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• SoylentNews May Not Be Shutting Down June 30th

  27-05-2023 23:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  After announcing a shutdown, SoylentNews' NCommander has "had very long discussions with a member of the community...who has been negotiating to try and keep SoylentNews operational, and help provide a realistic plan for both rebuilding the site, and migration..."He has offered help in the form of hosting, capital, and helping coding a replacement for rehash. He has convinced me that there are enough people in the community that it might be possible to pay down the technical debt.
  I was asked to
  
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• Python 3.12 Brings New Features and Fixes

  27-05-2023 22:36 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "The Python programming language releases new versions yearly, with a feature-locked beta release in the first half of the year and the final release toward the end of the year," writes InfoWorld.
  So now Python 3.12 beta 1 has just been released, and InfoWorld compiled a list of its most significant new features. Some highlights:- The widely used Linux profiler tool perf works with Python, but only returns information about what's happening at the C level in the Python runtime. Information about
  
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• Peplum: F/OSS Distributed Parallel Computing and Supercomputing At Home With Ruby Infrastructure

  27-05-2023 21:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader Zapotek brings an update from the Ecsypno skunkworks, where they've been busy with R&D for distributed computing systems:
  Armed with Cuboid, Qmap was built, which tackled the handling of nmap in a distributed environment, with great results. Afterwards, an iterative clean-up process led to a template of sorts, for scheduling most applications in such environments. With that, Peplum was born, which allows for OS applications, Ruby code and C/C++/Rust code (via Ruby extensions)
  
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• Seattle Amazon Workers Plan Walkout Over Return to Office, Climate Concerns

  27-05-2023 20:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  CNN reports:Some Amazon corporate workers have announced plans to walk off the job next week over frustrations with the company's return-to-work policies, among other issues, in a sign of heightened tensions inside the e-commerce giant after multiple rounds of layoffs.The work stoppage is being jointly organized by an internal climate justice worker group and a remote work advocacy group, according to an email from organizers and public social media posts. Workers participating have two main dem
  
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• 'Mountain' of FTX Evidence Includes Emails, Chat Logs, Slack Messages and Google Accounts

  27-05-2023 19:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:Snippets of computer code. More than six million pages of emails, Slack messages and other digital records. And a small black notebook, filled with handwritten observations. For months, federal prosecutors building the criminal case against the fallen cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried have assembled a vast and unusually varied array of evidence. The documents include crypto transaction logs and encrypted group chats from Mr.
  
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• How Digital Nomads Reshaped Cities Around the World

  27-05-2023 18:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "They bring luxury workspaces, fancy coffee shops... and rising rents," reports Rest of World.org, visiting a coworking space with 70 people in its cafe and 100 more in its second-floor coworking area, that "looks as if it were picked up in Silicon Valley and dropped into Colombia by a crane...
  Coders and digital marketers crowd the tables, drinking pour-over coffee and enjoying loaded avocado toast. Downstairs, in the coffee shop, a stylish woman with a ring light on her laptop chats with a cli
  
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• 50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones

  27-05-2023 17:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shared this report from CBS News:Amid growing concerns of security risks to members of Congress, over 50 senators have been issued satellite phones for emergency communication, people familiar with the measures told CBS News... [Senate Sergeant at Arms] Gibson said satellite communication is being deployed "to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event." Gibson said the phones are a security backstop in the case of an emerg
  
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• Scientists Find Way to Make Energy from Air Using Nearly Any Material

  27-05-2023 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:Nearly any material can be used to turn the energy in air humidity into electricity, scientists found in a discovery that could lead to continuously producing clean energy with little pollution. The research, published in a paper in Advanced Materials, builds on 2020 work that first showed energy could be pulled from the moisture in the air using material harvested from bacteria. The new study shows nearly any material can be used,
  
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• HP Printers Should Have EPEAT Ecolabels Revoked, Trade Group Demands

  27-05-2023 15:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: HP printers have received a lot of flak historically and recently for invasive firmware updates that end up preventing customers from using ink with their printers. HP also encourages printer customers to sign up for HP+, a program that includes a free ink-subscription trial and irremovable firmware that allows HP to brick the ink when it sees fit. Despite this, HP markets dozens of its printers with Dynamic Security and the optional HP+ fea
  
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• 40 Years Ago, NPR Had To Apologize For Airing 'Return of the Jedi' Spoilers

  27-05-2023 12:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Forty years ago, a young boy's review of "Return of the Jedi" on NPR's All Things Considered led to uproar from listeners, prompting an on-air apology from host Susan Stamberg for airing spoilers. NPR reports: This was part of the boy's review: "Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are about to go in the pit. And just as he was about to walk the plank, R2D2 fired a laser gun from his head, and Han catched it. And he blew up the whole ship. And the big guy -- the boss of the monsters -- well, he got choke
  
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• Gravitational-Wave Detector LIGO Is Back

  27-05-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  After three years of upgrades, the gravitational-wave detector known as LIGO, or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has resumed searching for colliding black holes and other cosmic cataclysms. "The improvements should allow the facility to pick up signals from colliding black holes every two to three days, compared with once a week or so during its previous run in 2019-20," reports Nature. From the report: The Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy, which has undergone its own $9-mill
  
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• US To Give Away Free Lighthouses As GPS Makes Them Unnecessary

  27-05-2023 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America's shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government. The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old. The development of modern technology, including GPS, means lighthouses are no l
  
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• Bitwarden Moves Into Passwordless Security

  27-05-2023 04:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Bitwarden, the popular open-source password management program, has launched Bitwarden Passwordless.dev, a developer toolkit for integrating FIDO2 WebAuthn-based passkeys into websites and applications. The New Stack reports: Bitwarden Passwordless.dev uses an easy-to-use application programming interface (API) to provide a simplified approach to implementing passkey-based authentication with your existing code. This enables developers to create seamless authentication experiences swiftly and ef
  
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• Amazon Gives Up a Key Part of Its Climate Pledge, Deletes Blog Post That Announced 'Shipment Zero Initiative'

  27-05-2023 03:25 via slashdot.org
  
  According to investigative reporter Will Evans, Amazon recently backed out of a commitment to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. "Amazon said (PDF) in a statement that it would roll this goal into a broader Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040," reports Insider. "That's a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called 'Shipment Zero' at the time." From the report: "As we examined our work toward The Climate Pledge, we realized that it no lon
  
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• Sonos Wins $32.5 Million Patent Infringement Victory Over Google

  27-05-2023 02:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million after a jury verdict found that Google's smart speakers and media players infringed on one of Sonos' patents. The Verge reports: The legal battle started in 2020 when Sonos accused Google of copying its patented multiroom audio technology after the companies partnered in 2013. Sonos went on to win its case at the US International Trade Commission, resulting in a limited import ban on some of the Google devices in question. Google has also had to
  
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• Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

  27-05-2023 02:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains. Freenom is the domain name registry service provider for five so-called "country code top level domains"
  
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• Inner Workings Revealed For 'Predator,' the Android Malware That Exploited 5 0-Days

  27-05-2023 01:20 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Researchers from Cisco's Talos security team have uncovered detailed information about Predator, a sophisticated spyware sold to governments worldwide, which can secretly record voice calls, collect data from apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and hide or disable apps on mobile devices. Ars Technica reports: An analysis Talos published on Thursday provides the most detailed look yet at Predator, a piece of advanced spyware that can be used against Android and iOS mobile devices. Predator is develope
  
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• Neuralink Announces FDA Approval of In-Human Clinical Study

  27-05-2023 00:40 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Neuralink, a neurotech startup co-founded by Elon Musk, has received FDA approval for its first in-human clinical study to test its brain implant called the Link. The implant aims to help patients with severe paralysis regain the ability to control external technologies using neural signals, potentially allowing them to communicate through mind-controlled cursors and typing. CNBC reports: "This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represe
  
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• Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions To Chatbot After Unionization

  27-05-2023 00:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Executives at the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) decided to replace hotline workers with a chatbot named Tessa four days after the workers unionized. NEDA, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to eating disorders, has had a helpline for the last twenty years that provided support to hundreds of thousands of people via chat, phone call, and text. "NEDA claims this was a long-anticipated change and that AI can better serve
  
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