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• Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

  13-04-2023 23:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times. The National Guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group called Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mos
  
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• Scientists Unveil New and Improved 'Skinny Donut' Black Hole Image

  13-04-2023 22:41 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry -- or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a "fuzzy orange donut." Scientists on Thursday unveiled a new and improved image of this black hole -- a behemoth at the center of a nearby galaxy -- mining the same data used for the earlier one but improving its resolution by employing image reconstruction algorithms to fill in gaps in the o
  
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• The US Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist - and Bitcoin's Anonymity

  13-04-2023 22:01 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions. From a report: James Zhong appeared to have pulled off the perfect crime. In December 2012, he stumbled upon a software bug while withdrawing money from his account on Silk Road, an online marketplace used to hide criminal dealings behind the seemingly bulletproof anonymity of blockchain transactions and the dark web. Mr. Zhong, a 22-year-old University o
  
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• Google Will Shut Down Currents, the Work-Focused Google Plus Replacement

  13-04-2023 21:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google has announced that it'll shut down Currents, which was introduced in 2019 as a replacement for Google Plus for G Suite. From a report: In a blog post, the company says it's "planning to wind down" Currents, and that it'll push the people who were using it to Spaces, which is sort of like Google Chat's version of a Slack channel or Discord room. Google says that it's making the change so users won't have to work in a "separate, siloed destination" -- instead, they'll be using Chat and Spac
  
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• Record Rise in China's Sea Levels Threatens Coastal Cities Like Shanghai

  13-04-2023 20:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Sea levels on China's coastline have hit their highest on record for the second year in a row, rising more quickly than the global average and posing a serious threat to coastal cities such as the financial hub of Shanghai. From a report: In 2022, China's coastal sea levels were 94 millimeters (3.7 inch) higher than "normal," defined as the average over the 1993-2011 period, making it the highest since records began in 1980, an official at the Ministry of Natural Resources said Wednesday at a ne
  
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• More and More Americans Are Gaming the Deposit-Insurance System

  13-04-2023 20:01 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A new report looks at the firms that quietly move billions around the banking industry each day. Reciprocal deposits enable banks to place deposits with another bank and receive the same value back through technology firms, reshuffling approximately $1 trillion through their platforms. This deposit-swapping allows banks to offer customers more insurance, a priority after Silicon Valley Bank's failure, where 93% of deposits were uninsured. At the end of last year, around 45% of deposits in the Am
  
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• China's Didi To Roll Out Self-Developed Robotaxis By 2025

  13-04-2023 19:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global said on Thursday that it is working with Chinese carmakers to develop its own robotaxis, which it aims to put into service by 2025, revealing a concept one with robotic arms it called "Didi Neuron." From a report: The company said that it is collaborating with multiple new energy carmakers in China on developing robotaxis. "We hope they can enter Didi's network and provide services by 2025," Didi Autonomous Driving COO Meng Xing said at a company event that
  
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• Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words

  13-04-2023 18:40 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Steve Jobs Archive: The official ebook edition of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is free to read on Apple Books and from participating libraries through our partners at Libby. You can also download the book to view it on any compatible e-reader: our EPUB file works on almost all tablets, smartphones, desktop computers, and digital reading devices. From a speech in 2007: There's lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different wa
  
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• Jupiter Mission Set To Explore Icy Worlds

  13-04-2023 18:01 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A historic mission to Jupiter is about to blast off. The European Space Agency's spacecraft nicknamed Juice -- for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer -- is set to begin an eight-year journey toward the planet and three of its largest moons. From a report: Juice is scheduled to launch Friday morning Eastern Time from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, after an earlier attempt was scrubbed because of lightning risk. Once it arrives at Jupiter, Juice will study some of the moons in great detail, mapping
  
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• Crypto's Ethereum Blockchain Completes Its Key Shanghai Software Upgrade

  13-04-2023 17:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade. From a report: The so-called Shanghai update enables investors to queue up to withdraw Ether coins that they had pledged to help operate the network in return for rewards, a process called staking. Tim Beiko, who helps to co-ordinate the development of Ethereum, posted on Twitter on Wednesday that the upgrade is now "official." The network re
  
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• Twitter Partners With eToro To Let Users Trade Stocks, Crypto

  13-04-2023 16:41 via slashdot.org
  
  Twitter will let its users access stocks, cryptocurrencies and other financial assets through a partnership with eToro, a social trading company. From a report: Starting Thursday, a new feature will be rolled out on the Twitter app. It will allow users to view market charts on an expanded range of financial instruments and buy and sell stocks and other assets from eToro, the company told CNBC exclusively. Currently, it's already possible to view real-time trading data from TradingView on index f
  
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• White House Rejects Fed Staff Outlook, Says No Sign of Recession

  13-04-2023 16:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The White House said Thursday that data does not indicate a US recession is on the horizon, rebuffing Federal Reserve staff economists who forecast a minor contraction starting later this year. From a report: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said job numbers and consumer spending are strong and chalked it up to President Joe Biden's economic plans, waving off a recession risk. "We're seeing the success of his plans, and recent economic indicators are not consistent with a recession
  
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• Do High-Speed Rail Projects Increase Happiness?

  13-04-2023 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  According to a recent study involving a sample of 28,646 Chinese people, high-speed rail projects were found to increase individual happiness, albeit not by much. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Motherboard article: It can increase happiness, especially for people who live in regional capitals, rural areas, men and the elderly, but only by an increase of .076 on the happiness scale of one to five. To put it another way, as the study does, "The coefficient accounts for 1.997 percent
  
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• Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Security-by-Design and Default Principles

  13-04-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Security-by-Design and Default Principles serves as a cybersecurity roadmap for manufacturers of technology and associated products. With recommendations in this guide, manufacturers are urged to put cybersecurity first, during the design phase of a product’s development lifecycle, to decrease user risk and provide out-of-the-box user protections by default at no extra charge. 
  This guide represents an international effort to reduce exp
  
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• CISA Releases Sixteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  13-04-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  CISA released sixteen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 13, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. 
  ICSMA-23-103-01 B. Braun Battery Pack SP with Wi-Fi
  ICSA-23-103-01 Siemens Adaptec maxView Application
  ICSA-23-103-02 Siemens JT Open and JT Utilities
  ICSA-23-103-03 Siemens in OPC Foundation Local Discovery Server
  ICSA-23-103-04 Siemens TIA Portal
  ICSA-23-103-05 Siemens SCALANCE X-200I
  
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• Study Reveals Cancer's 'Infinite' Ability To Evolve

  13-04-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An unprecedented analysis of how cancers grow has revealed an "almost infinite" ability of tumors to evolve and survive, say scientists. The BBC reports: The results of tracking lung cancers for nine years left the research team "surprised" and "in awe" at the formidable force they were up against. They have concluded we need more focus on prevention, with a "universal" cure unlikely any time soon. The study -- entitled TracerX -- provides the most in-depth analysis of how cancers evolve and wha
  
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• Physicists Discover That Gravity Can Create Light

  13-04-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation. Universe Today reports: a team of researchers have discovered that an exotic form of parametric resonance may have even occurred in the extremely early universe. Perhaps the most dramatic event to occur in the entire history of the universe was inflation. This is a hypothetical event that took place when our universe was l
  
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• Inside the 3D-Printed Box In Texas Where Humans Will Prepare For Mars

  13-04-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Red sand shifts under the boots of the crew members. In the distance, it appears that a rocky mountain range is rising out of the Martian horizon. A thin layer of red dust coats the solar panels and equipment necessary for the year-long mission. This landscape isn't actually 145m miles away. We are in a corner of the Nasa Johnson Space Center in Houston, in a large white warehouse right next to the disc golf course and on the tram route for
  
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• How Did Earth Get Its Water?

  13-04-2023 04:02 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Earth's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years, according to new work from Carnegie Science's Anat Shahar and UCLA's Edward Young and Hilke Schlichting. Their findings, which could explain the origins of Earth's signature features, are published in Nature. Phys.Org reports: "Exoplanet discoveries have given us a much greater appreciation of how common it is for just-forme
  
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• DDoS Attacks Shifting To VPS Infrastructure For Increased Power

  13-04-2023 03:25 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Hyper-volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in the first quarter of 2023 have shifted from relying on compromised IoT devices to leveraging breached Virtual Private Servers (VPS). BleepingComputer reports: According to internet security company Cloudflare, the newer generation of botnets gradually abandoned the tactic of building large swarms of individually weak IoT devices and are now shifting towards enslaving vulnerable and misconfigured VPS servers using leaked API credent
  
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• Amazon Now Charging a Fee For Some UPS Store Returns

  13-04-2023 02:45 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon has started charging a fee for some returns made at UPS stores. Insider reports: While customers used to be able to drop off their returns at a UPS Store free of charge, Amazon will now charge a $1 fee if customers have another free-return option the same distance away or closer. Customers can still visit those other drop-off locations -- including Whole Foods, Kohl's, and Amazon stores -- and leave their packages for free. The company already charged customers to have UPS pick up returns
  
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• EVE Online Player Uses Obscure Rule To Pull Off Biggest Heist In Game's History

  13-04-2023 02:02 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Gamer: Back in 2017, we learned about the biggest heist in EVE Online history: A year-long inside job that ultimately made off with an estimated 1.5 triillion ISK, worth around $10,000 in real money. But now another EVE player claims to have pulled off a heist worth significantly more than that -- and with significantly less work involved. The 2017 heist, like so many of EVE's most interesting stories, relied primarily on social engineering: Investing
  
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• ACCC Boss Wants New Powers To Crack Down On Online Businesses That Make It Hard To Cancel Subscriptions

  13-04-2023 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Now Australian online businesses that put up hurdles to make it harder for customers to unsubscribe from their services may face a crackdown from the federal government, with plans to be unveiled later this year. The Guardian reports: The practice of "forced continuity" or "subscription trapping" involves building design features of a website or app in a way that impedes a customer's ability to cancel a particular service. The chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), G
  
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• FTX Has Recovered $7.3 Billion In Assets, Will Consider Rebooting Exchange

  13-04-2023 00:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered over $7.3 billion in cash and liquid crypto assets, an increase of more than $800 million since January, the company's attorney said on Wednesday at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing in Delaware. Reuters reports: FTX attorney Andy Dietderich said the company is starting to think about its future after months of effort devoted to collecting resources and figuring out what went wrong under the leadership of indicted ex-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fri
  
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• Popular Porn Site Must Delete All Amateur Videos Posted Without Consent

  13-04-2023 00:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An Amsterdam court today ordered one of the largest adult entertainment websites, xHamster, to remove all amateur footage showing recognizable people in the Netherlands who did not consent to be featured on the site. The ruling followed complaints raised by the Expertise Bureau for Online Child Abuse, known as EOKM, which identified 10 videos where xHamster could not verify it had secured permission from amateur performers to post. The court
  
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