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• Intel CEO Dismisses 'Pretty Insignificant' Arm PC Challenge

  27-10-2023 23:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has downplayed the threat of rival chipmakers creating processors based on the Arm architecture for PCs. From a report: "Arm and Windows client alternatives, generally they've been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business," he told analysts during the x86 giant's Q3 earnings call Thursday. "We take all our competition seriously, but I think history is our guide here. We don't see these as potentially being all that significant overall," he added, a senti
  
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• Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit

  27-10-2023 22:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Efforts to curb emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas commonly produced as a by-product of refrigerant manufacture might be falling short, and it seems eastern China is a major culprit. Nature: The hydrofluorocarbon gas, HFC-23, is around 14,700 times as powerful as carbon dioxide at warming the globe and has long been the subject of national and international climate-change mitigation efforts. Those efforts gained new traction nearly a decade ago when China and India -- the world's largest pro
  
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• Citi Charts Path For Thousands of Coders To Experiment With AI

  27-10-2023 22:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Citigroup is planning to grant the majority of its over 40,000 coders access to generative artificial intelligence as Wall Street continues to embrace the burgeoning technology. From a report: As part of a small pilot program, the Wall Street giant has quietly allowed about 250 of its developers to experiment with generative AI, the technology popularized by ChatGPT. Now, it's planning to expand that program to the majority of its coders next year. The bank and its rivals have slowly begun exper
  
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• Russia Renamed Its Ambitious Satellite Program After Putin Misspoke Its Name

  27-10-2023 21:20 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: It was always abundantly clear that the leader of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos from 2018 to 2022, Dmitry Rogozin, sought to kowtow to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now we have an anecdote from Putin himself that highlights how much. The story concerns a satellite constellation now known as Sfera (or Sphere, in English), a modestly ambitious constellation of 264 satellites. The Sphere constellation is intended to provide broadband Internet servi
  
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• Windows 11 Now Lets You Write Anywhere You Can Type

  27-10-2023 20:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is starting to roll out new changes to Windows Ink that let you write anywhere you can type in Windows 11. After months of previewing the changes, the handwriting-to-text conversion now works inside search boxes and other elements of Windows 11 where you'd normally type your input. [...] If you have a Surface device with a stylus or any other Windows tablet that supports Windows Ink then you'll immediately see this new feature if you head into Setti
  
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• Google Paid a Whopping $26.3 Billion in 2021 To Be Default Search Engine Everywhere

  27-10-2023 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The US v. Google antitrust trial is about many things, but more than anything, it's about the power of defaults. Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot. Google obviously agrees and has paid a staggering amount to make sure it is the default: testimony in the trial revealed that Google spent a total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms. From a report
  
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• Gene-Editing Trial on Three Individuals for HIV Cure Yields Uncertain Result

  27-10-2023 19:20 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Antonio Regaladoarchive, reporting for MIT Technology Review: The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to change the genes of human babies, to modify animals, and to treat people with sickle-cell disease. Now scientists are attempting a new trick: using CRISPR to permanently cure people of HIV. In a remarkable experiment, a biotechnology company called Excision BioTherapeutics says it added the gene-editing tool to the bodies of three people living with HIV and commanded it to cut, and d
  
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• Internet Access in Gaza is Collapsing as ISPs Fall Offline

  27-10-2023 18:41 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  As the conflict between Israel and Hamas reaches its third week, internet connectivity in Gaza is getting worse. From a report: On Thursday, internet monitoring firm NetBlocks wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the Palestinian internet service provider NetStream "has collapsed days after the operator notified subscribers that service would end due to a severe shortage of fuel supplies." According to Doug Madory, an expert who for years has worked at various companies that monitor networks across
  
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• United Nations Creates Advisory Body To Address AI Governance

  27-10-2023 18:00 via slashdot.org
  
  The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the creation of a 39-member advisory body to address issues in the international governance of artificial intelligence. From a report: Members include tech company executives, government officials from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and academics from countries such as the U.S., Russia and Japan. Sony Chief Technology Officer Hiroaki Kitano, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and Microsoft Chief Responsible AI Officer Natasha Crampton are among the
  
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• The Restaurant Nearest Google

  27-10-2023 17:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me -- businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work? From a report: Thai Food Near Me isn't the first business to think of the Google-first naming convention. There are reminders of Google's kingmaker status in online discoverability everywhere in cities across the country. Among the businesses I was able to find: a chain of half a dozen Affordable Dentist Near Me's in Texas; an A
  
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• PIRG Petitions Microsoft To Extend the Life of Windows 10

  27-10-2023 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has delivered a petition to Microsoft calling on the company to rethink the impending abandonment of Windows 10 in the face of millions of PCs potentially being rendered eligible for landfill overnight. From a report: There are now less than two years until Microsoft is due to cut support for Windows 10, and at current estimates, 400 million PCs can't make the jump to Windows 11. The petition, addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, criticizes its plan
  
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• Ticketmaster's Still Hiding Ticket Fees, Senator Says

  27-10-2023 16:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, promised to scrap the hidden fees plaguing its ticketing service earlier this year. But one senator says the company's not doing nearly enough. From a report: In a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Wednesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on the company to turn on an "all-in" pricing filter that it added this year by default. Klobuchar said it's "still too difficult" for users to turn on the filter that's "buried within a tab that gives
  
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• Record Labels Shut Down FileWarez, Brazil's Oldest Pirate Forum

  27-10-2023 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: As far as we know, Brazil-based file-sharing forum FileWarez.com first appeared in August 2004, its domain name having been registered the previous month. The default language was naturally Portuguese and according to this image from the Wayback Machine, potential members needed a basic grip of the language to sign up. After all, Google Translate wouldn't exist for another two years. At some point in the years that followed, FileWarez shifte
  
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• CISA Updates Guidance for Addressing Cisco IOS XE Web UI Vulnerabilities With Additional Releases

  27-10-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA updated its guidance addressing two vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, affecting Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System (IOS) XE Software Web User Interface (UI).
  The guidance now notes that Cisco has fixed these vulnerabilities for the 17.6 Cisco IOS XE software release train with the 17.6.6a update. According to Cisco's Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Feature, fixes are still to be determined for the following Cis
  
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• CISA Announces Launch of Logging Made Easy

  27-10-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA announces the launch of a new version of Logging Made Easy (LME), a straightforward log management solution for Windows-based devices that can be downloaded and self-installed for free. CISA’s version reimagines technology developed by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), making it available to a wider audience.
  Log management makes systems more secure. Until now, it has been a heavy lift for many targeted organizations, especially those w
  
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• Around 20 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Balance Out the Harms of Sitting, Study Finds

  27-10-2023 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds that about 22 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity may combat the negative effects of prolonged sitting. Furthermore, they researchers found that as a person's activity level increases, the risk of dying prematurely from any cause goes down. NBC News reports: In the study, researchers looked at information from nearly 12,000 people ages 50 and older in four datasets from Norway, Sweden and the United States. In those
  
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• Pigeons Problem-Solve Similarly To Artificial Intelligence, Research Shows

  27-10-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  According to a new study published in iScience, the way pigeons problem-solve matches artificial intelligence. The Guardian reports: In the study, 24 pigeons were given a variety of visual tasks, some of which they learned to categorize in a matter of days, and others in a matter of weeks. The researchers found evidence that the mechanism that pigeons used to make correct choices is similar to the method that AI models use to make the right predictions. "Pigeon behavior suggests that nature has
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried Testifies, Says He 'Skimmed Over' FTX Terms of Service

  27-10-2023 05:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in his criminal trial today in an attempt to avoid decades in prison for alleged fraud at cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its affiliate Alameda Research. [...] Some of the alleged fraud relates to how Alameda borrowed money from FTX. In testimony today, "Bankman-Fried said he believed that under FTX's terms of service, sister firm Alameda was allowed in many circumstances to borrow funds from the exchange," t
  
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• Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash

  27-10-2023 04:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "Illegal dumping is way too common, and often leads to no consequences," writes Slashdot reader Tony Isaac. "In some urban neighborhoods, people dump entire truckloads of waste in ditches along the streets. Maybe authorities have found a way to make a dent in this problem." Houston Chronicle reports: The Texas Game Wardens were recently able to track down and arrest a litterbug allegedly behind an illegal dumping of over 200 pounds of construction materials using a barcode left at the scene of t
  
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• iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise

  27-10-2023 03:25 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Dan Goodin reports via Ars Technica: Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised. Despite promises that this never-changing address would be hidden and replaced with a private one that was unique to each SSID, Apple devices have continued to display the real one, which in turn got broadcast to every other connected device on
  
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• Meta's Threads App Has 'Just Under' 100 Million Monthly Active Users, Says Zuckerberg

  27-10-2023 02:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "Threads is officially a success," writes long-time Slashdot reader destinyland. 9to5Mac reports: During Meta's quarterly earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an update on the Threads, saying that the service has "just under" 100 million monthly active users. When Threads launched in July, the app quickly rocketed to having 100 million users within just a few days. While that growth is believed to have slowed down, as expected when something takes off so quickly, Zuckerberg says the
  
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• T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All

  27-10-2023 02:02 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: T-Mobile caused a bit of a stir earlier this month when a leak revealed it planned to move people from older, cheaper plans to pricier ones starting with their November bill cycle. On Wednesday, the carrier officially walked back the changes with CEO Mike Sievert confirming that they would not happen. "We tend to do tests and pilots of things quite a bit to try to figure out what's the right answer," Sievert said on a company earnings call, in respo
  
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• Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law

  27-10-2023 01:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "Privacy advocate Alexander Hanff has filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) challenging YouTube's use of JavaScript code to detect the presence of ad blocking extensions in the browsers of website visitors," writes long-time Slashdot reader Dotnaught. "He claims that under Europe's ePrivacy Directive, YouTube needs to ask permission to run its detection script because it's not technically necessary. If the DPC agrees, it would be a major win for user privacy." The Reg
  
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• Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service

  27-10-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google Fiber plans to upgrade some users to 20Gbps service by the end of the year. Ars Technica reports: Google's Wednesday blog post calls this part of a "GFiber Labs" experiment and says the service "will initially be available as an early access offering to a small group of GFiber customers in select areas." The 20Gbps service is made possible by new networking gear: Nokia's 25G PON (passive optical network) technology, which lets Internet service providers push more bandwidth over existing f
  
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• Humanity At Risk From AI 'Race To the Bottom,' Says MIT Tech Expert

  27-10-2023 00:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Max Tegmark, a professor of physics and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the world was "witnessing a race to the bottom that must be stopped." Tegmark organized an open letter published in April, signed by thousands of tech industry figures including Elon Musk and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, that called for a six-month hiatus on giant AI experiments. "We're witnessing a race to the bottom that must be
  
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