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• EU Names 19 Large Tech Platforms That Must Follow Europe's New Internet Rules

  25-04-2023 23:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The European Commission will require 19 large online platforms and search engines to comply with new online content regulations starting on August 25, European officials said. The EC specified which companies must comply with the rules for the first time, announcing today that it "adopted the first designation decisions under the Digital Services Act." Five of the 19 platforms are run by Google, specifically YouTube, Google Search, the Googl
  
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• Microsoft Edge is Leaking the Sites You Visit To Bing

  25-04-2023 22:41 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating the reports. From a report: "Searching for references to this URL give very few results, no documentation on this feature at all," said hackermchackface, the Redd
  
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• Ban All Gambling Adverts, Say More Than Half of Britons

  25-04-2023 22:01 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  More than half the public would like to see a ban on gambling advertising, according to a new poll taken as ministers prepare to unveil an overhaul of the industry. In the survey, carried out for the charity Gambling with Lives, 52% of respondents said they supported a ban on all gambling advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and nearly two-thirds wanted new limits on online stakes. From a report: Ministers are expected to reject a blanket ban on gambling advertising in a white paper that coul
  
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• US Policing AI at Companies To Make Sure It Doesn't Violate Civil Rights

  25-04-2023 21:31 via news.slashdot.org
  
  U.S. officials on Tuesday warned financial firms and others that use of artificial intelligence (AI) can heighten the risk of bias and civil rights violations, and signaled they are policing marketplaces for such discrimination. From a report: Increased reliance on automated systems in sectors including lending, employment and housing threatens to exacerbate discrimination based on race, disabilities and other factors, the heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Justice Department's c
  
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• Japan's Ispace Assumes Failure in Bid To Make First Commercial Moon Landing

  25-04-2023 20:40 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Japanese startup ispace assumed failure in its attempt to make the first private moon landing on Tuesday as engineers struggled to regain contact with the company's Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander long after it was due for a lunar touchdown. From a report: "We lost the communication, so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface," ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada said on a company live stream, as mission control engineers in Tokyo continued to try regaining contact w
  
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• Terra Co-founder Daniel Shin Charged With Fraud in South Korea

  25-04-2023 20:01 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Daniel Shin, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, was indicted in South Korea in connection with the collapsed Terra and Luna cryptocurrencies. From a report: According to reports from Bloomberg and the local Yonhap News Agency, Shin was charged on Tuesday with offenses including fraud, breach of duty, and embezzlement. Prosecutors at Seoul Southern District Court also indicted nine other people with ties to Terra, some of whom had roles in marketing, systems development, and management, as reporte
  
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• OpenAI Offers New Privacy Options for ChatGPT

  25-04-2023 19:23 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company's models. The move could be a privacy safeguard for people who sometimes share sensitive information with the popular AI chatbot. From a report: The startup said Tuesday that ChatGPT users can now turn off their chat histories by clicking a toggle switch in their account settings. When people do this, their conversations will no longer be saved in ChatGPT's history sideba
  
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• Details Emerge About Apple Headset's Tethered Battery Pack

  25-04-2023 18:42 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman is at it again, sharing insider details about Apple's upcoming mixed-reality headset. This time, Gurman shared new details in his weekly newsletter about the headset's controversial tethered battery pack design. Previous reports from Gurman, supply chain analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, and The Information revealed that after much internal debate, Apple decided to move forward with a headset design that works with an external battery pack
  
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• WhatsApp Adds Option To Use the Same Account on Multiple Phones

  25-04-2023 18:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone. Today, the Meta-owned messaging service is announcing that its multi-device feature -- which previously allowed you to access and send messages from additional Android tablets, browsers, or computers alongside your primary phone -- is expanding to support additional smartphones. From a report: "One WhatsApp account, now across multiple phones" is how the service describes the feature, which it says is rolling
  
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• Major Tech Firms Face Hefty Fines Under New Digital Consumer Bill

  25-04-2023 17:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Major tech firms face the threat of multibillion-pound fines for breaching consumer protection rules under new legislation that will tackle issues including fake online reviews and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel. From a report: The digital markets, competition and consumers bill will empower the UK's competition watchdog to tackle the "excessive dominance" that a small number of tech firms hold over consumers and businesses. Firms that are deemed to have "strategic market status" --
  
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• Xerox Gives Legendary PARC Lab To SRI International

  25-04-2023 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In a strange twist to the long history of the Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox has announced the donation of the lab's Silicon Valley headquarters and related assets to SRI International, another well-established tech research center. From a report: Opened in 1970, PARC was a pioneering developer of technologies like the graphic user interface, laser printing and Ethernet networking. PARC has recently been doing work in areas like artificial intelligence, the internet of things, clean tech and 3
  
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• Avengers' Joe Russo Says Movies Soon Will Be Made By AI

  25-04-2023 16:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Joe Russo, the co-director of Avengers: Endgame, in an interview on the impact he thinks AI is going to play out in the world of video games, movies and television. He said: This is like a mind-bending question, right? I mean, we've had conversations about how it can be used, and look, Gen Z is very unique because it's a generation that has -- If there were incremental movements in technology over the last, say, 100 years, 150 years, they were the first generation with an exponential movement, r
  
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• Abuse of the Service Location Protocol May Lead to DoS Attacks

  25-04-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  The Service Location Protocol (SLP, RFC 2608) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to register arbitrary services. This could allow an attacker to use spoofed UDP traffic to conduct a denial-of-service (DoS) attack with a significant amplification factor.
  Researchers from Bitsight and Curesec have discovered a way to abuse SLP—identified as CVE-2023-29552—to conduct high amplification factor DoS attacks using spoofed source addresses.
  As noted by Bitsight, many SLP services visi
  
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• NASA Demonstrates a Breakthrough In 3D Printable High-Temperature Materials

  25-04-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NASA has developed a new superalloy called GRX-810 that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft. SciTechDaily reports: GRX-810 is an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy. In other words, tiny particles containing oxygen atoms spread throughout the alloy enhance its strength. Such alloys are excellent candidates to build aerospace parts for high-temperature applications, like those inside aircraft and rocket engines, because they can withstand harsher conditions bef
  
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• Las Vegas-To-California Bullet Train Gets Bipartisan Backing

  25-04-2023 09:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A group of ten bipartisan lawmakers from Nevada and California have asked the Biden administration to quickly provide federal funding for a private company to construct a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. The Associated Press reports: All six of Nevada's elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California sent the letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. They said they're on board with a proposal from Brightline West to spend more than $
  
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• 'Delete Act' Seeks To Give Californians More Power To Block Data Tracking

  25-04-2023 05:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento is expected to consider a new bill called "The Delete Act," or SB 362, which aims to give Californians the power to block data tracking. "The onus is on individuals to try to protect their data from an estimated 2,000-4,000 data brokers worldwide -- many of which have no other relationship with consumers beyond the trade in their data," reports KQED. "This lucrative trade is also known as surveillance advertising, or the 'ad tech' industry
  
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• Moths Are More Efficient Pollinators Than Bees, Shows New Research

  25-04-2023 04:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  According to new research published last month in PLOS ONE, moths are more efficient pollinators at night than day-flying pollinators such as bees. Phys.Org reports: Studying 10 sites in the South East of England throughout July 2021, [researchers from the University of Sussex] found that 83% of insect visits to bramble flowers were made during the day. While the moths made fewer visits during the shorter summer nights, notching up only 15% of the visits, they were able to pollinate the flowers
  
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• Red Hat Begins Cutting 'Hundreds of Jobs'

  25-04-2023 03:25 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  According to Phoronix citing multiple local North Carolina news outlets, Red Hat is cutting "hundreds of jobs" in an initial round of layoffs announced today. From the report: According to WRAL, Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks is said to have told employees in an email "we will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products," which is hopefully good news for their many upstream Linux developers they employ that ultimately build Red Hat Enterprise Linux and associated software pro
  
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• Coinbase Sues the SEC, Seeking Regulatory Clarity For the Crypto Industry

  25-04-2023 03:03 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to force the commission to respond to a petition (PDF) requesting them to draft and approve a rule specific to digital assets. "The lawsuit aims to force the agency to provide a yes or no to Coinbase's ask," adds The Block. From the report: Since that request by Coinbase, the SEC has reopened custody and exchange rules to explicitly say that they apply to digital assets, but has not engaged in draf
  
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• US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Secures Bermuda License

  25-04-2023 02:45 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Coinbase has been granted a license by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, allowing the US crypto exchange to operate as a digital asset business there. The exchange is also in the process of obtaining a license in Abu Dhabi. Reuters reports: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on Tuesday that crypto firms will develop in "offshore" havens unless the U.S. and UK create "clarity about regulation" for crypto. Coinbase is planning to launch a crypto derivatives exchange in Bermuda as soon as next week, F
  
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• Californians Have Bought More Than 1.5 Million Electric Vehicles

  25-04-2023 02:02 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: California is far and away the country's largest adopter of plug-in electric vehicles. Because of the state's ability to regulate its own air quality and spurred on by a large economy and plenty of affluent residents, the EV has gained plenty of traction in the Golden State. So much so that last month, California met its goal of having more than 1.5 million clean vehicles on the road two years ahead of schedule. California's Air Resources Bo
  
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• Samsung Faces Weakest Quarter Since 2009 As Memory Chip Market In 'Worst Slump In Decades'

  25-04-2023 01:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Samsung is expected to report its worst profit in 14 years due to falling prices for memory chips -- the company's biggest business -- and weak demand. CNBC reports: The South Korean technology giant guided earlier this month that it would post operating profit of 600 billion Korean won ($449 million) for the first quarter. If Samsung reports this number, it would be the company's lowest profit since the first quarter of 2009. Samsung releases preliminary earnings guidance, but does not give det
  
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• Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI

  25-04-2023 00:40 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Canadian singer-songwriter Grimes has invited her fans to create music using her voice, stating that she would split 50% of royalties for any successful AI-generated song using her voice. On Sunday night she tweeted: "I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings."She also said she welcomes the open sourcing of art and an end to c
  
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• Stability AI Launches StableLM, an Open Source ChatGPT Alternative

  25-04-2023 00:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Stability AI released a new family of open source AI language models called StableLM. Stability hopes to repeat the catalyzing effects of its Stable Diffusion open source image synthesis model, launched in 2022. With refinement, StableLM could be used to build an open source alternative to ChatGPT. StableLM is currently available in alpha form on GitHub in 3 billion and 7 billion parameter model sizes, with 15 billion and 65 bi
  
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