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• 'Extremely Remorseful' Lawyers Confronted by Judge Over 'Legal Gibberish' Citations from ChatGPT

  10-06-2023 23:54 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Associated Press reports:Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing... [Attorney Steven A. Schwartz] told U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel he was "operating under a misconception ... that this website was obtaining these cases from some source I did not have access to." He said he "failed miserably" at doing follow-up research to ensure the citations wer
  
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• Linux Foundation Announces Collaboration for 'Open Radio Access Network' Prototypes

  10-06-2023 22:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  This week the Linux Foundation and the National Spectrum Consortium "announced formal collaboration" on developing software prototypes and demonstrations for Open RAN (open radio access network):
  The two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to solidify their working relationship and commitment to minimizing barriers to further R&D necessary for OpenRAN acceleration within the United States.
  More open and flexible wireless networks ultimately increase vendor diversity and c
  
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• Ted Kaczynski, Known as the 'Unabomber,' has Died in Prison at Age 81

  10-06-2023 21:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Because he targeted universities and airlines, the FBI had dubbed him the Unabomber, reports the Associated Press:Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81... Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The
  
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• CNN Sees 'Escalating Battle' Over Returning to the Office at Tech Companies

  10-06-2023 20:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  CNN explores tech-company efforts to curtail remote working. "Salesforce is trying to lure staff into offices by offering to donate $10 to a local charity for each day an employee comes in from June 12 to June 23, according to an internal Slack message reported on by Fortune."
  CNN notes a recent walk-out at Amazon protesting (in part) new return-to-office policies, as well as Meta's upcoming three-days-a-week in-office mandate. But CNN adds that it's Google that "has long been a bellwether for w
  
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• Parker Solar Probe Discovers Source of Solar Wind

  10-06-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The New York Times defines the solar wind as "a million-miles-per-hour stream of electrons, protons and other charged particles rushing outward into the solar system."
  Now CNN reports that the Parker Solar Probe "has uncovered the source of solar wind."
  As the probe came within about 13 million miles (20.9 million kilometers) of the sun, its instruments detected fine structures of the solar wind where it generates near the photosphere, or the solar surface, and captured ephemeral details that di
  
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• New Spider-Man Movie Features Lego Scene Made By 14-Year-Old

  10-06-2023 18:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Isaac-Lew (Slashdot reader #623) writes:The Lego scene in "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" was animated by a 14-year-old high school student after the producers saw the trailer he made that was animated Lego-style.
  The teenager had used his father's old computers to recreate the trailer "shot for shot to look as if it belonged in a Lego world," reports the New York Times:
  By that point, he had been honing his skills for several years making short computer-generated Lego videos. "My dad show
  
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• Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers

  10-06-2023 17:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Intel has announced Intel One Mono, a new font catering to "the needs of developers" with an "expressive" monospace for clarity and legibility"It's easier to read, and available for free, with an open-source font license.Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors.
  
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• Robinhood App Will End Support for Three Cryptocurrency Tokens After June 27

  10-06-2023 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "Just days after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase for selling unregistered securities, crypto companies are already dealing with the fallout," reports Mashable:The popular stock trading app Robinhood announced on Friday that the company would be delisting all of the cryptocurrency tokens that trade on its platform that the SEC classified as unregistered securities. According to Robinhood, it will end support for the crypto tokens Cardano (ADA
  
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• Autonomous Waymo Car Runs Over Dog In San Francisco

  10-06-2023 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of Alphabet's Waymo autonomous cars has killed a pet dog. TechCrunch spotted the public report of the incident, which says one of the Waymo Jaguar I-Pace cars ran over a dog in San Francisco while in autonomous mode with a safety driver behind the wheel.Waymo's collision report says: "On May 21, 2023 at 10:56 AM PT a Waymo Autonomous Vehicle ("Waymo AV") operating in San Francisco, California was in a collision involving a small dog on T
  
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• Arctic Could Be Sea Ice-Free in the Summer by the 2030s

  10-06-2023 12:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  New research suggests that Arctic summer sea ice could melt almost completely by the 2030s, a decade earlier than previously projected, even with significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Smithsonian Magazine reports: "We are very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically independent of what we are doing," Dirk Notz, a climate scientist at the University of Hamburg in Germany tells the New York Times' Raymond Zhong. "We've been waiting too long now to do something a
  
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• China Wants To Launch a Moon-Orbiting Telescope Array As Soon As 2026

  10-06-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  China is planning to deploy a constellation of satellites in orbit around the moon to create a radio telescope that would enable the study of radio waves longer than 33 feet, providing insights into the "Dark Ages" of the universe. Space.com reports: The array would consist of one "mother" satellite and eight mini "daughter" craft. The mother would process data and communicate with Earth, and the daughters would detect radio signals from the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Xuelei Chen, an astron
  
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• Smoke Sends US Northeast Solar Power Plunging By 50% As Wildfires Rage In Canada

  10-06-2023 07:05 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader WindBourne writes: "A shroud of smoke has sent solar power generation in parts of the eastern US plummeting by more than 50% as wildfires rage in Canada," reports Bloomberg. "Solar farms powering New England were producing 56% less energy at times of peak demand compared with the week before, according to the region's grid operator. Electricity generated by solar across the territory serviced by PJM Interconnection LLC, which spans Illinois to North Carolina, was down ab
  
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• Octopuses Can Rewire Their 'Brains' By Editing Their Own RNA On the Fly

  10-06-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: Octopuses have found an incredible way to protect the more delicate features of their nervous system against radically changing temperatures. When conditions fluctuate, they can rapidly recode key proteins in their nerve cells, ensuring critical neurological activities remain functional when temperatures drop dramatically. How do they do it? By deploying a rare superpower -- editing their RNA on the fly, an ability found in some species of o
  
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• Tesla Orders Parts For 375K Cybertrucks In 2024

  10-06-2023 04:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  schwit1 shares a report from Electrek: Tesla is planning to produce 375,000 Cybertrucks per year and have release candidates by late August, according to communications they sent to suppliers. Tesla's latest official comment on the timeline is a planned delivery event "around the end of Q3," which would mean around the end of September 2023.Recently, CEO Elon Musk also gave a Tesla Cybertruck production volume estimate at Tesla's annual shareholders meeting. In his comment, he first said about 2
  
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• The US Is Building Factories At a Wildly Fast Rate

  10-06-2023 03:25 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Factory construction in the United States has experienced significant growth, with construction spending by manufacturers more than doubling over the past year. Insider reports: For April 2023, the annual rate reached nearly $190 billion compared with $90 billion in June 2022, with manufacturing accounting for around 13% of non-government construction. [...] Factories are being constructed everywhere from deserts to resort towns as the US tries to bring back manufacturing of goods commonly impor
  
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• Google's Bard AI Can Now Write and Execute Code To Answer a Question

  10-06-2023 02:45 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  In a blog post on Wednesday, Google said Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning. "Google says that now when you ask Bard a 'computational' task like math or string manipulation, instead of showing the output of the language model, that language model will instead write a program, execute that program, and then show the output of that program to the user as an answer," reports Ars Technica. From the report: Google's blog post provides the example input of "Reverse the word 'Lollipop' for m
  
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• Nvidia's AI Software Tricked Into Leaking Data

  10-06-2023 02:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A feature in Nvidia's artificial intelligence software can be manipulated into ignoring safety restraints and reveal private information, according to new research. Nvidia has created a system called the "NeMo Framework," which allows developers to work with a range of large language models -- the underlying technology that powers generative AI products such as chatbots. The chipmaker's framework is designed to be adopted by businesses, such
  
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• Apple TV To Support VPN Apps On tvOS 17

  10-06-2023 01:23 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Along with FaceTime support and a redesigned Control Center, Apple is adding support for VPN apps in tvOS 17. MacRumors reports: VPN apps could allow for Apple TV users to watch geo-restricted content from any location, such as the U.S. version of Netflix in another country. In its tvOS 17 press release, however, Apple focused on how the VPN apps can benefit enterprise and education users, so it is possible that Apple could restrict usage of the apps.Apple: "Third-party VPN support, which enable
  
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• What Instagram's Upcoming Twitter Competitor Looks Like

  10-06-2023 00:52 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  During a companywide meeting, Meta's chief product officer, Chris Cox, revealed a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor, a standalone app based on Instagram that will integrate with the decentralized social media protocol, ActivityPub. "That will theoretically allow users of the new app to take their accounts and followers with them to other apps that support ActivityPub, including Mastodon," reports The Verge. From the report: The forthcoming app, which, in the meeting today, Met
  
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• China Is Planning To Restrict and Scrutinise the Use of Wireless Filesharing Services

  10-06-2023 00:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from The Guardian: China is planning to restrict and scrutinize the use of wireless filesharing services between mobile devices, such as airdrop and Bluetooth, after they were used by protesters to evade censorship and spread protest messages. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's top internet regulator, has released draft regulations on "close-range mesh network services" and launched a month-long public consultation on Tuesday.Und
  
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• China Is Planning To Restrict and Scrutinise the Use of Wireless Filesharing Ser

  10-06-2023 00:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from The Guardian: China is planning to restrict and scrutinize the use of wireless filesharing services between mobile devices, such as airdrop and Bluetooth, after they were used by protesters to evade censorship and spread protest messages. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's top internet regulator, has released draft regulations on "close-range mesh network services" and launched a month-long public consultation on Tuesday.Und
  
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