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• NASA Says Dart Mission Succeeded In Shifting Asteroid's Orbit

  11-10-2022 23:20 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles from Earth succeeded in shifting the orbit of the space rock, Nasa said on Tuesday, announcing the results of its first such test. The US space agency strategically launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ("Dart") spacecraft into the path of the asteroid, thereby throwing it off course. Nasa hopes to be able to deflect any asteroid or comet that comes to pose a
  
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• SEC Investigating Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Over Securities Violations

  11-10-2022 22:44 via news.slashdot.org
  The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Yuga Labs over whether its Bored Ape Yacht Club Ethereum NFTs and the ApeCoin token are unregistered securities, according to Bloomberg. From a report: The report, which cites an unnamed source, claims that the agency is exploring whether the crypto startup broke federal law by issuing NFTs that act like stocks, as well as exploring the distribution of the Ethereum-based ApeCoin token that launched earlier this year. Yuga Labs
  
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• Google's 'Incognito' Mode Inspires Staff Jokes - and a Big Lawsuit

  11-10-2022 22:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  An email mocking Chrome browsing mode's faux privacy has surfaced in the courtroom. From a report: On International Data Privacy Day last year, an email popped into Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai's inbox from Google's marketing chief Lorraine Twohill full of ideas on gaining user trust. "Make Incognito Mode truly private," she wrote in a bullet point. "We are limited in how strongly we can market Incognito because it's not truly private, thus requiring really fuzzy, hedging language that
  
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• New Zealand Angers Its Farmers By Proposing Taxing Cow Burps

  11-10-2022 21:22 via science.slashdot.org
  New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. From a report: The government said the farm levy would be a world first, and that farmers should be able to recoup the cost by charging more for climate-friendly products. But farmers quickly condemned the plan. Federated Farmers, the industry's main lobby group, said the plan would "rip the guts out of small-town New Zealand" and se
  
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• Nike Moves To Crimp Resellers and Might Cancel Orders Made Using Bots

  11-10-2022 20:40 via slashdot.org
  Nike wants to keep a closer eye on resellers. In a sweeping update to its rules for U.S. shoppers this month, the sneaker giant said it could cancel orders placed with automated ordering software or technology on its website or apps. From a report: The company also said it could charge restocking fees, decline to issue refunds or suspend the accounts of people it determines are buying its shoes, apparel or other items with the intent to resell them. Orders that exceed product purchase limits --
  
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• Meta Announces Legs

  11-10-2022 20:16 via tech.slashdot.org
  Meta didn't hold back with their announcements at Meta Connect this year. As Facebook has done every year or so, the company is shaking up their avatar products. From a report: This year as Meta focuses more heavily on the metaverse, the company made a big addition to their updated higher-detail avatars: legs. The announcement that the avatars, which were previously floating torsos with arms and heads, now have evolved to walk was something Zuckerberg was very excited about with his avatar jumpi
  
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• Microsoft Releases October 2022 Security Updates

  11-10-2022 20:15 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: October 11, 2022
  Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s October 2022 Security Update Summary and Deployment Information and apply the necessary updates.  This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.
  
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• Epic Games and Match Look To Expand Their Antitrust Claims Against Google

  11-10-2022 19:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  Epic Games and Match Group are looking to fortify their antitrust lawsuits against Google by adding new counts to their initial complaint, filed last year, which illustrate the lengths Google supposedly went to in order to dominate the Android app market. From a report: The companies on Friday filed a motion to amend their complaints in their cases against Google, which now allege that Google paid off business rivals not to start other app stores that would put them in competition with Google Pl
  
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• Intel and Google Cloud Launch New Chip To Improve Data Center Performance

  11-10-2022 18:40 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Intel and Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient. From a report: The E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, takes over the work of packaging data for networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing. It also offers better security between different customers that may be sharing CPUs in the cloud, explained Google's vice president of engineering, Amin Vahdat. Chips are made up of b
  
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• Google Selects Coinbase To Take Cloud Payments With Cryptocurrencies and Will Use Its Custody Tool

  11-10-2022 18:09 via news.slashdot.org
  Google said Tuesday that it will rely on Coinbase to start letting some customers pay for cloud services with cryptocurrencies early in 2023, while Coinbase said it would draw on Google's cloud infrastructure. From a report: The deal, announced at Google's Cloud Next conference, might succeed in luring cutting-edge companies to Google in a fierce, fast-growing market, where Google's top competitors do not currently permit clients to pay with digital currencies. The cloud business helps diversify
  
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• Brands Are Spamming WhatsApp Users in India, Facebook's Largest Market

  11-10-2022 17:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  As Meta makes deeper inroads with businesses on WhatsApp, its biggest bet to monetize the instant messaging app with over 2 billion users, we are getting an early glimpse at how user experience might change on the free app. It's not great. From a report: Scores of people in India, WhatsApp's largest market by users with over 500 million accounts, have complained about getting too many spam texts from businesses in recent months. WhatsApp, which quickly displaced the SMS app in the country by off
  
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• Starlink Makes Maiden Asia Foray With Japan Launch

  11-10-2022 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  Starlink has debuted in Japan, making it the first Asian nation to receive SpaceX's satellite internet service. From a report: Much of the country's north, including Tokyo, can now receive Starlink's signals, according to a map the startup shared on Twitter. Other areas including southern Japan and Hokkaido are expected to receive the service by the fourth quarter, before neighboring South Korea early next year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Biden Proposal Could Lead To Employee Status for Gig Workers

  11-10-2022 16:01 via news.slashdot.org
  The Labor Department on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would make it more likely for millions of janitors, home-care and construction workers and gig drivers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors. From a report: Companies are required to provide certain benefits and protections to employees but not to contractors, such as paying a minimum wage, overtime, a portion of a worker's Social Security taxes and contributions to unemployment insurance. The proposed rule is e
  
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• A Turbine Prototype Just Broke a 24-Hour Wind Power World Record

  11-10-2022 15:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Siemens Gamesa's 14-222 DD offshore wind turbine prototype has, according to the Spanish-German wind giant today, set a world record for the most power output by a single wind turbine in a 24-hour period: 359 megawatt-hours. This would be enough energy, according to the company, for a mid-sized electric vehicle -- think a Tesla Model 3 -- to drive around 1.12 million miles (1.8 million km). Siemens Gamesa's huge wind turbine achieved this power
  
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• SpaceX Competitor Lynk Testing 5G Cellphone Service From Space

  11-10-2022 12:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Lynk, a competitor to the much larger SpaceX, plans to offer an experimental 5G cellular base station aboard a mission in December, working alongside an undisclosed cellular partner. Space.com reports: The experimental payload will launch on Lynk's second commercial satellite, company officials said. "This test will demonstrate the ability to send a 5G signal from space to standard mobile devices on Earth," Lynk officials wrote in late September. The test is a shot across the bow to SpaceX, whic
  
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• Stoke Space Aims To Build Rapidly Reusable Rocket With a Completely Novel Design

  11-10-2022 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman, former Blue Origin engineers and the founders of Stoke Space, are working to develop the first fully recyclable space rocket -- one that features a reusable first and second stage. Here's an excerpt from Ars Technica's exclusive report, written by Eric Berger: In the 20 months since its initial seed round of funding, Stoke has built a second-stage engine, a prototype for the second stage, turbopumps, and manufacturing facilities. It also increased its headcount to 72
  
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• Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats To US Government

  11-10-2022 05:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent its latest overview of notorious piracy markets to the US Government. The Hollywood group, which also represents Netflix, lists a broad variety of online piracy threats. Aside from traditional pirate sites, it also includes domain registries, hosting providers, advertisers, and apps. [...] The MPA report typically provides a detailed overview of the piracy landscape. This year, the USTR further a
  
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• More Than 4 In 10 PCs Still Can't Upgrade To Windows 11

  11-10-2022 04:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  Nearly 43 percent of millions of devices studied by asset management provider Lansweeper are unable to upgrade to Windows 11 due to the hardware requirements Microsoft set out for the operating system. The Register reports: Lansweeper said 42.76 percent of the estimated 27 million PCs it tested across 60,000 organizations failed the CPU test, albeit better than the 57.26 percent in its last test a year ago. Altogether 71.5 percent of the PCs failed the RAM test and 14.66 percent the TPM test. "W
  
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• Crypto and Payments Firm MobileCoin Launches Stablecoin -- 'Electronic Dollars'

  11-10-2022 03:25 via news.slashdot.org
  Privacy-focused cryptocurrency and payments firm MobileCoin, in collaboration with stablecoin platform Reserve, has launched a stablecoin dubbed "Electronic Dollars" (eUSD). CoinDesk reports: According to MobileCoin, eUSD is backed by a basket of other stablecoins, namely, USD coin (USDC), Pax dollar (USDP) and trueUSD (TUSD). Each transaction is said to be encrypted using end-to-end zero-knowledge encryption. In other words, only the transacting parties can see their own transactional data, tha
  
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• Doom Runs At 60 FPS In Notepad

  11-10-2022 02:45 via games.slashdot.org
  Game developer Sam Chiet has found another use for Microsoft Notepad. The ingenious creator has gotten Doom (1993) to run at 60 FPS through the boring text editor in Windows. Tom's Hardware reports: Chiet highlighted that he didn't have to modify the Notepad application. Dubbed "NotepadDOOM," the project is fully playable. Although Chiet didn't explain how the mod works, has committed to launching NotepadDOOM for other Doom fans to try out. Chiet said in a subsequent tweet that "it'll take some
  
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• Toyota Discloses Data Leak After Access Key Exposed On GitHub

  11-10-2022 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Toyota Motor Corporation is warning that customers' personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. Toyota T-Connect is the automaker's official connectivity app that allows owners of Toyota cars to link their smartphone with the vehicle's infotainment system for phone calls, music, navigation, notifications integration, driving data, engine status, fuel consumption,
  
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• Amazon To Invest Over 1 Billion Euros in European Electric Van, Truck Fleet

  11-10-2022 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon said on Monday it will invest more than 1 billion euros ($974.8 million) over the next five years in electric vans, trucks and low-emission package hubs across Europe, accelerating its drive to achieve net-zero carbon. From a report: The retailer said the investment was also aimed at spurring innovation across the transportation industry and encouraging more public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs). The U.S. online retailer said the investment would help its electric van
  
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• Upcoming Call of Duty Has Annoying Phone Number Verification Requirement

  11-10-2022 00:40 via games.slashdot.org
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II will require players to register with a phone number on Battle.net to play the game, in order to make players responsible for their actions. The game is set for release later this month on October 28th. The Verge reports: It's a repeat of the practice that caused issues for Overwatch 2 players last week, PCGamer reports. A Battle.net support page lists the upcoming CoD shooter as one of its three games that "require that you add a phone number to your Battle.net a
  
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• Germany's Cybersecurity Chief Faces Dismissal, Reports Say

  11-10-2022 00:00 via it.slashdot.org
  German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to dismiss the country's cybersecurity chief due to possible contacts with people involved with Russian security services, German media reported late on Sunday, citing government sources. Reuters reports: Arne Schoenbohm, president of the BSI federal information security agency, could have had such contacts through the Cyber Security Council of Germany, various outlets reported. Schoenbohm was a founder of the association, which counts as a member a Ge
  
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