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• The Arc Browser is Now Available for All iOS and Mac Users

  25-07-2023 23:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Following two years of testing, The Browser Company's Arc is graduating from its waitlist phase, launching its version 1.0. Arc, the Mac and iOS browser, aims to redefine online interaction by incorporating tools for note-taking, collaboration, webpage personalisation, among others. The Verge adds: We've covered Arc a lot in recent months, both because it's a good browser and because it's a big new idea about how you use the internet. The Browser Company's ultimate plan is to build "the operatin
  
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• OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool

  25-07-2023 22:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world -- or at least preserve the sanity of professors and teachers -- by detecting whether a piece of content had been created using generative AI tools like its own ChatGPT. Half a year later, that tool is dead, killed because it couldn't do what it was designed to do.
  ChatGPT creator OpenAI quietly unplugged its AI detection tool, AI Classifier, last week because of
  
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• Gulf Stream Could Collapse as Early as 2025, Study Suggests

  25-07-2023 20:03 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts. From a report: Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years owing to global heating and researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021. The new analysis estimates a timescale for the collapse of between 2025 and 2095, with a cent
  
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• Google Street View To Post First New Pictures From Germany in a Decade

  25-07-2023 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google Street View's cameras have returned to Germany more than a decade after a privacy backlash in the country pushed it to stop updating images. From a report: Alphabet's update will start with new photos of the streets and landmarks of the country's 20 largest cities and expand from there, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google voluntarily suspended Street View photography in Germany in 2011, after an outcry from privacy advocates and opposition from regulators.
  "We've been back
  
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• EU Passes Law To Blanket Highways With Fast EV Chargers by End of 2025

  25-07-2023 19:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Council of the EU has adopted new rules intended to make it much easier for EV owners to travel across Europe, while simultaneously helping to reduce the output of harmful greenhouse gases. From a report: The new regulation is set to benefit owners of electric cars and vans in three ways: It reduces range anxiety by expanding the EV charging infrastructure along Europe's main highways, it makes payments "at the pump" easier without requiring an app or subscription, and ensures pricing and av
  
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• Chainalysis Investigations Lead Is 'Unaware' of Scientific Evidence the Surveillance Software Works

  25-07-2023 18:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Chainalysis' head of investigations doesn't seem to have a great understanding of whether her company's flagship software even works. From a report: Elizabeth Bisbee, head of investigations at Chainalysis Government Solutions, testified she was "unaware" of scientific evidence for the accuracy of Chainalysis' Reactor software used by law enforcement, an unreleased transcript of a June 23 hearing shared with CoinDesk shows.
  The fact that Chainalysis' blockchain demystification tools have become s
  
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• Google's Nightmare 'Web Integrity API' Wants a DRM Gatekeeper For the Web

  25-07-2023 16:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google's newest proposed web standard is... DRM? Over the weekend the Internet got wind of this proposal for a "Web Environment Integrity API. " From a report: The explainer is authored by four Googlers, including at least one person on Chrome's "Privacy Sandbox" team, which is responding to the death of tracking cookies by building a user-tracking ad platform right into the browser. The intro to the Web Integrity API starts out: "Users often depend on websites trusting the client environment th
  
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• EU Enacts $48 Billion Chips Act in Bid To Boost Production

  25-07-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The European Union's plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday. From a report: The EU's Chips Act, which was approved by the European Parliament earlier this month, will take effect once it's published in the bloc's Official Journal. The European Commission first proposed the $47.5 billion Chips Act as part of an ambitious goal of producing 20% of the world's semiconductors by 2030. Numerous companies, including Inte
  
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• Driven by AI Boom, TSMC To Invest $2.9 Billion in Advanced Chip Plant in Taiwan

  25-07-2023 15:16 via slashdot.org
  
  Driven by a surge in demand for artificial intelligence, Taiwanese chip maker TSMC plans to invest nearly T$90 billion ($2.87 billion) in an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan, the company said on Tuesday. From a report: "To meet market needs, TSMC is planning to establish an advanced packaging fab in the Tongluo Science Park," the company said in a statement. CEO C.C. Wei said last week that TSMC is unable to fulfil customer demand driven by the AI boom and plans to roughly double i
  
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• New Book about 'The Apple II Age' Celebrates Early Software Developers - and Users

  25-07-2023 12:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  By 1983 there were a whopping 2,000 pieces of software for Apple's pre-Macintosh computer, the Apple II — more than for any other machine in the world. It turns out this left a trail for one historian to understand The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal.
  The new book (by New York University academic Laine Nooney) argues that it was the first purchasers of that software who are the true overlooked pioneers during the seven years before the Macintosh. And (as this reviewer explai
  
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• Lawsuit Says US Environmental Agency Ignores Harm of Biofuel Production

  25-07-2023 11:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader writes: The US biofuel program is probably killing endangered species and harming the environment in a way that negates its benefits, but the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is largely ignoring those problems, a new federal lawsuit charges. The suit alleges the EPA failed to consider impacts on endangered species, as is required by law, when it set new rules that will expand biofuel use nationwide during the next three years, said Brett Hartl, government affairs dire
  
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• There is a 'Gravity Hole' in the Indian Ocean. Scientists Now Think They Know Why

  25-07-2023 09:45 via science.slashdot.org
  
  CNN reports that "There is a 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean — a spot where Earth's gravitational pull is weaker, its mass is lower than normal, and the sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters)."
  This anomaly has puzzled geologists for a long time, but now researchers from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have found what they believe is a credible explanation for its formation: plumes of magma coming from deep inside the planet, much like those that lead to the c
  
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• Binance, Billionaire Zhao To Seek Dismissal of CFTC Lawsuit

  25-07-2023 06:14 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Binance, its founder Changpeng Zhao and the crypto exchange's former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to seek the dismissal of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit. From a report: The response to the CFTC complaint is due July 27 and the defendants intend to submit motions to dismiss, according to a court filing on Monday. They also sought permission to exceed a 15-page limit on supporting briefs, citing the complexity of the case and the number of arguments they anticipate mak
  
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