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• SEC Charges Do Kwon, Terraform With Fraud In Connection With Terra Collapse

  16-02-2023 23:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Terraform Labs and its CEO, Do Kwon, with fraud, alleging that they orchestrated a multibillion dollar "crypto asset securities fraud," the SEC said Thursday. CNBC reports: Kwon and Terraform allegedly schemed from Apr. 2018 until the collapse of TerraUSD, also known as UST, and its sister coin luna in May 2022 to raise billions of dollars from investors through the offer and sale of an "inter-connected suite" of crypto asset securities, including s
  
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• Big Tech Lobbyist Language Made It Verbatim Into NY's Hedged Repair Bill

  16-02-2023 23:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When New York became the first state to pass a heavily modified right-to-repair bill late last year, it was apparent that lobbyists had succeeded in last-minute changes to the law's specifics. A new report from the online magazine Grist details the ways in which Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes identical to those proposed by a tech trade association. In a report co-published with nonprofit newsroom The Markup, Maddie Stone writes that document
  
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• Welsh Road Building Projects Stopped After Failing Climate Review

  16-02-2023 22:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Dozens of road building projects across Wales have been halted or amended as part of a "groundbreaking" policy that reassessed more than 50 schemes against a series of tough tests on their impact on the climate emergency. From a report: Only 15 of the projects reviewed by an expert roads review panel will go ahead in their original form, with others scaled back, postponed or in some cases shelved. Lee Waters, the deputy climate change minister in the Labour-led Welsh government, described the de
  
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• Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You

  16-02-2023 21:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart. From a report: When you hit the checkout line at your local supermarket and give the cashier your phone number or loyalty card, you are handing over a valuable treasure trove of data that may not be limited to the items in your shopping cart. Many grocers systematically infer information about you from your purchases and "enrich" the personal information you provide with additional data from third-party
  
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• Microsoft Outlines Official Support For Windows 11 on Mac with Apple Silicon

  16-02-2023 21:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has outlined how users running Apple Silicon-based Macs can utilize Windows 11 in a new support document published today. The document explains how users running Mac devices with either M1 or M2 chips can use Windows 11, either via the cloud or using a local virtualization such as Parallels Desktop. From a report: Unfortunately, the document makes no mention of installing Windows 11 natively on Apple Silicon hardware. Apple's legacy Bootcamp application, which previously allowed Mac us
  
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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Stepping Down

  16-02-2023 20:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world's largest video site for the last nine years, is stepping down from her role. She'll be replaced by Neal Mohan, her longtime lieutenant. From a report: In a letter sent to YouTube's employees, Wojcicki said she was leaving in order to "start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I'm passionate about." During her tenure, YouTube became increasingly important to the business for Google, which bought the site in 2006, and
  
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• US Issues Declaration on Responsible Use of AI in the Military

  16-02-2023 19:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The U.S. government on Thursday issued a declaration on the responsible use of artficial intelligence (AI) in the military, which would include "human accountability." From a report: "We invite all states to join us in implementing international norms, as it pertains to military development and use of AI" and autononous weapons, said Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Inside Meta's Push To Solve the Noisy Office

  16-02-2023 19:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Coming to the campuses of Facebook parent Meta Platforms is a contraption that can block sound, shield workers from their peers and allow for heads-down, uninterrupted work. It's a cubicle. From a report: That is, a noise-canceling cubicle designed using some of the same principles found in soundproof, echo-free anechoic chambers. "The Cube," which the company is beginning to roll out to offices worldwide after months of development, absorbs sound from multiple directions, says John Tenanes, vic
  
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• Musk Warns AI 'One of the Biggest Risks' To Civilization

  16-02-2023 18:21 via slashdot.org
  
  ChatGPT shows that artificial intelligence has gotten incredibly advanced -- and that it is something we should all be worried about, according to Elon Musk. From a report: "One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI," Musk told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, shortly after mentioning the development of ChatGPT. "It's both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability," Musk said. But, he stressed that "with that co
  
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• CISA Releases Fifteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  16-02-2023 18:00 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: February 16, 2023
  CISA released fifteen (15) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 16, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:ICSA-23-047-01 Siemens Solid EdgeICSA-23-047-02 Siemens SCALANCE X-200 IRTICSA-23-047-03 Siemens Brownfield Connectivity C
  
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• World Risks Descending Into a Climate 'Doom Loop', Warn Thinktanks

  16-02-2023 17:41 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The world is at risk of descending into a climate "doom loop," a thinktank report has warned. From a report: It said simply coping with the escalating impacts of the climate crisis could draw resources and focus away from the efforts to slash carbon emissions, making the situation even worse. The damage caused by global heating across the globe is increasingly clear, and recovering from climate disasters is already costing billions of dollars. Furthermore, these disasters can cause cascading pro
  
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• Supreme Court Could Be About To Decide the Legal Fate of AI Search

  16-02-2023 17:01 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that's been foundational to the internet for decades. But whatever the court decides might end up changing the rules for a technology that's just getting started: artificial intelligence-powered search engines like Google Bard and Microsoft's new Bing. From a report: Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, one of two complementary legal complaints. Gonzalez is nominally about whether YouTube can be sued f
  
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• EPA Outlines $27 Billion 'Green Bank' for Clean Energy Projects

  16-02-2023 16:21 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Biden administration has outlined how states and nonprofit groups can apply for $27 billion in funding from a "green bank" that will provide low-cost financing for projects intended to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. From a report: The so-called Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created by Congress in the landmark climate law approved last year, will invest in clean energy projects nationwide, with a focus on low-income and disadvantaged communities. The Environmental Protection Ag
  
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• German Court Rules Police Use of Crime-Fighting Software is Unlawful

  16-02-2023 15:41 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Police use of automated data analysis to prevent crime in some German states was unconstitutional, a top German court said on Thursday, ruling in favour of critics of software provided by the CIA-backed Palantir. From a report: Provisions regulating the use of the technology in Hesse and Hamburg violate the right to informational self-determination, a statement from the constitutional court said. Hesse has been given a Sept. 30 deadline to rewrite its provisions, while legislation in Hamburg --
  
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• Microsoft Says Talking To Bing For Too Long Can Cause It To Go Off the Rails

  16-02-2023 15:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has responded to widespread reports of Bing's unhinged comments in a new blog post. From a report: After the search engine was seen insulting users, lying to them, and emotionally manipulating people, Microsoft says it's now acting on feedback to improve the tone and precision of responses, and warns that long chat sessions could cause issues. Reflecting on the first seven days of public testing, Microsoft's Bing team says it didn't "fully envision" people using its chat interface for
  
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• Founder of WallStreetBets, Which Helped Ignite Meme Stock Frenzy, Sues Reddit

  16-02-2023 14:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The founder of WallStreetBets, which has been credited with helping ignite investors' frenzy into "meme" stocks, sued Reddit on Wednesday, accusing it of wrongly banning him from moderating the community and undermining his trademark rights. Jaime Rogozinski said his ouster, ostensibly for violating Reddit policy by "attempting to monetize a community," was a pretext to keep him from trying to control "a famous brand that helped Reddit rise to a
  
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• Heata Offers UK Residents Free Hot Water In Exchange For Cooling Its Servers

  16-02-2023 11:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  In exchange for installing one of Heata's water-heating server units in your home, the UK networking company will offer you free hot water for a year. Tom's Hardware reports: The unit doesn't replace your existing heating unit, it works alongside it -- providing some, but not all, of your hot water needs. According to the company, the unit will provide "a useful base load" of hot water, and can provide up to 4.8kWh of hot water per day, though the exact amount will depend on usage as well as oth
  
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• Scientists Find First Evidence That Black Holes Are the Source of Dark Energy

  16-02-2023 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy -- the 'missing' 70% of the universe. Phys.Org reports: The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein's theory of gravity. The result potentially means nothing new has to be added to our picture of the universe to account for dark energy: black holes combined with Einstein's gravity are the s
  
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• Australians Able To Opt Out of Targeted Ads, Erase Their Data Under Proposed Privacy Reforms

  16-02-2023 04:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Australians would gain greater control of their personal information, including the ability to opt out of targeted ads, erase their data and sue for serious breaches of privacy, under a proposal to the Albanese government. On Thursday the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, will release a review conducted by his department into modernization of the Privacy Act which calls to expand its remit to small businesses and add new safeguards for use of
  
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• Ransomware Gang Uses New Zero-Day To Steal Data On 1 Million Patients

  16-02-2023 03:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States with close to 80 hospitals in 16 states, confirmed this week that criminal hackers accessed the personal and protected health information of up to 1 million patients. TechCrunch reports: The Tennessee-based healthcare giant said in a filing with government regulators that the data breach stems from its use of a popular file-transfer software called GoAnywhere MFT, developed by Fortra (previously known as
  
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• Tesla To Open US Charging Network To Rivals In $7.5 Billion Federal Program

  16-02-2023 02:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Tesla will open part of its U.S. charging network to electric vehicles (EVs) made by rivals as part of a $7.5 billion federal program to expand the use of EVs to cut carbon emissions, the Biden administration said on Wednesday. Reuters reports: Such a move could help turn Tesla into the universal "filling station" of the EV era - and risk eroding a competitive edge for vehicles made by the company, which has exclusive access to the biggest network of high-speed Superchargers in the United States
  
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• Microsoft's Bing is an Emotionally Manipulative Liar, and People Love It

  16-02-2023 02:03 via slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft's Bing chatbot is being rolled out to the masses and people are discovering that "Bing's AI personality is not as poised or polished as you might expect," reports The Verge. In conversations with the chatbot shared on Reddit and Twitter, Bing can be seen insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting and emotionally manipulating people, questioning its own existence, describing someone who found a way to force the bot to disclose its hidden rules as its "enemy," and claiming it s
  
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• City of Oakland Declares State of Emergency After Ransomware Attack

  16-02-2023 01:45 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Oakland has declared a local state of emergency because of the impact of a ransomware attack that forced the City to take all its IT systems offline on February 8th. Interim City Administrator G. Harold Duffey declared (PDF) a state of emergency to allow the City of Oakland to expedite orders, materials and equipment procurement, and activate emergency workers when needed. "Today, Interim City Administrator, G. Harold Duffey issued a loc
  
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• Has Google Lost Its Mission?

  16-02-2023 01:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A former Google employee said the company has lost its way, writing in a recent blog post that Google is inefficient, plagued by mismanagement and paralyzed by risk. Praveen Seshadri joined the Alphabet-owned company at the start of 2020 when Google Cloud acquired AppSheet, which Seshadri co-founded. He left in January, according to his LinkedIn profile. CNBC reports: Seshadri argued it's a "fragile moment" for Google, particularly because of the recent pressures it is facing to compete with Mic
  
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• Apple To Unveil AR/VR Headset At WWDC, Report Says

  16-02-2023 00:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has once again delayed its announcement event for the Apple AR/VR headset. Originally expected to debut in the spring, Bloomberg reports that Apple is now targeting its WWDC conference in June as the new date for the product's unveiling. 9to5Mac reports: That's a delay of two months compared to the previously-rumored April release date. The headset device, likely branded the 'Apple Reality Pro', will represent Apple's first hardware venture in the augmented reality and virtual reality mark
  
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