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• Intel To Cut 16,000 Jobs To Save Costs

  01-08-2024 23:25 via slashdot.org
  
  Intel has announced plans for a substantial workforce reduction, surpassing initial expectations, as part of a comprehensive strategy to bolster its financial position and streamline operations. The company intends to lay off over 16,000 employees, representing more than 1% of its global workforce, with the majority of these cuts slated for completion by the end of 2024, according to the firm's second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday.
  Concurrent with the workforce reductions, Intel h
  
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• Linux Hits Another Desktop Market Share Record

  01-08-2024 22:50 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  According to Statcounter, Linux use hit another all-time high in July. For July 2024, the statistics website is showing Linux at 4.45%, climbing almost a half a percentage point from June's 4.05% high.Is 2024 truly the year of Linux on the desktop?Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Senators Propose 'Digital Replication Right' For Likeness, Extending 70 Years After Death

  01-08-2024 22:13 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024. The bipartisan legislation, up for consideration in the US Senate, aims to protect individuals from unauthorized AI-generated replicas of their voice or likeness. The NO FAKES Act would create legal recourse for people whose
  
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• Argentina Will Use AI To 'Predict Future Crimes'

  01-08-2024 21:25 via slashdot.org
  
  Argentina's security forces have announced plans to use AI to "predict future crimes" in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens' rights. From a report: The country's far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use "machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes." It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify "wanted persons," patr
  
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• Microsoft Now Lists OpenAI as a Competitor in AI and Search

  01-08-2024 20:53 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long term partnership. As part of the deal, Microsoft runs OpenAI's models across its enterprise and consumer products, and is OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider. However, the tech giant called the startup a "competitor" for the first time in an SEC filing on Tuesday.
  In Microsoft's annual 10K, OpenAI joined long list of competitors in
  
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• Jailed Cybercriminals Returned To Russia in Historic Prisoner Swap

  01-08-2024 20:05 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A blockbuster prisoner exchange between the United States, Russia and Germany on Thursday included at least two prominent cybercriminals held by the U.S. on charges of financially motivated cybercrime and hacking to facilitate insider trading. Cyberscoop reports: The prisoners were part of a deal that freed 16 people from Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. A White House spokesperson confirmed that as part of the deal, the U.S. rele
  
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• Google Defeats RNC Lawsuit Claiming Email Spam Filters Harmed Republican Fundraising

  01-08-2024 19:24 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  A U.S. judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit accusing Alphabet's Google of intentionally misdirecting the political party's email messages to users' spam folders. From a report: U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday dismissed the RNC's lawsuit for a second time, and said the organization would not be allowed to refile it. While expressing some sympathy for the RNC's allegations, he said it had not made an adequate case that Google vi
  
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• FOSSA is Buying StackShare, a Site Used By 1.5 Million Developers

  01-08-2024 18:42 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Open-source compliance and security platform FOSSA has acquired developer community platform StackShare, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. From a report: StackShare is one of the more popular platforms for developers to discuss, track, and share the tools they use to build applications. This encompasses everything from which front-end JavaScript framework to use to which cloud provider to use for specific tasks.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Chrome is Going To Use AI To Help You Compare Products From Across Your Tabs

  01-08-2024 18:06 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google wants to help ease the pain of comparison shopping across multiple tabs in Chrome with a new AI-powered tool that can summarize your tabs into one page. From a report: The tool, which Google is calling "tab compare," will use generative AI to pull product data from tabs you have open and collect it all into one table. Assuming it works and pulls accurate information, the tool seems like it could be a handy way to look at a number of different products in one unified view.
  But while it's p
  
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• AI Startup Suno Says Music Industry Suit Aims to Stifle Competition

  01-08-2024 17:24 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  AI music startup Suno is pushing back against the world's biggest record labels, saying in a court filing that a lawsuit they filed against the company aims to stifle competition. From a report: In a filing Thursday in federal court in Massachusetts, Suno said that while the record labels argue the company infringed on their recorded music copyrights, the lawsuit actually reflects the industry's opposition to competition -- which Suno's AI software represents by making it easy for anyone to make
  
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• Mozilla Follows Google in Losing Trust in Entrust's TLS Certificates

  01-08-2024 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Mozilla is following in Google Chrome's footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority (CA) following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures. From a report: A little over a month ago, Google was the first to make the bold step of dropping Entrust as a CA, saying it noted a "pattern of concerning behaviors" from the company. Entrust has apologized to Google, Mozilla, and the wider web community, outlining its plans to regain the trust of browsers,
  
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• Reddit CEO Says Microsoft and Others Need To Pay To Search the Site

  01-08-2024 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data. From a report: "Without these agreements, we don't have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it's used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven't been willing to come to terms with how we'd like our data to be used or not used," Huffman said in an interview this week. He specifically nam
  
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• Laid-Off California Tech Workers Are Sick To Death of LinkedIn

  01-08-2024 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: Over the past few years, scores of California tech workers have ended up in the exact same position: laid-off, looking for work on LinkedIn and sick of it. LinkedIn, part job site and part social network, has become an all but necessary tool for the office-job-seeking masses in the Bay Area and beyond. As tech companies gut their workforces, people who would otherwise give the blue-and-white site a wide berth feel compelled to scroll for hours eve
  
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• Meta's Reality Labs Posts $4.5 Billion Loss In Second Quarter

  01-08-2024 12:00 via meta.slashdot.org
  
  In the company's second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Meta's Reality Labs unit recorded an operating loss of $4.48 billion. CNBC reports: Since late 2020, the Reality Labs unit has generated cumulative losses of about $50 billion, underscoring CEO Mark Zuckerberg's massive investments into the hardware and software that underpins what he says will be the next era of personal computing. Revenue in Reality Labs, largely derived from the company's Quest family of VR headsets and Ray-Ban Met
  
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• New Study Simulates Gravitational Waves From Failing Warp Drive

  01-08-2024 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of warp drives, which could propel spaceships faster than light by compressing spacetime. A new study published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics simulates the gravitational waves such a drive might emit if it failed, showing potential detectable signals by future high-frequency instruments and advancing our understanding of exotic spacetimes. Phys.Org reports: The results are fascinating. The collapsing warp drive generates a distinct
  
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• Scientists Propose Lunar Biorepository As 'Backup' For Life On Earth

  01-08-2024 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: With thousands of species at risk of extinction, scientists have devised a radical plan: a vault filled with preserved samples of our planet's most important and at-risk creatures located on the moon. An international team of experts says threats from climate change and habitat loss have outpaced our ability to protect species in their natural habitats, necessitating urgent action. A biorepository of preserved cells, and the crucial DNA with
  
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• CrowdStrike Is Sued By Shareholders Over Huge Software Outage

  01-08-2024 03:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Shareholders have sued CrowdStrike on Tuesday, claiming the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the global software outage earlier this month that crashed millions of computers. Reuters reports: In a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night in the Austin, Texas federal court, shareholders said they learned that CrowdStrike's assurances about its technology were materially false and misleading when a flawed software update disrupt
  
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• Taco Bell Is Bringing AI To Hundreds of Drive-Thrus Nationwide

  01-08-2024 02:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Taco Bell's parent company, Yum! Brands, announced today that the fast-food chain will expand its Voice AI technology to "hundreds" of chains around the country by the end of the year. A global expansion of the service will follow. Fortune reports: Right now, more than 100 Taco Bell locations in 13 states rely on AI to take customer orders at the drive-thru. Company officials say that has resulted in improved order accuracy, shorter wait times, and higher profits. Human workers, the company says
  
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• Study Details 'Transformative' Results From LA Guaranteed Basic Income Program

  01-08-2024 01:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The results of Los Angeles' 12-month guaranteed income pilot program show that it was "overwhelmingly beneficial (source may be paywalled; alternative source)," reports the Los Angeles Times. The program, which involved giving L.A.'s poorest families cash assistance of $1,000 a month with no strings attached, significantly improved participants' financial stability, job opportunities, and overall well-being. From the report: The Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot, or
  
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• Bending Spoons Buys File Sharing Service WeTransfer

  01-08-2024 01:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Italian app developer Bending Spoons has bought file-sharing platform WeTransfer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday, as the Milan-based tech company presses ahead with a string of deals for software firms. From a report: The deal, for which financial details were not disclosed, is the fifth acquisition this year by Bending Spoons, which in February raised $155 million through a capital increase, taking the company's valuation to $2.55 billion. [...] The WeTransfer service enab
  
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• Malaysia is Working on an Internet 'Kill Switch'

  01-08-2024 00:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Malaysia plans to introduce an internet "kill switch" law in October, Law Minister Azalina Othman Said has said. The legislation aims to boost digital security by granting authorities power to block online content, though specifics remain unclear. Said emphasized the need for social media and messaging platforms to take greater responsibility for online crimes.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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