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• Texas Dad Says 'Find My iPhone' Glitch is Directing Angry Strangers to his Home

  08-04-2023 23:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report from the New York Post:A supposed glitch in the popular "Find My iPhone" app has been directing random strangers to the home of an unsuspecting Texas dad at all hours of the day, falsely accusing him of stealing their electronic devices.[Software engineer] Scott Schuster told the local news station KTRK that he's been visited by close to a dozen irate people over the past few years, telling him that their missing phone had last pinged at his address. "[I] had
  
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• AI-Generated Viral Videos are Already Here

  08-04-2023 22:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  AI now "automates creative impulses," writes New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka — then wonders where that will lead. Chayka's first example is a Berlin-based photographer using AI tools to create a viral video showing Harry Potter characters as fashion models for the upscale French label Balenciaga:A.I. tools were involved in each step of Alexander Niklass's process, and in each element of the video. He created the basic static images with Midjourney, evoking the Harry Potter actors and o
  
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• How Much Data Did the Chinese Spy Balloon Collect?

  08-04-2023 21:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from NBC News:The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official. China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and
  
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• Collabora Developer Explores Rust Support for the Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem

  08-04-2023 20:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  On Thursday patches were submitted for bringing Rust infrastructure to the Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) framework (within Linux's media subsystem) by Collabora's Daniel Almeida.
  Phoronix reports:This provides just enough for working with a prototype VirtIO camera driver written in Rust along with a Rust sample driver. These initial patches are just intended to start the discussion around V4L2 Rust driver support and the actual upstreaming of the Rust support for these camera drivers may still be some
  
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• ChatGPT Sued for Lying

  08-04-2023 19:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous readers shared this report from the Washington Post:Brian Hood is a whistleblower who was praised for "showing tremendous courage" when he helped expose a worldwide bribery scandal linked to Australia's National Reserve Bank. But if you ask ChatGPT about his role in the scandal, you get the opposite version of events. Rather than heralding Hood's whistleblowing role, ChatGPT falsely states that Hood himself was convicted of paying bribes to foreign officials, had pleaded guilty to b
  
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• FSF Awards 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification to ThinkPenguin's Gigabit Mini VPN Router

  08-04-2023 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Free Software Foundation certifies products that meet their standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy. And they put out a new "Respects Your Freedom" certification on Thursday for ThinkPenguin's free software gigabit mini VPN router, the TPE-R1400.From the FSF's announcement:
  This is ThinkPenguin's first device to receive RYF certification in 2023, adding to their vast catalogue of certified devices from previous years. As with previous routers from ThinkPe
  
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• Classified US Documents Leaked on 4chan, Telegram, Discord, and Twitter

  08-04-2023 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  America's Department of Justice just launched an investigation into the leaking of classified documents from the U.S. Department of Defense, reports the Washington Post.
  "On Wednesday, images showing some of the documents began circulating on the anonymous online message board 4chan and made their way to at least two mainstream social media platforms, Telegram and Twitter."Earlier Friday, The Washington Post obtained dozens of what appeared to be photographs showing classified documents, dating
  
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• Magnus Carlsen Loses Last Competition as World Champion - After Slip of His Mouse

  08-04-2023 16:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  It was Magnus Carlsen's last tournament as world champion, reports CNN — and he was eliminated after a "dramatic slip of his mouse" in his online match against Hikaru Nakamura:After drawing their first two games, the duo faced off in an Armageddon clash — similar to regular chess but black has draw odds, meaning that if black draws the game they win, and black starts with less time on the clock than white — to decide who would face Fabiano Caruana in the grand final.
  After a ti
  
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• Walmart US CEO Says Automation At Stores Won't Displace Workers

  08-04-2023 15:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Insider: Walmart will be increasingly relying on automation at its stores in the coming years -- but that won't diminish the country's largest private employer's workforce, company leaders said during an investor event this week. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant recently made headlines when it announced that 65% of its stores will be "serviced by automation" by the end of fiscal year 2026. Walmart currently has more than 4,700 stores throughou
  
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• Samsung Software Engineers Busted For Pasting Proprietary Code Into ChatGPT

  08-04-2023 12:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Multiple employees of Samsung's Korea-based semiconductor business plugged lines of confidential code into ChatGPT, effectively leaking corporate secrets that could be included in the chatbot's future responses to other people around the world. PCMag reports: One employee copied buggy source code from a semiconductor database into the chatbot and asked it to identify a fix, according to The Economist Korea. Another employee did the same for a different piece of equipment, requesting "code optimi
  
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• SpaceX Prepares For Rehearsal, Test Flight of Starship Rocket

  08-04-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  SpaceX plans to carry out a launch rehearsal next week of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and its first test flight possibly the following week, the private space company said Thursday. Phys.Org reports: SpaceX published photos of the massive Starship, which is designed to eventually send astronauts to the Moon and beyond, on its launchpad at the company's base in Texas. "Starship fully stacked at Starbase," SpaceX said in a tweet. "Team is working towards a launch rehearsal next
  
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• Cancer and Heart Disease Vaccines 'Ready By End of the Decade'

  08-04-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Millions of lives could be saved by a groundbreaking set of new vaccines for a range of conditions including cancer, experts have said. A leading pharmaceutical firm said it is confident that jabs for cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, and other conditions will be ready by 2030. Studies into these vaccinations are also showing "tremendous promise", with some researchers saying 15 years' worth of progress has been "unspooled" in
  
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• Researchers Built Sonar Glasses That Track Facial Movements For Silent Communication

  08-04-2023 04:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A Cornell University researcher has developed sonar glasses that "hear" you without speaking. Engadget reports: The eyeglass attachment uses tiny microphones and speakers to read the words you mouth as you silently command it to pause or skip a music track, enter a passcode without touching your phone or work on CAD models without a keyboard. Cornell Ph.D. student Ruidong Zhang developed the system, which builds off a similar project the team created using a wireless earbud -- and models before
  
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• Walmart Plans Own EV Charger Network At US Stores By 2030

  08-04-2023 03:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Walmart plans to have its own network of electric vehicle charging stations by 2030 to tap into the growing adoption of EVs in the United States. Reuters reports: The new fast-charging stations will be placed at thousands of Walmart and Sam's Club stores, alongside nearly 1,300 it already offers as part of a deal with Volkswagen unit Electrify America, one of the country's largest open public EV networks. Walmart's more than 5,000 stores and Sam's Club warehouses are located within 10 miles of a
  
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• Crooks Are Using CAN Injection Attacks To Steal Cars

  08-04-2023 02:45 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Thieves has discovered new ways to steal cars by pulling off smart devices (like smart headlights) to get at and attack via the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus," writes longtime Slashdot reader KindMind. The Register reports: A Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is present in nearly all modern cars, and is used by microcontrollers and other devices to talk to each other within the vehicle and carry out the work they are supposed to do. In a CAN injection attack, thieves access the network, and
  
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• The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship

  08-04-2023 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The blacklist includes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and independent news outlets. Over the past year, Russians living inside the country have turned to censorship circumvention tools such as VPNs to pierce through the information blockade. But as dozens of virtual private networks get bloc
  
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• OpenAI To Offer Remedies To Resolve Italy's ChatGPT Ban

  08-04-2023 01:20 via slashdot.org
  
  The company behind ChatGPT will propose measures to resolve data privacy concerns that sparked a temporary Italian ban on the artificial intelligence chatbot, regulators said Thursday. The Associated Press reports: In a video call late Wednesday between the watchdog's commissioners and OpenAI executives including CEO Sam Altman, the company promised to set out measures to address the concerns. Those remedies have not been detailed. The Italian watchdog said it didn't want to hamper AI's developm
  
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• Arkansas House Wants You To Show ID To Use Social Media

  08-04-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  With no discussion, the Arkansas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require social media users in The Natural State to verify they're 18 years old or older to use the platforms. Arkansas Times reports: The proposal, backed by Gov. Sarah Sanders, is aimed at shielding minors from the harmful effects of social media. Young folks could use the platforms, but only if parents provide consent. Senate Bill 396, sponsored by Sen. Tyler Dees (R-Springdale) and Rep. Jon Eub
  
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• Thieves Tunnel Through Coffee Shop Wall To Steal $500,000 In iPhones From Washington Apple Store

  08-04-2023 00:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: An Apple Store at the Alderwood Mall was burgled last weekend, with thieves infiltrating the location through a nearby coffee shop. According to Seattle's King 5 News, thieves broke into Seattle Coffee Gear, went into the bathroom, and cut a hole in the wall to get to the Apple Store backroom. The burglars were able to bypass the Apple Store's security system by using the adjacent coffee shop, stealing a total of 436 iPhones that were worth aro
  
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