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• AT&T, T-Mobile Prep First RedCap 5G IoT Devices

  14-10-2024 23:50 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  The first 5G Internet of Things (IoT) devices are launching soon. According to Fierce Wireless, T-Mobile plans to launch its first RedCap devices by the end of the year, while AT&T's devices are expected sometime in 2025. From the report: All of this should pave the way for higher performance 5G gadgets to make an impact in the world of IoT. RedCap, which stands for reduced capabilities, was introduced as part of the 3GPP's Release 17 5G standard, which was completed -- or frozen in 3GPP ter
  
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• Adobe Starts Roll-Out of AI Video Tools, Challenging OpenAI and Meta

  14-10-2024 23:10 via meta.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Adobe (ADBE.O), opens new tab on Monday said it has started publicly distributing an AI model that can generate video from text prompts, joining the growing field of companies trying to upend film and television production using generative artificial intelligence. The Firefly Video Model, as the technology is called, will compete with OpenAI's Sora, which was introduced earlier this year, while TikTok owner ByteDance and Meta Platforms have also
  
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• Lots of PCs Are Poised To Fall Off the Windows 10 Update Cliff One Year From Today

  14-10-2024 21:32 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  One year from today, on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop releasing security updates for PCs that are still running Windows 10. From a report: Organizations and individuals will still be able to pay for three more years of updates, with prices that go up steadily each year (Microsoft still hasn't provided pricing for end users, only saying that it will release pricing info "closer to the October 2025 date.") But for most PCs running Windows 10, the end of the line is in sight.Read more of th
  
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• UK Considering Making USB-C the Common Charging Standard, Following the EU

  14-10-2024 20:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Following moves by both the European Union and India to implement USB-C as the default charging port for all consumer devices, the British government has now begun a consultation on whether it should follow suit and implement a common standard for charging, and if this should be USB-C. From a report: The consultation has been started by the Office for Product Safety and Standards which sits within the Department for Business and Trade, and it calls for manufacturers, importers, distributors, and
  
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• Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption

  14-10-2024 19:44 via it.slashdot.org
  
  schwit1 writes: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world's first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a "real and substantial threat" to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers.
  Despite the slow progress in general-purpose quantum computing, which currently poses no threat to modern cryptography, scientists ha
  
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• National Public Data, the Hacked Data Broker That Lost Millions of Social Security Numbers and More, Files For Bankruptcy

  14-10-2024 18:57 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: A Florida data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information in a data breach earlier this year, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company faces a wave of litigation.
  Jericho Pictures, the parent company of the hacked data broker National Public Data, told a Florida bankruptcy court that it was unlikely to be able to repay its debtors or address its anticipated liabilities an
  
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• NASA Launches Europa Clipper To Probe Jupiter's Icy Moon for Signs of Life

  14-10-2024 18:17 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NASA's Europa Clipper mission lifted off successfully on Monday, marking the agency's first mission to Jupiter in over a decade. The $5.2 billion spacecraft aims to investigate whether Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, could harbor conditions suitable for life.
  Europa Clipper, NASA's largest-ever interplanetary craft, weighs 12,500 pounds and boasts solar panels spanning 100 feet. Its nine scientific instruments will study Europa's surface and interior in unprecedented detail. After a 1.8 b
  
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• 'Open Source Royalty and Mad Kings'

  14-10-2024 17:26 via news.slashdot.org
  
  WordPress.org has seized control of WP Engine's Advanced Custom Fields plugin, renaming it "Secure Custom Fields" and removing commercial elements, according to WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. The move, justified by alleged security concerns and linked to ongoing litigation between WP Engine and Automattic, marks an unprecedented forcible takeover in the WordPress ecosystem.
  David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder and chief technology officer of Basecamp-maker 37si
  
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• India Cenbank Chief Warns Against Financial Stability Risks From Growing Use of AI

  14-10-2024 16:54 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The growing use of AI and machine learning in financial services globally can lead to financial stability risks and warrants adequate risk mitigation practices by banks, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India said on Monday. From a report: "The heavy reliance of AI can lead to concentration risks, especially when a small number of technology providers dominate the market," Shaktikanta Das said at an event in New Delhi. This could amplify systemic risks as failures or disruptions in these syst
  
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• Internet Archive Resumes Read-Only Service After Cyberattack

  14-10-2024 16:06 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Internet Archive has resumed operations in a read-only state following a cyberattack that took the digital library offline on October 9, coupled with the theft of 31 million user authentication records. "Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again," said Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive's founder. The website is currently now allowing users to save pages.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• AI Threats 'Complete BS' Says Meta Senior Research, Who Thinks AI is Dumber Than a Cat

  14-10-2024 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Meta senior research Yann LeCun (also a professor at New York University) told the Wall Street Journal that worries about AI threatening humanity are "complete B.S."When a departing OpenAI researcher in May talked up the need to learn how to control ultra-intelligent AI, LeCun pounced. "It seems to me that before 'urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us' we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat," he replied on X. He li
  
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• Solar Power Brought by Volunteers to Hurricane Helene's Disaster Zone

  14-10-2024 09:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Bobby Renfro spent $1,200 to buy a gas-powered electricity generator for a community resource hub he set up in a former church near hurricane-struck Asheville, North Carolina. He's spending thousands more on fuel, reports the Associated Press — though he's just one of many. Right now over 500,000 people are without power in Florida, according to the PowerOutage.us project — with more than 9,000 in Georgia, and over 17,000 in North Carolina"Without it, they can't keep medicines cold o
  
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• Is Google Preparing to Let You Run Linux Apps on Android, Just like ChromeOS?

  14-10-2024 05:59 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  "Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android," reports the blog Android Authority. "The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine.
  "This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for mobile devices, too."
  While there are ways to run some Linux apps on Android devices, all of those methods have some limitations and aren't officially supported by Google. Fortunately, though, Google is finally working on an offi
  
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• Privacy Advocates Urge 23andMe Customers to Delete Their Data. But Can They?

  14-10-2024 03:39 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data" from 23andMe, reports SFGate.
  But can you actually do that?
  23andMe makes it easy to feel like you've protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions of their data to a computer and choose to delete the data attached to their 23andMe profile. An email then arrives with a big pink button: "Permanently Delete All Records." Doing so, it promises, will "terminate your relation
  
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• Were America's Electric Car Subsidies Worth the Money?

  14-10-2024 02:27 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  America's electric vehicle subsidies brought a 2-to-1 return on investment, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. "That includes environmental benefits, but mostly reflects a shift of profits to the United States," reports the New York Times. "Before the climate law, tax credits were mainly used to buy foreign-made cars."
  "What the [subsidy legislation] did was swing the pendulum the other way, and heavily subsidized American carmakers," said Felix Tintelnot, an assoc
  
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• Can the UK Increase Green Energy with 'Zonal Energy Pricing'?

  14-10-2024 01:27 via news.slashdot.org
  
  To avoid overloading local electric grids, Britain's most productive windfarm "is paid to turn off," reports the Guardian — and across the industry these so-called "constraint payments" amount to billions every year.
  "Government officials are hoping to correct the clear inefficiencies in the market by overhauling the market itself."
  Greg Jackson, the founder of Octopus Energy, told the Guardian: "It's grotesque that energy costs are rising again this winter, whilst we literally pay windfar
  
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