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• T-Mobile Is Buying Mint Mobile For $1.35 Billion

  15-03-2023 23:40 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  T-Mobile is buying Mint Mobile, the budget-friendly mobile carrier that's partially owned by Ryan Reynolds. The Verge reports: In a post published on Wednesday, T-Mobile announced that the deal's valued at up to $1.35 billion and comes as T-Mobile looks to build out its prepaid phone offering. The acquisition should close later this year and involves a 39 percent cash and 61 percent stock purchase of Mint's parent company, Ka'ena Corporation. The price could change, however, as it depends on Min
  
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• UK Treasury Is Giving Rich People $90,000 a Year To Keep Working

  15-03-2023 23:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Convincing older British workers to stay in their jobs will cost the UK Treasury 75,000 pounds ($90,000) per person in tax breaks for some of the country's wealthiest savers, analysis of Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt's budget shows. In his budget speech on Wednesday Hunt scrapped the lifetime allowance on pensions -- the total that workers can pile into their retirement pot without incurring tax -- and increased the tax-free annual li
  
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• UK Treasury Is Giving Older People $90,000 a Year To Keep Working

  15-03-2023 23:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Convincing older British workers to stay in their jobs will cost the UK Treasury 75,000 pounds ($90,000) per person in tax breaks for some of the country's wealthiest savers, analysis of Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt's budget shows. In his budget speech on Wednesday Hunt scrapped the lifetime allowance on pensions -- the total that workers can pile into their retirement pot without incurring tax -- and increased the tax-free annual li
  
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• Caffeine May Reduce Body Fat and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Study Suggests

  15-03-2023 22:20 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Having high levels of caffeine in your blood may lower the amount of body fat you carry and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, research suggests. From a report: The findings could lead to calorie-free caffeinated drinks being used to reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes, though further research is required, the researchers wrote in the BMJ Medicine journal. Dr Katarina Kos, a senior lecturer in diabetes and obesity at the University of Exeter, said the research showed potential health benefits fo
  
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• Samsung To Invest $230 Billion To Build 'Mega' Chip Cluster

  15-03-2023 21:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it expects to invest 300 trillion won ($230 billion) over the next 20 years as part of an ambitious South Korean national project to build the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing base near the capital, Seoul. From a report: The chip-making "mega cluster," which will be established in Gyeonggi Province by 2042, will be anchored by five new semiconductor plants built by Samsung. It will aim to attract 150 other companies producing materials and components
  
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• CISA Releases SCuBA Hybrid Identity Solutions Architecture Guidance Document for Public Comment

  15-03-2023 21:27 via cisa.gov
  CISA has released a draft Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Hybrid Identity Solutions Architecture guidance document for public comment. The request for comment period is open until April 17, 2023. Comments may be submitted to [email protected].
  In accordance with Executive Order 14028, CISA’s SCuBA project aims to develop consistent, effective, modern, and manageable security that will help secure agency information assets stored within cloud operations. This guida
  
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• Wall Street Regulator Proposes New Hacking, Data and Market Resiliency Rules

  15-03-2023 21:01 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The top U.S. markets regulator on Wednesday proposed a suite of new policies designed to harden the financial system against hacking, data theft and systems failure. From a report: With some dissents from Republican members, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) five members voted at a public meeting to propose rules on protecting consumer financial data, preventing hacking at stock exchanges and broker-dealers and buttressing the resiliency of market infrastructure, part of a continuin
  
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• Microsoft Warns Russia May Plan More Ransomware Attacks Beyond Ukraine

  15-03-2023 20:21 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft warned an infamous hacking group that is tied to Russia's military intelligence agency GRU could be gearing up for more ransomware attacks both inside and outside of Ukraine. From a report: Microsoft calls the group Iridium, but it is perhaps best known as Sandworm. It has been accused of attacks on Ukraine's electric power grid and government agencies, the 2018 Winter Olympics and businesses across the globe. Now, it appears to be preparing for a renewed destructive campaign, the soft
  
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• Silicon Valley Hit With Widespread Power Outages After Storm

  15-03-2023 19:24 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Large swaths of California's tech hub Silicon Valley remained without electricity after the latest atmospheric river brought heavy rain and high winds that toppled power lines. From a report: Almost one-third of the homes and businesses in Santa Clara County -- home to tech giants including Apple Inc. and Alphabet's Google -- were without power as of Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 180,000 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were blacked out as of 10 a.m. local time
  
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• LinkedIn is Adding AI Tools for Generating Profile Copy and Job Descriptions

  15-03-2023 19:05 via slashdot.org
  
  LinkedIn is expanding its suite of artificial intelligence features, this time adding tools that will generate content for user profiles and job descriptions. From a report: One tool announced today will scan user profiles for skills and experiences and spit out suggested copy or summaries to add to other profile sections. The company says it still recommends users review and edit what the tool has generated "to ensure it is accurate and aligns with your tone and experience." LinkedIn will begin
  
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• Beware of Bank-Related Scams

  15-03-2023 18:49 via cisa.gov
  In light of recent bank failures, CISA warns consumers to beware of potential scams requesting your money or sensitive personal information. Exercise caution in handling emails with bank-related subject lines, attachments, or links. In addition, be wary of social media pleas, texts, or door-to-door solicitations relating to any failed bank.
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the "Receiver" of failed banks, would never contact you asking for personal details, such as bank account i
  
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• Dutch Court Finds Facebook Misused Data in Class Action Suit

  15-03-2023 18:31 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  A Dutch court hearing a class action lawsuit on Wednesday found that a European subsidiary of Meta, Facebook Ireland, improperly used personal data of Dutch citizens between 2010 and 2020, saying the company had "violated the law." From a report: "Personal information was processed for the purposes of advertising when in this case that is not allowed," a summary of the Amsterdam court ruling said. "Personal information was given to third parties without Facebook users being informed and without
  
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• WaterISAC Releases Advisory for Microsoft DCOM Patch

  15-03-2023 18:03 via cisa.gov
  The Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC) has released an advisory, Potential for Mandatory Microsoft DCOM Patch to Disrupt SCADA. ICS/OT/SCADA engineers and operators should assess the use of the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) protocol in their industrial environments. According to WaterISAC, “failure to address could result in loss of critical communications between impacted ICS/OT/SCADA devices.”
  CISA urges operators to review the WaterISAC advisory
  
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• Apple, Amazon, Google Will Likely Get a Reprieve From GOP-Controlled House on Antitrust Legislation

  15-03-2023 17:40 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Tech giants Google, Amazon and Apple are likely to get a reprieve in Congress this year from efforts to rein in some of the companies' most controversial and allegedly anti-competitive business practices -- even though the legislation has typically enjoyed broad bipartisan support. From a report: The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn't appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants to ensure they don't abuse their dominant position in the market
  
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• Credit Suisse Shares Sink as Global Fears About Banks Grow

  15-03-2023 17:04 via slashdot.org
  
  Battered shares of Credit Suisse lost more than one-quarter of their value Wednesday, hitting a record low after its biggest shareholder -- the Saudi National Bank -- told news outlets that it would not inject more money into the Swiss bank beset by problems long before the failure of two U.S. lenders. From a report: The turmoil prompted an automatic pause in trading of Credit Suisse's shares on the Swiss market and sent shares of other European banks plunging by as much as double digits. That f
  
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• Mozilla Launches 'Responsible AI' Challenge

  15-03-2023 16:33 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Mozilla called on entrepreneurs to create trustworthy AI applications as it announced a "Responsible AI" challenge Tuesday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. From a report: At a festival where companies could not be more eager to share their plans, half-baked and otherwise, for the explosive field of generative AI, Mozilla offered an opportunity to do so with a little more foresight. "If anything, the last few months have shown that AI is no longer our future. It's our present,
  
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• Americans Lost a Record $10.3 Billion To Online Scammers Last Year, FBI Says

  15-03-2023 15:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Americans lost more than $10 billion to online scammers last year, new government data show, the highest level since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began tracking losses in 2000. From a report: The FBI said its Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, recorded more than 800,000 complaints in 2022, or more than 2,000 complaints a day. So-called phishing expeditions represented the largest number of scams with more than 300,000 complaints, the FBI said in a report. Phishing usually involves t
  
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• Threat Actors Exploited Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server

  15-03-2023 15:23 via cisa.gov
  Today, the CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server. This joint CSA provides IT infrastructure defenders with tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and methods to detect and protect against similar, successful CVE-2019-18935 exploitation.
  As detailed in the adv
  
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• Startup Tells New Hires They Need To Know ChatGPT For a Job

  15-03-2023 15:01 via slashdot.org
  
  As businesses grapple with how artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT will affect working practices, one Japanese fintech firm is making it compulsory for new recruits to use the technology and even testing them on it. From a report: With concerns growing about its ability to make jobs obsolete and data protection, Tokyo-based LayerX, is bucking the trend, with a recent job ad for new graduates making it mandatory for recruits to be tested on their use of the chatbot made by OpenAI, and anot
  
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• Two US Men Charged In 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

  15-03-2023 14:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York today unseal
  
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• Microsoft Lays Off Key AI Ethics Team, Report Says

  15-03-2023 11:00 via slashdot.org
  
  According to Platformer, Microsoft's recent layoffs included its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization. "The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said." From the report: Microsoft still maintains an active Office of Responsible AI, which is tasked with creating
  
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• Amazon Reveals Its Project Kuiper Satellite Internet Dishes, Targets 2024 Launch

  15-03-2023 08:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon.com plans to launch its first internet satellites to space in the first half of 2024 and offer initial commercial tests shortly after, the company said Tuesday, as it prepares to vie with Elon Musk's SpaceX and others to provide broadband internet globally. Reuters reports: Amazon's satellite internet unit, Project Kuiper, will begin mass-producing the satellites later this year, the company said. Those will be the first of over 3,000 satellites the technology giant plans to launch in low
  
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• Government Opens $2.5 Billion For EV Chargers In Rural and Underserved Areas

  15-03-2023 04:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today, the federal government's Joint Office of Energy and Transportation opened up applications for a $2.5 billion program to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure in underserved communities. The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program was authorized along with the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. For starters,
  
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• Ask Slashdot: What Exactly Are 'Microservices'?

  15-03-2023 02:30 via ask.slashdot.org
  
  After debating the term in a recent Slashdot subthread, longtime reader Tablizer wants to pose the question to a larger audience: what exactly are 'microservices'? Over the past few years I've asked many colleagues what "microservices" are, and get a gazillion different answers. "Independent deploy-ability" has been an issue as old as the IBM hills. Don't make anything "too big" nor "too small"; be it functions, files, apps, name-spaces, tables, databases, etc.Overly large X's didn't need specia
  
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• Binance Halts UK Customer Deposits and Withdrawals

  15-03-2023 01:50 via news.slashdot.org
  
  On Monday, Binance said it would suspend withdrawals and deposits for anybody using UK currency. The news came after the world's largest crypto exchange's banking partner in the UK, Paysafe, said it was abandoning crypto, at least as far as Binance was concerned. Gizmodo reports: In a statement to Gizmodo, a Paysafe spokesperson said that it was "too challenging" to offer its embedded wallet cryptocurrency services to UK customers because of the regulatory atmosphere in the UK. Paysafe is based
  
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• TikTok Mulls Splitting From ByteDance If Proposal With US Fails

  15-03-2023 01:10 via news.slashdot.org
  
  China's TikTok is considering separating from parent ByteDance to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters reports: A divestiture, which could result in a sale or initial public offering, is considered a last resort and will be pursued only if the company's existing proposal with U.S. national security officials does not get approved, Bloomberg reported. The short-form video app is undergoing a n
  
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• High Court Bans Singer From Hitting YouTube Rival With DMCA Notices

  15-03-2023 00:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The High Court of Justice has issued a permanent injunction to stop a man filing copyright complaints against a rival's YouTube channels. As part of a fraudulent campaign against "the music mafia," the singer used copyright strikes and YouTube's repeat infringer policy to have a music publisher's channels suspended. The background to the dispute is nothing short of extraordinary. [...] The background to the dispute is an extraordinary maze o
  
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