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• Is AI Dangerous? James Cameron Says 'I Warned You Guys in 1984 and You DIdn't Listen'

  30-07-2023 23:24 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  "Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker James Cameron says he agrees with experts in the AI field that advancements in the technology pose a serious risk to humanity," reports CTV:Many of the so-called godfathers of AI have recently issued warnings about the need to regulate the rapidly advancing technology before it poses a larger threat to humanity. "I absolutely share their concern," Cameron told CTV News Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos in a Canadian exclusive interview... "I warned you
  
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• 68-Year-Old Uses AirTag (and Twitter) to Find the Bike His Airline Lost

  30-07-2023 22:24 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this story from CNN:Barry Sherry was traveling from his home in Virginia to Europe for the cycling trip of a lifetime: a week riding through the Swiss Alps, followed by another in Luxembourg, where his cycling group was riding with two former Tour de France competitors, and then a third week cycling in Finland with friends. It was, he says, to be his last cycling trip to Europe. "I'm 68 — I'm getting old," he says... While his suitcase arrived on the carousel, hi
  
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• Documentary on Hungary's Videogames Behind the Iron Curtain Crowdfunds Expanded Disks

  30-07-2023 21:24 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  A documentary series by Moleman Films reached its 5th episode, a 144-minute film about "the golden age of Hungarian video gaming and the formation of the Hungarian demoscene in the 80s and 90s." You can watch this episode on YouTube (and English subtitles can be selected).From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to U.S. BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity
  
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• Webb Telescope Spots Water (Vapor) in a Nearby Planetary System

  30-07-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "Astronomers have detected water vapor swirling close to a nearby star," reports CNN, "indicating that the planets forming around it might someday be able to support life."The young planetary system, known as PDS 70, is 370 light-years away... Circling it are two known gas giant planets, and researchers recently determined that one of them, PDS 70b, may share its orbit with a third "sibling" planet that is forming there...
  Two different disks of gas and dust — the ingredients necessary to
  
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• US Energy Dept Pledges $100M to Buy Products Derived from Converted Carbon Emissions

  30-07-2023 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  This week America's Department of Energy announced $100 million to support states, local governments, and public utilities "in purchasing products derived from converted carbon emissions."The hope is to jumpstart the creation of a market for "environmentally sustainable alternatives in fuels, chemicals, and building products sourced from captured emissions from industrial and power generation facilities." U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm says it will "help transform harmful pollutan
  
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• How a Screwdriver Slip Caused a Fatal 1946 Atomic Accident

  30-07-2023 17:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: A specially illustrated BBC story created by artist/writer Ben Platts-Mills tells the remarkable story of how a dangerous radioactive apparatus in the Manhattan Project killed a scientist in 1946. "Less than a year after the Trinity atomic bomb test," Platts-Mills writes, "a careless slip with a screwdriver cost Louis Slotin his life. In 1946, Slotin, a nuclear physicist, was poised to leave his job at Los Alamos National Laboratories (formerly the Manhat
  
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• The IBM Mainframe: How It Runs and Why It Survives

  30-07-2023 16:34 via slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader AndrewZX quotes Ars Technica: Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If they're dinosaurs, they're T-Rexes, and desktops and server computers are puny mammals to be trodden underfoot.
  It's estimated that there are 10,000 mainframes in use today. They're used almost exclusively by the largest companies in the world, including
  
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• Could NIST Delays Push Post-Quantum Security Products Into the Next Decade?

  30-07-2023 13:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader storagedude writes: A quantum computer capable of breaking public-key encryption is likely years away. Unfortunately, so are products that support post-quantum cryptography. That's the conclusion of an eSecurity Planet article by Henry Newman. With the second round of NIST's post-quantum algorithm evaluations — announced last week — expected to take "several years" and the FIPS product validation process backed up, Newman notes that it will be some time before product
  
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• Libreboot Creator Says After Coding a Fork for 'GNU Boot Project', FSF Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Its Name

  30-07-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Libreboot is a distribution of coreboot "aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers," according to Wikipedia. It was briefly part of the GNU project, until maintainer Leah Rowe and the GNU project agreed to part ways in 2017.
  But here in 2023, the GNU project has created a fork of Libreboot named GNU Boot... The GNU Boot fork "currently does not have a website and does not have any releases of its own," points out Libreboot's Leah Rowe, adding "My intent is to h
  
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• AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Zen 2 Ryzen, EPYC CPUs

  30-07-2023 06:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Monday a researcher with Google Information Security posted about a new vulnerability he independently found in AMD's Zen 2 processors. Tom's Hardware reports:
  The 'Zenbleed' vulnerability spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and the Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs, allowing the theft of protected information from the CPU, such as encryption keys and user logins. The attack does not require physical access to the computer or server and can even be executed
  
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• Reddit Users Heckle Search for New Mods, as Some Mods Move to Lemmy and Discord

  30-07-2023 03:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "Over the past week, a Reddit employee has posted to subreddits with ousted mods, asking for new volunteers," reports Ars Technica.
  But it's not always going smoothly...A Reddit employee going by ModCodeofConduct (Reddit has refused to disclose the real names of admins representing the company on the platform) has posted to numerous subreddits over recent days, including r/IRLEasterEggs, r/donthelpjustfilm, r/ActLikeYouBelong, r/malefashionadvice, and r/AccidentalRenaissance... Like most officia
  
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• America Will Convert Land from Its Nuclear Weapons Program into Clean Energy Projects

  30-07-2023 00:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Friday Ameria's Department of Energy announced plans to re-purpose some of the land it owns — "portions of which were previously used in the nation's nuclear weapons program" — for generating clean energy. They'll be leasing them out for "utility-scale clean energy projects" in an initiative called "Cleanup to Clean Energy."The agency has identified 70,000 acres for potential development, in New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, Idaho, and Washington:"We are going to transform the land
  
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