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• Can Japan's H2-A Rocket Deliver a Precision-Lander to the Moon?

  09-09-2023 22:39 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post reports:
  Japan launched a lunar mission Thursday, overcoming multiple failures and delays to become the fifth country to head to the moon — just weeks after India — in a global race to better understand Earth's closest neighbor... It is scheduled to enter the moon's orbit in three to four months and land early next year.The rocket is carrying two space missions: a new X-ray telescope to help scientists better understand the origins of the universe and a lightweigh
  
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• Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips

  09-09-2023 21:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Huawei's launch last week of the Mate 60 Pro smartphone "shocked industry experts," reports CNN, who didn't understand how Huawei "would have the ability to manufacture such an advanced smartphone following sweeping efforts by the United States to restrict China's access to foreign chip technology."
  And in a related note, CNN adds that South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix "is investigating how two of its memory chips mysteriously ended up inside the Mate 60 Pro, a controversial smartphone launched by
  
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• 'Staggering' Education Inequality Caused During Pandemic by Overreliance on Tech, Says UN Agency

  09-09-2023 20:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A United Nations report "says that overreliance on remote learning technology during the pandemic led to 'staggering' education inequality around the world," reports the New York Times. The 655-page report from the United Nations' education/culture agency UNESCO asks if we've just experienced a worldwide "ed-tech tragedy."
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
  Some of the main findings of the report include:1. The promise of education technology was overstated
  2. Remote online learning worsen
  
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• Is Rotten Tomatoes 'Erratic, Reductive, and Easily Hacked'?

  09-09-2023 19:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Rotten Tomatoes celebrated its 25th year of assigning scores to movies based on their aggregate review. Now Vulture writes that Rotten Tomatoes "can make or break" movies, "with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit". But unfortuately, the site "is also erratic, reductive, and easily hacked."
  Vulture tells the story of a movie-publicity company contacting "obscure, often self-published critics" to say the film's teams "feel like it would benefi
  
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• 'Security Concerns' Caused Three-Day Internet Outage at the University of Michigan Last Week

  09-09-2023 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  On August 30th the University of Michigan announced it had finally restored its internet connectivity and Wi-Fi network, according to the Ann Arbor News, "after several days of outages caused by a 'significant security concern,' officials said." The outage coincided with the first days of the new school year, although "classes continued through the outage."
  The internet was shut down on 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 27, after the Information Assurance team at the university identified a security con
  
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• Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring

  09-09-2023 17:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "On the morning of his arrest, Grigor Sargsyan was still fixing matches. Four cellphones buzzed on his nightstand with calls and messages from around the world.... The information on his devices would provide a remarkable window into what has become the world's most manipulated sport, according to betting regulators. Thousands of texts, gambling receipts and bank transfers laid out Sargsyan's ascent in remarkable detail..."
  That's part one of a two-part story in which more than 181 tennis player
  
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• NASA Admits 'At Current Cost Levels,' Its SLS Program is Unsustainable

  09-09-2023 16:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the senior space editor at Ars Technica:
  In a new report, the federal department charged with analyzing how efficiently U.S. taxpayer dollars are spent, the Government Accountability Office, says NASA lacks transparency on the true costs of its Space Launch System rocket program. Published on Thursday, the new report (see .pdf) examines the billions of dollars spent by NASA on the development of the massive rocket, which made a successful debut launch
  
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• Crypto Trading Volume Slumped To Lowest Level of the Year In August

  09-09-2023 15:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Cryptocurrency trading volume declined in August to the lowest level of the year, another sign of waning investor interest since the collapse of digital asset prices from all-time highs in late 2021. The combined monthly volume of so-called spot and derivatives trading fell 11.5% to $2.09 trillion, and was the second-lowest monthly total since October 2020, according to data compiled by CCData. "The (spot) trading volumes on centralized exchang
  
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• Wyze Security Camera Owners Were Briefly Able To See Feeds From Other Users

  09-09-2023 12:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  A web caching issue resulted in some Wyze security camera owners being able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs. The Verge reports: Earlier on Friday, users on Reddit made posts about the issue. "Went to check on my cameras and they are all gone be replaced with a new one... and this isn't mine!" wrote one user. "Apologies if this is your house / dog... I don't want it showing up as much as you don't want it!" "I am able to click the events tab and see ALL the events on this random person's
  
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• Dennis Austin, the Software Developer of PowerPoint, Dies At 76

  09-09-2023 09:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Dennis Austin, the principal software developer of PowerPoint, passed away from lung cancer on Sept. 1. He was 76. The Washington Post reports: Released in 1987 by Forethought, a small software firm, PowerPoint was the digital successor to overhead projectors, transforming the labor-intensive process of creating slides -- a task typically assigned to design departments or outsourced -- to one where any employee with a computer could point, click and rearrange information with a mouse. "Our users
  
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• Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port At a Time

  09-09-2023 05:30 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Historically, video game preservation efforts usually cover two types of games. The most common are very old or "retro" games from the 16-bit era or earlier, which are trapped on cartridges until they're liberated via downloadable ROMs. The other are games that rely on a live service, like Enter the Matrix's now unplugged servers or whatever games you can only get by downloading them via Nintendo's Wii Shop Channel, which shut down in 2019. But
  
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• Nasdaq Receives SEC Approval For AI-Based Trade Orders

  09-09-2023 04:02 via slashdot.org
  
  The SEC has approved the Nasdaq's request to operate the first exchange AI-driven order type. CoinTelegraph reports: Called the dynamic midpoint extended life order (M-ELO), the new system expands on the M-ELO automated order type by making it "dynamic," meaning it will use artificial intelligence to update and, essentially, recalibrate itself in real-time. Order types are a set of software instructions that execute specific trade pairs at exact market pricing thresholds. This form of automation
  
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• Android 14 Still Doesn't Calculate Device Storage Utilization Correctly

  09-09-2023 03:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  According to Android specialist Mishaal Rahman, Android miscalculates the storage space taken up by system components, leading to inflated system storage utilization and potentially misleading users. Chandraveer Mathur writes via Android Police. From the report: We usually rely on Android's storage utilization utility to find apps and files eating up storage space, so we can uninstall or delete them if required. However, Android specialist Mishaal Rahman discovered that Google's calculation of t
  
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• OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Becomes the First To Get Indonesia's 'Golden Visa'

  09-09-2023 02:45 via slashdot.org
  
  Indonesia has awarded OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman its first "Golden Visa" -- a week after the program was launched to attract foreign investment to Southeast Asia's largest economy. CNBC reports: "There are several categories of golden visas apart from those based on investment/capital investment, one of which is the golden visa which is given to figures who have an international reputation and can provide benefits for Indonesia," Silmy Karim, Indonesia's director general of immigration, s
  
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• Apple Fixes Zero-Day Bugs Used To Plant Pegasus Spyware

  09-09-2023 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Apple released security updates on Thursday that patch two zero-day exploits -- meaning hacking techniques that were unknown at the time Apple found out about them -- used against a member of a civil society organization in Washington, D.C., according to the researchers who found the vulnerabilities. Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group that investigates government malware, published a short blog post explaining that last week they found a
  
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• Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised To Usher In 'Yottabyte Era'

  09-09-2023 01:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Cerabyte, a technology startup pioneering ceramic nanolayer-based storage, claims it will usher in the "Yottabyte Era" and disrupt the $500 billion storage market in the process. Tom's Hardware reports: More specifically, its roadmaps sketch out CeraMemory cartridges (2025-30) storing between 10 PB and 100 PB, and its CeraTape (2030-35) with up to 1 EB capacity per tape. According to the startup, these new formats are poised to address density, performance, and access paradigms, as well as the c
  
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• FTC Judge Decides Intuit's 'Free' TurboTax Ads Did Mislead Consumers

  09-09-2023 00:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The FTC's chief administrative law judge (ALJ) ruled that Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, "deceived consumers" and "engaged in deceptive advertising" by advertising its "Free Edition" tax filing service as free when users ultimately had to pay. The Verge reports: The ruling (PDF) includes several pages of commercials and online ads where Intuit advertised its "Free Edition" software. While the name implies that the service is, well, free, people wound up having to pay to use it -- sparki
  
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• Anthropic Launches Claude Pro, a Subscription AI That May Rival ChatGPT Plus

  09-09-2023 00:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, AI-maker and OpenAI competitor Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a subscription-based version of its Claude.ai web-based AI assistant, which functions similarly to ChatGPT. It's available for $20/month in the US or 18 pounds/month in the UK, and it promises five-times-higher usage limits, priority access to Claude during high-traffic periods, and early access to new features as they emerge. Like ChatGPT, Claude Pro can compose text
  
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