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• Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games?

  25-12-2022 23:47 via news.slashdot.org
  Subscribers to "NFL Sunday Ticket" can watch broadcasts of every Sunday game of American football. But for access next season, "fans will have to Google it..." warns the Associated Press — because Thursday the football league announced plans to distribute their game package on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels.Google beat out both Apple and Amazon by offering over $2 billion a year for 7 years — but Yahoo Finance believes it's more about drawing attention to YouTube's streami
  
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• Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for Authenticated Remote Users

  25-12-2022 22:36 via it.slashdot.org
  The Zero Day Initiative, a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux kernel security bug that allows authenticated remote users to disclose sensitive information and run code on vulnerable Linux kernel versions. ZDNet reports:Originally, the Zero Day Initiative ZDI rated it a perfect 10 on the 0 to 10 common Vulnerability Scoring System scale. Now, the hole's "only" a 9.6....
  The problem lies in the Linux 5.15 in-kernel Server Message Block (SMB) server, ksmbd. The specific flaw exi
  
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• Microsoft Employee Accidentally Announces That Notepad is Getting Tabs in Windows 11

  25-12-2022 21:36 via tech.slashdot.org
  "A Microsoft employee appears to have accidentally announced that Windows 11's Notepad app is getting a tabs feature," reports the Verge:The employee, a senior product manager at Microsoft, posted a photo of a version of Notepad with tabs, enthusiastically announcing "Notepad in Windows 11 now has tabs!" with a loudspeaker emoji.
  The tweet was deleted minutes later, but not before Windows Central and several Windows enthusiast Twitter accounts had spotted the mistake. The Notepad screenshot incl
  
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• Patched Windows Bug Was Actually a Dangerous Wormable Code-Execution Vulnerability

  25-12-2022 20:36 via tech.slashdot.org
  Ars Technica reports on a dangerously "wormable" Windows vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute malicious code with no authentication required — a vulnerability that was present "in a much broader range of network protocols, giving attackers more flexibility than they had when exploiting the older vulnerability."Microsoft fixed CVE-2022-37958 in September during its monthly Patch Tuesday rollout of security fixes. At the time, however, Microsoft researchers believed the vulnerabil
  
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• CNET Touts 'Massive' Microsoft Office Deal: 91% Discount on a Lifetime License

  25-12-2022 19:34 via slashdot.org
  Meanwhile, over in the Microsoft ecosystem, CNET reports:You can ditch the subscription (with recurring charges) and snag a lifetime license of access to Microsoft's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher and Access for just $30...
  That's back at the lowest price we've ever seen, and a whopping 91% off the usual price of $349.
  However, this deal expires in just a few days, so be sure to get your order in soon.The offer, from StackSocial, applies to both the Windows and Mac v
  
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• America's FTC Demands End to Mastercard's 'Illegal' Blocking of Competing Debit Card Payment Networks

  25-12-2022 18:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Friday America's Federal Trade Commission issued an announcement on what it called "illegal business tactics that Mastercard has been using to force merchants to route debit card payments through its payment network," saying the FTC is now requiring Mastercard "to stop blocking the use of competing debit payment networks."The popularity of debit cards has been growing especially quickly for purchases consumers make using their personal devices equipped with ewallet applications such as Apple Pay
  
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• Stack Overflow Survey Finds More Developers Now Use Linux Than MacOS

  25-12-2022 17:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  Justin Garrison works at Amazon Web Services on the Kubernetes team (and was senior systems engineer on several animated films).
  This week he spotted a new milestone for Linux in the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey:[Among the developers surveyed] Linux as a primary operating system had been steadily climbing for the past 5 years. 2018 through 2021 saw steady growth with 23.2%, 25.6%, 26.6%, 25.3%, and finally in 2022 the usage was 40.23%. Linux usage was more than macOS in 2021, but only by
  
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• Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees

  25-12-2022 16:04 via science.slashdot.org
  Like a visit from an old friend, it's Donald Knuth's annual Christmas tree lecture for 2022. "Because of the pandemic, it's been three years since Knuth has been able to honor this tradition," notes The New Stack:2022 marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day in 1962 when a 24-year-old Donald Knuth started writing " The Art of Computer Programming." Now approaching his 85th birthday, Knuth has become almost a legend in the world of computer programming — and he's still writing additio
  
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• How One Man Proved No Snowflakes Are Alike

  25-12-2022 13:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  CNN shares the historic close-up snowflake photos of Wilson Bentley, the first person to capture the details of the individual "snow crystal" ice that makes up snowflakes.
  It was 1885, just 69 years after the invention of the camera, and after years of trial and error, "He went on to photograph more than 5,000 of these "ice flowers" during his lifetime — never finding any duplicates — and the images still mesmerize to this day."Every snow crystal shares a common six-sided or six-poin
  
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• A Startup Wants To Pay You To Share Your Data For Advertising

  25-12-2022 09:34 via slashdot.org
  ®Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang (through his AME Cloud Ventures) contributed to $6 million in seed funding in November for startup Caden, which plans to pay users to share their personal data -- including what they buy or watch on mobile apps.
  The Wall Street Journal reports:The startup, Caden Inc., operates an app by the same name that helps users download their data from apps and servicesâ"whether thatâ(TM)s Amazon.com Inc. or Airbnb Inc. â"into a personal âoevault.&ac
  
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• Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Launches Fund to Invest in Open Metaverse Projects

  25-12-2022 05:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  Neal Stephenson coined the phrase "metaverse" in his 1992 book Snow Crash. 30 years later, Stephenson is part of a blockchain startup "optimized for the Open Metaverse" called Lamina1. This week they announced their "first-of-its-kind fund" for investing in early stage Layer 1 blockchain projects ("largely focused" on the Open Metaverse).
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  The goal is "to provide broad economic access to global accredited investors looking to support the next era of the internet," according to the announcement
  
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• NORAD Answers Questions About Their Annual Santa-Tracking Operation

  25-12-2022 03:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  The North American Aerospace Defense Command is a US/Canada organization protecting the air sovereignty of the two nations.
  But every year on December 24th, they also tell you where Santa is. From NORADSanta.org:
  The modern tradition of tracking Santa began in 1955 when a young child accidentally dialed the unlisted phone number of the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center upon seeing an newspaper advertisement telling kids to call Santa. The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Sho
  
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• TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

  25-12-2022 00:34 via news.slashdot.org
  ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor three journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, reports Forbes, "to unearth the source of leaks inside the company following a drumbeat of stories exposing the company's ongoing links to China."As a result of the investigation into the surveillance tactics, ByteDance fired Chris Lepitak, its chief internal auditor who led the team responsible for them. The China-based executive Song Ye, who Lepitak reported to and who reports directly
  
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