Air Taxis and Other Electric-Powered Aircraft Cleared For Takeoff
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175304109 story Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:00PM from the air-travel-of-the-future dept. The FAA has released final regulations for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, introducing a new category of aircraft for the first time in nearly 80 years....
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Qualcomm Brings Laptop-Class CPU Cores To Phones With Snapdragon 8 Elite
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Qualcomm has a new chip for flagship phones, and the best part is that it uses an improved version of the Oryon CPU architecture that the Snapdragon X Elite chips brought to Windows PCs earlier this year. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the follow-up to last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 -- yet another change to the naming convention that Qualcomm uses for its high-end phone chips, though, as usual, the...
about 1 hour ago
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175303407 story Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @04:41PM from the closer-look dept. On July 4, 2012, CERN physicist Fabiola Gianotti announced a major quantum field theory discovery using a PowerPoint presentation in Comic Sans, sparking both mockery and debate. The...
about 2 hours ago
More Than 10,500 Artists Unite in Fight Against AI Companies' 'Unjust' Use of Creative Works
More than 10,500 artists and creators -- including ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus, actress Julianne Moore, actors Kevin Bacon and F. Murray Abraham, as well as former Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon, author James Patterson and Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- signed a statement condemning AI companies' unauthorized use of creative works for training their models. The initiative, led by former AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, demands an end to unlicensed training data collection amid mounting legal challenges against tech firms. "The unlicensed...
about 2 hours ago
UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175303159 story Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:25PM from the finding-the-balance dept. The UK parliament is considering clamping down on how young people use smartphones. A bill brought forward by a Labour member of parliament proposes both banning phones in...
about 3 hours ago
Netflix Closes AAA Game Studio Before It Ever Released a Game
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175303003 story Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:48PM from the tough-luck dept. The first cracks are starting to show in Netflix's push into gaming. The Verge: First reported in Game File and confirmed by Netflix, the streaming company has quietly...
about 4 hours ago
EVs Are Just Going To Win
An anonymous reader shares a post: EVs are still winning. But they haven't won yet; only 4% of the global passenger car fleet, 23% of the bus fleet, and less than 1% of delivery trucks are electrified. But at this point I think the writing is on the wall. The phenomenon of a superior technology displacing an older, inferior technology is not uncommon, and it generally looks like the EV transition is looking now. When a new technology passes a...
about 4 hours ago
'Operating in the Stone Age': NHS Staff's Daily Struggle With Outdated Tech
The Financial Times: In the paediatric centre at one of London's largest hospitals, doctors are confounded each day by a ward computer that is not connected to a printer. The computer is used for managing the daily list of patients. Doctors can only access and update the list, using one shared account. So twice a day, two doctors on the ward said one of them had to log in to this computer, update the patient list, send the list to...
about 5 hours ago
FTC's Rule Banning Fake Online Reviews Goes Into Effect
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about 6 hours ago
Anthropic's AI Model Gains Computer Control in New Upgrade
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about 6 hours ago
Democrats Press For Criminal Charges Against Tax Prep Firms Over Data Sharing
Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal and Representative Katie Porter are demanding the Justice Department prosecute tax preparation companies for allegedly sharing sensitive taxpayer data with Meta and Google through tracking pixels. The lawmakers' call follows a Treasury Inspector General audit confirming their earlier investigation into TaxSlayer, H&R Block, and Tax Act. The audit found multiple companies failed to properly obtain consent before sharing tax return information via advertising tools. Violations could result in one-year prison terms and...
about 7 hours ago
If You Want Your Company's Stock To Go Up, Hire Wonkier IT People
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175301833 story Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:48AM from the how-about-that dept. Companies hiring specialized AI talent are seeing better stock market returns, according to new Barclays research. Analysis shows firms with higher ratios of specialized AI roles to general...
about 8 hours ago
Encrypted Chat App 'Session' Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175301601 story Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:02AM from the taking-a-stand dept. Session, a small but increasingly popular encrypted messaging app, is moving its operations outside of Australia after the country's federal law enforcement agency visited an employee's residence and...
about 8 hours ago
Over 6,000 WordPress Hacked To Install Plugins Pushing Infostealers
WordPress sites are being compromised through malicious plugins that display fake software updates and error messages, leading to the installation of information-stealing malware. BleepingComputer reports: Since 2023, a malicious campaign called ClearFake has been used to display fake web browser update banners on compromised websites that distribute information-stealing malware. In 2024, a new campaign called ClickFix was introduced that shares many similarities with ClearFake but instead pretends to be software error messages with included fixes. However, these "fixes" are PowerShell...
about 12 hours ago
NASA Further Delays First Operational Starliner Flight
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175299301 story Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:00AM from the here-we-go-again dept. NASA will rely on SpaceX's Crew Dragon for two crewed missions to the ISS in 2025 while evaluating whether Boeing's Starliner requires another test flight for certification. SpaceNews...
about 15 hours ago
Basecamp-Maker 37Signals Says Its 'Cloud Exit' Will Save It $10 Million Over 5 Years
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: 37Signals is not a company that makes its policy or management decisions quietly. The productivity software company was an avowedly Mac-centric shop until Apple's move to kill home screen web apps (or Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs) led the firm and its very-public-facing co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, to declare a "Return to Windows," followed by a stew of Windows/Mac/Linux. The company waged a public battle with Apple over its App Store...
about 19 hours ago
Amazon Ditches Plastic Air Pillows
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about 20 hours ago
One-Third of DHS's Border Surveillance Cameras Are Broken, Memo Says
According to an internal Border Patrol memo, nearly one-third of the surveillance cameras along the U.S.-Mexico border don't work. "The nationwide issue is having significant impacts on [Border Patrol] operations," reads the memo. NBC News reports: The large-scale outage affects roughly 150 of the 500 cameras perched on surveillance towers along the U.S.-Mexico border. It was due to "several technical problems," according to the memo. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, blamed...
about 21 hours ago
TikTok Owner Sacks Intern For Sabotaging AI Project
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175298119 story Posted by BeauHD on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:50PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, fired an intern for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its AI models. However, the firm "rejected claims about the extent of...
about 22 hours ago
T-Mobile, AT&T Oppose Unlocking Rule, Claim Locked Phones Are Good For Users
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about 22 hours ago
Disney To Name Bob Iger's Successor In Early 2026
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about 23 hours ago
iFixit's Meta Quest 3S Teardown Reveals a Quest 2 'Hiding Inside'
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175297661 story Posted by BeauHD on Monday October 21, 2024 @06:40PM from the new-coat-of-paint dept. In a new teardown video published last week, iFixit reveals a Quest 2 headset "hiding inside" the cheaper yet enhanced Quest 3S. The Verge reports: The first hint...
about 24 hours ago
'Blade Runner 2049' Producer Sues Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter: A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has sued (PDF) Tesla, which allegedly fed images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials. Alcon Entertainment, in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court, accuses Elon Musk and his autonomous vehicle company of misappropriating the movie's brand to promote its robotaxi at a glitzy unveiling earlier this month. The producer says it doesn't want...
1 day ago
Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175296905 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:22PM from the pleasant-surprise dept. Researchers at the United States Geological Survey and the Arkansas government announced on Monday that they had found a trove of lithium, a critical raw material for electric...
1 day ago
Tim Cook Knows Apple Isn't First in AI but Says 'It's About Being the Best'
Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged the company's late entry into AI, stating, "We weren't the first to do intelligence." Despite this admission, Cook defended Apple's approach, claiming it will be "the best for the customer." The tech giant plans to roll out initial AI features on October 28, with more advanced capabilities expected in 2025. However, internal studies suggest Apple's AI lags behind competitors, with Siri reportedly 25% less accurate than ChatGPT. Cook remains optimistic, asserting that AI will...
1 day ago
Nicolas Cage Urges Young Actors To Protect Themselves From AI
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175295719 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:01PM from the wise-words dept. Actor Nicolas Cage warned young performers about the dangers of AI in film production during his speech at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday. Cage urged actors...
1 day ago
A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175295909 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @03:22PM from the closer-look dept. Apple's latest iOS update has removed the "C" button from its Calculator app, replacing it with a backspace function. The change, part of iOS 18, has sparked debate...
1 day ago
AI 'Bubble' Will Burst 99% of Players, Says Baidu CEO
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'Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency'
Intel and Boeing, once exemplars of American manufacturing prowess, now face existential crises. Their market values have plummeted, jeopardizing not just shareholder wealth but national security. The U.S. is losing its edge in manufacturing high-tech products, crucial in its geopolitical contest with China, a story on WSJ argues. Unlike past manufacturing declines, Intel and Boeing's woes stem from internal missteps, prioritizing financial performance over engineering excellence. Their potential demise threatens America's semiconductor and commercial aircraft industries, with far-reaching consequences for...
1 day ago
Dow Jones and New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging 'Massive' Copyright Infringement
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175296147 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:20PM from the escalating-tensions dept. News Corp's Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post have sued Perplexity, a startup that calls itself an "AI-powered Swiss...
1 day ago
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware, Theoretical CPU Attacks
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1 day ago
52nd Known Mersenne Prime Found
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1 day ago
Egypt Declared Malaria-Free After Century of Work To Defeat Disease
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175295539 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @11:22AM from the moving-forward dept. Egypt was declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, after nearly a century of work to eradicate the disease in the country. From a report: Egypt saw 3...
1 day ago
Kurt Vonnegut's Lost Board Game Finally Published
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175295457 story Posted by msmash on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:50AM from the how-about-that dept. An anonymous reader shares a report: Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book first resonated with readers during the...
1 day ago
Intuit Seeks To Scrub CEO Comments on Tax Lobbying From Tech Podcast
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software, asked technology news outlet The Verge to delete part of a podcast interview with CEO Sasan Goodarzi, The Verge reported on Monday. The request came after Goodarzi was questioned about Intuit's lobbying efforts against free government tax filing options, a topic that has drawn scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers. The Verge said it declined to remove the segment, instead choosing to highlight the exchange by playing it at the beginning of the episode. In...
1 day ago
Is the Microsoft-OpenAI 'Bromance' Beginning to Fray?
Though Sam Altman once called OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft "the best bromance in tech," now "ties between the companies have started to fray" reports the New York Times — citing interviews with 19 people "familiar with the relationship". [Alternate URL here.] Among other things, Satya Nadella "has said privately that Altman's firing in November shocked and concerned him, according to five people with knowledge of his comments. Since then, Microsoft has started to hedge its bet on OpenAI," and reconsidered...
1 day ago
Europe Automakers Launch Cheaper Electric Cars to Compete With China
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175292549 story Posted by EditorDavid on Monday October 21, 2024 @03:38AM from the powering-ahead dept. "Several of Europe's biggest carmakers unveiled low-cost electric vehicles at the Paris Motor Show this week," reports CNBC. The automakers are "seeking to jump-start a demand slump and...
1 day ago
Cuba's Power Grid Collapses Again. And Then a Hurricane Hit
"Millions of Cubans remained without power for a third day in a row Sunday," reports CNN, "after fresh attempts to restore electricity failed overnight and the power grid collapsed for the fourth time — all before the arrival of Hurricane Oscar." A report from Reuters notes it was the fourth power grid failure in 48 hours. "On the forecast track, the center of Oscar is expected to continue moving across eastern Cuba tonight and Monday, then emerge off the northern...
1 day ago
Special VHS Release for 'Alien: Romulus' Announced by 20th Century Studios
An anonymous reader shared this report from ComicBook.com: On Saturday, 20th Century Studios announced that the latest entry in the Alien sci-fi horror franchise will get a limited-edition VHS release on December 3 — just in time for the holidays. The VHS release of Alien: Romulus is the first such release from a major studio since 2006... a major win for fans of physical media. In recent months, there has been a great bit of conversation surrounding the so-called death...
2 days ago
An Alternative to Rewriting Memory-Unsafe Code in Rust: the 'Safe C++ Extensions' Proposal
"After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code," reports the Register. "The Safe C++ Extensions proposal aims to address the vulnerable programming language's Achilles' heel, the challenge of ensuring that code is free of memory safety bugs..." Acknowledging the now deafening chorus of calls to adopt memory safe programming languages, developers Sean Baxter, creator of the Circle compiler, and Christian Mazakas, from the C++...
2 days ago
Microsoft's Honeypots Lure Phishers at Scale - to Spy on Them and Waste Their Time
A principal security software engineer at Microsoft described how they use their Azure cloud platform "to hunt phishers at scale," in a talk at the information security conference BSides Exeter. Calling himself Microsoft's "Head of Deception." Ross Bevington described how they'd created a "hybrid high interaction honeypot" on the now retired code.microsoft.com "to collect threat intelligence on actors ranging from both less skilled cybercriminals to nation state groups targeting Microsoft infrastructure," according to a report by BleepingComputer: With the collected...
2 days ago
Can We Turn Off AI Tools From Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta? Sometimes...
"Who asked for any of this in the first place?" wonders a New York Times consumer-tech writer. (Alternate URL here.) "Judging from the feedback I get from readers, lots of people outside the tech industry remain uninterested in AI — and are increasingly frustrated with how difficult it has become to ignore." The companies rely on user activity to train and improve their AI systems, so they are testing this tech inside products we use every day. Typing a question...
2 days ago
How WatchTowr Explored the Complexity of a Vulnerability in a Secure Firewall Appliance
Cybersecurity startup Watchtowr "was founded by hacker-turned-entrepreneur Benjamin Harris," according to a recent press release touting their Fortune 500 customers and $29 million investments from venture capital firms. ("If there's a way to compromise your organization, watchTowr will find it," Harris says in the announcement.) This week they shared their own research on a Fortinet FortiGate SSLVPN appliance vulnerability (discovered in February by Gwendal Guégniaud of the Fortinet Product Security team — presumably in a static analysis for format string...
2 days ago
How WatchTowr Explored the Complexity of Vulnerability in a Secure Firewall Appliance
Cybersecurity startup Watchtowr "was founded by hacker-turned-entrepreneur Benjamin Harris," according to a recent press release touting their Fortune 500 customers and $29 million investments from venture capital firms. ("If there's a way to compromise your organization, watchTowr will find it," Harris says in the announcement.) This week they shared their own research on a Fortinet FortiGate SSLVPN appliance vulnerability (discovered in February by Gwendal Guégniaud of the Fortinet Product Security team — presumably in a static analysis for format string...
2 days ago
NASA's Artemis Mission To Moon Unveils New Spacesuit Designed By Prada
For the first time in 50 years, humans will walk on the moon again. Currently planned for as soon as 2026, the Artemis III mission "will be one of the most complex undertakings of engineering and human ingenuity in the history of deep space exploration..." writes NASA. "Two crew members will descend to the surface and spend approximately a week near the South Pole of the Moon conducting new science before returning to lunar orbit..." And they'll be wearing Prada,...
2 days ago
Internet Archive Users Start Receiving Email From 'Some Random Guy' Criticizing Unpatched Hole
A post shared Saturday on social media acknowledges those admins and developers at the Internet Archive working "literally round the clock... They have taken no days off this past week. They are taking none this weekend... they are working with all of their energy and considerable talent." It describes people "working so incredibly hard... putting their all in," with a top priority of "getting the site back secure and safe". But there's new and continuing problems, reports The Verge's weekend...
2 days ago
Could Geothermal Power Revolutionize US Energy Consumption?
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175282293 story Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:34PM from the down-to-earth dept. That massive geothermal energy project in Utah gets a closer look from the Washington Post, which calls it "a significant advance for a climate-friendly technology that is gaining...
2 days ago
'100% Free' GNU Boot Discovers They've Been Shipping Non-Free Code - Again
Libreboot is a distribution of coreboot "aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers." So then what exactly is GNU Boot? Its home page explains... In November 2022, Libreboot began to include non-libre code. We have made repeated efforts to continue collaboration with those developers to help their version of Libreboot remain libre, but that was not successful. Now we've stepped forward to stand up for freedom, ours and that of the wider community, by maintaining our...
2 days ago
Neal Stephenson Publishes First Book in New Atomic Age Spy Series 'Bomb Light'
Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer "of exuberant prose who revels in embracing big ideas," according to the New York Times. "With Polostan he enters the realm of the spy novel..." Or, as the Washington Post puts it, Stephenson "drops readers into a bloody, inspiring, conflict-ridden and pivotal period of the early 20th century." With its flair for characterization, precision of language, witty apercus and fecundity of events, the novel delivers what we've come to cherish from the author of...
2 days ago
Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade - Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
"A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors," reports the Wall Street Journal, "an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive." A handful of scientists and engineers — armed with materials and techniques unimaginable in the 1700s — are creating modern versions of Franklin's "electrostatic motor," that are on the cusp of commercialization... Franklin's "electrostatic motor" uses alternating positive and negative charges — the same kind that make...
2 days ago
Bill Gates Applauds Open Source Tools for 'Digital Public Infrastructure'
It connects people, data, and money, Bill Gates wrote this week on his personal blog. But digital public infrastructure is also "revolutionizing the way entire nations serve their people, respond to crises, and grow their economies" — and the Gates Foundation sees it "as an important part of our efforts to help save lives and fight poverty in poor countries." Digital public infrastructure [or "DPI"]: digital ID systems that securely prove who you are, payment systems that move money instantly...
3 days ago
What Happens When a California Oil Refinery Shuts Down?
A California oil refinery that produces 8% of the state's gasoline is shutting down late next year — a decision the Los Angeles Times says is "driven by climate change, the transition to electric vehicles and demands for cleaner air." "There's no question we are going to lose refineries over time, because demand is going to go down as we transition to electric vehicles, but I did not expect to see any of them exiting this quickly," said Severin Borenstein,...
3 days ago
Chip Designers Recall the Big AMD-Intel Battle Over x86-64 Support
Tom's Hardware reports on some interesting hardware history being shared on X.com: AMD engineer Phil Park identified a curious nugget of PC architectural history from, of all places, a year-old Quora answer posted by former Intel engineer [and Pentium Pro architect] Robert Colwell. The nugget indicates that Intel could have beaten AMD to the x86-64 punch if the former wasn't dead-set on the x64-only Itanium line of CPUs. Colwell had responded on Quora to the question "Shouldn't Intel with its...
3 days ago
After Second Power Outage, 10 Million Cubans Endure Saturday Afternoon Blackout
The Miami Herald reports: Cuba's electrical grid shut down again early Saturday, leaving the island without electricity after authorities tried but failed to restore power following an earlier nationwide blackout on Friday. The island's Electric Union reported a second "total outage" at 6:15 a.m., just hours after officials reported they had restored power in a few "microsystems" all over the island... The country has been going through its worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the...
3 days ago
US Army Faces 'Wide-Ranging' Issues with Its Boats, Considers Replacing Them with Autonomous Vessels
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175282065 story Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:34PM from the be-all-that-you-can-be dept. An anonymous readed shared this report from CNN: [U.S. army boats] are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military's growing mission in the Pacific, a new...
3 days ago
GNOME Foundation Cuts Budget, Seeks More Volunteers and Donations
"The foundation behind the Gnome desktop environment is having to go through some serious belt-tightening..." writes Linux Magazine. From an October 7th announcement by The Gnome Foundation: Our plan for the previous financial year was to operate a break-even budget. We raised less than expected last year, due to a very challenging fundraising environment for nonprofits, on top of internal changes such as the departure of our previous Executive Director, Holly Million. The Foundation has a reserves policy which requires...
3 days ago
MIT Researchers Build Solar-Powered Low-Cost Drinking Water Desalination System
MIT engineers have built a solar-powered desalination system that "ramps up its desalting process and automatically adjusts to any sudden variation in sunlight, for example by dialing down in response to a passing cloud or revving up as the skies clear." While traditional reverse osmosis systems typically require steady power levels, "the MIT system requires no extra batteries for energy storage, nor a supplemental power supply, such as from the grid." And their results were pretty impressive: The engineers tested...
3 days ago
Debunking Hype: China Hasn't Broken Military Encryption with Quantum
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175285749 story Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday October 19, 2024 @02:34PM from the quantum-leaps dept. An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes: Recent headlines have proclaimed that Chinese scientists have hacked "military-grade encryption" using quantum computers, sparking concern and speculation about the...
3 days ago
Serious Infections Linked to Dementia Risk, Study Shows
"Getting sick feels bad in the moment," reports the Washington Post, "and may affect your brain in the longer term." A new study published in Nature Aging adds to growing evidence that severe infections, including flu, herpes and respiratory tract infections, are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased risk of dementia years later. It also hints at the biological drivers that may contribute to neurodegenerative disease. The current research is a "leap beyond previous studies that had already associated...
3 days ago
Spectre Flaws Still Haunt Intel, AMD as Researchers Found Fresh Attack Method
"Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to fall short," writes the Register: Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi of Swiss University ETH Zurich on Friday published details about a cross-process Spectre attack that derandomizes Address Space Layout Randomization and leaks the hash of the root password from the Set User ID (suid) process on recent Intel processors. The researchers claim they successfully conducted such an attack.... [Read their upcomong...
3 days ago
Internet Archive Services Resume as They Promise Stronger, More Secure Return
"The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed," announced the Internet Archive Thursday, "as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications. Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online." Founder Brewster Kahle told The Washington Post it's the first time in its almost 30-year history that it's been down more than a few hours. But their article says the Archive is "fighting back." Kahle and his team...
3 days ago
New US Student Loan Forgiveness Brings Total to $175 Billion for 5 Million People
"Biden forgives more student loans," read Thursday's headline at CNBC. While this time it was $4.5 billion in student debt for over 60,000 public service workers, "The Biden-Harris Administration has approved $175 billion in student debt relief for nearly 5 million borrowers through various actions," according to an announcement from the White House on Thursday. (So the average amount received by each of the 5 million students is $35,000.) CNN calculates this eliminates roughly 11% of all outstanding U.S. federal...
3 days ago
'NASA's $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere'
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175281139 story Posted by BeauHD on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:00AM from the not-a-good-look dept. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an op-ed written by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, UN Special Envoy...
3 days ago
DoNotPay Will Now Call Customer Service Hotlines For You
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you dread the thought of calling to change an airline ticket or negotiate your internet bill, a new artificial intelligence tool may provide a solution. DoNotPay, which offers an assortment of consumer-friendly services like tracking subscriptions, generating burner phone numbers, and searching for unclaimed property, now features a bot that will call customer service numbers for users, navigate through phone menus and sit through hold music, then politely but firmly advocate on users'...
3 days ago
Diamond Dust Could Cool the Planet At a Cost of Mere Trillions
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: From dumping iron into the ocean to launching mirrors into space, proposals to cool the planet through 'geoengineering' tend to be controversial -- and sometimes fantastical. A new idea isn't any less far-out, but it may avoid some of the usual pitfalls of strategies to fill the atmosphere with tiny, reflective particles. In a modeling study published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists report that shooting 5 million tons of diamond dust...
4 days ago
SpaceX Secures New Contracts Worth $733.5 Million For National Security Space Missions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space News: SpaceX has been awarded contracts for eight launches under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program, the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command announced Oct. 18. The contracts worth $733.5 million span seven missions for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and one for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) projected to launch in 2026. These are part of the NSSL Phase 3 procurement of launch services for U.S....
4 days ago
Penguin Random House Underscores Copyright Protection in AI Rebuff
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175281497 story Posted by msmash on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:00AM from the drawing-the-line dept. The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property from being used to train large language models and...
4 days ago
West Virginia Town of Green Bank Has Become a Refuge For Electrosensitive People
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Brandon Barrett arrived here two weeks ago, sick but hopeful, like dozens before him. Just a few years back, he could dead lift 660 pounds. After an injury while training to be a professional dirt-bike rider, he opened a motorcycle shop just north of Buffalo. When he wasn't working, he would cleanse his mind through rigorous meditation. In 2019, he began getting sick. And then sicker. Brain fog. Memory issues....
4 days ago
Microsoft Says It Lost Weeks of Security Logs For Its Customers' Cloud Products
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175281483 story Posted by msmash on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:30PM from the oops dept. Microsoft has notified customers that it's missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting...
4 days ago
The Analogue 3D Drags the Fondly Remembered N64 Into the 21st Century
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175281097 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @08:50PM from the glory-days dept. Analogue, a retro gaming company, is releasing a hardware-emulated Nintendo 64 console that can play every N64 game in 4K resolution. TechCrunch reports: Analogue, as is its habit,...
4 days ago
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175280955 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @08:10PM from the OSS-FTW dept. Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports: Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested...
4 days ago
FTC Probing John Deere Over Customers' 'Right To Repair' Equipment
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175280143 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:30PM from the unfair-practices dept. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating farm equipment maker Deere over its repair policies, focusing on whether the company's restrictions on repairs violate customers' "right to repair."...
4 days ago
US Startup Charging Couples To 'Screen Embryos For IQ'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement. The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing IVF, according to undercover video footage. The recordings show the company marketing its services at up to $50,000 for clients seeking to test 100 embryos, and claiming to have helped some...
4 days ago
Netflix Raises Prices As Password Boost Fades
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175280189 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @06:10PM from the what-to-expect dept. Netflix has begun raising prices in several countries, including Japan, parts of Europe, and Africa, as it seeks to sustain growth following its crackdown on password sharing. While...
4 days ago
Cuba Plunged Into an Island Wide Blackout As Power Grid Fails
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175280213 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:30PM from the lights-out dept. Cuba's power grid failed on Friday, leaving 10 million people without electricity. NPR reports: One of the country's largest power plants, the Antonio Guiteras power plant in the...
4 days ago
Cheap AI 'Video Scraping' Can Now Extract Data From Any Screen Recording
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them manually would have been tedious, so he turned to a technique he calls "video scraping," which involves feeding a screen recording video into an AI model, similar to ChatGPT, for data extraction purposes. What he discovered seems simple...
4 days ago
OpenAI's Lead Over Other AI Companies Has Largely Vanished, 'State of AI' Report Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: Every year for the past seven, Nathan Benaich, the founder and solo general partner at the early-stage AI investment firm Air Street Capital, has produced a magisterial "State of AI" report. Benaich and his collaborators marshal an impressive array of data to provide a great snapshot of the technology's evolving capabilities, the landscape of companies developing it, a survey of how AI is being deployed, and a critical examination of the challenges still facing...
4 days ago
Some Americans Are Still Using Kaspersky's Antivirus Despite US Government Ban
An anonymous reader shares a report: At the end of September, Kaspersky forcibly uninstalled and replaced itself with a new antivirus called UltraAV on the computers of around a million Americans, many of whom were surprised and aghast that they were not asked to give their consent for the change. The move was the end result of the U.S. government ban on all sales of Kaspersky software in the country and -- at least in theory -- marked the end...
4 days ago
FIDO Alliance Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175278453 story Posted by msmash on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:30PM from the better-future dept. The FIDO Alliance is developing new specifications to enable secure transfer of passkeys between different password managers and platforms. Announced this week, the initiative is the result of...
4 days ago
GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes
An anonymous reader shares a report: From the ground, northeastern Norway might look like fjord country, peppered with neat red houses and dissected by snowmobile tours through the winter. But for pilots flying above, the region has become a danger zone for GPS jamming. The jamming in the region of Finnmark is so constant, Norwegian authorities decided last month they would no longer log when and where it happens -- accepting these disturbance signals as the new normal. Nicolai Gerrard,...
4 days ago
The Government is Getting Fed Up With Ransomware Payments Fueling Endless Cycle of Cyberattacks
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175278081 story Posted by msmash on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:18PM from the enough-is-enough dept. With ransomware attacks surging and 2024 on track to be one of the worst years on record, U.S. officials are seeking ways to counter the threat, in some...
4 days ago
A Startup Once Valued at $22 Billion is Now Worth Nothing
An anonymous reader shares a report: Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju's, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes, mistimed the market, overestimated growth potential and that his startup, once valued at $22 billion, is now effectively worth "zero." Speaking to a group of journalists, Raveendran said the company's aggressive acquisition of more than two dozen startups to expand into new markets proved fatal when financing dried up in 2022. Byju's was planning to go...
4 days ago
WP Engine Asks Court To Stop Matt Mullenweg From Blocking Access To WordPress Resources
WP Engine has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg, seeking to halt their public campaign and regain access to WordPress resources. The hosting platform claims it's suffering "immediate irreparable harm," including a 14% spike in cancellation requests following Mullenweg's criticism. WP Engine alleges the dispute has created anxiety among developers and increased security risks for the WordPress community. The legal action comes after Automattic accused WP Engine of trademark infringement, leading to...
4 days ago
India Plans Laptop Import Curbs To Boost Local Manufacturing
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175277499 story Posted by msmash on Friday October 18, 2024 @10:03AM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept. India is expected to limit imports of laptops, tablets and personal computers after January, Reuters reported Friday citing government sources, a move to push companies such as Apple...
4 days ago
Salesforce CEO Benioff Says Microsoft's Copilot Doesn't Work, Doesn't Offer 'Any Level of Accuracy' And Customers Are 'Left Cleaning Up the Mess'
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175275353 story Posted by msmash on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:00AM from the not-mincing-words dept. Salesforce founder and chief executive Marc Benioff has doubled down on his criticism of Microsoft's Copilot, the AI-powered tool that can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze...
4 days ago
Stripe In Talks To Acquire Bridge For $1 Billion
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion, according to Forbes (paypalled). The talks are reportedly in advanced stages, although nothing has been finalized. Bridge, co-founded by Coinbase alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, has built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins. The pair raised $58 million from investors like Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, according to PitchBook. If the deal with Stripe goes through,...
5 days ago
Sam Altman's Worldcoin Rebrands As 'World,' Unveils Next Generation Orb
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274855 story Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:00AM from the new-and-improved dept. The blockchain-based identity verification company founded by Sam Altman is now called "World." It also unveiled a new version of the "Orb" biometric devices the company uses to...
5 days ago
Amazon Indicates Employees Can Quit If They Don't Like Its Return-to-Office Mandate
AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. TechCrunch: The Amazon executive recently told employees who don't like the new five-day in-person work policy that, "there are other companies around," presumably companies they can work for remotely, Reuters reported on Thursday. Amazon's top boss, Andy Jassy, told employees last month that there will be a full return-to-office starting in 2025, an increase from three days for roughly the last year.
5 days ago
Trump Says Tim Cook Called Him To Complain About the EU
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274581 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:30PM from the shoulder-to-cry-on dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to discuss the billions of dollars that Apple has been...
5 days ago
Adobe's Upcoming Features Include AI Sound Generation and Image Remixing
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274497 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:50PM from the what-to-expect dept. During its MAX event yesterday, Adobe teased some experimental photo and video editing tools for PhotoShop and Premiere Pro. There are a total of nine features, which include...
5 days ago
Google's NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274423 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:10PM from the transformative-updates dept. Google's NotebookLM app has been updated to let you generate custom podcasts from almost any source material. The AI software is also dropping the "experimental" tag. Wired reports:...
5 days ago
Fake Google Meet Conference Errors Push Infostealing Malware
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new ClickFix campaign is luring users to fraudulent Google Meet conference pages showing fake connectivity errors that deliver info-stealing malware for Windows and macOS operating systems. ClickFix is a social-engineering tactic that emerged in May, first reported by cybersecurity company Proofpoint, from a threat actor (TA571) that used messages impersonating errors for Google Chrome, Microsoft Word, and OneDrive. The errors prompted the victim to copy to clipboard a piece of PowerShell...
5 days ago
Google Shifts Gemini App Team To DeepMind
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274505 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:12PM from the musical-chairs dept. In a memo from CEO Sundar Pichai, Google said it is moving the team behind the Gemini app to its AI research lab DeepMind. The shift "will improve...
5 days ago
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175274059 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:50PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. 404 Media journalist and Slashdot contributor samleecole shares a report: After an exodus of employees at Automattic who disagreed with CEO Matt Mullenweg's recently divisive legal battle with...
5 days ago
Hacker Arrested For the Fake SEC Tweet That Caused a Bitcoin Price Spike
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175273891 story Posted by msmash on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:10PM from the ticket-closed dept. The FBI has arrested an Alabama man who is accused of hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission's X account in January. From a report: The indictment alleges that...
5 days ago
Developers Now Required To Share Phone Number and Address On EU App Store
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175273889 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:30PM from the PSA dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple today reminded developers that the EU trader requirement in the European Union is now being enforced. Developers who distribute...
5 days ago
All Mobile Phones Must Be Hearing Aid Compatible Under New FCC Rules
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175273919 story Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:50PM from the can-you-hear-me-now? dept. In a press release today, the FCC said it is requiring all mobile phones sold in the U.S. to be compatible with hearing aids. TechCrunch reports: The FCC...
5 days ago
Qualcomm Halts Snapdragon Dev Kit
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175273023 story Posted by msmash on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:08PM from the abrupt-departures dept. Chipmaker Qualcomm has indefinitely paused production and support of its Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows, citing quality concerns. Qualcomm says the product "has not met our usual standards...
5 days ago
Why Microsoft Excel Won't Die
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175272835 story Posted by msmash on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:39PM from the 40-years-and-strong dept. The business world's favourite software program enters its 40th year. The Economist: Excel has featured in plenty of workplace blunders -- though its defenders will be quick to...
5 days ago
The Pentagon Wants To Use AI To Create Deepfake Internet Users
Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. Download Shift for FreeOne window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. × 175272433 story Posted by msmash on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:45PM from the not-the-onion dept. schwit1 writes: The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people. The United States' secretive Special Operations Command is...
5 days ago