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• Musk Warns Senators About AI Threat, While Gates Says the Technology Could Target World Hunger

  13-09-2023 23:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other technology heavyweights debated the possibilities and risks of artificial intelligence Wednesday in a closed-door meeting with more than 60 U.S. Senators who are contemplating legislation to regulate the technology. WSJ: Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), warned about what he views as AI's potential to threaten humanity, according to a participant. Microsoft founder Gates said the technology could help address world hunger,
  
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• China's Apple iPhone Ban Appears to Be Retaliation, US Says

  13-09-2023 23:01 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  The White House, weighing in for the first time on concerns about a Chinese backlash against Apple, said it is monitoring reports of a growing government ban of iPhones and believes the move is a reprisal against the US. From a report: "It seems to be of a piece of the kinds of aggressive and inappropriate retaliation to US companies that we've seen from the PRC in the past," said John Kirby, the council's spokesman, referring to the People's Republic of China. Bloomberg News reported this month
  
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• Google Lays Off Hundreds on Recruiting Team

  13-09-2023 21:33 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google is laying off hundreds of people across its global recruiting team as hiring at the tech giant continues to slow. Semafor: The company declined to cite what percentage of its recruiting workforce was impacted, but said that it plans to retain a significant majority. Workers who were laid off began learning their roles had been eliminated earlier today, according to posts on social media. "The volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down," Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said
  
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• Researcher Shows Bodies of Purported 'Non-Human' Beings To Mexican Congress at UFO Hearing

  13-09-2023 19:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A journalist and researcher on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), or UFOs as they're better known, presented the remains of purported "non-human" beings to lawmakers in Mexico on Tuesday during the country's first public congressional hearing on the topic. From a report: Jamie Maussan brought two boxes containing what he said were the small, stuffed bodies of extraterrestrials recovered in Peru in 2017. He said carbon-14 dating carried out by the National Autonomous University of Mexico had
  
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• Top Tech CEOs To Discuss AI in a Meeting With Senators

  13-09-2023 18:40 via slashdot.org
  
  A who's who of tech tycoons will privately huddle with senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a marathon brainstorming session about how lawmakers can regulate artificial intelligence. From a report: The daylong, high-profile gathering, featuring Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sam Altman and other tech figures, has its share of skeptics in both parties. Some senators lamented that the so-called AI Insight Forum is closed to the public and the media. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sa
  
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• Swedish Criminal Gangs Using Fake Spotify Streams To Launder Money

  13-09-2023 18:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Criminal gangs behind a rise in bombings and shootings in Sweden in recent years are using fake Spotify streams to launder money, a Swedish newspaper reported earlier this month. From a report: Criminal networks have for several years been using money from drug deals, robberies, fraud and contract killings to pay for false Spotify streams of songs published by artists with ties to the gangs, an investigative report in Svenska Dagbladet claimed. They then get paid by the platform for the high num
  
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• France Halts iPhone 12 Sales Over Radiation Levels

  13-09-2023 17:21 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  AmiMoJo writes: France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation. On Tuesday, the French watchdog which governs radio frequencies also told the tech giant to fix existing phones. The ANFR has advised Apple that if it cannot resolve the issue via a software update, it must recall every iPhone 12 ever sold in the country. France's digital minister Jean-Noel Barrot told French newspaper Le Parisien the decision was due to radiation levels above
  
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• Sony's New PS5 Update Includes Dolby Atmos and the Ability To Mute the Startup Beep

  13-09-2023 16:40 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Sony is rolling out a big new PS5 update today, just over a month after it first started testing the changes in a beta. From a report: The update adds Dolby Atmos, lets you mute that annoying bootup beep, and even supports pairing a second controller as an assist one to let you help friends or family complete a game. Sony is also expanding its PS Remote Play app to Google's Chromecast with Google TV (4K), allowing you to stream games from a PS5 or PS4 to Android TV OS 12 devices. The Dolby Atmos
  
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• Mozilla Patches Firefox, Thunderbird Against Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks

  13-09-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Mozilla has released emergency security updates to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, impacting its Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. From a report: Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the security flaw is caused by a heap buffer overflow in the WebP code library (libwebp), whose impact spans from crashes to arbitrary code execution. "Opening a malicious WebP image could lead to a heap buffer overflow in the content process. We are aware of this issue being exploi
  
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• Apple is Killing the iPhone's Silent Switch

  13-09-2023 14:30 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  The ring/silent switch has been on the iPhone since the very first one was announced in 2007 by Steve Jobs, but now the writing is on the wall for the device's last significant moving part. From a report: With its replacement by a haptic "action button," it's just a matter of time before the rest of the lineup is as smooth as a pebble from the river. At today's iPhone event, the no doubt long-contemplated change was announced with little fanfare, selling the new button as a customizable shortcut
  
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• CISA Adds Three Known Vulnerabilities to Catalog

  13-09-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
  CVE-2023-35674 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
  CVE-2023-20269 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
  CVE-2023-4863 Google Chrome Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose signi
  
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• China Flags 'Security Incidents' With Apple's iPhones

  13-09-2023 13:30 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  China flagged security problems with iPhones while saying it isn't barring purchases, the government's first comments on the topic after news reports that authorities are moving to restrict the use of Apple products in sensitive departments and state-owned companies. From a report: "We noticed that there have been many media reports about security incidents concerning Apple phones," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, without elabo
  
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• Unity Rushes To Clarify Price Increase Plan, as Game Developers Fume

  13-09-2023 10:30 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Unity, the tech company behind one of the most popular engines for creating video games, is scrambling to clarify how a price increase for its services will work, after its announcement Tuesday morning broadly infuriated the game development community. From a report: The fees, which Unity said are essential for funding development of its tech, left many game makers wondering if having a hit game through Unity would cost them more money than they could make. Developers spoke throughout the day of
  
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• CIA Bribed Its Own COVID-19 Origin Team To Reject Lab-Leak Theory, Anonymous Whistleblower Claims

  13-09-2023 06:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An unnamed CIA whistleblower has made the dramatic allegation that half a dozen analysts there were bribed to reject the theory that COVID-19 resulted from a research-related leak of a new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pandemic. The allegation was strongly rejected in a CIA statement released hours later. Science.org: A majority of U.S. intelligence agencies has so far concluded that the COVID-19 p
  
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• US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds

  13-09-2023 06:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership, research has found. Canada and Russia have the next biggest expansion plans, calculated based on how much carbon dioxide is likely to be produced from new developments, followed by Iran, China and Brazil. The United Arab Emirates, which is to host the annual UN climate summit this year, Cop28 in Dubai in Nov
  
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• Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles Dominate India's Auto Market, EVs Lag

  13-09-2023 03:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  India's road transport minister on Tuesday warned local and foreign automakers to either cut production of polluting diesel vehicles or face higher taxes and levies, setting alarm bells ringing in the world's third-largest car market. From a report: Here are some facts about India's automotive market, the biggest after China and the United States, where players such as Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and foreign giants such as Mercedes and Volkswagen operate. In India, about four million passenger ve
  
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• 'Cryptoqueen' Sidekick Gets 20 Years For $4 Billion Ponzi

  13-09-2023 01:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The cofounder and main promoter of the $4 billion OneCoin pyramid scheme was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in one of the first and biggest criminal frauds involving cryptocurrency. Bloomberg: Karl Sebastian Greenwood, 46, was sentenced in New York Tuesday, after pleading guilty in December to creating and promoting a phony cryptocurrency. Greenwood was the wingman of Ruja Ignatova, the so-called "Cryptoqueen" and most wanted crypto fugitive in the world. US District Judge Edgardo
  
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