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• Pentium 5 - a Rare Look Into the CPU That Could Have Been But Never Was

  07-10-2023 23:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader alaskana writes: In late 2022 it was revealed that early samples of what was to be the "Pentium 5" processor, codenamed Tejas and Jayhawk were in development and made it as far as being released to board partners for evaluation. A few of these samples made it (of course) onto Ebay and then — not surprisingly — into the hands of a YouTuber. To be fair, tech site Anandtech arguably got the first scoop on this P4 successor way back in 2004, but that story seemi
  
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• Florida Man Could Get 10 Years For Shooting Down a Police Drone

  07-10-2023 22:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared
  this report from the Associated Press:A man accused of shooting down a law enforcement drone being used at a business near his Florida home could be sentenced to 10 years in federal prison...Lake County sheriff's deputies responded to a burglary at a 10-acre industrial property in July 2021 in Mount Dora, northwest of Orlando, according to a plea agreement. As deputies used a $29,000 drone in the outdoor search, gunfire from a neighboring residential property caused it
  
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• Zoom is Launching Its Own AI-Powered Google Docs Competitor

  07-10-2023 21:34 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Gizmodo:Zoom is setting out to compete with Google and Microsoft by introducing Zoom Docs at its annual Zoomtopia 2023 event on Tuesday. Zoom Docs is the company's own version of an AI-powered workspace that will provide users with AI capabilities to draft, edit, summarize, and include information from meeting discussions.
  The company said in a press release that its new feature will be integrated into the meetings feature, and says it will make it "ea
  
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• For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips

  07-10-2023 20:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Since 2004 October has been designated "Cybersecurity Awareness Month" in America, "a collaborative effort between government and industry to enhance cybersecurity awareness, encourage actions by the public to reduce online risk and generate discussion on cyber threats on a national and global scale."
  That's according to America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (or CISA), the operational lead for federal cybersecurity and national coordinator for critical infrastructure securit
  
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• Australian Scientists Use 'Age of Empires' To Simulate Ant Warfare

  07-10-2023 19:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader TranquilVoid writes: To better understand the battles between native and invasive ants, scientists at Australia's national science agency have turned to Microsoft's classic computer game to model ant warfare.Across Australia, 50 different species of invasive ants have established themselves, including electric ants, fire ants and yellow crazy ants, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent attempting to eradicate them."Ants are one of the few groups of animal species in which wa
  
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• MIT Creates an Implantable Device That Produces Insulin

  07-10-2023 18:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An announcement from MIT News:One promising approach to treating Type 1 diabetes is implanting pancreatic islet cells that can produce insulin when needed, which can free patients from giving themselves frequent insulin injections. However, one major obstacle to this approach is that once the cells are implanted, they eventually run out of oxygen and stop producing insulin.
  To overcome that hurdle, MIT engineers have designed a new implantable device that not only carries hundreds of thousands o
  
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• Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology

  07-10-2023 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:In a new front in the U.S.-China tech war, President Joe Biden's administration is facing pressure from some lawmakers to restrict American companies from working on a freely available chip technology widely used in China — a move that could upend how the global technology industry collaborates across borders...
  RISC-V can be used as a key ingredient for anything from a smartphone chip to advanced processors for artificial intelligence...
  
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• Freak Accident in San Francisco Traps Pedestrian Under Robotaxi

  07-10-2023 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  In downtown San Francisco two vehicles were stopped at a red light on Monday night, reports the Washington Post — a regular car and a Cruise robotaxi.
  Both vehicles advanced when the light turned green, according to witness accounts and video recorded by the Cruise vehicle's internal cameras and reviewed by The Post. As the cars moved forward, the pedestrian entered the traffic lanes in front of them, according to the video, and was struck by the regular car. The video shows the victim rol
  
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• Android Devices With Backdoored Firmware Found In US Schools

  07-10-2023 15:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Tens of thousands of Android devices have been shipped to end-users with backdoored firmware, according to a warning from cybersecurity vendor Human Security. As part of the global cybercriminal operation called BadBox (PDF), Human Security found a threat actor relied on supply chain compromise to infect the firmware of more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablet devices with the Triada malware. The infected devices come from
  
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• Scientists Discover the Highest Energy Gamma-Rays Ever From a Pulsar

  07-10-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called a pulsar. Phys.Org reports: The energy of these gamma rays clocked in at 20 tera-electronvolts, or about 10 trillion times the energy of visible light. This observation is hard to reconcile with the theory of the production of such pulsed gamma rays, as the international team reports in the journal Nature Astronomy. [...] The Vela pulsar, located in the Southern sky in th
  
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• The Ozone Hole Above Antarctica Has Grown To Three Times the Size of Brazil

  07-10-2023 09:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the ozone hole above Antarctica reached approximately 10 million square miles in area on Sept. 16, 2023 -- making it one of the largest seasonal holes ever observed. Space.com reports: One possible reason for the higher-than-normal growth is the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption in January 2022, which introduced massive quantities of water vapor into the air. "The water vapor could have led to the heightened formation of polar stratospheric clouds, where
  
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• Fluorescent Mammals Are Much More Common Than You'd Think

  07-10-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: Recently, several mammals have been reported to "glow" under ultraviolet (UV) light, including our beloved platypus. But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now. Our research, published in Royal Society Open Science today, found this glow -- known as fluorescence -- is extremely common. Almost every mammal we studied showed some form of fluorescence. [...] We started with the platypus to see if we could replicate the previo
  
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• US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report

  07-10-2023 04:02 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Tom Perkins writes via The Guardian: Almost half of a federal government panel that helps develop US nutritional guidelines has significant ties to big agriculture, ultra-processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and other corporate organizations with a significant stake in the process's outcome. The revelation is part of a new report from US Right to Know, a government transparency group that looked for ties to corporate interests among the 20-member panel of food and nutrition experts
  
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• Lenovo To Offer Android PCs, Starting With an All-In-One That Can Pack a Core i9

  07-10-2023 03:25 via slashdot.org
  
  Simon Sharwood writes via The Register: The Chinese manufacturer that took over IBM's PC business announced on Thursday that it's teamed with an outfit named Esper that specializes in custom cuts of Android, plus device management offerings. Android is most commonly used in handheld devices. Lenovo's taking it in an entirely different direction by making the ThinkCentre M70a: a desktop all-in-one.The first fruit of the collaboration with Esper, the ThinkCentre M70a boasts a 21 -- inch touch scre
  
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• 23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users

  07-10-2023 02:45 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Jonathan Greig writes via The Record: Genetic testing giant 23andMe confirmed that a data scraping incident resulted in hackers gaining access to sensitive user information and selling it on the dark web. The information of nearly 7 million 23andMe users was offered for sale on a cybercriminal forum this week. The information included origin estimation, phenotype, health information, photos, identification data and more. 23andMe processes saliva samples submitted by customers to determine their
  
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• Man Jailed In UK's First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged By AI Chatbot

  07-10-2023 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A man who admitted attempting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow after discussing his plan with an AI-powered chatbot has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for treason. It's the UK's first treason conviction in more than 40 years. Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time of his arrest on Christmas Day, 2021, scaled the walls of Windsor Castle's grounds with a mask and a loaded high-power crossbow. He said his intent was, a
  
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• All Slack Employees Forced To Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications

  07-10-2023 01:20 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Kylie Robison writes via Fortune: Beginning on Monday, Slack employees will be expected to set aside their regular work duties and to instead plug away at various modules on Salesforce's Trailhead online learning platform, Fortune has learned. The goal is for Slack's employees to reach Trailhead's Ranger level, a feat that requires roughly 40 hours on the learning platform, whose modules include topics like "Learn about the Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Healthy Eating." A large percent of S
  
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• NSA Shares Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

  07-10-2023 00:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  The National Security Agency (NSA), in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), have highlighted the ten most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large organizations. In their join cybersecurity advisory (CSA), they also detail the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) actors use to exploit these misconfigurations. From the report: Through NSA and CISA Red and Blue team assessments, as well as through the activities of NSA and CISA Hunt and Inciden
  
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• Getty Images Built a 'Socially Responsible' AI Tool That Rewards Artists

  07-10-2023 00:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told the Verge that he has found a solution to one of AI's biggest copyright problems: creators suing because AI models were trained on their original works without consent or compensation. To prove it's possible for AI makers to respect artists' copyrights, Getty built an AI tool using only licensed data that's designed to reward creators more and more as the tool becomes more popular over time. "I think a worl
  
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