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• Singapore Approves 2,600-Mile Undersea Cable to Import Solar Energy from Australia

  26-10-2024 23:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "The world's largest renewable energy and transmission project has received key approval from government officials," reports New Atlas.
  Solar power from Australia will be carried 2,672 miles (4,300 kilometers) to Singapore over undersea cables in what's being called "the Australia-Asia Power Link project." Reuters reports that SunCable "aims to produce 6 gigawatts of electricity at a vast solar farm in Northern Australia and ship about a third of that to Singapore via undersea cable."
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• Researchers Discover Flaws In Five End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Services

  26-10-2024 22:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  SC World reports:
  Several major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage services contain cryptographic flaws that could lead to loss of confidentiality, file tampering, file injection and more, researchers from ETH Zurich said in a paper published this month.
  The five cloud services studied offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE), intended to ensure files can not be read or edited by anyone other than the uploader, meaning not even the cloud storage provider can access the files. However, ETH Zurich resea
  
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• Researchers Discover Flaws In 5 End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Services

  26-10-2024 22:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  SC World reports:
  Several major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage services contain cryptographic flaws that could lead to loss of confidentiality, file tampering, file injection and more, researchers from ETH Zurich said in a paper published this month.
  The five cloud services studied offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE), intended to ensure files can not be read or edited by anyone other than the uploader, meaning not even the cloud storage provider can access the files. However, ETH Zurich resea
  
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• NASA Astronaut in Good Health After Experiencing 'Medical Issue' After SpaceX Splashdown

  26-10-2024 21:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "After safely splashing down on Earth as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission Friday, a NASA astronaut experienced a medical issue," NASA reported Friday.
  But today there's an update:After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with other crew members.
  As part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission
  
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• Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones At Abortion Clinics

  26-10-2024 20:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader samleecole writes: Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant. An investigation into tracking tool Locate X shows in the starkest terms yet how it and others — based on smartphone location data sold to various U.S. government law enforcement agencies, including state entities &
  
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• Researchers Develop New Lithium Extraction Method With 'Nearly Double the Performance'

  26-10-2024 19:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  PV Magazine reports:Researchers in Australia and China have developed an innovative technology enabling direct lithium extraction from difficult-to-process sources like saltwater, which they say represents a substantial portion of the world's lithium potential.
  Until now, up to 75% of the world's lithium-rich saltwater sources have remained untapped because of technical limitations, but given predictions that global lithium supply could fall short of demand as early as 2025, the researchers beli
  
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• Egyptian Blogger/Developer Still Held in Prison 28 Days After His Release Date

  26-10-2024 18:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  In 2004 Alaa Abd El Fattah answered questions from Slashdot's readers about organizing the first-ever Linux installfest in Egypt.
  In 2014 he was arrested for organizing poltical protests without requesting authorization, according to Wikipedia, and then released on bail — but then sentenced to five years in prison upon retrial. He was released in late March of 2019, but then re-arrested again in September by the National Security Agency, convicted of "spreading fake news" and jailed for fi
  
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• DTrace for Linux Comes to Gentoo

  26-10-2024 17:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  It was originally created back in 2005 by Sun Microsystems for its proprietary Solaris Unix systems, "for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time," explains Wikipedia. "DTrace can be used to get a global overview of a running system, such as the amount of memory, CPU time, filesystem and network resources used by the active processes," explains its Wikipedia entry.
  But this week, Gentoo announced:
  The real, mythical DTrace comes to Gentoo! Need to dynam
  
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• Password Manager Bitwarden Makes Changes to Address Concerns Over Open Source Licensing

  26-10-2024 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bitwarden describes itself as an "open source password manager for business." But it also made a change its build requirement which led to an issue on the project's GitHub page titled "Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software."
  In the week that followed Bitwarden's official account on X.com promised a fix was coming. "It seems a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it. Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model in place
  
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• Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over Software Update That Prompted Mass Flight Disruptions

  26-10-2024 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Delta Air Lines on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in a Georgia state court after a global outage in July caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3 million customers and cost the carrier more than $500 million. Delta's lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from CrowdStrike "catastrophic" and said the firm "forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more t
  
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• NASA Is Developing a Mars Helicopter That Could Land Itself From Orbit

  26-10-2024 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes writes: NASA is working on plans to send another, much larger helicopter to Mars than Ingenuity. The "Chopper" craft would land itself after "screaming into" the planet's atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometers a day while carrying scientific equipment. It would probably be the most graceful arrival on the red planet of any lander yet.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Boeing Explores Sale of Space Business

  26-10-2024 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  According to the Wall Street Journal, Boeing is weighing the sale of its space division. "The plans, which are reportedly at an early stage, could involve Boeing offloading the Starliner spacecraft and its projects supporting the International Space Station," reports The Verge. From the report: Boeing is facing a series of predicaments, including a fraud charge over 737 Max plane crashes and Starliner issues that left two astronauts at the ISS for months. Just this week, a Boeing-made satellite
  
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• Apple Will Pay Security Researchers Up To $1 Million To Hack Its Private AI Cloud

  26-10-2024 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ahead of the debut of Apple's private AI cloud next week, dubbed Private Cloud Compute, the technology giant says it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of its private AI cloud. In a post on Apple's security blog, the company said it would pay up to the maximum $1 million bounty to anyone who reports exploits capable of remotely running malicious code on its Private Cloud Comp
  
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• Graphene-Based Memristors Inch Towards Practical Production

  26-10-2024 03:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: Memristors are the long-sought 4th fundamental circuit element. They promise analog computing capability in hardware, the ability to hold state without power, and to work with less power. A small cluster of them can replace a transistor using less space. Working and long term storage can blend together and neural networks can be implemented in hardware -- they are a game-changing innovation. Now, researchers are getting closer to putting these into prod
  
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• Jury Rules Masimo Smartwatches Infringe Apple Design Patents; Apple Wins $250 In Damages

  26-10-2024 02:45 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple was handed a victory today by a jury in Delware, which ruled that two of Masimo's smartwatches and chargers "willfully violated Apple's patent rights in smartwatch designs," according to Reuters. The reward? $250 in damages. 9to5Mac reports: Apple previously accused Masimo of using litigation to boost the launch of its own smartwatch product. In October 2022, Apple filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Masimo. The first lawsuit accused Masimo of copying the Apple Watch design. The
  
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• Former Nvidia Engineer Discovers 41-Million-Digit Prime

  26-10-2024 02:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Former Nvidia engineer Luke Durant, working with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), recently discovered the largest known prime number: (2^136,279,841)-1 or M136279841 (where the number following the letter M represents the exponent). The achievement was detailed on Mersenne.org. Tom's Hardware reports: This is the largest prime number we've seen so far, with the last one, M82589933, being discovered six years prior. What makes this discovery particularly fascinating is that this
  
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• JetBrains Offers Free Use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs

  26-10-2024 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from InfoWorld: Select developers now are getting free access to JetBrains' WebStorm and Rider IDEs. The company on October 24 announced it has launched non-commercial licenses for its WebStorm JavaScript and TypeScript IDE and the Rider cross-platform .NET and game development IDE. As of now, developers using these IDEs for non-commercial purposes, such as open source project development or content creation, can use them for free. JetBrains views the move as
  
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• The Company Behind Arc Is Now Building a Second, Much Simpler Browser

  26-10-2024 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Browser Company is developing a new, much simpler browser distinct from Arc, which has proven too complex for mainstream adoption despite a strong following among power users. The Verge's David Pierce reports: Arc is not dying, [says CEO Josh Miller]. He says that over and over, in fact, even after I tell him the YouTube video the company just released sounds like the thing companies say right before they kill a product. It's just that Arc won't change much anymore. It'll get stability updat
  
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• US Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemption For Ice Cream Machines

  26-10-2024 00:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption allowing independent repair of soft-serve machines, addressing the persistent issue of restricted repairs on McDonald's frequently malfunctioning machines. ExtremeTech reports: Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it illegal to bypass a digital lock protecting copyrighted work. That can be the DRM on a video file you download from iTunes, the carrier locks that prevent you from using a phone on other networks, or even the software running a McDona
  
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