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• How the Majority of Strokes Could Be Prevented

  09-11-2024 23:57 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "The majority of strokes could be prevented," reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are "aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that."Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half a million Americans have a stroke every year. But up to 80% of strokes may be preventable with better nutrition, exercise a
  
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• Behind the Scenes at a Minuteman ICBM Test Launch

  09-11-2024 22:57 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Tuesday at California's Vandenberg Space Force base, the U.S. launched a Minuteman III missile, "in an important test of the weapon's ability to strike its targets with multiple warheads," according to Air and Space Forces magazine:
  The Minuteman III missiles that form a critical leg of the U.S. nuclear triad each carry one nuclear-armed reentry vehicle. But the missile that was tested carried three test warheads... The intercontinental ballastic missile (ICBM) test was controlled by an airborne
  
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• Retrocomputing Enthusiast Repairs Mattel's 48-Year-Old Handheld Videogame

  09-11-2024 21:57 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Back in 1976, Mattel Electronics Auto Race became the very first handheld game to use only solid-state electronics, according to Wikipedia. (Its only mechanical elements were its on/off switch and hand-operated controls...) Nearly half a century goes by — until the ancient and broken gizmo reaches long-time Slashdot reader Shayde, who "dove into disassembling the unit and figuring out the problem."Ironically, at one point his voltimeter stopped working, because...its batteries were dead. B
  
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• ChatGPT's Monthly Usage May Now Rival Google Chrome

  09-11-2024 20:57 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends:
  A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â" and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, its figures are rivaling browser market share. It can only be compared to Google Chrome figures in terms of monthly users, which is estimated to be around 3.45 billion.
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• How Samsung Fell Behind in the AI Boom - and Lost $126 Billion in Market Value

  09-11-2024 19:57 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  After missing a chance to capitalize on the AI boom, "Samsung's profit has plunged," reports CNBC, and "around $126 billion has been wiped off its market value, according to data from S&P Capital IQ."
  It's gotten so bad that "an executive issued a rare public apology about the company's recent financial performance."[A]s AI applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT rose in popularity, the underlying infrastructure required to train the huge models they rely on became a bigger focus. Nvidia has e
  
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• Intel Sees a 3888.9% Performance Improvement in the Linux Kernel - From One Line of Code

  09-11-2024 18:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:
  Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...
  Intel thankfully has the resources to maintain this automated service for per-kernel commit/patch testing and has been maintaining their public kernel test robot for years now to help catch performance changes both positive and negative to the Linux kernel code. The commit in question causing this massive uplift
  
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• Are Microbes Increasing Levels of Methane in the Atmosphere?

  09-11-2024 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Though it breaks down faster than CO2, methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide, reports the Washington Post. It suddenly started increasing in the atmosphere in 2007 — and then in 2020, its growth rate doubled.
  While scientists have suspected it was natural gas, some researchers have a new theory...
  "The changes that we saw in the last couple of years — and even since 2007 — are microbial," said Sylvia Michel, lead author of the paper published las
  
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• 20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft'

  09-11-2024 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that "Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project. Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that the name interferes with their trademark since they make an 'internet access device..."
  And then, on November 9 of 2004, the BBC reported that "Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which ha
  
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• Democrats Join 2024's Graveyard of Incumbents

  09-11-2024 14:04 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a post from Financial Times: The economic and geopolitical conditions of the past year or two have created arguably the most hostile environment in history for incumbent parties and politicians across the developed world. From America's Democrats to Britain's Tories, Emmanuel's Macron's Ensemble coalition to Japan's Liberal Democrats, even to Narendra Modi's erstwhile dominant BJP, governing parties and leaders have undergone an unprecedented series of reversals this y
  
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• Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

  09-11-2024 11:03 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock, 404 Media is reporting, citing a law enforcement document it obtained. From the report: The exact reason for the reboots is unclear, but the document authors, who appear to be law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan, hypothesize that Apple may
  
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• Google Rolls Out Its Gemini AI-powered Video Presentation App

  09-11-2024 08:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt. From a report: Some of Vids' key features include letting Gemini auto-insert stock footage for you, generating a script, and making AI voiceovers so you don't have to speak. Google advertises that the tool can help turn customer support articles into videos, make training videos, share company announcements, create meeting recaps, and more. Vids will be available by default for
  
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• Forty-Three Monkeys Escape From US Research Lab

  09-11-2024 04:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Police are on the hunt for 43 monkeys who escaped from a research facility in South Carolina, after a keeper left their pen open. The rhesus macaque fugitives broke out of Alpha Genesis, a company that breeds primates for medical testing and research, and are on the loose in a part of the state known as the Lowcountry.
  Authorities have urged residents to keep their doors and windows securely closed and to report any sightings immediately. The esc
  
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• Matter 1.4 Tries To Set the Smart Home Standard Back On Track

  09-11-2024 02:50 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: It's been two long years since the launch of Matter -- the one smart home standard designed to rule them all -- and there's been a fair amount of disappointment around a sometimes buggy rollout, slow adoption by companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, and frustrating setup experiences. However, the launch of the Matter 1.4 specification this week shows some signs that the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA, the organization beh
  
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• Pirating 'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

  09-11-2024 02:10 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  With the debut of the Pirate Bay TV series in Sweden, international viewers are finding it surprisingly difficult to pirate. TorrentFreak reports: The series premiered at the on-demand platform of the Swedish national broadcaster SVT a few hours ago. International deals haven't been announced, but pirates can generally get access anyway. Soon after the first two episodes of The Pirate Bay series came out, scene release copies started circulating online. As one would expect.The Scene group OLLONB
  
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• Hackers Are Sending Fraudulent Police Data Requests To Tech Giants To Steal People's Private Information

  09-11-2024 01:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit "emergency" data requests. The FBI's public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency data requests, a legal process designed to help police and federal autho
  
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• TSMC Halts Advanced Chip Shipments To Chinese AI Companies

  09-11-2024 00:50 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Starting November 11, TSMC plans to stop supplying 7 nm and smaller chips to Chinese companies working on AI processors and GPUs. "The move is reportedly to ensure it remains compliant with US export restrictions," reports The Register. From the report: This will not affect Chinese customers wanting 7 nm chips from TSMC for other applications such as mobile and communications, according to Nikkei, which said the overall impact on the chipmaker's revenue is likely to be minimal. TrendForce furthe
  
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• New Mac Mini Has Modular Storage, 256GB Model Will Have Faster SSD

  09-11-2024 00:10 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  According to a partial teardown video of Apple's new Mac mini, the new machine features modular storage that can be removed. "As we saw with the Mac Studio, however, replacing the modular storage is complicated," notes MacRumors. The teardown also reveals two 128GB storage chips in the 256GB model, enabling faster SSD speeds comparable to higher-capacity versions. From the report: The criticism surrounding Apple's decision to use a single 256GB chip in some base-model Macs a few years ago primar
  
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