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• Leaked Training Shows Doctors In New York's Biggest Hospital System Using AI

  03-11-2024 23:39 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader samleecole shared this report from 404 Media:Northwell Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider, recently launched a large language model tool that it is encouraging doctors and clinicians to use for translation, sensitive patient data, and has suggested it can be used for diagnostic purposes, 404 Media has learned. Northwell Health has more than 85,000 employees. An internal presentation and employee chats obtained by 404 Media shows how healthcare professionals are
  
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• New Study Suggests Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought

  03-11-2024 22:39 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this story from SciTechDaily:New research confirms that subtle temperature differences at the ocean surface, known as the "ocean skin," increase carbon dioxide absorption. This discovery, based on precise measurements, suggests global oceans absorb 7% more CO2 than previously thought, aiding climate understanding and carbon assessments...Until now, global estimates of air-sea CO2 fluxes typically ignore the importance of temperature differences in the nea
  
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• After Silence, NASA's Voyager Finally Phones Home - With a Device Unused Since 1981

  03-11-2024 21:39 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Somewhere off in interstellar space, 15.4 billion miles away from Earth, NASA's 47-year-old Voyager "recently went quiet," reports Mashable.The probe "shut off its main radio transmitter for communicating with mission control..."
  Voyager's problem began on October 16, when flight controllers sent the robotic explorer a somewhat routine command to turn on a heater. Two days later, when NASA expected to receive a response from the spacecraft, the team learned something tripped Voyager's fault prot
  
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• Millions of U.S. Cellphones Could Be Vulnerable to Chinese Government Surveillance

  03-11-2024 20:27 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance, warns a Washington Post columnist, "on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers."They cite six current or former senior U.S. officials, all of whom were briefed about the attack by the U.S. intelligence community.The Chinese hackers, who the United States believes are linked to Beijing's Ministry of State Security, have burrowed inside the private wiretapping and surveillance system that American t
  
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• New 'Open Source AI Definition' Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

  03-11-2024 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader samj — also a long-time Debian developer — tells us there's some opposition to the newly-released Open Source AI definition. He calls it a "fork" that undermines the original Open Source definition (which was originally derived from Debian's Free Software Guidelines, written primarily by Bruce Perens), and points us to a new domain with a petition declaring that instead Open Source shall be defined "solely by the Open Source Definition version 1.9. Any amend
  
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• Invisible, Super Stretchy Nanofibers Discovered In Natural Spider Silk

  03-11-2024 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader yet-another-lobbyist writes: Phys.org has an article on the recent discovery of super stretchy nanofibers in natural spider silk! The thinnest natural spider silk nanofibrils ever seen are only a few molecular layers thin, about 5 nm. They are too thin to be seen even with a very powerful optical microscope. Researchers used atomic force microscopy (AFM) not only to visualize them, but also to probe their stretchiness and strength.Even the original article is available
  
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• Can Heat Pumps Still Save the Planet from Climate Change?

  03-11-2024 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "One technology critical to fighting climate change is lagging," reports the Washington Post, "thanks to a combination of high interest rates, rising costs, misinformation and the cycle of home construction. Adoption of heat pumps, one of the primary ways to cut emissions from buildings, has slowed in the United States and stalled in Europe, endangering the switch to clean energy.
  "Heat pump investment in the United States has dropped by 4 percent in the past two years, even as sales of EVs have
  
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• AI Bug Bounty Program Finds 34 Flaws in Open-Source Tools

  03-11-2024 13:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from SC World:
  Nearly three dozen flaws in open-source AI and machine learning (ML) tools were disclosed Tuesday as part of [AI-security platform] Protect AI's huntr bug bounty program.
  The discoveries include three critical vulnerabilities: two in the Lunary AI developer toolkit [both with a CVSS score of 9.1] and one in a graphical user interface for ChatGPT called Chuanhu Chat. The October vulnerability report also includes 18 high-severity flaws ran
  
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• What's Worse Than Setting Clocks Back an Hour? Permanent Daylight Savings Time

  03-11-2024 08:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "It's that time again," writes USA Today, noting that Sunday morning millions of Americans (along with millions more in Canada, Europe, parts of Australia, and Chile) "will set their clocks back an hour, and many will renew their twice-yearly calls to put an end to the practice altogether..."Experts say the time changes are detrimental to health and safety, but agree that the answer isn't permanent DST. "The medical and scientific communities are unified ... that permanent standard time is bette
  
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• ASWF: the Open Source Foundation Run By the Folks Who Give Out Oscars

  03-11-2024 05:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  This week's Ubuntu Summit 2024 was attended by Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030). He's also a FOSS correspondent for the Register, where he's filed this report:One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software Foundation, introducing his organization in a talk about Open Source Software for Motion Pictures. Morin linked to the Visual Effects Society's VFX/Animation Studio Workstation Linux Report, highlighting the market share pie-chart
  
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• The 'Passive Housing' Trend is Booming

  03-11-2024 02:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post reports that a former Etsy CEO remodeled their home into what's known as a passive house. It's "designed to be as energy efficient as possible, typically with top-notch insulation and a perfect seal that prevents outside air from penetrating the home; air flows in and out through filtration and exhaust systems only."
  Their benefits include protection from pollution and pollen, noise insulation and a stable indoor temperature that minimizes energy needs. That translates to lon
  
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