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• Wireless ISP Starry Is Filing For Bankruptcy

  21-02-2023 23:40 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Starry, an ISP that launched in 2016 with a focus on delivering home internet with wireless antennas instead of cables, has declared bankruptcy. The Verge reports: In a press release (PDF), the company says that it intends to quickly restructure and that it'll continue providing internet service in its "five core operating markets." Those are Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, and Washington, DC. The ISP has clearly been struggling over the past few months. In October 2022, it announced
  
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• Viral Instagram Photographer Has a Confession: His Photos Are AI-Generated

  21-02-2023 23:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With over 26,000 followers and growing, Jos Avery's Instagram account has a trick up its sleeve. While it may appear to showcase stunning photo portraits of people, they are not actually people at all. Avery has been posting AI-generated portraits for the past few months, and as more fans praise his apparently masterful photography skills, he has grown nervous about telling the truth. "[My Instagram account] has blown up to nearly 12K follow
  
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• Hackers Scored Corporate Giants' Logins for Asian Data Centers

  21-02-2023 22:20 via it.slashdot.org
  
  In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world's biggest businesses, a potential bonanza for spying or sabotage, according to a cybersecurity research firm. From a report: The previously unreported data caches involve emails and passwords for customer-support websites for two of the largest data center operators in Asia: Shanghai-based GDS Holdings and Singapore-based ST Telem
  
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• Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories

  21-02-2023 21:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The rise of AI-powered chatbots is wreaking havoc on the literary world. Sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine is temporarily suspending short story submissions, citing a surge in people using AI chatbots to "plagiarize" their writing. From a report: The magazine announced the suspension days after Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke warned about AI-written works posing a threat to the entire short-story ecosystem. At the end of last year, the sci-fi publication encountered a rise in plagiarism a
  
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• ChatGPT Launches Boom in AI-Written E-books on Amazon

  21-02-2023 21:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap. Using the AI software, which can generate blocks of text from simple prompts, Schickler created a 30-page illustrated children's e-book in a matter of hours, offering it for sale in January through Amazon's self-publishing uni
  
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• China's Newest Weapon To Nab Western Technology - Its Courts

  21-02-2023 20:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The growing conflict between China and the U.S. extends from computer-chip factories to a suspected spy balloon over American skies. Running through it all is a struggle for technological superiority. From a report: China has striven for years to develop cutting-edge technologies, in part through heavy spending on research. Now, according to Western officials and executives, it also has mobilized its legal system to pry technology from other nations. Officials in the U.S. and European Union accu
  
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• Sensitive US Military Emails Spill Online

  21-02-2023 19:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks, TechCrunch reported Tuesday. From a report: The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft's Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data. [...] But a misconfiguration left
  
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• Amazon Web Services Pairs With Hugging Face To Target AI Developers

  21-02-2023 19:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon, on Tuesday said it is collaborating with startup Hugging Face, a software development hub, to make it easier to carry out artificial intelligence work in Amazon's cloud. From a report: While new generative AI services like chat-based search engines from Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have captured the public's imagination, tech companies such as AWS are also vying behind the scenes to supply the tools and services that software developers
  
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• Brussels Sets Out To Fix the GDPR

  21-02-2023 18:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The European Union is (finally) coming to grips with the dysfunctionalities of its most famous tech law of all: the General Data Protection Regulation. From a report: The European Commission will propose a new law before the summer that's aimed at improving how EU countries' privacy regulators enforce the GDPR, a newly published page on its website showed. Adopted in 2016, the privacy rulebook was a watershed moment in global tech regulation, forcing companies to abide by new standards such as a
  
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• Polygon Labs Cuts 20% Workforce, Almost 100 Jobs

  21-02-2023 17:55 via slashdot.org
  
  Polygon Labs, the Ethereum scaling platform, has cut around 100 jobs or 20% of its workforce, the firm said on Tuesday. The job cuts come at a time when the crypto industry is reeling from the impact of the FTX implosion and subsequent downturn. From a report: "Earlier this year, we consolidated multiple business units under Polygon Labs. As part of this process, we're sharing the difficult news that we've reduced our team by 20% impacting multiple teams and about 100 positions," the company sai
  
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• Coinbase Says Some Employees' Information Stolen By Hackers

  21-02-2023 17:01 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash, and more than a hundred other organizations last year. From a report: In a post-mortem of the incident published over the weekend, Coinbase said that the so-called '0ktapus' hackers stole the login credentials of one of its employees in an attempt to remotely gain access to the company's systems. 0ktapus is a hacking group that has targeted more than 130 organi
  
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• Microsoft and Ankr Partner To Offer Blockchain Node Infrastructure Service

  21-02-2023 16:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has partnered with web3 infrastructure provider Ankr to offer a node service for enterprises in need of blockchain data access. From a report: The two firms will work together on a new node hosting service in Microsoft's Azure cloud marketplace, with tailored memory and bandwidth specifications for blockchain nodes. The enterprise node deployment service would enable web3 projects or developers to deploy smart contracts, relay transactions and read or write blockchain data, according t
  
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• Four-Day Week a 'Major Breakthrough' as Most UK Firms in Trial Extend Changes

  21-02-2023 15:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  AmiMoJo writes: The vast majority of companies taking part in the world's largest trial of a four-day week have opted to continue with the new working pattern, in a result hailed as evidence that it could work across the UK economy. Of the 61 companies that entered the six-month trial, 56 have extended the four-day week, including 18 who have made it permanent. The findings will be presented to MPs on Tuesday as part of a push urging politicians to give all workers in Britain a 32-hour week. Joe
  
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• Linux 6.2: The First Mainstream Linux Kernel for Apple M1 Chips Arrives

  21-02-2023 15:00 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Steven Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ZDNet: Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, "Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels want some test love too." For once, I disagree with Torvalds. By adding upstream support for the Apple M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra chips, newer Mac owners can look forward to running Linux on their M1-powered machines. And, for techies, that's sexy. Gettin
  
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• 5th Person Confirmed To Be Cured of HIV

  21-02-2023 13:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV. From a report: Referred to as "the Dusseldorf patient" to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time. Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after
  
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• Microsoft Signs 10-Year Deal To Bring Future Xbox Games Including Call of Duty To Nintendo

  21-02-2023 09:26 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft president Brad Smith announced that the company has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox games -- including Call of Duty once it is acquired -- to Nintendo players. From a report: The signed deal means Microsoft is living up to its promise to the Federal Trade Commission that it will make Call of Duty available to other platform companies like Nintendo if its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard is approved. Smith said in a tweet, "This is just part of our commitment to bri
  
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• Almost-unbeatable AI Comes To Gran Turismo 7

  21-02-2023 06:00 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital, the developers of Gran Turismo, developed a new AI agent that is able to race at a world-class level. At the time, the experiment was described in a paper in Nature, where the researchers showed that this AI was not only capable of driving very fast -- something other AI have done in the past -- but also learned tactics, strategy, and even racing etiquette. At the time, GT Sophy -- the name of the AI -- wasn't quite r
  
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• UK 'Barking Up Wrong Tree' Trying To Get Over-50s Back To Work, Report Finds

  21-02-2023 03:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Rishi Sunak's government is "barking up the wrong tree" by trying to get people in retirement back to work to fix chronic staff shortages, according to a report that warns long-term sickness and pressure on the NHS is having a bigger impact on the jobs market. From a report: The sharp rise in economic inactivity -- when working-age adults are neither in work nor looking for a job -- is more likely to be driven by people waiting for treatment as the health service struggles to cope, as well as by
  
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• A Second Hellboy Reboot is Officially on the Way

  21-02-2023 00:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Almost two decades after the release of the Guillermo del Toro-directed Hellboy, the character is getting yet another reboot. Millennium Media has confirmed that Hellboy: The Crooked Man will enter production next month in Bulgaria, Deadline reports. Casting for the titular character (originally played by Ron Perlman and then David Harbour) is yet to be announced, but the new film will be directed by Brian Taylor, best known for the Jason Statham action movie
  
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