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• Trading Teams at Crypto Exchange Raise Conflict Questions

  19-06-2023 23:20 via slashdot.org
  
  Crypto.com, the exchange endorsed by Hollywood actor Matt Damon, deploys internal teams to trade tokens for profit, the latest sign of potential conflicts of interest in the digital assets industry. Financial Times: The Singapore-based group, one of the top-10 crypto marketplaces in the world, operates proprietary trading and market making teams, according to five people with direct knowledge of the matter.ÂIn most markets, exchanges match buyers with sellers at the most competitive transp
  
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• Japan To Open Up Apple and Google App Stores To Competition

  19-06-2023 22:40 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  A government panel in Japan drew up a set of regulations aimed at opening up the smartphone app stores of U.S. technology giants Apple and Google to competition. From a report: The two companies dominating the smartphone operating system market will be obliged to allow their users to download apps by using services other than their own app stores. The government hopes that the move will spur competition and lead to app price drops. The smartphone OS market is occupied almost entirely by Apple's
  
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• Scientists Hope Euclid Telescope Will Reveal Mysteries of Dark Matter

  19-06-2023 22:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In just a few weeks, a remarkable European probe will be blasted into space in a bid to explore the dark side of the cosmos. From a report:ÂThe $1bn Euclid mission will investigate the universe's two most baffling components: dark energy and dark matter. The former is the name given to a mysterious force that was shown -- in 1998 -- to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, while the latter is a form of matter thought to pervade the cosmos, provide the universe with 80% of its mass
  
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• Titanic Tourist Submersible Goes Missing With Search Under Way

  19-06-2023 21:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A submersible craft used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean with its crew on board, sparking a major search and rescue operation. From a report: Tour firm OceanGate, which runs $250,000-a-seat expeditions to the wreck, said it was exploring all options to get the crew back safely. It said government agencies and deep sea firms were helping the operation. The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies some 3,800m (12,500ft) beneath the waves. The missing craf
  
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• Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions To Outlook, Cloud Platform, Were Cyberattacks

  19-06-2023 20:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite -- including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps -- and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame.
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• Scientists Conduct First Test of a Wireless Cosmic Ray Navigation System

  19-06-2023 20:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: GPS is now a mainstay of daily life, helping us with navigation, tracking, mapping, and timing across a broad spectrum of applications. But it does have a few shortcomings, most notably not being able to pass through buildings, rocks, or water. That's why Japanese researchers have developed an alternative wireless navigation system that relies on cosmic rays, or muons, instead of radio waves, according to a new paper published in the journal iScience. The tea
  
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• PostgreSQL Reconsiders Its Process-Based Model

  19-06-2023 19:23 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Jonathan Corbet, writing at LWN: In the fast-moving open-source world, programs can come and go quickly; a tool that has many users today can easily be eclipsed by something better next week. Even in this environment, though, some programs endure for a long time. As an example, consider the PostgreSQL database system, which traces its history back to 1986. Making fundamental changes to a large code base with that much history is never an easy task. As fundamental changes go, moving PostgreSQL aw
  
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• EU To Air Ideas on Guarding Prized Technology

  19-06-2023 18:53 via slashdot.org
  
  The European Commission will unveil on Tuesday possible measures, such as screening of outbound investments and export controls, to keep prized EU technology from countries such as China and prevent it being put to military use by rivals. From a report: The European Union executive will present its Economic Security Strategy as a "communication" to EU lawmakers and countries, whose leaders are set to discuss relations with China in Brussels next week. While not a formal legislative proposal, the
  
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• Intel To Spend $33 Billion in Germany in Landmark Expansion

  19-06-2023 18:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Intel will invest more than 30 billion euros ($33 billion) in Germany as part of its expansion push in Europe, the U.S. company said on Monday, marking the biggest investment by a foreign company in Europe's top economy. From a report: The deal to build two leading-edge semiconductor facilities in the eastern city of Magdeburg involves 10 billion euros in German subsidies, a person familiar with the matter said. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said he was grateful to the German government and the state
  
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• Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle

  19-06-2023 17:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland -- one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles. From a report The Fruit Union Suisse is 111 years old. For most of its history, it has had as its symbol a red apple with a white cross -- the Swiss national flag superimposed on one of its most common fruits. But the group, the oldest and largest fruit farmer's organization in Switzerland, worries it might have to change its logo, because Apple,
  
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• Indonesia, SpaceX Launch Satellite To Boost Internet Connectivity

  19-06-2023 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Indonesia and Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX on Monday launched the country's largest telecommunication satellite from the United States, in a $540 million project intended to link up remote corners of the archipelago to the internet. From a report: Roughly two-thirds of Indonesia's 280 million population already use the internet, but connectivity is limited in far-flung, underdeveloped eastern islands of the Southeast Asian country. "Satellite technology will accelerate internet access to vi
  
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• Hackers Threaten To Leak 80GB of Confidential Data Stolen From Reddit

  19-06-2023 16:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand -- and reverses its controversial API price hikes. From a report: In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a February breach of the company's systems. Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini declined to answer TechCrunch's questions but confirmed that BlackCat's claims rela
  
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• Hey Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI?

  19-06-2023 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons," writes the NY Times reports in Hey, Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI?
  Senior Amazon executive Rohit Prasad visited a school in Boston called STEM Academy to observe an Amazon-sponsored AI lesson using Alexa, according to the article, "And he assured the Dearborn students there would soon be milli
  
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• Google is Building a 153-Acre Neighborhood By Its Headquarters

  19-06-2023 09:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In the heart of Silicon Valley, the city of Mountain View, California "just approved its biggest development ever," reports SFGate, "and it's for exactly the company you'd expect."Google got the go-ahead to build a 153-acre mixed-use neighborhood just south of its headquarters in north Mountain View on June 13, with unanimous city council approval.
  Plans for the 30-year project, which will supplant the Google offices and parking lots currently in the area, include over 3 million square feet of o
  
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• Trial Lawyer Went After Crypto Companies. Then Someone Went After Him.

  19-06-2023 06:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Trial lawyer Kyle Roche has led an interesting life, according to the New York Times. He once earned $100 million selling bitcoin. He helped win a case against Craig Wright (who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto) through his law firm Roche Freedman. And Roche also founded a startup that lets people bet on the outcome of (civil) lawsuits, "to make access to justice more affordable."
  But something very bad for his career happened in January of 2022 when two businessmen flew Roche from
  
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• Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet

  19-06-2023 03:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  A new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company found that most Americans would prefer to live "in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media," reports Fast Company, adding "this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and Gen Xers."
  The Wrap summarizes the poll results:77% of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was "plugged in," meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell pho
  
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• 'Plan To Save Downtown San Francisco From Doom Loop Approved by Lawmakers'

  19-06-2023 01:09 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the nonprofit journalism site, the San Francisco Standard:The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved legislation that aims to shore up the city's beleaguered Downtown by filling empty storefronts and expediting the conversion of underused office buildings into housing. The bill is a major component of Mayor London Breed's recovery agenda. Co-sponsored by Board President Aaron Peskin, it amends the city's planning code to expand resident
  
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• How The JWST Could Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets

  19-06-2023 00:09 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Universe Today reports:The best hope for finding life on another world isn't listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it's detecting the chemical signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. This long hoped-for achievement is often thought to be beyond our current observatories, but a new study argues that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could pull it off.
  Most of the exoplanets we've discovered so far have been found by the transit method. This is where a planet passes in fr
  
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