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• Linux Mint Gets 'Experimental' Wayland Support in December

  29-10-2023 21:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  "The work started on Wayland," the Linux Mint project announced in their monthly newsletter.
  An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux about an upcoming new option in the Ubuntu-based distro:Linux Mint 21.3 [planned for Christmas of 2023] will be the first Linux Mint release to offer a Wayland session, but in an experimental state. The default session will still be the X11 one, but users who want to try Wayland can do so by selecting the "Cinnamon on Wayland" session from the login s
  
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• America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'?

  29-10-2023 20:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post's editorial board looks at America's "net neutrality" debate.
  But first they note that America's communications-regulating FCC has "limited authority to regulate unless broadband is considered a 'common carrier' under the Telecommunications Act of 1996."The FCC under President Barack Obama moved to reclassify broadband so it could regulate broadband companies; the FCC under President Donald Trump reversed the change. Dismayed advocates warned the world that, without the prote
  
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• For the First Time, Scientists Have Fired Up the World's Smallest Particle Accelerators

  29-10-2023 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for the first time," reports Space.com.
  "The tiny technological triumph, which is around the size of a small coin, could open the door to a wide range of applications, including using the teensy particle accelerators inside human patients."
  The new machine, known as a nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA), consists of a small microchip that houses an even smaller vacuum tube made up of thousands of individual "pillars." Re
  
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• Experimental Project Attempts a Python Virtual Shell for Linux

  29-10-2023 18:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader CJSHayward shares "an attempt at Python virtual shell."
  The home-brewed project "mixes your native shell with Python with the goal of letting you use your regular shell but also use Python as effectively a shell scripting language, as an alternative to your shell's built-in scripting language... I invite you to explore and improve it!"
  From the web site:The Python Virtual Shell (pvsh or 'p' on the command line) lets you mix zsh / bash / etc. built-in shell scripting wit
  
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• How Microsoft's AI Investment is Stabilizing Its Cloud Business

  29-10-2023 17:34 via slashdot.org
  
  ZDNet reports an interesting static from Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella. "We have over 1 million paid Copilot users in more than 37,000 organizations that subscribe to Copilot for business, with significant traction outside the United States."And Microsoft's quarterly results also "showed early signs that the company's investments in generative AI were beginning to bolster sales, most notably reversing what had been slowing growth of the company's important cloud computing product," reports the N
  
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• Comcast and Xfinity Lose Customers - Thanks to Cord-Cutters and Competition from Wireless Internet Carriers

  29-10-2023 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Bloomberg reports that Comcast's stock price took its biggest drop in over a year on Thursday, "after reporting drops in broadband and cable subscribers, and predicting more losses to come."Cord-cutting and increasing competition have eroded Comcast's traditional customer base. The company, which owns Xfinity, the NBCUniversal media empire and SkyTV, lost 490,000 cable-TV customers in the third quarter, better than analysts expected but part of an ongoing trend as consumers switch to streaming s
  
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• How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car

  29-10-2023 15:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The SF Standard reports that a San Francisco man whose car was stolen in the middle of the night "managed to track down the vehicle using his car insurance app and retrieve the stolen vehicle the following morning within half an hour of noticing it was gone."Harris realized he could track his phone using his app from MetroMile, a San Francisco-based digital pay-per-mile car insurance company that tracks a car's location and charges a rate based on how much it's driven. "I opened the app and foun
  
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• How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World

  29-10-2023 12:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  To explore America's "transition to a post-quantum world," the Washington Post interviewed U.S. federal official Nick Polk, who is focused on national security issues including quantum computing and is also a senior advisor to a White House federal chief information security officer):The Washington Post: The U.S. is in the early stages of a major shift focused on bolstering government network defenses, pushing federal agencies to adopt a new encryption standard known as post-quantum cryptography
  
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• Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy'

  29-10-2023 08:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The creator economy is probably bigger than you think. The Washington Post reports it's "now a global industry valued at $250 billion, with tens of millions of workers, hundreds of millions of customers and its own trade association and work-credentialing programs."Millions have ditched traditional career paths to work as online creators and content-makers, using their computers and phones to amass followers and build businesses whose influence now rivals the biggest names in entertainment, news
  
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• Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough

  29-10-2023 05:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Bloomberg thinks they've identified the source of the advanced chips in Huawei's newest smartphone, citing to "people familiar with the matter".
  In a suggestion that export restrictions on Europe's most valuable tech company may have come too late to stem China's advances in chipmaking, ASML's so-called immersion deep ultraviolet machines were used in combination with tools from other companies to make the Huawei Technologies Co. chip, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing info
  
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• Are Amazon Warehouse Injuries More Widespread Than Thought?

  29-10-2023 02:34 via slashdot.org
  
  According to Bloomberg the U.S. Labor Department's "OSHA" regulatory agency has "cited Amazon for exposing workers to ergonomic risks at several facilities." But how widespread is the problem?
  29% of America's warehouse workers are working for Amazon, a team of researchers estimates. And "More than two-thirds of Amazon warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported that they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job."
  The new national study, published Wedne
  
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• Cruise Suspends All Driverless Operations Nationwide

  29-10-2023 00:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  GM's autonomous vehicle unit Cruise is now suspending driverless operations all across America.
  The move comes just days after California regulators revoked Cruise's license for driverless vehicles, declaring that Cruise's AVs posed an "an unreasonable risk to public safety" and "are not safe for the public's operation," also arguing that Cruise had misrepresented information related to its safety. And the Associated Press reports that Cruise "is also being investigated by U.S. regulators after
  
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