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• Steam Games Must Fully Disclose Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat On Store Pages

  30-10-2024 23:40 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gaming On Linux: Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages. In the Steamworks Developer post Valve said: "We've heard from more and more developers recently that they're looking for the right way to share anti-cheat information about their game with players. At the same time, players have been requesting more t
  
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• Call of Duty's Massive Filesize Drives Peak Internet Usage

  30-10-2024 23:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Comcast says the latest installment of Call of Duty, released on October 25th, resulted in a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last week. The ISP says it's the company's "biggest weak in internet history." The Verge reports: It's not really possible to quantify that further, given Comcast didn't provide any specific numbers -- either about how many customers were downloading the game or how big their downloads were. Ranging between 84.4GB for the PlayStation version and 102GB for the PC
  
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• Sketchy Financials Send Supermicro Auditors Running For the Hills

  30-10-2024 22:25 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Register's Tobias Mann reports: Supermicro shares took a nose dive on Wednesday, sliding more than 30 percent after the accounting firm hired to review its reporting practices resigned after determining they were just a bit too sketchy to warrant the risk. "We are resigning due to information that has recently come to our attention which has led us to no longer be able to rely on management's and audit committee's representations," Ernst & Young wrote in a resignation letter, which also
  
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• US Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase For War-Fighting Forces

  30-10-2024 21:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: Less than a year after OpenAI quietly signaled it wanted to do business with the Pentagon, a procurement document obtained by The Intercept shows U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, believes access to OpenAI's technology is "essential" for its mission. The September 30 document lays out AFRICOM's rationale for buying cloud computing services directly from Microsoft as part of its $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, rather t
  
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• Sony Shuts Down Studio Behind Concord Less Than Two Years After Buying It

  30-10-2024 20:24 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader writes: Firewalk Studios, whom Sony Interactive Entertainment bought from Probably Monsters, has been shut down after disastrous Concord game launch. Kotaku adds: The team was responsible for Concord, the company's sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after its launch earlier this year. The news comes less than two years after the PlayStation 5 maker first acquired Firewalk Studios as part of its ambitious plans for live service gaming.
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• WordPress Forces User Conf Organizers To Share Social Media Credentials, Arousing Suspicions

  30-10-2024 18:22 via slashdot.org
  
  Simon Sharwood, reporting for The Register: Organisers of WordCamps, community-organized events for WordPress users, have been ordered to take down some social media posts and share their login credentials for social networks. The order to share creds came from an employee of Automattic, the WordPress host whose CEO happens to be Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress.
  A letter sent to WordCamp organizers explains that the creds are needed due to "recurrent issues with new organizing teams losi
  
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• Apple Makes 16GB RAM Standard on MacBook Air

  30-10-2024 17:44 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has boosted the default RAM to 16GB across its MacBook Air lineup while maintaining existing prices. The memory upgrade affects both M2 and M3 models, with base prices staying at $999 for M2, $1,099 for 13-inch M3, and $1,299 for 15-inch M3 versions. The move comes as AI features demand increased memory capacity.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Canada Predicts Hacking From India as Diplomatic Feud Escalates

  30-10-2024 17:05 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Canada is bracing for Indian government-backed hacking as the two nations' diplomatic relationship nosedives to its lowest ebb in a generation. From a report: "We judge that official bilateral relations between Canada and India will very likely drive Indian state-sponsored cyber threat activity against Canada," the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said in its annual threat report published Wednesday, adding that such hackers are probably already conducting cyber-espionage.
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• Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information

  30-10-2024 16:21 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: A disgruntled former Disney employee allegedly repeatedly hacked into a third-party menu creation software used by Walt Disney World's restaurants and changed allergy information on menus to say that foods that had peanuts in them were safe for people with allergies, added profanity to menus, and at one point changed all fonts used on menus to Wingdings, according to a federal criminal complaint.
  The suspect in the case, Michael Scheuer, broke into a propriet
  
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• Dropbox is Laying Off 20% of Its Staff

  30-10-2024 15:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a "transitional period." From a report: In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. The goal, he added, was to make cuts in areas where Dropbox has "over-invested" while designing a "flatter, more efficient" team structure.
  "As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I'm truly sorry to those impac
  
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• Visa, Coinbase Offer Real-Time Crypto Purchases Via Debit Cards

  30-10-2024 15:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Visa customers with eligible debit cards will be able to deposit funds into their Coinbase accounts -- sometimes instantly -- via a partnership announced by the payments giant and crypto exchange. From a report: Coinbase already has millions of connections to customers' debit cards but this new development allows for the real-time flow of funds for customers in the US and European Union, according to the Tuesday statement.
  Eligible Visa debit card holders can now "take advantage of trading oppor
  
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• Fortinet Updates Guidance and Indicators of Compromise following FortiManager Vulnerability Exploitation

  30-10-2024 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Fortinet has updated their security advisory addressing a critical FortiManager vulnerability (CVE-2024-47575) to include additional workarounds and indicators of compromise (IOCs). A remote, unauthenticated cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive files or take control of an affected system. At this time, all patches have been released.
  CISA previously added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of a
  
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• Reddit Is Profitable For the First Time Ever

  30-10-2024 11:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In Reddit's third-quarter earnings results, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, with $348.4 million in revenue -- a 68% increase year over year. The Verge reports: The company hasn't been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history. Since going public, Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the market, but it decreased that loss to $10 million last quarter, and is now finally in the green. Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months,
  
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• Russian Court Fines Google $20 Decillion For Blocking Media Content

  30-10-2024 08:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  A Russian court has fined Google an astronomical sum of around $20 decillion for YouTube's blocking of Russian media channels tied to sanctioned entities. The amount compounds weekly as Google continues to disregard the ruling. The Register reports: To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google might be one of the most valuable businesses on the planet, but even if Sundar Pichai rummages around
  
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• 'Alien' Signal Decoded

  30-10-2024 04:30 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the European Space Agency: White dots arranged in five clusters against a black background (PNG). This is the simulated extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father and a daughter on Earth after a year-long decoding effort. On June 7, 2024, media artist Daniela de Paulis received this simple, retro-looking image depicting five amino acids in her inbox. It was the solution to a cosmic puzzle beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas O
  
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• BBC Interviews Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, Creators of Arpanet

  30-10-2024 01:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The BBC interviewed scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall 55 years after the first communications were made over a system called Arpanet, short for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. "Kline and Duvall were early inventors of networking, networks that would ultimately lead to what is today the Internet," writes longtime Slashdot reader dbialac. "Duvall had basic ideas what might come of the networks, but they had no idea of how much of a phenomenon it would turn into." Here's an ex
  
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• GitHub Copilot Moves Beyond OpenAI Models To Support Claude 3.5, Gemini

  30-10-2024 01:02 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  GitHub Copilot will switch from using exclusively OpenAI's GPT models to a multi-model approach, adding Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro. Ars Technica reports: First, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will roll out to Copilot Chat's web and VS Code interfaces over the next few weeks. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro will come a bit later. Additionally, GitHub will soon add support for a wider range of OpenAI models, including GPT o1-preview and o1-mini, which are intended to be stron
  
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• More Than a Quarter of New Code At Google Is Generated By AI

  30-10-2024 00:20 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Google has integrated AI deeply across its operations, with over 25% of its new code generated by AI. CEO Sundar Pichai announced the milestone during the company's third quarter 2024 earnings call. The Verge reports: AI is helping Google make money as well. Alphabet reported $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter, with Google Services (which includes Search) revenue of $76.5 billion, up 13 percent year-over-year, and Google Cloud (which includes its AI infrastructure products for other compan
  
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