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• Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except To Fight Crime

  14-11-2022 23:50 via yro.slashdot.org
  Italy prohibited the use of facial recognition and "smart glasses" on Monday as its Data Protection Agency issued a rebuke to two municipalities experimenting with the technology. Reuters reports: Facial recognition systems using biometric data will not be allowed until a specific law is adopted or at least until the end of next year, the privacy watchdog said. The exception is when such technologies play a role in judicial investigations or the fight against crime. "The moratorium arises from t
  
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• Paris Overtakes London As Europe's Largest Stock Market

  14-11-2022 23:10 via news.slashdot.org
  Britain has lost its position as Europe's largest stock market, as Paris overtook London for the first time since records began in 2003. The Independent reports: According to Bloomberg, the combined market value of primary listings on Monday on the Paris bourse ($2.823 trillion ) surpassed that of the London Stock Exchange ($2.821 trillion) -- finally closing a gap of around $1.5 trillion which has been narrowing since the Brexit referendum. The milestone shift on Monday came as French stocks we
  
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• Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms

  14-11-2022 22:30 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Over a dozen public libraries in the U.S. and Canada have begun offering their own music streaming services to patrons, with the goal of boosting artists and local music scenes. The services are region-specific, and offer local artists non-exclusive licenses to make their albums available to the community. The concept originated in 2014 when Preston Austin and Kelly Hiser helped the Madison Public Library build the Yahara Music Library, an on
  
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• A Simple Android Lock Screen Bypass Bug Landed a Researcher $70,000

  14-11-2022 21:54 via it.slashdot.org
  Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an "accidental" security bug that allowed anyone to unlock Google Pixel phones without knowing its passcode. From a report: The lock screen bypass bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20465, is described as a local escalation of privilege bug because it allows someone, with the device in their hand, to access the device's data without having to enter the lock screen's passcode. Hungary-based researcher David Schutz said the bug was
  
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• Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States

  14-11-2022 20:31 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general on Monday for charges that it misled users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings even as the company continued collecting that information. From a report: Under the settlement, Google will also make its location tracking disclosures clearer starting in 2023. The attorneys general said that the agreement was the biggest internet privacy settlement by U
  
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• CISA, NSA, and ODNI Release Guidance for Customers on Securing the Software Supply Chain 

  14-11-2022 19:10 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 14, 2022 | Last revised: November 17, 2022
  Today, CISA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), published the third of a three-part series on securing the software supply chain: Securing Software Supply Chain Series - Recommended Practices Guide for Customers. This publication follows the August 2022 release of guidance for developers and October 2022 release of guidance for suppliers.The guidance release
  
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• India Wants 'Phase Down' on All Fossil Fuels at COP27

  14-11-2022 18:25 via news.slashdot.org
  India is leading a push for the COP27 climate summit to conclude with a decision on phasing down all fossil fuels, a move that would expand the focus from just coal, but is likely to raise strong concerns from oil and gas-reliant countries. From a report: Indian negotiators formally called on the Egyptian Presidency of climate talks for the expanded language to be included in the cover text, a political statement of how countries will seek to tackle the climate crisis, according to people famili
  
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• Amazon Is Said To Plan To Lay Off 10,000 Employees

  14-11-2022 17:11 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon plans to lay off approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs starting as soon as this week, The New York Times reported Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter, in what would be the largest job cuts in the company's history. From the report: The cuts will focus on Amazon's devices organization, including the voice-assistant Alexa, as well as at its retail division and in human resources, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
  
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• Russian Software Disguised as American Finds Its Way Into US Army, CDC Apps

  14-11-2022 17:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google's online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is actually Russian, Reuters reported Monday. From the report: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States' main agency for fighting major health threats, said it had been deceived into believing Pushwoosh was based in the U.S. capital. After learning about its Russian roots
  
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• Jeff Bezos Says He Will Give Away Most of His Fortune

  14-11-2022 16:25 via news.slashdot.org
  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said that he would give away most of his money to charity, making him the latest billionaire to pledge to donate his vast fortune during his lifetime. From a report: Mr. Bezos is worth $124 billion, making him the world's fourth-richest person, according to Bloomberg. In an interview with CNN released on Monday, Mr. Bezos, appearing with his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, said they were making preparations "to be able to give away this money." He said that he want
  
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• India Lifts Download Ban On VLC

  14-11-2022 15:41 via news.slashdot.org
  India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. From a report: VideoLAN, the popular software's developer, filed a legal notice last month seeking an explanation from the nation's IT and Telecom ministries for the block order. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed its ban on the website of VLC media player, New Delhi-based advocacy group Internet Freedom F
  
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• Apple Plans a 3D World and Video Service for Its Mixed-Reality Headset

  14-11-2022 15:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple's next major product -- a mixed-reality headset that it hopes will vault the company into a new era of computing -- isn't set to arrive until next year. But job listings and personnel changes at the company give a preview of some of the device's capabilities. From a report: Now we're gleaning additional details, thanks to Apple job listings published over the last several months and changes to the team behind the future headset -- the Technology Development Group, or TDG. A few job listing
  
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• Scientists Manufacture Material in a Lab That Doesn't Exist on Earth

  14-11-2022 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  NPR reports that "two teams of scientists — one at Northeastern University in Boston; the other at the University of Cambridge in the UK — recently announced that they managed to manufacture, in a lab, a material that does not exist naturally on Earth."
  "It — until now — has only been found in meteorites."We spoke to Laura Henderson Lewis, one of the professors on the Northeastern team, and she told us the material found in the meteorites is a combination of two base meta
  
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• Report Blames Faulty System, Pilot Error for Boeing 737-500 Crash in 2021

  14-11-2022 09:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  346 people died in two separate crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX — one in 2018 and one in 2019. And then in 2021, a Boeing 737-500 crashed in Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.
  Thursday Indonesia's national transportation safety committee (KNKT) released its final report on that 737-500 crash. It found that after takeoff the plane's autothrottle system (which automatically adjusts power to the jet's two engines) became stuck on the right engine, "as a result of friction or binding wit
  
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• US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology

  14-11-2022 06:23 via hardware.slashdot.org
  America's Department of Energy awarded $3 million to Oregon State University "to explore the development of a new rechargeable battery technology that would accelerate the clean energy transition," reports the Associated Press, "without relying on rare finite minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel."OSU chemistry professor Xiulei "David" Ji, who will lead a battery research team, said it could be a game-changer. "It's a new paradigm," he told Oregon Public Broadcasting. "We are very excited
  
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• Crypto.com Sent $400M to the Wrong Recipient. Then Got It Back

  14-11-2022 04:23 via news.slashdot.org
  About three weeks ago Crypto.com "mistakenly sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange, called Gate.io," reports the Verge's storystream (citing a report from Web3 Is Going Just Great).In a post on Twitter, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company was supposed to send the crypto to one of its cold, or offline, wallets, but accidentally sent it to a "whitelisted" address belonging to its corporate account at Gate.io.
  This all unfolded after Marszalek pu
  
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• Survey of 26K Developers Finds Java, Python, Kotlin, and Rust Growing Rapidly

  14-11-2022 01:04 via developers.slashdot.org
  While the popularity of jQuery is decreasing, React.JS "is currently the most widely used client-side framework," reports ZDNet, citing SlashData's 23rd State of the Developer Nation report (compiled from more than 26,000 developers last summer from 163 countries).
  ZDNet believe it shows developers "experimenting less and sticking with what they know and what works."JavaScript remains the largest programming language community, SlashData found. According to its research, there are an estimated 1
  
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• Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe

  14-11-2022 00:04 via science.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader Informativity writes: First published in Jan. '21, a new publication entitled Measurement Quantization affirms the #42 is the address of our universe (Appx. AC), a distinguishing feature of our construct that ultimately answers the question to life, the universe and everything – from a physicist's point-of-view. Importantly, the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics – is a top-tier journal indexed to NASA's Astronomical Data System (ADS), the af
  
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