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• What Happens If You Connect Windows XP To the Internet In 2024?

  28-07-2024 23:39 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger writes: Have you ever wondered if it's true you can instantly get malware? In this video, a person connects an XP instance directly to the internet with no firewall to see just how fast it gets compromised by malware, rootkits, malicious services and new user accounts. The answer — fast!
  Malwarebytes eventually finds eight different viruses/Trojan horses -- and a DNS changer. (One IP address leads back to the Russian federation.) Itâ(TM)s fun to w
  
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• Burglars are Jamming Wi-FI Security Cameras

  28-07-2024 22:36 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World:According to a tweet sent out by the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire division (spotted by Tom's Hardware), a small band of burglars is using Wi-Fi jamming devices to nullify wireless security cameras before breaking and entering.The thieves seem to be well above the level of your typical smash-and-grab job. They have lookout teams, they enter through the second story, and they go for small, high-value items like jewelry and designer p
  
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• ChatGPT Has Been Integrated Into a Brain Implant

  28-07-2024 21:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  CNET visits a leading-edge company making an implantable brain-computer-interface that's "experimenting with ChatGPT integration..."We previously covered Synchron's unique approach to implanting its brain-computer-interface (BCI) without the need for open brain surgery. Now the company has integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT into its software, something it says is a world's first for a BCI company...
  Typing out messages word by word with the help of a BCI is still time consuming. The addition of AI is s
  
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• Is Modern Software Development Mostly 'Junky Overhead'?

  28-07-2024 20:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot theodp says this "provocative" blog post by former Google engineer Avery Pennarun — now the CEO/founder of Tailscale — is "a call to take back the Internet from its centralized rent-collecting cloud computing gatekeepers."
  Pennarun writes:
  I read a post recently where someone bragged about using Kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that's 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spe
  
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• Ford's Stock Drops 20% After $1.1 Billion Loss on EV Business

  28-07-2024 19:35 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Ford's stock dropped 20% this week — mostly falling off the cliff Wednesday after failing to meet Wall Street's expectations for its quarterly profits, according to MarketWatch — and notching "another billion-dollar loss on EVs.""The remaking of Ford is not without its growing pains," Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said on a call with investors after the results. "We look forward to proving our EV strategy out. That has become more realistic and sharpened by the tough environment."
  
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• Ford Stocks Drops 20% After $1.1 Billion Loss on EV Business

  28-07-2024 19:35 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Ford's stock dropped 20% this week — mostly falling off the cliff Wednesday after failing to meet Wall Street's expectations for its quarterly profits, according to MarketWatch — and notching "another billion-dollar loss on EVs.""The remaking of Ford is not without its growing pains," Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said on a call with investors after the results. "We look forward to proving our EV strategy out. That has become more realistic and sharpened by the tough environment."
  
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• Are Earth's Forests Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide?

  28-07-2024 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:Earth's land lost much of their ability to absorb the carbon dioxide humans pumped into the air last year, according to a new study that is causing concern among climate scientists that a crucial damper on climate change underwent an unprecedented deterioration. Temperatures in 2023 were so high — and the droughts and wildfires that came with them were so severe — that forests in various parts of the world wilted and bur
  
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• A New HIV Prevention Strategy Sparks Excitement - and Protests Over Cost

  28-07-2024 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "Lenacapavir is not a new drug," reports NPR. "It's been approved by the FDA in the United States for multi-drug resistant HIV treatment since 2022."
  But instead of treating HIV, what if it were used for preventing infections?
  The treatment consists of a twice-yearly injection... Early trial results were released in June and generated great excitement, indicating 100% efficacy. On Wednesday, July 24, the full peer-reviewed results were released at the AIDS 2024 conference, confirming the prelimi
  
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• Apple Makes Its Very First Labor Agreement With a Union

  28-07-2024 16:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Apple and the union representing retail workers at its store in Towson, Maryland, agreed to a tentative labor deal late Friday," reports CNN, "in the first US labor agreement not only for an Apple store but for any US workers of the tech giant."Workers at the Apple store in Towson had voted to join the International Association of Machinists union in June 2022 and have since been seeking their first contract. In May, they voted to authorize a strike without providing a deadline. The labor deal,
  
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• Edward Snowden Skeptical of Politicians at Bitcoin Conference - and Public Ledgers

  28-07-2024 13:34 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  Former U.S. president Donald Trump spoke at Nashville's Bitcoin Conference on Saturday.
  But he wasn't the only one there making headlines, according to a local newspaper called the Tennesseean:Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Tim Scott pledged their resolute support for the cryptocurrency industry at Nashville's Bitcoin2024 conference Friday — moments before whistleblower and political dissident Edward Snowden warned attendees to be wary of politicians trying to win them over. "Cast a v
  
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• What Is the Future of Open Source AI?

  28-07-2024 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Tuesday Meta released Llama 3.1, its largest open-source AI model to date. But just one day Mistral released Large 2, notes this report from TechCrunch, "which it claims to be on par with the latest cutting-edge models from OpenAI and Meta in terms of code generation, mathematics, and reasoning...
  "Though Mistral is one of the newer entrants in the artificial intelligence space, it's quickly shipping AI models on or near the cutting edge."In a press release, Mistral says one of its key focus are
  
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• Comic-Con 2024: New Doctor Who Series, 'Star Trek' Movie, Keanu Reeves, and a Red Hulk

  28-07-2024 06:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  As Comic-Con hits San Diego, "part of the big news in 2024 is that the con won't have a corresponding virtual or online event this year," according to Polygon, "for the first time since 2019."But there's still some big scifi media news, according to CNET's Comic-Con coverage:Disney revealed a new Doctor Who addition to the franchise that will jump back to the 1970s with the Sea Devils, an ancient group of beings who arise from the sea. Made in partnership with the BBC, the series... will air on
  
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• Sharks Near Brazil Test Positive For Cocaine

  28-07-2024 04:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: The BBC are reporting sharks have tested positive for cocaine.
  Thirteen sharpnose sharks which were captured off the coast near Rio de Janeiro. They were tested for the drug in liver and muscle tissue samples — and returned positive results at concentrations as much as 100 times higher than previously reported for other aquatic creatures.
  The research was published in Science of the Total Environment. The little-known "sharpnose" sharks were exa
  
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• LZ4 Compression Algorithm Gets Multi-Threaded Update

  28-07-2024 03:01 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader Seven Spirals brings news about the lossless compression algorithm LZ4:
  The already wonderful performance of the LZ4 compressor just got better with multi-threaded additions to it's codebase. In many cases, LZ4 can compress data faster than it can be written to disk giving this particular compressor some very special applications. The Linux kernel as well as filesystems like ZFS use LZ4 compression extensively. This makes LZ4 more comparable to the Zstd compression algorithm, whi
  
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• Weed Out Job ChatGPT-Written Job Applications By Hiding a Prompt Just For AI

  28-07-2024 01:42 via it.slashdot.org
  
  When reviewing job applications, you'll inevitably have to confront other people's use of AI. But Karine Mellata, the co-founder of cybersecurity/safety tooling startup Intrinsic, shared a unique solution with Business Insider. [Alternate URL here]A couple months ago, my cofounder, Michael, and I noticed that while we were getting some high-quality candidates, we were also receiving a lot of spam applications.
  We realized we needed a way to sift through these, so we added a line into our job des
  
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• Weed Out ChatGPT-Written Job Applications By Hiding a Prompt Just For AI

  28-07-2024 01:42 via it.slashdot.org
  
  When reviewing job applications, you'll inevitably have to confront other people's use of AI. But Karine Mellata, the co-founder of cybersecurity/safety tooling startup Intrinsic, shared a unique solution with Business Insider. [Alternate URL here]A couple months ago, my cofounder, Michael, and I noticed that while we were getting some high-quality candidates, we were also receiving a lot of spam applications.
  We realized we needed a way to sift through these, so we added a line into our job des
  
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