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• Does Google Plan to Create Email Aliases for Apps to Fight Spam?

  16-11-2024 23:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google appears to be working on an email-forwarding alias system, according to the blog Android Authority, giving users a new way to "shield" their main email address.
  The site performed a teardown on the newest Google Play Services' APK looking for work-in-progress code , and spotted "a whole boatload of strings referencing and in support of something called 'Shielded Email'."
  Just from that text, we're able to infer quite a lot about what we're looking at here, and it appears that Shielded Ema
  
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• Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Partnership Announced between America and Ukraine

  16-11-2024 22:16 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Kyiv Independent:
  The United States will partner with Ukraine to transition Ukraine's coal-fired plants to small modular nuclear reactors, and to use them to help decarbonize its steel industry, the countries announced on November 16 at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan...
  The partnership will build a roadmap and provide technical support to "rebuild, modernize, and decarbonize Ukraine's steel industry with small modular reacto
  
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• Threads Grew By a Bluesky This Month, Now Has Over 275 Million Users

  16-11-2024 21:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge:Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger.
  In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten "more than 15 million signups in November alone," seemingly trying to throw some cold water over Bluesky crossing 15 million users total on Wednesday.
  Mosseri also reiterated that the platform has been getting more than a million signups per day — a sta
  
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• ISS Astronauts are Safe. But NASA and Russia Disagree on How to Fix Leak

  16-11-2024 20:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "NASA has emphasized the ISS crew is in no immediate danger," reports Space.com. "The leaking area in the Russian segment of the orbital complex has been ongoing for five years," and "there was a temporary increase in the leak rate that was patched earlier this year..."
  Former astronaut Bob Cabana emphasized that troubleshooting is ongoing during a brief livestreamed meeting on Wednesday. But NASA and Roscosmos "don't have a common understanding of what the likely root causes or the severity of
  
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• 'Automotive Grade Linux' Will Promote Open Source Program Offices for Automakers

  16-11-2024 19:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project developing "an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard" for fast development of new features. Automakers have joined with tech companies and suppliers to speed up development (and adoption) of "a fully open software stack for the connected car" — hosted at the Linux Foundation, and "with Linux at its core..."And this week they created a new Open Source Program Office expert group, led by
  
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• Does Casio's New Calculator Watch Take You Back To 6th Grade Math Class?

  16-11-2024 18:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader jjslash brings word that Casio "has reintroduced its iconic calculator watch featuring a retro design with green text on a negative LCD and a classic keypad layout."
  TechSpot reports that the watch was based on the Casio Mini personal calculator first released in the early 1970s — even offering a keypad using the original fonts (with numbers separated by grid lines):
  Even the mode button, colored red, is a nod to the calculator's power indicator. The watches' calculator fun
  
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• AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models

  16-11-2024 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they write in a blog post at Mozilla.org. "This means not only releasing our models but also being open about every aspect, from the training data to the training code. We define 'open' strictly: all data must be both accessible and under permissive licenses."
  Wednesday PleIAs announced they were releasing the largest open multilingual pretraining dataset, according to their blog post at HuggingFace:Many have claimed that
  
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• Five-Year Prison Sentence for Man who Stole 120,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016

  16-11-2024 16:34 via slashdot.org
  
  More than 120,000 bitcoin were stolen in a 2016 breach of Bitfinex. Seven years later the perpetrator pleaded guilty.
  And Thursday he was sentenced to a five-year prison term, reports the Associated Press:Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, carried out an elaborate scheme to liquidate the stolen funds, according to federal prosecutors... "Over half a decade, the defendant engaged in what I
  
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• Samples Obtained By Chinese Spacecraft Show Moon's Ancient Volcanism

  16-11-2024 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  China's Chang'e-6 mission made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the moon's far side, revealing evidence of volcanic activity spanning 1.4 billion years. Reuters reports: Researchers said on Friday the soil brought back from the Chang'e-6 landing site contained fragments of volcanic rock - basalt - dating to 4.2 billion years ago and to 2.8 billion years ago. This points to a long period of volcanic activity - at least 1.4 billion years - on the far side during the first half
  
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• Is NASA's Moon Rocket Getting Canceled?

  16-11-2024 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "NASA has squandered $27 billion on the SLS moon rocket -- $6 billion over budget and 5 years late," writes longtime Slashdot reader schwit1. "The SLS isn't reusable so even if they finished it -- it is already obsolete. It is clear to everyone that the boondoggle has failed but the newest plan is to find a way to blame Trump. There is a big desire for big changes." Futurism reports: According to Ars Technica senior space reporter Eric Berger's insider sources, there's an "at least 50-50" chance
  
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• With First Mechanical Qubit, Quantum Computing Goes Steampunk

  16-11-2024 04:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: Qubits, the strange devices at the heart of a quantum computer that can be set to 0, 1, or both at once, could hardly be more different from the mechanical clockwork used in the earliest computers. Today, most quantum computers rely on qubits made out of tiny circuits of superconducting metal, individual ions, photons, or other things. But now, physicists have made a working qubit from a tiny, moving machine, an advance that echoes back
  
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• NSO, Not Government Clients, Operates Its Spyware

  16-11-2024 02:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  jojowombl shares a report from The Guardian: Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker -- and not its government customers -- is the party that "installs and extracts" information from mobile phones targeted by the company's hacking software. The new details were contained in sworn depositions from NSO Group employees, portions of which were published for the first time on Thursday.It come
  
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• T-Mobile Hacked In Massive Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks

  16-11-2024 02:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Chinese hackers, reportedly linked to a Chinese intelligence agency, breached T-Mobile as part of a broader cyber-espionage campaign targeting telecom companies to spy on high-value intelligence targets. "T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information," a company spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. Reuters reports: It was unclear
  
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• Chegg, Down From $12 Billion To $159 Million In Value, Lays Off Hundreds; CEO Blames Google and AI

  16-11-2024 02:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Chegg, the online education company, is laying off 319 workers as it struggles to compete against modern AI chatbots. SFGATE reports: Chegg announced the new layoff round, which will hit 21% of its workforce, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The company delivered the news alongside another brutal quarterly financial report; Chegg lost more than $212 million from July through September. CEO Nathan Schultz, in prepared remarks accompanying the report, expressed s
  
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• Bluesky Says It Won't Train AI On Your Posts

  16-11-2024 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has "no intention" of training AI tools on users content. "The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI," notes TechCrunch. From the report: "A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data," Bluesky said in a post on
  
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• Once Worth $7.3 Billion, Grubhub Sells For Just $650 Million

  16-11-2024 00:40 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Europe's biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million, sending its shares soaring 20% in early trading. The Amsterdam-listed company had been looking to offload Chicago-based Grubhub since as early as 2022, after acquiring it in 2020 in a $7.3 billion deal amid a pandemic-driven boom in delivery services -- a process that was hampered by slowing growth,
  
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• Biden Administration Finalizes $6.6 Billion In Chips Grants For TSMC

  16-11-2024 00:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The White House said it's completed a $6.6 billion grant agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) through the Chips and Science Act. "Today's announcement is among the most critical milestones yet in the implementation of the bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act, and demonstrates how we are ensuring that the progress made to date will continue to unfold in the coming years, benefitting communities all across the country," Biden said in a statement. The Hill reports: The gra
  
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