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• Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online

  21-12-2022 23:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  schwit1 shares a report from Futurism: Your robot vacuums are watching you -- and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online. As the MIT Technology Review reports, the aptly-named company iRobot, behind the uber-popular Roomba vacuums, confirmed that gig workers outside of the US broke a non-disclosure agreement when sharing intimate photos, including one of a woman on the toilet, to social media.The images in question, some of which MIT Tech shared -
  
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• NASA's InSight Mission Officially Over

  21-12-2022 23:20 via science.slashdot.org
  "As a quick follow-up to yesterday's post about InSight's final photo, the InSight Lander's mission is now officially over after 2 failed communications attempts," writes Slashdot reader davidwr. From a NASA press release: NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after two consecutive attempts, leading them to conclu
  
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• 3M To End 'Forever Chemicals' Output

  21-12-2022 23:02 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the "forever chemicals" used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights. Perfluoralkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) do not break down quickly and have in recent years been found in dangerous concentrations in drinking water, soils and foods.Legal pressure over the damage caus
  
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• The End of Netflix Password Sharing Is Nigh

  21-12-2022 22:21 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  The end of password sharing is coming to Netflix soon -- and it will be a challenge for both viewers and the streaming giant. From a report: The company has put off this moment for years. Researchers inside Netflix identified password sharing as a major problem eating into subscriptions in 2019, people familiar with the situation say, but the company was worried about how to address it without alienating consumers. Then Covid lockdowns hit, bringing a wave of new subscribers, and the effort to s
  
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• The Intel P-Series Was a Step Back

  21-12-2022 21:41 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: I reviewed a number of laptops in 2022 across consumer, workstation, gaming, business, Chromebook, and everywhere else. I touched all of the major brands. But I had a particular focus on ultraportables this year -- that is, thin and light devices that people buy to use, say, on their couch at home -- because, with Apple's MacBooks in such a dominant position, many eyes have been on their competitors on the Windows side. For many of these models, I found mysel
  
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• Core Scientific Declares Bankruptcy as Crypto Winter Lingers

  21-12-2022 21:01 via slashdot.org
  Core Scientific, one of the largest miners of Bitcoin, became the latest crypto company to file for bankruptcy as the industry reckons with a plunge in digital-asset prices. From a report: The Austin, Texas-based company listed $1.4 billion of assets against $1.33 billion of liabilities in its Chapter 11 petition, which was filed in the Southern District of Texas. The company's shares, already down 98% this year to trade at a fraction of a dollar, lost a further 40% on Wednesday morning.
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• New IRS Rules Could Affect Venmo, Zelle and CashApp Users

  21-12-2022 20:21 via news.slashdot.org
  Users of digital wallets and e-commerce platforms must start reporting small transactions, sowing fears among small-business owners. From a report: A tweak to the tax code enacted last year was intended to ensure that those who use services such as Venmo, CashApp, Etsy, StubHub and Airbnb to collect money are reporting all their income to the I.R.S. The change was part of the Biden administration's efforts to narrow the $7 trillion "tax gap" between revenue that is owed but not collected. But fo
  
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• Comcast Agents Mistakenly Reject Some Poor People Who Qualify for Free Internet

  21-12-2022 19:41 via tech.slashdot.org
  People with low incomes can get free Internet service through Comcast and a government program, but signing up is sometimes harder than it should be because of confusion within Comcast's customer service department. From a report: Massachusetts resident Tonia Williams qualified for the US government's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides $30 monthly discounts, and for Comcast's Internet Essentials Plus, a $30 monthly service for low-income people that is essentially free when co
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried's Extradition Approved by Judge

  21-12-2022 19:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will soon be in U.S. custody to face criminal charges connected to the collapse of the crypto exchange, after a judge here approved his transfer from a local jail where he has been held. From a report: Mr. Bankman-Fried agreed not to contest his extradition, and in court Wednesday his lawyer read an affidavit in which the former executive waived his right to extradition proceedings and said he had "a desire to make the relevant customers whole." When asked by Magist
  
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• Intel Re-Orgs AXG Graphics Group, Raja Koduri Moves Back To Chief Architect Role

  21-12-2022 18:20 via slashdot.org
  Intel announced today that it would split its AXG graphics group to separately address the gaming and data center markets by placing it under two other business units. Raja Koduri, currently the Executive Vice President of the AXG business unit, will return to his previous role as an Intel Chief Architect. From a report:" "Discrete graphics and accelerated computing are critical growth engines for Intel. With our flagship products now in production, we are evolving our structure to accelerate an
  
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• Anker's Eufy Breaks Its Silence on Security Cam Security

  21-12-2022 17:41 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: On the last episode of "Will Anker ever tell us what's actually going on with its security cameras rather than lying and covering its tracks," we told you how Eufy's customer support team is now quietly providing some of the answers to the questions that the company had publicly ignored about its smart home camera security. Now, Anker is finally taking a stab at a public explanation, in a new blog post titled "To our eufy Security Customers and Partners." Unf
  
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• WHO Expresses Concern About COVID Situation in China

  21-12-2022 17:01 via slashdot.org
  The World Health Organization is concerned about a spike in COVID-19 infections in China and is supporting the government to focus its efforts on vaccinating people at the highest risk across the country, the head of the UN agency said on Wednesday. From a report: Infections have recently spiked in the world's second-largest economy and projections have suggested China could face an explosion of cases and more than a million deaths next year. "The WHO is very concerned over the evolving situatio
  
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• India Central Bank Chief Warns Crypto Will Cause the Next Financial Crisis Unless Banned

  21-12-2022 16:28 via slashdot.org
  The Indian central bank's governor said on Wednesday that it's not at war with crypto, but asserted that cryptocurrencies have no underlying fundamentals and their usage should be prohibited. From a report: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das told a room packed with banking executives and lawmakers that crypto has a huge inherent risk to the macroeconomic and stability of the nation. "After the development of the last one year, including the latest episode surrounding FTX, I don't think we need to say
  
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• Okta's Source Code Stolen After GitHub Repositories Hacked

  21-12-2022 15:45 via it.slashdot.org
  Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. From a report: According to a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the security incident involves threat actors stealing Okta's source code. BleepingComputer has obtained a 'confidential' security incident notification that Okta has been emailing to its 'security contacts' as of a few hour
  
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• Digital Dollar Is a Long Way From Reality, US Treasury Official Says

  21-12-2022 15:00 via news.slashdot.org
  The Treasury Department's top official for financial markets and stability expressed little urgency over the federal government's need to prepare for the potential launch of a digital US dollar. From a report: Regulators need to examine whether a central bank digital currency -- or CBDC -- would actually improve the speed or cost of real time interbank payments, which the Federal Reserve is aiming to introduce in 2023, said Nellie Liang, undersecretary for domestic finance at the Treasury. Asked
  
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• Man Simulates Time Travel Thanks To Stable Diffusion Image Synthesis

  21-12-2022 14:00 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Throughout December, a social media user known as Stelfie the Time Traveller has been crafting a time-hopping travelogue using generative AI. Thanks to Stable Diffusion and fine-tuning, an anonymous artist has created a fictional photorealistic character that he can insert into faux historical photographs set in different eras, such as ancient Egypt or the time of the dinosaurs. Stable Diffusion is a deep learning image synthesis model that
  
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• Russian Arms Manufacturer Developing Tech To Hunt Starlink Dishes

  21-12-2022 11:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  schwit1 shares a report from PC Magazine with the caption, "More Russian vaporware?" From the report: A Russian arms manufacturer claims it can help the country's military detect and bombard Starlink satellite dishes, which have been crucial to the defense effort in Ukraine. Earlier this month, a mysterious company called Sestroretsk Arms Factory published a website that debuted the "Borshchevik" or "hogweed" system, which is designed to locate Starlink dishes at a distance of up to 10 kilometer
  
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• Rocket Lab's First Mission From Virginia Delayed Until 2023

  21-12-2022 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Aria Alamalhodaei writes via TechCrunch: We're going to have to wait a little longer for Rocket Lab's American debut. The company, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, was due to launch a trio of satellites for radio-frequency analytics customer HawkEye 360 to orbit from the company's new site at Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. It would've marked the first time a Rocket Lab vehicle has taken off from U.S. soil. But the company said late yesterday that strong upper-levels wind
  
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• MSG Defends Using Facial Recognition To Kick Lawyer Out of Rockettes Show

  21-12-2022 04:30 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Kelly Conlon joined her daughter's Girl Scout troop for a fun outing to see the Rockettes perform their Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, she had no idea she would end up booted from the show once she entered the building. Security stopped Conlon, NBC New York reported, because she is a New Jersey lawyer. It seems that Madison Square Garden Entertainment has begun using facial recognition technology to ide
  
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• Netflix Will Be Next On Microsoft's Shopping List

  21-12-2022 03:02 via slashdot.org
  Satya Nadella keeps thinking bigger. Microsoft's chief executive has been buying new businesses at an impressive clip. Look for him to add Netflix to the list in 2023. Reuters reports: [...] The two companies are already closely aligned. Netflix chose Microsoft as its advertising partner for a new advertising-supported subscription service. Microsoft President Brad Smith also sits on the Netflix board. Part of the rationale for a deal is that Microsoft wants to offer a video-game streaming servi
  
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• Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023

  21-12-2022 02:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Les Pounder writes via Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton announced via a recent blog post that 100,000 units would be making their way into the supply chain, and that the in the latter-half of 2023 we can expect stock levels to return to pre-pandemic normality. That said, the supply chain shortage has impacted the normal cadence of Raspberry Pi releases, and according to Upton in an interview with Christopher Barnatt from Explaining Computers it means we sadly won't be seeing a Raspber
  
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• Some 2023 MacBooks To Be Made In Vietnam

  21-12-2022 01:45 via apple.slashdot.org
  Some 2023 MacBooks are set to be made in Vietnam, as Apple continues its push to reduce its dependence on China as a manufacturing base. 9to5Mac reports: MacBook production could begin in Vietnam as early as May, says a new report. The piece doesn't specify whether the plan refers to the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or both -- but the move would hit an important milestone in Apple's diversification plans.Nikkei reports on the latest move: "Apple has tapped its top supplier, Taiwan's Foxconn, to sta
  
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• Audi Is Converting All Factories To Produce EVs As It Phases Out Gas Cars

  21-12-2022 01:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Audi is preparing to convert its entire network of global production factories to manufacture electric vehicles as it gears up to compete in the auto industry's future. ;...] Audi announced last year that its last combustion car would roll off the line in 2033 (if they are still around then), launching only electric vehicles from 2026. To better compete in the new EV era and ease the transition, Audi will convert all exiting existing production
  
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• Delta To Make Its In-Flight Wi-Fi Free

  21-12-2022 00:20 via mobile.slashdot.org
  Delta Air Lines is reportedly planning to make in-flight Wi-Fi free on a "significant portion" of its planes starting early next year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Verge reports: The company has reportedly been running tests where anyone who's a member of its free-to-join SkyMiles rewards program gets free access to the internet while in the air, but it seems as if that perk may become much more widely available soon. Delta is expected to roll out the free Wi-Fi to an
  
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