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• 'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month

  12-11-2022 23:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  "Cixin Liu's sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem can't stop jumping to other formats," reports Gizmodo:
  In addition to next year's Netflix series from The Terror: Infamy's Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, last year saw the release of a serialized podcast (different from the audiobook version).
  And for 2022, we've got an animated series that's premiering actually pretty soon.
  Come December 3, an anime version of The Three-Body Problem will release on the Chin
  
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• How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware?

  12-11-2022 22:34 via news.slashdot.org
  In a statement in February, America's Federal Bureau of Investigation "confirmed that it obtained NSO Group's powerful Pegasus spyware" back in 2019, reported the Guardian. At the time the FBI added that "There was no operational use in support of any investigation, the FBI procured a limited licence for product testing and evaluation only.""But dozens of internal F.B.I. documents and court records tell a different story," the New York Times reported today:
  The documents, produced in response to
  
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• Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings

  12-11-2022 21:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  "Apple is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly harvesting iPhone user data even when the company's own privacy settings promise not to," reports Gizmodo:The suit, filed Thursday in California federal court, comes days after Gizmodo exclusively reported on research into how multiple iPhone apps send Apple analytics data, regardless of whether the iPhone Analytics privacy setting is turned on or off. The problem was spotted by two independent researchers at the software company Mysk, who fo
  
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• Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux

  12-11-2022 20:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  Thursday the Kudelski Group's cybersecurity division released "a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes."
  "Each volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted."Even if the presence of the Shufflecake software
  
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• US Will Regulate Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas to Fight Climate Change

  12-11-2022 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Methane traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon, the Washington Post points out. So Friday at the UN's Climate Change conference, America's Environmental Protection Agency "unveiled an updated proposal to regulate methane seeping from pipes and other equipment maintained by the U.S. oil and gas industry, the country's biggest industrial source of the potent greenhouse gas."The proposal, which was partially released during last year's climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, would be the firs
  
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• KFC Blames Semi-Automated Bot for Insensitive App Alert on Kristallnacht

  12-11-2022 18:34 via slashdot.org
  "KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken," reports the BBC.The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship. It is widely seen as the beginning of the Holocaust....The fast-food chain sent an app alert on Wednesday, saying: "It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on
  
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• After Ransomware Gang Releases Sensitive Medical Data, Australia Vows Consequences

  12-11-2022 17:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Last week Australia's bigest health insurer, Medibank, said that data on all 4 million of its customers was breached. Now the group behind that breach "have since released more sensitive details of customers' medical records on the dark web, including data on abortions and alcohol issues," reports Australia's public broadcaster.
  Their article points out that the release "follows Medibank's refusal to pay a ransom for the data, with almost 500,000 health claims stolen, along with personal informa
  
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• Reuters Reports $1B of Client Funds Missing at FTX

  12-11-2022 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Friday the Wall Street Journal reported:
  Crypto exchange FTX lent billions of dollars worth of customer assets to fund risky bets by its affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research, setting the stage for the exchange's implosion, a person familiar with the matter said.
  FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the e
  
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• Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows 20% of Its Assets Are In Shiba Inu Coin

  12-11-2022 14:00 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CoinDesk: The swift collapse of the FTX crypto exchange has sparked an industry push among big rivals to publish proof of their reserves as a means to provide transparency into the assets on their platforms. With those efforts just getting underway, one firm, Crypto.com, has taken the proactive step of providing a preliminary set of disclosures -- sharing wallet addresses with the blockchain analysis firm Nansen to create a dashboard of nearly $3 billion
  
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• Kevin Conroy, Iconic Batman Voice Actor, Dies At 66

  12-11-2022 11:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Kevin Conroy, best known for voicing Batman on Warner Bros.' long-running TV show "Batman: The Animated Series," has died after a short battle with cancer. He was 66. Variety reports: "Batman: The Animated Series" originally aired for 85 episodes on Fox Kids from 1992-1995. Conroy's deep, gravelly Batman voice was widely acclaimed by critics and comic book fans, with many regarding the actor as the definitive Caped Crusader. The series also featured Mark Hamill's memorable performance as the Jok
  
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• Volkswagen Builds Star Trek Captain's Chair That Goes 12 MPH

  12-11-2022 08:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  According to The Verge, Volkswagen Norway as part of a marketing exercise "claims to have built an office chair that not only looks worthy of a Star Trek captain but also can drive around the office on its own five wheels -- at speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour (roughly 12mph)." From the report: The company says it can travel a distance of 12 kilometers (roughly 7.5 miles) on its swappable battery. That's not all: it's got more amenities than my last car, with 360-degree collision avoidance
  
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• FTX Crypto Wallets See Mysterious Late-Night Outflows Totalling More than $380M

  12-11-2022 05:57 via yro.slashdot.org
  More than $380 million in crypto left bankrupt crypto company FTX's wallets late Friday, with little clear explanation as to why. CoinDesk: According to on-chain data, various Ethereum tokens, as well as Solana and Binance Smart Chain tokens have exited FTX's official wallets and moved to decentralized exchanges like 1inch. Both FTX and FTX US appear to be affected. FTX US general counsel Ryne Miller tweeted that he was "investigating abnormalities with wallet movements related to consolidation
  
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• Microsoft To Spend $1 Billion On Datacenters In North Carolina

  12-11-2022 04:30 via slashdot.org
  Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Carolina as part of a phased development that will see it invest at least $1 billion over the next decade. The Register reports: The datacenter expansion will see Microsoft construct the facilities at sites in Conover, Maiden and two at Hickory in Catawba County, creating at least 50 new jobs, according to the Catawba County Economic Development Corporation. Economic development agreements and incentive grants for the project were approved at a joi
  
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• Surface Pro 9 Teardown Reveals Modular Parts, Microsoft's 2023 Repair Plans

  12-11-2022 03:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Microsoft has done a lot to make their flagship tablet-laptop more repairable. Following iFixit's recent teardown, the Surface Pro 9 was the "most repairable we've seen from the product line yet." Ars Technica shares the major findings: iFixit has consulted with Microsoft's hardware teams for a while now, providing advice on making devices more repairable. As evidence of this, Microsoft claims in a statement that it will:
  - Make repair guides available for the Surface Pro 9's components by the e
  
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• DeviantArt Is Launching Its Own AI Art Generator

  12-11-2022 02:25 via slashdot.org
  DeviantArt is launching an AI art generator called DreamUp, promising "safe and fair" generation for creators. Engadget reports: The website says one of artists' main concerns about AI art is that their work may be used to train artificial intelligence models, which means the generator could spit out pieces in their style without their consent. In an attempt to give artists control over their work, DeviantArt is giving them the ability to choose whether or not the tool can use their style for di
  
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• Key Staff Driving Apple Search Engine Leave To Rejoin Google

  12-11-2022 01:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  Four years after Laserlike was acquired by Apple to boost its web search technology, the founders have quit to rejoin Google. AppleInsider reports: Prior to forming Laserlike in 2015, Anand Shukla, Srinivasan Venkatachary and Steven Baker were all Google employees. Their work at Apple is one reason the company has been predicted to launch its own search engine equivalent to Google's. Apple acquired Laserlike in 2018, though the deal wasn't made public until the following year. As part of the acq
  
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• Binance's CZ Slams Reports Binance's Reserves Are Full of Its Own Tokens

  12-11-2022 01:02 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Benzinga: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Friday came down heavily on a report the cryptocurrency exchange holds $74.6 billion in tokens, out of which nearly 40% are its own stablecoin BUSD and native coin BNB. Sharing data provided by blockchain analytics firm provided by Nansen, the Bloomberg report said about $23 billion of the $74.6 billion net worth is in the company's own stablecoin BUSD and $6.4 billion was in its own cryptocurrency, BNB. According t
  
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• Tesla Opens Its EV Charge Connector In the Hope of Making It the New Standard

  12-11-2022 00:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  MachineShedFred writes: Tesla has opened their charging connector and equipment standards as the "North American Charging Standard" (NACS), including links to technical specifications and connector data sheets and CAD files. The formerly proprietary connector, now called NACS, is the most common charging standard in North America: "NACS vehicles outnumber CCS two-to-one, and Tesla's Supercharging network has 60% more NACS posts than all the CCS-equipped networks combined." Tesla noted that charg
  
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