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• Capcom Thinks PC Game Modding Is 'No Different Than Cheating'

  01-11-2023 23:20 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from GamesRadar: For years now, fans have been using mods to alter games in weird and wonderful ways. Some developers are happy to let fans play around with their creations, while others aren't so keen on the idea. Capcom, the company behind many iconic game series, including Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Devil May Cry, is seemingly in the latter camp. This was evidenced in a presentation shared on the Capcom R&D YouTube channel. In the video, the com
  
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• iPhone 17 To Be Assembled In India As Apple Aims To Further Diversify Supply Chain

  01-11-2023 22:40 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will start introductory production on the standard iPhone 17 in India, marking the first time the company begins development of a new iPhone outside of China. MacRumors reports: Apple will opt to assemble the standard iPhone 17 in India because it has a "lower difficulty" design that will minimize risk. Apple has been manufacturing older iPhones and other devices in India since for several years now in an effort to move more of its manufacturing out
  
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• Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters

  01-11-2023 22:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Richard Speed reports via The Register: Asahi Linux, a project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, has reported a combination of bugs in Apple's macOS that could leave users with hardware in a difficult-to-recover state. The issues revolve around how recent versions of macOS handle refresh rates, and MacBook Pro models with ProMotion displays (the 14 and 16-inch versions) are affected. According to the Asahi team, the bugs lurk in the upgrade and boot process and, when combined, can create a co
  
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• New AWS Service Lets Customers Rent Nvidia GPUs For Quick AI Projects

  01-11-2023 21:26 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: More and more companies are running large language models, which require access to GPUs. The most popular of those by far are from Nvidia, making them expensive and often in short supply. Renting a long-term instance from a cloud provider when you only need access to these costly resources for a single job, doesn't necessarily make sense. To help solve that problem, AWS launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML today,
  
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• Air Pollution Raises Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Says Landmark Indian Study

  01-11-2023 20:25 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Inhaling polluted air increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, the first study of its kind in India has found. Research conducted in Delhi and the southern city of Chennai found that inhaling air with high amounts of PM2.5 particles led to high blood sugar levels and increased type 2 diabetes incidence. From a report: When inhaled, PM2.5 particles -- which are 30 times thinner than a strand of hair -- can enter the bloodstream and cause several respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. The study [P
  
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• Mass Lawsuit Against Apple Over iPhone Batteries Can Go Ahead, London Tribunal Rules

  01-11-2023 19:58 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit worth up to $2 billion which accuses the tech giant of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones. From a report: The lawsuit was brought by British consumer champion Justin Gutmann on behalf of around 24 million iPhone users in the United Kingdom. Gutmann is seeking damages from Apple on their behalf of up to 1.6 billion pounds ($1.9 billion) plus interest, with the claim's midpoint range being 853 million pounds. His lawyers a
  
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• Google's 2019 'Code Yellow' Blurred Line Between Search, Ads

  01-11-2023 19:03 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The former head of search at Alphabet's Google told colleagues in February 2019 that his team was "getting too involved with ads for the good of the product and company," according to emails shown at the Justice Department's landmark antitrust trial against the search giant. Google maintains a firewall between its ads and search teams so that its engineers can innovate on Google's search engine, unsullied by the influence of the team whose goal is to maximize
  
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• Microsoft Calls Time on Windows Insider MVP Program

  01-11-2023 18:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has decided to axe the Windows Insider MVP program, which is now scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year. From a report: A Microsoft spokesperson told The Register: "In an effort to consolidate MVP-style programs across Microsoft, we have decided to retire the Windows Insider MVP Program effective December 31, 2023. All our existing Windows Insider MVPs will be nominated to participate in the Microsoft MVP Program which has similar benefits and opportunities to continue net
  
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• HSBC Takes Stab at Using Blockchain To Modernize London's Antiquated Gold Market

  01-11-2023 17:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  One of the world's top bullion banks is bringing blockchain to the antiquated London gold market. From a report: HSBC has launched a platform that uses distributed ledger technology to tokenize ownership of physical gold held in its London vault, Mark Williamson, global head of FX and commodities partnerships and propositions, said in an interview. The new system creates digital tokens that represent gold bars, which can then be traded through the bank's single-dealer platform. [...] What sets H
  
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• A Rare Look at Google's Most Lucrative Search Queries

  01-11-2023 17:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Not all Google searches make Google money. Google often says that it only shows ads on about 20 percent of queries, the ones it calls "commercial queries." This week, during the US v. Google antitrust trial, we got a rare glimpse at a closely guarded secret: which search terms make the most money. The list is only for the week of September 22nd, 2018, and it is the list of top queries ordered by revenue and nothing else. Still, we've never seen anything quite
  
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• US, China and 26 Other Nations Agree To Co-operate Over AI Development

  01-11-2023 16:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Twenty-eight countries including the US, UK and China have agreed to work together to ensure artificial intelligence is used in a "human-centric, trustworthy and responsible" way, in the first global commitment of its kind. From a report: The pledge forms part of a communique signed by major powers including Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia, at the inaugural AI Safety Summit. The two-day event, hosted and convened by British prime minister Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park, started on Wednesday. Calle
  
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• LinkedIn Hits 1 Billion Users, Adds AI Features for Job Seekers

  01-11-2023 15:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  LinkedIn, the business-focused social network owned by Microsoft, on Wednesday said it now has more than 1 billion members and is adding more AI features for paying users. From a report: Crossing the billion-users mark puts LinkedIn -- where members maintain a resume-like profile of their education, work experience and professional skills -- in the top-tier of social media networks that include rivals such as Meta Platforms. About 80% of recent members are signing up from outside of the United S
  
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• WeWork Plans To File For Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

  01-11-2023 15:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the matter, as the SoftBank Group-backed company struggles with a massive debt pile and hefty losses. From the report: Shares of the flexible workspace provider fell 32% in extended trading after the Wall Street Journal first reported the news. They have fallen roughly 96% this year. [...] The company had net long-term debt of $2.9 billion as of June end and more than $13 billion in
  
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• A World Record In Race Walking Is Erased After the Course Was Measured Wrong

  01-11-2023 14:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Peru's Kimberly Garcia set a world record in her gold-medal winning turn at the women's 20 kilometer race walk event at the Pan American Games this weekend. Until she didn't. Once the race was over, organizers determined there was a serious "measuring problem" with the track, making the race times of Garcia, fellow medal winners Glenda Morejon of Ecuador and Peru's Evelyn Inga, and their competitors null and void. The athletes guessed the track had b
  
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• Microsoft Accused of Damaging The Guardian's Reputation With AI-Generated Poll

  01-11-2023 11:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Dan Milmo reports via The Guardian: The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll speculating on the cause of a woman's death next to an article by the news publisher. Microsoft's news aggregation service published the automated poll next to a Guardian story about the death of Lilie James, a 21-year-old water polo coach who was found dead with serious head injuries at a school in Sydney last week.The poll, created by an AI program,
  
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• Raspberry Pi Smart Vertical Farming Takes Veggies To New Heights

  01-11-2023 08:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Tanay Tanay has developed a smart vertical farming system using a Raspberry Pi 4 as the central controller, with features such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support for remote plant monitoring, precise automated watering based on moisture levels, and environmental factor tracking. Tom's Hardware reports: The end result is a Pi-powered system with tons of cool goodies to take your plant care to the next level. Tanay is able to monitor all sorts of environmental factors like how much light is available,
  
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• Anger Can Lead To Better Results When Tackling Tricky Tasks, Study Finds

  01-11-2023 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: They say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But when it comes to tackling a tricky task, researchers have found that getting angry can also be a powerful motivator. The experiments suggest people who are angry perform better on a set of challenging tasks than those who are emotionally neutral. "These findings demonstrate that anger increases effort toward attaining a desired goal, frequently resulting in greater success," said Dr
  
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• Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport

  01-11-2023 02:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromised the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies a place at the front of the dispatch line. The two Russian nationals, Aleksandr Derebenetc and Kirill Shipulin, were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to commit computer intrusions, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. They remain
  
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• Google Registry Launches .ing Domains, Begg.ing For Wordplay

  01-11-2023 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google Registry has added domains ending in ".ing" -- "a situation seem/ing ripe for exceed.ing amounts of wordplay," reports 9to5Google. From the report: Google Registry -- which is different from Google Domains, the service Google is sell.ing off to SquareSpace -- tries to push the boundaries of domain names by launch.ing options like ".dev," ".app," and ".meme" (soon). After first be.ing announced in August, Google Registry is officially open.ing registration of .ing domains through partner c
  
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• YouTube Is Getting Serious About Blocking Ad Blockers

  01-11-2023 00:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Emma Roth reports via The Verge: YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has "launched a global effort" to encourage users to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton says in a statement provided to The Verge. If you run into YouTube's block, you may see a notice that says "video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled." It also includes a prompt to allow ads or try YouTube Pre
  
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• Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption

  01-11-2023 00:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The head of the Russian department responsible for identifying threats to the "stability, security and integrity" of the internet, has revealed the extent of the Kremlin's VPN crackdown. Former FSO officer Sergei Khutortsev, a central figure in Russia's 'sovereign internet' project, confirmed that 167 VPN services are now blocked along with over 200 email services. Russia is also reported as stepping up measures against protocols such as Ope
  
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