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• Wind and Solar Now Generate Record 12% of Global Electricity

  12-04-2023 23:22 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A report released on Wednesday found that wind and solar energy made up a record high 12% of global electricity generation in 2022. Meanwhile EU countries are lagging behind with wind power expansion. From a report: All renewable energy sources, including nuclear power, made up 39% of global electricity last year according to the report by independent energy think tank Ember. The authors predict a phasedown of gas power along with a reduction of coal-fired power, forecasting that fossil fuel gen
  
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• EU Says Broadcom's Proposed VMware Deal Could Restrict Competition

  12-04-2023 22:41 via slashdot.org
  
  The European Commission on Wednesday said U.S. chipmaker Broadcom's proposed $61 billion takeover of cloud computing company VMware could restrict competition in the market for certain hardware components. From a report: The Commission said it had informed Broadcom of its objection that the deal could restrict competition in the global markets for the supply of so-called fibre channel host bus adapters (FC HBAs) and storage adapters, by limiting access for competitors' hardware to VMware's softw
  
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• Android 14's First Beta Introduces a Back Arrow That Matches Your Background

  12-04-2023 22:01 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The first beta of Google's Android 14 OS is available to download today, introducing new features focused on system navigation, privacy, performance, and user customization. From a report We already had a good idea of what to expect thanks to the first two developer-only previews, but the beta release is the first opportunity for the general public to test the changes. Gesture navigation has been updated to include a more conspicuous Material You-themed back arrow that adjusts to complement the
  
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• Nvidia Announces the RTX 4070, a 'Somewhat Reasonably Priced Desktop GPU'

  12-04-2023 21:21 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 4070 desktop GPU, a move that anyone who's been putting off a new midrange DIY PC build has likely been eagerly awaiting. It puts the company's impressive Ada Lovelace graphics architecture within grasp for people who don't want to spend $1,000 or more on a huge graphics card. From a report: It'll launch Thursday, April 13, starting at $599 for Nvidia's Founders Edition single-fan model. As is always the case, other manufacturers like Asus, Zotac, Gigabyte, MSI,
  
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• HBO Max To Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date and Pricing Revealed

  12-04-2023 20:40 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  It's not HBO Max -- soon it's just going to be Max. From a report: Warner Bros. Discovery officially announced Max as the new name of its flagship streamer, lopping off the HBO part of the name as it mixes in a big bucket of new content from Discovery+ and other new original series. The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday, where it also revealed a slate of upcoming projects. The rebuilt Max (on the web at max.com) is set to launch first in the U.S. on May 23, featuring w
  
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• US Proposes 56% Vehicle Emissions Cut By 2032, Requiring Big EV Jump

  12-04-2023 20:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed sweeping emissions cuts for new cars and trucks through 2032, a move it says could mean two out of every three new vehicles automakers sell will be electric within a decade. From a report: The proposal, if finalized, represents the most aggressive U.S. vehicle emissions reduction plan to date, requiring 13% annual average pollution cuts and a 56% reduction in projected fleet average emissions over 2026 requirements. The EPA is
  
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• Google's Free Assured Open Source Software Service Hits General Availability

  12-04-2023 18:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend against supply chain security attacks by regularly scanning and analyzing some of the world's most popular software libraries for vulnerabilities. Today, Google is launching Assured OSS into general availability with support for well over a thousand Java and Python packages -- and while Google didn't initially disclose pricing when
  
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• LinkedIn Will Finally Offer Ways To Verify Your Job

  12-04-2023 18:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users to authenticate aspects of their identities and job histories. From a report: Crucially, users will now have a few different options to verify their identity and current jobs on LinkedIn. That way, if someone tries to make a copycat LinkedIn account, there can be clear differences between the imposter account and the v
  
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• Intel To Work With Arm on Chip Manufacturing Compatibility

  12-04-2023 17:23 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Intel on Wednesday said its chip contract manufacturing division will work with U.K.-based chip designer Arm to ensure that mobile phone chips and other products that use Arm's technology can be made in Intel's factories. From a report: Once the biggest name in chips known as central processing units (CPUs), Intel has seen long seen its technological manufacturing edge blunted by rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world leader in making chips for customers such as Apple. I
  
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• Sony Backs Maker of Tiny Raspberry Pi Computers With Fresh Funding, Access To AI Chips

  12-04-2023 16:42 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The company behind the Raspberry Pi line of computers has raised fresh investment from Sony's semiconductor unit, in a deal aimed at advancing its efforts in artificial intelligence. From a report: Sony Semiconductor Solutions, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, invested an undisclosed amount in Raspberry Pi Ltd, the trading company of Raspberry Pi, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The extent of the funding was not revealed, but Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi's co-founder and CEO, said tha
  
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• Streaming Services Urged To Clamp Down on AI-Generated Music

  12-04-2023 16:32 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times. From the report: UMG, which controls about a third of the global music market, has become increasingly concerned about AI bots using their songs to train themselves to churn out music that sounds like popular artists. AI-generated songs have been popping up on s
  
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• The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog

  12-04-2023 15:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York Police Department is reenlisting Digidog, the four-legged robot that the city faced backlash for deploying a few years back, as reported earlier by The New York Times. NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced the news during a press event on Tuesday, stating that the use of Digidog in the city can "save lives." Digidog -- also known as Spot -- is a remote-controlled robot made by the Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics. It's designed to work in si
  
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• Mysterious Dark Matter Mapped In Finest Detail Yet

  12-04-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  According to the BBC, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has traced the distribution of dark matter "on a quarter of the sky and across almost 14 billion years of time." From the report: In the image [here], the colored areas are the portions of the sky studied by the telescope. Orange regions show where there is more mass, or matter, along the line of sight; purple where there is less. Typical features are hundreds of millions of light-years across. The grey/white areas show where c
  
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• Apple To Invest Another $200 Million In Carbon Removal Fund

  12-04-2023 09:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple said it will invest up to an additional $200 million in its Restore Fund, which was created in 2021 to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Reuters reports: The additional investment is expected to help the fund start new projects and carry forward its previously stated goal to remove about 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, the company said. Apple is making efforts to become carbon neutral through its entire supply chain and the life cycle of every product by 2030.The fund, l
  
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• Developer Creates 'Self-Healing' Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks To AI

  12-04-2023 05:30 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That's what a developer that goes by "BioBootloader" did by creating Wolverine, a program that can give Python programs "regenerative healing abilities," reports Hackaday. (Yep, just like the Marvel superhero.) "Run your scripts with it and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong," wrote BioBootloader in a tweet that accompanied a demonstra
  
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• Shutting Down Nuclear Power Could Increase Air Pollution, Finds MIT Study

  12-04-2023 04:02 via news.slashdot.org
  
  If reactors are retired, polluting energy sources that fill the gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths, researchers estimate. The findings appear in the journal Nature Energy. MIT News reports: They lay out a scenario in which every nuclear power plant in the country has shut down, and consider how other sources such as coal, natural gas, and renewable energy would fill the resulting energy needs throughout an entire year. Their analysis reveals that indeed, air pollution would increas
  
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• Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill

  12-04-2023 03:25 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Denver legislators have just passed the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill. Today's landslide 44-16 vote in the House follows a successful vote in the Senate last month. iFixit reports: Once the Agricultural Right to Repair bill passes, manufacturers will be required to share all the parts, embedded software, firmware, tools, and documentation necessary for repair. One critical step remains: a signature by Governor Polis, who has signaled that he supports the legislation.To support Rig
  
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• NYT Debuts Digits, the Math Version of Wordle

  12-04-2023 02:45 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The New York Times added a new daily puzzle game to its library in the form of Digits. GameSpot reports: This collection of math conundrums tasks you with reaching a designated number by using six numbers that you're free to multiply, divide, subtract, or add up to reach the final result, so long as your process doesn't create any fractions or negative numbers.Currently in beta and only available for this week, there'll be five of these math puzzles to solve every day. These aren't one-and-done
  
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• Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016

  12-04-2023 02:02 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016. In a message posted to Telegram on Monday, a group calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt. Col. Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 with helpi
  
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• Substack Launches Notes

  12-04-2023 01:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Substack's Twitter-like feature for shorter posts, called Notes, is launching for everyone on Tuesday. The Verge reports: Substack's Notes will appear in their own separate tab, meaning they'll be separate from the full newsletters you can read in the Inbox tab or the threads you can read in the Chat tab, where you can read newsletters. In a blog post, Substack suggests using Notes to share things like "posts, quotes, comments, images, and links," and there is no character limit, Substack spokes
  
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• Ford To Spend $1.3 Billion To Transform Canada Factory Into EV Manufacturing Hub

  12-04-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Ford said Tuesday it will spend $1.34 billion (C$1.8B) to turn its 70-year-old Oakville facility in Canada into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles. TechCrunch reports: The campus, which first opened in 1953, will be renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex. The company said Tuesday it will begin modernizing the 487-acre site in the second quarter of 2024. The upgrade includes completely retooling the facility that currently produces the internal combustion engine-pow
  
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• Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats

  12-04-2023 00:02 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Ukrainian military positions, and a handwritten character sheet for a table-top roleplaying game. No one knows who leaked the Pentagon documents or how. They appeared online as photographs of printed pages, implying someone printed them out and remov
  
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