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• Starry Internet Cuts 500 Jobs, Half Its Workforce, and Cancels Big Expansion

  20-10-2022 23:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  Wireless home Internet provider Starry is cutting 500 employees, about half of its workforce, and canceling plans to expand into new states. Starry's board of directors yesterday approved the plan to cut 500 jobs, the Internet service provider said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. From a report: "The decision was based on cost-reduction initiatives intended to reduce operating expenses and allow the Company to focus on serving its existing core markets and customers," the fi
  
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• France Fines Clearview AI Maximum Possible For GDPR Breaches

  20-10-2022 22:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition firm that scrapes selfies and other personal data off the Internet without consent to feed an AI-powered identity-matching service it sells to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in Europe. From a report: This one comes after it failed to respond to an order last year from the CNIL, France's privacy watchdog, to stop its unlawful processing of French citizens' information and delete their data. Clearview responded to that
  
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• Amazon Faces $1 Billion Lawsuit in UK For 'Favouring Its Own Products'

  20-10-2022 22:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon is facing a lawsuit in Britain for damages of up to 900 million pounds ($1 billion) over allegations the online marketplace abused its dominant position by favouring its own products, lawyers said. From a report: Consumer rights advocate Julie Hunter plans to bring the collective action on behalf of British consumers who have made purchases on Amazon since October 2016, lawyers representing her said. The proposed case - which Amazon said was "without merit" - would be the latest mass acti
  
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• GPS Interference Caused the FAA To Reroute Texas Air Traffic

  20-10-2022 21:20 via it.slashdot.org
  The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of mysterious GPS interference that, over the past few days, has closed one runway at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and prompted some aircraft in the region to be rerouted to areas where signals were working properly. From a report: The interference first came to light on Monday afternoon when the FAA issued an advisory over ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service). It warned flight personnel and air traffic contro
  
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• Indonesia Bans All Syrup Medicines After Death of 99 Children

  20-10-2022 20:40 via science.slashdot.org
  The deaths of nearly 100 children in Indonesia have prompted the country to suspend sales of all syrup and liquid medication. From a report: It comes just weeks after a cough syrup in The Gambia was linked to the deaths of nearly 70 children. Indonesia said some syrup medicine was found to contain ingredients linked to acute kidney injuries (AKI), which have killed 99 young children this year. It is not clear if the medicine were imported or locally produced. On Thursday, Indonesian health offic
  
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• SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad

  20-10-2022 19:36 via science.slashdot.org
  SpaceX continues to expand its satellite-internet constellation with its 186th overall launch. From a report: SpaceX's 100th launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station featured a set of 54 Starlink satellites, which launched to orbit on Thursday (Oct. 20) at 10:51 a.m. EDT (1451 GMT). "With the completion of today's launch, it marks SpaceX's 48th successful Falcon 9 mission of 2022," SpaceX Space Operations Engineer Siva Bharadvaj said during live comment
  
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• Microsoft Disputing Just How Big Its Customer Data Leak Was

  20-10-2022 19:25 via it.slashdot.org
  Microsoft says that an unspecified amount of customer data, including contact info and email content, was recently left exposed to potential access over the internet as a result of a server configuration error. From a report: Cybersecurity vendor SOCRadar, which reported the data leak to Microsoft, said in a blog post that data belonging to more than 65,000 companies was affected. Microsoft, however, said in its own post that SOCRadar "has greatly exaggerated the scope of this issue." Microsoft
  
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• Foxconn Has a New Vision For Whatever is Going On in Wisconsin

  20-10-2022 18:44 via slashdot.org
  Nilay Patel, reporting for The Verge: It has never been clear what Foxconn is attempting to do in Wisconsin, and every time the company or one of its executives tries to explain it, things have just gotten weirder. For example, the company has said for years that its empty warehouse in southeastern Wisconsin is the centerpiece of an "AI 8K+5G" strategy, without ever explaining what that means. (Nothing. It means nothing.)
  Anyway, throw that mystery out of your brain because AI 8K+5G has been com
  
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• Stripe Takes Steps To Prune Workforce

  20-10-2022 18:26 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: As the economy slows, more tech companies have been showing employees the door. Now some senior leaders at Silicon Valley fintech giant Stripe, which in early 2021 was valued by private investors at $95 billion, have asked managers to start giving lower ratings on performance reviews, current and former employees say. That move could lead to more people being fired or feeling pressured to quit and comes at a time when tech businesses, particularly Stripe's pa
  
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• Texas Sues Google for Allegedly Capturing Biometric Data of Millions Without Consent

  20-10-2022 17:25 via news.slashdot.org
  Texas has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet's Google for allegedly collecting biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent, the attorney general's office said in a statement on Thursday. From a report: The complaint says that companies operating in Texas have been barred for more than a decade from collecting people's faces, voices or other biometric data without advanced, informed consent. "In blatant defiance of that law, Google has, since at least 2015, collected biome
  
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• India Fines Google For Anti-Competitive Practices on Android

  20-10-2022 16:58 via tech.slashdot.org
  India's antitrust watchdog fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices in "multiple markets" in a major setback for the search giant in the key overseas nation where it has poured billions of dollars over the past decade. From a report: The Competition Commission of India, which began investigating Google several years ago after complaints from local firms, said in its order that Google requiring device manufacturers to pre-install its
  
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• Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

  20-10-2022 15:30 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: October 20, 2022
  Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR and Firefox. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial-of-service conditions.CISA encourages users and administrators to review Mozilla’s security advisories for Firefox ESR 102.4 and Firefox 106 for mitigations and updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.
  
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• TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China

  20-10-2022 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: TikTok users would still risk having personal data exposed to hacking and espionage by China even if the Biden administration forges a security agreement designed to spare the video platform from a total US ban. That's the conclusion of former national security officials and other experts as the Justice Department reviews an accord that would keep the popular video-streaming app, which is owned by China's ByteDance, accessible to its millions o
  
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• Liz Truss Says She Will Resign as UK Prime Minister

  20-10-2022 14:54 via politics.slashdot.org
  Prime Minister Liz Truss announced on Thursday that she would resign, just days after her new finance minister reversed virtually all of her planned tax cuts, sweeping away a free-market fiscal agenda that promised a radical policy shift for Britain but instead plunged the country into weeks of economic and political turmoil. From a report: "I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected," she said in brief remarks outside Downing Street. She said she had informed King Charles III that she
  
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• CISA Requests for Comment on Microsoft 365 Security Configuration Baselines

  20-10-2022 14:33 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: October 20, 2022
  CISA has issued requests for comment (RFCs) on eight Microsoft 365 security configuration baselines as part of the Secure Cloud Business Application (SCuBA) project to secure federal civilian executive branch agencies’ (FCEB) cloud environments. The baselines:•    Build on and integrate previous security configuration baselines developed by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council’s Cyber Innovation Tiger Team (CITT).&
  
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• Intel Sued Over Historic DEC Chip Site's Future

  20-10-2022 12:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Intel is being taken to court in Massachusetts over its proposals to build a distribution and logistics warehouse on the site of its defunct R&D offices and chip factory that closed in 2013. The Register reports: At the heart of this showdown are claims by townsfolk that Intel has not revealed to the surrounding community what exactly it intends to build, and that the land is supposed to be used for industry and manufacturing yet it appears a huge commercial warehouse will be built instead.
  
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• Transparent Wood Could Soon Replace Plastics

  20-10-2022 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Transparent wood promises to be an environmentally friendly substitute for glass or plastic used for making car windshields, see-through packaging and biomedical devices, according to a study. Phys.Org reports: Originally fabricated in 1992 by German scientist Siegfried Fink and since improved upon by other researchers, transparent wood is made by removing the lignin content in wood and replacing it with transparent, plastic materials. Lignin is a naturally occurring biopolymer which supports pl
  
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• Crustacean Decimation Due To Climate-Change-Driven Cannibalization

  20-10-2022 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  Last week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. "Officials suggested that a combination of climate change and some kind of crustacean health crisis might be to blame," reports TIME Magazine. "But that's only part of the story, says Wes Jones, the Fisheries, Research, and Development Director for the Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation." The most immediate cause of their death: "a mass cannibalism fre
  
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• The World's Largest Single-Phase Battery Is Now Up and Running

  20-10-2022 04:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Meet Crimson Storage, the world's largest single-phase battery, which is now live in the California desert. Electrek reports: Crimson Storage is also the second-largest energy storage project currently in operation of any configuration. The 350 megawatt (MW)/1400 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery storage project, which sits on on 2,000 acres west of Blythe in Riverside County, broke ground in 2021. Canadian Solar oversaw construction and provided the battery energy storage systems, and Axium Infrastru
  
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• RIP Apple TV HD: Apple Went All-In On 4K Yesterday

  20-10-2022 03:25 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  The Apple TV HD (also called the fourth-generation Apple TV) is no longer available in Apple's US store after the addition of an updated Apple TV 4K yesterday. Ars Technica reports: The Apple TV HD debuted in 2015, and it was the first Apple TV to run tvOS, with its own App Store. Up until its discontinuation this week, it included a now-aging A8 chip (the one from the iPhone 6). By contrast, the new Apple TV 4K has the A15 chip found in the iPhone 13; it's dramatically faster. The 2015 model wa
  
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• BMW Will Build a $1.7 Billion EV Battery Factory In South Carolina

  20-10-2022 02:45 via hardware.slashdot.org
  BMW says it will make batteries for its electric vehicles at a factory in South Carolina in the latest move by a major automaker to localize EV production in the United States. The Verge reports: The German company plans to invest $1.7 billion in the US, including $1 billion for EV production at BMW's Spartanburg plant and $700 million for a new battery-assembly facility in nearby Woodruff. By 2030, BMW says it will have at least six electric models in production in the US. Establishing a US-bas
  
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• AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker

  20-10-2022 02:02 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: [AT&T] was fined $23 million for bribing a state lawmaker's ally in order to secure a key policy vote. According to a deferred prosecution agreement, the vote in question was a 2017 vote on Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) legislation that would have eliminated AT&T's obligation to continue to provide landline service to all state residents. AT&T of course wants to be free of having to provide dated landlines. Consumer groups are quick
  
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• Firefox 106 Is Now Available With PDF Annotation, Firefox View

  20-10-2022 01:20 via news.slashdot.org
  Firefox 106 is now available for download, bringing various new features and enhancements, such as a new PDF editing feature and new way to organize recently closed tabs. 9to5Linux reports: Mozilla says that Firefox 106 finally brings the long-anticipated two-finger swipe horizontal gesture for navigating back and forward on a website without having to hold down the Alt key. [...] Firefox 106 also introduces annotation capabilities to the built-in PDF viewer so you can write text, draw, or add s
  
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• Former Celsius Exec Joins JPMorgan As Director of Crypto Regulatory Policy

  20-10-2022 00:40 via news.slashdot.org
  Former Celsius executive Aaron Iovine has joined JPMorgan Chase & Co as executive director of digital assets regulatory policy, according to his LinkedIn profile, days after the bank's Chief Executive Jamie Dimon blasted cryptocurrencies as fraud and decentralized ponzi schemes. Reuters reports: Iovine was head of policy and regulatory affairs at bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, which he left in September after an eight-month stint. Celsius filed for bankruptcy in July, as risk assets includi
  
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• How GitHub Copilot Could Steer Microsoft Into a Copyright Storm

  20-10-2022 00:02 via developers.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Register: GitHub Copilot -- a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet -- has been caught generating what appears to be copyrighted code, prompting an attorney to look into a possible copyright infringement claim. On Monday, Matthew Butterick, a lawyer, designer, and developer, announced he is working with Joseph Saveri Law Firm to investigate the possibility of filing a copyright claim against GitHub. There are
  
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