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• Watch Volunteers Emerge After Living One Year in a Mars Simulation

  06-07-2024 22:58 via science.slashdot.org
  
  They lived 378 days in a "mock Mars habitat" in Houston, reports Engadget. But today the four volunteers for NASA's yearlong simulation will finally emerge from their 1,700-square-foot habitat at the Johnson Space Center that was 3D-printed from materials that could be created with Martian soil.
  And you can watch the "welcome home" ceremony's livestream starting at 5 p.m. EST on NASA TV (also embedded in Engadget's story). More det ails from NASA:For more than a year, the crew simulated Mars mis
  
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• 'Windows Recall' Preview Remains Hackable As Google Develops Similar Feature

  06-07-2024 21:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Windows Recall was "delayed" over concerns that storing unencrypted recordings of users' activity was a security risk.But now Slashdot reader storagedude writes:The latest version of Microsoft's planned Windows Recall feature still contains data privacy and security vulnerabilities, according to a report by the Cyber Express. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont — whose work started the backlash that resulted in Recall getting delayed last month — said the most recent preview version i
  
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• Curricula From Bill Gates-Backed 'Illustrative Math' Required In NYC High Schools

  06-07-2024 21:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  New York City announced a "major citywide initiative" to increase "math achievement" among students, according to the mayor's office.93 middle schools and 420 high schools will implement an "Illustrative Math" curriculum (from an education nonprofit founded in 2011) combined with intensive teacher coaching, starting this fall. "The goal is to ensure that all New York City students develop math skills," according to the NYC Solves web site (with the mayor's office noting "years of stagnant math s
  
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• Is China Building Spy Bases in Cuba?

  06-07-2024 20:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "Images captured from space show the growth of Cuba's electronic eavesdropping stations," reported the Wall Street Journal this week, citing a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.But they added that the stations "are believed to be linked to China," including previously-unreported construction about 70 miles from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. (The Journal had previously reported China and Cuba were "negotiating closer defense
  
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• Investors Pour $27.1 Billion into AI Startups, Defying a Downturn

  06-07-2024 19:34 via slashdot.org
  
  "For two years, many unprofitable tech startups have cut costs, sold themselves or gone out of business," reports the New York Times.
  "But the ones focused on artificial intelligence have been thriving."
  Now, the AI boom that started in late 2022, has become the strongest counterpoint to the broader startup downturn. Investors poured $27.1 billion into AI startups in the United States from April to June, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. startup funding in that period, according to PitchBoo
  
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• GM Will Pay $146M Penalty Because 5.9 Million Older Vehicles Emit Excess CO2

  06-07-2024 18:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the U.S. government, reports the Associated Press, "because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards."
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement Wednesday that certain GM vehicles from the 2012 through 2018 model years did not comply with federal fuel economy requirements. The penalty comes after the Environmental Protection Agency said its testing showed the
  
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• Stolen Campaign Lawn Signs Tracked with Hidden Apple AirTags

  06-07-2024 17:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider:
  It's a political tale as old as time: put up a campaign poster in your yard, and thieves come to snatch it. But according to The Wall Street Journal, those fed up with front lawn looting are embracing a modern solution. Apple's geo-tracking AirTag devices are helping owners find their signs — and sometimes, even the people who stole them.
  The practice has already led to charges. In one example cited by the outlet, Florida politi
  
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• Eclipse Foundation Releases Open-Source Theia IDE - Compatible with VS Code Extensions

  06-07-2024 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "After approximately seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available," writes ADT magazine, "emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor."The Eclipse Theia IDE is part of the Eclipse Cloud DevTools ecosystem. The Eclipse Foundation calls it "a true open-source alternative to VS Code," which was built on open source but includes proprietary elements, such as default telemetry, which collects usage data..
  
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• Cancer Patient Forced To Make Terrible Decision After Ransomware Attack On London Hospitals

  06-07-2024 15:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen. Hanna -- the name she goes by -- is now missing her right breast after her skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction surgery was swa
  
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• ITER Fusion Reactor To See Further Delays, With Operations Pushed To 2034

  06-07-2024 12:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  John Timmer reports via Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced (PDF) that a combination of delays and altered priorities meant that its first-of-its-kind hardware wouldn't see plasma until 2036, with the full-energy deuterium-tritium fusion pushed back to 2039. The latter represents a four-year delay relative to the previous roadmap. While the former is also a delay, it's due in part to changing priorities.ITER is an attempt to build a fusion
  
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• Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane'

  06-07-2024 09:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam shares a report from Phys.Org, with the caption: "It's not sequestration, but it is a closed carbon loop and can store energy from renewable sources to be released when they are not collecting energy." From the report: Carbon in the atmosphere is a major driver of climate change. Now researchers from McGill University have designed a new catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane -- a cleaner source of energy -- using tiny bits of copper called n
  
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• Earth's Core Has Slowed So Much It's Moving Backward, Scientists Confirm

  06-07-2024 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves -- its rotation speed and direction -- has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence suggests the core's spin has changed dramatically in re
  
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• Christie's Likens Microsoft's Work On MS-DOS To Einstein's Work In Physics

  06-07-2024 02:45 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: "If Einstein paved the way for a new era in physics," explains auction house Christie's in a promotion piece for its upcoming offering of 150+ "objects of scientific and historical importance" from the Paul G. Allen Collection (including items from the shuttered Living Computers Museum), "Mr. Allen and his collaborators ushered in a new era of computing. Starting with MS-DOS in 1981, Microsoft then went on to revolutionize personal computing with the launc
  
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• New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency To Spy On Users' Web Activities

  06-07-2024 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov shares a report from The Hacker News: A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity. "SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections," the researchers said in a study released this week. "This bottleneck influences the latency of network packets, allowing an attacker to infer the current
  
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• Nvidia Forecasted To Make $12 Billion Selling GPUs In China

  06-07-2024 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia is expected to earn $12 billion from GPU sales to China in 2024, despite U.S. trade restrictions. Research firm SemiAnalysis says the GPU maker will ship over 1 million units of its new H20 model to the Chinese market, "with each one said to cost between $12,000 and $13,000 apiece," reports The Register. From the report: This figure is said by SemiAnalysis to be nearly double what Huawei is likely to sell of its rival accelerator, the Ascend 910B, as reported by The Financial Times. If ac
  
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• YouTube's Updated Eraser Tool Removes Copyrighted Music Without Impacting Other Audio

  06-07-2024 00:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  YouTube has released an AI-powered eraser tool to help creators easily remove copyrighted music from their videos without affecting other audio such as dialog or sound effects. TechCrunch's Ivan Mehta reports: On its support page, YouTube still warns that, at times, the algorithm might fail to remove just the song. "This edit might not work if the song is hard to remove. If this tool doesn't successfully remove the claim on a video, you can try other editing options, such as muting all sound in
  
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• Popular Pirate Site Animeflix Shuts Down 'Voluntarily'

  06-07-2024 00:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: With dozens of millions of monthly visits, Animeflix positioned itself as one of the most popular anime piracy portals. The site also has an active Discord community of around 35k members, who actively participate in discussions, art competitions, even a chess tournament. While rightsholders take no offense at these side-projects, the site's core business was streaming pirated videos. That hasn't gone unnoticed; last December Animeflix was l
  
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