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• California City Tests AI Cameras On Buses for Parking Tickets

  22-07-2023 23:34 via slashdot.org
  
  Los Angeles TV station KTLA reports:
  It's an issue for cities across America: cars parked in bus lanes when they shouldn't be. Now, new AI camera technology is letting the buses themselves write tickets instantly.
  Santa Monica recently tested the technology with their Big Blue Bus Line. Last year, they provided 7.7 million trips, but not all were on schedule due to cars improperly parked or stopped in dedicated bus lanes. "The question becomes how do we and other cities keep vehicles that should
  
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• Norfolk Coast Giant Offshore Windfarm Halted Due To Spiralling Costs

  22-07-2023 22:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader sonlas writes: The government's green energy plans faced a setback as the Norfolk Boreas offshore windfarm project by Vattenfall was halted due to soaring supply chain costs and rising interest rates. Vattenfall's chief executive Anna Borg said: "It's important to understand that our suppliers are being squeezed. They have problems in their supply chain so it's not so easy to mitigate these situations." The 40% increase in expenses was driven by high global gas prices impacting m
  
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• FTX Lobbyist Tried to Buy Pacific Island to Create a New Superspecies, Lawsuit Says

  22-07-2023 21:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:Sam Bankman-Fried's younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows.Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the "event where 50%-99.99% of people die" to protect his philanthropic allies and create a genetically enhanced human species, according to the su
  
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• Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection

  22-07-2023 20:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post's "Tech Friend" newsletter has the latest on Google's "Enhanced Safe Browsing" for Chrome and Gmail, which "monitors the web addresses of sites that you visit and compares them to constantly updated Google databases of suspected scam sites."You'll see a red warning screen if Google believes you're on a website that is, for example, impersonating your bank. You can also check when you're downloading a file to see if Google believes it might be a scam document. In the normal mo
  
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• How Astronomers Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades

  22-07-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In 2018 a doctoral student spotted "a spinning celestial space object," reports CNN. "The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour."
  But that was just the beginning...In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse. Researchers thought the phenomenon might be a remnant of a collapsed star — either a dense neutron star or a dead white dwarf
  
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• Astronomers Just Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades

  22-07-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In 2018 a doctoral student spotted "a spinning celestial space object," reports CNN. "The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour."
  But that was just the beginning...In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse. Researchers thought the phenomenon might be a remnant of a collapsed star — either a dense neutron star or a dead white dwarf
  
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• Many People Don't Actually Like Their Car's Infotainment Systems

  22-07-2023 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "People are getting increasingly fed up with their car infotainment systems," reports the Verge:According to JD Power's Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study, overall satisfaction among car owners is 845 (on a 1,000-point scale), a decrease of two points from a year ago and three points lower than in 2021. That's the first time in the 28-year history of the study that the consumer research firm registered a consecutive year-over-year decline in owner satisfaction...
  Only 56
  
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• Is C++ Gaining in Popularity?

  22-07-2023 17:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares this report from Dice.com:
  C++ is enjoying a surge in popularity, according to the latest update to the TIOBE Index, which tracks programming languages' "buzz."
  C++ currently sits right behind C and Python on TIOBE's list. "A few months ago, the programming C++ language claimed position 3 of the TIOBE index (at the expense of Java). But C++ has not finished its rise. C seems to be its next victim," added the note accompanying the data... ["At the moment, the gap betwee
  
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• Heat Indices Above 105 Degrees for 80 Million Americans This Weekend

  22-07-2023 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Axios:Over 20% of the U.S.' population — 80 million people — are expected to face an air temperature or heat index above 105 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend as a record-breaking heat wave persists over most of the South, the National Weather Service (NWS) warns...
  The extreme temperatures, which have been exacerbated by human-caused climate change, will come after several days of excessive heat and will be an immediate risk to public health
  
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• ChromeOS 115 Rolling Out: Android App Streaming, PDF Signatures

  22-07-2023 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Google is rolling out ChromeOS 115 as a bigger-than-usual update with a number of user-facing additions over the coming days. Amidst I/O 2023, Google announced the beta availability of Android App Streaming from your Pixel (4a+) or Xiaomi (12T, 12T Pro, 13, 13 Pro) phone running Android 13 and newer with Cross-Device Services installed. It's now entering stable with ChromeOS 115 so that you can stream apps from your mobile device to your Chrom
  
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• Structure of Elusive Boron Monoxide Finally Determined After 83 Years

  22-07-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In an effort to discover new 2D materials, a team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory determined the structure of boron monoxide. Phys.Org reports: This compound was first discovered in the 1940s and maintained research interest throughout the years. Scientists were, however, unable to determine the structure of the material due to technological limitations of the time. Using new NMR methods and previously unavailable analytical tools, the team from Ames Lab finally solved the structure
  
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• A Promising Internet Satellite Is Rendered Useless By Power Supply Issues

  22-07-2023 09:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Astranis, a geostationary communications satellite operator, successfully deployed its "Arcturus" satellite from a Falcon Heavy rocket in May to provide internet connectivity from geostationary space. However, the satellite experienced an unexpected issue with a supplier's component on the solar array drive assembly, affecting its ability to maintain continuous power. Ars Technica reports: "The Astranis engineering team has been doing an incredible job working around the clock to troubleshoot th
  
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• There's a Heatwave In the Sea and Scientists Are Worried

  22-07-2023 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The month of June and the first few days of July were hotter than any in recorded history, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Residents in the south of the US and southern Europe have been enduring sweltering temperatures, bringing excessive heat warnings, wildfires and plummeting air quality. However, records are not just being broken on land -- but in the water. Global ocean sea surface temperatures were higher than any p
  
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• Slackware Linux Distribution Turns 30 Years Old

  22-07-2023 03:00 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development. The Register reports: Version 1.0 of Slackware was announced on the July 16, 1993, and project lead Patrick Volkerding, who still maintains the distribution today, celebrated with a modest announcement: "Hey folks! It's time to acknowledge another one of those milestones... 30 (!) years since I made the post linked below announcing Sl
  
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• Telegram Adds Stories For Premium Subscribers

  22-07-2023 02:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Telegram is introducing a new Stories feature that is currently only available for Premium subscribers but will be available to all users eventually. 9to5Mac reports: With Telegram Stories, users are able to share photos and videos that disappear after a while. However, Telegram is trying to do more than its competitors. For instance, users can choose whether a Story will expire after 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Most apps make Stories disappear after 24 hours. Telegram also lets users create lists w
  
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• Cerebras To Enable 'Condor Galaxy' Network of AI Supercomputers

  22-07-2023 01:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Cerebras Systems and G42 have introduced the Condor Galaxy project, a network of nine interconnected supercomputers designed for AI model training with a combined performance of 36 FP16 ExaFLOPs. The first supercomputer, CG-1, located in California, offers 4 ExaFLOPs of FP16 performance and 54 million cores, focusing on Large Language Models and Generative AI without the need for complex distributed programming languages. AnandTech reports: CG-2 and CG-3 will be located in the U.S. and will foll
  
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• No Apologies As Reddit Halfheartedly Tries To Repair Ties With Moderators

  22-07-2023 01:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community that it largely enraged over recent weeks. In a post on Wednesday, a Reddit employee detailed outreach efforts from the company, including new weekly feedback sessions, that it hopes can help repair ties with the social media platform and over 50,000 volunteer mods that it relies on. But as you might expect, mods remain skeptical. A Reddit admin going by Go_JasonWaterfal
  
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• Roblox Data Leak Sees 4,000 Developer Profiles Including Identifying Information Made Public

  22-07-2023 00:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach, leading to the release of personal information including addresses from those who attended the Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020. PCGamer reports: The leak contains almost 4,000 names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and physical addresses. Such identifying information is gold dust for bad actors, and raises serious questions about the data security of one of the largest gaming platforms around. The we
  
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