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• Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack

  17-09-2023 23:18 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "Chaos and Concern in Sin City," read this morning's headline on a video report from ABC News about "the massive cyberattack in Las Vegas crippling several hotels and casinos, and putting a damper on getaways for thousands of tourists there.""Today marks a week since that cyberattack hit Las Vegas, and MGM hotels and casinos are still working on getting systems back up and running.. The online reservation site for MGM is still down, ATMs not working, and those playing the slot machines or even v
  
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• Lithium in Extinct US Volcano - More Smoke Than Fire?

  17-09-2023 22:08 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  On August 30th a scientific paper discussed lithium in an extinct volcano in the western United States. But would it also increase supplies of a crucial battery-making ingredient?
  "The mining industry is seldom that simple," argues Bloomberg's Energy Digest newsletter:The discovery of new deposits — be it the giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea or diamonds in Canada's Northwest Territories — rarely turns an industry on its head, and certainly not quickly. For lithium, that's likel
  
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• Amid Unity Pricing Controversy, Is Epic Games Eying 'Unreal Engine' Integration for Apple's Vision Pro?

  17-09-2023 20:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The VR blog Nifty Sparks made an interesting discovery:
  In a strategic move that could reshape the gaming industry, Epic Games, the creator of the widely-used Unreal Engine, is reportedly considering native integration with Apple's forthcoming Vision Pro.
  The mixed-reality headset, slated for a 2024 release, could greatly benefit from this integration, but the timing of this development is particularly noteworthy, as it comes amidst ongoing legal disputes between Apple and Epic Games and a recen
  
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• 'Public Resource' Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use

  17-09-2023 19:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  From an EFF announcement this week:
  Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
  The judge ruled that posting the materials constituted fair use — so the nonprofit group doing the posting won't be liable for copyright infringement. The American Bar Association Journal reports:The decision is a victory f
  
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• What Happens When You Cross a Gas Turbine With an Internal Combustion Engine?

  17-09-2023 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "Here is another radical replacement for the traditional combustion engine," writes long-time Slashdot reader Inzkeeper. "Check out the Astron Aerospace H2 Starfire Omega 1... an ICE engine with a turbine configuration."
  The company "is claiming that it is a viable alternative to EVs," reports TopSpeed:Astron have showcased a 3D rendering of their engine which helps to understand this extremely complicated new powerplant in all of its glory. They also showed a functioning prototype which gives u
  
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• WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon

  17-09-2023 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Ma
  
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• US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments

  17-09-2023 16:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Thursday America's Energy Department released an interactive map showing America's clean energy investments, "for tracking the industrial revitalization happening across the country, fostered by a clean energy transition..."
  The map aims to show how both the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act "are leading to announcements of historic levels of private sector investments in the United States," which the head of Ame
  
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• Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Resource for a Retired Windows User?

  17-09-2023 13:34 via ask.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader Leading Edge Boomer wants to help "a retired friend whose personal computing has always been with Windows."
  But recently, they were gifted a laptop that's running "some version of Linux..."Probably he's not even aware that there are different distributions for different purposes. He seems open to learning about this different world. What recommendations might Slashdot readers have to bring him up to speed as a competent Linux user? I really don't want to hold his hand, and he's s
  
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• Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System

  17-09-2023 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In late August the blog of Harvard professor Avi Loeb declared he had "Wonderful news! For the first time in history, scientists analyzed materials from a meter-size object that originated from outside the solar system."
  In July Loeb retrieved parts of a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014. A local New York newscast describes the find as "metallic marbles, less than a millimeter in diameter," while Loeb called them "beautiful spheres that were colored — blue,
  
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• Munich Students Smashed the World Record For EV Distance On a Single Charge

  17-09-2023 05:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  At 103 miles/kWh (or 0.6 kWh/100 km), the new "muc22" car built by students from the Technical University of Munich "is 25 times more efficient than any EV on sale..." writes Ars Technica. "For those who think in terms of miles per gallon, it's the equivalent of traveling 3,815 miles on a single gallon of gas.
  The car has a top speed of just 26 mph (42 km/h) — and without a driver it weighs just 374 lbs (170 kg):In a six-day test at Munich airport, it set a new distance record on a single
  
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• China's Spy Balloon Program Appears to Have Been Suspended, US Officials Say

  17-09-2023 03:24 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country's high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN. US officials believe that Chinese leaders have made a deliberate decision not to launch additional balloons since the one over the US was shot down by American fighter jets in Feb
  
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• 'Linux Mint Debian Edition' Begins Public Beta Testing

  17-09-2023 00:24 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  This week saw the public beta-testing release of "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Besides listing download locations, its release notes also list out the project's three goals:- Ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience
  - See how much work would be involved if Ubuntu was ever to disappear.- Guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.9to5Linux reports:
  Based on the Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" operating system series, Linux Mint Debian Ed
  
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