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• Studio Ghibli Is Teaming Up With Lucasfilm

  10-11-2022 23:40 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Studio Ghibli, the beloved animation producer behind worldwide hits like Spirited Away, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, and Grave of the Fireflies, is teaming up with Lucasfilm, home to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, for a mysterious new project. Polygon reports: On Thursday, the Japanese studio tweeted a cryptic video teaser, with the Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli logos back to back and... maddeningly nothing else. The video is silent, so there are no John Williams-penned themes to work f
  
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• Police Use DNA Phenotyping To Limit Pool of Suspects To 15,000

  10-11-2022 23:02 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The Queensland, Australia police have used DNA phenotyping for the first time ever in hopes of leading to a breakthrough for a 1982 murder. The department partnered with a U.S.-based company called Parabon NanoLabs to create a profile image of the murder suspect, a Caucasian man with long blonde hair. Police claim that this image was generated using blood samples found at the scene of the murder of a man from 40 years ago; according to the Au
  
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• Intel Takes on AMD and Nvidia With Mad 'Max' Chips For HPC

  10-11-2022 22:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU with large stacks of high-bandwidth memory and new kinds of accelerators, plus its long-awaited datacenter GPU that will go head-to-head against Nvidia's most powerful chips. From a report: After multiple delays, the x86 giant on Wednesday formally introduced the new Xeon CPU family formerly known as Sapphire Rapids HBM and its new datacenter GPU better known as Ponte Vecchio. Now you will know them a
  
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• NASA Launched an Inflatable Flying Saucer, Then Landed It in the Ocean

  10-11-2022 21:40 via science.slashdot.org
  On Thursday morning, NASA sent a giant inflatable device to space and then brought it back down from orbit, splashing in the ocean near Hawaii. From a report: You might think of it as a bouncy castle from space, although the people in charge of the mission would prefer you did not. "I would say that would be inaccurate," Neil Cheatwood, principal investigator for the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID for short, said of the comparison during an interview. LOFTID
  
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• Google Play To Pilot Third-Party Billing in New Markets Including US

  10-11-2022 21:05 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google today announced it's expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google's own. The program will now become available to new markets, including the U.S., Brazil and South Africa, and Bumble will now join Spotify as one of the pilot testers. From a report: Google additionally announced Spotify will now begin rolling out its implementation of the program starting this week. The company had first announced its intention to
  
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• Windows 11's Task Manager is Getting a Search Box To Help You Find Misbehaving Apps

  10-11-2022 20:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  Microsoft has started testing a new search and filtering system for the Task Manager on Windows 11. It will allow Windows users to easily search for a misbehaving app and end its process or quickly create a dump file, enable efficiency mode, and more. From a report: "This is the top feature request from our users to filter / search for processes," explains the Windows Insider team in a blog post. "You can filter either using the binary name, PID or publisher name. The filter algorithm matches th
  
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• Amazon Unveils Smaller Delivery Drone That Can Fly in Rain

  10-11-2022 19:48 via slashdot.org
  Amazon unveiled a new delivery drone on Thursday that's smaller, makes less noise and can fly through light rain, the latest effort to get the troubled and long-developing project off the ground. From a report: The company has spent nearly a decade pursuing founder Jeff Bezos' vision of autonomous drones that can deliver a package weighing less than 5 pounds as little as 30 minutes after a customer places an order. Beyond speeding delivery times, drones could significantly cut the cost of delive
  
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• Apple Will Spend $450 Million With Globalstar and Others To Enable Emergency Satellite Texting

  10-11-2022 19:08 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple said Thursday it will spend $450 million with U.S. companies to enable its new emergency satellite texting feature. From a report: The majority of that money will go to Globalstar, Apple said, a Louisiana-based company that operates the satellites that make the feature possible. Apple isn't taking an equity stake in the company but it is committing to spend money for equipment and the service's operations. The funds will pay for satellites, as well as equipping ground stations with a new k
  
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• Amazon Has Launched a Cost-Cutting Review Focused on Unprofitable Business Units

  10-11-2022 18:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy is leading a cost-cutting review of the tech giant and paring back on businesses at the company that haven't been profitable, Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The Seattle-based company, whose stock is down about 45% year to date, has been experiencing a slowdown in its core retail business as it tries to manage costs from its logistics network. Other technology companies have been making cuts to bett
  
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• Mysterious Company With Government Ties Plays Key Internet Role

  10-11-2022 17:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  whoever57 writes: Would you trust your communications to a company that has links to a spyware company and claims that its address is a UPS store in Toronto? You probably already do. Washington Post reports: An offshore company that is trusted by the major web browsers and other tech companies to vouch for the legitimacy of websites has connections to contractors for U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement, according to security researchers, documents and interviews. Google's Chrome, Appl
  
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• Lenovo Driver Goof Poses Security Risk for Users of 25 Notebook Models

  10-11-2022 17:10 via it.slashdot.org
  More than two dozen Lenovo notebook models are vulnerable to malicious hacks that disable the UEFI secure-boot process and then run unsigned UEFI apps or load bootloaders that permanently backdoor a device, researchers warned on Wednesday. From a report: At the same time that researchers from security firm ESET disclosed the vulnerabilities, the notebook maker released security updates for 25 models, including ThinkPads, Yoga Slims, and IdeaPads. Vulnerabilities that undermine the UEFI secure bo
  
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• Paris Opens Flying Taxi Hub Targeting Flights for 2024 Olympics

  10-11-2022 16:32 via tech.slashdot.org
  France opened a hub for testing electric air taxis as it seeks to introduce the world's first service with the new category of aircraft in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. From a report: Aeroports de Paris, which runs the French capital's major airports, will operate the facility alongside UK-based Skyports, a leading developer of so-called vertiports, as flying-taxi bases have been termed. The hub at Pontoise Cormeilles aerodrome, unveiled Thursday, combines a passenger terminal, tak
  
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• CISA Releases SSVC Methodology to Prioritize Vulnerabilities

  10-11-2022 16:00 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 10, 2022
  Today CISA published its guide on Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC), a vulnerability management methodology that assesses vulnerabilities and prioritizes remediation efforts based on exploitation status, impacts to safety, and prevalence of the affected product in a singular system.As stated in Executive Assistant Director (EAD) Eric Goldstein's blog post Transforming the Vulnerability Management Landscape, implementing a methodolog
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried Says FTX in Talks To Raise Capital, Alameda Research To Wind Down Trading

  10-11-2022 15:47 via slashdot.org
  Sam Bankman-Fried said on Thursday that he will be winding down the trading firm Alameda Research and is attempting to raise liquidity for the troubled FTX International exchange, as he scrambles to keep the world's second largest crypto exchange alive after a bailout deal with Binance failed earlier this week. From a report: Bankman-Fried said in a series of tweets that he is engaging with a "number of players" to raise capital for FTX's international business and those discussions are at vario
  
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• CISA Releases Twenty Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  10-11-2022 15:11 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 10, 2022
  CISA has released twenty (20) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on November 10, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:ICSA-22-314-01 Siemens ParasolidICSA-22-314-02 Siemens Missing Web Server Login Page of Industrial ControllersICSA-22-3
  
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• Egypt's COP27 Summit App is a Cyber Weapon, Experts Warn

  10-11-2022 15:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  Western security advisers are warning delegates at the COP27 climate summit not to download the host Egyptian government's official smartphone app, amid fears it could be used to hack their private emails, texts and even voice conversations. From a report: Policymakers from Germany, France and Canada were among those who had downloaded the app by November 8, according to two separate Western security officials briefed on discussions within these delegations at the U.N. climate summit.
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• Apple Limits iPhone File-Sharing Tool Used For Protests In China

  10-11-2022 14:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Apple has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other iPhone owners. AirDrop allows the quick exchange of files like images, documents or videos between Apple devices. The latest version -- iOS 16.1.1, released Wednesday -- caps the window in which users can receive files from non-contacts at 10 minutes. The previous options didn't limit the time invo
  
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• US Launches Carbon Offset Program To Help Developing Countries Speed Clean Energy Transition

  10-11-2022 11:00 via news.slashdot.org
  U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry on Wednesday unveiled a carbon offset plan that would allow corporations to fund renewable energy projects in developing countries that are struggling to transition away from fossil fuels. CNBC reports: The program, called the Energy Transition Accelerator, is in partnership with philanthropic groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund and will be finalized over the coming year. Officials argue it could funnel billions of dollars from the privat
  
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• China Scraps Expendable Long March 9 Rocket Plan In Favor of Reusable Version

  10-11-2022 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Rocket designers with China's main launch vehicle institute have scrapped plans for an expendable super heavy-lift launcher in favor of a design featuring a reusable first stage. SpaceNews reports: A new model of a Long March 9 rocket featuring grid fins and no side boosters recently went on display at the ongoing Zhuhai Airshow in southern China, prompting speculation that the long-standing plan of an expendable rocket had been dropped. Liu Bing, director of the general design department at the
  
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• Amazon Becomes First Company Ever To Lose $1 Trillion In Stock Value

  10-11-2022 04:30 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Amazon, one of the first companies to join the prestigious $1 trillion dollar valuation club, just passed another, admittedly less desirable milestone. This week, Jeff Bezos' Everything Store became the first publicly traded company to lose $1 trillion in market valuation. The mind boggling figures, first noted by Bloomberg, are the results of a worsening economy, repeatedly dour earnings reports, and massive stock selloffs. Amazon, valued at $1.
  
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• FTX Contagion Is Spreading To the Solana Ecosystem

  10-11-2022 02:10 via slashdot.org
  Solana's SOL is down much further than any of the other major cryptocurrencies today, all of which are down badly following the sudden unraveling of the wildly fast growing crypto exchange FTX on Tuesday. Axios reports: Blockchain principles aim to instantiate the ideals of decentralization. That is, no single points of failure. Blockchain realities, though, show that each community tends to have its major leaders. For Solana, one of those was definitely FTX's c0-founder, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)
  
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• Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver

  10-11-2022 01:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  The Court of Rome has confirmed that Cloudflare must block three torrent sites through its public 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. The order applies to kickasstorrents.to, limetorrents.pro, and ilcorsaronero.pro, three domains that are already blocked by ISPs in Italy following an order from local regulator AGCOM. TorrentFreak reports: Disappointed by the ruling, Cloudflare filed an appeal at the Court of Milan. The internet infrastructure company doesn't object to blocking requests that target its custome
  
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• TSMC Reportedly Looks To Raise a Second Arizona Chip Fab

  10-11-2022 00:50 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is said to be preparing to build another semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona, alongside the facility it completed this summer, in a move that may be seen as a vindication of the US government's CHIPS Act funding. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, TSMC is planning to announce in the near future that it will build a further factory for making cutting edge chips at a site just north of Phoeni
  
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• Bitcoin Falls Below $16,000

  10-11-2022 00:33 via slashdot.org
  Following the collapse of popular crypto exchange FTX, Bitcoin fell 12% to just under $16,000, hitting a low not seen since November 2020. "It reached its all-time high of $68,982.20 one year ago Thursday," notes CNBC. From the report: Cryptocurrencies extended their slide for a second day Wednesday as the market absorbed the potential collapse of popular crypto exchange FTX. Prices were pressured to start the day and plunged by late afternoon as Binance, the largest global exchange by volume, a
  
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• Binance Walks Away From Deal To Acquire FTX

  10-11-2022 00:05 via slashdot.org
  According to CoinDesk, Binance has walked away from a deal to acquire FTX. From the report: "As a result of corporate due diligence, as well as the latest news reports regarding mishandled customer funds and alleged U.S. agency investigations, we have decided that we will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX.com," the spokesperson told CoinDesk. "In the beginning, our hope was to be able to support FTX's customers to provide liquidity, but the issues are beyond our control or ability to h
  
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