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• Nvidia's Top AI Chips Are Selling for More Than $40,000 on eBay

  14-04-2023 23:22 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia's most-advanced graphics cards are selling for more than $40,000 on eBay, as demand soars for chips needed to train and deploy artificial intelligence software. From a report: The prices for Nvidia's H100 processors were noted by 3D gaming pioneer and former Meta consulting technology chief John Carmack on Twitter. On Friday, at least eight H100s were listed on eBay at prices ranging from $39,995 to just under $46,000. Some retailers have offered it in the past for around $36,000. The H10
  
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• Biggest Linux Company of Them All Still Pushing To Become Cloud Power

  14-04-2023 22:41 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: For Red Hat, which turned 30 on March 27, it was a cause for celebration. From a business that got started in one of its co-founder's wife's sewing room, it became the first billion-dollar pure-play open-source company and then the engine driving IBM. It has been a long strange trip. Sure, today, the tech world is dominated by Linux and open source software, but in 1993, Linux was merely an obscure operating system known only to enthusiasts. Red Hat played a
  
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• LG and Samsung Are Getting Serious About Their OLED Panel Deal Again

  14-04-2023 22:01 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  It's been a rollercoaster ride for Korean tech conglomerates LG and Samsung. In 2021, it was reported that they were about to reach a major business deal regarding OLED panels, but in 2022 it seemed like the talks fell through. Now, in 2023, the talks may have resumed. From a report: The Elec reports that Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed discussions on a deal that would see LG supplying more than 200,000 white OLED (WOLED) panels to Samsung for a new line of Samsung-branded TVs th
  
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• Montana Close To Becoming 1st State To Completely Ban TikTok

  14-04-2023 21:21 via news.slashdot.org
  
  rmdingler writes: Montana lawmakers have moved one step closer to passing a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that's bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Montana's proposal, which has backing from the state's GOP-controlled legislature, is more sweeping than bans in place in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government that prohibit TikTok on government devices. T
  
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• 28 State AGs Urge Congress To Pass Stalled 'Right To Repair' Bills

  14-04-2023 20:41 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The "right to repair" movement has made considerable inroads over the past five years, partially due to support from the Biden FTC. State-level legislation aimed at dismantling repair monopolies has made progress, despite industry lobbying efforts to weaken the proposals (e.g., Kathy Hochul in New York State). Federal legislation, however, faces challenges in a troubled Congress. In response, a bipartisan group of 28 state attorneys general has penned a letter to key congressional committee lead
  
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• 'Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful'

  14-04-2023 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  New submitter jth1234567 reports: In late January, a Steam user posted a negative review for the game Warlander, warning potential buyers about the shady anti-cheat system the game was using, the apparent problems being intrusive data collection and difficult removal after the game itself had been uninstalled (the review text is no longer available). This review stayed on top as the most helpful review for nearly three months, which must have been a big thorn in the side for the developer and th
  
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• Can Intel Become the Chip Champion the US Needs?

  14-04-2023 19:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech's most complex turnrounds. From a report: It was nearly a decade ago when Intel, then the undisputed leader in global semiconductor manufacturing, made a fateful decision. A new technology, extreme lithography, was offering a way to pack more computing power on to the silicon wafers from which tiny chips, essential for widely used products like smartphones and PCs, are cut. Using light to etc
  
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• SEC Considers Reopening 'Exchange' Definition Proposal

  14-04-2023 18:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The SEC is considering reopening the comment period for its proposal last year to re-define the definition of "exchange." From a report: The small proposed change would have sweeping implications for traditional financial firms and crypto -- and specifically decentralized finance (DeFi). The SEC's proposed change to Rule 3b-16 of the Securities Exchange Act would apply the definition of exchange more broadly -- with the Commission arguing that the rule as originally envisioned would've otherwise
  
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• Collectors Are Finding That Their Childhood Has a Price - and It's Going Up

  14-04-2023 18:08 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The stock market, real estate and cryptocurrencies did poorly in 2022, but the global luxury goods market grew 20 percent. People may have had less, but they spent more on fine arts and collectibles that serve no function except to provide pleasure. From a report: The culture is bursting with new material -- every day, thousands of new books are published and 100,000 new songs are released on Spotify -- but the old stuff offers a sweeter emotional payoff for many. It could be tapes or posters or
  
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• Juice Mission Blasts Off To Jupiter To Look for Signs of Life

  14-04-2023 17:37 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The European Space Agency's Juice probe has blasted off on a landmark mission to Jupiter's moons, rising on a plume of white from its launchpad in Kourou, French Guiana, on the north-eastern shoulder of South America. From a report: The mission, which was delayed for 24 hours after lightning threatened to strike on Thursday, intends to uncover the secrets of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, its enormous polar auroras, and how its mighty magnetic field shapes conditions on the gas giant's nearby moons.
  
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• OpenAI's CEO Says Company Isn't Training GPT-5 and 'Won't For Some Time'

  14-04-2023 16:40 via slashdot.org
  
  In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO and co-founder, has confirmed that the company is not currently training GPT-5, the presumed successor to its AI language model GPT-4, released this March. From a report: Speaking at an event at MIT, Altman was asked about a recent open letter circulated among the tech world that requested that labs like OpenAI pause development of AI systems "more powerful than GPT-4." The letter highlighted concerns about the safety of
  
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• European Parliament Prepares Tough Measures Over Use of AI

  14-04-2023 16:02 via slashdot.org
  
  The European parliament is preparing tough new measures over the use of artificial intelligence, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material, as the EU edges towards enacting the world's most restrictive regime on the development of AI. Financial Times: MEPs in Brussels are close to agreeing a set of proposals to form part of Europe's Artificial Intelligence Act, a sweeping set of regulations on the use of AI, according to people familiar with the process. Among t
  
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• A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America

  14-04-2023 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Motherboard has discovered a swatting-as-a-service account on Telegram that uses computer generated voices to issue bomb and mass shooting threats against highschools and other locations across the country. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Known as "Torswats" on the messaging app Telegram, the swatter has been calling in bomb and mass shooting threats against highschools and other locations across the country. Torswat's connection to these wide ranging swatting incidents ha
  
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• Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens, New Study Finds

  14-04-2023 12:00 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Millennials are the largest untapped market that video game companies should be focusing on, per a new study from Fandom, which finds that the generation spends more time gaming than both Gen Z and teens. Variety reports: According to fan-community platform and entertainment company Fandom's annual Inside Gaming report, which was released Thursday, "despite teens and Gen Z spending more time gaming than they did last year, older generations of players are spending more hours per week gaming." Co
  
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• NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids For the First Time

  14-04-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A NASA probe sent to observe Jupiter's swarm of asteroids recently caught the first glimpse of its rocky targets, capturing deep-space images of four of the mysterious Trojans. Gizmodo reports: The Lucy spacecraft used its highest resolution imager, L'LORRI (Lucy LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager), to photograph four Trojan asteroids during a two-day period from March 25 to 27, NASA announced on Thursday. The first asteroids to be seen by Lucy are: Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus. Those fou
  
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• South Korea To Give $490 Allowance To Reclusive Youths To Help Them Leave the House

  14-04-2023 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: South Korea is to offer reclusive youths a monthly living allowance of 650,000 won ($490) in order to encourage them out of their homes, as part of a new measure passed by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. The measure also offers education, job and health support. The condition is known as "hikikomori," a Japanese term that roughly translated means, "to pull back." The government wants to try to make it easier for those experiencin
  
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• Scientists Create Eco-Friendly Paint That Keeps the Surface Beneath Cool

  14-04-2023 04:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A team of researchers in Florida have created a way to mimic nature's ability to reflect light and create beautifully vivid color without absorbing any heat like traditional pigments do. Debashis Chanda, a nanoscience researcher with the University of Central Florida, and his team published their findings in the journal Science Advances. NPR reports: Beyond just the beautiful arrays of color that structure can create, Chanda also found that unlike pigments, structural paint does not absorb any i
  
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• Universal Music Asks Streaming Services To Block AI Access To Its Songs

  14-04-2023 03:25 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  The world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, is asking major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to block artificial intelligence companies from using its music to "train" their technology, according to a recent report in Financial Times. Variety reports: Confirming the report, a UMG spokesperson told the FT: "We have a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists to work to prevent the unauthorized use of their music and to stop platforms from ingesting content th
  
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• Microsoft Is Experimenting With a Steam Deck-Friendly 'Handheld Mode' For Windows

  14-04-2023 03:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Andrew Cunningham writes via Ars Technica: Microsoft is aware of the problems running Windows on the Steam Deck and other similar handheld Windows PCs, and at least some developers inside the company have spent time thinking of ways to address them. That's the thrust of a leaked presentation (posted in two parts by Twitter user _h0x0d_) about a new "Handheld Mode" for Windows, developed as part of an internal Microsoft hackathon in September 2022.As presented, Handheld Mode includes several comp
  
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• Hackers Claim Vast Access To Western Digital Systems

  14-04-2023 02:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The hackers who breached data storage giant Western Digital claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of data from the company, including reams of customer information. The extortionists are pushing the company to negotiate a ransom -- of "minimum 8 figures" -- in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. On April 3, Western Digital disclosed "a network security incident" saying hackers had exfiltrated data after hacking into "a number of th
  
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• Amazon Announces 'Bedrock,' Its ChatGPT and DALL-E Rival

  14-04-2023 02:02 via slashdot.org
  
  Amazon announced on Thursday it's releasing a ChatGPT and DALL-E rival it calls Amazon Bedrock. Insider reports: Bedrock is a suite of generative AI tools that can help Amazon Web Service customers -- businesses who run their operations on Amazon's data servers -- build chatbots, generate and summarize text, and make and classify images based on prompts. While OpenAI's ChatGPT is run solely on its GPT-4 language model, Bedrock users can perform specific tasks by selecting from a range of machine
  
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• IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business

  14-04-2023 01:20 via slashdot.org
  
  International Business Machines is exploring a sale of its weather operation, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter, as the technology company seeks to streamline its operations. From a report: An auction of the business is at an early stage, the people said, and there may not be a deal. Should there be one, private-equity is most likely the buyer in a deal that could be valued at more than $1 billion, the people said. IBM agreed to buy the business in 2015, purchasing The Weather
  
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• Amazon CEO Says 'Really Good' AI Models Take 'Billions of Dollars' To Train

  14-04-2023 01:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Amazon is introducing a cloud service called Bedrock that developers can use to enhance their software with artificial intelligence systems that can generate text, similar to the engine behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot powered by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI. From a report: The announcement indicates that the largest provider of cloud infrastructure won't be leaving a trendy growth area to challengers such as Google and Microsoft, both of which have started offering developers large languag
  
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• Discord Says Cooperating in Probe of Classified Material Breach

  14-04-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Instant messaging platform Discord says it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement's investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world. From a report: The statement comes as questions continue to swirl over who leaked the documents, whether they are genuine and whether the intelligence assessments in them are reliable. The documents, which carry markings suggesting that they are highly classified, have led to a string of stories about the war in Ukr
  
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• Tech Executive Arrested In San Francisco Killing of Cash App Creator

  14-04-2023 00:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "Early Wednesday, San Francisco police made an arrest in the April 4th killing of tech exec Bob Lee," writes Slashdot reader xevioso. "Lee was stabbed in the early hours of April 4th, and later died. His killing prompted a host of claims that this was yet another example of San Francisco's slide into chaos, but the person arrested is reportedly another tech exec." Mission Local reports: The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew. We are told that police today were di
  
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