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11:20 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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JD Sports Admits Intruder Accessed 10 Million Customers' Data
Sports fashion retailer JD Sports has confirmed miscreants broke into a system that contained data on a whopping 10 million customers, but no payment information was among the mix. The Register report...
10:40 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Impossible Foods Plans To Lay Off About 20% of Workers
Impossible Foods, which makes plant-based nuggets, burgers and patties, is reportedly laying off 20% of its staff, Bloomberg reported first. TechCrunch reports: According to the story, the 12-year-old...
10:02 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Jack Wallen: PikaOS is very similar to that of Nobara Linux, which opts for a Fedora base. But what are these two Linux distributions? Simply...
09:21 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Philips To Cut 13% of Jobs in Safety and Profitability Drive
Dutch health technology company Philips will scrap another 6,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to restore its profitability and improve the safety of its products following a recall of respiratory device...
08:40 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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US Renewable Energy Farms Outstrip 99% of Coal Plants Economically
Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it's more expensive for 99% of the country's coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an ent...
08:01 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Taxes Slow India's Solar Power Rollout But Boost Manufacture
An anonymous reader shares a report: In May last year Fortum India, a subsidiary of a Finnish solar developer, won the bid for a solar power project in the state of Gujarat. The project was due to be ...
07:21 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Japan Plans New Government Unit To Deal With Disinformation Campaigns
Japan's government is making arrangements to launch a new unit next year that deals with the spread of disinformation. From a report: Experts say disinformation spread through social media networks co...
06:41 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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China Smartphone Market Slumps To 10-Year Low
After a decade of frantic growth, China's smartphone market is hitting a speed bump as COVID-19 roils the world's second-largest economy. From a report: The country's smartphone shipments dropped 14% ...
06:00 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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EU Weighs Proposal To Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades
The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, like Netflix and Alphabet, to help pay for the next generation of internet infrastructure, according...
05:20 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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What Time Is It On the Moon?
Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep. From a report: It's not obvious what form a universal lunar ti...
04:40 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Cash-strapped EV Startup Arrival is Laying Off Half Its Workforce
Arrival, an electric vehicle startup based in the UK, said it was laying off 50 percent of its employees in a bid to reduce costs. The company also named a new CEO, Igor Torgov, who previously served ...
04:04 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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DOJ Suit To Break Up Google Was Years in the Making for Antitrust Chief
An anonymous reader shares a report: Jonathan Kanter has been one of Google's main legal foes for nearly 15 years. Last week, as the nation's top antitrust cop, he delivered a threat to break up the i...
03:36 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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US FAA Adopts New Safeguards After Computer Outage Halted Flights
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers Monday it had made a series of changes to prevent a repeat of a key computer system outage that forced a nationwide Jan. 11 ground stop disrupt...
02:45 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu To Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
Baidu is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT potentially China's most prominent entry in a race touched off by the tech phenomenon. From a repor...
02:00 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Foldable iPad Could Arrive as Early as Next Year
Apple could be on track to release a foldable iPad as early as next year, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. From a report: "I'm positive about the foldable iPad in 2024 and expect this n...
12:34 pm - Mon, January 30, 2023
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A Drug Company Made $114 Billion Gaming America's Patent System
The New York Times looks at the AbbVie's anti-inflammatory drug Humira and their "savvy but legal exploitation of the U.S. patent system." Though AbbVie's patent was supposed to expire in 2016, since ...
08:34 am - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Can Stack Overflow's Survey Predict Next Year's Most Loved Programming Language?
What happens when Stack Overflow's senior research analyst delves more deeply into results from their annual Developer Survey?Rust, Elixir, Clojure, Typescript, and Julia are at the top of the list of...
05:34 am - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Amazon is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return to Office Stalls
Amazon is "selling a vacant Bay Area office complex purchased about 16 months ago," reports Bloomberg, "the company's latest effort to unwind a pandemic-era expansion that left it with a surfeit of wa...
02:34 am - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Do 'Layoffs By Email' Show What Employers Really Think of Their Workers?
When Google laid off 6% of its workforce — some of whom had worked for the company for decades — employees "got the news in their inbox," writes Gawker's founding editor in a scathing opin...
12:57 am - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Anti-Microbial Proteins Are Being Developed With AI By... Saleforce?
segaboy81 shares a report from Neowin:What do you get when the world's largest CRM breaks into the research industry and leverages AI to build their products? You get ProGen, a new AI system that can ...
12:57 am - Mon, January 30, 2023
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Anti-Microbial Proteins Are Being Developed With AI By... Salesforce?
segaboy81 shares a report from Neowin:What do you get when the world's largest CRM breaks into the research industry and leverages AI to build their products? You get ProGen, a new AI system that can ...
11:24 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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How to Handle Web Sites Asking for Your Email Address
When you share your email, "you're sharing a lot more," warns the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer:[I]t can be linked to other data, including where you went to school, the make and mod...
09:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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The Anti-ChatGPT Appears? Researchers Fights Back With 'DetectGPT'
To detect AI-generated text, Stanford researchers are proposing a new methodology "that leverages the unique characteristics of text generated by large language models (LLMs)," reports the tech-news s...
08:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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After Layoffs: Executive Pay Cuts at Google - and How Apple Steered Clear
Fortune reports on what happened next:As questions piled up over the weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the entire company in a meeting on Monday to answer questions, and announced then that ...
07:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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Blocked Traffic, Disrupted Firefighters: Why San Francisco Wants to Slow Robotaxi Rollout
"San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis," reports NBC News, "after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped and idled in the middle of the street for no obvious rea...
06:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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OpenAI Hires an Army of Contractors. Will They Make Coding Obsolete?
Last week Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs — and a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT. But OpenAI also released a tool called Codex in August of 2021 "d...
05:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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World's Second-Largest Steelmaker Invests $120M in 'Green Steel'
"The manufacture of 'green steel' moved one step closer to reality Friday," reports the Associated Press, "as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment from the world's seco...
04:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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Security Researchers Breached Server of Russia's 'Black Basta' Ransomware Gang
Long-time Slashdot reader Beave writes: Security researchers and practitioners at Quadrant Information Security recently found themselves in a battle with the Russian ransomware gang known as "Black B...
03:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu
"From the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity and the Unity desktop environment, here comes blendOS," writes 9to5Linux, "a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to be the last distribution you'll ever use, especial...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 29, 2023
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Under Microsoft, GitHub Reaches 100M-Developer Milestone
"Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform," reports TechCrunch:The figure represents a substantial hike on the 3 million users GitHub counted 1...
08:34 am - Sun, January 29, 2023
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What Happens When ChatGPT Can Find Bugs in Computer Code?
PC Magazine describes a startling discovery by computer science researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University and University College London. "ChatGPT can weed out errors with sample code and fix it b...
04:34 am - Sun, January 29, 2023
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The Linux Foundation Reflects on Open Source's Role in Climate Change Challenges
At the UN's COP27 climate summit in November, "observer status" was granted to representatives from the Linux Foundation's nonprofit Green Software Foundation, and from its Hyperledger Foundation, a n...
02:34 am - Sun, January 29, 2023
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Classic Videogame 'Goldeneye 007' Finally Comes to Nintendo Switch and Xbox
The classic 1997 vidoegame GoldenEye 007 "has finally landed on Xbox and Nintendo Switch," writes the Verge:On Xbox, the remaster includes 4K resolution, smoother frame rates, and split-screen local m...
11:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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What's Holding Back Wind Energy in the US?
The Washington Post reports that "there are only seven working offshore wind turbines in the entire United States at the moment. In Europe, there are more than 5,000. China also has thousands." And ye...
10:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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'Avatar: the Way of Water' Beats 'The Force Awakens', Becomes 4th Highest-Grossing Film Ever
Avatar: The Way of Water "has passed Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time," reports Variety:Director James Cameron's sci-fi epic has now earned $2.075 billion ...
09:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Lawsuit Accusing Copilot of Abusing Open-Source Code Challenged by GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI
GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI "told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit for improperly monetizing open-source code to train their AI systems cannot be sustained," report...
08:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included
An anonymous reader shares this report from OMG! Ubuntu:Developers have just uncorked a brand new release of Wine, the open source compatibility layer that allows Windows apps to run on Linux. A subst...
07:35 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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'The Pros and Cons of Software Running Your Car'
This week the automotive site Edmunds discussed "the pros and cons of software running your car." One advantage is that software "allows for the introduction of features that wouldn't have been possib...
06:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Wyoming Crypto Bank Denied for Federal Reserve System Membership
The Associated Press reports that America's Federal Reserve Board "has denied a Wyoming cryptocurrency bank's application for Federal Reserve System membership, officials announced Friday, dealing a s...
05:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Linux:Ubuntu maker Canonical announced Thursday the general availability of its Ubuntu Pro comprehensive subscription for Ubuntu users who want to expand t...
04:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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D&D Won't Change Its Original 1.0 OGL License, Reference Document Enters Creative Commons
An anonymous reader shares a report from PC Gamer:In a blog post published Friday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it is fully putting the kibosh on the proposed Open Gaming License (OGL) 1.2 that...
03:34 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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How a Microsoft Cloud Outage Hit Millions of Users Around the World
An anonymous reader shares Reuters' report from earlier this week:Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azu...
01:00 pm - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Why This Teacher Has Adopted an Open ChatGPT Policy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Ethan Mollick has a message for the humans and the machines: can't we all just get along? After all, we are now officially in an A.I. world and we're goin...
10:00 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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UK Scientists Discover Method To Reduce Steelmaking's CO2 Emissions By 90%
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmaking's CO2 emission by nearly 90%. The Next Web reports: The iron and s...
07:00 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Missing Radioactive Capsule Sparks Urgent Health Alert In Western Australia
A tiny radioactive capsule with the potential to cause skin burns has gone missing as it was transported from a mine in Western Australia. The Guardian reports: Hazardous material experts are searchin...
03:30 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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An ALS Patient Set a Record For Communicating Via a Brain Implant: 62 Words Per Minute
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Eight years ago, a patient lost her power of speech because of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, which causes progressive paralysis. She can...
02:02 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Amazon Is Reportedly Making a Tomb Raider TV Series
Amazon is developing a TV series based on the Tomb Raider video game franchise with scripts written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Verge reports: Details are light o...
01:25 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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US and EU To Launch First-Of-Its-Kind AI Agreement
The United States and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecas...
12:45 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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PagerDuty CEO Quotes MLK Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
Jody Serrano writes via Gizmodo: In a 1,669-word email to employees, [PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada] echoed the script many tech CEOs have recited in recent months, stating that today's "volatile econ...
12:02 am - Sat, January 28, 2023
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Boeing Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud In Criminal Case Over Deadly 737 Max Crashes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Aerospace giant Boeing entered a plea of not guilty to a criminal charge at an arraignment in federal court in Texas Thursday. The company is charged with...
11:30 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Mercedes Is the First Certified Level-3-Autonomy Car Company In the US
At CES earlier this January, Mercedes announced that it would become the first car company to achieve certification from the SAE for a Level 3 driver assist system. That became official on Thursday wh...
10:50 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Intel's 'Historic Collapse' Erases $8 Billion From Market Value
Intel saw about $8 billion wiped off its market value on Friday after the U.S. chipmaker stumped Wall Street with dismal earnings projections, fanning fears around a slump in the personal-computer mar...
10:14 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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BuzzFeed Says It Will Use AI To Help Create Content, Stock Jumps 150%
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: BuzzFeed said Thursday that it will work with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to use artificial intelligence to help create content for its audience, marking a mil...
09:22 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Japan, Netherlands To Join US in Chip Controls on China
Japan and the Netherlands are poised to join the US in limiting China's access to advanced semiconductor machinery, forging a powerful alliance that will undercut Beijing's ambitions to build its own ...
08:40 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Apple Devising Software To Help Anyone Build AR Apps, To Drive Headset Sales
Apple is developing software that offers an easy way for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to build their own augmented reality apps, as part of an effort to drive mass adoption of the devic...
08:01 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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AI Wildfire Detection Bill Gets Initial Approval in Colorado
A year after the most destructive wildfire in the state's history scorched nearly 1,100 homes, Colorado lawmakers are considering joining other Western states by adopting artificial intelligence in th...
07:21 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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New Mexico Law Seeks Solar on Every Roof, and an EV Charger in Every Garage
Senator William Soules of New Mexico has submitted SB 77 for consideration with the state's legislature. The proposed law, which is currently only a few sentences, proposes that in July of 2023, all n...
06:40 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Google Created an AI That Can Generate Music From Text Descriptions, But Won't Release It
An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. From a report: Called MusicL...
06:00 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Apple Brings Mainland Chinese Web Censorship To Hong Kong
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple's browser was blockin...
05:20 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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AWS, Microsoft, Google Among Businesses Owed Money After FTX Collapse
AWS, Google and Microsoft are among creditors owed money after the FTX crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy in November. From a report: Since the once-hyped company went south, founder and former CEO ...
04:40 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Yale-Harvard Snub of US News Rankings Opens Way for More Exits
First, Yale Law School. Now, Harvard Medical School. One by one, some of the nation's top graduate programs are quitting the great who's-up-who's-down scorecards of higher ed: US News & World Repo...
04:01 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Intel Sunsets Network Switch Biz, Kills RISC-V Pathfinder Program
Intel's disastrous Q4 2022 earnings found the company losing $661 million and its margins crashing to the lowest point in decades, so it isn't surprising that the company announced new cost-cutting me...
03:25 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Home Depot Canada Found Sharing Customer Personal Data With Meta
Home Depot's Canadian arm was found to be sharing details from e-receipts related to in-store purchases with Facebook owner Meta Platforms without the knowledge or consent of its customers, according ...
02:40 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Science Journals Ban Listing of ChatGPT as Co-Author on Papers
The publishers of thousands of scientific journals have banned or restricted contributors' use of an advanced AI-driven chatbot amid concerns that it could pepper academic literature with flawed and e...
02:00 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Israel's Tech Sector Says Judicial Overhaul Could Hurt Economy
Israel's technology sector is pushing back against the new government's planned judicial overhaul, saying the proposed changes are spooking investors worried about economic stability, the independence...
01:00 pm - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Intel's Horrible Quarter Revealed an Inventory Glut and Underused Factories
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Intel's December earnings showed significant declines in the company's sales, profit, gross margin, and outlook, both for the quarter and the full year. ...
10:00 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Wearable Ultrasound Patch Images the Heart In Real Time
A wearable ultrasound imager for the heart that is roughly the size of a postage stamp, can be worn for up to 24 hours, and works even during exercise may one day help doctors spot cardiac problems th...
07:00 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
A small asteroid is flying very close to Earth on Thursday night, less than a week after astronomers discovered the object. The New York Times reports: The asteroid, named 2023 BU, was scheduled to pa...
03:30 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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NYC Will Replace Its Largest Fossil Fuel Plant With Wind Power
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: New York City's largest fossil-fuel plant, which powers 20% of the city, will be replaced with offshore wind power. Ravenswood Generating Station is ...
02:02 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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US Says It 'Hacked the Hackers' To Bring Down Hive Ransomware Gang
The FBI revealed today that it had shut down the prolific ransomware gang called Hive, "a maneuver that allowed the bureau to thwart the group from collecting more than $130 million in ransomware dema...
01:25 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Q4 2022 Was a Disaster For Smartphone Sales, Sees the Largest-Ever Drop
The International Data Corporation has the latest numbers for worldwide smartphone sales in Q4 2022, and it's a disaster. Shipments declined 18.3 percent year-over-year, making for the largest-ever de...
12:45 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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Member of Congress Reads AI-Generated Speech On House Floor
U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss read a speech on the floor of the U.S. House that was generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. "Auchincloss said he prompted the system in part to 'write 100 words to deliver on the...
12:02 am - Fri, January 27, 2023
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California Announces DMV-Run Blockchain Through Partnership With Tezos
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Department of Motor Vehicles has never been an agency that screams innovation. The agency is better know for bureaucracy and endless lines than te...
11:20 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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A Robot Was Scheduled To Argue In Court, Then Came the Jail Threats
schwit1 shares a report from NPR: A British man who planned to have a "robot lawyer" help a defendant fight a traffic ticket has dropped the effort after receiving threats of possible prosecution and ...
11:00 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Stripe Explores Going Public Within the Next Year
Stripe, the fintech company once valued at $95 billion by private market investors, will make a decision on its plans to go public within the next year, CNBC has confirmed. From the report: Co-founder...
10:40 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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MSG Probed Over Use of Facial Recognition To Eject Lawyers From Show Venues
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: The operator of Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall is being probed by New York's attorney general over the company's use of facial re...
10:01 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Microsoft Strikes 'Strategic Alliance' With Solar Manufacturer
Microsoft just forged a strategic alliance with a major solar panel manufacturer to try to make good on its clean energy goals. From a report: The deal comes as supply chain woes and allegations of la...
09:20 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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New York City Will Require Uber and Lyft To Go 100 Percent Electric by 2030
In his State of the City speech Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Uber and Lyft will be required to be zero emission by 2030. The decision by one of the world's largest markets f...
08:41 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Podcast Exclusivity Is Quickly Becoming an Outdated Strategy
If it's still too early to declare platform-exclusive podcast deals dead as we move into 2023, it's becoming ever clearer that this business model is likely not long for this world. From a report: Spo...
08:01 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Dutch Hacker Obtained Virtually All Austrians' Personal Data, Police Say
A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth of virtually everyone in Austria, the Alpine nation's police said on Wednesday. From a report...
07:20 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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US Federal Agencies Hacked Using Legitimate Remote Desktop Tools
The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency has warned that criminal financially motivated hackers compromised federal agencies using legitimate remote desktop software. From a report: CISA said in a j...
06:28 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Yandex Denies Hack, Blames Source Code Leak on Former Employee
A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum. From a report: Yesterday, the leaker po...
06:00 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Africa Has Become 'Less Safe, Secure and Democratic' in Past Decade, Report Finds
Africa is less safe, secure and democratic than a decade ago, with insecurity holding back progress in health, education and economic opportunities, according to an assessment of the continent. From a...
05:21 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master's Degree in AI
The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation's leading computer science schools, said on Thursday that it was starting a large-scale, low-cost online Master of Science degree program in artifi...
04:40 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Drug Maker Paid For 'News' Story on CBS's 60 Minutes, Doctors' Group Alleges
A 13-minute segment on a recent episode of CBS's 60 Minutes appeared to be a news story on Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy, but was actually a sponsored promotion violating federal regulations,...
04:00 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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SoftBank Deals Hit Record Low, Sapping Funding for Startups
SoftBank Group's new startup bets hit a record low last quarter as valuations continued to slide, chilling an already frosty startup winter. From a report: The world's largest tech investor -- which a...
03:21 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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EU's Proposed CE Mark for Software Could Have Dire Impact on Open Source
The EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which aims to "bolster cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware and software products," could have severe unintended consequences for open sourc...
02:40 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Google Commits To Give Consumers Clearer and More Accurate Information To Comply With EU Rules
European Commission: Have you ever struggled to understand whether you were buying directly from Google or from a different brand, or had difficulty finding information about final costs? In order to ...
02:00 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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NYSE Mayhem Traced To a Staffer Who Left a Backup System Running
An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 700 miles from Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange's backup data center on Cermak Road in Chicago is supposed to safeguard US markets, standing by a...
01:00 pm - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Russian, Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists in Emails, UK Says
British cybersecurity officials are warning that hacking groups linked to Russia and Iran are duping people into clicking malicious links by impersonating journalists and experts. From a report: The h...
11:30 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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A Network of Knockoff Apparel Stores Exposed 330,000 Customer Credit Cards
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: If you recently made a purchase from an overseas online store selling knockoff clothes and goods, there's a chance your credit card number and pers...
10:00 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Large Study Finds Link Between Viral Infections and Future Brain Illness
Scientists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health found a link between dozens of different viral exposures and a later increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Gizmodo rep...
07:00 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Arizona Senator Introduces Bill To Make Bitcoin Legal Tender In the State
State Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-AZ) has introduced a set of bills aimed at making bitcoin legal tender in Arizona and allowing state agencies to accept bitcoin. Bitcoin Magazine reports: The proposed legis...
05:00 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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Even Reality TV Hosts Are Being Replaced By Robots
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard, written by Katie Way: MILF Manor is a reality TV show made to be dissected on the internet. Everything, from its ripped-from-30-Rock title to the ...
03:15 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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IBM Cuts 3,900 Jobs
IBM on Wednesday announced 3,900 layoffs as part of some asset divestments and missed its annual cash target, dampening cheer around beating revenue expectations in the fourth quarter. From a report: ...
01:00 am - Thu, January 26, 2023
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FBI Probes Snapchat's Role In Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths
Federal agencies are questioning Snapchat's role in the spread and sale of fentanyl-laced pills in the United States as part of a broader probe into the deadly counterfeit drugs crisis. The Los Angele...
11:40 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Shutterstock Launches Generative AI Image Tool
Shutterstock, one of the internet's biggest sources of stock photos and illustrations, is now offering its customers the option to generate their own AI images. Gizmodo reports: In October, the compan...
11:00 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Massachusetts Bills Would Set a Minimum Wage For Rideshare Drivers
New bills in the state House and Senate would not only pursue collective bargaining rights across companies, as with past measures, but would guarantee a minimum wage, paid sick leave and other benefi...
10:20 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: At the Flutter Forward event, Google released Flutter 3.7 with more Material You widgets and menus support, while also teasing the future of the ap...
09:40 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Senator Manchin Aims To Close Battery Loophole Around $7,500 EV Tax Credit
Senator Joe Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has introduced a new bill that squashes a small loophole around the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) $7,500 EV tax cr...
09:02 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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'Robots Are Treated Better': Amazon Warehouse Workers Stage First-Ever Strike In the UK
Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike in Britain. The walkout marks the first formal industrial action in the country for the U.S. tech giant. CNBC reports: The 24-hour strike action began Wednesda...
08:27 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Hackers Demand $10M From Riot Games To Stop Leak of 'League of Legends' Source Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Hackers stole the source code for League of Legends, and now they're asking for $10 million from developer Riot Games. Motherboard has obtained a ...
07:21 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google Institutional Investor Calls For 30K Jobs Cut
The billionaire hedge fund manager that runs a major Google investor isn't satisfied with the record 12,000 redundancies the US tech giant is making, and wants to see thousands more forced out of the ...
06:40 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Mexico Cracks Down on Solar Geoengineering, Forcing Startup To Pause Operations
An anonymous reader shares a report: The tiny startup Make Sunsets, which had been experimenting with releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight in order to cool the earth, said ...
06:00 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Credit Karma Tricked Customers Into Thinking They Were Pre-Approved for Credit Cards, FTC Says
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered personal finance company Credit Karma to pay $3 million to customers the agency alleges were deceived into applying for products they weren't eligible for. Fro...
05:21 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google To Make Changes To Android Business Terms in India After Antitrust Blow
Google is revising its business agreements with phonemakers and other partners in India and making a series of other changes in the South Asian market to comply with the local antitrust watchdog's dir...
04:42 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Coinbase's Chief Product Officer Will Leave With a $105 Million Payday
When Surojit Chatterjee logs out on his final day as chief product officer at Coinbase on February 3, he will have made a whopping $105 million from stock sales. From a report: According to disclosure...
04:03 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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UK To Subsidize Semiconductor Firms in Bid To Make Domestic Chips
The UK government will provide direct taxpayer funding to support British semiconductor companies as part of a strategy for a sector that has become a lightning rod in global geopolitics, Bloomberg re...
03:22 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Apple Beefs Up Smartphone Services in 'Silent War' Against Google
Apple is taking steps to separate its mobile operating system from features offered by Google parent Alphabet, making advances around maps, search and advertising that has created a collision course b...
02:53 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google Says US Justice Department Complaint 'Without Merit'
Alphabet's Google says it believes the complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice accusing the company of abusing its dominance in digital advertising is "without merit." From a report: The company...
02:43 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google Says US Justice Department Complaint 'Without Merit'
Alphabet's Google says it believes the complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice accusing the company of abusing its dominance in digital advertising is "without merit." From a report: The company...
02:09 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Microsoft Set To Face EU Antitrust Probe Over Video Calls
European Union antitrust enforcers are planning to open an antitrust probe into Microsoft over its video and messaging service Teams, POLITICO reported Wednesday. From the report: An investigation bas...
02:01 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Microsoft Set To Face EU Antitrust Probe Over Video Calls
European Union antitrust enforcers are planning to open an antitrust probe into Microsoft over its video and messaging service Teams, POLITICO reported Wednesday. From the report: An investigation bas...
01:00 pm - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Senator Plans To Introduce Bill To Ban TikTok Nationwide
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican and China hawk, said on Tuesday that he would introduce a bill to ban the short video app TikTok in the United ...
10:00 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Google To Stop Exempting Campaign Email From Automated Spam Detection
Google plans to discontinue a pilot program that allows political campaigns to evade its email spam filters, the latest round in the technology giant's tussle with the GOP over online fundraising. The...
07:00 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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SpaceX Completes First Stacked Starship Fueling Test
On Monday, SpaceX fueled a fully stacked Starship for the first time. Engadget reports: The "wet dress rehearsal" saw the company load the vehicle's Super Heavy and Starship stages with more than 10 m...
03:30 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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ChatGPT Passes MBA Exam Given By a Wharton Professor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: New research (PDF) conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found that the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot GPT-...
02:02 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Android 14 Set To Block Certain Outdated Apps From Being Installed
To help reduce the potential for malware, Android 14 will begin fully blocking the installation of apps that target outdated versions of Android. 9to5Google reports: For years now, the guidelines for ...
01:25 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Strava Acquires Fatmap, a 3D Mapping Platform For the Great Outdoors
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap, a European company that's building a high-resolution 3D global map platf...
12:45 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Microsoft Edge Will Soon Let You Split Two Tabs In a Single Window
Microsoft has started testing a new split-screen feature for Edge that lets you compare two tabs side by side. The Verge reports: The feature was first discovered by Leopeva64-2 on Reddit, and it's av...
12:02 am - Wed, January 25, 2023
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Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold For Scrap Because of Activation Lock
2-year-old MacBooks with Apple's T2 security chip are being turned into parts because recyclers have no way to login and factory reset the machines, reports Motherboard. "It's a boon for security and ...
11:20 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Playing Military Sim War Thunder May Get You Classed As a National Security Risk
Playing the military simulation War Thunder is now reportedly considered an official risk on background checks. PCMag reports: As GamesRadar reports, a user going by the name Add Fiat 6616 Pls posted ...
10:40 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Apple Gives Some Older iPhones OS Updates, Going Back To iPhone 5S
Apple has provided iOS 12.5.7, macOS 11.7.3, and other updates for older devices that can't be updated to the latest releases. AppleInsider reports: The new updates are for users still using older dev...
10:00 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Demand For AI Skills On the Rise As Fiverr Searches Spike For Freelancers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: With all the hype and excitement surrounding generative AI technologies, there has been a corresponding growth in the interest that businesses hav...
09:21 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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US To Test Nuclear-powered Spacecraft by 2027
The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the ...
08:40 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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SEC Scrutiny Blocks Some Crypto Firms From Going Public
Crypto companies seeking to go public over the past year have faced increased scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission, as financial distress and failures spread across the volatile indust...
08:00 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Appliance Makers Sad That 50% of Customers Won't Connect Smart Appliances
Appliance makers like Whirlpool and LG just can't understand. They added Wi-Fi antennae to their latest dishwashers, ovens, and refrigerators and built apps for them -- and yet only 50 percent or fewe...
07:20 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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GPU Cooler Tested With Ketchup, Potatoes, and Cheese as Thermal Paste
Tom's Hardware: Finding the best TIM can be a tricky endeavor, but some people are more adventurous than others. Case in point: An enthusiast recently broadened his GPU thermal paste search to include...
06:30 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Scientists Set Doomsday Clock Closer To Midnight Than Ever Before
The hands of the Doomsday Clock are closer to midnight than ever before, with humanity facing a time of "unprecedented danger" that has increased the likelihood of a human-caused apocalypse, a group o...
05:42 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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US Sues Google Over Ad Market in Escalation of Antitrust Fight
The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet's Google, calling for the break up of the search giant's ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising ...
05:20 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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There's Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks
The partisan divisions we've become used to on Capitol Hill are if anything even more stark in the new 118th Congress. But so far, there is one thing Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate ...
04:41 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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NYC Jails Want To Ban Physical Mail, then Privatize Scanning of Digital Versions
The New York City Department of Correction wants to stop incarcerated people from receiving physical mail inside city jails. From a report: The department, known as DOC, said the proposed changes are ...
04:00 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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GoTo Says Hackers Stole Customers' Backups and Encryption Key
GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole encrypted backups containing customer information and an encryption key ...
03:20 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Marvel Boss Doesn't Think Audiences Will Ever Get Tired of Superhero Movies
Will moviegoers ever get superhero fatigue? Marvel boss Kevin Feige doesn't buy it, saying on a new podcast interview that there are 80 years of "groundbreaking" stories told in the Marvel comics that...
02:40 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative' and 'Nothing Revolutionary', Says Meta's Chief AI Scientist
Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances in response to human prompts. The program strikes many people as s...
02:00 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Amazon Deepens Healthcare Push With $5 Monthly Subscription
Amazon said on Tuesday it is offering a $5 monthly subscription plan for U.S. Prime members that will cover a range of generic drugs and their doorstep delivery, furthering the ecommerce giant's push ...
01:00 pm - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Google's Fuchsia OS Was One of the Hardest Hit By Last Week's Layoffs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: Google is still reeling from the biggest layoff in company history last Friday. Earlier cost cuts over the past six months have resulted in severa...
10:00 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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China Launches 100-MPH Hydrogen/Supercapacitor Train
The world's largest rail vehicle manufacturer has rolled out a zero-emissions train running on hydrogen fuel cells with a supercapacitor buffer. The four-car train is capable of 100 mph (160 km/h), ma...
07:00 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Exotic Green Comet Not Seen Since Stone Age Returns To Skies Above Earth
An exotic green comet that has not passed Earth since the time of the Neanderthals has reappeared in the sky ready for its closest approach to the planet next week. The Guardian reports: Discovered la...
03:30 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Japan PM Says Country On the Brink Over Falling Birth Rate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to function as a society because of its falling birth rate. Fumio Kishida sa...
01:25 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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GameCube and Wii Games Are Now Easier To Play On Xbox Consoles
The new standalone Dolphin emulator will let you play almost any GameCube or Wii game on your Xbox console. Windows Central reports: Dolphin Emulator for UWP first rolled out in beta on December 6, 20...
12:45 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays
Turnitin, best known for its anti-plagiarism software used by tens of thousands of universities and schools around the world, is building a tool to detect text generated by AI. The Register reports: T...
12:02 am - Tue, January 24, 2023
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How Apple's 'Reality Pro' Headset Will Work
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Apple's first AR/VR headset could be unveiled sometime this spring, and rumors continue to offer more information about what Apple has in the works. A...
11:50 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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GitHub Sponsors Will Stop Supporting PayPal
"Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor," the company announced today in a blog post. "As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor i...
11:20 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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PayPal Investigated Over Potential Market Dominance in Germany
Germany's cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe over the possibility that it hindered competition. Reuters reports: The subject of t...
10:47 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Blizzard Will Suspend World of Warcraft In China Because of Licensing Dispute
Blizzard will suspend games in China because it can't reach an agreement with its licensing and publishing partner NetEase, it said in a press release. World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch 2, Sta...
10:12 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Tens of Millions Without Power In Pakistan As National Grid Fails
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Pakistan's national grid suffered a major breakdown, leaving millions of people without electricity for the second time in three months and highl...
09:20 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Google's Pichai Tells Staff Cuts Avoided 'Much Worse' Problems
Google's chief executive officer told employees that cuts were made in a bid to act decisively as the company's growth slowed. From a report: In an internal meeting, Sundar Pichai, who is CEO of Googl...
08:40 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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iOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura 13.2 Add Hardware Security Key Support
Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, and watchOS 9.3 today. The updates focus primarily on bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements, but there is one notable addition: Apple ID got...
08:00 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Amazon and Stripe Expand Partnership
Amazon and Stripe have signed an agreement that will see the two companies increase their use of each others' services, the companies said. Amazon plans to increase its use of Stripe's payments proces...
07:20 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector
Despite aggregate productivity for the US economy having doubled over the past 50 years, the country's construction sector has diverged considerably, trending downward throughout that period. And this...
06:40 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Earth's Inner Core May Have Started Spinning Other Way
Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us. From a report: Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the plan...
06:00 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Scores of Stanford Students Used ChatGPT on Final Exams, Survey Suggests
The Stanford Daily: Stanford students and professors alike are grappling with the rise of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, and the technology's implications for education. Some p...
05:20 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Banks Plan Payment Wallet To Compete With PayPal, Apple Pay
Big banks are teaming up to launch a digital wallet that people can use to shop online. Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and four other banks are working on a new product that will allow s...
04:40 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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ChatGPT Users Report $42 a Month Pricing for 'Pro' Access But No Official Word Yet
An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier this month, OpenAI said it was exploring ways to monetize its AI chatbot ChatGPT, giving users the opportunity to sign up for early access to "ChatGPT Prof...
04:02 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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New York's Financial Regulator Takes Aim at Firms Co-Mingling Crypto Funds
New York's chief financial regulator is set to release new guidance on Monday dictating that companies separate customers' crypto assets from their own, after alleged co-mingling of funds at collapsed...
03:21 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Spotify To Trim 6% of Workforce in Latest Tech Layoffs
Spotify said on Monday it plans to cut 6% of its workforce and would take a related charge of up to nearly $50 million, adding to the massive layoffs in the technology sector in preparation for a poss...
02:40 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Microsoft Makes Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft is making a multibilllion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT and DALL-E, as the software giant looks to more closely tie these te...
02:15 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Microsoft Makes Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft is making a multibilllion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT and DALL-E, as the software giant looks to more closely tie these te...
02:02 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Citadel Breaks Records With $16 Billion Profit
Ken Griffin's Citadel made $16bn profit for investors last year, the biggest dollar gain by a hedge fund in history and a haul that establishes his company as the most successful of all time. Financia...
12:34 pm - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Mars Helicopter 'Ingenuity' Completes Its 40th Flight on Mars
"NASA's tiny Ingenuity helicopter now has 40 off-Earth flights under its belt," reports Space.com:The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity lifted off yet again on Thursday (Jan. 19), staying aloft for ne...
08:34 am - Mon, January 23, 2023
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83% of GNOME Users Installed Extensions, Survey Shows
Last summer GNOME invited people to voluntarily run the tool gnome-info-collect on their systems to send back (non-sensitive/non-identifiable) data about their system configurations. 2,560 people ran ...
04:56 am - Mon, January 23, 2023
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925,000 Norton LifeLock Accounts Targeted by Credential-Stuffing Attack
"Thousands of people who use Norton password manager began receiving emailed notices this month alerting them that an unauthorized party may have gained access to their personal information," reports ...
01:36 am - Mon, January 23, 2023
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What Happens When an AI Generates Designs for PC Cases?
Someone on Reddit used the Midjourney AI image generator to create "a selection of 28 fantastically alluring case designs" for the Mini ITX PC, reports Tom's Hardware:Our sample gallery of the AI-gene...
12:26 am - Mon, January 23, 2023
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Extensions are Easily Impersonated in Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace, Researchers Say
74.48% of developers use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, according to one survey conducted by StackOverflow. And besides GitHub Copilot, there's over 40,000 other extensions in the VSCode Marketplace....
10:35 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Chess.com Visits Spike with New Cat-Themed AI Bot Named 'Mittens'
On New Year's Day, Chess.com launched five chess-playing bots — each with a cat persona. But the Deseret News reports that something unexpected happened with "Mittens"...Interest generated by Mi...
09:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Hobbyist's Experiment Creates a Self-Soldering Circuit Board
Long-time Slashdot reader wonkavader found a video on YouTube where, at the 2:50 mark, there's time-lapse footage of soldering paste magically melting into place. The secret?Many circuit boards includ...
08:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Which Performs Better on Linux: Firefox or Chrome?
Phoronix compares the performance of Firefox and Chrome on the Linux desktop. They used recent releases (at default settings) for both browsers on an Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" system with Rad...
07:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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From Halo to the Simpsons, Would Fictional Mad Scientists Pass Ethical Review?
From Science magazine:Cave Johnson is almost ready to start a new study in his secret underground facility. The founder of the Michigan-based technology company Aperture Science, he's invented a porta...
06:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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How OneCoin's 'Cryptoqueen' Scammed Investors Out of $4 Billion
CNN remembers how in 2016 Ruja Ignatova "touted her company, OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market." As OneCoin's co-founder, Ignatova told one audience in 2016...
05:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Automation Caused More than Half America's Income Inequality Since 1980, Study Claims
A newly published study co-authored by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu "quantifies the extent to which automation has contributed to income inequality in the U.S.," reports SciTechDaily, "simply by repla...
04:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Most Distant Galaxy Yet
"Astronomers have detected a radio signal from the most distant galaxy yet," reports Space.com — thanks to a naturally occurring phenomenon called gravitational lensing. "The signal is bent by t...
03:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Linux Foundation's New 'Open Metaverse Foundation' Launches
The Linux Foundation's new Open Metaverse Foundation wants to unite industries "to work on developing open source software and standards for an inclusive, global, vendor-neutral and scalable Metaverse...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Rodney Books Reviews 5-Year-Old Predictions, Makes New Ones on Crypto, Metaverse, Robots, AI
The Los Angeles Times explores an interesting exercise in prognisticating about the future. In 2018 robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks made a list of predictions about hot tech topics like robots, sp...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Rodney Brooks Reviews 5-Year-Old Predictions, Makes New Ones on Crypto, Metaverse, Robots, AI
The Los Angeles Times explores an interesting exercise in prognisticating about the future. In 2018 robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks made a list of predictions about hot tech topics like robots, sp...
08:34 am - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Can California's Power Grid Handle a 15x Increase in Electric Cars?
California state officials "claim that the 12.5 million electric vehicles expected on California's roads in 2035 will not strain the grid," writes the nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization Cal M...
04:36 am - Sun, January 22, 2023
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 Hype: 'People are Begging to be Disappointed and They Will Be'
The Verge writes:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has addressed rumors regarding GPT-4 — the company's as yet unreleased language model and latest in the GPT-series that forms the foundation of AI chatbot ...
02:34 am - Sun, January 22, 2023
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Industrial Espionage: How China Sneaks Out America's Technology Secrets
The BBC reports:It was an innocuous-looking photograph that turned out to be the downfall of Zheng Xiaoqing, a former employee with energy conglomerate General Electric Power. According to a Departmen...
11:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Can Cities Transform 'Dead Downtowns' by Converting Offices Into Apartments?
The Washington Post's editorial board recently commented on the problem of America's "dead downtowns. Tourists are back, but office workers are still missing in action.... [R]estaurants, coffee hangou...
10:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Facing Mounting Criticism, Instagram Launches Notification-Pausing 'Quiet' Mode
Thursday Instagram launched "Quiet mode" to "help people focus, and to encourage people to set boundaries with friends and followers.... Once enabled, you won't receive any notifications, your profile...
09:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Rust Safety Is Not Superior To C, Bjarne Stroustrup Says
guest reader writes: The Open Standards site contains a new paper from Bjarne Stroustrup titled A call to action: Think seriously about "safety"; then do something sensible about it. Bjarne reacts to ...
08:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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93-Year-Old Retired Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Marries His 'Longtime Love'
CNN reports:Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, who became the second person to ever set foot on the moon in 1969, following crewmate Neil Armstrong, married his "longtime love" on his 93rd birthday on Friday. The f...
07:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Apple Agrees to Audit of Its Labor Practices After Pressure from Investors
The New York Times reports:Apple will conduct an asessment of its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors that includes five New York City pension funds. The assessment w...
06:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Streaming Free: 'Three-Body Problem' Sci-Fi Novel Adaptation by Tencent Video
"One of the most beloved sci-fi novels of the 21st century finally has been adapted for television to huge acclaim," writes Esquire, "and it's out now." Their article includes embedded videos of Tence...
05:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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FCC Nomination Stalled for One Year, Preventing Restoration of US Net Neutrality
Why hasn't America restored net neutrality protections? "President Biden's nomination to serve on the Federal Communications Commission has been stalled in the Senate for more than a year," complain t...
04:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Satoshi Matsuoka Mocks 12 Myths of High-Performance Computing
insideHPC reports that Satoshi Matsuoka, the head of Japan's largest supercomputing center, has co-authored a high-performance computing paper challenging conventional wisdom. In a paper entitled "My...
03:34 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Documents Show 15 Social Media Companies Failed to Adequately Address Calls for Violence in 2021
The Washington Post has obtained "stunning new details on how social media companies failed to address the online extremism and calls for violence that preceded the Capitol riot." Their source? The bi...
01:00 pm - Sat, January 21, 2023
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TikTok Confirms That Its Own Employees Can Decide What Goes Viral
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: TikTok has confirmed to Forbes that some of its US employees have the ability to boost videos in order to "introduce celebrities and emerging creato...
10:00 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Microsoft Kills Off AltspaceVR Amid Major Layoffs
AltspaceVR is shutting down in March as Microsoft decimated its teams working in VR & AR this week as part of a major workforce reduction across the entire company. Upload VR reports: Altspace was...
07:00 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Certified For Use In US
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States' first small modular nuclear reactor. The Associated Press reports: The rule that certifies the desig...
03:30 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin For AI Fight
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Last month, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, held several meetings with company executives. The topic: a rival's new chatbot,...
02:02 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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CNET Pauses Publishing AI-Written Stories After Disclosure Controversy
CNET will pause publication of stories generated using artificial intelligence "for now," the site's leadership told employees on a staff call Friday. The Verge reports: The call, which lasted under a...
01:25 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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IBM Top Brass Accused Again of Using Mainframes To Prop Up Watson, Cloud Sales
IBM, along with 13 of its current and former executives, has been sued by investors who claim the IT giant used mainframe sales to fraudulently prop up newer, more trendy parts of its business. The Re...
12:45 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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Microsoft Has Copied the Best Windows Audio App
In the latest test build of Windows 11, a new volume mixer can be enabled that looks a lot like EarTrumpet. The Verge's Tom Warren reports: The new Windows 11 feature provides quick access from the ta...
12:02 am - Sat, January 21, 2023
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US Airline Accidentally Exposes 'No Fly List' On Unsecured Server
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher last week contained the identities of hundreds of thousands of individuals from the U.S....
11:20 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Six Years Later, HPE and Oracle Quietly Shut Door On Solaris Lawsuit
HPE and Oracle have settled their long-running legal case over alleged copyright infringement regarding Solaris software updates for HPE customers, but it looks like the nature of the settlement is go...
10:40 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Merriam-Webster Acquires Wordle Clone Quordle
Merriam-Webster, the Encyclopaedia Britannica subsidiary best known for its online dictionary, has acquired a popular Wordle clone called Quordle. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. TechCrunch...
10:02 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Over the past few days, dozens of tech companies have filed briefs in support of Google in a Supreme Court case that tests online platforms' liab...
09:22 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Amazon To Plow Extra $35 Billion Into Virginia Data Centers in Cloud Race
Amazon's cloud unit will spend $35 billion on new data centers in Virginia by 2040, underscoring its determination to stay ahead of rivals Microsoft and Alphabet. From a report: The investments at mul...
08:40 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Shadow Acquires Android Emulation Startup Genymobile
Shadow is making its first acquisition as it announced that it would snatch up Genymobile, the company behind Genymotion. From a report: Shadow is better known for its cloud computing service that wor...
08:00 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Intel, AMD Just Created a Headache for Datacenters
An anonymous reader shares a report: In pursuit of ever-higher compute density, chipmakers are juicing their chips with more and more power, and according to the Uptime Institute, this could spell tro...
07:20 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Game Devs Remain Skeptical About Metaverse and Blockchain Projects
Game developers are more skeptical of metaverse and blockchain projects, according to a new survey by the Game Developers Conference. From a report: "So much happened during 2022 for ups and downs, an...
06:41 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Telecom Giants Head To Court To Kill NY State's Demand They Give Poor People $15 Broadband
Karl Bode, reporting for TechDirt: Recently, New York State passed a new law demanding that regional broadband providers (Verizon, Charter Spectrum, and Altice) provide low-income consumers $15, 25 Mb...
06:00 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Capital One Scraps 1,100 Tech Positions
Consumer lending firm Capital One has cut 1,100 positions in its technology segment, Reuters is reporting citing a source familiar with the matter, a move that comes as its digital transformation matu...
05:21 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Google To Demo an AI Search Chatbot Amid Pressure From ChatGPT
An anonymous reader shares a report: It seems Google is feeling the heat from OpenAI's ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has taken the tech world by storm over the last couple month...
04:42 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Meta, Twitter, Microsoft and Others Urge Supreme Court Not To Allow Lawsuits Against Tech Algorithms
A wide range of businesses, internet users, academics and even human rights experts defended Big Tech's liability shield in a pivotal Supreme Court case about YouTube algorithms, with some arguing tha...
04:03 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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PayPal Accounts Breached in Large-Scale Credential Stuffing Attack
PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users who had their accounts accessed through credential stuffing attacks that exposed some personal data. From a report: Credential stu...
03:21 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Light Pollution Rapidly Reducing Number of Stars Visible To Naked Eye, Study Finds
Research suggests if trend continues, view of Orion's belt will disappear due to glow from artificial lighting. From a report: "There is no light in earth or heaven / But the cold light of stars," wro...
02:43 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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FAA Says Contractor Unintentionally Caused Outage That Disrupted Flights
The Federal Aviation Administration has said that a contractor working for the air-safety regulator had unintentionally deleted computer files used in a pilot-alert system, leading to an outage that d...
02:00 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Google Axes 12,000 Jobs
Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed. From a...
01:00 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Pioneering Apple Lisa Goes 'Open Source' Thanks To Computer History Museum
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As part of the Apple Lisa's 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an...
12:40 pm - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Google Axes 12,000 Jobs
Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed. From a...
10:00 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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The First 'Bored Ape' NFT Game Costs $2,300 For Three Weeks of Play
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Owners of Yuga Labs' infamous "Bored Ape" non-fungible tokens (and related crypto tokens) get free access to a simple endless runner/tunnel racin...
07:00 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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The Incessant Whine of Crypto Mining
"When people talk about crypto mining the first thing usually mentioned is the amount of electricity it uses," writes Slashdot reader quonset. "What few realize is how loud rack after rack of servers ...
03:30 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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UV-Emitting Nail Polish Dryers Damage DNA and Cause Mutations In Cells, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: The ultraviolet nail polish drying devices used to cure gel manicures may pose more of a public health concern than previously thought. Researchers a...
01:30 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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D&D Will Move To a Creative Commons License, Requests Feedback On a New OGL
A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download. Polygon reports: The announcement was made Thursday by K...
12:50 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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Android 13 Is Running On 5.2% of All Devices Five Months After Launch
According to the latest official Android distribution numbers from Google, Android 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices less than six months after launch. 9to5Google reports: According to Android Stud...
12:10 am - Fri, January 20, 2023
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The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: For nearly a year and a half, a Massachusetts high school has been lit up around the clock because the district can't turn off the roughly 7,000 ligh...
11:30 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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EU's Breton To TikTok CEO: Comply With New Digital Rules Or Face Ban
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The European Union's digital policy chief warned TikTok's boss Thursday that the social media app will have to fall in line with tough ne...
11:10 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Microsoft Starts Testing Tabs In Notepad
Microsoft has started testing Tabs in Notepad with Windows Insiders on the Dev Channel today. Thurrott reports: The update to the Notepad will start rolling out to all Dev Channel testers today alongs...
10:43 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach, Affecting 37 Million Accounts
The nation's second-largest wireless carrier on Thursday disclosed that a "bad actor" took advantage of one of its application programming interfaces to gain data on "approximately 37 million current ...
10:15 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system has been available on the retail market for over seven years and was superseded by Windows 11 in October 2021. However, des...
09:40 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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New FTX Chief Says Crypto Exchange Could Restart
FTX's new chief executive, John J. Ray III, said he is looking into the possibility of reviving the bankrupt crypto exchange as he works to return money to the failed company's customers and creditors...
09:20 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Netflix Founder Reed Hastings Stepping Down As CEO
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings announced on Thursday he will step down as chief executive, handing the reins of the streaming service to his longtime partner and co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, and the compan...
09:05 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Cheaters Hacked an AI Bot and Beat the Rocket League Elite
Last week, Reed Wilen, an elite gamer who uses the handle "Chicago" in Rocket League, a popular vehicular-soccer game, encountered a strange and troubling new opponent. From a report: The player seeme...
08:30 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Fewer Companies Are Paying Ransoms To Hackers, Researchers Say
Fewer companies that are infected with ransomware are coughing up extortion payments demanded by hackers, according to new research from Chainalysis. From a report: In findings published on Thursday, ...
08:00 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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A Font Feud Brews After State Dept. Picks Calibri Over Times New Roman
The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to help...
07:30 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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India's Top Court Rejects Google Plea To Block Android Antitrust Ruling in Major Blow
Google has been dealt a significant blow in one of its key overseas markets. India's Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block an antitrust order that requires the Android-maker to make a series of ...
07:00 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Supreme Court Poised To Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech
The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms. From a report: For years, giant social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have operated under ...
06:25 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Ubisoft Devs Grill Boss On Shifting Blame And Chasing Trends
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot faced tough questions from some exhausted and fed-up staff about recent missteps and future plans in a company-wide Q&A session on Wednesday. The meeting comes just a we...
02:09 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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ChatGPT Listed as Author on Research Papers. Many Scientists Disapprove.
The artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT that has taken the world by storm has made its formal debut in the scientific literature -- racking up at least four authorship credits on published pa...
01:00 pm - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Greenland Temperatures Hottest In 1,000 Years, Scientists Report
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: As humans fiddle with the planet's thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland's history by drilling ice cores to analyze how the climate crisis...
10:00 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Tech-Backed Code.org Bringing BBC Micro:bit To US K-5 Classrooms
theodp writes: On Tuesday, the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, a UK-based education non-profit "on a mission to inspire all children to achieve their best digital future," announced a partnership wi...
07:00 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Amazon To Close Charitable Program AmazonSmile
Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to "focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact." Nexstar reports: In a letter sent to AmazonSm...
03:30 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Amazon Fined By Regulators For Unsafe Warehouse Work Conditions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Federal regulators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found that three Amazon warehouse facilities had violated legislat...
02:02 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Stephen Colbert To Produce TV Series Based On Roger Zelanzny's Sci-Fi Novels 'The Chronicles of Amber'
Stephen Colbert is joining the team that is adapting Roger Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber" for television. Variety reports: Colbert will now executive produce the potential series under his Sparti...
01:25 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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iOS 16.3 Expands Advanced Data Protection Option For iCloud Encryption Globally
Apple today announced that Advanced Data Protection is expanding beyond the United States. MacRumors reports: Starting with iOS 16.3, the security feature will be available globally, giving users to o...
01:05 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Adobe Says It Isn't Using Your Photos To Train AI Image Generators
In early January, Adobe came under fire for language used in its terms and conditions that seemed to indicate that it could use photographers' photos to train generative artificial intelligence system...
12:45 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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USB-C Can Hit 120Gbps With Newly Published USB4 Version 2.0 Spec
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: We've said it before, and we'll say it again: USB-C is confusing. A USB-C port or cable can support a range of speeds, power capabilities, and oth...
12:02 am - Thu, January 19, 2023
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Boston Dynamics' Latest Atlas Video Demos a Robot That Can Run, Jump and Now Grab and Throw
Boston Dynamics released a demo of its humanoid robot Atlas, showing it pick up and deliver a bag of tools to a construction worker. While Atlas could already run and jump over complex terrain, the ne...
11:20 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Google's Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform Shuts Down Today
Google is officially shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service today, Wednesday, January 18, after having failed to gain the traction that the company was expecting. Google servers that host the s...
10:40 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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70% of Drugs Advertised On TV Are of 'Low Therapeutic Value,' Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: According to a new study, a little over 70 percent of prescription drugs advertised on television were rated as having "low therapeutic value," m...
10:00 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Crypto Firm Genesis Is Preparing To File for Bankruptcy
Genesis Global Capital is laying the groundwork for a bankruptcy filing as soon as this week, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the situation. From a report: The crypt...
09:20 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Mailchimp Says It Was Hacked - Again
Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed. From a report: It's the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Wor...
08:40 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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More Than 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets By Biggest Provider Are Worthless, Analysis Shows
The forest carbon offsets approved by the world's leading provider and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a...
08:00 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Scientists Are Getting Eerily Good at Using WiFi to 'See' People Through Walls in Detail
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a method for detecting the three dimensional shape and movements of human bodies in a room, using only WiFi routers. From a report: To do this, they...
07:20 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Wikipedia Has Spent Years on a Barely Noticeable Redesign
The Wikipedia editors are waiting to hear you scream. On Wednesday, Wikipedia is set to make its new skin the default on English Wikipedia -- its first new skin since 2010 -- and the team of designers...
06:40 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Amazon Kicks Off Round of Job Cuts Affecting 18,000 People
Amazon has started its biggest-ever round of jobs cuts -- a culling that will ultimately affect 18,000 workers around the globe. From a report: Amazon began notifying employees by email early Wednesda...
06:01 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between US and More Than 20 Countries
Hundreds of federal, state and local U.S. law-enforcement agencies have access without court oversight to a database of more than 150 million money transfers between people in the U.S. and in more tha...
05:22 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting
Department of Justice: A complaint was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national and senior executive of Bitzlato Ltd. (Bitzlato), a Hong Kong-...
04:40 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Spotify Joins Media Firms To Urge EU Action Against Apple's 'Unfair' Practices
Music streaming service Spotify, along with other media firms such as Deezer, urged the European Commission to take action against Apple for anticompetitive and unfair practices, in a joint industry l...
04:01 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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More Than 4,400 Sophos Firewall Servers Remain Vulnerable To Critical Exploits
More than 4,400 Internet-exposed servers are running versions of the Sophos Firewall that's vulnerable to a critical exploit that allows hackers to execute malicious code, a researcher has warned. Fro...
03:22 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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2022 Global Smartphone Shipments Were the Lowest in Nearly a Decade
The smartphone industry capped off another dismal year with a 17% year over year drop for Q4. That number puts the full year's shipping figures 11% below 2021, per new numbers from Canalys, which refe...
02:46 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Microsoft's Nadella Says Tech Needs Efficiency as Job Cuts Loom
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said the technology industry must learn to be efficient as demand slows. From a report: "During the pandemic there was rapid acceleration. I think we ar...
02:16 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Apple Announces Revamped Full-Size HomePod Two Years After Discontinuing Original
Apple has announced a new $299 HomePod smart speaker with a similar form factor to the original HomePod released in 2018. From a report: It will be sold alongside the HomePod Mini, the smaller version...
01:00 pm - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Crypto Conglomerate DCG Suspends Dividends Amid Distress At Genesis Unit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CoinTelegraph: Venture capital firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) has told shareholders it is halting its quarterly dividend payments until further notice as it...
10:00 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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China Lifts Ban On Marvel Movies
China has lifted its unofficial ban on Marvel titles, bestowing release dates for two major superhero tentpoles, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania." Variety repor...
07:00 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Apple Indefinitely Postpones Launch of AR Glasses
Apple has postponed the launch of its lightweight augmented-reality glasses indefinitely due to technical challenges, but is still planning to unveil its first mixed-reality headset this year, Bloombe...
03:30 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Atmospheric Dust May Have Hidden True Extent of Global Heating
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Dust that billows up from desert storms and arid landscapes has helped cool the planet for the past several decades, and its presence in the atmo...
02:02 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Three Arrows Capital Co-Founders Pitch To Raise $25 Million For New 'GTX' Exchange
Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are hoping to raise $25 million to start a new crypto exchange called GTX, according to two separate pit...
01:25 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Netflix Set For Slowest Revenue Growth As Ad Plan Struggles To Gain Traction
Netflix is expected to report its slowest quarterly revenue growth on Thursday as its ad-supported plan struggles to attract customers in the saturating U.S. market, which could pressure the company t...
01:05 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Discord Acquires Gas, the Popular App For Teens To Compliment Each Other
Discord has acquired the Gas social app, a poll-based app for friends to share compliments with each other. "The app is designed for anonymous compliments and positive affirmations or, as kids say, ga...
12:45 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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British Battery Start-Up Files For Bankruptcy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Britishvolt, a prominent battery start-up that generated enthusiasm from British politicians but never commercially produced a battery, fil...
12:02 am - Wed, January 18, 2023
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Google Reportedly Working On 'Grogu' Tracker To Compete With Apple's AirTags
According to new research, Google is working on a new Bluetooth tracker device to compete with Apple's AirTags. 9to5Google reports: Since 2021, Google has included ultra-wideband (UWB) connectivity in...
11:20 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Game Makers Stage Mass Exodus From Dungeons & Dragons' 'Open' License
Following controversial changes to Dungeons & Dragons' decades-old Open Gaming License (OGL), "many prominent third-party RPG publishers now say they're abandoning the OGL, regardless of what chan...
10:40 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Fake SSDs With Great Reviews Are Still Popping Up on Amazon
An anonymous reader writes: If you've searched for external SSDs on Amazon.com recently, you may have noticed something weird: mixed in with the 1TB and 2TB drives from brands like Samsung and SanDisk...
10:02 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Eating One US Fish Is Equivalent To Drinking a Month's Worth of Contaminated Water, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Eating one freshwater fish caught in a river or lake in the United States is the equivalent of drinking a month's worth of water contaminated with to...
09:20 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Microsoft To Cut Thousands of Jobs Across Divisions
Microsoft plans to cut thousands of jobs with some roles expected to be eliminated in human resources and engineering divisions, according to media reports on Tuesday. From a report: The expected layo...
08:40 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Apple TV Requires You To Have an iPhone To Accept New iCloud Terms and Conditions
An anonymous reader shares a report: A viral tweet today highlights a somewhat frustrating limitation with the Apple TV software. As of a recent software update, tvOS expects users have access to an i...
08:05 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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New York Faces a New Legal Fight Over a Proposed Crypto-Mining Power Plant
Environmental groups are pushing New York state to scrutinize a crypto mining company's purchase of a gas-fired power plant, contending in a new lawsuit that turning the power plant into a crypto mine...
07:20 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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India Proposes Social Media Firms Rely On Fact Checking By Government Agencies
The Indian government has proposed making the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies the arbiter of truth on what information is misleading for social media firms and other internet companies as...
06:59 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Samsung 'Self-Repair' Program Adds Galaxy S22 Phones, Some Galaxy Books
DIY-minded Samsung owners now have officially supported options to repair more smartphones and, for the first time, laptops from that firm. From a report: The company announced Tuesday that its Self-R...
06:07 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Wikipedia Criticises 'Harsh' New Online Safety Bill Plans
Wikipedia should be treated differently to the big social media firms in the Online Safety Bill, a leading member of its foundation says. From a report: The encyclopaedia is written and edited entirel...
05:28 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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MSI Accidentally Breaks Secure Boot for Hundreds of Motherboards
Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting that allows any operating system image to run regardless of whether it has a wrong or missing signatur...
04:52 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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UK Lawmakers Vote To Jail Tech Execs Who Fail To Protect Kids Online
The United Kingdom wants to become the safest place for children to grow up online. Many UK lawmakers have argued that the only way to guarantee that future is to criminalize tech leaders whose platfo...
04:02 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Google Didn't Show Bias in Filtering Campaign-Ad Pitches, FEC Says
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint from Republicans that Google's Gmail app aided Democratic candidates by sending GOP fundraising emails to spam at a far higher rate than Democ...
03:24 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Apple Announces a Mac Mini With the M2 and M2 Pro
The Mac Mini is Apple's next computer to get the bump up to the M2 chip -- and this time around, it's being offered with the Pro version of Apple's processor, too. From a report: The new model was ann...
02:42 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Apple Announces MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips
Apple has announced new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, featuring its latest M2 Pro and Max chips. From a report: The M2 Pro model will launch with a 12-core CPU, up to 19-core GPU, and up to 32GB of un...
02:02 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Getty Images is Suing the Creators of AI Art Tool Stable Diffusion for Scraping Its Content
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation. From a report: In a press statement shared with The Verge, the stock photo compa...
01:00 pm - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Lab-Grown Alternatives Aim To Cut Palm Oil Dependence
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: It was landing at Singapore's international airport a decade ago that sparked Shara Ticku's idea to create a lab-grown alternative to palm oil. "In 20...
10:00 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Wind Turbine As Tall As a 70-Story Building Announced In China
Sweeping the area of 12.3 standard NFL fields each rotation, with gargantuan 140-meter (459-ft) blades, the MySE 18.X-28X will be the largest wind turbine ever built. New Atlas reports: [T]he new MyS...
07:00 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Now Generally Available, With ChatGPT On the Way
In a blog post this evening, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, which allows businesses to power their apps with large-scale AI models, including GPT-3.5, DALL-E 2, ...
03:30 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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China's Population Drops For the First Time In Decades
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: China's population declined in 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. The drop was the first since the early 1960s, according to Yi Fuxian...
02:25 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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High-Powered Lasers Can Be Used To Steer Lightning Strikes
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Engadget: Lightning rods have been used to safely guide strikes into the ground since Benjamin Franklin's day, but their short range (roughly the same radius as the he...
01:45 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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CircleCI Says Hackers Stole Encryption Keys and Customers' Secrets
Last month, CircleCI urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company's systems. The company confirmed in a blog post on Friday that some customers' data was stolen in the breach....
01:01 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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IBM Shifts Remaining US-Based AIX Dev Jobs To India
According to The Register, IBM has shifted the roles of US IBM Systems employees developing AIX over to the Indian office. From the report: Prior to this transition, said to taken place in the third q...
12:22 am - Tue, January 17, 2023
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Amsterdam Calls For Crackdown On Menace of Souped-Up E-Bikes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Netherlands, once famed for being cycle-friendly, is facing a surprising threat: souped-up electric bikes speeding at up to 42kph (26mph). [....
11:45 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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CAMM: The Future of Laptop Memory Has Arrived
There's a real possibility that SODIMM memory sticks could be replaced by a new type of removable memory called CAMM. According to PC World, "Memory overseer JEDEC will formally adopt the 'CAMM Common...
11:02 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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EVs Made Up 10% of All New Cars Sold Last Year
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing preliminary research from LMC Automotive and EV-Volumes.com, there were 7.8 million electric vehicles sold worldwide in 2022, a 68% increase from 2021. "Th...
10:25 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal From GitHub
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: GitHub has taken down a popular Pirate Bay proxy information portal from Github.io. The developer platform took action in response to a takedown ...
09:45 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Human Waste Safe for Growing Vegetables, Researchers Say
As farmers in Europe and across the world grapple with increases in the cost of fertilizers, researchers suggest a solution may be closer to home in what people flush down the toilet. From a report: A...
09:05 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Warning of Unprecedented Heatwaves as El Nino Set To Return in 2023
The return of the El Nino climate phenomenon later this year will cause global temperatures to rise "off the chart" and deliver unprecedented heatwaves, scientists have warned. From a report: Early fo...
08:05 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Russian Strikes Sap Ukraine Mobile Network of Vital Power
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid are straining the war-torn country's mobile-telephone network, leading to a global hunt for batteries and other equipment critical for keeping the communi...
07:20 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Basecamp Details 'Obscene' $3.2 Million Bill That Prompted It To Quit the Cloud
An anonymous reader shares a report: David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals -- which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products -- has detailed the colossal cloud bills that ...
06:40 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Wind Turbine as Tall as a 70-Story Building Announced in China
Extreme engineering is becoming the norm as offshore wind continues to scale up. Sweeping the area of 12.3 standard NFL fields each rotation, with gargantuan 140-meter (459-ft) blades, the MySE 18.X-2...
06:00 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney
An anonymous reader shares a report: What many of us had expected has finally happened, artist have sued for copyright infringement a couple of AI companies, as well as an art repository site {complai...
05:20 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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England is Banning Sale of Some Single-Use Plastics
England will ban businesses from selling and offering a variety of single-use plastics, including plates and cutlery, by the end of the year, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair...
04:40 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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FDA Vaccine Advisers 'Disappointed' and 'Angry' That Early Data About New Covid-19 Booster Shot Wasn't Presented For Review Last Year
An anonymous reader writes: The pharmaceutical company Moderna didn't present a set of infection data on the company's new Covid-19 booster during meetings last year when [FDA] advisers discussed whet...
04:00 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Germany Wants To Reuse Data Centers' Heat. No One Is Buying It
Germany wants to force its power-hungry data centers to harness excess heat for warming residential homes -- an effort which the industry warns is likely to fall flat. From a report: The country has b...
03:20 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Laid-Off Workers Are Flooded With Fake Job Offers
Employment scams using fake job opportunities to swindle applicants are on the rise and have found a new, prime target in laid-off tech workers. From a report: These schemes -- which often involve fic...
02:41 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Warning Over Activision Deal
Microsoft is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard, Reuters reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter, that cou...
02:00 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Amazon Cuts Opening For Software Development Jobs To 299 From 32,692 in May
theodp writes: In case there are any doubts that the hiring party is over at Amazon, the number of open jobs in the Software Development category has declined to 299 in January 2023 from 32,692 in May...
12:34 pm - Mon, January 16, 2023
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The First CRISPR Gene-Edited Meat is Coming
"Most companies are trying to create lab-grown meat with little to no genetic engineering, which despite shifts in attitude is still frowned on," writes Fast Company. And other companies "think that m...
08:34 am - Mon, January 16, 2023
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'Search Everyone First?' Lawyers Challenge Use of Warrants to Find Google Searchers
Bloomberg reports: After five people were killed in a 2020 arson in Colorado, law enforcement officials failed to turn up any leads through their initial investigative techniques. So they served a war...
04:34 am - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Bill Gates Discusses AI, Climate Change, and his Time at Microsoft
Bill Gates took his 11th turn answering questions in Reddit's "Ask My Anything" forum this week — and occasionally looked back on his time at Microsoft: Is technology only functional for you now...
02:34 am - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Symbolic Wyoming Proposal Urges Voluntary Phase-out of EV Purchases by 2035
Though the state of Wyoming is home to one of America's largest wind farms, "Wyoming's legislature is considering a resolution that calls for a phaseout of new electric vehicle sales by 2035," reports...
12:34 am - Mon, January 16, 2023
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Will This Next-Generation Display Technology Change the World?
"I saw the future at CES 2023," writes Geoffrey Morrison, describing "a new, top-secret prototype display technology" that could one day replace LCD and OLED for phones and TVs. "It was impossibly fla...
11:39 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Report: 'Matter' Standard Has 'Undeniable Momentum'
The Verge reports "undeniable momentum" for Matter, the royalty-free interoperability standard that "allows smart home devices from any manufacturer to talk to other devices directly and locally with ...
10:38 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch - the First of Its Five Missions This Year
Watch a rare launch of SpaceX's massive Falcon Heavy rocket livestreamed on SpaceX's YouTube channel. "Nearly five years have passed since the massive Falcon Heavy rocket made its successful debut lau...
09:15 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Boring Company Gave Free Rides Through Its Underground Vegas Tunnel During CES
"Thousands of CES 2023 attendees tested out the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop tunnel transit system," reports Fierce Electronics, "for quick 1.7-mile trips offering them a prelude of more of the ef...
08:15 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Gen Z's New Fascination With Flip Phones
Slashdot reader quonset writes: In what is becoming a recurring theme, Gen Z keeps harkening back to nostalgia. Whether low-rise jeans or disposable cameras, they can't seem to get enough of vintage t...
06:35 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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CNET Used AI to Write 75 Articles
From BuzzFeed News:Technology news outlet CNET has been found to be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write articles about personal finance without any prior announcement or explanation. The artic...
05:34 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Harvard's 'RoboBee' Project Finally Lifts Off as a Surgical-Tech Company
"When Robert Wood came to Harvard University 17 years ago, he wanted to design an insect-sized robot that could fly," reports the Boston Globe. And finally Last month, technology from Wood's "RoboBee"...
04:34 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol
Phoronix reports:With the next Linux kernel cycle we could see upstream disable their driver support for Microsoft's Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol due to security conc...
03:34 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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Contrails Cause 57% of a Plane's Climate Impact. Can That Be Changed?
Contrails — the wispy ice clouds trailing behind flying jets — "are surprisingly bad for the environment," reports CNN:A study that looked at aviation's contribution to climate change betw...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 15, 2023
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JavaScript, Java, and Python are Most In-Demand Skills, Survey Finds
InfoWorld reports: JavaScript, Java, and Python skills are most in-demand by recruiters, according to a report published this week by tech hiring platforms CodinGame and CoderPad. But while the supply...
08:34 am - Sun, January 15, 2023
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GitHub Copilot Labs Add Photoshop-Style 'Brushes' for ML-Powered Code Modifying
"Can editing code feel more tactile, like painting with Photoshop brushes?" Researchers at GitHub Next asked that question this week — and then supplied the answer. "We added a toolbox of brushe...
04:34 am - Sun, January 15, 2023
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America's Renewables Surpassed Coal in 2022 - But Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Increased
Last year in America, "Renewable energy surpassed coal power nationwide for the first time in over six decades," reports the New York Times. Wind, solar and hydropower generated 22% of America's elect...
02:34 am - Sun, January 15, 2023
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How NASA's Planned Moon Presence Will Practice Living in Space
NASA's plans for a presence on the moon "will allow the program to practice how to live in space sustainably," writes the Washington Post. "It will allow scientists to tap into the moon's considerable...
11:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Will Digital Signatures Replace Handwritten Ones?
The Toronto Star notes "the near-elimination of cursive from the school curriculum and a move to paperless commerce" over the past two decades. So where does that leave handwritten signatures?Then the...
10:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Videogame Studio Called 'Proletariat' Declines to Recognize Union
An anonymous reader shares a report from the Washington Post:Staff at Activision Blizzard-owned video game studio Proletariat — whose name is a term for the working class — announced their...
09:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Scientists Invent an Entirely New Way To Refrigerate Things
"Say hello to ionocaloric cooling: a new way to lower the mercury that has the potential to replace existing methods with something that is safer and friendlier to the planet," writes ScienceAlert. It...
08:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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'Job Interviews are a Nightmare - and Only Getting Worse'
"It often feels like you're tossing your resume into the abyss and praying to the recruitment gods for a response," writes Vox. But then the real ordeal begins:Companies are seemingly coming up with n...
07:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Old Mice Grow Young Again in Study. Can People Do the Same?
"In Boston labs, old, blind mice have regained their eyesight, developed smarter, younger brains and built healthier muscle and kidney tissue," reports CNN:On the flip side, young mice have prematurel...
06:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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2022 Was One of Earth's Hottest Years
Planet earth "has now warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with preindustrial levels," reports the Washington Post, "and nearly every year in the past decade ranks near ...
05:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Mabox Linux Called 'Throwback to Old-School Linux'
"If you've been itching to try an Arch Linux distribution and want something outside of the usual GNOME/KDE/Xfce desktop environments, Mabox Linux is an outstanding option...." writes ZDNet's Jack Wal...
04:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Virgin Orbit's Sixth Launch Became a 'Fireball' on Monday
It was meant to be the first-ever orbital mission to take off from the United Kingdom — carried by a Virgin Orbit rocket launched from a private jumbo jet Monday over the Atlantic ocean, accordi...
03:34 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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'This Film Does Not Exist': AI Imagines Jodorowsky's 'Tron'
In the mid-1970s, Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to film Dune (working with artists including H.R. Giger). A documentary about that attempt was filmed by Frank Pavich, who now writes in ...
01:00 pm - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Bitcoin Retakes $20K, Leading As Broad Crypto Rally Continues
Bitcoin's (BTC) 2023 surge continues, with the crypto now above $20,000 for the first time since the FTX collapse in early November. CoinDesk reports: The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalizati...
10:00 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Leaker Releases Valve Assets From Repository
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Game Rant: A Discord user has just released various development assets from Valve's repository. It is not an isolated case as Valve is a constant target of hac...
07:00 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Airbus Close To Landing Fully Automated Passenger Jets
UpNext, Airbus's future technology-focused subsidiary, reported on Thursday that it has entered the final three months of testing tech it hopes will automate the process of getting a plane from the ai...
03:30 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Research Summaries Written By AI Fool Scientists
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot t...
02:02 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Climate Startup Removes CO2 From the Air In Industry First
Swiss company Climeworks announced Thursday that it has successfully taken carbon dioxide out of the air and put it in the ground where it will eventually turn into rock in a process that has been ver...
01:25 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Android TV Box On Amazon Came Pre-Installed With Malware
A Canadian systems security consultant discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware. BleepingComputer reports: ...
12:45 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried's Secret 'Backdoor' Discovered, FTX Lawyer Says
Sam Bankman-Fried instructed his FTX cofounder Gary Wang to create a "secret" backdoor to enable his trading firm Alameda to borrow $65 billion of clients' money from the exchange without their permis...
12:02 am - Sat, January 14, 2023
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NortonLifeLock Warns That Hackers Breached Password Manager Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers...
11:20 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Google's Stadia Controller Is Getting Bluetooth Support
Google is launching its final Stadia game today and is promising to release a tool next week to enable Bluetooth connections on its Stadia Controller. The Verge reports: The last Stadia game to launch...
11:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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New Sony Walkman Music Players Feature Stunning Good Looks, Android 12
Sony has a pair of new Android Walkmans out, the NW-A300 and NW-ZX700. Ars Technica reports: We'll start with the most consumer-friendly of the two, the NW-A300. This basic design debuted in 2019 with...
10:40 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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D&D Publisher Addresses Backlash Over Controversial License
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: After a week of silence amid intense backlash, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) has finally addressed its community's c...
10:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Crypto.com Cuts 20% Jobs Amid 'Unforeseeable' Industry Events
Crypto exchange Crypto.com is cutting its global workforce by 20%, it said on Friday, as it navigates ongoing economic headwinds and "unforeseeable" industry events. From a report: This is the second ...
09:21 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Nvidia Broadcast Can Now Deepfake Your Eyes To Make You Look at the Camera
Nvidia's streaming software now has an option to make it appear like you're making eye contact with the camera, even if you're looking somewhere else in real life. From a report: Using AI, the "Eye Co...
08:40 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Meta Sues Surveillance Company for Scraping Data With Fake Facebook Accounts
Meta has filed a legal complaint against a company for allegedly creating tens of thousands of fake Facebook accounts to scrape user data and provide surveillance services for clients. From a report: ...
08:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Google, Nvidia Express Concerns To FTC About Microsoft's Activision Deal
Alphabet's Google and Nvidia have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, adding fuel to the government's case against the $69 billion ...
07:20 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Jawbone Co-Founder's Health Startup Sued by Investor Alleging Fraud
All.health, a medical care startup that rose from the ashes of once-hot wearable company Jawbone, is being sued in San Francisco by one of its investors for alleged fraud, misrepresentation and breach...
06:40 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Google Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Potentially Upend the Internet
Speaking of Google, the company says in a court filing that a case before the Supreme Court challenging the liability shield protecting websites such as YouTube and Facebook could "upend the internet,...
06:01 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Google Says India Antitrust Order Poses Threat To National Security
Google warned on Friday that if the Indian antitrust watchdog's ruling is allowed to progress it would result in devices getting expensive in the South Asian market and lead to proliferation of unchec...
05:20 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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New UFO Report Shows Hundreds More Incidents than Previously Thought
The U.S. intelligence community says that the number of UFO reports involving U.S. military personnel is increasing, "enabling a greater awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve"...
04:40 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Gaming YouTube Is In Turmoil Thanks To New Violence and Profanity Rules
AmiMoJo writes: Members of YouTube's gaming community are calling out the video hosting site for adding new regulations regarding profanity usage and violent content, disproportionately affecting gami...
04:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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NSA Director Urges Congress To Renew Controversial Intelligence Authority
NSA Director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone said in remarks on Thursday that intelligence authorities up for renewal later this year have played a key role in protecting the United ...
03:20 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Vulnerability With 9.8 Severity in Control Web Panel is Under Active Exploit
Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. ArsTechnica reports: "This is an unauthenticat...
02:30 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Wall Street's New ESG Money-Maker Promises Nature Conservation - With a Catch
Big global banks are eying some of the world's most fragile countries for a new experiment in financial engineering: debt relief in exchange for environmental protections. From a report: Called "debt-...
02:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Microsoft Investigating Windows Start Menu and Taskbar Shortcuts Disappearing
Microsoft says it's investigating an issue in Windows that is causing application shortcuts in the Start menu or taskbar to disappear. From a report: Multiple IT admins have detailed the problem on Tw...
01:00 pm - Fri, January 13, 2023
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UK Could Jail Social Media Bosses Who Breach Child Safety Rules
Downing Street has said it is considering a Tory-backed amendment to the online safety bill that would allow for the imposing of jail sentences on social media bosses who are found not to have protect...
10:00 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Sweden Makes Regulatory Push To Allow New Nuclear Reactors
Sweden is preparing legislation to allow the construction of more nuclear power stations to boost electricity production in the Nordic country and bolster energy security, Prime Minister Ulf Kristerss...
07:00 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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We Exist Inside a Giant Space Bubble, And Scientists Have Finally Mapped It
Becky Ferreira writes via Motherboard: You may not realize it in your day-to-day life, but we are all enveloped by a giant "superbubble" that was blown into space by the explosive deaths of a dozen-od...
03:30 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Woman Ordered To Repay Employer After Software Shows 'Time Theft'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A Canadian woman has been ordered by a civil tribunal to compensate her former employer for "time theft" after she was caught misrepresenting hou...
02:02 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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US Cancer Death Rate Falls 33% Since 1991, Report Says
The rate of people dying from cancer in the United States has continuously declined over the past three decades, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. CNN reports: The US cancer ...
01:25 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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HDMI Alt Mode Is Dead
According to the HDMI Licensing Administrator (LA), the HDMI Alt Mode feature is dead. Notebookcheck reports: According to HDMI LA, there are simply no more uses for Alt Mode. One of the reasons is th...
12:45 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Google To Allow Rust Code In the Chromium Browser
Google announced today that moving forward they will be allowing Rust code into the Chromium code-base, the open-source project that ultimately served as the basis for their Chrome web browser. Phoron...
12:02 am - Fri, January 13, 2023
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Apple Watch Patent Infringement Confirmed, As Masimo Seeks Import Ban
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Apple has suffered a setback in its long-running Apple Watch patent infringement battle with medical technology company Masimo. A court has ruled that...
11:20 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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SEC Alleges Gemini, Genesis Sold Unregistered Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged crypto exchange Gemini and crypto lender Genesis Global Capital sold unregistered securities in a lawsuit filed late Thursday. CoinDesk report...
10:40 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Replika Users Say the AI Chatbot Has Gotten Way Too Horny
samleecole shares a report from Motherboard: Replika began as an "AI companion who cares." First launched five years ago, the chatbot app was originally meant to function like a conversational mirror:...
10:02 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Exxon Climate Predictions Were Accurate Decades Ago. Still It Sowed Doubt
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Decades of research by scientists at Exxon accurately predicted how much global warming would occur from burning fossil fuels, according to a new study in...
09:25 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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UK Treasury Considers Plan For Digital Pound
The government is considering introducing a "digital pound," the economic secretary to the Treasury has told MPs. From a report: The UK was committed to becoming a world crypto hub, Andrew Griffith sa...
08:40 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Japan Bets Big on Bringing Semiconductor Manufacturing Home
To get back some of the high-tech mojo that made it an economic powerhouse, Japan is launching an ambitious program to bring back cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing, a field it ceded to Taiwan, ...
08:01 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Fossil Fuel Producers Must Be Forced To 'Take Back' Carbon, Say Scientists
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to "take back" the carbon dioxide emitted from their products, handing them direct responsibility for cleaning up the climate, a group of scientists has argued. ...
07:20 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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NASA's Webb Telescope Discovers Its First Exoplanet
NASA's Webb telescope has discovered an exoplanet, which is any planet that is outside of our solar system, for the first time, the agency announced Wednesday. From a report: The planet, called LHS 47...
06:40 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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3D Printing Reaches New Heights With Two-Story Home
A 3D printer is taking home building to a new level -- literally. From a report: The enormous printer weighing more than 12 tons is creating what is believed to be the first 3D-printed, two-story home...
06:00 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition
JPMorgan Chase is suing the 30-year-old founder of Frank, a buzzy fintech startup it acquired for $175 million, for allegedly lying about its scale and success by creating an enormous list of fake use...
05:20 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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FCC's Robocaller Crackdown Brings Stark Warning for Voice Providers
The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing its battle against illegal robocalls. In its latest move, the agency on Wednesday issued cease-and-desist warnings to two more companies. From a ...
04:40 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Apple Promises To Disclose More Details About App Removals
Apple has promised to enhance disclosures about why it expels certain apps from its App Store, following claims that the tech giant's secretive decision-making process threatens freedom of expression ...
04:05 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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With PC Sales Down, Laptop Makers Turn To Services
The PC market is in rough waters, and it was for much of last year. Every PC maker except Apple saw year-over-year decline. Laptop sales are said to have suffered the most. From a report: This all mad...
03:22 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Microsoft Combat Goggles Falter as Congress Says No To Buying More
Microsoft won't be getting more orders for its combat goggles anytime soon after Congress rejected the US Army's request for $400 million to buy as many as 6,900 of them this fiscal year. From a repor...
02:53 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Intel Unveils Core i9-13900KS
Initially mentioned during their Innovation 2022 opening keynote by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has unveiled its highly anticipated 6 GHz out-of-the-box processor, the Core i9-13900KS. The Core i9-...
02:00 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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US Inflation Cools Again, Giving Fed Room To Downshift on Rates
US inflation continued to slow in December, adding to evidence price pressures have peaked and offering the Federal Reserve room to slow the pace of interest-rate hikes next month. From a report: Excl...
01:00 pm - Thu, January 12, 2023
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The Guardian Says Ransomware Attack Compromised Staff's Personal Data
Last month, The Guardian closed its offices after being hit by a "highly sophisticated" ransomware attack. In an update to staff, Guardian group chief Anna Bateson and newspaper editor-in-chief Kathar...
10:00 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Russia To Rescue ISS Crew On Backup Rocket After Capsule Leak
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International ...
06:04 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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A Corrupt File Led To the FAA Ground Stoppage
According to CNN, the Federal Aviation Administration system outage on Wednesday has been traced to a corrupt file. From the report: In a statement late Wednesday, the FAA said it was continuing to in...
03:30 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Nuclear Reactor Mystery Solved, With No Need For New Particles
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physics mystery has come to an end, with a resolution about as shocking as "the butler did it." For a decade, physicists have pondered why nuclear...
02:02 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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DirecTV Lays Off Hundreds of Managers As Cord Cutting Accelerates
DirecTV is laying off hundreds of employees -- roughly 10% of its upper ranks -- as the company looks to reduce costs amid the heightened pain of cord cutting for pay-TV providers, according to people...
01:25 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Apple Reportedly Working On Touchscreen Macs, Including MacBook Pro
Despite years of resistance, Apple is now working on adding touchscreens to Macs, according to a report today from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The report claims that a new MacBook Pro with an OLED displa...
12:45 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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Microsoft Employees Are Getting Unlimited Time Off
In a memo seen by The Verge, Microsoft's chief people officer, Kathleen Hogan, announced that the company is giving its U.S. employees unlimited time off. "Microsoft is calling its unlimited time off ...
12:03 am - Thu, January 12, 2023
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A Government Watchdog Spent $15,000 To Crack a Federal Agency's Passwords In Minutes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior's cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thous...
11:20 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Native Americans Ask Apache Foundation To Change Name
Natives in Tech, a US-based non-profit organization, has called upon the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to change its name, out of respect for indigenous American peoples and to live up to its own c...
10:40 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Crypto.com Will Delist Tether In Canada To Comply With Ontario Regulator
Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com will no longer facilitate transactions involving Tether in Canada and plans to delist the largest stablecoin by market capitalization for customers in the region. De...
10:00 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Parler's Parent Company Lays Off Majority of Its Staff
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Parlement Technologies, the parent company of "censorship-free" social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its c...
09:20 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Second-hand and Refurbished Phone Market Takes Flight Amid Inflation Hike
More and more cash-strapped people are opting to buy second hand and refurbished handsets in these tougher economic times with sales of used and refurbished devices estimated to have passed 282 millio...
08:40 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Microsoft 365 Basic is a New $1.99 a Month Subscription With 100GB of Storage
Microsoft is introducing a new consumer tier to its Microsoft 365 subscription offerings. From a report: Priced at $1.99 per month, Microsoft 365 Basic is designed to replace the 100GB OneDrive storag...
08:00 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Apple To Begin Making In-House Screens in 2024 in Shift Away From Samsung
Apple is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance on technology partners like Samsung and LG and bring more components in-ho...
07:20 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Microsoft To Move Some Teams Features To More Costly 'Premium' Edition
Microsoft has revealed that a Premium cut of its Teams cloudy collaborationware suite will debut in early February, and some features that are currently included in Microsoft 365 will move to the new ...
06:25 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Joe Biden: Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses
Congress can find common ground on the protection of privacy, competition and American children, says U.S. President Joe Biden. In an op-ed at Wall Street Journal, he shares why he has pushed for legi...
06:00 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Meta CTO Tells Employees Higher Headcount Has Led To 'Untenable' Slow Movement
An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has one of the toughest jobs in tech this year. On one hand, he has to deliver on CEO Mark Zuckerberg's grand metaverse ambitions as Apple...
05:20 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Moderna CEO: 400% Price Hike on COVID Vaccine 'Consistent With the Value'
An anonymous reader shares a report: Moderna is considering raising the price of its COVID-19 vaccine by over 400 percent -- from $26 per dose to between $110 and $130 per dose -- according to a repor...
04:40 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Messenger Billed as Better Than Signal is Riddled With Vulnerabilities
Academic researchers have discovered serious vulnerabilities in the core of Threema, an instant messenger that its Switzerland-based developer says provides a level of security and privacy "no other c...
04:01 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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FTX Has Recovered Over $5 Billion in Cash and Securities, Attorney Says
Crypto exchange FTX has recovered more than $5 billion in cash and liquid cryptocurrencies and securities, an attorney for the bankrupt company founded by Sam Bankman-Fried told a judge on Wednesday. ...
03:20 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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OpenAI Begins Piloting ChatGPT Professional, a Premium Version of Its Viral Chatbot
OpenAI this week signaled it'll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. From a report: In an announcement on the comp...
02:44 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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China Claims To Have Made Major Quant Computer Breakthrough But Western Experts Say Any Commercial Benefits Still Years Away
Are today's rudimentary quantum computers already on the verge of significant feats beyond the reach of traditional computers? Or have their capabilities been exaggerated, as practical uses for the te...
02:00 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Flights Grounded Across US After FAA Failure
A Federal Aviation Administration system failure caused some flights across the United States to be grounded, the agency said early Wednesday. From a report: The full extent of the delays was not imme...
01:00 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Anthropic's Claude Improves On ChatGPT But Still Suffers From Limitations
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic, the startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees that's raised over $700 million in funding to date, has developed an AI system similar to ...
12:02 pm - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Flights Grounded Across US After FAA Failure
A Federal Aviation Administration system failure caused some flights across the United States to be grounded, the agency said early Wednesday. From a report: The full extent of the delays was not imme...
10:00 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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FDA No Longer Needs To Require Animal Tests Before Human Drug Trials
New medicines need not be tested in animals to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to legislation signed by President Joe Biden in late December 2022. Science Magazine ...
07:00 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Paramount Orders 'Dungeons & Dragons' Live-Action Series
Paramount+ has given an eight-episode, straight-to-series order to an adaptation of Hasbro's wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game franchise. Deadline reports: Red Notice fil...
03:30 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran's capital, Tehran. After a photo...
02:02 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Many People Aren't Sticking Around Mastodon
The number of active users on the Mastodon social network has dropped more than 30% since the peak and is continuing a slow decline, according to the latest data posted on its website. There were abou...
01:25 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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The First Insider Trading Case Involving Cryptocurrency
The brother of a former Coinbase product manager was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cry...
12:45 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Meta Abandons Original Quest VR Headset
Meta is dropping support for its first Meta Quest VR headset. The device will no longer receive future content updates, and by 2024 it will no longer get any bug fixes or security patches. Gizmodo rep...
12:02 am - Wed, January 11, 2023
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Right-To-Repair Advocates Question John Deere's New Promises
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Early this week, tractor maker John Deere said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation, an agricultural tra...
11:20 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Robinhood Shares Worth Nearly $500M Seized in FTX Case
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized more than 55 million shares of Robinhood stock owned -- via a holding company -- by Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX co-founder Gary Wang, according to a court...
10:40 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Microsoft Scraps Plans For Dual-Screen Surface Duo 3, Pivots To New Foldable Screen Design
According to Windows Central's Zac Bowden, Microsoft's next foldable Surface phone will feature "a more traditional foldable design, with a 180-degree hinge, internal foldable screen and external cove...
10:02 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It can be done. Android manufacturers can actually support a phone for a sizable amount of time. Fairphone has announced the end of life for the ...
09:20 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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DHS, CISA Building AI-Based Cybersecurity Analytics Sandbox
Two of the US government's leading security agencies are building a machine learning-based analytics environment to defend against rapidly evolving threats and create more resilient infrastructures fo...
08:40 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Facebook's Bridge To Nowhere
The tech giant had already remade the virtual world. For a brief period, it also tried to make it easier for people in the Bay Area to get to work. Then it gave up. From a report: In the early summer ...
08:00 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Would You Zap Yourself With Electricity To Get Into Shape?
One of the latest trends in boutique fitness is electrifying. Literally. From a report: Called whole-body electrical muscle stimulation, or EMS, the technique requires users to wear an electrode-studd...
07:20 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Roomba Testers Feel Misled After Intimate Images Ended Up on Facebook
An investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes -- but participa...
06:40 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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App Store Developers Have Earned $320 Billion To Date, Says Apple
Apple today shared an update on its subscription businesses and global App Store, noting that the tech company has now paid out a record $320 billion to app developers since 2008 -- a number that refl...
06:00 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Fed Official Says There's 'a Lot More Work To Do' To Bring Down Inflation
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Tuesday she expects more interest rate increases ahead, with higher rates to prevail for a while until inflation is subdued. From a report: "I am committe...
05:20 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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BMW Doubles Up On Paid Subscriptions In the US, Charges $105 A Year For Remote Engine Start
An anonymous reader shares a report: BMW is expanding the number of feature subscriptions it is offering in the United States. The marque has revealed that five vehicle features are now available thro...
04:40 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Ciphr, Encrypted App That Served Organized Crime, Rebrands as Enterprise Software
The company behind Ciphr, an encrypted messaging platform that was especially popular among organized criminals and high tier drug traffickers, is beta testing a new app in an apparent rebrand from it...
04:00 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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GOP-Led House To Probe Alleged White House Collusion With Tech Giants
Republicans in the House plan to scrutinize communications between the Biden administration and big technology and social-media companies to probe whether they amounted to the censorship of legitimate...
03:20 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Rackspace Founder Says It's 'On Trajectory of Death'
Richard Yoo, who founded and helped build the website hosting company that became San Antonio's premier technology firm, believes he's watching its collapse. From a report: The reputation of the compa...
02:47 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Hackers Hit Websites of Danish Central Bank, Other Banks
Hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark's central bank and seven private banks in the country this week, according to the central bank and an IT firm that serves the industry. From a ...
02:00 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Coinbase To Cut 20% Jobs, Abandon 'Several' Projects To Weather Downturns in Crypto Market
Coinbase plans to cut 950 jobs, or about 20% of its workforce, and shut down "several" projects as the U.S. crypto exchange giant looks to reduce its expenses to increase its "chances of doing well in...
01:00 pm - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a t...
10:30 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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US Federal Agency Considers Ban On Gas Stoves Amid Health Concerns
A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves as concerns about indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma rise, Bloomberg first reported. CNN reports: A US Consumer Product Safety commissioner...
08:45 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Microsoft In Talks To Invest $10 Billion In ChatGPT Owner
Microsoft is in talks to invest $10 billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, which will value the San Francisco-based firm at $29 billion, Semafor reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the...
07:25 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Britain's Groundbreaking Satellite Launch Ends in Failure
Britain's attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that pre...
03:30 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Biotech Startup Says Mice Live Longer After Genetic Reprogramming
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A small biotech company claims it has used a technology called reprogramming to rejuvenate old mice and extend their lives, a result sug...
02:02 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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US Sets 2024 Deadline For 5G Signal Safeguards On Aircraft
US aviation safety regulators intend to require passenger and cargo aircraft to meet requirements by early next year for navigation gear to deal with potentially unsafe interference from 5G mobile-pho...
01:25 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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MSI Intends 'To Continue With Afterburner' Overclocking App Despite Not Paying Its Russian Dev
Jacob Ridley writes via PC Gamer: MSI Afterburner is an app used the world over for graphics card monitoring, overclocking, and undervolting. It's become pretty synonymous with general GPU tinkering, ...
12:45 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Apple Is Reportedly Making An All-In-One Cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Chip
Apple is working on a new in-house chip that would power cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth functionality on its devices, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Verge reports: The company is also devel...
12:02 am - Tue, January 10, 2023
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Researchers Track GPS Location of All of California's New Digital License Plates
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A team of security researchers managed to gain "super administrative access" into Reviver, the company behind California's new digital license pla...
11:20 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Seattle Schools Sue TikTok, Meta and Other Platforms Over Youth 'Mental Health Crisis'
Seattle public schools have sued the tech giants behind TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, accusing them of creating a "mental health crisis among America's Youth." Engadget reports: T...
10:42 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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UK Conducts First Satellite Orbital Space Launch
Britain has conducted its first orbital space launch from UK soil on Monday evening, making it the privately-owned Virgin Orbit's first international launch. Deutsche Welle reports: Dubbed "Start Me U...
10:00 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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England Makes Gigabit Internet a Legal Requirement For New Homes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Amendments to Building Regulations 2010 were announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) on January 6th that mandate n...
09:20 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Restoration of the Ozone Layer Is Back on Track, Scientists Say
The protective ozone layer in the upper atmosphere could be restored within several decades, scientists said Monday, as recent rogue emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals from China have been largely...
08:40 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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AI Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins
Using many of the same techniques that underpin DALL-E and other art generators, these scientists are generating blueprints for new proteins -- tiny biological mechanisms that can change the way of ou...
08:00 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Apple Will Talk Up Its Mixed-Reality Headset in 2023 But Not Much Else
Apple, after seven years of development, is nearly ready to launch its first mixed-reality headset. But the focus on this new product will lead to an otherwise muted 2023. Bloomberg: I first wrote in ...
07:21 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Raspberry Pi Launches Higher Resolution Camera Module, Now With Autofocus
Raspberry Pi is launching a new camera module for use with its diminutive DIY computers -- the Camera Module 3. Its upgraded Sony IMX708 sensor is higher resolution, but perhaps more important is that...
06:41 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Steam Reaches 10 Million Concurrent In-Game Players for the First Time
Alongside reaching 32 million concurrently online users, Steam has also just surpassed 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time. From a report: The news was shared by SteamDB, and it s...
06:01 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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US Supreme Court Lets Meta's WhatsApp Pursue 'Pegasus' Spyware Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of...
05:21 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Microsoft Looks To Add OpenAI's Chatbot Technology To Word, Email
In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating OpenAI's artificial intelligence in Word, PowerPoint, Outloo...
04:42 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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US Tech Giants Say Indian Panel's Recommended Competition Act 'Absolutist and Regressive'
An influential industry group that represents Google, Meta and Amazon among other tech firms has expressed concerns about the digital competition law recommended by an Indian parliamentary panel that ...
04:02 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of 'Unfriendly' Nations
AmiMoJo writes: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has signed a new law that legalizes piracy of movies, music, TV shows and software owned by rightsholders from 'unfriendly countries'. The law ...
03:21 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security To View Credit Reports
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureausBrian Krebs reported Monday. From the report: Normal...
02:41 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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McCarthy's Fast Start: Big Tech is a Top Target
House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel this week that will demand copies of White House emails, memos and other communications with Big Tech companies, Axios reported Monday, citin...
02:02 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Deere Will Allow Farmers To Repair Their Own Equipment
The American Farm Bureau Federation and machinery manufacturer Deere signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday that ensures farmers have the right to repair their own farm equipment or go to an i...
12:34 pm - Mon, January 9, 2023
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San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader
Saturday night in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, the assistant police chief tweeted out praise for their recently-upgraded Automatic License Plate Readers:Officers in Air3 [police helicopter], m...
08:34 am - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Artists Worry Adobe Could Track Their Design Processes to Train AI
"A recent viral moment highlights just how nervous the artist community is about artificial intelligence," reports Fast Company:It started earlier this week, when French comic book author Claire Wendl...
04:51 am - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Study Reveals the Happiest, Least Stressful Jobs in America
"Envy the lumberjacks, for they perform the happiest, most meaningful work on earth," writes the Washington Post. "Or at least they think they do. Farmers, too."Agriculture, logging and forestry have ...
02:39 am - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Successful Strike at University of California Sparks Organizing Surge Among US Academic Workers
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Los Angeles Times:The University of California strike is over, culminating last month in significant improvements in wages and working conditions after ...
12:09 am - Mon, January 9, 2023
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Cryonics Company Charges a Monthly Subscription Fee (Plus Your Life Insurance Payout)
"To date, about 500 people have been put in cryogenic stasis after legal death," writes a Bloomberg Opinion technology columnist, "with the majority of them in the U.S. "But a few thousand more, inclu...
10:58 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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A $402K GoFundMe Scam Leads to a Three-Year Prison Term
CNN reports that 32-year-old Katelyn McClure "has been sentenced to three years in state prison for her role in scamming more than $400,000 from GoFundMe donors, by claiming to be collecting money for...
09:45 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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How a 'Holy Grail' Wheat Gene Discovery Could Keep Feeding a Warming Planet
"Wheat now provides 20% of the calories consumed by humans every day," writes the Guardian. Unfortunately, "Thanks to human-induced global heating, our planet faces a future of increasingly severe hea...
08:43 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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'Please Don't Film Me in 2023'
The Verge is decrying "a genre of video that derives its entertainment value from unwitting passersby" — like filming pedestrians in a neighborhood in New York City:Many viewers on TikTok ate it...
07:39 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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France Fines Apple for Illegally Harvesting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads
"France's data protection authority, CNIL, fined Apple €8 million (about $8.5 million) Wednesday," reports Gizmodo, "for illegally harvesting iPhone owners' data for targeted ads without proper c...
06:34 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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Are Drone Delivery Services Finally Taking Off?
Amazon isn't the only company that's started drone-delivery services. Kiplinger.com reports:Walmart has 37 stores set up for drone delivery to homes and businesses — six stores in Arizona, four ...
05:34 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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New Linux Malware Downloader for Compromised Servers Spotted in the Wild
"A new Linux malware downloader created using SHC (Shell Script Compiler) has been spotted in the wild," reports the site Bleeping Computer, "infecting systems with Monero cryptocurrency miners and DD...
04:34 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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The Tech Pioneer Behind Sound Blaster Has Passed Away
"Singaporean inventor and tech pioneer Sim Wong Hoo passed away on January 4th at the age of 67," reports Engadget:Sim may not be a household name these days, but he founded Creative Technology (or Cr...
03:34 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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CES's 'Worst in Show' Criticized Over Privacy, Security, and Environmental Threats
"We are seeing, across the gamut, products that impact our privacy, products that create cybersecurity risks, that have overarchingly long-term environmental impacts, disposable products, and flat-out...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 8, 2023
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Seattle Public Schools Sue Social Media Giants for Youth Mental Health Crisis
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: "A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges that the social media gia...
08:34 am - Sun, January 8, 2023
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TIOBE Calculates C, C, and Python Rose the Most in Popularity in 2022
"The Tiobe index gauges language popularity using a formula that assesses searches on programming languages in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and other search engines," writes InfoWorld. And they add...
05:34 am - Sun, January 8, 2023
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Company Claims Its Push Buttons for Dogs Trains Them to 'Talk'
From a report:Have you ever wondered what your dog would say if it could speak to you? FluentPet promises the next best thing — buttons the company says you can train your pet to push if it's hu...
02:34 am - Sun, January 8, 2023
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Sunlight Reflection Startup Raises $500K to Test Its Atmospheric Cooling Plans
"Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, has raised at least $500,000 to launch his sunlight reflection company, Make Sunsets," reports CNBC. "Make Sunsets ...
11:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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On Tuesday Windows 8.1 Gets Its Final Security Patches
"Windows 8.1 receives one more batch of security patches on the coming Tuesday," reports Ghacks, "before Microsoft lays the operating system to rest."Windows 8.1 does not get the same Extended Securit...
10:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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'We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car. Is That Bad?'
Car & Driver reports on what they found in the menus of a 2023 BMW X1:BMW TeleService and Remote Software Upgrade showed a message that read Activated, while BMW Drive Recorder had options to subs...
09:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Two Washington Men Charged In Four Substation Attacks on Christmas That Cut Power
CNN reports:Two men were arrested on New Year's Eve for allegedly shutting down four Washington state power substations in late December that led to power outages for thousands across Pierce County. M...
08:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Space Station Astronauts Build Objects that Couldn't Exist on Earth
"Aboard the International Space Station right now is a metal box, the size of a desktop PC tower," reports Popular Mechanics. "Inside, a nozzle is helping build little test parts that aren't possible ...
07:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Bad News for 500M Crypto Investors: They Don't Own Their Accounts
"More than half a million people who deposited money with collapsed crypto lender Celsius Network have been dealt a major blow to their hopes of recovering their funds," reports the Washington Post, "...
07:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Bad News for 500K Crypto Investors: They Don't Own Their Accounts
"More than half a million people who deposited money with collapsed crypto lender Celsius Network have been dealt a major blow to their hopes of recovering their funds," reports the Washington Post, "...
06:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Why America's FTC Proposed Banning 'Noncompete' Agreements for Workers
America's Federal Trade Commission "took an a bold move on Thursday aimed at shifting the balance of power from companies to workers," reports NPR:The agency proposed a new rule that would prohibit em...
05:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Vanilla OS Offers a New Take on Security for the Linux Desktop
OS News cheers the first official release of Vanilla OS, calling it "an immutable desktop Linux distribution that brings some interesting new technologies to the table, such as the Apx package manager...
04:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Unpaid Taxes Could Destroy Porn Studio Accused of Copyright Trolling
Slashdot has covered the legal hijinx of Malibu Media over the years. Now Ars Technica reports that the studio could be destroyed by unpaid taxes:Over the past decade, Malibu Media has emerged as a pr...
03:34 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Amazon Announces 'Hey Disney' Voice Assistant Using Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney Characters
"Hey Disney" is the answer to a riddle that nobody asked: What do you get when you cross Amazon's Alexa voice assistant with the voices of Disney characters? Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writ...
01:00 pm - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Apple No Longer Planning To Launch iPhone SE 4 Next Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple has informed suppliers that it has canceled plans to release a fourth-generation iPhone SE in 2024, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo pre...
10:00 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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International Nuclear Fusion Project May Be Delayed By Years, Its Head Admits
An international project in nuclear fusion may face years of delays, its boss has said, weeks after scientists in the United States announced a breakthrough in their own quest for the coveted goal. Th...
07:00 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Researchers Discover Why Roman Concrete Was So Durable
Researchers have spent decades trying to figure out how ancient Romans were able to make concrete that's survived for two millennia. "Now, a team of investigators from MIT, Harvard University, and lab...
03:30 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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In a World First, AI Lawyer Will Help Defend a Real Case In the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Interesting Engineering: A program trained with the help of artificial intelligence is set to help a defendant contest his case in a U.S. court next month, New...
02:02 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Razer Made a Soundbar That Tracks Your Head To Optimize Sound
The popular gaming tech company just announced the Leviathan V2 Pro at CES 2023, the latest addition to its existing range of soundbars designed to provide compact, low-profile audio for PC gamers. Th...
01:25 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Artist Banned From r/Art Because Mods Thought They Used AI
A moderator on Reddit'sReddit's largest art forum with 22 million members went on lockdown this week after debates and accusations about what constitutes AI-generated art went viral. Motherboard repor...
12:45 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Mercedes-Benz Gets Approval To Deploy Level 3 Driving Tech In Nevada
Mercedes-Benz will be the first automaker to launch a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States. The Drive reports: The news comes as part of a series of announcements made by Mercedes at ...
12:02 am - Sat, January 7, 2023
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Virtual Twitch Streamer Is Controlled Entirely By AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Every day between 6 to 11 pm GMT, Neuro-sama streams herself playing Minecraft and osu, a musical rhythm game. Like many V-tubers, or virtual YouT...
11:20 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Samsung Bets On MicroLED and 8K For Its Premium 2023 TVs
Four years after introducing its MicroLED technology at CES 2018, Samsung claims the technology is ready for the masses and "will set the standard for picture quality in 2023," reports Engadget. From ...
10:40 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Amazon S3 Will Now Encrypt All New Data With AES-256 By Default
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. BleepingComputer reports: While the server-side encrypt...
10:00 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i Is an Unprecedented Laptop For People Who Hate Foldables
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Scharon Harding: Like it or not, companies are set on making foldable PCs a thing. Asus' Zenbook 17 Fold OLED turned out to be one of ...
09:20 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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College Student Made App That Exposes AI-Written Essays
An anonymous reader shares a report: ChatGPT's artificial intelligence generated dialogue has gotten pretty sophisticated -- to the point where it can write convincing sounding essays. So Edward Tian,...
08:41 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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IBM Staff Grumble Redeployment Orders Are Stealth Layoffs
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told employees last year that he had no plans for further layoffs. But according to current IBM employees, managers continue to face pressure to reduce headcount and are trying ...
08:00 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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FDA Approves New Treatment for Early Alzheimer's
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new Alzheimer's drug that may modestly slow the pace of cognitive decline early in the disease, but also carries risks of swelling and bleeding in...
07:20 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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FCC Wants Carriers To Notify You Sooner When There's a Data Breach
The Federal Communications Commission isn't done dragging data breach policy into the modern era. From a report: The agency has proposed rules that would improve reporting for breaches at carriers. Mo...
06:40 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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EPA Proposes New Rule To Crack Down on Deadly Air Pollution
For the first time since 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing an update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot -- a long-awaited step to reduce deadly air pollution. Fr...
06:02 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Using Your PS5 Vertically May Result in Hardware Failure
The PS5 looks to have a design fault that can take months to appear and only seems to happen if you use the console while it's in a vertical orientation. From a report: As Wololo reports, hardware rep...
05:24 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Rackspace Says Hackers Accessed Customer Data During Ransomware Attack
Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed hackers accessed customer data during last month's ransomware attack. From a report: The attack, which Rackspace first confirmed on December 6, impacted t...
04:41 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Half of Glaciers Will Be Gone By 2100 Even Under Paris 1.5C Accord, Study Finds
Half the planet's glaciers will have melted by 2100 even if humanity sticks to goals set out in the Paris climate agreement, according to research that finds the scale and impacts of glacial loss are ...
04:05 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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India Approves $2.3 Billion Plan To Become Global Hub for Green Hydrogen
The Indian government has approved $2.3 billion to support production, use and exports of green hydrogen, aiming to make India a global hub for the nascent industry. From a report: The funding, announ...
03:27 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Google Urges Apple Not To 'Drop the Ball' on Fixing Messaging in New Billboard Pushing RCS
Google is continuing on with its #GetTheMessage campaign attempting to convince Apple to adopt the RCS messaging protocol, this time taking out a large New Year's-themed ad at Harmon Corner in Las Veg...
02:45 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Microsoft, Activision Back Off Aggressive Claim in FTC Case
Microsoft says it made a mistake last month when it claimed that the very structure of Federal Trade Commission, the agency trying to block its bid for Activision Blizzard, violates the United States ...
02:00 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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US National Cyber Strategy To Stress Biden Push on Regulation
The Biden administration is set to unveil a national strategy that for the first time calls for comprehensive cybersecurity regulation of the nation's critical infrastructure, explicitly recognizing t...
01:00 pm - Fri, January 6, 2023
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California's Pay Transparency Law Goes Into Effect, Revealing Big Tech Salaries
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: A new law that went into effect this week requires most California employers to disclose salaries on job listings. The law affects every company with mor...
10:00 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Giant Plasma Cloud Bursts From the Sun
SonicSpike shares a report from Space.com: A giant cloud of magnetized plasma exploded from a sunspot hidden on the far side of the sun that might turn to face Earth only two days from now, so get rea...
07:00 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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US Approves World's First Vaccine For Declining Honey Bees
The US has approved use of the world's first vaccine for honey bees. The BBC reports: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a conditional license for the vaccine this week, according to the...
03:30 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Meet the Spy Tech Companies Helping Landlords Evict People
schwit1 shares an excerpt from a Motherboard article: Some renters may savor the convenience of "smart home" technologies like keyless entry and internet-connected doorbell cameras. But tech companies...
02:02 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Saudi Arabia Jails Two Wikipedia Staff In 'Bid To Control Content'
Saudi Arabia has infiltrated Wikipedia and jailed two administrators in a bid to control content on the website, weeks after a former Twitter worker was jailed in the US for spying for the Saudis. The...
01:25 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Salesforce Guts Tableau After Spending $15.7 Billion in 2019 Deal
Salesforce division Tableau was hit harder than other units in the company's largest-ever round of jobs cuts this week, adding to a major reorganization that signals the $15.7 billion acquisition hasn...
12:45 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature
Qualcomm has announced that its new processors and modems will allow phones to communicate with the Iridium satellite network, letting users send and receive messages even in areas without cell covera...
12:02 am - Fri, January 6, 2023
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Mercedes-Benz Will Build a $1 Billion EV Fast-Charging Network In the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Mercedes-Benz announced that it is entering the DC fast-charging arena for electric vehicles. The German automaker is in the midst o...
11:20 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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ChatGPT Creator In Talks For Tender Offer That Would Give It $29 Billion Valuation
Artificial-intelligence research company OpenAI is in discussions over potentially selling at least $300 million in shares in a tender offer that would give it a roughly $29 billion valuation, the Wal...
10:40 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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AMD Claims New Laptop Chip Is 30% Faster Than M1 Pro, Promises Up To 30 Hours of Battery Life
At CES this week, AMD announced a suite of new chips for notebooks and desktop computers, with one notable announcement being the company's new AMD Ryzen 7040 series of processors for ultrathin notebo...
10:02 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Slack's Private GitHub Code Repositories Stolen Over Holidays
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforc...
09:20 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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CircleCI Warns Customers To Rotate 'Any and All Secrets' After Hack
CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company's systems. From a report: The San Francisc...
08:40 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Modi Takes Steps To Allow Yale, Oxford To Open India Campuses
India has taken a step toward allowing leading foreign universities such as Yale, Oxford and Stanford to set up campuses and award degrees as part of an overhaul of the South Asian nation's higher edu...
08:00 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Iranian Attack Drone Found To Contain Parts From More Than a Dozen US Firms
Parts made by more than a dozen US and Western companies were found inside a single Iranian drone downed in Ukraine last fall, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment obtained exclusively by ...
07:20 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Top WHO Official Says China Undercounting COVID Deaths
A top World Health Organization (WHO) official has said China is underreporting deaths from COVID-19 and called for more transparency about the scope of the country's outbreak. From a report: "We beli...
06:40 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Dell To Purge Chinese Chips From Products By Next Year
Dell looks set to stop using chips from China in its products by 2024, according to reports. The move appears to be part of a wider effort to shift its supply chains away from the country in response ...
06:00 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Top AI Conference Bans Use of ChatGPT and AI Language Tools To Write Academic Papers
One of the world's most prestigious machine learning conferences has banned authors from using AI tools like ChatGPT to write scientific papers, triggering a debate about the role of AI-generated text...
05:10 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Chinese Researchers Claim To Find Way To Break Encryption Using Quantum Computers
Computer security experts were struggling this week to assess a startling claim by Chinese researchers that they have found a way to break the most common form of online encryption [the link may be pa...
04:40 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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WhatsApp Launches Proxy Support To Help Users Circumvent Internet Blocks
WhatsApp is launching proxy support for its users all over the world, the company announced on Thursday. The support will allow users to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or d...
04:03 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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New York Sues Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky, Alleges Fraud
New York's attorney general on Thursday filed a civil lawsuit accusing Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky of scheming to defraud hundreds of thousands of investors by inducing them to deposit bill...
03:22 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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US Moves To Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts
In a far-reaching move that could raise wages and increase competition among businesses, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday unveiled a rule that would block companies from limiting their employe...
02:40 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Apple Books Quietly Launches AI-Narrated Audiobooks
Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple's Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. From a report: App...
02:05 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Silvergate Raced To Cover $8.1 Billion in Withdrawals During Crypto Meltdown
The collapse of crypto exchange FTX sparked a run on Silvergate Capital, forcing the bank to sell assets at a steep loss to cover some $8.1 billion in withdrawals. From a report: Crypto-related deposi...
01:00 pm - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Sony Says the PlayStation 5 Shortage Is Over
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony. "Everyone who wants a PS5 should have a much easier time finding one ...
10:00 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Japan Lacks the Expertise For Renewed Nuclear Power After Fukushima
Japan's decision to reignite its nuclear power industry is facing serious setbacks: 11 years of prohibition has led to a shortage of engineers, a lack of students training to fill vacant positions and...
07:00 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
South Korea's Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, known as Danuri, has sent back some high-resolution images from the moon. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the views on Twitter th...
04:00 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Government Scientists Discover Entirely New Kind of Quantum Entanglement
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered an entirely new kind of quantum entanglement, a phenomenon that causes particles to be...
03:20 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Hundreds of WordPress Sites Infected By Recently Discovered Backdoor
Malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in 30 different WordPress plugins has infected hundreds if not thousands of sites and may have been in active use for years, according to a writeup publ...
02:40 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Asus Brings Glasses-Free 3D To OLED Laptops
During the CES 2023 in Las Vegas today, Asus announced an upcoming feature that allows users to view and work with content in 3D without wearing 3D glasses. Ars Technica reports: Similar technology ha...
02:02 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Amazon To Layoff Over 18,000 Employees
Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Seeking Alpha: Amazon is reducing its headcount by more than 18K employees the company confirmed on Wednesday. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirmed ...
01:25 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Patients Wrongly Told They've Got Cancer In SMS Snafu
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Askern Medical Practice, a general practitioner surgery based in Doncaster, UK, managed to muddle its Christmas holiday message to patients by te...
12:45 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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Indians Moved Over $3.8 Billion to Foreign Exchanges Since Crypto Tax Rules
Indians moved more than $3.8 billion in trading volume from local to international crypto exchanges after the country announced stiff crypto tax rules last February, according to a research study by E...
12:02 am - Thu, January 5, 2023
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UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Wednesday announce plans to force school pupils in England to study math up to the age of 18, according to a Downing Street briefing. The initiative attempts to...
11:25 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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NYC Bans Students and Teachers From Using ChatGPT
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: New York City's education department has banned access to ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses machine learning to craft realistic text, out of concern for "safe...
09:21 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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MacBook Owners Have Two Months To Claim Up To $395 Over Butterfly Keyboard Woes
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you bought an Apple MacBook with an ill-fated butterfly keyboard and ended up having to replace either individual keycaps or the whole keyboard, you may be elig...
08:42 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Google Chrome Will End Support for Several Windows Versions in Days
Computers using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will no longer get the latest version of Google Chrome, beginning with the latest version, Chrome 110, which will be launched on Feb. 7. From a report: The ne...
08:00 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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LG Wants To Reinvent How You Think of TV Picture Modes
Is the world ready to move beyond movie, standard, and vivid? LG seems to think so. From a report: Setting up a new TV? Ask any videophile or home theater nerd and they'll probably tell you to set you...
07:21 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Meta's New Year Kicks Off With Over $410 Million in Fresh EU Privacy Fines
Meta is kicking off the New Year with more privacy fines and corrective orders hitting its business in Europe. The latest swathe of enforcement relates to EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR...
06:40 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Danish Bank Workers Celebrate First Full Year Without Robberies
Denmark has recorded its first year without bank robberies, as the use of cash has dwindled in recent years, the country's finance workers' union said. From a report: The increasingly cashless society...
06:00 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Key Bitcoin Developer Calls on FBI To Recover $3.6M in Digital Coin
One of the prominent developers behind the bitcoin blockchain said he has asked the FBI to assist him in recovering $3.6 million worth of the digital coin that was stolen from his storage wallets on N...
05:20 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Reducing Nitrogen Use Key To Human and Planetary Health, Study Says
Better management of nitrogen-rich fertilisers through alternating crops, optimising use and other measures can yield huge environmental and health benefits, but must boost food production at the same...
04:41 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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EA Says It Can't Recover 60% of Players' Corrupted Madden Franchise Save Files
An anonymous reader shares a report: EA says that a temporary "data storage issue" led to the corruption of many Madden NFL 23 players' Connected Franchise Mode (CFM) save files last week. What's wors...
04:00 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Panasonic To Stop Making Rice Cookers in Japan After Six Decades
Despite being the birthplace of the humble rice cooker, a decline in appetites for the grain and cost savings to be found elsewhere are prompting Panasonic to end production in Japan. From a report: I...
03:20 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Salesforce To Cut Staff by 10% in Latest Tech Layoffs
Salesforce said on Wednesday it would lay off about 10% of its employees and close some offices, becoming the latest tech firm to undertake cost cuts amid an economic slowdown. From a report: The comp...
02:40 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs
Roku is stepping up from streaming sticks and audio bars to making its own TVs. At CES 2023 the streaming device manufacturer introduced two new lines: the Roku Select and Roku Plus. From a report: Th...
02:03 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Coinbase Reaches $100 Million Settlement With New York Regulators
Coinbase, a publicly traded cryptocurrency trading exchange based in the United States, agreed to pay a $50 million fine after financial regulators found that it let customers open accounts without co...
01:00 pm - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Social Media Use Is Linked To Brain Changes In Teens, Research Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research, as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a vas...
10:00 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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NASA Apollo Astronaut Walt Cunningham Has Died At Age 90
Walt Cunningham, one of the early Apollo astronauts, died Tuesday after complications from a fall. He was 90. NPR reports: Walt Cunningham flew in space just one time. His flight in 1968 was an import...
07:00 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Microsoft and OpenAI Working On ChatGPT-Powered Bing In Challenge To Google
Microsoft is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people...
03:30 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Why Armored CAR T Therapy Is Our Best Shot At Curing Cancer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Immune therapies have rewritten the game when it comes to cancer treatment, earning the "fifth pillar" label next to more tried and true treatmen...
02:02 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Major Private Torrent Sites Have a Security Disaster to Fix Right Now
At least three major torrent sites are currently exposing intimate details of their operations to anyone with a web browser. TorrentFreak understands that the sites use a piece of software that grabs ...
01:25 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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X11 Server Development Pace Hits a Two Decade Low
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: While Mesa's development has been very vibrant this year, the X.Org Server development pace has continued pulling back greatly from its late 00's and early 10's hi...
12:45 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Wireless Power Consortium Works With Apple On Next-Gen 'Qi2' Standard Based On MagSafe
The WPC announced during CES 2023 that the next generation of the Qi standard, named "Qi2," was built with Apple's help. 9to5Mac reports: The new standard aims to improve the efficiency and interopera...
12:02 am - Wed, January 4, 2023
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Fallout and Doom QA Testers Form Biggest Union In the US Games Industry
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Quality assurance workers at Microsoft's ZeniMax Studios, the people who make the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom, games, just voted to form a un...
11:20 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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NVIDIA's GeForce Now Game Streaming Is Coming To Cars
NVIDIA has announced that it's bringing GeForce Now game streaming to cars using the company's Drive platform. Engadget reports: The rollout will offer access to titles like Cyberpunk 2077 on a driver...
10:40 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Google Wants RISC-V To Be a 'Tier-1' Android Architecture
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit was all about bold proclamations [...]. Lars Bergstrom, Android's director of engineering, wants RISC-V to ...
10:00 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges In New York
Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in New York federal court Tuesday to eight charges related to the collapse of his former crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research. CNBC reports: The one...
09:20 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Internet Providers Warn Against EU Plans To Make Big Tech Cover Telcos Costs
A group representing internet service providers across Europe said on Tuesday that a proposal to make Big Tech companies pay towards telecom operators' network costs could create systemic weakness in ...
08:40 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Alienware Goes Bigger and Taller With the X16 and M18 Gaming Laptops
Alienware is unveiling a refreshed lineup of its M- and X-series gaming laptops at CES 2023. Like some other laptop companies, including Razer and Acer, Alienware is shifting focus away from 15- and 1...
08:01 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Google Alleges India Antitrust Body Copied Parts of EU Order on Android Abuse
Google has told a tribunal in India that the country's antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system,...
07:21 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs for Laptops
Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card using its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) chip. It also showed off laptops with a whole family of 40 Series GPUs. From a report: The 4070 de...
06:40 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Legal Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Begins in Oregon
On Jan. 1, Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize the adult use of psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic that has shown significant promise for treating severe depression, pos...
06:00 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Google Seeks To Stretch Farther in Northwest Omaha
Google wants to expand its Nebraska footprint with an additional 187 acres that abuts its roughly 270-acre data center site already under construction in northwest Omaha. Nebraska Examiner reports: In...
05:20 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Watching Porn Now Requires Age Verification in Louisiana Because of New Law
An anonymous reader shares a report: The porn industry has been around for a while and in today's digital age business is booming. When Laurie Schlegel isn't seeing her patients who struggle with sex ...
04:41 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Southwest Meltdown Shows Airlines Need Tighter Software Integration
The Southwest Airlines meltdown that stranded thousands of passengers during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year exposed a major industry shortcoming: crew-scheduling technology that was large...
04:01 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs
Perhaps the biggest reason TVs have gotten so much cheaper than other products is that your TV is watching you and profiting off the data it collects. From a report: Modern TVs, with very few exceptio...
03:22 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Google Develops Free Terrorism-Moderation Tool For Smaller Websites
Google is developing a free moderation tool that smaller websites can use to identify and remove terrorist material, as new legislation in the UK and the EU compels Internet companies to do more to ta...
02:41 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Intel Announces Non-K 13th-Gen Core For Desktop: New 65 W and 35 W Processors
Intel has finally pulled the proverbial trigger on its non-K series SKUs, with sixteen new Raptor Lake-S series processors for desktops. AnandTech: Varied across a mixture of bare multiplier locked SK...
02:10 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Shopify Tells Employees To Just Say No To Meetings
Shopify spent last year cutting costs. Now, it's cutting meetings. From a report: As employees return from holiday break, the Canadian e-commerce firm said it's conducting a "calendar purge," removing...
12:33 pm - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Microsoft Says It Has No Idea When Call of Duty Came Out
An anonymous reader shares a report: One year ago this month, Microsoft announced it would spend $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard, highlighting how it would get "iconic franchises" includi...
10:06 am - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Warm January Weather Breaks Records Across Europe
Weather records have been falling across Europe at a disconcerting rate in the last few days, say meteorologists. From a report: The warmest January day ever was recorded in at least eight European co...
06:02 am - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Alaska's Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming more acidic. From a report: This otherwise undeveloped la...
03:00 am - Tue, January 3, 2023
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'Debloating Windows 10 With One Command and No Scripts'
An anonymous reader writes: Recently, I had to set up a Windows 10 computer for one specific application in a semi-embedded use case. Anything else that Windows does or comes with is unnecessary for t...
12:01 am - Tue, January 3, 2023
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Comet To Make First, And Likely Only, Appearance in Recorded History
The new year has just begun, but the cosmos are already set to make history in 2023. From a report: A comet discovered less than a year ago has traveled billions of miles from its believed origins at ...
10:30 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Leak Reveals Specs From 'Unlaunched' RTX 4080
A new leak could confirm rumors that Nvidia's planning on releasing the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card as the RTX 4070 Ti. From a report: The company briefly posted the specs for its upcomin...
09:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Fossil Fuel Power Fell Up To 68% as Blackouts Hit US South
Power plants that burn coal and natural gas to produce electricity had significant drops in generation as a winter storm hit the US Southeast, forcing blackouts that left hundreds of thousands in the ...
08:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Ahead of Major Court Case, EPA Revises Clean-Water Protections
The Biden administration is working to complete a clean water regulation before a Supreme Court ruling that could complicate the government's ability to protect wetlands and other waters. From a repor...
07:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Apple's Battery Replacement Prices Are Going Up by $20 To $50
Apple is raising the price of getting a new battery installed in most iPhones, iPads, and Macs, starting on March 1st. The company made the announcement on the devices' repair pages, in small text und...
06:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Electric Cars Sales in Norway Near 80% in 2022, Tesla Top-Selling Brand Again
Almost four out of five new cars sold in Norway last year were battery-powered, with Tesla the top-selling brand for the second year in a row, registration data showed on Monday. From a report: Seekin...
05:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Third of World Economy To Hit Recession in 2023, IMF Head Warns
For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth -- the US, Europe and China -- all experience weakening activity, the head of the International Mo...
04:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Companies Can 'Hire' a Virtual Person For About $14k a Year in China
From customer service to the entertainment industry, businesses in China are paying big bucks for virtual employees. From a report: Tech company Baidu said the number of virtual people projects it's w...
03:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss Slams Crypto Exec Barry Silbert Over Frozen Funds
Crypto entrepreneur Cameron Winklevoss is accusing fellow businessman Barry Silbert of "bad faith stall tactics" in resolving a dispute between their two companies that grew out of the collapse of FTX...
02:00 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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India Set an 'Incredibly Important Precedent' By Banning TikTok, FCC Commissioner Says
India set an "incredibly important precedent" by banning TikTok two and a half years ago, FCC Commissioner said, as he projected a similar fate for the Chinese giant Bytedance app in the U.S. From a r...
12:34 pm - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service
Fierce Wireless reports:Verizon is telling customers that if they're still using a 3G CDMA or 4G (non-VoLTE) phone that does not support its newer network technologies, "your line will be suspended wi...
08:34 am - Mon, January 2, 2023
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As America Funds Domestic Chip-Making, Some Questions Remain
There's been "an enormous ramp-up in U.S. chip-making plans" over the last 18 months, reports the New York Times. For example: - In September Intel pledged $20 billion for two chip factories in Ohio- ...
04:34 am - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Could Getting Rid of Old Cells Turn Back the Clock on Aging?
Long-time geriatrician James Kirkland is a Mayo clinic researcher joining "a growing movement to halt chronic disease by protecting brains and bodies from the biological fallout of aging," reports Ars...
02:34 am - Mon, January 2, 2023
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Melbourne's Anti-Graffiti QR Codes Vandalized to Point to 'Alternative' Site
The Australian city of Melbourne recently posted QR codes its citizens could use to report grafitti, reports Australia's public broadcaster ABC. Unfortunately, someone overlaid "a number" of those QR ...
12:12 am - Mon, January 2, 2023
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'Metropolis', Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later
Guess what's finally entering America's public domain today? Appropriately enough, it's Marcel Proust's 1927 novel Remembrance of Things Past. Also entering the public domain today are thousands of ot...
11:12 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Nintendo's Upcoming California Theme Park Has Augmented Reality 'Mario Kart' Races
"Starting next year, Nintendo fans can step through a life-size warp pipe and enter the Mushroom Kingdom," reports Bloomberg, "for the first time on American soil." Bloomberg shares its reaction after...
10:12 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Firefox Changes Its User Agent - Because of Internet Explorer 11
2022 was the year that Microsoft retired its Internet Explorer web browser (to concentrate on its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser). Yet Ghacks reports that Internet Explorer "is still haunting s...
09:12 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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In Bad Year for Tech Stocks, Three Boston Companies Dropped More than 99%
A Boston Globe tech reporter checked last year's performance for the region's tech companies:A list of the worst local performers includes some truly bottom-of-the-barrel returns. Cannabis tech compan...
08:12 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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One Problem for Meta's Anti-China Stance? 'Made in China' Hardware
Companies like Apple have moved hardware production to places like India and Vietnam, reports the Washington Post. But Facebook "has hit walls, say three people familiar with the discussions, who spok...
06:45 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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CNN Political Commentator Predicts Bitcoin Rises to $103,000 in 2023
"Cryptocurrency went through a transformation in 2022," writes CNN, noting that its peak price last year occurred on January 1 of 2022, at over $47,000:Since then, the asset — along with other c...
05:34 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Analyst Mocks the Idea That It's 'The End of Programming' Again
January's Communications of the ACM includes an essay predicting "the end of programming," in an AI-powered future where "programming will be obsolete." But IT analyst and ZDNet contributor Joe McKend...
04:34 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Seeking Exotic Remote Work Locations? More Than 40 Places Now Offer 'Digital Nomad' Visas
"Imagine starting your work day with a fresh coconut juice perched by your laptop as you gaze over the ocean or a tropical rainforest...." writes the Conversation. "More than 40 nations or territories...
03:34 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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NASA Images Showcase the Eerie Beauty of Winter on Mars
CNN reports:Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter, according to a new video shared by NASA.... "Enough snow falls that you c...
12:34 pm - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Will Gaming Become More Open in 2023?
VentureBeat's lead gaming writer made 10 predictions for 2023. Prediction #8? "Gaming will become more open in 2023."There are many forces at play that will make gaming more open. The web browser is p...
08:34 am - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Ubuntu Blogger Chooses the 5 Best Linux Distros of 2022
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shares an article listing "the five best Linux distros of 2022" — as chosen by the editor of the blog omg! ubuntu! "Spoiler: they're not all Ubuntu-based!" ...
04:34 am - Sun, January 1, 2023
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Better Than Expected: Astronomers Celebrate the Webb Telescope's Findings
To hear the first results from the James Webb Telescope, 200 astronomers descended on the Space Telescope Science Institute for three days in December, reports the New York Times, with an update on wh...
02:34 am - Sun, January 1, 2023
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What Will Technology Do in 2023?
Looking back at 2022's technology, the lead technology writer for the New York Times criticized Meta's $1,500 VR headset and the iPhone's "mostly unnoticeable improvements." But then he also predicted...
11:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest's Failure? Software Shortcomings
Computer programmer Zeynep Tufekci now writes about the impact of technology on society. In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Tufekci writes on "the shameful open secret" that earlier this week...
10:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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AI-Powered Software Delivery Company Predicts 'The End of Programming'
Matt Welsh is the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.ai, an AI-powered software delivery company founded by a team from Google and Apple. "I believe the conventional idea of 'writing a program' is headed for...
09:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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'If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who Decides What We Do Next?'
If humankind detects a message from an advanced civilisation, "It would be a transformative event for humankind," writes the Guardian, "one the world's nations are surely prepared for. "Or are they?""...
08:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Ancient Cats Migrated With Humans All Over the World
Slashdot reader guest reader shares some interesting research from the University of Missouri:Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding...
07:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Other Software Projects Are Now Trying to Replicate ChatGPT
"The first open source equivalent of OpenAI's ChatGPT has arrived," writes TechCrunch, "but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all."This week, Philip Wang, the developer responsible for...
06:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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MIT's Newest fMRI Study: 'This is Your Brain on Code'
Remember when MIT researchers did fMRI brain scans measuring the blood flow through brains to determine which parts were engaged when programmers evaluated code? MIT now says that a new paper (by many...
05:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Inspired by Amazon, Paid Promotions Spread to Other Online Shopping Sites in 2022
We're buying more things online, the Washington Post notes. But how we buy may be changing too:For the first time in years, Google and Meta have grabbed less than half of the digital marketing money s...
04:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Also Wins World Blitz and Rapid Chess Titles
"Rapid chess" grants 15 minutes to each player for all moves (plus 10 seconds per move). "Blitz chess" grants each player three minutes (plus 2 seconds per move). Now CNN reports that five-time world ...
03:34 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Systemd's Growth Over 2022
Phoronix checks systemd's Git activity in 2022 (and compares it to previous years):If measuring a open-source project's progress by the commity activity per year, while not the most practical indicato...
01:00 pm - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Google Will Pay $9.5 Million To Settle Washington DC AG's Location-Tracking Lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who accused the company earlier this year of "deceiving users and invading their privac...
11:00 am - Sat, December 31, 2022
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The Dark Sky's iOS App Will Stop Working Imminently
The time has come: Dark Sky, the (mostly) beloved weather app for iOS is going to stop working on January 1st, according to in-app warnings. From a report: The sunsetting has been in the forecast for ...
09:00 am - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Tim Cook Relayed Concern Over App Store Curbs To Japan Prime Minister
Apple CEO Tim Cook urged Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to consider user protections when regulating smartphone app distribution during a mid-December meeting, Nikkei is reporting, as the tech ...
06:00 am - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Microsoft's $200 Surface Earbuds Have Seemingly Been Abandoned
Windows Central reports: The Surface Earbuds are a weird product in Microsoft's line of Surface devices. Now over two years old, and still available to buy at a close to launch price of $160, the Surf...
03:00 am - Sat, December 31, 2022
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The 240Hz OLED Gaming Displays Are Coming
An anonymous reader shares a report: CES 2023 is now just days away, and there's already a standout category that we're particularly excited about: 240Hz OLED gaming monitors. Generally speaking, OLED...
12:01 am - Sat, December 31, 2022
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Sage Accused of 'Strong Arm' Tactics Over Move To Software Subscriptions
British businesses have complained about the tactics used by Sage, the UK's largest listed tech company, to push them into accepting more expensive subscription services or have access to their existi...