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• Netflix Gives Account Holders the Ability To Kick Freeloaders

  16-11-2022 23:40 via it.slashdot.org
  Netflix has introduced a new account management page called "Manage Access and Devices" that gives users the ability to remove access privileges from specific devices. The feature is available on the web and in the streaming service's Android and iOS apps. Ars Technica reports: Previously, users could see a list of devices that had recently accessed their accounts, and they could revoke access to all devices simultaneously, but they could not revoke access on a case-by-case basis. Each item in t
  
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• Intel Unveils Real-Time Deepfake Detector, Claims 96% Accuracy Rate

  16-11-2022 23:00 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: On Monday, Intel introduced FakeCatcher, which it says is the first real-time detector of deepfakes -- that is, synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. Intel claims the product has a 96% accuracy rate and works by analyzing the subtle "blood flow" in video pixels to return results in milliseconds. Ilke Demir, senior staff research scientist in Intel Labs, designed FakeCatcher i
  
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• Microsoft, Nvidia Partner To Build a Massive AI Supercomputer in the Cloud

  16-11-2022 22:20 via slashdot.org
  Nvidia and Microsoft announced Wednesday a multi-year collaboration to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, adding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to Microsoft Azure. ZDNet: The new agreement makes Azure the first public cloud to incorporate Nvidia's full AI stack -- its GPUs, networking, and AI software. By beefing up Azure's infrastructure with Nvidia's full AI suite, more enterprises will be able to train, deploy, and scale AI -- including large, state-of-the-art models. "AI technology ad
  
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• US House Committee To Hold Hearing on FTX Collapse and Crypto Fall Out

  16-11-2022 21:40 via news.slashdot.org
  The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing next month on FTX's collapse and the broader implications for the digital asset industry. From a report: The committee says it expects to hear from "the companies and individuals involved, the companies and individuals involved, including Sam Bankman-Fried, Alameda Research, Binance, FTX, and related entities, among others," for a hearing to take place in December. "Oversight is one of Congress' most critical functions and we must get to
  
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• Cisco Releases Security Updates for Identity Services Engine

  16-11-2022 21:27 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 16, 2022
  Cisco has released security updates for vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to bypass authorization and access system files. For updates addressing vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page.   CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply the necessary updates:Cisco Identity Services Engine Insufficient
  
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• AWS Extends Hiring Freeze for 'Most' Teams Into 2023 and Targets Low Performers on Teams That Grew Too Fast

  16-11-2022 21:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, is asking managers to weed out underperforming workers on teams that have grown too fast, and will extend a hiring freeze across the organization into the first quarter of 2023 as the business seeks to keep costs in check amid slowing growth. Fortune: In a meeting this week, numerous AWS managers were informed that a hiring freeze that began earlier this month would continue into the first three months of the new year, but that layof
  
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• Fedora 37 Now Available With GNOME 43 Desktop, Official Raspberry Pi 4 Support

  16-11-2022 20:25 via linux.slashdot.org
  Fedora 37 is now officially released. From a report: Fedora 37 brings the GNOME 43 desktop to Fedora Workstation 37, updated toolchain components like Glibc 2.36 and LLVM 15 and Binutils 2.38, official support for the Raspberry Pi 4, retiring 32-bit ARMv7 support, Fedora CoreOS has been promoted to a Fedora Edition, Perl 5.36, Python 3.11, RPM 4.18, LXQt 1.1, and a wealth of other updated packages.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• FBI is 'Extremely Concerned' about China's Influence Through TikTok on US Users

  16-11-2022 19:41 via news.slashdot.org
  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday that he is "extremely concerned" about TikTok's operations in the U.S. From a report: "We do have national security concerns at least from the FBI's end about TikTok," Wray told members of the House Homeland Security Committee in a hearing about worldwide threats. "They include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users. Or control the recommendation algo
  
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• MrBeast Overtakes PewDiePie as Most-Subscribed YouTuber

  16-11-2022 19:00 via news.slashdot.org
  MrBeast has ended PewDiePie's reign as the YouTuber with the most subscribers -- the first change at the top in almost 10 years. From a report: Swedish creator PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, became the most-subscribed YouTuber in August 2013 with his gaming reaction videos. In 2019, he was the first person to attract 100 million subscribers. But the philanthropy of MrBeast, really called Jimmy Donaldson, gained him his 112 millionth subscriber this month. Although YouTube does no
  
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• Ubisoft and Riot Games Are Working Together To Combat Toxic Chats

  16-11-2022 18:23 via games.slashdot.org
  Ubisoft and Riot Games are teaming up on a new research project that's intended to reduce toxic in-game chats. From a report: The new project, called "Zero Harm in Comms," will be broken up into two main phases. For the first phase, Ubisoft and Riot will try to create a framework that lets them share, collect, and tag data in a privacy-protecting way. It's a critical first step to ensure that the companies aren't keeping data that contains personally identifiable information, and if Ubisoft and
  
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• Bending Spoons To Acquire Evernote

  16-11-2022 17:29 via tech.slashdot.org
  Evernote, in a blog post: Today we are pleased to announce that Evernote has agreed to join Bending Spoons, a leading developer of stand-out mobile apps. In the deal signed between Bending Spoons and Evernote, Bending Spoons agrees to take ownership of Evernote in a transaction expected to complete early in 2023.
  For Evernote, this decision is the next strategic step forward on our journey to be an extension of your brain. The path we've taken in recent years -- rebuilding our apps in order to e
  
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• US Fines Airlines More Than $7 Million for Not Providing Refunds

  16-11-2022 17:05 via news.slashdot.org
  The Transportation Department has fined a half-dozen airlines a total of more than $7 million for failing to provide timely refunds to customers. The department's intervention contributed to the airlines' issuing more than $600 million in refunds, it said. From a report: Frontier Airlines, a budget carrier based in Denver, was fined $2.2 million, more than any other company. It was the only U.S. airline penalized as part of Monday's announcement and has issued $222 million in refunds, according
  
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• Winklevosses' Gemini Delays Withdrawals on Lending Program

  16-11-2022 16:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  Gemini Trust, the cryptocurrency platform run by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, said redemptions by customers for its Earn program are being delayed after its partner in the product, Genesis Global, paused withdrawals on its borrowing platform amid a liquidity crunch. From a report: Genesis is one of the main borrowers of Gemini Earn, a product used to generate yields for its customers, according to Gemini Earn's website. Gemini is working with Genesis to allow users to redeem funds as 'quickly a
  
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• CISA and FBI Release Advisory on Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromising Federal Network

  16-11-2022 16:00 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 16, 2022
  Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromise Federal Network, Deploy Crypto Miner, Credential Harvester. The CSA provides information on an incident at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization in which Iranian government-sponsored APT actors exploited a Log4Shell vulnerability in unpatched VMware Horizon server.The CSA includes a
  
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• Google's Moonshot Lab Is Now in the Strawberry-Counting Business

  16-11-2022 15:40 via science.slashdot.org
  A partnership with Driscoll's exemplifies a shift toward more pedestrian projects with actual commercial applications. From a report: When Deb Menicos walks a strawberry field, she doesn't just look at the berries. Menicos, who holds a Ph.D. in plant breeding from Ohio State University and works as a senior scientist at Driscoll's, will often find herself counting leaves and examining the small stalks protruding from the base of the plant. These parts, known as trusses, are important because the
  
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• Tuvalu Turns To the Metaverse as Rising Seas Threaten Existence

  16-11-2022 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Tuvalu says it plans to build a digital version of itself, replicating islands and landmarks and preserving its history and culture as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the tiny Pacific island nation. From a report: Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe told the COP27 climate summit it was time to look at alternative solutions for his country's survival and this included Tuvalu becoming the first digitised nation in the metaverse -- an online realm that uses augmented and virtual reality (VR
  
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• Microsoft's Xbox Streaming Console 'Keystone' Was Pushed Back Because of Its Price

  16-11-2022 11:00 via games.slashdot.org
  Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed why the company delayed its plans to introduce an Xbox streaming console, speaking to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel on The Verge's Decoder podcast this week. The Verge reports: "It was more expensive than we wanted it to be when we actually built it out with the hardware that we had inside," said Spencer, discussing the Keystone prototype device that recently appeared on his office shelves. "We decided to focus that team's effort on delivering t
  
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• NASA Launches Artemis 1 Mission To the Moon

  16-11-2022 09:03 via science.slashdot.org
  NASA's Artemis 1 rocket blasted off the Kennedy Space Center in the early hours of Wednesday, "lighting up the night sky and accelerating on a journey that will take an astronaut-less capsule around the moon and back," reports the New York Times. From the report: At around 1:47 a.m. Eastern time, the four engines on the rocket's core stage ignited, along with two skinnier side boosters. As the countdown hit zero, clamps holding the rocket down let go, and the vehicle slipped Earth's bonds. A few
  
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• NASA Clears Artemis 1 Moon Rocket For Nov. 16 Launch Despite Storm Damage [UPDATE]

  16-11-2022 08:50 via science.slashdot.org
  UPDATE 7:22 UTC: NASA's Artemis 1 rocket blasted off the Kennedy Space Center in the early hours of Wednesday, "lighting up the night sky and accelerating on a journey that will take an astronaut-less capsule around the moon and back," reports the New York Times. From the report: At around 1:47 a.m. Eastern time, the four engines on the rocket's core stage ignited, along with two skinnier side boosters. As the countdown hit zero, clamps holding the rocket down let go, and the vehicle slipped Ear
  
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• NASA Clears Artemis 1 Moon Rocket For Nov. 16 Launch Despite Storm Damage

  16-11-2022 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission will once again attempt to launch after all. Space.com reports: Mission managers met on Monday (Nov. 14) to discuss the flight readiness of the Artemis 1's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft following slight damage caused by Hurricane Nicole, which was swiftly downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall, on Thursday (Nov. 10). Despite the fact that a band of insulating caulking on Orion was damaged by high winds during the storm's landfal
  
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• World Population Reaches 8 Billion

  16-11-2022 04:30 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The world's population reached 8 billion on Tuesday, growing by 1 billion in the last dozen years and reflecting the rapid population spike of the past few decades, with India projected to become the world's most populous country by next year, surpassing China. The world's population milestone of 8 billion people has long-term significance for both rich and poor countries. While it took hundreds of thousands of years for the world's population t
  
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• FTX Owes Money To More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests

  16-11-2022 03:02 via news.slashdot.org
  The embattled and now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX may owe more than a million people money, according to a Tuesday court filing (PDF). Motherboard reports: "The events that have befallen FTX over the past week are unprecedented. Barely more than a week ago, FTX, led by its co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was regarded as one of the most respected and innovative companies in the crypto industry," the filing notes. "FTX faced a severe liquidity crisis that necessitated the filing of these [b
  
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• California AG Issues Warning-Ladened Guidance For Public Interested In Buying Crypto

  16-11-2022 02:25 via slashdot.org
  With the cryptocurrency market becoming ever more complex and intimidating, California Attorney General Rob Bonta had decided to issue guidance for novice crypto buyers. CoinTelegraph reports: The California Office of the Attorney General's website now features a page that will help those new to crypto "avoid the hype, [and] get the facts." "Don't fall for a fantasy -- Cryptocurrency, like all investments, carries significant risks, and there's no guarantee that you'll see large -- or any -- ret
  
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• Everyone Is Bullying the UK Government In Its Own Discord Server

  16-11-2022 01:45 via news.slashdot.org
  The UK Treasury has opened an account on Discord to a torrent of abuse from users of the gamer-focused chat app -- abuse they managed to send despite the government blocking all comments on the service. The Guardian reports: With its community-focused approach, where servers encourage tight-knit groups to form and discuss issues related to the overall focus of the topic, Discord may seem an odd fit for the strait-laced world of government communications. But the app has a lot of users interested
  
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• E-Bike Batteries Have Caused 200 Fires In New York

  16-11-2022 01:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The powerful lithium ion batteries used in small electric vehicles are responsible for a growing epidemic of fires. This year, there have been about 200 fires and six deaths, according to the New York City fire department. This month, an e-bike fire inside a Manhattan high-rise apartment became an inferno that injured nearly 40 people and forced firefighters to evacuate residents using ropes. These fires can spread quickly and suddenly: "We
  
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• Apple Plans To Source Chips From Arizona Plant In 2024

  16-11-2022 00:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple will buy some of its chips from a factory in Arizona, Apple CEO Tim Cook said last month at an internal company meeting in Germany, according to Bloomberg News. CNBC reports: Apple currently sources all of its processors from factories in Taiwan. It designs its own chips and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company manufactures the A-series and M-series processors that power iPhones and Mac computers. If Apple were to buy processors manufactured in the U.S., it would represent a signific
  
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