whale-songs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T10:00:00Z	**North Yorkshire Council To Ban Apostrophes On Street Signs To Avoid Database Problems**
The North Yorkshire Council in England announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs as it can affect geographical databases. Resident Anne Keywood told the BBC that she urged the authority to retain apostrophes, saying: "If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn't it?"  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/0046211/north-yorkshire-council-to-ban-apostrophes-on-street-signs-to-avoid-database-problems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T13:00:00Z	**US Patent and Trademark Office Confirms Another Leak of Filers' Address Data**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks is alerting thousands of filers whose private addresses were exposed following a second data spill in as many years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said in an email to affected trad ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/0058228/us-patent-and-trademark-office-confirms-another-leak-of-filers-address-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T14:15:00Z	**Microsoft's Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings**
The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft's Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn't finished. From a report: This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, accord ... ⌘ [Read more](https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1414219/microsofts-xbox-is-planning-more-cuts-after-studio-closings?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T14:53:00Z	**OpenAI Considers Allowing Users To Create AI-Generated Pornography**
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring whether users should be allowed to create AI-generated pornography and other explicit content with its products. From a report:While the company stressed that its ban on deepfakes would continue to apply to adult material, campaigners suggested the proposal undermined its mission statement to p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1454236/openai-considers-allowing-users-to-create-ai-generated-pornography?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T15:27:00Z	**Dell Says Data Breach Involved Customers' Physical Addresses**
Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers' names and physical addresses. TechCrunch: In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating "an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited typ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1527252/dell-says-data-breach-involved-customers-physical-addresses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T16:02:00Z	**Sonos Says Its Controversial App Redesign Took 'Courage'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Sonos has responded to the avalanche of feedback -- some good, plenty bad -- about the company's redesigned mobile app that was released on May 7th. In the days since, customers have complained about missing features like sleep timers, broken local music library management, and no longer having the ability to edit playlists or th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1554231/sonos-says-its-controversial-app-redesign-took-courage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T16:48:00Z	**Record-Breaking Increase in CO2 Levels in World's Atmosphere**
The largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide laden in the world's atmosphere has just occurred, according to researchers who monitor the relentless accumulation of the primary gas that is heating the planet. From a report: The global average concentration of carbon dioxide in March this year was 4.7 parts per million (or ppm) higher than ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1648249/record-breaking-increase-in-co2-levels-in-worlds-atmosphere?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T17:22:00Z	**World is On Edge of Climate Abyss, UN Warns**
The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world's foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C. From a report: A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up cal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/1716204/world-is-on-edge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
2024-05-09T18:08:00Z	**Apple To Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year**
Apple will deliver some of its upcoming AI features this year via data centers equipped with its own in-house processors, part of a sweeping effort to infuse its devices with AI capabilities. From a report: The company is placing high-end chips -- similar to ones it designed for the Mac -- in cloud-computing servers designed to process the most advanced  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/05/09/188254/apple-to-power-ai-tools-with-in-house-server-chips-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)