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• New DirectX 12-To-Metal Translation Could Bring a World of Windows Games To macOS

  05-06-2023 22:37 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple has made a tiny bit of progress in the last year when it comes to getting games running on Macs -- titles like Resident Evil Village and a recent No Man's Sky port don't exactly make the Mac a gaming destination, but they're bigger releases than Mac users are normally accustomed to. For getting the vast majority of PC gaming titles running, though, the most promising solution would be a Steam Deck-esque software layer that translates M
  
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• Apple Vision Pro is Apple's New AR Headset

  05-06-2023 20:45 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that "seamlessly" blends the real and digital world. "It's the first Apple product you look through, and not at," CEO Tim Cook said of the device, which looks like a pair of ski goggles. From a report: As rumored, it features a separate battery pack and is controlled with eyes, hands, and voice. Vision Pro is positioned as primarily an AR device, but it can switch between augmented and full virtual reality using a dial. The
  
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• Apple Unveils M2 Ultra Processor

  05-06-2023 20:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple announced the M2 Ultra processor, a new chip for its Mac Studio workstation for professional users. From a report: The chip has 134 transistors and 24 central processing unit (CPU) cores with 20% faster performance. It has up to 76 graphics processing unit (GPU) cores at up to 30% faster performance. Apple made the announcement at its WWDC event today on the Apple campus in Cupertino, California.
  The chip will go into the Mac Studio product, which previously used Intel silicon. These are m
  
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• Apple's New 15-inch MacBook Air is the 'World's Thinnest'

  05-06-2023 19:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has unveiled a new 15-inch MacBook Air at its 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference. The new model is 11.5mm thick, which Apple says makes it the world's thinnest 15-inch laptop. From a report: It has two USB-C Thunderbolt ports, a MagSafe charging connector, and a headphone jack. Its 15.3-inch screen has 500 nits of brightness, a 1080p webcam, and gets a quoted 18 hours of battery life. It'll come with Apple's M2 chip.
  The new model starts at $1,299 and will be available next week. Meanwhi
  
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• AI Generated Content Should Be Labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova Says

  05-06-2023 18:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Companies deploying generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard with the potential to generate disinformation should label such content as part of their efforts to combat fake news, European Commission deputy head Vera Jourova said on Monday. From a report: Unveiled late last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing consumer application in history and set off a race among tech companies to bring generative AI products to market. Concerns however are mounting about
  
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• Sony Chief Warns Technical Problems Persist for Cloud Gaming

  05-06-2023 18:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Sony's chief executive has warned that cloud gaming is still technically "very tricky,"playing down the risk to the console maker of the industry quickly converting to a technology on which its rival Microsoft has bet heavily. From a report: In an interview with the Financial Times, Kenichiro Yoshida said the PlayStation creator would still study "various options" in the future for streaming games over the Internet itself, adding it could utilize GT Sophy, its artificial intelligence agent, to e
  
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• SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying To Regulators

  05-06-2023 17:15 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, of mishandling customer funds as well as lying to regulators and investors about its operations in a sweeping case filed in federal court on Monday. From a report: The Wall Street regulator said Binance had been mixing "billions of dollars" in customer funds and secretly sending them to a separate company controlled by Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao. The charges included misleading investo
  
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• Google Trials Passwordless Login Across Workspace and Cloud Accounts

  05-06-2023 16:51 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. From a report: Starting today, June 5th, over 9 million organizations can allow their users to sign in to a Google Workspace or Google Cloud account using a passkey instead of their usual passwords.
  Passkeys are a new form of passwordless sign-in tech developed by the FIDO Alliance, whose members include industry giants like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Passkeys al
  
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• Major Reddit Communities Will Go Dark To Protest Threat To Third-Party Apps

  05-06-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site's APIs. From a report: Setting a subreddit to private, aka "going dark," will mean that the communities taking part will be inaccessible by the wider public while the planned 48-hour protest is taking place.
  As a Reddit post about the protest, that's since been cross-posted
  
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• Judge Clears Massachusetts to Finally Enforce Its Right-to-Repair Law

  05-06-2023 13:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Boston.com. On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney general Andrea Campbell "began enforcing the state's new right-to-repair law following years of bitter debate and a wildly expensive ballot initiative that was approved by voters in 2020."In a nutshell, the law requires automakers selling cars in the state to provide customers and independent repair businesses with access to a type of information called "telematics." The term refers to information that is
  
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• 'The Tech Industry was Deflating. Then Came ChatGPT'

  05-06-2023 09:18 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:A year ago, the mood in Silicon Valley was dour. Big Tech stocks were falling, the cryptocurrency bubble had popped, and a wave of layoffs was beginning to sweep through the industry.
  Then the artificial intelligence boom hit.Since then, venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI start-ups, investing over $11 billion in May alone, according to data firm PitchBook, an increase of 86 percent over the same month last year. Comp
  
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• Data Stolen Through Flaw in MOVEit Transfer, Researchers Say

  05-06-2023 05:06 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Reuters reports:Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, U.S. security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered. Software maker Progress Software Corp, after disclosing the vulnerability on Wednesday, said it could lead to potential unauthorized access into users' systems.
  The managed file transfer software made by the Burlington, Massachusetts-
  
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• US Financial Watchdog: Money Stored in Venmo/PayPal/CashApp Isn't Federally Insured

  05-06-2023 01:54 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Associated Press reports:Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the [U.S.] Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned Thursday...
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures bank accounts up to $250,000. But money stored in Venmo or CashApp or Apple Cash is not being held in a traditional bank account. So, if there is an event similar to a bank run with those payment app
  
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• Why Bill Gates Recommends This Novel About Videogames

  05-06-2023 00:32 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bill Gates wrote a blog post this week recommending a novel about videogame development. Gates calls Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. "one of the biggest books of last year," telling the story of "two friends who bond over Super Mario Bros. as kids and grow up to make video games together."Although there are plenty of video games mentioned in the book — Oregon Trail is a recurring theme — I'd describe it more as a story about partnership and collaboration. When Sam and Sadie are
  
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• Can Open Source Speed the Adoption of Clean-Energy Microgrids?

  04-06-2023 22:59 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  This week the Linux Foundation announced the publication of The Open Source Opportunity for Microgrids: Five Ways to Drive Innovation and Overcome Market Barriers for Energy Resilience. "The research informs readers about microgrids — groups of distributed energy resources designed to improve energy resiliency, with the ability to operate as part of a larger electrical grid, or separately as an island."
  The report highlights the current state of the microgrid market and explores the potent
  
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• Amazon's AWS is 'Retiring' Its Open-Source-and-on-GitHub Documentation

  04-06-2023 21:36 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: On the AWS News Blog, AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr has published a kind of obituary for AWS Documentation on GitHub (RIP, 2018-2023). From the blog post: "About five years ago I announced that AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and on GitHub. After a prolonged period of experimentation we will archive most of the repos starting the week of June 5th, and will devote all of our resources to directly improving the AWS documentation and website."
  "The pri
  
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• In Hawaii, GPS Keeps Sending Drivers Into the Ocean

  04-06-2023 20:34 via idle.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: In April a tourist in Hawaii followed GPS driving directions straight into a harbor. And one month later, another tourist did the exact same thing — driving into the same harbor. One onlooker remembers "screaming the whole time to get her attention but her GPS had told her to go there, so she drove right in."
  When asked if they'd add warning signs, a state government spokeperson said no. "It's really clear that it is a ramp and it leads directly into the
  
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• Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Death by Half, Study Finds

  04-06-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The Guardian reports:A pill taken once a day cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by half, according to "thrilling" and "unprecedented" results from a decade-long global study. Taking the drug osimertinib after surgery dramatically reduced the risk of patients dying by 51%, results presented at the world's largest cancer conference showed...
  Everyone in the trial had a mutation of the EGFR gene, which is found in about a quarter of global lung cancer cases, and accounts for as many as 40% of
  
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• Progressive Web Apps 'Don't Spy or Clog Your Phone'. Do You Use Them?

  04-06-2023 18:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  "It's worth questioning the status quo of technology," argues the Washington Post's Tech Friend newsletter, "including apps as we know them."Then they tout the benefits of the "non-app app... a hybrid of a website and a conventional app, with features of each" — the unappreciated Progressive Web App (which many still don't know can be installed on your phone's home screen):Web apps look and function pretty much like the conventional apps for your phone or computer, but they clog less space
  
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• Big Tech Isn't Prepared for AI's Next Chapter: Open Source

  04-06-2023 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Security guru Bruce Schneier and CS professor Jim Waldo think big tech has underestimated the impact of open source principles on AI research:In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn't just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and programmers immediately started modifying it, improving it, and getting it to
  
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• System76's Open Firmware 'Re-Disables' Intel's Management Engine

  04-06-2023 16:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Linux computer vendor System76 shared some news in a recent blog post. "We prefer to disable the Intel Management Engine wherever possible to reduce the amount of closed firmware running on System76 hardware. We've resolved a coreboot bug that allows the Intel ME (Management Engine) to once again be disabled."
  Phoronix reports that the move will "benefit their latest Intel Core 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' wares as well as prior generation devices."Intel ME is disabled for their latest Raptor lake lap
  
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• What Stops Millions of Americans From Going Green: Their Landlords

  04-06-2023 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post looks at "Americans who want to lower their carbon footprints — but are stymied by their landlords."Homes and apartments burn oil and gas, suck up electricity, and account for about one-fifth of the United States' total greenhouse gas emissions. But current attempts to green America's homes, including billions of dollars in tax credits for energy efficient appliances and retrofits, seem aimed at the affluent owners of detached, single-family homes — in short, Mad-
  
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• NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It

  04-06-2023 09:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot theodp writes: Writing for the masses in It's the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.), NY Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo explains that while A.I. might not spell the end of programming ("the world will still need people with advanced coding skills"), it could mark the beginning of a new kind of programming — "one that doesn't require us to learn code but instead transforms human-language instructions into software.""Wasn't coding supposed
  
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• Nigeria's Central Bank Explains Its 2021 Ban on Cryptocurrency Transactions at Banks

  04-06-2023 05:57 via news.slashdot.org
  
  In 2020 Nigeria had the third-most cryptocurrency transactions in the world (behind the U.S. and Russia). But "Nigeria's history with crypto has been a bittersweet one where the citizens have embraced digital assets with open arms but the government remains vehemently against it," writes the site Bitcoinist.
  In early 2021 the BBC reported that "In an effort to regulate the market, Nigeria's central bank banned banks from facilitating cryptocurrency-related transactions in 2017, but the ban remai
  
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• ARM Joins Linux Foundation's 'Open Programmable Infrastructure' Project

  04-06-2023 03:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  ARM has joined the Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure project, "a community-driven initiative focused on creating a standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks" based on programmable processor technologies like DPUs (Data Processing Units) and IPUs (Infrastructure Processing Units).
  From the Linux Foundation's announcement:
  Launched in June 2021 under the Linux Foundation, the project is focused on utilizing open software and standards, as wel
  
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• CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help

  04-06-2023 00:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "The world's most popular online learning course, Harvard University's CS50, is getting a ChatGPT-era makeover," reports Bloomberg:CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online, plans to use artificial intelligence to grade assignments, teach coding and personalize learning tips, according to its Professor David J. Malan... Even with more than 100 real-life teaching assistants, he said it had become difficult to fully engage wi
  
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• Renewable Energy Could Use 50% Less Land, Study Suggests

  03-06-2023 23:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post looks at a new study co-authored by Nels Johnson, senior practice adviser for renewable energy development at the Nature Conservancy nonprofit.Its underlying point: the current way of building renewables will not work."If we take the business-as-usual approach, land conflicts will probably prevent us from getting to these ambitious clean energy targets," said Jason Albritton, director of the Nature Conservancy's North American climate mitigation program and one of Johnson's c
  
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• Scientists Zap Sleeping Humans' Brains with Electricity to Improve Their Memory

  03-06-2023 22:59 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "A little brain stimulation at night appears to help people remember what they learned the previous day," reports NPR — a finding that could one day help people with memory problems, sleeps issues, or depression:A study of 18 people with severe epilepsy found that they scored higher on a memory test if they got deep brain stimulation while they slept, a team reports in the journal Nature Neuroscience.The stimulation was delivered during non-REM sleep, when the brain is thought to strengthe
  
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• Hundreds of Amazon Workers Staged a Walkout Wednesday

  03-06-2023 21:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Amazon employees staged a walkout Wednesday," reports CNBC, "in protest of the company's recent return-to-office mandate, layoffs and its environmental record."
  Approximately 2,000 employees worldwide walked off the job shortly after 3 p.m. EST, with about 1,000 of those workers gathering outside the Spheres, the massive glass domes that anchor Amazon's Seattle headquarters, according to employee groups behind the effort. Amazon disputed the figure and said about 300 employees participated.
  The
  
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• Red Hat is Dropping Its Support for LibreOffice

  03-06-2023 20:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  The Red Hat Package Managers for LibreOffice "have recently been orphaned," according to a post by Red Hat manager Matthias Clasen on the "LibreOffice packages" mailing list, "and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons behind this."
  The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat's desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are adjusting our engineering prior
  
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• ChatGPT is Already Taking Jobs

  03-06-2023 19:34 via slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post writes that "Some economists predict artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT could replace hundreds of millions of jobs, in a cataclysmic reorganization of the workforce mirroring the industrial revolution."For some workers, this impact is already here."Those that write marketing and social media content are in the first wave of people being replaced with tools like chatbots, which are seemingly able to produce plausible alternatives to their work.
  Experts say that ev
  
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• Uber Eats to Deploy 2,000 Autonomous Delivery Robots

  03-06-2023 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "If you live in San Jose, Dallas, or Vancouver, you may soon be sharing the sidewalk with an army of delivery robots," reports PC Magazine (citing a report from TechCrunch. Uber Eats is expanding its partnership with Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 zero-emission bots:Currently covering Los Angeles and San Francisco, Serve Robotics has been working with more than 200 California restaurants to dish out meals via the Uber Eats platform... Serve's sidewalk robots run seven days a week from 10 a
  
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• Boeing Delays Starliner Launch Again After Discovering Two Serious Problems

  03-06-2023 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "A Boeing official said Thursday that the company was 'standing down' from an attempt to launch the Starliner spacecraft on July 21," reports Ars Technica, "to focus on recently discovered issues with the vehicle."Starliner's program manager said they'd spent last weekend investigating the problems, and "after internal discussions that included Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun, the company decided to delay the test flight" carrying astronauts to the International Space Station.
  The issues see
  
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• 'RISE' Project Building Open Source RISC-V Software Announced by Linux Foundation Europe

  03-06-2023 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Linux Foundation Europe "has announced the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project to help facilitate more performant, commercial-ready software for the RISC-V processor architecture," reports Phoronix.
  "Among the companies joining the RISE Project on their governing board are Andes, Google, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Mediatek, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Rivos, Samsung, SiFive, T-Head, and Ventana."
  It's top goal is "accelerate the development of open source software for RISC-V," accordin
  
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• Japan Vending Machines To Automatically Offer Free Food If Earthquakes Hit

  03-06-2023 15:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Japan has extended its natural disaster preparations to vending machines, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major earthquake or typhoon. Two machines have been installed in the western coastal city of Ako, located in a region that seismologists say is vulnerable to a powerful earthquake that is expected to hit the country's central and south-west pacific coast in the next few decades. The machines, which contain about 30
  
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• Switzerland Is Turning the Gap Between Train Tracks Into a 'Solar Carpet'

  03-06-2023 12:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has developed a concept to install solar panels between train tracks, using a specially built train to "unroll" the panels during the night when fewer trains are running. Fast Company reports: As wild as it all sound, Sun-Ways actually has two competitors. Greenrail and Bankset Energy, respectively located in Italy and England, are already testing similar concepts. But Sun-Ways stands out in two ways. For one, it uses standard-size panels, whereas the others use smaller p
  
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• NASA UFO Team Calls For Higher Quality Data In First Public Meeting

  03-06-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: The truth may be out there about UFOs, or what the government currently calls "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAPs). But finding it will require collecting data that are more rigorous than the anecdotal reports that typically fuel the controversial sightings, according to a panel of scientists, appointed by NASA to advise the agency on the topic, that held its first public meeting [on Wednesday].The 16-person panel, created last year at the
  
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• Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles

  03-06-2023 05:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader MightyMartian shares a report from the New York Times: Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions (Source paywalled, alternative source), a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change are straining water supplies. The decision by state officials very likely
  
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• MS Paint Gets Its Long-Promised Dark Mode, Along With Other Improvements

  03-06-2023 04:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Windows Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels now have access to an updated version of MS Paint, featuring dark mode support and more granular zoom settings. The update also introduces a zoom slider in the lower-right corner of the app, a new Settings page, new keyboard shortcuts, and "many accessibility and usability improvements to dialogs throughout the app." Ars Technica reports: Paint's new dark mode is only subtly different from the version that Microsoft promised and pulled back in Augu
  
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• US To Stop Giving Russia Some New START Nuclear Arms Data

  03-06-2023 03:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  New submitter terrorubic shares a report from Reuters: The United States said it will stop providing Russia some notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including updates on its missile and launcher locations, to retaliate for Moscow's 'ongoing violations' of the accord. In a fact sheet on its website, the State Department said it would also stop giving Russia telemetry information - remotely gathered data about a missile's flight - on launches of U.S. inter
  
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• Meta Will Test Blocking News For Some Canadians

  03-06-2023 02:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  New submitter Peppercopia writes: CTV News is reporting that Meta will begin testing the blocking of news sites in Canada. If the argument is that the social media giants are unfairly benefitting from content from Canadian news organizations, this move should be moot as the 'stealing' would now be stopping. Unfortunately the opposite is likely the case, and the news organizations will find out how important the free traffic and promotion they are getting from social media giants really is. It fe
  
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• Music Pirates Are Not Terrorists, Record Labels Argue In Court

  03-06-2023 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, ordering the company to pay $1 billion in damages to the labels. This landmark ruling is currently under appeal. As part of the appeal, Cox informed the court of a supplemental authority that could support its position. The case in question is Twitter vs. Taamneh, in which the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the
  
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• YouTube Will Stop Removing False Presidential Election Fraud Claims

  03-06-2023 01:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  In a blog post today, YouTube said it will stop removing content that "advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections." The online video platform says that the "ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions, is core to a functioning democratic society -- especially in the midst of election season." The Verge reports: YouTube first introduced its election
  
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• Microsoft Is Finally Killing Cortana On Windows

  03-06-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In a support document today, Microsoft announced its ending support for Cortana on Windows in late 2023. "Cortana continues to live on in Outlook mobile, Teams mobile, Teams display, and Teams rooms," notes XDA Developers. From the report: In the support document announcing the end of the Cortana era, Microsoft notes that you'll still be able to access AI experiences in Windows 11, and calls out Windows Copilot by name. Alongside that, there's the new Bing, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and voice acces
  
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• US Judge Orders Lawyers To Sign AI Pledge, Warning Chatbots 'Make Stuff Up'

  03-06-2023 00:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal judge in Texas is now requiring lawyers in cases before him to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking their accuracy. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas issued the requirement on Tuesday, in what appears to be a first for the federal courts. In an interview Wednesday, Starr said that he created the requirement to warn lawyers that AI tools c
  
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• Dead Silicon Valley Unicorns Pile Up as 'Unicorpses'

  02-06-2023 23:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Now more than a year into the tech "correction," the denial phase is over. There appears to be a broad consensus that lower valuations are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But for well-capitalized private companies, it can take a while for the dominos to fall. We've started to see once highly valued businesses sell for disappointing outcomes or shut down altogether. There's a term for these erstwhile unicorns that have seen their valuations
  
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• Air Force Denies Running Simulation Where AI Drone 'Killed' Its Operator

  02-06-2023 22:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone "went rogue" and "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective." The US Air Force has denied that any simulation ever took place, and the original source of the story says he "misspoke." The story originated in a recap published on the website of the Royal Aer
  
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• Microsoft Stashes Nearly Half a Billion in Case LinkedIn Data Drama Hits

  02-06-2023 22:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has warned investors about a "non-public" draft decision by Irish regulators against LinkedIn for allegedly dodgy ad data practices, explaining it had set aside some cash to pay off any potential fine. From a report: How much? Oh, a mere $425 million. The software giant said the funds were connected to a 2018 investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) looking into whether LinkedIn's targeted advertising practices violated the the European Union's General Data Protecti
  
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• Google Wallet for Android Now Supports Digital IDs

  02-06-2023 21:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready for your digital driver's license and other US state IDs. Google says the feature is rolling out this month, and it will slowly start bringing states online this year. From a report: Of course, your state has to be one of the few that actually supports digital IDs. Google says Maryland residents can use the feature right now and that "in the coming months, residents of Arizona, Colorado and Georgia will join them." The road to digital driver's li
  
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• Apple Customers Say It's Hard To Get Money Out of Goldman Sachs Savings Accounts

  02-06-2023 20:40 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple's savings account, a partnership with Goldman Sachs, launched in April to great fanfare. Some customers say it has been hard to get their money out. From a report: Nathan Thacker, who lives outside Atlanta, had been trying to transfer $1,700 from his Apple account to JPMorgan Chase since May 15. Each time he called Goldman's customer service department, he said, he was told to give it a few more days. The money arrived in his Chase account Thursday morning, he said, after The Wall Street J
  
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