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• Investors Withdraw Millions From FTX As Binance Begins Liquidating FTT Token

  07-11-2022 23:40 via slashdot.org
  Hot on the heels of Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao declaring that Binance is liquidating its stash of FTX's native exchange token FTT, mass withdrawals from FTX have accelerated, with weekly stablecoin outflows from FTX reaching a whopping $451 million, according to Nansen data. Conversely, Binance has seen net inflows of more than $411 million over the same period. Decrypt reports: This mass exiting of tokens from the FTX exchange comes amid reports that Alameda Research, the trading firm foun
  
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• Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms

  07-11-2022 23:02 via politics.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The user on Gab who identifies as Nora Berka resurfaced in August after a yearlong silence on the social media platform, reposting a handful of messages with sharply conservative political themes before writing a stream of original vitriol. The posts mostly denigrated President Biden and other prominent Democrats, sometimes obscenely. They also lamented the use of taxpayer dollars to supportUkraine in its war against invading Russian f
  
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• Low Notes Really Do Get People Dancing, Research Finds

  07-11-2022 22:21 via science.slashdot.org
  When it comes to getting into the groove on the dancefloor, it really is all about the bass, researchers have found. From a report: Scientists say when very low frequency (VLF) sound was introduced during a live electronic music event, gig-goers moved more even though they could not hear the frequencies. "This is real world -- real electronic music dance concert -- validation that the bass really does make people dance more, and this isn't just something that comes from our conscious awareness,"
  
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• A Total Lunar Eclipse is Happening Tuesday - and It Won't Happen Again For 3 Years

  07-11-2022 21:41 via science.slashdot.org
  A total lunar eclipse is happening Tuesday, and it might be a good time to catch a peek, because the next one isn't for three years. From a report: The initial phase of the eclipse begins at 3:02 a.m. ET, according to NASA. The partial eclipse then begins at 4:09 a.m. ET, when to the naked eye, it looks like a bite is being taken out of the moon. The lunar disk enters totality at 5:17 a.m. ET and will last for about an hour and a half. People in North America, Central America, Colombia, and west
  
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• Michael Bloomberg Announces a New Initiative To Phase Out Coal in 25 Countries

  07-11-2022 21:00 via news.slashdot.org
  Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and now a special envoy on climate change for the United Nations, announced a new international plan on Monday to help 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America phase out coal by 2040. From a report: The announcement from Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire philanthropist who has given more than $500 million to help end coal use in the United States, did not include a new financial pledge. Instead, he said, the initiative will focus on helping d
  
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• Age of Empires is 25 Years Old and Fans Are Shaping the Franchise

  07-11-2022 20:21 via games.slashdot.org
  It's been 25 years since a small studio in Dallas recast the ancient world through the prism of a real-time strategy game. From a report: Age of Empires has echoed Monk wololos about our homes ever since: Parents believed that their kids were learning history; kids believed that they were gaming surreptitiously. And veteran players know that both were right. Yet Age of Empires did not always receive the love it does today. The rise of the Xbox saw PC gaming take a back seat for Microsoft: Commun
  
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• Chinese Chip Designers Slow Down Processors To Dodge US Sanctions

  07-11-2022 19:42 via news.slashdot.org
  Cutting-edge semiconductor companies tweak specs to comply with export controls. From a report: Alibaba and start-up Biren Technology are tweaking their most advanced chip designs to reduce processing speeds and avoid US-imposed sanctions aimed at suppressing Chinese computing power. Alibaba, Biren, and other Chinese design houses have spent years and millions of dollars creating the blueprints for advanced processors to power the country's next generation of supercomputers, artificial intellige
  
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• Bar-tailed Godwit Sets World Record With 13,560km Continuous Flight

  07-11-2022 19:05 via science.slashdot.org
  A juvenile bar-tailed godwit -- known only by its satellite tag number 234684 -- has flown 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania without stopping, appearing to set a new world record for marathon bird flights. From a report: The five-month-old bird set off from Alaska on 13 October and satellite data appeared to show it did not stop during its marathon flight which took 11 days and one hour. Tagged in Alaska, the bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica, flew at least 13,5
  
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• Fast Fashion Waste Is Choking Developing Countries With Mountains of Trash

  07-11-2022 18:28 via news.slashdot.org
  Less than 1% of used clothing gets recycled into new garments, overwhelming countries like Ghana with discards. From a report: It's a disaster decades in the making, as clothing has become cheaper, plentiful and ever more disposable. Each year the fashion industry produces more than 100 billion apparel items, roughly 14 for every person on Earth and more than double the amount in 2000. Every day, tens of millions of garments are tossed out to make way for new, many into so-called recycling bins.
  
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• Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard

  07-11-2022 17:40 via science.slashdot.org
  Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced on Friday that they had discovered the closest known black hole. It is a biggie, a shell of yawning emptiness 10 times as massive as the sun, orbiting as far from its own star as the Earth is from ours. From a report: Not to worry, however: This black hole is 1,600 light-years away, in the constellation Ophiuchus; the next nearest known black hole is about 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. What sets this new b
  
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• We're On a Highway To Climate Hell, UN Boss Says

  07-11-2022 17:03 via news.slashdot.org
  United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. From a report: The speech set an urgent tone as governments sit down for two weeks of talks on how to avert the worst of climate change, even as they are distracted by Russia's war in Ukraine, rampant consumer inflation and energy shortages. "Humanity has a c
  
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• US Attorney Announces $3.36 Billion Crypto Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud

  07-11-2022 15:47 via yro.slashdot.org
  Department of Justice, announcing through a press release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Tyler Hatcher, the Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office ("IRS-CI"), announced today that JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace. ZHONG pled guilty on Friday, No
  
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• Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing To Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

  07-11-2022 15:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  Meta is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, WSJ reported over the weekend, citing people familiar with the matter, in what could be the largest round in a recent spate of tech job cuts after the industry's rapid growth during the pandemic. From the report: The layoffs are expected to affect many thousands of employees and an announcement is planned to come as soon as Wednesday, according to the people. Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September. Company officia
  
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• Lab-grown Blood Given To People in World-First Clinical Trial

  07-11-2022 15:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say. From a report: Tiny amounts -- equivalent to a couple of spoonfuls -- are being tested to see how it performs inside the body. The bulk of blood transfusions will always rely on people regularly rolling up their sleeve to donate. But the ultimate goal is to manufacture vital, but ultra-rare, blood groups that are hard to get hold of. These are necessary for people who depend on
  
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• 'Hey Siri' to Become Just 'Siri'

  07-11-2022 13:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  "Apple is working on a big change to how its Siri voice assistant works," reports the blog 9 to 5 Mac:While you currently have to say "Hey Siri" to activate the assistant hands-free, that may not be the case for much longer. Bloomberg reports today that Apple engineers are working to drop the "Hey" part of the phrase, so you'd only have to say "Siri" followed by a command to activate the assistant...
  In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that this is "a t
  
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• China Criticized For 'Unplanned' Tumbling of Its Booster Rockets Back to Earth

  07-11-2022 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  China launched the final module for its space station last Monday. But this also meant that a massive booster rocket re-entered the earth's atmosphere, notes the Washington Post — "for the fourth time in less than three years."
  This one came down in the Pacific Ocean shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, and "there were no initial reports of damage or injuries. "But its return to Earth highlighted a tension among space faring nations over China's practice of letting its spent rockets tumble back to
  
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• Depite EVs, People Are Buying Manual Transmission Vehicles

  07-11-2022 06:04 via tech.slashdot.org
  Manual transmissions are "the ultimate driver-car connection," argues the chief marketing manager for Nissan's Z sports car, "where you really feel like a part of the vehicle and can control it in ways you wouldn't be able to with an automatic." He tells ABC News that "As long as there are still new internal combustion engine vehicles on the market, there will be an interest in manual transmissions."
  Ah, but isn't that just another way of saying that "It's inevitable EVs are going to take over a
  
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• Could 'Ghost Particle' Neutrinos Crashing Into Antarctica Change Astronomy Forever?

  07-11-2022 03:34 via science.slashdot.org
  CNET reports on how research in Antarctica "could change astronomy forever":About 47 million light-years from where you're sitting, the center of a black-hole-laden galaxy named NGC 1068 is spitting out streams of enigmatic particles. These "neutrinos" are also known as the elusive "ghost particles" that haunt our universe but leave little trace of their existence.... Nestled into about 1 billion tons of ice, more than 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) beneath Antarctica, lies the IceCube Neutrino Obser
  
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• New York City Finally Proposes Strict New Regulations for Airbnb Rentals

  07-11-2022 00:15 via yro.slashdot.org
  New York City "is pressing ahead with a long-anticipated crackdown on Airbnb hosts," reports the New York Post, "with officials on Friday proposing a strict new registration system for hosts that will take effect in January."
  There's 30 pages of rules...Under proposed rules that were quietly and unexpectedly made public on Friday — which will, among other things, prohibit hosts from renting out an "entire registered dwelling unit" — Airbnb hosts will be required to submit diagrams of
  
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