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• Seagate Announces Dual-Actuator MACH.2 Drive - and Star Wars, Black Panther Themed Drives

  13-11-2022 22:46 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader writes that Seagate Technology has launched its second generation dual actuator MACH.2 series hard drives. "Computing power, storage capacities, and storage performance: all must continue moving forward in order for technology innovators to solve humanity's greatest challenges," boasts Seagate's page for the drives:MACH.2 is the world's first multi-actuator hard drive technology, containing two independent actuators that transfer data concurrently. MACH.2 solves the need for
  
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• 'Cryptography's Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here's How'

  13-11-2022 21:46 via it.slashdot.org
  Fearing the possibility of encryption-cracking quantum computers, Quanta magazine reports that researchers are "scrambling to produce new,'post-quantum' encryption scheme."Earlier this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology revealed four finalists in its search for a post-quantum cryptography standard. Three of them use "lattice cryptography" — a scheme inspired by lattices, regular arrangements of dots in space.
  Lattice cryptography and other post-quantum possibilities d
  
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• The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming

  13-11-2022 20:39 via news.slashdot.org
  It's "a major cause" of our climate crisis. "It's on course to guzzle half the world's carbon budget," writes a Guardian columnist — asking "so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?"
  They've reviewed every agreement announced at 26 different climates. The results?Livestock is mentioned in only three agreements, and the only action each of them proposes is "management". Nowhere is there a word about reduction. It's as though nuclear non-proliferation negotiators had decided not to ta
  
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• Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost

  13-11-2022 19:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  California's EV-funding proposition 30 "has suffered an unambiguous defeat," reports Bay City News.The measure would've increased taxes by 1.75% on income above $2 million a year (for roughly 43,000 California multimillionaires) to fund electric car rebates and combat wildfires. "In the statewide vote count as of late Wednesday, 59% rejected the proposal."
  So what happened? Before the election the New York Times described the fight:
  On one side, environmentalists have teamed up with firefighters
  
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• Should Functional Programming Be the Future of Software Development?

  13-11-2022 18:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  The CTO of a software company argues the software industry's current trajectory "is toward increasing complexity, longer product-development times, and greater fragility of production systems" — not to mention nightmarish problems maintaining code."To address such issues, companies usually just throw more people at the problem: more developers, more testers, and more technicians who intervene when systems fail. Surely there must be a better way," they write in IEEE Spectrum. "I'm part of a
  
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• Survey Reveals the Most-Regretted (and Least-Regretted) College Majors

  13-11-2022 17:34 via it.slashdot.org
  A report from the Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce found that Bachelor's degree holders generally earn 84% more than those with just a high school diploma, reports CNBC.
  "Still, 44% of all job seekers with college degrees regret their field of study."Journalism, sociology, communications and education all topped the list of most-regretted college majors, according to ZipRecruiter's survey of more than 1,500 college graduates who were looking for a job. "When you are barely mana
  
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• 'Iceman' Discovery Wasn't a Freak Event. More Frozen Mummies May Await

  13-11-2022 16:34 via science.slashdot.org
  In 2001 Slashdot ran a story about a 5,100-year-old "ice mummy" discovered in the Alps. But now researchers are arguing that our assumptions about how weather, climate, and glacial ice conspired to preserve it were all wrong. Science magazine reports:
  In 1991, hikers in the Alps came across a sensational find: a human body, partially encased in ice, at the top of a mountain pass between Italy and Austria. Police called to the scene initially assumed the man had died in a mountaineering accident,
  
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• After 908 Days in Orbit, US Military's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands

  13-11-2022 13:04 via tech.slashdot.org
  After 908 days in orbit, the U.S. military's X-37B space plane finally touched down today in Florida, reports Space.com.
  And "the Boeing-built space plane also carried a service module on the newly completed mission, a first for the U.S. Space Force's X-37B program.""With the service module added, this was the most we've ever carried to orbit on the X-37B, and we're proud to have been able to prove out this new and flexible capability for the government and its industry partners," Jim Chilton, s
  
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• NVIDIA Security Team: 'What if We Just Stopped Using C?'

  13-11-2022 09:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  This week the Adacore blog shared a story about the NVIDIA Security Team:Like many other security-oriented teams in our industry today, they were looking for a measurable answer to the increasingly hostile cybersecurity environment and started questioning their software development and verification strategies. "Testing security is pretty much impossible. It's hard to know if you're ever done," said Daniel Rohrer, VP of Software Security at NVIDIA.
  In my opinion, this is the most important point
  
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• Lucid Dying: Patients Recall Near-Death Experiences During CPR

  13-11-2022 05:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "Around 20% of people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences of death that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and on the brink of death," reports SciTechDaily.
  "This is according to new research led by investigators at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and elsewhere."Long-time Slashdot reader InfiniteZero shared their report:
  Included in the study were 567 men and women whose hearts stopped beating while hospitalized and who
  
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• Aaron Swartz Day Commemorated With International Hackathon

  13-11-2022 03:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shares this announcement from the EFF's DeepLinks blog:
  This weekend, EFF is celebrating the life and work of programmer, activist, and entrepreneur Aaron Swartz by participating in the 2022 Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon. This year, the event will be held in person at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13. It will also be livestreamed; links to the livestream will be posted each morning.
  Those interested in attending in-person or remo
  
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• Prosecutors Seek 15-Year Prison Sentence for Theranos' Elizabeth Homes, $800M Restitution

  13-11-2022 00:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison," reports the Guardian, "and require the Theranos founder to pay $800m in restitution, according to court documents filed on Friday."A jury found Holmes guilty in January of four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy. Her sentencing is scheduled for 18 November, and she faces a maximum 20 years in prison. Prosecutors argued that "considering the extensiveness of Holmes's fraud", their recommended sentenc
  
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