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• 10-Year-Old's Reality-Show Victory Revoked After Automated Bot Voting

  19-05-2019 23:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes ABC News:
  The final result of Russia's version of the popular TV singing talent show, "The Voice Kids," has been cancelled after it was found that thousands of automated calls and text messages were used to rig voting in favor of its 10-year-old winner. Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB was brought in to examine the results after complaints were raised over the victory of Mikella Abramova, the daughter of well-known Russian popstar Alsou and millionaire Yan Abra
  
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• Amazon Begins Moving Warehouses Into Malls It Helped Put Out of Business

  19-05-2019 22:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  "It's easy to think of Amazon executives going home every night and bathing in their cynicism," writes Inc. columnist Chris Matyszczyk:
  It's often contended that Amazon has put an enormous amount of pressure on shopping malls. So much so that many of those malls are shutting their doors. Yet, as the Wall Street Journal reports, Amazon is now moving into precisely those derelict malls. Why? To use the space for its vast and, some might say heartless, fulfillment centers...
  It's the perfect way to
  
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• Bitcoin 'Roars Back', Surges 50% in 30 Days

  19-05-2019 21:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  A week ago bitcoin was trading at $6,000. Today Forbes reports bitcoin "which has been swinging wildly throughout this week, has suddenly rallied back to over $8,000 per bitcoin, somewhat putting to rest investor and trader fears the recent bitcoin bull run may have already ended":
  The bitcoin price has risen around 50% over the last 30 days, pulling many other major cryptocurrencies with it, including ethereum, Ripple's XRP, bitcoin cash, litecoin, EOS and binance coin... The total bitcoin and
  
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• Intel Loses 5X More Average Performance Than AMD From Mitigations: Report

  19-05-2019 21:30
  The hardware reviews and news website Phoronix has found that Intel's security mitigations for all exploits since Spectre reduces performance by 16% on average, and even more with Hyper-Threading disabled.
  
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• Report: Google Ends Some Business With Huawei Due to US Ban

  19-05-2019 20:59
  Google will reportedly cut off Huawei's access to essential parts of the Android platform as tensions rise between the U.S. and China.
  
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• Report: Google Ends Some Buisness With Huawei Due to US Ban

  19-05-2019 20:59
  Google will reportedly cut off Huawei's access to essential parts of the Android platform as tensions rise between the U.S. and China.
  
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• Google Ends Android Collaboration With Huawei. No Gmail, Play Store For Future Huawei Phones

  19-05-2019 20:35 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
  Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware and software products except those covered by open source licenses, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world.
  Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will immediately lose access to updates to the Android operating system, and the next version of its smartpho
  
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• Remembering Radio Shack's 1983 Training Film For the TRS-80 Model 100

  19-05-2019 19:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  Fast Company's technology editor Harry McCracken is also Slashdot reader #1,641,347. He contacted us Thursday with a story about Radio Shack's Model 100 -- and a rare training film from 36 years ago:Radio Shack's Model 100 wasn't the first laptop -- but it was the first popular one, and an innovative machine on multiple fronts. It was also the last computer to ship with Microsoft software personally coded by Bill Gates.
  I recently came across an internal training film intended to help Radio Shac
  
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• South Korea Chooses Linux Over Windows 10

  19-05-2019 19:30
  Support for Windows 7 will end in January 2020. Microsoft probably hopes users will switch to Windows 10, but South Korean plans to switch to Linux instead.
  
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• Intel Reclaims the Semiconductor Throne From Samsung

  19-05-2019 19:00
  According to IC Insights, the silicon throne once again belongs to Intel, with the DRAM market's decline ending Samsung's reign over the chip industry.
  
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• Internal 'Civil War' Pits Google Against Its Own Employees

  19-05-2019 18:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  Google employees "want a say in and control over the products they build," reports Fortune, in an article headlined "Inside Google's Civil War":As the so-called techlash has cast a pall over the entire sector, organized employee pushback is slowly becoming part of the landscape: Amazon workers are demanding more action from the company on battling climate change; at Microsoft, employees say they don't want to build technology for warfare; at Salesforce, a group has lobbied management to end its
  
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• Big External Storage: 8TB For $159

  19-05-2019 18:30
  Western Digital's My Passport and MyBook external hard drives are on sale at ridiculous prices.
  
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• Bitcoin's Value Ping-Ponged Last Week

  19-05-2019 18:00
  Bitcoin seems to be making a comeback, but does it matter?
  
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• Group Seeks Investigation of Deep Packet Inspection Use By ISPs

  19-05-2019 17:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  wiredmikey writes: European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 45 NGOs, academics and companies across 15 countries, has sent an open letter to European policymakers and regulators, warning about widespread and potentially growing use of deep packet inspection (DPI) by internet service providers (ISPs). DPI is far more than is required by the ISP to perform its basic purpose, and by its nature privacy invasive, and not strictly legal within the EU. Nevertheless, many are concerned that its pra
  
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• Gigabyte Enables PCIe 4.0 on X470 and B450 Motherboards (Updated)

  19-05-2019 16:35
  Gigabyte's latest BIOS update adds support for PCIe 4.0 to existing X470 motherboards, but you'll need a Ryzen 3000 series processor to unlock the faster speeds.
  
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• PlayStation Gamers Are Now Authoring Their Own Games With 'Dreams' For PS4

  19-05-2019 16:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  dryriver explains the new buzz around "Dreams" for PS4 (now in open access). Created by the studio that made PS4's Big Little World, Dreams "is not a game. It is more of an end to end, create-your-own-3D-game toolkit that happens to run on PS4 rather than a PC... essentially an easy to use game-engine a la Unity or UnrealEngine."Dreams lets you 3D model/sculpt, texture, animate and create game logic, allowing complete 3D games to be authored from scratch. Here is a Youtube video showing someone
  
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• zSpace Review: This Is What an AR Laptop Can Do

  19-05-2019 16:30
  
  The zSpace has 3D and AR capabilities unlike any laptop. It’s an innovative new approach to education but a bit laggy when it comes to typical productivity.
  
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• Who Killed America's Demo Scene?

  19-05-2019 15:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  Jason Koebler shares Vice's analysis of demoparties -- "gatherings where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works, known as demos, after a day- or days-long coding marathon that is part bacchanal and part competition" -- starting with a visit to New York's Synchrony.
  I had arrived just in time to catch the end of a set by the electronic musician Melody Loveless, who was at a folding table near the front of the room writing code that generated the music. These sorts of live coding performa
  
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• Salesforce Triggers 15-Hour Shutdown After Faulty Script Starts Granting View/Modify Access

  19-05-2019 12:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  Friday Salesforce "was forced to shut down large chunks of its infrastructure," ZDNet reports, calling it one of the company's biggest outages ever:
  At the heart of the outage was a change the company made to its production environment that broke access permission settings across organizations and gave employees access to all of their company's files. According to reports on Reddit, users didn't just get read access, but they also received write permissions, making it easy for malicious employee
  
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• Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Graduates To 'Push Back' Against Belief-Reinforcing Algorithms

  19-05-2019 09:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  CNBC reports:
  Apple CEO Tim Cook challenged Gen Z to clean up the messes Baby Boomers have left behind. "In some important ways, my generation has failed you," Cook said Saturday in his commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
  He emphasized climate change, according to the article -- though he also shared a memory about how Steve Jobs had convinced him to leave Compaq in 1998 "to join a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy." Cook gave s
  
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• College Requires All CS Majors To Take An Improv Class

  19-05-2019 06:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  Northeastern University requires all of its computer science majors to take improv -- a class in theatre and improvisation, taught by professors in the drama department. The Wall Street Journal says it "forces students to come out of their shells and exercise creative play" before they can get their diplomas. (Although when the class was made mandatory in 2016, "We saw a lot of hysterics and crying," says Carla E. Brodley, dean of the computer science department.)So what happens to the computer
  
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• Are Trendy Developers Ignoring Tradeoffs and Over-Engineering Workplaces?

  19-05-2019 03:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares an article titled "Does IT Run on Java 8?""After more than ten years in tech, in a range of different environments, from Fortune 500 companies, to startups, I've finally come to realize that most businesss and developers simply don't revolve around whatever's trending on Hacker News," argues one Python/R/Spark data scientist:
  Most developers -- and companies -- are part of what [programmer] Scott Hanselman dubbed a while ago as the 99%... "They don't read a lot of blog
  
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• Gigabyte Enables PCIe 4.0 on X470 Motherboard

  19-05-2019 02:40
  Gigabyte's latest BIOS update adds support for PCIe 4.0 to existing X470 motherboards, but you'll need a Ryzen 3000 series processor to unlock the faster speeds.
  
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• Protect Solar System From Mining 'Gold Rush', Say Scientists

  19-05-2019 01:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
  Great swathes of the solar system should be preserved as official "space wilderness" to protect planets, moons and other heavenly bodies from rampant mining and other forms of industrial exploitation, scientists say. The proposal calls for more than 85% of the solar system to be placed off-limits to human development, leaving little more than an eighth for space firms to mine for precious metals, minerals and other valuable materials.
  While the limit woul
  
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• Ask Slashdot: Why Did It Take So Long For Cars To Become Aerodynamically Shaped?

  19-05-2019 00:35 via rss.slashdot.org
  Here's what dryriver wondered after hearing that the oldest Porsche T64 in the world -- built in 1939 -- was going to be auctioned:
  What stands out about this nearly 80 year old car is how curved and aerodynamically shaped it is. If you then Google 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s car images, you find that they are nowhere near as aerodynamic in shape. It took a while before production cars started to appear en masse that had a nicely-curved aerodynamic body, and before Bezier curves were invented, which
  
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