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• Amazon Has More Than Half of All Arm Server CPUs in the World

  08-08-2023 23:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs. From a report: This information comes from a report issued by Bernstein Research which estimates that nearly 10 percent of servers across the world contain Arm processors, and 40 percent of those are located in China, as we reported earlier. But that total is beaten by just one company -- Am
  
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• Google's Messages App Will Now Use RCS By Default and Encrypt Group Chats

  08-08-2023 22:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Speaking of SMSes, Google announced today it's making its Messages by Google app more secure with improvements to RCS, or Rich Communication Services -- a protocol aimed at replacing SMS and is more on par with the advanced features found in Apple's iMessage. From a report: The company says it will now make RCS the default for both new and existing Messages app users. In addition, end-to-end encryption for group chats is now fully rolled out to all RCS users. The latter had launched into an open
  
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• Air Pollution Linked To Rise in Antibiotic Resistance That Imperils Human Health

  08-08-2023 22:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Air pollution is helping to drive a rise in antibiotic resistance that poses a significant threat to human health worldwide, a global study suggests. From a report: The analysis, using data from more than 100 countries spanning nearly two decades, indicates that increased air pollution is linked with rising antibiotic resistance across every country and continent. It also suggests the link between the two has strengthened over time, with increases in air pollution levels coinciding with larger r
  
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• Banks Fined $549 Million Over Use of WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps

  08-08-2023 21:24 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Federal regulators continued their crackdown against employees of Wall Street firms using private messaging apps to communicate, with 11 brokerage firms and investment advisers agreeing Tuesday to pay $549 million in fines. From a report: Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Bank of Montreal were hit with the biggest penalties by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Together, the brokerage and investment advisory arms of those four financ
  
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• Nerdcore Is Dead (Long Live Nerdcore)

  08-08-2023 20:15 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  The Original High-C writes: Dear Commander Taco,I hope you are well, as the world is increasingly 'mid', as the kids say. I am the guy whose story you published 17 years ago about a nerd rap compilation. We had a wild ride, as documented in this, um, documentary on Amazon Prime.
  Long after anyone stopped caring, I finally released my first free-as-in-beer album. This song tells the story of the ultimate demise of the scene, and I felt it was a fitting bookend for our first chapter. Maybe 2.0 wil
  
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• Google Fails To End $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit

  08-08-2023 19:35 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A U.S. judge rejected Google's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use. From a report: U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday said she could not find that users consented to letting Google collect information about what they viewed online because the Alphabet unit never explicitly told them it would. David Boies, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the proposed $5 billion class action, called the decision "an
  
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• Nvidia Unveils Faster Chip Aimed at Cementing AI Dominance

  08-08-2023 18:48 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia announced an updated AI processor that gives a jolt to the chip's capacity and speed, seeking to cement the company's dominance in a burgeoning market. From a report: The Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination graphics chip and processor, will get a boost from a new type of memory, Nvidia said Tuesday at the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles. The product relies on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, which is able to access information at a blazing 5 terabytes per second. The Superchip, kno
  
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• Now You Can Block OpenAI's Web Crawler

  08-08-2023 18:01 via it.slashdot.org
  
  OpenAI now lets you block its web crawler from scraping your site to help train GPT models. From a report: OpenAI said website operators can specifically disallow its GPTBot crawler on their site's Robots.txt file or block its IP address. "Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to remove sources that require paywall access, are known to gather personally identifiable information (PII), or have text that violates our policies
  
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• Floods, Fires and Torrential Rains Further Bedevil Europe

  08-08-2023 17:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Floods, fires and heavy rains have landed more blows across Europe this week, with the authorities on the continent scrambling to respond to the extreme weather that has become increasingly common in the past few years. From a report: The most recent events have destroyed large amounts of land, left dozens of people injured, forced thousands to evacuate and, in some cases, caused deaths, and they come on the heels of scorching temperatures that have engulfed much of Southern Europe this summer.
  
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• Disney Creates Task Force To Explore AI and Cut Costs

  08-08-2023 16:44 via slashdot.org
  
  Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry's exploitation of the technology. From a report: Launched earlier this year, before the Hollywood writers' strike, the group is looking to develop AI applications in-house as well as form partnerships with startups, three sources told Reuters. As evidence of its interest, Disney has 11 current job
  
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• Meta is Giving Up on Messenger's SMS Feature

  08-08-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Seven years after updating Messenger to allow it to serve as your default Android text messaging app, the company formerly known as Facebook is quietly abandoning the feature. From a report: According to a support page, the feature will disappear after September 28th. I don't know anyone that uses it, but at least it'll be nice to have one fewer screens to tap through during setup.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Serial Murders Have Dwindled, Thanks To a Cautious Citizenry and Improved Technology

  08-08-2023 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Rex Heuermann, the meticulous architectural consultant who the authorities say murdered three women and buried them on a Long Island beach more than a decade ago, may have been among the last of the dying breed of American serial killers. Even as serial killers came to inhabit a central place in the nation's imagination -- inspiring hit movies, television shows, books, podcasts and more -- their actual number was dwindling dramatically
  
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• Microsoft Releases August 2023 Security Updates

  08-08-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. An attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
  CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s August 2023 Security Update Guide and apply the necessary updates.
  
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• Fortinet Releases Security Update for FortiOS

  08-08-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Fortinet has released a security update to address a vulnerability (CVE-2023-29182) affecting FortiOS. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.
  CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Fortinet security release [FG-IR-23-149] and apply the necessary updates.
  
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• Google Search Asked To Remove One Billion 'Pirate' Links In 9 Months

  08-08-2023 12:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  In a period of less than nine months, Google received requests to remove over a billion links to pirate sites from its search engine. This is a significant increase compared to recent years, but not necessarily a new trend. More than a quarter of all reported links, relating to a single website, were sent by MindGeek, the parent company of PornHub. TorrentFreak reports: Google first started to keep track of these takedown notices at the beginning of the last decade. In the spring of 2012, Google
  
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• Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon Mission Sends New Photos of Lunar Surface

  08-08-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader William Robinson shares a report from the BBC: India's space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show craters on lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer. Chandrayaan-3's lander and rover are due to reach the surface on August 23. If successful, India will be the first country to perform a controlled "soft landing" near the south pole. It w
  
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• Gamma Ray Detection Marks Highest Energy Light From the Sun

  08-08-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: Scientists have discovered that the Sun produces higher energy light than was thought possible. An unusual type of telescope detected gamma rays with energies of over 1 tera electron volt (TeV), at least five times more energetic than previously known. The Sun emits light spanning a wide range of energies, from infrared through visible light and up to ultraviolet. It was previously predicted that the Sun could produce gamma rays -- electromagne
  
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• Three Men Battle the FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold

  08-08-2023 04:02 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Treasure hunters are aiming to prove there were tons of loot in the ground in Pennsylvania -- and that the government took it. WSJ: Dennis Parada points to a weedy spot where he believes the Federal Bureau of Investigation dug up nine tons of Civil War-era gold, worth more than $500 million, and made off with it in the middle of the night. The patch of ground halfway up a mountain in western Pennsylvania lies at the heart of the treasure hunter's quest to recover the trove and prove it was snatc
  
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• Raspberry Pis Found In Abandoned Spin Scooters In Seattle

  08-08-2023 03:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  When Spin ceased operations of its scooter rental service in Seattle, abandoned scooters were found throughout the city, each housing a Raspberry Pi 4B. Tom's Hardware reports: This discovery was recently shared to social media where Pi enthusiasts are simultaneously befuddled and ready to book their tickets to Seattle. Legally speaking, if the scooters are abandoned then snagging one for the Pi inside is fair game but it's currently not clear if Spin has plans to recover their remaining assets.
  
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• Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Is Coming To Mobile Browsers

  08-08-2023 02:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Bing Chat to all mobile browsers as part of the broader changes to stop blocking Bing Chat on third-party browsers. The Verge reports: Bing Chat first launched in February, but it was restricted to Microsoft's own Edge browser. Microsoft started opening up to Chrome and Safari desktop browsers in late July as part of testing for full third-party browser support. "With so many new, useful features now a part of Bing, we're excited to announce you can start exp
  
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• 'Google Maps Has Become an Eyesore'

  08-08-2023 02:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  After growing "increasingly frustrated" with the Google Maps experience, Fast Company's Michael Grothaus has highlighted five main reasons the app has "become a cluttered, frustrating mess" -- and why he finds himself turning to Apple Maps more often. An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an excerpt from the report:ENOUGH WITH THE HOTEL AND BAR PINS:
  Whenever I'm in a major metropolitan area, Google Maps seems to have an obsession with displaying as many hotels, bars, and clubs on the map as it ca
  
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• PayPal Launches Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Boosting Shares

  08-08-2023 01:20 via slashdot.org
  
  PayPal has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers. Reuters reports: PayPal's announcement, which lifted its shares 2.66% on Monday, reflects a show of confidence in the troubled cryptocurrency industry that has over the last 12 months grappled with regulatory headwinds that were exacerbated by a string of high-profile collapses. "PayPal isn't quite as polarizing as Facebook, but it's a high-pr
  
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• Detroit Woman Sues City After Being Falsely Arrested Due To Facial Recognition

  08-08-2023 00:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from NBC News: A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents. Porcha Woodruff, 32, was getting her two children ready for school on the morning of Feb. 16 when six police officers showed up at her doorstep and presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking. Woodruff initial
  
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• Brazil Central Bank Names Its Digital Currency 'DREX,' Scheduled For 2024 Launch

  08-08-2023 00:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Brazil's central bank has named its upcoming digital currency "DREX," which it aims to use to boost financial services. DREX is scheduled to launch next year. Reuters reports: The DREX will use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to settle wholesale interbank transactions, while retail access will be based on tokenized bank deposits. Officials from the central bank previously predicted that the adoption of the Brazilian digital currency would commence by the end of 2024, following the completion
  
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