• Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug

    Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug
    Long-time Slashdot reader waspleg shared this story from Hot Hardware:Red Hat Linux developer Richard WM Jones has shared an eyebrow raising tale of Linux bug hunting. Jones noticed that Linux 6.4 has a bug which means it will hang on boot about 1 in 1,000 times. Jones set out to pinpoint the bug, and prove he had caught it red handed. However, his headlining travail, involving booting Linux 292,612 times (and another 1,000 times to confirm the bug) apparently "only took 21 hours." It also seems
  • A Startup Tries Making Medicine in Space

    A Startup Tries Making Medicine in Space
    "California startup Varda Space Industries launched its first test mission on June 12," reports CNN, "successfully sending a 200-pound (90-kilogram) capsule designed to carry drug research into Earth's orbit.
    "The experiment, conducted in microgravity by simple onboard machines, aims to test whether it would be possible to manufacture pharmaceuticals in space remotely."
    Research has already established that protein crystals grown in a weightless environment can result in more perfect structures
  • Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code?

    Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code?
    Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Y Combinator founder Paul Graham last week took to Twitter to lament those who use AI or other excuses for not learning to code. "A generation ago some people were saying there was no point in learning to program because all the programming jobs would be outsourced to India," Graham wrote. "Now they're saying you don't need to because AI will do it all. If you don't want to learn to program, you can always find a reason."
    BloomTech Coding Bootcamp CEO Aus
  • More AI is Coming to Fast-Food Restaurant Drive-Through Lanes

    More AI is Coming to Fast-Food Restaurant Drive-Through Lanes
    An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:Over the past few years, restaurants from White Castle to Wendy's have been investing in artificial intelligence tech for drive-thrus... [E]fforts have ramped up recently, with two announcements in May. CKE Restaurants (owner of Hardee's and Carl's Jr.) said it will roll out AI ordering capability more broadly after a successful pilot. Soon after, Wendy's said it had expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to include an AI ordering tool at the d
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  • You're Owed a Little Money From a 2010 Google Class Action Lawsuit

    You're Owed a Little Money From a 2010 Google Class Action Lawsuit
    An anonymous reader shared this report from The Penny Hoarder:
    If you Googled anything between 2006 and 2013, then Google owes you money for violating your privacy. Those are the terms of a class-action lawsuit that Google has settled for $23 million.
    How much money does Google owe you? Well, it depends on how many people come forward to claim their share of the settlement. The current estimated payout is about $7.70 per person.
    Of course, that number could go up or down before it's all over. If
  • North America's Weather Turns Weird, Wild, and Extreme. Here's Why

    North America's Weather Turns Weird, Wild, and Extreme. Here's Why
    An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
    An outbreak of severe storms, including deadly tornadoes, hail bigger than DVDs and life-threatening flooding, has ravaged the South, coming amid a month of wild weather across North America. Texas is baking beneath heat indexes as high as 120 degrees, the coasts are cool and mostly calm and Canadian wildfire smoke is suffocating much of the northern U.S.
    If it seems the weather has been a little bit "off" since the calendar flippe
  • America's FTC Requests Comments on Cloud Computing. FSF Urges Privacy and Freedom

    America's FTC Requests Comments on Cloud Computing. FSF Urges Privacy and Freedom
    America's Federal Trade Commission is soliciting public comments on the business practices of cloud computing providers, trying to understand security risks and competitive dynamics. (Questions include "To what extent are particular segments of the economy reliant on a small handful of cloud service providers and what are the data security impacts of this reliance?") They've already received dozens of comments (including one from Red Hat).
    But there's also three questions about open-source softw
  • Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports

    Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports
    Reddit "appears to be laying the groundwork for ejecting forum moderators committed to continuing the protests," CNN reported Friday afternoon, "a move that could force open some communities that currently remain closed to the public.
    "In response, some moderators have vowed to put pressure on Reddit's advertisers and investors."As of Friday morning, nearly 5,000 subreddits were still set to private and inaccessible to the public, reflecting a modest decrease from earlier in the week but still i
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  • GPT-4-Generated Pitches Are 3x More Likely To Secure Funding Than Human Ones

    GPT-4-Generated Pitches Are 3x More Likely To Secure Funding Than Human Ones
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Clarify Capital, a small business lender, asked 250 investors and 250 business owners to rate a set of human-created and GPT-4-generated pitch decks without letting the participants know that AI was involved. To make matters more interesting, the human-generated pitches were successful ones that had secured funding in the past. The results showed that GPT-4 pitches were overall more effective than those made by humans. The AI-generated pitches beat
  • Dish Says It Met Its FCC Deadline To Cover 70 Percent of the US Population

    Dish Says It Met Its FCC Deadline To Cover 70 Percent of the US Population
    According to Dish, the company says it now covers 70 percent of the U.S. population and has "also satisfied all other June 14, 2023 FCC commitments." The Verge reports: In meeting this FCC milestone, Dish says it has deployed over 15,000 5G cell sites and would like to remind us that it's still the first wireless provider in the country to launch voice calling over 5G, known as VoNR -- Voice over New Radio. This is all well and good, but Dish's wireless service still doesn't look quite the same
  • Gas Stoves Pollute Homes With Benzene, Which Is Linked To Cancer

    Gas Stoves Pollute Homes With Benzene, Which Is Linked To Cancer
    Researchers at Stanford University found that among the pollutants emitted from gas stoves is benzene, which is linked to cancer. "Levels of benzene can reach higher than those found in secondhand tobacco smoke and the benzene pollution can spread throughout a home," reports NPR. From the report: Stanford scientists measured benzene from gas stoves in 87 California and Colorado homes in 2022 for the paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. They found both natural gas
  • The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips

    The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips
    New submitter ole_timer shares a report from Wired: TikTok to Huawei routers to DJI drones, rising tensions between China and the US have made Americans -- and the US government -- increasingly wary of Chinese-owned technologies. But thanks to the complexity of the hardware supply chain, encryption chips sold by the subsidiary of a company specifically flagged in warnings from the US Department of Commerce for its ties to the Chinese military have found their way into the storage hardware of mil
  • Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop BIOS Password With a Screwdriver

    Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop BIOS Password With a Screwdriver
    Cybersecurity experts at CyberCX have demonstrated a simple method for consistently accessing older BIOS-locked laptops by shorting pins on the EEPROM chip with a screwdriver, enabling full access to the BIOS settings and bypassing the password. Tom's Hardware reports: Before we go further, it is worth pointing out that CyberCX's BIOS password bypass demonstration was done on several Lenovo laptops that it had retired from service. The blog shows that the easily reproducible bypass is viable on
  • M2 Max Is Basically An M1 Ultra, and M2 Ultra Nearly Doubles the Performance

    M2 Max Is Basically An M1 Ultra, and M2 Ultra Nearly Doubles the Performance
    The new Mac Studio started shipping to customers this week, giving product reviewers a chance to test Apple's "most capable chip ever." According to new benchmarks by YouTuber Luke Miani, the M2 Ultra features nearly double the GPU performance of last year's M1 Ultra, with notable performance improvements in other areas. 9to5Mac reports: While the M1 Max and M1 Ultra are blazing fast, the difference between the two wasn't as notable as some expected. In many tasks, the much cheaper M1 Max wasn't
  • Xi Jinping Tells Bill Gates He Welcomes US AI Tech In China

    Xi Jinping Tells Bill Gates He Welcomes US AI Tech In China
    Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates to discuss the global rise of artificial intelligence, expressing his support for U.S. companies bringing their AI technology to China. Reuters reports: Xi also discussed Microsoft's business development in China during their meeting in Beijing, one of the sources said. The comments on AI made at the meeting between Xi and Gates were not disclosed in reports of the meeting published by Chinese state media or in a Friday post by Gates reflecting on
  • iPhone Maker Foxconn To Switch To Cars As US-China Ties Sour

    iPhone Maker Foxconn To Switch To Cars As US-China Ties Sour
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations. In an exclusive interview, chairman and boss Young Liu told the BBC what the future may hold for the Taiwanese firm. He said even as Foxconn shifts some supply chains away from China, electric vehicles (EVs) are what will drive its growth in the coming decades. As US-China tensions soar, Mr Li
  • Microsoft Is No Longer Making New Games For the Xbox One

    Microsoft Is No Longer Making New Games For the Xbox One
    Microsoft says it is no longer making games for the Xbox One but will continue to support ongoing previous-generation titles like Minecraft and Halo Infinite. Engadget reports: "We've moved on to gen 9," Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told Axios, referring to the Xbox Series X/S consoles. The company also makes its games for PC. This move had to happen at some point to avoid newer and more complex games being hamstrung by the hardware limitations of the decade-old Xbox One. Still, it'll be po
  • Daniel Elssberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead At 92

    Daniel Elssberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead At 92
    Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who leaked what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at the age of 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer. The New York Times reports: The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers -- 7,000 government pages of damning revelations about deceptions by successive presidents who exceeded their authority, bypassed Congress and misled the American people -- plunged a nation that was already wounded and divided by the war deeper into angry controversy. It led
  • Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead At 92

    Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead At 92
    Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who leaked what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at the age of 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer. The New York Times reports: The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers -- 7,000 government pages of damning revelations about deceptions by successive presidents who exceeded their authority, bypassed Congress and misled the American people -- plunged a nation that was already wounded and divided by the war deeper into angry controversy. It led
  • Wargraphs, a Gaming Startup With Only One Employee and No Outside Funding, Sells For $54 Million

    Wargraphs, a Gaming Startup With Only One Employee and No Outside Funding, Sells For $54 Million
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Wargraphs, a one-man-band startup behind a popular companion app for League of Legends called Porofessor, which helps players track and improve their playing stats, is getting acquired for up to [$54 million], half up front and half based on meeting certain earnings and growth targets. MOBA Networks, a company founded out of Sweden that buys, grows and runs online gaming communities (MOBA is short for "multiplayer online battle arena"), is buy

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