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• $80M Fund Backs OrangeDAO's Revolutionary Plan to Mentor and Invest in Web3 Enterpreneurs

  05-11-2022 23:34 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from long-time tech pundit Robert X. Cringley. "A Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) called OrangeDAO is cooperating with a small seed venture fund called Press Start Capital to establish the OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs.
  "Successful applicants get $25,000 each plus 10 weeks of structured mentorship plus continued access to the more than 1200-member OrangeDAO network. In exchange, OrangeDAO and Press Start
  
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• New Features In Rust Include Generic Associated Types (GATs) After Six-Year Wait

  05-11-2022 22:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  The newest stable version of Rust, 1.65.0 includes generic associated types (GATs) — the ability to declare lifetime, type, and const generics on associated types. "It's hard to put into few words just how useful these can be," writes the official Rust blog.
  An earlier post pointed out that "There have been a good amount of changes that have had to have been made to the compiler to get GATs to work," noting that the request-for-comments for this feature was first opened in 2016.
  And Rust's
  
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• Apple Kills Fan's Long-Time Archive of WWDC Videos on YouTube

  05-11-2022 21:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  "An Apple archivist has had his YouTube account disabled after Apple filed multiple takedown requests against his account," reports the blog Apple Insider:Brendan Shanks, owner of the Apple WWDC Videos channel on YouTube, tweeted that Apple had filed a series of copyright removal requests against his channel. The videos in question were decades-old recordings of WWDC events.
  "I still have all the original files (and descriptions, which were a lot of work!), and I'll be moving things over to the
  
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• US May Soon Push Ambitious Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech in Congress

  05-11-2022 20:34 via news.slashdot.org
  America's federal government "is planning a post-midterms push for antitrust legislation that would rein in the power of the world's largest tech companies," reports Bloomberg, "a last-ditch effort to get a stalled pair of bills through Congress before a predicted Republican takeover in January."The lame-duck period after Tuesday's U.S. election may be the last shot to pass the landmark legislation, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and Open App Markets Act. The bills, which would pr
  
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• Smaller, Safer Nuclear Energy Reactor Designed by Utah Professor

  05-11-2022 19:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader thedarklaser writes:A chemical engineering professor at Utah's BYU has
  created a nuclear reactor design that could produce enough energy for 1000 homes in the space of 4 feet by 7 feet. And there's a bonus: potentially no nuclear waste or risk of melt down.
  They use molten salt that bonds with the dissolved fuel. Then, very valuable Molybdenum-99 (as in $30 million per gram) can be extracted from that salt and sold for use in medical imaging.
  Additionally, this system is very ine
  
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• Pfizer Study Says the Updated COVID Boosters Significantly Rev Up Protection

  05-11-2022 18:34 via science.slashdot.org
  The Associated Press reports that Pfizer's updated COVID-19 booster "significantly revved up adults' virus-fighting antibodies, the company said Friday, releasing early findings from a rigorous study of the new shots."
  Booster doses tweaked to target the most common omicron strain rolled out in early September, and the Food and Drug Administration said the latest data should spur more Americans to get one — especially before another expected wave of cases as people travel for Thanksgiving.
  
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• Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices

  05-11-2022 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Linux magazine explores how to breath fresh life into old Android devices:
  Every mobile device needs its own Android build because of numerous drivers that are not available in the source code. The need to maintain every version of Android for every mobile device means that many manufacturers eventually stop supporting updates. Often, smartphones or tablets that still work perfectly can no longer be used without worry because the manufacturer has simply ceased to offer bug fixes and security upd
  
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• Is Iran Tracking and Controlling Its Protesters' Phones?

  05-11-2022 16:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  The Intercept reports that protesters in Iran "have often been left wondering how the government was able to track down their locations or gain access to their private communications — tactics that are frighteningly pervasive but whose mechanisms are virtually unknown."
  But The Intercept now has evidence of a new possibility:
  While disconnecting broad swaths of the population from the web remains a favored blunt instrument of Iranian state censorship, the government has far more precise, s
  
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• Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale'

  05-11-2022 15:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  "Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is being sued in a class action lawsuit that claims the AI product is committing software piracy on an unprecedented scale," reports IT Pro.
  Programmer/designer Matthew Butterick filed the case Thursday in San Francisco, saying it was on behalf of millions of GitHub users potentially affected by the $10-a-month Copilot service:The lawsuit seeks to challenge the legality of GitHub Copilot, as well as OpenAI Codex which powers the AI tool, and has been filed against Git
  
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• British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK

  05-11-2022 14:00 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. The goal is to assess UK's vulnerability to cyber-attacks and to help the owners of Internet-connected systems understand their security posture. "These activities cover any internet-accessible system that is hosted within the
  
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• Google Plans Giant AI Language Model Supporting World's 1,000 Most Spoken Languages

  05-11-2022 11:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world's "1,000 most spoken languages." The Verge reports: As a first step towards this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which it describes as "the largest language coverage seen in a speech model today." [...] Google's "1,000 Languages Initiative" is not focusing on any particular functionality, but instead on creating a single system with huge breadth of
  
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• Boeing's Starliner Launch Pushed Back To April 2023

  05-11-2022 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner has been delayed again, this time being pushed back to April 2023 from an earlier planned launch date of February. The Register reports: The change came with little announcement from NASA, which tweeted out the new date as a scheduling update without any additional details. In an accompanying blog post, NASA said the change was being made to eliminate conflicts between "visiting spacecraft traffic at the space station," but the agency didn't elaborat
  
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• Swedish Engineer Creates Playable Accordion From 2 Commodore 64 Computers

  05-11-2022 04:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Akesson unveiled a playable accordion -- called "The Commodordion" -- he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a bellows made of floppy disks taped together. A demo of the hack debuted in an 11-minute YouTube video where Akesson plays a Scott Joplin ragtime song and details the instrument's creation.A fair amount of custom software engineering and hardware ha
  
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• Web3 Gaming Studio Mythical Games Lays Off 10% of Its Employees

  05-11-2022 02:25 via slashdot.org
  Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games has let go of 10% of its roughly 320 employees. CoinDesk reports: The firm cited the economic downturn, likely exacerbated by the harsh crypto winter, as the reason for the layoffs.
  "[We] have had to reevaluate and restructure some areas in our business accordingly," a spokesperson from Mythical told CoinDesk. "Unfortunately, as a result, we had to make the painful decision to let some of the members of our team go." Further reading: A Host of Tech Companies, In
  
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• LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

  05-11-2022 01:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  LinkedIn is rolling out new features to combat a surge in AI-generated bot accounts, writes Brian Krebs. "Many LinkedIn profiles now display a creation date, and the company is expanding its domain validation offering, which allows users to publicly confirm that they can reply to emails at the domain of their stated current employer." From the report: LinkedIn's new "About This Profile" section -- which is visible by clicking the "More" button at the top of a profile -- includes the year the acc
  
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• India Gambles On Building a Leading Drone Industry

  05-11-2022 01:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  The Indian government wants to develop a home-grown industry that can design and assemble drones and make the components that go into their manufacture. The BBC reports: "Drones can be significant creators of employment and economic growth due to their versatility, and ease of use, especially in India's remote areas," says Amber Dubey, former joint secretary at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. "Given its traditional strengths in innovation, information technology, frugal engineering and its huge
  
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• Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To 'Ignore' Web3, It's 'Not the Web at All'

  05-11-2022 00:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, said Friday that he doesn't view blockchain as a viable solution for building the next iteration of the internet. From a report: He has his own web decentralization project called Solid. "It's important to clarify in order to discuss the impacts of new technology," said Berners-Lee, speaking onstage at the Web Summit event in Lisbon.
  "You have to understand what the terms mean that we're discussin
  
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