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• Europe Plans to Launch a Quantum Encryption Satellite for Ultrasecure Communications in 2024

  16-10-2022 23:41 via it.slashdot.org
  "Europe is aiming to launch a technology demonstration satellite for secure, quantum-encrypted communications in 2024," reports Space.com, "with a view to developing a larger constellation."
  The satellite, Eagle-1, will be the first space-based quantum key distribution (QKD) system for the European Union and could lead to an ultrasecure communications network for Europe, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).
  Eagle-1 will spend three years in orbit testing the technologie
  
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• Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult For AI

  16-10-2022 22:26 via slashdot.org
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: UNDARK has an interesting interview with NYU professor emeritus Gary Marcus (PhD in brain and cognitive sciences, MIT) about Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI. Marcus, who has had a front-row seat for many of the developments in AI, says we need to take AI advances with a grain of salt.
  Starting with GPT-3, Marcus begins, "I think it's an interesting experiment. But I think that people are led to believe that this system actually understands h
  
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• Man Alleging Poker Cheating Demands Better Security in Livestreamed Games

  16-10-2022 21:23 via games.slashdot.org
  Last week the Los Angeles Times published a sympathetic portrait of Robbi Jade Lew, the woman facing unproven allegations of cheating in a high-stakes poker match.
  This week they profiled the man making those accusations — Garrett Adelstein, known "as an affable guy who is known for taking even big losses in stride.""Garrett would have reacted normally if his opponent made a good, even heroic, call that cost him $100,000," said Jennifer Shahade, a pro poker player and chess champion. "I th
  
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• US Officials are Discussing How to Regulate Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins

  16-10-2022 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  America's Securities and Exchanges Commission received a letter Thursday from Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper urging clearer regulations of digital assets:The lawmaker asked the agency to clarify what types of digital assets are securities, address how to issue and list digital securities, establish a registration service for digital asset security trading platforms, set regulations on how trading and custody of digital assets should be carried out, and determine what disclosures are required
  
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• Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers

  16-10-2022 18:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16.
  Also Linux: Kernel 6.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 has been released and the biggest Amiga event of the year will be held upcoming weekend in Mönchengladbach, Germany: the Amiga37 event.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Also Joining a Silicon Valley Union: Waymo's Food Service Employees

  16-10-2022 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Food service employees at the autonomous driving company Waymo are forming a union," reports NBC News, calling it "the latest push by support workers to organize at Silicon Valley's most prominent companies."The cafeteria workers at the Mountain View-based company cite the high cost of living in the Bay Area and the lack of strong benefits while working for one of the world's most valuable companies. Waymo is owned by Google parent company, Alphabet.
  The workers are employed by Sodexo, which co
  
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• Can DNA Help Us Store Data for 1,000 Years?

  16-10-2022 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "You know you're a nerd when you store DNA in your fridge," says Dina Zielinski, a senior scientist in human genomics at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research tells the BBC — holding up a tiny vial with a light film at the bottom:But this DNA is special. It does not store the code from a human genome, nor does it come from any animal or virus. Instead, it stores a digital representation of a museum. "That will last easily tens of years, maybe hundreds," says Zielinsk
  
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• Bad DIMM on Linus Torvalds' Desktop System Moves Kernel Merges to His Laptop

  16-10-2022 13:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  When a kernel developer asked Linus Torvalds if he'd missed a Git pull, Torvalds "revealed the request was still in his queue as 'I'm doing merges (very slowly) on my laptop, while waiting for new ECC memory DIMMs to arrive,'" reports The Register:
  Torvalds needs the DIMMs because over the last few days he experienced what he described as "some instability on my main desktop... with random memory corruption in user space resulting in my allmodconfig builds randomly failing with internal compiler
  
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• Bad DIMM on Linus Torvalds' Desktop System Move Kernel Merges to His Laptop

  16-10-2022 13:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  When a kernel developer asked Linus Torvalds if he'd missed a Git pull, Torvalds "revealed the request was still in his queue as 'I'm doing merges (very slowly) on my laptop, while waiting for new ECC memory DIMMs to arrive,'" reports The Register:
  Torvalds needs the DIMMs because over the last few days he experienced what he described as "some instability on my main desktop... with random memory corruption in user space resulting in my allmodconfig builds randomly failing with internal compiler
  
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• Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe

  16-10-2022 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "For the last century the biggest bar fight in science has been between Albert Einstein and himself," reports the New York Times:On one side is the Einstein who in 1915 conceived general relativity, which describes gravity as the warping of space-time by matter and energy. That theory predicted that space-time could bend, expand, rip, quiver like a bowl of Jell-O and disappear into those bottomless pits of nothingness known as black holes. On the other side is the Einstein who, starting in 1905,
  
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• Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption

  16-10-2022 05:34 via it.slashdot.org
  "A researcher from cloud and endpoint protection provider WithSecure has discovered an unpatchable flaw in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption," reports VentureBeat. "The flaw enables a hacker to infer the contents of encrypted messages."
  OME uses the electronic codebook (ECB) block cipher, which leaks structural information about the message. This means if an attacker obtains many emails they can infer the contents of the messages by analyzing the location and frequency of patterns in the m
  
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• Pine64 Announces 'Sub-$10, Linux-Capable' SBC - the Ox64

  16-10-2022 03:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Pine64 has announced a new "sub $10 Linux capable single board computer" called the Ox64.
  Liliputing says the tiny SBC "looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi Pico. But while Raspberry Pi's tiny board is powered by an RP2040 microcontroller, the Ox64 has a dual-core RISC-V processor, 64MB of embedded RAM, and support for up to 128Mb of flash storage plus a microSD card for additional storage."It's expected to support RTOS and Linux and blurs the lines between a microcontroller and a (very low power) si
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse 'Sad' and 'Empty', Leaked Internal Documents Complain

  16-10-2022 00:52 via tech.slashdot.org
  It's been one year since Facebook changed its name to "Meta Platforms" remembers The Street. So after Mark Zuckerberg "bought the Oculus Quest VR headset, rebranded it Meta Quest, and formed Reality Labs solely to work on all projects related to the metaverse" — what happened next?
  Meta's shares and market value have dropped and Zuckerberg's personal fortune has shrunk, falling from $125 billion in January to $49.1 billion at last check, putting him No. 23 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Ind
  
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