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• 25% of Netflix Subscribers Planning To Leave Service, Survey Finds

  22-09-2022 23:22 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Netflix already lost 1.2 million subscribers in the first two quarters of 2022. While the company hopes to add one million new users with its new ad-supported tier, a survey shows that 1 in 4 Netflix users are planning to cancel their subscriptions this year. From a report: Here's what this could mean to other streaming services, such as Apple TV+. Reviews surveyed 1,000 Americans to gauge their streaming habits in 2022. According to the report, the average American is subscribed to four streami
  
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• DocuSign Names Former Google Executive Allan Thygesen As New CEO

  22-09-2022 23:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  DocuSign shares rose almost 5% in extended trading after the electronic signature software maker announced it has hired an Alphabet executive, Allan Thygesen, to be its next CEO. CNBC reports: The announcement comes three month after DocuSign said its CEO for the past five years, Dan Springer, was stepping down. Like other cloud software companies, DocuSign enjoyed a wave of greater interest among investors during the Covid pandemic as consumers and corporate workers became more reliant on digit
  
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• Mozilla Urges Action To Unpick Platform Browser Lock-ins

  22-09-2022 22:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  As antitrust regulators around the world dial up scrutiny of platform power, Mozilla has published a piece of research digging into the at times subtle yet always insidious ways operating systems exert influence to keep consumers locked to using their own-brand browsers rather than seeking out and switching to independent options -- while simultaneously warning that competition in the browser market is vital to ensure innovation and choice for consumers and, more broadly, protect the vitality of
  
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• Jamie Dimon Slams Crypto Tokens as 'Decentralized Ponzi Schemes'

  22-09-2022 22:00 via slashdot.org
  Jamie Dimon didn't mince words when a US lawmaker mentioned the executive's history of criticizing cryptocurrencies. From a report: "I'm a major skeptic on crypto tokens, which you call currency, like Bitcoin," the JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer said in congressional testimony Wednesday. "They are decentralized Ponzi schemes." Stablecoins -- digital assets tied to the value of the US dollar or other currencies -- wouldn't be problematic with the proper regulation, and JPMorgan is active
  
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• FDA Warns Against Cooking Chicken in NyQuil. For Real.

  22-09-2022 21:21 via news.slashdot.org
  The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to abuse nonprescription drugs as part of social-media challenges, including cooking chicken in NyQuil. From a report: The regulator issued a warning cautioning the public that social-media challenges where people misuse nonprescription medications can be dangerous or even fatal. It pointed to a recent challenge where people cook chicken in NyQuil or similar medications. The agency says that boiling a medication can make the drug more concen
  
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• 4-Day Workweek Brings No Loss of Productivity, Companies in Experiment Say

  22-09-2022 20:40 via slashdot.org
  More than 70 companies in Britain are undergoing a six-month experiment in which their employees get a paid day off each week. So far, most companies say it's going well. SpzToid shares a report: Most of the companies participating in a four-day workweek pilot program in Britain said they had seen no loss of productivity during the experiment, and in some cases had seen a significant improvement, according to a survey of participants published on Wednesday. Nearly halfway into the six-month tria
  
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• CISA Has Added One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog 

  22-09-2022 20:38 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: September 22, 2022
  CISA has added one new vulnerability to it's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: To view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in the "Date Added to Catalog" column, which will sort by descending dates.    
  
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• Microsoft CEO Is Confident About Activision Deal Approval, Handling of Economy

  22-09-2022 20:02 via slashdot.org
  Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said he's confident the company can gain regulatory approval for its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard even in the face of an in-depth regulatory probe in the UK. From a report: "Of course, any acquisition of this size will go through scrutiny, but we feel very, very confident that we'll come out," he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Nadella's prediction puts him at odds with investors' skepticism about the deal. While Acti
  
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• Inside Russia's Vast Surveillance State

  22-09-2022 19:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  A cache of nearly 160,000 files from Russia's powerful internet regulator provides a rare glimpse inside Vladimir V. Putin's digital crackdown. The New York Times: Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work. Roughly 800 miles east of Moscow, authorities in the Republic of Bashkortostan, one of Russia's 85 regions, were busy tabulating the mood of comments in social media messages. They marked down YouTube posts that they s
  
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• Twitter Discloses It Wasn't Logging Users Out of Accounts After Password Resets

  22-09-2022 18:41 via tech.slashdot.org
  Weeks after Twitter's ex-security chief accused the company of cybersecurity mismanagement, Twitter has now informed its users of a bug that didn't close all of a user's active logged-in sessions on Android and iOS after an account's password was reset. From a report: This issue could have implications for those who had reset their password because they believed their Twitter account could be at risk, perhaps because of a lost or stolen device, for instance. Assuming whoever had possession of th
  
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• Coinbase Tested Group To Speculate on Crypto

  22-09-2022 18:01 via news.slashdot.org
  Coinbase Global has been searching for new ways to make money. One business it flirted with was controversial: using its own money to speculate on cryptocurrencies. WSJ: Last year, Coinbase -- which operates a large cryptocurrency exchange that handles bitcoin and other digital coins -- hired at least four senior Wall Street traders and launched a group to generate profit, in part, by using the company's cash to trade and "stake," or lock up, cryptocurrencies, according to people close to the ma
  
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• Facebook Could Lift Trump's Suspension in January, Nick Clegg Says

  22-09-2022 17:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  Former President Donald Trump could be allowed back on Facebook once a suspension of his account expires in 2023, Nick Clegg of parent company Meta Platforms, said Thursday at an exclusive Semafor Exchange event in Washington, DC. From the report: As the company makes its decision, it will talk to experts, weigh the risk of real world harm and act proportionally, he said. It's the first time Clegg, who, as president of global affairs is charged with deciding whether to lift the limit, has public
  
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• CISA and NSA Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Control System Defense

  22-09-2022 16:59 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: September 22, 2022
  CISA and the National Security Agency (NSA) have published a joint cybersecurity advisory about control system defense for operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICSs). [Control System Defense: Know the Opponent] is intended to provide critical infrastructure owners and operators with an understanding of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by malicious cyber actors. This advisory builds on NSA and CISA 2021 guidance p
  
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• Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights

  22-09-2022 16:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  Facebook and Instagram's speech policies harmed fundamental human rights of Palestinian users during a conflagration that saw heavy Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip last May, according to a study commissioned by the social media sites' parent company Meta. From a report: "Meta's actions in May 2021 appear to have had an adverse human rights impact ... on the rights of Palestinian users to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, political participation, and non-discrimination, and therefore
  
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• ISC Releases Security Advisories for Multiple Versions of BIND 9

  22-09-2022 16:30 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: September 22, 2022
  The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security advisories that address vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of the ISC’s Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions. For advisories addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the BIND 9 Security Vulnerability Matrix.  CISA encourages users and administrators to review
  
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• Google's New Chromecast Costs $30 - and It Has a Remote

  22-09-2022 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google announced a new Chromecast with HD streaming support today that costs just $30 and has a remote control with it. From a report: The company is launching the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) -- yes, that's the official name -- in 19 countries including the U.S. This comes two years after Google launched a $49 Chromecast with 4K HDR streaming support and the introduction of a remote. The new Chromecast supports 1080p streaming, and more than 10,000 apps that are on the Google TV platform incl
  
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• CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  22-09-2022 15:00 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: September 22, 2022
  CISA has released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 22, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisory for technical details and mitigations:ICSA-22-265-01 Measuresoft ScadaPro ServerICSA-20-212-02 Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Engineering Software (Update
  
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• T-Mobile 5G Is Linking Wildfire-Detecting AI Cameras To Put Out Fires Faster

  22-09-2022 12:00 via news.slashdot.org
  T-Mobile has partnered with the startup Pano AI to spot wildfires before they get out of control. CNET reports: The startup Pano AI uses a series of cameras that survey the wilderness and AI algorithms that watch for telltale smoke -- an indicator of small blazes that could grow into raging wildfires. That footage is sent to the startup's headquarters for human confirmation, and if a fire is burning, evidence is sent to clients who could be affected. While Pano AI had been sending evidence photo
  
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• James Webb Telescope Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings In Decades

  22-09-2022 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  According to NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune's rings in more than 30 years. From the report: Most striking in Webb's new image is the crisp view of the planet's rings -- some of which have not been detected since NASA's Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989. In addition to several bright, narrow rings, the Webb image clearly shows Neptune's fainter dust bands. "It has been three decades since we last saw t
  
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• Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data

  22-09-2022 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via Motherboard, written by Joseph Cox: Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world's internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people's email data, browsing history, and other information such as their sensitive internet cookies, according to contracting data and other documents reviewed by Motherboard. Additionally, Sen. R
  
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• Microsoft Won't Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid 'Censorship' Cries

  22-09-2022 04:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  In an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company won't label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company is trying to censor speech online. From the report: "I don't think that people want governments to tell them what's true or false," Smith said when asked about Microsoft's role in defining disinformation. "And I don't think they're really interested in having tech companies tell them either." The comments are Smit
  
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• Ask.FM Database With 350 Million User Records Allegedly Sold Online

  22-09-2022 03:25 via it.slashdot.org
  A listing on a popular hacker forum offers 350 million Ask.FM user records for sale in what might be one of the biggest breaches of all time. Cybernews reports: The listing allegedly includes 350 million Ask.FM user records, with the threat actor also offering 607 repositories plus their Gitlab, Jira, and Confluence databases. Ask.FM is a question and answer network launched in June 2010, with over 215 million registered users. The posting also includes a list of repositories, sample git, and sa
  
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• Mozilla: YouTube's Dislike Button Largely Fails To Stop Unwanted Recommendations

  22-09-2022 02:45 via news.slashdot.org
  AmiMoJo shares a report from the Mozilla Foundation: YouTube's user controls -- buttons like "Dislike " and "Not interested" -- largely fail to help users avoid unwanted recommendations like misinformation and violent content, according to new research by Mozilla. An accompanying survey also found that YouTube's controls routinely frustrate and confuse users. Indeed, Mozilla's research found that people who are experiencing unwanted recommendations and turn to the platform's user controls for as
  
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• Bad Dreams in Middle Age Could Be Sign of Dementia Risk, Study Suggests

  22-09-2022 02:02 via science.slashdot.org
  People who experience frequent bad dreams in middle age may experience a faster rate of cognitive decline and be at higher risk of dementia as they get older, data suggests. If confirmed, the research could eventually lead to new ways of screening for dementia and intervention to slow the rate of decline. From a report: Most people experience bad dreams from time to time, but approximately 5% of adults experience nightmares -- dreams distressing enough to wake them up -- at least once a week. St
  
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• Site Tells You If Photos of You Were Used To Train AI

  22-09-2022 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Deepfakes, AI generated porn, and a thousand more innocent uses -- there's been a lot of news about neural network-generated images. It makes sense that people started getting curious; were my photos used to train the robots? Are photos of me in the image-generating training sets? A brand new site tries to give you an answer.Spawning AI creates image generation tools for artists, and the company just launched Have I Been Trained? which you can
  
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• Nvidia Unveils Drive Thor, One Chip To Rule All Software-Defined Vehicles

  22-09-2022 01:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nvidia is gearing up to deliver Drive Thor, its next-generation automotive-grade chip that the company claims will be able to unify a wide range of in-car technology from automated driving features and driver monitoring systems to streaming Netflix in the back for the kiddos. Thor, which goes into production in 2025, is notable not just because it's a step up from Nvidia's Drive Orin chip. It's also taking Drive Atlan's spot in the lineup. Nvi
  
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• iPhone 14 Pro Max Teardown Reveals Unused SIM Tray Area

  22-09-2022 00:40 via mobile.slashdot.org
  In an in-depth teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, iFixit provides a closer look at the device's internals. "Notably, the teardown includes a photo of the plastic spacer that replaced the SIM card tray on the U.S. model," reports MacRumors. From the report: All four iPhone 14 models sold in the U.S. no longer have a physical SIM card tray and rely entirely on digital eSIMs. The teardown confirms that Apple is not using the internal space freed up by the tray's removal for any other component or a
  
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• Kraken CEO Jesse Powell Steps Down

  22-09-2022 00:00 via slashdot.org
  Jesse Powell, co-founder of crypto exchange Kraken, is planning to step down as CEO, Kraken confirmed with CoinDesk. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the news. From the report: Kraken's current chief operating officer, Dave Ripley, will take over as CEO once someone is hired to fill Ripley's position. According to a press release issued by the company, Powell plans to remain involved with Kraken. He will become chairman of Kraken's board and will continue working on product development
  
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