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• America's CDC Warns of Increase in Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections

  25-02-2023 23:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "has issued a health advisory to warn the public of an increase of a drug-resistant bacteria called Shigella," reports CNN:There are limited antimicrobial treatments available for these particular drug-resistant strains of Shigella and it's also easily transmissible, warned the CDC in the Friday advisory. It's also able to spread antimicrobial resistance genes to other bacteria that infect the intestines.... The CDC says patients will recover
  
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• Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone

  25-02-2023 22:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: Nokia has announced one of the first budget Android smartphones designed to be repaired at home allowing users to swap out the battery in under five minutes in partnership with iFixit.
  Launched before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Saturday, the Nokia G22 has a removable back and internal design that allows components to be easily unscrewed and swapped out including the battery, screen and charging port. Nokia phones manufacturer HMD Global will ma
  
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• Thieves Spy on iPhone Owners' Passcodes, Then Steal Their Phones and Money

  25-02-2023 21:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  After an iPhone was stolen, $10,000 vanished from the owner's bank account — and they were locked out of their Apple account's photos, contacts and notes. The thieves "stole thousands of dollars through Apple Pay" and "opened an Apple Card to make fraudulent charges," writes 9 to 5 Mac, citing a report from the Wall Street Journal.These thieves often work in groups with one distracting a victim while another records over a shoulder as they enter their passcode. Others have been known to ev
  
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• Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak

  25-02-2023 20:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Phoronix reports:While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app packaging/distribution format, Ubuntu flavors/spins have to this point been able to pre-install Flatpak support if they desired. However, for the 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" cycle and moving forward, Ubuntu flavors will no longer be permitted to install Flatpak packages by default.
  Flatpak support for Ubuntu and its flavors will remain available in the Ubuntu archive s
  
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• China Is Exporting Its Obsession with Tiny Electric Vehicles

  25-02-2023 19:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shared this report about the boxy little Wuling:
  Priced at around $5,500 and famously outselling Tesla in China, it's a tiny, comically square car, produced in joint partnership with General Motors and SAIC. The micro EV has been fodder for articles and YouTubers — even while it's remained unavailable outside China.
  Until last summer, that is, when Wuling attempted to go international. First stop: Indonesia. With its Air model selling at a mere $16,000
  
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• To Cut Costs Google Asks Some Employees to Share a Desk, Work Alternate Days

  25-02-2023 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  More than a quarter of Google's full-time workforce is in its cloud unit, reports CNBC. And now Google is asking cloud employees and partners "to share their desks and alternate days with their desk mates starting next quarter, citing 'real estate efficiency.'"The new desk-sharing model will apply to Google Cloud's five largest U.S. locations — Kirkland, Washington; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; and Sunnyvale, California — and is happening so the company "can continue to inv
  
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• Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions

  25-02-2023 17:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares this story from The New York Times. (Alternate URL for a shorter version here.)Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's biggest maker of advanced computer chips, is upgrading and expanding a new factory in Arizona that promises to help move the United States toward a more self-reliant technological future. But to some at the company, the $40 billion project is something else: a bad business decision.
  Internal doubts are mounting at the Taiwanese chip mak
  
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• NASA Launches 'Open-Source Science Initiative', Urges Adoption of Open Science

  25-02-2023 16:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In a keynote at FOSDEM 2023, NASA's science data officer Steve Crawford explored NASA's use of open-source software.
  But LWN.net notes that the talk went far beyond just the calibration software for the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Ingenuity copter's flight-control framework.In his talk, Crawford presented
  NASA's Open-Source
  Science Initiative. Its goal is to support scientists to help them
  integrate open-science principles into the entire research workflow. Just a
  few weeks before Cr
  
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• Dish Network's Internal Systems Are So Broken Some Employees Haven't Worked In Over a Day

  25-02-2023 14:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that's taken down the company's main websites, apps, and customer support systems, and employees tell The Verge it's not clear what's going on inside the company. The company's Dish.com website is completely blank save for a notice apologizing for "any disruptions you may be having" while promising that "teams are working hard to restore systems as soon as possible." The
  
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• Researchers Have Successfully Grown Electrodes In Living Tissue

  25-02-2023 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Researchers at Linkoping, Lund and Gothenburg universities in Sweden have successfully grown electrodes in living tissue using the body's molecules as triggers. The result, published in the journal Science, paves the way for the formation of fully integrated electronic circuits in living organisms. Phys.Org reports: Linking electronics to biological tissue is important to understanding complex biological functions, combating diseases in the brain, and developing future interfaces between man and
  
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• New 'Lord of the Rings' Movies Set At Warner Bros

  25-02-2023 08:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Warner Bros. Pictures is revamping the "Lord of the Rings" film franchise. Variety reports: On a Thursday earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that newly-installed studio leaders Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy have brokered a deal to make "multiple" films based on the beloved J. R. R. Tolkien books. The projects will be developed through WB label New Line Cinema. The first "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, helmed by Peter Jackson, grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide; Jackson's
  
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• Kombucha Cultures Can Be Turned Into Flexible Electric Circuit Boards

  25-02-2023 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cheap, light, flexible, yet robust circuit boards are critical for wearable electronics, among other applications. In the future, those electronics might be printed on flexible circuits made out of bacterial cultures used to make the popular fermented black tea drink called kombucha, according to a recent paper posted to the arXiv preprint server. "Nowadays kombucha is emerging as a promising candidate to produce sustainable textiles to be u
  
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• Spotify Is Testing Playlists That Could Be Unlocked By NFT Holders

  25-02-2023 03:02 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Unlocking exclusive access has been a long-held promise of a lot of NFT-based communities. And now, Spotify is helping some of them realize that claim with token-gated playlists. TechCrunch reports: According to a series of tweets by Kingship, a metaverse band signed to Universal Music Group (UMG), the streaming company is piloting playlists that could be unlocked through NFTs in certain geographies. Under the pilot, Kingship has released a special playlist that could be accessed only by Kingshi
  
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• Microsoft Has Been Secretly Testing Its Bing Chatbot 'Sydney' For Years

  25-02-2023 02:25 via slashdot.org
  
  According to The Verge, Microsoft has been secretly testing its Sydney chatbot for several years after making a big bet on bots in 2016. From the report: Sydney is a codename for a chatbot that has been responding to some Bing users since late 2020. The user experience was very similar to what launched publicly earlier this month, with a blue Cortana-like orb appearing in a chatbot interface on Bing. "Sydney is an old codename for a chat feature based on earlier models that we began testing in I
  
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• At Least One Open Source Vulnerability Found In 84% of Code Bases, Report Finds

  25-02-2023 01:45 via news.slashdot.org
  
  L.Kynes shares a report from CSO Online: At a time when almost all software contains open source code, at least one known open source vulnerability was detected in 84% of all commercial and proprietary code bases examined by researchers at application security company Synopsys. In addition, 48% of all code bases analyzed by Synopsys researchers contained high-risk vulnerabilities, which are those that have been actively exploited, already have documented proof-of-concept exploits, or are classif
  
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• Almost 40% of Domestic Tasks Could Be Done By Robots 'Within Decade'

  25-02-2023 01:02 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A revolution in artificial intelligence could slash the amount of time people spend on household chores and caring, with robots able to perform about 39% of domestic tasks within a decade, according to experts. Tasks such as shopping for groceries were likely to have the most automation, while caring for the young or old was the least likely to be affected by AI, according to a large survey of 65 artificial intelligence (AI) experts in the U
  
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• TELUS Investigating Leak of Stolen Source Code, Employee Data

  25-02-2023 00:20 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data. BleepingComputer reports: The threat actor subsequently posted screenshots that apparently show private source code repositories and payroll records held by the company. TELUS has so far not found evidence of corporate or retail customer data being stolen and continues to monitor the potential incident. On February 17, a threat actor put
  
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