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• Ford Halts Production, Shipments of F-150 Lightning Over Possible Battery Issue

  14-02-2023 23:40 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Ford said on Tuesday that it had stopped production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup after discovering a potential battery issue during pre-delivery checks. Reuters reports: "We are not aware of any incidences of this issue in the field," Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg said in an email. She said the production stop was issued at the start of last week. Ford added it was investigating the matter, which was earlier reported by CNBC and first reported by Motor Authority. Shares of
  
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• How Rust Went From a Side Project To the World's Most-Loved Programming Language

  14-02-2023 23:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Many software projects emerge because -- somewhere out there -- a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That's more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-year-old computer programmer working for Mozilla, the open-source browser company. Returning home to his apartment in Vancouver, he found that the elevator was out of order; its software had crashed. This wasn't the first time it had happened, either
  
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• Instagram is Killing Live Shopping in March

  14-02-2023 22:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  As Meta gears up for its "year of efficiency," the company announced today it's exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram, following a similar shutdown on Facebook. From a report: Starting on March 16, 2023, Instagram users will no longer be able to tag products while livestreaming -- a capability that has been broadly available to U.S. businesses and creators since 2020. The changes highlight the difficulties the U.S. market has had in making livestream shopping successful. The acti
  
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• Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR

  14-02-2023 22:00 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: February 14, 2023
  Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.CISA encourages users and administrators to review Mozilla’s security advisories for Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR 102.8 for more information and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Cultivates Anti-Crypto Coalition

  14-02-2023 21:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Warren is zeroing in on national security concerns as her focus for potential crypto legislation, even as she raises red flags about a host of issues in the space, from consumer protections to environmental impact. From a report: Sen. Elizabeth Warren is branding herself as the scourge of crypto. And she's not doing it alone. The progressive Massachusetts Democrat is starting to recruit conservative Senate Republicans to her anti-crypto cause and getting some early positive vibes from bank lobby
  
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• Citrix Releases Security Updates for Workspace Apps, Virtual Apps and Desktops

  14-02-2023 21:35 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: February 14, 2023
  Citrix has released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24486, CVE-2023-24484, CVE-2023-24485, and CVE-2023-24483) in Citrix Workspace Apps, Virtual Apps and Desktops. A local user could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.CISA encourages users and administrators to review Citrix security bulletins CTX477618, CTX477617, and CTX477616 for more information and to apply the necessary updates. Th
  
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• Google Starts Beta Testing Its Rebrand of Interest-based Ad-targeting on Android

  14-02-2023 21:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google has begun letting Android developers kick the tyres of its claimed reboot of ad-targeting -- announcing the launch of the first Beta for its "Privacy Sandbox," an adtech stack proposal which aims to iterate how ad tracking, targeting and reporting is done so it appears less creepy for individual users while maintaining an interest-based, behavioral targeting capability on web users' eyeballs. From a report: A "small percentage" of eligible Android 13 devices will be enrolled in the trial
  
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• Microsoft Releases February 2023 Security Updates

  14-02-2023 20:30 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: February 14, 2023
  Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s February 2023 Security Update Guide and Deployment Information and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.
  
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• Serious About Your Crypto Project? Binance's CEO Says You Should Move

  14-02-2023 20:20 via slashdot.org
  
  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested crypto entrepreneurs might need to move to a country more favorable to cryptocurrencies and digital assets amid what appears to be a growing crackdown by U.S. regulators on the industry. From a report: "If you're serious about your project, moving to a new country may not be a bad thing," he said in a Twitter Spaces talk, citing Dubai, Bahrain and France among those places with more welcoming regulation. The comments come on the heels of the New York Departme
  
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• Arkansas Proposes Requiring ID To Watch Porn Online

  14-02-2023 19:41 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A new bill advancing through the Arkansas legislature aims to make it harder for people to access porn sites. From a report: Senate Bill 66, the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, would require anyone in Arkansas to provide a "digitized identification card" before viewing a site that contains more than 33.33 percent of "harmful material." That arbitrarily-defined number, and the language of the bill itself, is a copycat of a recently-enacted law in Louisiana that blo
  
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• Biden FCC Nominee Slams Critics, Says ISPs Shouldn't Get To Choose Regulators

  14-02-2023 19:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  President Biden's long-stalled nominee to the Federal Communications Commission fired back at her critics today, saying that the telecom industry shouldn't be allowed to choose its own regulators. From a report: "I believe deeply that regulated entities should not choose their regulator," Sohn said in prepared testimony for a Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing today. "Unfortunately, that is the exact intent of the past 15 months of false and misleading attacks on my record and my chara
  
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• Microsoft Ditches Yammer Brand and Goes All-in on Viva Engage

  14-02-2023 18:21 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has confirmed that it's finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. From a report: Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with cofounder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of $140 million in funding before Microsoft swooped in with its billion-dollar bid four years after its launch. In many ways, it's surprising that the Y
  
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• AI Has Successfully Piloted a US F-16 Fighter Jet, DARPA Says

  14-02-2023 17:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The US Department of Defense's research agency, DARPA, has announced that its AI algorithms can now control an actual F-16 in flight. The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. From a report: "In early December 2022, ACE algorithm developers uploaded their AI software into a specially modified F-16 test aircraft known as the X-62A or VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), at the Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) at Edwa
  
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• Microsoft Will Forcibly Remove Internet Explorer from Most Windows 10 PCs Today

  14-02-2023 17:02 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10's primary browser -- that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and IE11 remained installed and accessible in most versions of Windows 10 even after security updates for the browser ended in June of 2022. That ends today, as Microsoft's support documentation says that a Microsoft Edge browser update will fully disable Internet E
  
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• EU Lawmakers Approve Effective 2035 Ban on New Fossil Fuel Cars

  14-02-2023 16:33 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change. From a report: The landmark rules will require that by 2035 carmakers must achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions from new cars sold, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country bloc. The law will also set a 55% cut in CO2 emissi
  
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• Microsoft's Bing AI, Like Google's, Also Made Dumb Mistakes During First Demo

  14-02-2023 15:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Google's AI chatbot isn't the only one to make factual errors during its first demo. Independent AI researcher Dmitri Brereton has discovered that Microsoft's first Bing AI demos were full of financial data mistakes. From a report: Microsoft confidently demonstrated its Bing AI capabilities a week ago, with the search engine taking on tasks like providing pros and cons for top selling pet vacuums, planning a 5-day trip to Mexico City, and comparing data in financial reports. But, Bing failed to
  
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• Bankman-Fried's Prosecutors Raise New Concerns Over Internet Use

  14-02-2023 15:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  US prosecutors said their discovery that Sam Bankman-Fried used a virtual private network to access the internet on two recent occasions raises concerns that the FTX co-founder could be hiding his online activities. From a report: The Manhattan judge handling Bankman-Fried's criminal fraud case last week expressed his own concerns that even if the defendant is barred from using encrypted messaging apps like Signal, he could still use old-fashioned secret code to contact witnesses in the case, si
  
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• ChromeOS Will Finally, Mercifully, Let You Change Its Keyboard Shortcuts

  14-02-2023 14:00 via build.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As spotted in Kevin Tofel's About Chromebooks blog, an updated version of the shortcut viewer in the Settings app -- first seen in October 2022 -- has the early makings of a shortcut changing and adding mechanism.Clicking on a shortcut brings up a dialogue that allows you to, at the moment, add alternative shortcuts to common shortcuts for manipulating tabs, windows and desktops, system settings, accessibility, and other utilities. A small "
  
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• Microsoft Confirms Game Pass Cannibalizes Sales

  14-02-2023 11:00 via games.slashdot.org
  
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority's provisional report on the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition includes an admission from Microsoft that putting games into its Game Pass subscription service cannibalizes sales of those titles. GamesIndustry.biz reports: "Microsoft also submitted that its internal analysis shows a [redacted]% decline in base game sales twelve months following their addition on Game Pass," the CMA noted in its report. That confirmation runs counter to claims Xbox h
  
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• Second Soyuz Springs a Leak, Astronauts Stuck On ISS For An Extra Month

  14-02-2023 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Russia's space agency will hold off returning three astronauts from the International Space Station as it works with NASA to investigate a coolant leak issue that impacted an uncrewed freighter spacecraft last weekend. The Register reports: The Progress MS-21 -- also known as the Progress 82 spacecraft -- arrived at the floating space lab in October 2022 carrying water and other supplies. After months of being docked to the station's Poisk module, the vehicle suddenly began spewing liquid coolan
  
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• Blue Origin Makes a Big Lunar Announcement Without Any Fanfare

  14-02-2023 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, in a blog post not even promoted by the company's Twitter account or a news release, Blue Origin quietly said its "Blue Alchemist" program has been working on [using the dusty lunar surface to manufacture solar panels] for the last two years. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, has made both solar cells and electricity transmission wires from simulated lunar soil -- a material that is chemically and mineralogically equivalent to l
  
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• Valve Is Working On a Major Update For 'Team Fortress 2'

  14-02-2023 03:02 via games.slashdot.org
  
  As Kotaku reported late last week, Valve is preparing a major update for Team Fortress 2. The studio published a rare blog post asking the game's community to submit new content to the Steam Workshop ahead of May 1st. "The last few Team Fortress summer events have only been item updates. But this year [Valve's emphasis], we're planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update -- with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints and who knows what else?!" Valve said. Engadget reports: By our
  
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• Arlo's Security Cameras Will Keep Free Cloud Storage For Existing Customers After All

  14-02-2023 02:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Security camera company Arlo is reversing course on its controversial decision to apply a retroactive end-of-life policy to many of its popular home security cameras. The Verge reports: On Friday, Arlo CEO Matthew McRae posted a thread on Twitter, announcing that the company will not remove free storage of videos for existing customers and that it is extending the EOL dates for older cameras a further year to 2025. He also committed to sending security updates to these cameras until 2026. The en
  
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• Amazon's Zoox Robotaxi Now Giving Rides To Employees On Public Roads In California

  14-02-2023 01:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle venture Zoox said on Monday that it is now testing its self-driving robotaxis on public roads in California with passengers on board. CNBC reports: The vehicles have no steering wheel or pedals, and they have bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering, enabling them to change directions without the need to reverse. Zoox executives said the company began the tests after it received approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles last week.
  
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• NameCheap's Email Hacked To Send Metamask, DHL Phishing Emails

  14-02-2023 01:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Domain registrar Namecheap had their email account breached Sunday night, causing a flood of MetaMask and DHL phishing emails that attempted to steal recipients' personal information and cryptocurrency wallets. The phishing campaigns started around 4:30 PM ET and originated from SendGrid, an email platform used historically by Namecheap to send renewal notices and marketing emails. After recipients began complaining on Twitter, Namecheap
  
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• Windows 11 Will Soon Control Your RGB Lighting For PC Gaming Accessories

  14-02-2023 00:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft is working to bring native support for RGB PC gaming accessories to Windows 11. The Verge reports: The Windows lighting experience will include the ability for PC gamers to configure accessories with RGB lighting without having to install third-party software. Twitter user Albacore has spotted early work for integrating this new lighting experience into Windows 11 in the latest public test builds of the operating system. Options for controlling brightness, lighting effects, speed, and
  
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