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• Former Uber Exec Joe Sullivan Found Guilty of Concealing 2016 Data Breach

  05-10-2022 23:28 via yro.slashdot.org
  According to the New York Times, former chief security officer of Uber, Joe Sullivan, has been found guilty of hiding a 2016 data breach from authorities and obstructing an investigation by the FTC into the company's security practices. The breach affected more than 57 million Uber riders and drivers. From the report:Mr. Sullivan was deposed by the F.T.C. as it investigated a 2014 breach of Uber's online systems. Ten days after the deposition, he received an email from a hacker who claimed to ha
  
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• Over 50% of CEOs Say They're Considering Cutting Jobs Over the Next 6 Months - and Remote Workers May Be The First Go To

  05-10-2022 22:45 via slashdot.org
  Alarm sirens from the C-Suite about a looming recession are gaining volume in America and elsewhere, but calls back to the office for full-time work are a lot softer. Most CEOs across the globe shared the view that a recession is on the horizon and coming sooner than later, according to a Tuesday report from KPMG on business-leader outlooks. From a report: Nine in ten CEOs in the U.S. (91%) believe a recession will arrive in the coming 12 months, while 86% of CEOs globally feel the same way, acc
  
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• Google Answers Meta's Video-Generating AI With Its Own, Dubbed Imagen Video

  05-10-2022 22:24 via tech.slashdot.org
  Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given a text prompt(e.g., "a teddy bear washing dishes"). From a report:While the results aren't perfect -- the looping clips the system generates tend to have artifacts and noise -- Google claims that Imagen Video is a step toward a system with a "high degree of controllability" and world knowledge, including the ability to generate footage in a range of artistic
  
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• Robots Are Making French Fries Faster, Better Than Humans

  05-10-2022 21:21 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Fast-food French fries and onion rings are going high-tech, thanks to a company in Southern California. From a report: Miso Robotics in Pasadena has started rolling out its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the process of deep frying potatoes, onions and other foods. A big robotic arm like those in auto plants -- directed by cameras and artificial intelligence -- takes frozen French fries and other foods out of a freezer, dips them into hot oil, then deposits the ready-to-serve product into a tray
  
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• Apple's App Store Revenue Fell Last Month, Morgan Stanley Says

  05-10-2022 20:42 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple's App Store net revenue fell about 5% in September, according to Morgan Stanley, the steepest drop for the business since the bank started modeling the data in 2015. From a report: The App Store saw declines in markets including the U.S., Canada and Japan, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring wrote in a report Monday. His analysis was based on data from Sensor Tower, a firm that tracks app downloads and sales. Morgan Stanley said the main culprit for the drop was gaming revenue, which was
  
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• Apple's Tim Cook Latest CEO To Question the 'Metaverse'

  05-10-2022 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  While Meta funnels billions into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pitch for the metaverse, Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks most people couldn't even define the metaverse, let alone spend long periods of time living their lives inside of it. From a report: "I always think it's important that people understand what something is," Cook told Dutch publication Bright (via Google Translate). "And I'm really not sure the average person can tell you what the metaverse is." In other words, despite persistent reports of A
  
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• Computer-Driven Hedge Funds Surge Ahead Amid Chaotic Markets

  05-10-2022 19:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  A $200 billion corner of the hedge funds industry dominated by computer-driven algorithms has been making the most of wild swings in global markets, putting many of those funds on course for a record year of gains. From a report: Aspect Capital's Diversified Programme returned 5.2% last month to bolster its gains for this year to nearly 44%, according to an investor document. Tulip Trend Fund rose more than 58% through September, while the Lynx fund was up in excess of 45%, according to updates
  
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• Former Amazon Worker Gets Probation For Massive Capital One Hack

  05-10-2022 18:41 via it.slashdot.org
  A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation. From a report: U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time in prison would have been particularly difficult on her "because of her mental health and transgender status," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
  U.S. Attorney Nick Br
  
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• Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display

  05-10-2022 18:00 via linux.slashdot.org
  Intel laptop users running Linux are being advised to avoid running the latest Linux 5.19.12 stable kernel point release as it can potentially damage the display. From a report: Intel Linux laptop users on Linux 5.19.12 have begun reporting "white flashing" display issues with one user describing it as "[the] laptop display starts to blink like lights in a 90's rave party." Intel Linux kernel engineer Ville Syrjal posted this week on the kernel mailing list: "After looking at some logs we do end
  
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• Election Software Executive Arrested on Suspicion of Theft

  05-10-2022 17:21 via politics.slashdot.org
  The top executive of an elections technology company that has been the focus of attention among election deniers was arrested by Los Angeles County officials in connection with an investigation into the text, the county said on Tuesday. From a report: Eugene Yu, the founder and chief executive of Konnech, the technology company, was taken into custody on suspicion of theft, the Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascon, said in a statement.
  Konnech, which is based in Michigan, develops
  
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• Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds

  05-10-2022 16:40 via news.slashdot.org
  Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according to a report issued Monday by the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, giving the public its first glimpse into the growing problems at Zelle. From a report: The report also found that the large banks that partly own Zelle have been reluctant to compensate customers who have been victims of fraud or scams. For instance, less than half of the money customers reported being sent via Zelle
  
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• FBI and CISA Publish a PSA on Malicious Cyber Activity Against Election Infrastructure

  05-10-2022 15:21 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: October 5, 2022
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA have published a joint public service announcement that:Assesses malicious cyber activity aiming to compromise election infrastructure is unlikely to result in large-scale disruptions or prevent voting.Confirms “the FBI and CISA have no reporting to suggest cyber activity has ever prevented a registered voter from casting a ballot, compromised the integrity of any ballots cast, or aff
  
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• Google To Pay $85 Million To End Arizona Consumer-Privacy Suit

  05-10-2022 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet's Google will pay $85 million to resolve a consumer privacy suit by Arizona claiming the technology giant surreptitiously collects data on users' whereabouts for targeted advertising. The settlement comes as Google is facing similar complaints by a group of state attorneys general, including Texas, Indiana and Washington D.C., in their respective state courts, over user location data. Arizona accused Google in a May 2020 complaint of v
  
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded To 3 Scientists for Work 'Snapping Molecules Together'

  05-10-2022 13:58 via science.slashdot.org
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless on Wednesday for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry -- work that has "led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together," the Nobel committee said. The New York Times: Dr. Bertozzi is the eighth woman to be awarded the prize, and Dr. Sharpless is the fifth scientist to be honored with two Nobels, the committee noted. Johan Aqvist, the chair o
  
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• Basic Rust Support Merged For Upcoming Linux 6.1

  05-10-2022 12:00 via linux.slashdot.org
  "This Monday, the first set of patches to enable Rust support and tooling was merged for Linux 6.1," writes Slashdot reader sabian2008, sharing an update from longtime kernel developer Kees Cook: The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half. It's been updated based on feedback from the Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags. Miguel is the primary maintainer, with me helping where needed/wanted. Our plan is for the tree to sw
  
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• Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Triggered Global Tsunami

  05-10-2022 09:00 via news.slashdot.org
  The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high waves. Space.com reports: A new study led by University of Michigan scientists reveals that this tsunami scoured the ocean floor and left geologic traces as far away as New Zealand -- thousands of miles away from the impact site off what's now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The findings come from the fir
  
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• Rightsholders Asked Google To Remove Six Billion 'Pirate' Links

  05-10-2022 05:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Over the past decade, rightsholders have asked [Google] to remove six billion links to alleged copyright-infringing content. The majority of these requests were indeed removed or put on a preemptive blacklist. The six billion links were reported by 326,575 copyright holders who identified 4,041,845 separate domain names. These domains also include many false positives, including websites of The White House, the FBI, Disney, Netflix, the New
  
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• Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU

  05-10-2022 04:02 via news.slashdot.org
  Greg Lavender, CTO of Intel, spoke to VentureBeat about the company's efforts to help developers build applications that can run on any operating system. From the report: "Today in the accelerated computing and GPU world, you can use CUDA and then you can only run on an Nvidia GPU, or you can go use AMD's CUDA equivalent running on an AMD GPU,â Lavender told VentureBeat. "You can't use CUDA to program an Intel GPU, so what do you use?" That's where Intel is contributing heavily to the open
  
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• Canon Is Building Its First Lithography Plant In 21 Years

  05-10-2022 03:25 via slashdot.org
  Canon is about to begin constructing a new $345 million plant to build the equipment used in a crucial part of semiconductor manufacturing called lithography. PetaPixel reports: Lithography is the first step in building chips for everything from microwave ovens to defense systems. The machines involved in this process require incredibly precise steps and equally precise accuracy. It is part of what most people think of when they envision the large white clean rooms in processor manufacturing. Ac
  
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• Matter Smart Home Standard Officially Launches

  05-10-2022 02:45 via mobile.slashdot.org
  The Connectivity Standards Alliance and its members that include Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and other smart home manufacturers, today announced the official launch of the Matter 1.0 smart home accessory standard. MacRumors reports: Companies that have agreed to support Matter now have all of the resources that they need to begin implementing Matter into their platforms, so we could see Apple integrating Matter into HomeKit very soon. In fact, iOS 16.1 is already laying the groundwork for Ma
  
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• Arm Loses 40% of UK Staff Despite SoftBank Pledge To Grow Domestic Workforce

  05-10-2022 02:02 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Seeking Alpha: Arm, the chip design firm owned by SoftBank, has seen more than 40% of its U.K. workforce that it gained in recent years leave the company, the Financial Times reported (paywalled). SoftBank purchased Arm in 2016 for $32 billion and made a commitment to the U.K. government that it would double the company's British staff in five years, then at a level of 1,770 employees, the news outlet reported. By September 2021, U.K.-based staff had reac
  
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• Chess Grandmaster 'Likely Cheated' In More Than 100 Matches, Report Finds

  05-10-2022 01:20 via games.slashdot.org
  An investigation into the career of Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster embroiled in an alleged cheating scandal, has found a disturbingly widespread pattern of suspicious behavior far beyond what the 19-year-old had previously publicly admitted to. The Daily Beast reports: The 72-page report, compiled by online platform Chess.com and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, alleges that Niemann had "likely cheated" in more than 100 online matches, including several played for prize money. The Chess
  
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• Micron To Spend Up To $100 Billion To Build a Computer Chip Factory In New York

  05-10-2022 00:40 via slashdot.org
  Micron will spend up to $100 billion over at least the next two decades building a new computer chip factory in upstate New York, the state said on Tuesday. CNBC reports: The announcement, first reported by The New York Times, comes after the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a federal law championed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that allocates $52 billion to encourage more domestic semiconductor production. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra credited the passage of the la
  
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• 'The Onion' Files a Supreme Court Brief

  05-10-2022 00:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A man who was arrested over a Facebook parody aimed at his local police department is trying to take his case to the Supreme Court. He has sought help from an unlikely source, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday. "Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government?" the brief asked. "This was a surprise to America's Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team." The source
  
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