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• MacBook Owners Have Two Months To Claim Up To $395 Over Butterfly Keyboard Woes

  04-01-2023 22:21 via apple.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: If you bought an Apple MacBook with an ill-fated butterfly keyboard and ended up having to replace either individual keycaps or the whole keyboard, you may be eligible to claim part of a $50 million settlement reached after a class-action lawsuit. The law firm handling the settlement has been emailing class members since mid-December but we wanted to highlight that the deadline for making a claim is fast approaching on March 6th, 2023. Claims can be submitted
  
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• Google Chrome Will End Support for Several Windows Versions in Days

  04-01-2023 21:42 via it.slashdot.org
  Computers using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will no longer get the latest version of Google Chrome, beginning with the latest version, Chrome 110, which will be launched on Feb. 7. From a report: The new version is designed to run on Windows 10 or later.ÂGoogle support announced the move in October 2022. As with most programs whose updates won't work on older operating systems, you can use the older version of Chrome, you just won't get the newer stuff Google is working on.Read more of this
  
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• LG Wants To Reinvent How You Think of TV Picture Modes

  04-01-2023 21:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Is the world ready to move beyond movie, standard, and vivid? LG seems to think so. From a report: Setting up a new TV? Ask any videophile or home theater nerd and they'll probably tell you to set your picture mode to the movie/cinema option (or whatever's closest on your particular TV) and leave it there. Traditionally, this has been the most color accurate option and leans toward a pleasant, warm white balance instead of the cooler temperature that usually accompanies "standard" modes. But the
  
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• Meta's New Year Kicks Off With Over $410 Million in Fresh EU Privacy Fines

  04-01-2023 20:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  Meta is kicking off the New Year with more privacy fines and corrective orders hitting its business in Europe. The latest swathe of enforcement relates to EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints over the legal basis it claims to run behavioral ads. From a report: The Facebook owner's lead data protection watchdog in the region, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), announced today that it's adopted final decisions on two of these long-running enquiries -- against Meta own
  
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• Danish Bank Workers Celebrate First Full Year Without Robberies

  04-01-2023 19:40 via news.slashdot.org
  Denmark has recorded its first year without bank robberies, as the use of cash has dwindled in recent years, the country's finance workers' union said. From a report: The increasingly cashless society had led banks to reduce their cash services, the union said on Monday, leaving little potential loot for robbers. "It's nothing short of amazing. Because every time it happens, it's an extreme strain on the employees involved," said Steen Lund Olsen, the vice-president of the union, Finansforbundet
  
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• Key Bitcoin Developer Calls on FBI To Recover $3.6M in Digital Coin

  04-01-2023 19:00 via slashdot.org
  One of the prominent developers behind the bitcoin blockchain said he has asked the FBI to assist him in recovering $3.6 million worth of the digital coin that was stolen from his storage wallets on New Year's Eve. From a report: Luke Dashjr is a developer of the Bitcoin Core, an app that runs 97 percent of the nodes making up the bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin Core derives from the software developed by the anonymous bitcoin inventor who uses the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. That software was calle
  
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• Reducing Nitrogen Use Key To Human and Planetary Health, Study Says

  04-01-2023 18:20 via science.slashdot.org
  Better management of nitrogen-rich fertilisers through alternating crops, optimising use and other measures can yield huge environmental and health benefits, but must boost food production at the same time, researchers warned Wednesday. From a report: Reducing nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a "grand challenge," the group of international researchers said in a study in Nature outlining a dozen urgently-needed reforms. The intensive use of chemical fertilisers helped fuel the four-fol
  
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• EA Says It Can't Recover 60% of Players' Corrupted Madden Franchise Save Files

  04-01-2023 17:41 via games.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: EA says that a temporary "data storage issue" led to the corruption of many Madden NFL 23 players' Connected Franchise Mode (CFM) save files last week. What's worse, the company now estimates it can recover fewer than half of those corrupted files from a backup. The issue started last Monday, December 26, when EA tweeted that it was "aware of players experiencing connection issues when trying to connect to CFM." That problem lasted until Wednesday, December 2
  
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• Panasonic To Stop Making Rice Cookers in Japan After Six Decades

  04-01-2023 17:00 via slashdot.org
  Despite being the birthplace of the humble rice cooker, a decline in appetites for the grain and cost savings to be found elsewhere are prompting Panasonic to end production in Japan. From a report: Instead, the Osaka-based manufacturer will transfer production to the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou by June 2023, according to media reports. The move by Panasonic, which has made its popular rice cookers in its home country since 1956, symbolizes a shift underway in a country that once led the de
  
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• Fortinet Releases Security Updates for FortiADC

  04-01-2023 16:35 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: January 4, 2023
  Fortinet has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in multiple versions of FortiADC. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker “to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted HTTP requests.”CISA encourages users and administrators to review Fortinet security advisory FG-IR-22-061 and apply the recommended updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use polic
  
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• Salesforce To Cut Staff by 10% in Latest Tech Layoffs

  04-01-2023 16:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  Salesforce said on Wednesday it would lay off about 10% of its employees and close some offices, becoming the latest tech firm to undertake cost cuts amid an economic slowdown. From a report: The company expects the move to lead to about $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion in charges, of which about $800 million to $1 billion will be recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. "The environment remains challenging and our customers are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions," c
  
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• Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs

  04-01-2023 15:40 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Roku is stepping up from streaming sticks and audio bars to making its own TVs. At CES 2023 the streaming device manufacturer introduced two new lines: the Roku Select and Roku Plus. From a report: The new lines will consist of 11 models in total, ranging in size from 24 to 75 inches, and will include up to 4K resolutions. The HD-based Roku Select series will come equipped with Roku Voice Remotes, while the step-up Roku Plus units will ship with the $30 Voice Remote Pro. Roku's first foray into
  
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• Coinbase Reaches $100 Million Settlement With New York Regulators

  04-01-2023 15:03 via tech.slashdot.org
  Coinbase, a publicly traded cryptocurrency trading exchange based in the United States, agreed to pay a $50 million fine after financial regulators found that it let customers open accounts without conducting sufficient background checks, in violation of anti-money-laundering laws. From a report: The settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services, announced Wednesday, will also require Coinbase to invest $50 million to bolster its compliance program, which is supposed to pre
  
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• Social Media Use Is Linked To Brain Changes In Teens, Research Finds

  04-01-2023 14:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research, as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a vast experiment already in full swing. Successive studies have added pieces to the puzzle, fleshing out the implications of a nearly constant stream of virtual interactions beginning in childhood. A new study by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina tries something new, conducting success
  
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• NASA Apollo Astronaut Walt Cunningham Has Died At Age 90

  04-01-2023 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Walt Cunningham, one of the early Apollo astronauts, died Tuesday after complications from a fall. He was 90. NPR reports: Walt Cunningham flew in space just one time. His flight in 1968 was an important -- and often forgotten one -- for the lunar program. Cunningham was the lunar module pilot of the first manned Apollo mission that went to space. Apollo 7's 11-day trip around the Earth was a key stepping stone to NASA's march to the moon. "The real accomplishment, of course, was the first manne
  
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• Microsoft and OpenAI Working On ChatGPT-Powered Bing In Challenge To Google

  04-01-2023 08:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Microsoft is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans. Reuters reports: Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, and hopes to challenge Alphabet-owned search engine Google, the San Francisco-based technology news website said in a report. Microsoft said in a blog post last year that it planned
  
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• Why Armored CAR T Therapy Is Our Best Shot At Curing Cancer

  04-01-2023 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Immune therapies have rewritten the game when it comes to cancer treatment, earning the "fifth pillar" label next to more tried and true treatments like radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy. And no immunotherapy has garnered quite the same excitement as CAR T-cell therapy, first approved in 2017 by the Food and Drug Administration to treat a form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. At the time, then-FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb calle
  
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• Major Private Torrent Sites Have a Security Disaster to Fix Right Now

  04-01-2023 03:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  At least three major torrent sites are currently exposing intimate details of their operations to anyone with a web browser. TorrentFreak understands that the sites use a piece of software that grabs brand-new content from other sites before automatically uploading it to their own. A security researcher tried to raise the alarm but nobody will listen. From the report: To get their hands on the latest releases as quickly as possible, [private torrent sites, or private trackers as they're commonly
  
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• X11 Server Development Pace Hits a Two Decade Low

  04-01-2023 02:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: While Mesa's development has been very vibrant this year, the X.Org Server development pace has continued pulling back greatly from its late 00's and early 10's highs. This year saw just 156 commits to the xserver Git master branch, down from 331 last year and well off the highs of 2,114 as the most ever back in 2008. This jives with the downward pace over the past decade of the number of new commits continuing to slide. But it's not just on a commit basis bu
  
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• Wireless Power Consortium Works With Apple On Next-Gen 'Qi2' Standard Based On MagSafe

  04-01-2023 01:45 via hardware.slashdot.org
  The WPC announced during CES 2023 that the next generation of the Qi standard, named "Qi2," was built with Apple's help. 9to5Mac reports: The new standard aims to improve the efficiency and interoperability of the technology, which is why it will have a "Magnetic Power Profile" at its core. As explained by WPC, this Magnetic Power Profile essentially works like Apple's MagSafe. As a result, Qi2 accessories will be perfectly aligned with the devices, thus improving energy efficiency and fast char
  
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• Fallout and Doom QA Testers Form Biggest Union In the US Games Industry

  04-01-2023 01:02 via games.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Quality assurance workers at Microsoft's ZeniMax Studios, the people who make the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom, games, just voted to form a union, making it the first games studio to unionize under Microsoft and the largest group of union-represented Quality Assurance testers at any U.S. game studio. ZeniMax Workers United and the Communication Workers of America didn't share the exact vote count but said that the 300 QA testers overwhelm
  
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• NVIDIA's GeForce Now Game Streaming Is Coming To Cars

  04-01-2023 00:20 via games.slashdot.org
  NVIDIA has announced that it's bringing GeForce Now game streaming to cars using the company's Drive platform. Engadget reports: The rollout will offer access to titles like Cyberpunk 2077 on a driver display while you're charging or parked, or any time from the backseat. The cloud gaming option already has initial support from major brands like the Hyundai group (including Genesis and Kia), Polestar and China's BYD. NVIDIA didn't offer a timeframe for GeForce Now access, although it noted that
  
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