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• Workers at Amazon's Largest Air Hub in the World Push for a Union

  27-11-2022 23:13 via slashdot.org
  "Amazon workers at the air hub outside the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky international airport, Amazon's largest air hub in the world, are pushing to organize a union," reports the Guardian, "in the latest effort to mobilize workers at the tech company."Workers say they are dissatisfied with annual wage increases this year. About 400 of them have signed a petition to reinstate a premium hourly pay for Amazon's peak season that hasn't been enacted at the site yet. Their main demands also include a
  
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• Small Study Finds Computer Repair Shops Accessed Personal Data - And Sometimes Even Copied It

  27-11-2022 22:13 via yro.slashdot.org
  Ars Technica reports on what happened when researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, left laptops overnight at 12 computer repair shops — and then recovered logs after receiving their repairs:The logs showed that technicians from six of the locations had accessed personal data and that two of those shops also copied data onto a personal device....
  The amount of snooping may actually have been higher than recorded in the study, which was conducted from October to December
  
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• Protests Erupting Across China

  27-11-2022 21:13 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Protesters clash with police as unrest rocks cities across China," reads CNN's headline. The Guardian calls it "the biggest wave of civil disobedience on the mainland since Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago," noting one crowd numbered over 1,000 protesters. "Crowdsourced lists on social media claim protests have been documented at as many as 50 Chinese universities over the weekend."
  Looking back over the last 10 years, CNN's correspondent in China calls it "an unprecedented level of public
  
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• Linux Kernel Gets More Infrastructure for Rust, Increasing Interest in the Language

  27-11-2022 19:55 via developers.slashdot.org
  Linux 6.1 (released last month) included what Linus Torvalds described as "initial Rust scaffolding," remembers this update from SD Times But now, "work has already been done since the 6.1 release to add more infrastructure for Rust in the kernel, though still none of the code interacts with any C code."
  And there's still no actual Rust code in Linux:"You need to get all those things that can make sure that Rust can compile, and you can do the debugging and all these things," explained Joel Marc
  
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• 'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe'

  27-11-2022 18:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Huawei "is giving up on Europe," writes Politico, saying the Chinese telecommunications company is "retrenching its European operations and putting its ambitions for global leadership on ice."
  "The reasons for doing this have little to do with the company's commercial potential — Huawei is still able to offer cutting-edge technology at lower costs than its competitors — and everything to do with politics, according to interviews with more than 20 current and former staff and strategi
  
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• Scientists Say Webb Telescope's New Exoplanet Data is 'a Game Changer'

  27-11-2022 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "The powerful Webb telescope doesn't need to take pretty pictures to revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos," notes Mashable.
  It's "a game changer," says one of the researchers. They're part of what the Webb telescope's web site calls "an international team numbering in the hundreds" that "independently analysed data from four of the Webb telescope's finely calibrated instrument modes." And their ground-breaking first results? The James Webb Space Telescope "just scored another first: a molecular
  
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• Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign

  27-11-2022 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  From the BBC:"Individuals associated with the U.S. military" are linked to an online propaganda campaign, Meta's latest adversarial-threat report says....On Facebook, 39 accounts, 16 pages, and two groups were removed, as well as 26 accounts on Instagram, for violating the platforms' policy against "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". "This network originated in the United States," Meta wrote. It focused on countries including Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Som
  
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• James Cameron Almost Visited the Space Station - and Helped Design a Camera Now Used On Mars

  27-11-2022 13:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  James Cameron once got himself onto the list for a potential visit to International Space Station. It's just one of several surprising scientific achievements buried deep inside GQ's massive 7,000-word profile:After James Cameron's Avatar came out in 2009 and made $2.7 billion, the director found the deepest point that exists in all of earth's oceans and, in time, he dove to it. When Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a couple of hundred miles off the southwest coast of Guam, in M
  
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• Automakers Are Locking the Aftermarket Out of Engine Control Units

  27-11-2022 09:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  This month Road & Track looked at "increased cybersecurity measures" automakers are adding to car systems — and how it's affecting the vendors of "aftermarket" enhancements:As our vehicles start to integrate more complex systems such as Advanced Driver Assist Systems and over-the-air updates, automakers are growing wary of what potential bad actors could gain access to by way of hacking. Whether those hacks come in an attempt to retrieve personal customer data, or to take control of ce
  
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• CNN: NASA Discovery Reveals There May Have Been Life on Mars

  27-11-2022 06:35 via science.slashdot.org
  "News from Mars," CNN reported Friday. "Not just that water was there, perhaps millions of years ago, but also these organic compounds."
  In an interview with the head of Earth Sciences collections at the UK's Natural History Musem, CNN asked the million-dollar question. "How much more likely, if you believe so, that that makes it that there was life on Mars at some time."
  A: So what we've found with data that's come back from the Rover and has been studied over the last few months is that we see
  
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• Neighbors Build Their Own Lightning-fast Fiber-optic Network

  27-11-2022 04:15 via tech.slashdot.org
  Somewhere in Silicon Valley is a man "standing up to internet giants Comcast and AT&T," reports the Mercury News. (Alternate URL here.)
  "Comcast told him it would cost $17,000 to speed up his internet. He rallied 41 South Bay neighbors to build their own lightning-fast fiber-optic network instead "Tech-rich but internet-poor, residents of the Silicon Valley neighborhood were fed up with sluggish broadband speeds of less than 25 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) download and 3 Mbps upload — th
  
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• Will Made-in-China EV's Bring New Competition for Automakers?

  27-11-2022 01:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  The Washington Post reports:
  China is already a huge manufacturer of electric vehicles for its own market, and it is increasingly making EVs for overseas buyers, too. Made-in-China EVs are hitting U.S. dealerships and European auto shows, providing new competition to Western and Japanese automakers that have long dominated the global vehicle market.Examples from the article:
  Polestar 2, from "an automaker headquartered in Sweden and controlled by Chinese billionaire Li Shufu... The company says
  
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• A Light-powered Catalyst Could Be Key For Hydrogen Economy

  27-11-2022 00:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Rice University researchers have engineered a key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy," the University announced this week.
  "Using only inexpensive raw materials, a team from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. and Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment created a scalable catalyst that needs only the power of light to convert ammonia into clean-burning hydrogen fuel...."The research follows government and industry investm
  
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