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Denmark Will Plant 1 Billion Trees, Convert 10% Farmlan... 04:30	Slashdot
Denmark Will Plant 1 Billion Trees, Convert 10% Farmland Into Forest An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage. The government called the agreement "the biggest change to the Danish landscape in over 100 years." Under the agreement, 43 billion kroner ($6.1 billion) have been earmarked to acquire land from farmers over the next two decades, the govern... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Senators Say TSA's Facial Recognition Program Is Out of... 03:02	Slashdot
Senators Say TSA's Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the TSA inspector general to investigate the agency's use of facial recognition technology, citing concerns over privacy, civil liberties, and its expansion to over 430 airports without sufficient safeguards or proven effectiveness. Gizmodo reports: "This technology will soon be in use at hundreds of major and mid-size airports without an independent evaluation of the technology's precision or an audit of whether there are sufficient safeguards in plac... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Data Broker Leaves 600K+ Sensitive Files Exposed Online 02:25	Slashdot
Data Broker Leaves 600K+ Sensitive Files Exposed Online A security researcher discovered an unprotected database belonging to SL Data Services containing over 600,000 sensitive files, including criminal histories and background checks with names, addresses, and social media accounts. The Register reports: We don't know how long the personal information was openly accessible. Infosec specialist Jeremiah Fowler says he found the Amazon S3 bucket in October and reported it to the data collection company by phone and email every few days for more than tw... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Google Opens AI Campus In London 01:45	Slashdot
Google Opens AI Campus In London British Prime Minister Keir Starmer inaugurated London's first Google-funded AI Campus in Camden, aiming to equip young people with AI and machine learning skills. Reuters reports: The center, based in Camden, an area which Starmer represents in parliament and which is also home to Google's future offices in Kings Cross, has already started a two-year pilot project for local students. An first cohort of 32 people aged 16-18 will have access to resources in AI and machine learning and receive men... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Tornado Cash Sanctions Overturned By US Appeals Court 01:02	Slashdot
Tornado Cash Sanctions Overturned By US Appeals Court A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that sanctions against Tornado Cash, a crypto transaction anonymization service, must be abandoned, stating that its immutable smart contracts do not constitute "property" under U.S. law and that the Treasury overstepped its authority. The ruling is available here (PDF). CoinDesk reports: The decision answers a controversial privacy debate on whether the government -- via a sanctions list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department -- has a right to target the t... Read the full article on Slashdot »
The World's First Unkillable UEFI Bootkit For Linux 00:20	Slashdot
The World's First Unkillable UEFI Bootkit For Linux An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately before the operating system loads, these UEFI bootkits continue to run even when the hard drive is replaced or reformatted. Now the same type of chip-dwelling malware has been found in the wild for backdooring Linux machines. Researchers at security firm ESET said Wednesday that Bootkitty -- the name unknown threat ac... Read the full article on Slashdot »
FTC Launches Broad Microsoft Antitrust Investigation 27-11-24 23:40	Slashdot
FTC Launches Broad Microsoft Antitrust Investigation The FTC has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing business. Bloomberg first reported the news. Reuters reports: The probe was approved by FTC Chair Lina Khan ahead of her likely departure in January. The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and the expectation he will appoint a fellow Republican with a softer approach toward business, leaves the outcome of the investigation up in the air. The FTC is examining allega... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Former Android Leaders Are Building an 'Operating Syste... 27-11-24 23:02	Slashdot
Former Android Leaders Are Building an 'Operating System For AI Agents' The Verge's Wes Davis reports: A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google's former VP of Android product management, who says the new company -- named "/dev/agents" -- will revisit the leaders' "Android roots." "We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it's just too hard to build anything good," /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google's former Android VP of engineering David Singleton told B... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Hacker In Snowflake Extortions May Be a US Soldier 27-11-24 22:25	Slashdot
Hacker In Snowflake Extortions May Be a US Soldier An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person's identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m's daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.... Read the full article on Slashdot »
LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows 27-11-24 21:41	Slashdot
LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT's launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday. LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to premium subscribers, told Wired that it does not track AI-generated content levels but maintains "robust defenses" against... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 1... 27-11-24 21:01	Slashdot
Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History PetaPixel: Leica Camera announced that its 2023/2024 fiscal year saw it achieve the highest revenue in the entire history of the company. It saw 14% growth to 554 million euros ($586.3 million) over last year's already spectacular 485 million euros. Last winter, Leica announced that it had set a sales record for the 2022/23 financial year and it has shattered that achievement now in 2024. The company says it was able to build on its successful business and sustain the growth of its earnings. T... Read the full article on Slashdot »
RIP Delicious Library 27-11-24 20:21	Slashdot
RIP Delicious Library Wil Shipley, announcing the end of Delicious Library, a media cataloging app: Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items, unfortunately limiting the app to what users already have (or enter manually). I wasn't contacted about this. I've pulled it from the Mac App Store and shut down the website so nobody accidentally buys a non-functional app. John Gruber of DaringFireball adds: The end of an era, but it's kind of surprising it was still functional until now... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Philippines Recruits Civilian Tech Talent To Fend Off C... 27-11-24 19:41	Slashdot
Philippines Recruits Civilian Tech Talent To Fend Off Cyber Attacks The Philippine Army is recruiting civilian hackers to bolster its cybersecurity defenses amid rising digital threats from China, army officials said. The 120-member Cyber Battalion has hired 70 tech experts in their 20s and 30s since 2020, offering them military training and the opportunity to serve the nation despite lower wages than private sector jobs. The initiative follows cyber attacks on Philippine government servers, including those of the Coast Guard and President Marcos Jr., which au... Read the full article on Slashdot »
China Woos Western Tech Talent in Race for Chip Supremacy 27-11-24 19:01	Slashdot
China Woos Western Tech Talent in Race for Chip Supremacy Chinese companies are aggressively recruiting foreign tech talent as a key strategy to gain technological supremacy, prompting national security concerns across Western nations and Asia, WSJ reported Wednesday, citing multiple intelligence officials and corporate sources. The campaign focuses particularly on advanced semiconductor expertise, with companies like Huawei offering triple salaries to employees at critical firms like Zeiss SMT and ASML, which produce essential components for cutting-e... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Sony Says It Sold 160 Million PlayStation 2 Units in Mi... 27-11-24 18:21	Slashdot
Sony Says It Sold 160 Million PlayStation 2 Units in Milestone Disclosure Sony has confirmed the PlayStation 2 has sold over 160 million units worldwide since its 2000 launch, marking the first official acknowledgment of its record-breaking lifetime sales. The figure, revealed on Sony's 30th anniversary PlayStation website, cements PS2's position as the best-selling gaming console ever, ahead of Nintendo DS at 154.02 million units and Nintendo Switch at 146 million units. Read the full article on Slashdot »
Italian Authorities Shut Down $3.2 Billion-a-Year Pirat... 27-11-24 17:42	Slashdot
Italian Authorities Shut Down $3.2 Billion-a-Year Pirate TV, Streaming Ring A piracy ring that gave 22 million subscribers in Europe cheap access to content stolen from international streaming services has been shut down by Italian authorities after a two-year investigation. From a report: The criminal enterprise used a complex international IT system to "capture and resell" live programming and other on-demand content from companies including sports broadcaster DAZN, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount, Sky and Disney+, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday. Auth... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Most Smart Device Makers Fail To Reveal Software Suppor... 27-11-24 17:01	Slashdot
Most Smart Device Makers Fail To Reveal Software Support Periods, FTC Finds Nearly 89% of smart device manufacturers fail to disclose how long they will provide software updates for their products, a Federal Trade Commission staff study found this week. The review of 184 connected devices, including hearing aids, security cameras and door locks, revealed that 161 products lacked clear information about software support duration on their websites. Basic internet searches failed to uncover this information for two-thirds of the devices. "Consumers stand to lose a lot of... Read the full article on Slashdot »
AI Publishing Startup Plans To Release 8,000 Books Next... 27-11-24 16:22	Slashdot
AI Publishing Startup Plans To Release 8,000 Books Next Year Startup Spines plans to publish up to 8,000 books in 2025 using AI, charging authors between $1,200 and $5,000 for editing, design and distribution services. The venture-backed company, which recently secured $16 million in funding, promises to reduce publishing timelines to two to three weeks while allowing authors to retain full royalties. Co-founder Yehuda Niv describes Spines as a "publishing platform" rather than self-publishing. The announcement has drawn criticism from industry professi... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Singapore Emerges as Key Testing Ground for Autonomous ... 27-11-24 15:41	Slashdot
Singapore Emerges as Key Testing Ground for Autonomous Vehicles Singapore is positioning itself as a key testing ground for autonomous vehicles, attracting major Chinese firms and establishing unified national guidelines that contrast with fragmented regulations in the U.S. and China. China's WeRide launched the country's first public autonomous bus service on Sentosa island in June, while multiple companies are deploying self-driving vehicles for logistics and transportation. The controlled rollout aligns with Singapore's strategy to address labor shortag... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Microsoft Slaps Windows 11 Update Hold on Hardware Conn... 27-11-24 15:01	Slashdot
Microsoft Slaps Windows 11 Update Hold on Hardware Connected To eSCL Devices Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 24H2 has issues with USB-connected devices that support the Scanner Communication Language (eSCL) protocol. From a report: A compatibility hold has been applied to the hardware. The hold means that hardware connected to a USB device supporting the eSCL protocol will not be offered an upgrade to Windows 11 24H2. Microsoft said: "This issue primarily affects USB-connected multifunction devices or standalone scanners that support scan functionality and the eS... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Russia-Linked Hackers Exploited Firefox, Windows Bugs I... 27-11-24 14:00	Slashdot
Russia-Linked Hackers Exploited Firefox, Windows Bugs In 'Widespread' Hacking Campaign An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by RomCom, a Russian-linked hacking group, to target Firefox browser users and Windows device owners across Europe and North America. RomCom is a cybercrime group that is known to carry out cyberattacks and other digital intrusions for the Russian government. The group -- which was last month linked to a ransomware attack targe... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Qualcomm Reportedly Loses Interest In Intel Takeover 27-11-24 11:00	Slashdot
Qualcomm Reportedly Loses Interest In Intel Takeover Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel is cooling due to the complexity of the deal, Intel's debt, and regulatory hurdles. However, according to Bloomberg, Qualcomm may still explore acquiring certain divisions of Intel to expand into markets like PCs and networking. Tom's Hardware reports: [T]he proposed acquisition faced significant obstacles, including Intel's $50 billion debt, dropping CPU market share, and its struggling semiconductor manufacturing unit, an area where Qualcomm lacks experti... Read the full article on Slashdot »
FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverag... 27-11-24 08:00	Slashdot
FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones The FCC said it has approved a license for T-Mobile and SpaceX's Starlink to provide supplemental coverage to cover internet dead zones. Reuters reports: The license marks the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator collaborating with a wireless carrier to provide supplemental telecommunications coverage from space on some flexible-use spectrum bands allocated to terrestrial service. The partnership aims to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas and eliminate "dead ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
'Lollipop' Device Brings Taste To Virtual Reality 27-11-24 04:30	Slashdot
'Lollipop' Device Brings Taste To Virtual Reality An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Virtual- and augmented-reality setups already modify the way users see and hear the world around them. Add in haptic feedback for a sense of touch and a VR version of Smell-O-Vision, and only one major sense remains: taste. To fill the gap, researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have developed a new interface to simulate taste in virtual and other extended reality (XR). The group previously worked on other systems for wearable inte... Read the full article on Slashdot »
'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of th... 27-11-24 03:00	Slashdot
'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year The Macquarie Dictionary, the national dictionary of Australia, has picked "enshittification" as its word of the year. Gizmodo reports: The Australians define the word as "the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking." We've all felt this. Google search is filled with garbage. The internet is clogged with SEO-farming websites that clog up results. Faceboo... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Uber's Gig-Economy Workforce Now Includes Programmers 27-11-24 02:01	Slashdot
Uber's Gig-Economy Workforce Now Includes Programmers Uber's gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. According to Bloomberg, "The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intellgience development to independent contractors." From the report: Its new AI training and data labeling division, called Scaled Solutions, builds on an internal team that tackles large-scale annotation tasks for Uber's rideshare, food delivery and freight units. According to ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Job Seekers Doubt AI's Promised Productivity Gains 27-11-24 01:25	Slashdot
Job Seekers Doubt AI's Promised Productivity Gains Despite significant enterprise AI hype, most job seekers remain unconvinced of its benefits, with 69% doubting its ability to enhance work performance and 62% skeptical it reduces workloads. The findings come from a study conducted by Resume Genius. The Register reports: Consistent with the majority opinion that AI in the workplace has failed to impress, only 34 percent of respondents said they were worried about being replaced by a bot, while just 30 percent think AI will increase competition f... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Huawei's Mate 70 Smartphones Will Run Its New Android-F... 27-11-24 00:45	Slashdot
Huawei's Mate 70 Smartphones Will Run Its New Android-Free OS An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Huawei has announced its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first offered with the company's new HarmonyOS Next operating system that doesn't rely on Google's Android services and won't run any Android apps, according to a report by Reuters. The four models of the Mate 70 also don't feature any US hardware following a half decade of US sanctions. The Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus, and Mate 70 RS will also be offe... Read the full article on Slashdot »
OpenAI's Sora Video Generator Appears To Have Leaked 27-11-24 00:04	Slashdot
OpenAI's Sora Video Generator Appears To Have Leaked A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what they're calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part. From a report: On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI's Sora API, which isn't yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens -- presumably from an early access system -- the group created a frontend that lets users generate videos with Sora. Read more of this s... Read the full article on Slashdot »
ISPs Say Their 'Excellent Customer Service' Is Why User... 26-11-24 23:25	Slashdot
ISPs Say Their 'Excellent Customer Service' Is Why Users Don't Switch Providers Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports: Lobby groups for Internet service providers claim that ISPs' customer service is so good already that the government shouldn't consider any new regulations to mandate improvements. They also claim ISPs face so much competition that market forces require providers to treat their customers well or lose them to competitors. Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association told the Federal Communications Commission in a filing (PDF) that "providing... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Microsoft Denies Using Word and Excel Data To Train AI ... 26-11-24 22:45	Slashdot
Microsoft Denies Using Word and Excel Data To Train AI Models Microsoft has denied claims that it automatically enables data collection from Word and Excel documents to train its AI models. The controversy emerged after cybersecurity expert nixCraft reported that Microsoft's Connected Experiences feature was collecting user data by default. While Microsoft's services agreement grants the company rights to use customer content, officials stated via Twitter that document data is not used for AI training. Read the full article on Slashdot »
Intel's CHIPS Act Funding Cut By Over $600 Million 26-11-24 22:01	Slashdot
Intel's CHIPS Act Funding Cut By Over $600 Million The Biden administration is reducing Intel's CHIPS Act award by over $600 million, citing a $3 billion military contract the chipmaker was also awarded. Engadget reports: Initially set to receive $8.5 billion from the domestic silicon production bill, the company will get up to $7.85 billion instead. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Intel has extended some plant openings beyond 2030 government deadlines. Intel posted its biggest-ever quarterly loss last month after announcing 15,000 ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder Who Sold AI Chatbot To Schoo... 26-11-24 21:25	Slashdot
Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder Who Sold AI Chatbot To Schools Charged With Fraud An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The founder of an artificial intelligence start-up focused on education was arrested and charged with defrauding her investors, lying about the company's profits and falsely claiming that some of the largest school districts in the country, including New York City's, were her customers. The founder, Joanna Smith-Griffin, started the company, AllHere Education, in 2016, with the goal of using artificial intelligence to increase student ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Anthropic Says Claude AI Can Match Your Unique Writing ... 26-11-24 20:45	Slashdot
Anthropic Says Claude AI Can Match Your Unique Writing Style Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks. From a report: The new custom styles are available to all Claude AI users, enabling anyone to train it to match their own communication style or select from preset options to quickly adjust the tone and level of detail it provides. This update aims to personalize the chatbot's replies and make them feel more natural or appropriate for specific... Read the full article on Slashdot »
US Senators Propose Law To Require Bare Minimum Securit... 26-11-24 20:05	Slashdot
US Senators Propose Law To Require Bare Minimum Security Standards American hospitals and healthcare organizations would be required to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other minimum cybersecurity standards under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators. From a report: The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 [PDF], introduced on Friday by US Senators Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Mark Warner (D-Virginia), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire), would, among other things, require better coordinat... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Interpol Clamps Down on Cybercrime and Arrests Over 1,0... 26-11-24 19:31	Slashdot
Interpol Clamps Down on Cybercrime and Arrests Over 1,000 Suspects in Africa Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a massive two-month operation, clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, including some who were trafficked, and produced millions in financial damages, the global police organization said Tuesday. From a report: Operation Serengeti, a joint operation with Afripol, the African Union's police agency, ran from Sept. 2 to Oct. 31 in 19 African countries and targeted criminals behind ransomware, business email compromise, di... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Google To Test Maps Removal in EU Hotel Search Amid Ant... 26-11-24 18:20	Slashdot
Google To Test Maps Removal in EU Hotel Search Amid Antitrust Pressure Google announced additional modifications to its European search results on Tuesday, following complaints from smaller competitors about traffic losses and amid potential EU antitrust charges under new tech regulations. The changes come as Google attempts to comply with the Digital Markets Act, which prohibits tech giants from favoring their own services and after hotels, airlines, and small retailers reported a 30% decline in direct booking clicks following recent platform adjustments. Google... Read the full article on Slashdot »
USPTO Petitioned To Cancel Oracle's JavaScript Trademark 26-11-24 17:41	Slashdot
USPTO Petitioned To Cancel Oracle's JavaScript Trademark Software company Deno Land has filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark, citing trademark abandonment and fraud. The November 22 filing claims Oracle has not sold JavaScript products or services since acquiring the trademark through its 2009 Sun Microsystems purchase. The petition alleges Oracle committed fraud during its 2019 trademark renewal by submitting Node.js website screenshots without authorization. The legal action follows a S... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Video Game Console Makers Confront Performance Ceiling 26-11-24 17:02	Slashdot
Video Game Console Makers Confront Performance Ceiling An anonymous reader shares a report: The human eye can't really tell the difference between 4K and 8K resolution. Video game console manufacturers, who have built their businesses selling increasingly powerful machines every few years, are grappling with a future where performance improvements are becoming less dramatic. Sony Group launched its PlayStation 5 Pro console in mid-November. The $700 upgraded version of Sony's 2020 gaming machine uses AI to improve games' frame rate while maintaini... Read the full article on Slashdot »
AI Helps Indian Ecommerce Firm Cut Customer Call Costs ... 26-11-24 16:21	Slashdot
AI Helps Indian Ecommerce Firm Cut Customer Call Costs By 75% An anonymous reader shares a report: Softbank-backed online shopping site Meesho has rolled out what it claims is the first GenAI-powered voice bot among Indian e-commerce firms for customer support, paring down some expenses by 75%. Meesho has more than 160 million customers in India, with 80% of them in smaller cities, towns and villages. [...] The Bengaluru-based e-commerce startup said Tuesday its AI bot currently handles 60,000 customer calls daily in English and Hindi. The startup, which... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Brazil Rules Apple Must Lift Restrictions On In-App Pay... 26-11-24 15:41	Slashdot
Brazil Rules Apple Must Lift Restrictions On In-App Payments Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade said this week that Apple must lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases, among other things, as the watchdog moved to proceed with an investigation into a complaint filed by Latin America e-commerce giant MercadoLibre. From a report: MercadoLibre's complaint, filed in 2022 in Brazil and Mexico, accused Apple of imposing a series of restrictions on the distribution of digital goods and in-app purchases, including banning apps from distributing t... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'D... 26-11-24 15:00	Slashdot
Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tech companies billions annually. The research showed the issue is most prevalent in remote work settings, where 14% of engineers were classified as "ghost engineers" compared to 6% of office-based staff. The study evaluated productivity through analysis of private Git repositories and simulated expe... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Su... 26-11-24 14:00	Slashdot
Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Supply Chain Blue Yonder, a Panasonic subsidiary specializing in AI-driven supply chain solutions, experienced a recent ransomware attack that impacted many of its customers. "Among its 3,000 customers are high-profile organizations like DHL, Renault, Bayer, Morrisons, Nestle, 3M, Tesco, Starbucks, Ace Hardware, Procter & Gamble, Sainsbury, and 7-Eleven," reports BleepingComputer. From the report: On Friday, the company warned that it was experiencing disruptions to its managed services hosting environme... Read the full article on Slashdot »
US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms 26-11-24 11:00	Slashdot
US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms The U.S. is preparing to impose new sanctions targeting 200 Chinese chipmakers and potentially restricting the export of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The move is intended to further hinder China's semiconductor and AI advancements. Tom's Hardware reports: The update sheds light on the Biden administration's recent efforts to impose stricter regulations on chip manufacturers in China. The latest swarm of sanctions reportedly targets roughly 200 Chinese firms. US companies are prohibited from expo... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Earth's 'Mini Moon' May Have Been a Chunk of Our Actual... 26-11-24 08:00	Slashdot
Earth's 'Mini Moon' May Have Been a Chunk of Our Actual Moon An asteroid named 2024 PT5, recently exhibiting "mini moon" behavior around Earth, may have been a boulder that was blasted off the moon by an impacting, crater-forming asteroid," reports the Associated Press. The 33-foot space rock is expected to pass safely near Earth in January, when it will be closely observed. From the report: While not technically a moon -- NASA stresses it was never captured by Earth's gravity and fully in orbit -- it's "an interesting object" worthy of study. The astroph... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Pokemon Fan Learns To Code In Order To Archive TCG 26-11-24 04:30	Slashdot
Pokemon Fan Learns To Code In Order To Archive TCG An anonymous reader quotes a report from TheGamer: With thousands of cards available in Pokemon's "Pokemon Trading Card Game," it can be hard to remember what is what. After all, since first debuting in the mid 1990s to coincide with the games of the same name, the popular collectible has been going strong ever since, with new releases constantly filling store shelves. That said, one avid Pokemon fan took it upon themselves to archive the card game's unique artwork. After hundreds of hours of wo... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Microsoft Shuttering Dedicated Licensing Education, Cer... 26-11-24 02:50	Slashdot
Microsoft Shuttering Dedicated Licensing Education, Certification Site Microsoft is retiring its "Get Licensing Ready" website, a resource for software licensing education. Going forward, content licensing will be located at microsoft.com/licensing. The Register also notes Microsoft's plans to enhance learning with AI tools, though specifics for licensing applications remain unclear. From the report: Software licensing is notoriously labyrinthine, so resources like the site Microsoft will close -- Get Licensing Ready -- can be very handy. Today, the site offers ove... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Senator Introduces Bill To Compel More Transparency Fro... 26-11-24 02:10	Slashdot
Senator Introduces Bill To Compel More Transparency From AI Developers A new bill introduced by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt) aims to make it easier for human creators to find out if their work was used without permission to train artificial intelligence. NBC News reports: The Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act would enable copyright holders to subpoena training records of generative AI models, if the holder can declare a "good faith belief" that their work was used to train the model. The developers would only need to reveal... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Google's iOS App Now Injects Links On Third-Party Websi... 26-11-24 01:30	Slashdot
Google's iOS App Now Injects Links On Third-Party Websites That Go Back To Search 9to5Google's Ben Schoon reports: Google has introduced a new feature on iOS that injects links on third-party websites that take users back to Google Search. Recently, Google announced new "Page Annotations" within the Google app on iOS. This feature, as Google explains, "extracts interesting entities from the webpage and highlights them in line." Effectively, it creates links on a website that you've opened through Google's browser that the website's owner did not put there. The links, when cli... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Supreme Court Wants US Input On Whether ISPs Should Be ... 26-11-24 00:20	Slashdot
Supreme Court Wants US Input On Whether ISPs Should Be Liable For Users' Piracy An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court signaled it may take up a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who are accused of copyright infringement. In an order (PDF) issued today, the court invited the Department of Justice's solicitor general to file a brief "expressing the views of the United States." In Sony Music Entertainment v. Cox Communications, the major record labels argue that cable provider Cox should be he... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Crypto Miners In Texas' ERCOT Region Required To Regist... 25-11-24 23:40	Slashdot
Crypto Miners In Texas' ERCOT Region Required To Register, Report Power Demand A new rule passed in Texas requiring cryptocurrency miners using the grid maintained by the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to register and report key details about their facilities. CoinTelegraph reports: Under the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUCT) rule (PDF), passed on Nov. 21, Bitcoin miners must share the location, ownership information and demand for electricity of their facilities with the state agency. Miners have only one working day after the date their facility co... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Indonesia Says Apple's $100 Million Investment Proposal... 25-11-24 23:02	Slashdot
Indonesia Says Apple's $100 Million Investment Proposal Inadequate Indonesia rejected Apple's $100 million investment proposal to build an accessory and component plant, stating it was insufficient to lift the current ban on iPhone 16 sales in the country. Indonesia banned sales of Apple's iPhone 16 last month after it failed to meet requirements that smartphones sold domestically should comprise at least 40% locally-made parts. Reuters reports: "We have done an assessment and this (proposal) has not met principles of fairness," Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
SUSE Unveils Major Rebranding, New Data-Protecting AI P... 25-11-24 22:25	Slashdot
SUSE Unveils Major Rebranding, New Data-Protecting AI Platform An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: At KubeCon North America, SUSE announced a significant rebranding effort, several new product offerings, and the launch of SUSE AI, a secure platform for deploying and running generative AI (gen AI) applications. SUSE has renamed its entire portfolio to make product names more descriptive and customer-friendly. Notable changes include: - Rancher, SUSE's Kubernetes offering, is now SUSE Rancher. - Liberty Linux, t... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Apple Snubs AI in Its 'iPhone App of the Year' Finalists 25-11-24 21:45	Slashdot
Apple Snubs AI in Its 'iPhone App of the Year' Finalists An anonymous reader shares a report: On Monday, Apple's list of finalists for its coveted "iPhone App of the Year" award once again reveals how the iPhone maker is downplaying the impact of AI technology on the mobile app ecosystem. As it did last year, Apple's 2024 list of top iPhone finalists favors more traditional iOS apps, including those that help iPhone users perform specific tasks like recording professional video (Kino), tailoring their running plans (Runna), or organizing their travels... Read the full article on Slashdot »
US Says Google Is an Ad Tech Monopolist, in Closing Arg... 25-11-24 21:00	Slashdot
US Says Google Is an Ad Tech Monopolist, in Closing Arguments Lawyers for the United States on Monday said that Google had created a monopoly with its services to place ads online, closing out an antitrust trial over the company's dominance in advertising technology that could add to the Silicon Valley giant's mounting woes. From a report: The legal case concerns a system of software that is used by advertisers to place ads on websites around the internet. Aaron Teitelbaum, a lawyer for the Justice Department, told Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. Dist... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Nvidia Claims New AI Audio Generator Makes Sounds Never... 25-11-24 20:21	Slashdot
Nvidia Claims New AI Audio Generator Makes Sounds Never Heard Before Nvidia has introduced Fugatto, an AI music editor that can generate never-head-of audio combinations, including instruments mimicking animal sounds. The tool processes both text and audio inputs to create music, sound effects, and modified speech. The system can isolate vocals, swap instruments, and alter voice characteristics. Read the full article on Slashdot »
QNAP NAS Users Locked Out After Firmware Update Snafu 25-11-24 19:41	Slashdot
QNAP NAS Users Locked Out After Firmware Update Snafu A firmware update has left QNAP network-attached storage device owners unable to access their systems, with standard reset procedures failing to resolve the issue. The problematic update, QTS 5.2.2.2950 build 20241114, was released last week before being partially withdrawn, according to user reports on QNAP's community forums. QNAP, the Taiwan-based storage manufacturer, has not specified which models are affected by the faulty firmware. Read the full article on Slashdot »
Apple's Upcoming Ultra-Slim iPhone Hits Roadblock Over ... 25-11-24 19:01	Slashdot
Apple's Upcoming Ultra-Slim iPhone Hits Roadblock Over SIM Tray Rules Apple's upcoming slim iPhone model faces potential sales obstacles in China due to design limitations that prevent fitting a physical SIM card tray, which is mandatory in the Chinese market. The new device, planned for release next fall, measures 5-6 millimeters thick compared to the iPhone 16's 7.8mm, The Information reported Monday [non-paywalled source]. The company aims to revitalize iPhone sales in China, where revenue has declined for three consecutive years amid competition from Huawei ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Raspberry Pi's $7 Pico 2 W Microcontroller Board Adds W... 25-11-24 18:22	Slashdot
Raspberry Pi's $7 Pico 2 W Microcontroller Board Adds Wireless Connectivity Raspberry Pi has announced the Pico 2 W, a wireless version of its Pico 2 microcontroller board built for hobbyists and industrial applications. From a report: At $7, it's a relatively inexpensive way to control electronic devices like smart home gadgets and robots. With the new version, users will be able to securely link to remote sources to send and receive data, either via Bluetooth 5.2 or Wi-Fi 802.11n. As with the Pico 2, the wireless variant is built around the RP2350 microcontroller bu... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Northvolt Files For Bankruptcy as Europe's Battery Cham... 25-11-24 17:41	Slashdot
Northvolt Files For Bankruptcy as Europe's Battery Champion Loses Spark Swedish battery maker Northvolt has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. and announced CEO Peter Carlsson's departure following a year marked by production delays and workforce reductions. The company, once viewed as Europe's challenger to Chinese battery dominance, reported $1.2 billion in losses against $128 million revenue for 2023. Despite securing $15 billion in funding and $50 billion in orders by late 2023, with major stakeholders including Volkswagen (21%) and Goldman Sachs (19%... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Three-Quarters of US Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese 25-11-24 17:01	Slashdot
Three-Quarters of US Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese An anonymous reader shares a report: Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases. The study reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 -- when just over half of adults were overweight or obese -- and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in t... Read the full article on Slashdot »
AI's Future and Nvidia's Fortunes Ride on the Race To P... 25-11-24 16:22	Slashdot
AI's Future and Nvidia's Fortunes Ride on the Race To Pack More Chips Into One Place Leading technology companies are dramatically expanding their AI capabilities by building multibillion-dollar "super clusters" packed with unprecedented numbers of Nvidia's AI processors. Elon Musk's xAI recently constructed Colossus, a supercomputer containing 100,000 Nvidia Hopper chips, while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims his company operates an even larger system for training advanced AI models. The push toward massive chip clusters has helped drive Nvidia's quarterly revenue from $7 billi... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival... 25-11-24 15:41	Slashdot
Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch Sony is developing a new portable gaming device capable of playing PlayStation 5 games, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The project follows the 2023 release of PlayStation Portal, a streaming-only handheld, and aims to compete with Nintendo's dominant Switch console and potential Microsoft offerings in the portable gaming space. Read the full article on Slashdot »
Tech Job Slump Hits Coding Bootcamp Graduates as AI Res... 25-11-24 15:00	Slashdot
Tech Job Slump Hits Coding Bootcamp Graduates as AI Reshapes Industry U.S. software developer job listings have plummeted 56% since 2019, according to CompTIA data, as coding bootcamp graduates face mounting challenges from AI tools and widespread tech industry layoffs. For entry-level positions, postings have dropped even further at 67%. The downturn has forced several bootcamps to adapt or close. Boston's Launch Academy suspended operations in May after job placement rates fell from 90% to below 60%. Meanwhile, AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub's Copilot... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Thousands of Palo Alto Networks Firewalls Compromised T... 25-11-24 13:34	Slashdot
Thousands of Palo Alto Networks Firewalls Compromised This Week After Critical Security Hole Palo Alto Networks boasts 70,000 customers in 150 countries, including 85% of the Fortune 500. But this week "thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bug," reports the Register:The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to remotely control the equipment as well as cryptocurrency miners and other malware. Roughly 2,000 devices had been hijacked as of Wednesday — a day after Palo Alto Networks pushe... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests D... 25-11-24 09:59	Slashdot
Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests During Linux 6.13 Kernel Development Cycle "Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit." That's how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list. This was followed by "insufficient action to restore the community's faith in having otherwise productive technical discussions without the fear of personal attacks," according to an official ruling by committee enforcing the kernel community's code of conduct. After formalizing an updated enforcement process for unacceptable behavio... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infr... 25-11-24 06:59	Slashdot
Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity Craig Newmark "is alarmed about potential cybersecurity risks in the U.S.," according to Yahoo Finance. The 71-year-old Craigslist founder says "our country is under attack now" in a new interview with Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi on his Opening Bid podcast. But Newmark also revealed what he's doing about it: [H]e started Craig Newmark Philanthropies to primarily invest in projects to protect critical American infrastructure from cyberattacks. He told Sozzi he is now spending $2... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Solar Glut: Half of California's Solar Power Sometimes ... 25-11-24 04:34	Slashdot
Solar Glut: Half of California's Solar Power Sometimes Goes to Waste, Research Shows Some days more than half of California's available solar power goes to waste, according to research from the California Institute for Energy and Environment. "In the last 12 months, California's solar farms have curtailed production of more than 3 million megawatt hours of solar energy," according to a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times — enough to power 518,000 California homes for a year. And it was curtailed "either on the orders of the state's grid operator or because prices had ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
World Agrees on $300B Climate Aid Financial Deal - Afte... 25-11-24 02:48	Slashdot
World Agrees on $300B Climate Aid Financial Deal - After COP29 Summit 'Nearly Implodes' "At points there was fear the talks would implode, as groups representing vulnerable small island states and the least-developed countries walked out of negotiations Saturday," according to a new report from CNN. But after weeks of international climate talks at COP29, "the world agreed to a new climate deal... "with wealthy countries pledging to provide $300 billion annually by 2035 to poorer countries to help them cope with the increasingly catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis." The am... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Microsoft's Controversial 'Recall' Feature is Already E... 25-11-24 00:28	Slashdot
Microsoft's Controversial 'Recall' Feature is Already Experiencing Some Issues Microsoft's controversial "Recall" feature (in a public preview of Windows 11) already has some known issues, Microsoft admitted Friday. For example: - Recall can be enabled or disabled from "Turn Windows features on or off". We are caching the Recall binaries on disk while we test add/remove. In a future update we will completely remove the binaries. - You must have Secure Boot enabled for Recall to save snapshots. - Some users experience a delay before snapshots first appear in the timeli... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an A... 24-11-24 23:04	Slashdot
Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an AI-Powered World An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Between the time [construction worker Florencio] Rendon applied for the coding boot camp and the time he graduated, what Mr. Rendon imagined as a "golden ticket" to a better life had expired. About 135,000 start-up and tech industry workers were laid off from their jobs, according to one count. At the same time, new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, an online chatbot from OpenAI, which could be used as coding assistants, ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Dra... 24-11-24 21:56	Slashdot
Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Drama About C++ Paper's Title Reddit's moderators drew some criticism after "locking" a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked discussion) had led to a submission for Slashdot's queue of potential (but unpublished) stories, which nevertheless attracted 178 upvotes on Reddit and another 85 comments. That unpublished Slashdot submission was also submitted to Hacker News, where it drew another 38 upvotes but was also eventually flagged. Back on Reddit's C++ subreddit (w... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Is There New Evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case? 24-11-24 19:34	Slashdot
Is There New Evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case? On November 24th, 1971 — 53 years ago today — a mysterious man jumped out of an airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom money. (He'd extorted it from the airline by claiming he had a bomb, and it's still "the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation," according to Wikipedia.) Will modern technology finally let us solve the case — or just turn it into a miniseries on Netflix? And have online researchers finally discovered the definitive clue? The FB... Read the full article on Slashdot »
MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' fro... 24-11-24 18:34	Slashdot
MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' from 1984 is Now Open Source Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits "helped kindle his interest in coding," according to an online biography. ("By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS.") And 40 years later, Slashdot reader markroth8 writes that the programming puzzle/logic game "inspired many people to become professional coders": ChipWits was first released for Mac in 1984, and was later ported to Commodore ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
GitHub Announces New Open Source Fund with Security Men... 24-11-24 17:34	Slashdot
GitHub Announces New Open Source Fund with Security Mentoring The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund launched this week with an initial commitment of $1.25 million, reports TechCrunch, using "capital from contributors including American Express, 1Password, Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub's own parent company Microsoft."GitHub briefly teased the new initiative at its annual GitHub Universe developer conference last month, but Tuesday it announced full details and formally opened the program for applicants, which will be reviewed "on a rolling basis" through the ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
America's DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travelle... 24-11-24 16:34	Slashdot
America's DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports - and Seizing Their Cash America's Justice Department "has ordered all consensual searches by drug enforcement agents conducted at the nation's airports stopped," reports Georgia's local TV station Atlanta News First — after their series of investigations "uncovered how the agents often search innocent passengers at airport gates, looking for cash."On Thursday, the department made public a November 12, 2024, directive from the deputy attorney general to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that it sus... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Mars Meteorite Reveals New Evidence That Hot Water Flow... 24-11-24 13:34	Slashdot
Mars Meteorite Reveals New Evidence That Hot Water Flowed on Ancient Mars "Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past," reports Space.com. "The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of supporting life long ago." The evidence was delivered to Earth and sealed within the well-known Martian meteorite NWA7034, found in the Sahara Desert in 2011. Due to its black, highly polished appearance, the Martian rock is... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to... 24-11-24 09:34	Slashdot
Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to Offices Without Space for Everyone Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this report from the Guardian:Staff have resigned at Starling Bank after its new chief executive demanded thousands of workers attend its offices more frequently, despite lacking enough space to host them. In his first major policy change since taking over from the UK digital bank's founder, Anne Boden, in March, Raman Bhatia has ordered all hybrid staff — many of whom were in the office only one or two days a week, or on an ad-hoc basis — to tr... Read the full article on Slashdot »
'Potentially Toxic' Chemical Byproduct May Be Present i... 24-11-24 06:34	Slashdot
'Potentially Toxic' Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct "may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found." "Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxic properties because of similarities to other chemicals of concern." The newly identified substance, named "chloronitramide anion," is produced when water is treated with chloramine, a chemical formed by mixing chlorine and ammonia. Chloramine is ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Verify the Rust's Standard Library's 7,500 Unsafe Funct... 24-11-24 03:34	Slashdot
Verify the Rust's Standard Library's 7,500 Unsafe Functions - and Win 'Financial Rewards' The Rust community has "recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly)," according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services. So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are "crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library," according to an article at DevClass.com, "by setting out a series of challenges for devs and offering financial rewards for solutions..." Rust includes ways to bypass its safety guarantees though, with the use of the "unsafe" keyword... The issue AWS highlights is th... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? 24-11-24 00:34	Slashdot
Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Microsoft-owned GitHub published a blog post asking "Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here's what the data says." Its first paragraph includes statistics from past studies — that GitHub Copilot has helped developers code up to 55% faster, leaving 88% of developers feeling more "in the flow" and 85% feeling more confident in their code. But does it improve code quality? [W]e recruited 202 [Python] developers with at least five years of experience. Half were randomly assigned Gi... Read the full article on Slashdot »
More Business School Researchers Accused of Fabricated ... 23-11-24 23:34	Slashdot
More Business School Researchers Accused of Fabricated Findings June, 2023: "Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings." November, 2024: "The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger." A senior editor at the Atlantic raises the possibility of systemic dishonesty-rewarding incentives where "a study must be even flashier than all the other flashy findings if its authors want to stand out," writing that "More than a year since all of this began, the evidence of fraud has only multiplied." And the suspect isn't just ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Do... 23-11-24 22:34	Slashdot
Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Downloaders Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now Meta's campaign "is picking up momentum" with legislators in the U.S. Congress. Federal and state lawmakers have recently proposed a raft of measures requiring that platforms such as Meta's Facebook and Instagram block users under a certain age from using their sites. The push has triggered fierce debate over the best way to ascertain how old u... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Sabotage or Accident? American and European Officials D... 23-11-24 21:34	Slashdot
Sabotage or Accident? American and European Officials Disagree On What Caused Cuts to Two Undersea Cables CNN reports that investigators "are trying to crack the mystery of how two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea were cut within hours of each other." But there's now two competing viewpoints, "with European officials saying they believe the disruption was an act of sabotage and U.S. officials suggesting it was likely an accident." The foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a joint statement that they were "deeply concerned" about the incident and raised the possibility that it wa... Read the full article on Slashdot »
SilverStone's Retro Beige PC Case Turns April Fools' Jo... 23-11-24 20:34	Slashdot
SilverStone's Retro Beige PC Case Turns April Fools' Joke into Actual Product Slashdot reader jjslash shared this report from TechSpot:The SilverStone FLP01 made quite the impression when it was shared on X for April Fools' Day 2023. Loosely modeled after popular desktops from yesteryear like the NEC PC-9800 series, the chassis features dual 5.25-inch faux floppy bays that could stand to look a bit more realistic. Notably, the covers flip open to reveal access to a more modern (yet still legacy) optical drive and front I/O ports. Modern-looking fan grills can be foun... Read the full article on Slashdot »
'It's Surprisingly Easy To Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots' 23-11-24 19:34	Slashdot
'It's Surprisingly Easy To Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots' Instead of focusing on chatbots, a new study reveals an automated way to breach LLM-driven robots "with 100 percent success," according to IEEE Spectrum. "By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs..." [The researchers] have developed RoboPAIR, an algorithm designed to attack any LLM-controlled robot. In experiments with three different robotic systems &mda... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Red Hat is Becoming an Official Microsoft 'Windows Subs... 23-11-24 18:34	Slashdot
Red Hat is Becoming an Official Microsoft 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' Distro "You can use any Linux distribution inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux" Microsoft recently reminded Windows users, "even if it is not available in the Microsoft Store, by importing it with a tar file." But being an official distro "makes it easier for Windows Subsystem for Linux users to install and discover it with actions like wsl --list --online and wsl --install," Microsoft pointed out this week. And "We're excited to announce that Red Hat will soon be delivering a Red Hat Enterpris... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Will AI Kill Google? 23-11-24 17:34	Slashdot
Will AI Kill Google? "The past 15 years were unique in ways that might be a bad predictor of our future," writes the Washington Post, with a surge in the number of internet users since 2010, and everyone spending more time online. But today, "lots of smart people believe that artificial intelligence will upend how you find information. Googling is so yesterday." Sam Altman, the top executive overseeing ChatGPT, has said that AI has a good shot at shoving aside Google search. Bill Gates predicted that emerging AI ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Cri... 23-11-24 16:34	Slashdot
Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime 'Pig Butching' Scams An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:Meta says it's taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost victims worldwide billions of dollars. In a Thursday blog post, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp says the pig butchering scam operations — based in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and th... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Mornin... 23-11-24 14:00	Slashdot
Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024 flagship tutorials, which include Microsoft Minecraft, Amazon Music, and Transformers One movie-themed intros to coding. The press release announcing the tutorials from tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which organizes the Hour of Cod... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Neuralink Receives Canadian Approval For Brain Chip Trial 23-11-24 11:00	Slashdot
Neuralink Receives Canadian Approval For Brain Chip Trial Neuralink, the brain chip startup founded by Elon Musk, says it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. Reuters reports: [T]he Canadian study aims to assess the safety and initial functionality of its implant which enables people with quadriplegia, or paralysis of all four limbs, to control external devices with their thoughts. Canada's University Health Network h... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Student-Built Rocket Breaks Multiple 20-Year Spacefligh... 23-11-24 08:00	Slashdot
Student-Built Rocket Breaks Multiple 20-Year Spaceflight Records A team of undergraduate students from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Lab set multiple amateur spaceflight records with their rocket, Aftershock II. "The student-made missile soared 90,000 feet (27,400 meters) beyond the previous record-holder -- a rocket launched more than 20 years ago," reports Live Science. From the report: The students launched Aftershock II on Oct. 20 from a site in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The rocket stood about 14 feet (4 meters) tall and weigh... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Remembering Cyberia, the World's First Ever Cyber Cafe 23-11-24 04:30	Slashdot
Remembering Cyberia, the World's First Ever Cyber Cafe An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE: It's early on a Sunday morning in late 1994, and you're shuffling your way through Fitzrovia in Central London, bloodstream still rushing after a long night at Bagley's. The sun comes up as you come down. You navigate side streets that you know like the back of your hand. But your hand's stamped with a party logo. And your brain's kaput. Coffee... yes, coffee. Good idea. Suddenly, you find yourself outside a teal blue cafe. Walking in is like enteri... Read the full article on Slashdot »
China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's... 23-11-24 03:02	Slashdot
China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History' Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from Gizmodo: Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in ways that President Joe Biden's administration hasn't yet acknowledged, according to new reports from the Washington Post and New York Times. The hackers were able to listen to phone calls and read text messages, reportedly exploiting the system U.S. authorities use to wiretap Americans in criminal cases. The worst part? The netw... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Economist Makes the Case For Slow Level 1 EV Charging 23-11-24 02:25	Slashdot
Economist Makes the Case For Slow Level 1 EV Charging Longtime Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Economist Phillip Kobernick makes the case that the emphasis on fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the U.S. is misplaced. According to an article from CleanTechnica, he argues that, from an economic standpoint, what we should be doing is installing more slow chargers. All thing equal, who wouldn't choose a 10-minute charge over a 3-hour charge or a 10-hour charge? But all things are not equal. Superfast chargers are far more expensi... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network To Another Via Wi-Fi 23-11-24 01:45	Slashdot
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network To Another Via Wi-Fi "Steven Adair, of cybersecurity firm Veloxity, revealed at the Cyberwarcon security conference how Russian hackers were able to daisy-chain as many as three separate Wi-Fi networks in their efforts to attack victims," writes Longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. Wired reports: Adair says that Volexity first began investigating the breach of its DC customer's network in the first months of 2022, when the company saw signs of repeated intrusions into the customer's systems by hackers who had car... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Google Sues Ex-Engineer In Texas Over Leaked Pixel Chip... 23-11-24 01:02	Slashdot
Google Sues Ex-Engineer In Texas Over Leaked Pixel Chip Secrets An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has sued one of its former engineers in Texas federal court, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to its chip designs and sharing them publicly on the internet. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday (PDF), said that Harshit Roy "touted his dominion" over the secrets in social media posts, tagging competitors and making threatening statements to the company including "I need to take unethical means to get what I am entitled to" and "remem... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Steam Cuts the Cord For Legacy Windows, macOS 23-11-24 00:20	Slashdot
Steam Cuts the Cord For Legacy Windows, macOS The latest Steam client drops support for operating systems older than Windows 10 or macOS 10.15 Catalina. "That means Mac users can't run 32-bit games anymore, as all macOS versions from Catalina onward only run 64-bit binaries," reports The Register. From the report: [I]f you have a well-specified older Mac, here is another reason to check out Open Core Legacy Patcher. For now, macOS 10.15 Catalina will do but we suspect it won't for long. This version of Steam uses the equivalent to Chrome 12... Read the full article on Slashdot »
Baidu's Supercheap Robotaxis Should Scare the Hell Out ... 22-11-24 23:45	Slashdot
Baidu's Supercheap Robotaxis Should Scare the Hell Out of the US Baidu's new Apollo Go robotaxi brings significant advances in affordability and scalability that should make U.S. competitors like Waymo a bit nervous, according to The Verge's Andrew J. Hawkins. From the report: The RT6 is the sixth generation of Apollo Go's driverless vehicle, which made its official debut in May 2024. It's a purpose-built, Level 4 autonomous vehicle, meaning it's built without the need for a human driver. And here's the thing that should make US competitors nervous: adopting ... Read the full article on Slashdot »
DirecTV Terminates Deal To Buy Dish Satellite Business 22-11-24 23:05	Slashdot
DirecTV Terminates Deal To Buy Dish Satellite Business An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying "it has notified EchoStar of its election to terminate, effective as of 11:59 p.m., ET on Friday, November 22nd, 2024, the Equity Purchase Agreement (EPA) pursuant to which it had agreed to acquire EchoStar's video distribution business, Dish DBS." In the deal announced on ... Read the full article on Slashdot »

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