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• Does the Internet Route Around Damage?

  21-11-2024 23:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader Zarhan writes: On Sunday and Monday, two undersea cables in Baltic sea were cut. There is talk of a hybrid operation by Russia against Europe, and a Chinese ship has been detained by Danish Navy. However, the interesting part is did the cuts really have any effect, or does the internet actually route around damage? RIPE Atlas tests seem to indicate so. RIPE Atlas probes did not observe any noticeable increase of packet loss and only a minimal and perfectly expected incre
  
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• Jim Zemlin, 'Head Janitor of Open Source,' Marks 20 Years At Linux Foundation

  21-11-2024 23:00 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols interviews Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation and "head janitor of open source." An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an excerpt from the article: When I first met Zemlin, he was the head of the Free Standards Group (FSG). The FSG's main project was the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project. The LSB's goal was to get everyone in the Linux desktop world to agree on standards to ensure compatibility among distributions and their applications. Oh well,
  
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• Microsoft Bombards Windows 10 Users With Full-Screen Ads for Upgrade

  21-11-2024 22:16 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has expanded its campaign to migrate Windows 10 users to Windows 11, deploying full-screen ads urging users to purchase new computers ahead of Windows 10's end-of-support date. The ads, appearing on Windows 10 devices, remind the October 14, 2025 cut-off date for OS support.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Pakistan's Tech Lobby Warns That Slow Internet is Strangling IT Industry

  21-11-2024 21:35 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) -- the nation's sole tech biz lobby group -- has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports. From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet access speeds, and government-imposed service outages. Pakistan went offline in May 2022 around the time of mass political protests and blackouts have since persisted -- prompting services like freelanc
  
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• Google Has Canceled the Pixel Tablet 2

  21-11-2024 20:55 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  AndroidAuthority: Android Authority has learned that Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, the presumed name of Google's second-generation Pixel Tablet. This is disappointing for Pixel fans who were waiting for Google to refresh its first-generation Pixel Tablet with a newer chipset, a better camera, and, more importantly, an official keyboard accessory.
  It's also surprising to hear because it might suggest that Google is giving up on its tablet ambitions entirely, considering a separate repor
  
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• US Agency Votes To Launch Review, Update Undersea Telecommunications Cable Rules

  21-11-2024 19:50 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to propose new rules governing undersea internet cables in the face of growing security concerns, as part of a review of regulations on the links that handle nearly all the world's online traffic. From a report: The FCC voted 5-0 on proposed updates to address the national security concerns over the global network of more than 400 subsea cables that handle more than 98% of international internet traffic. [...]
  Baltic nations said this week
  
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• SEC Chair Gary Gensler To Step Down

  21-11-2024 19:13 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Gary Gensler will step down as chair of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission at noon on Inauguration Day, the agency announced on Thursday. From a report: Gensler has had an aggressive tenure, marked by controversial rulemaking and a combative approach with the cryptocurrency industry.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem

  21-11-2024 18:33 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: People are using Spotify playlist and podcast descriptions to distribute spam, malware, pirated software and cheat codes for video games. Cybersecurity researcher Karol Paciorek posted an example of this: A Spotify playlist titled "*Sony Vegas Pro*13 C-r-a-c-k Free Download 2024 m-y-s-o-f-t-w-a-r-e-f-r-e-e.com" acts as a free advertisement for piracy website m-y-s-o-f-t-w-a-r-e-f-r-e-e[dot]com, which hosts malicious software.
  "Cybercriminals exploit Spotify f
  
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• MIT Undergrads With Family Income Below $200K Can Attend Tuition-free In 2025

  21-11-2024 17:51 via news.slashdot.org
  
  schwit1 writes: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
  And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students' MIT education, which includes tuition as well as housing, dining, fees, and an allowance for books and personal expens
  
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• Is Your Master's Degree Useless?

  21-11-2024 17:01 via news.slashdot.org
  
  While master's degrees are increasingly popular -- with 40% of U.S. bachelor's degree holders now having postgraduate credentials -- new research reveals many don't deliver improved earnings despite soaring costs.
  Analysis from the U.S. and UK indicates that about 40% of U.S. master's programs fail to provide positive financial returns, with some even leading to financial losses for graduates, as captured in a new Economist story. Similarly, British master's graduates earn no more than bachelor'
  
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• The Growth Rate For Mobile Internet Subscribers Has Stalled Across the World

  21-11-2024 16:23 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: A recent survey from Global System for Mobile Communications Association Intelligence (GSMA), the research wing of a U.K.-based organization that represents mobile operators around the world, found that 4.6 billion people across the globe are now connected to mobile internet -- or roughly 57% of the world's population. Now, the rate of new mobile internet subscriber growth is slowing. From 2015 to 2021, the survey consistently found over 200 million coming on
  
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• Steam Tightens Rules on Game Season Passes

  21-11-2024 15:42 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Valve's Steam platform is implementing stricter regulations for season pass sales, requiring detailed content descriptions and specific release windows for downloadable content (DLC), according to SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.
  The company will restrict season pass offerings to established partners with proven track records and may issue refunds if developers miss deadlines or deliver unsatisfactory content. Developers must outline DLC components and commit to three-month launch windows, with on
  
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• OpenAI Accidentally Deleted Potential Evidence in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

  21-11-2024 15:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its AI training sets.
  In a letter, attorneys for the publishers say
  
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• CISA Releases Insights from Red Team Assessment of a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization

  21-11-2024 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA released Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization in coordination with the assessed organization. This cybersecurity advisory details lessons learned and key findings from an assessment, including the Red Team’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and associated network defense activity.
  This advisory provides comprehensive technical details of the Red Team’s cyber threat activity, incl
  
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• NASA Wants SpaceX and Blue Origin To Deliver Cargo To the Moon

  21-11-2024 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After asking both SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions, NASA has announced plans to use those landers to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon. The agency wants Elon Musk's SpaceX to use its Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurized rover to the Moon "no earlier" than 2032, while Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will be tasked with delivering a lunar surface habitat no sooner than 2033. Both launches will support N
  
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• NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures 360-Degree View of Mars

  21-11-2024 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Space.com's Julian Dossett writes: For twelve years, we've watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian environment. The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered "Aeolis Mons," was discovered in the 1970s; cut into its alien landscape is the boulder-packed Gediz Vallis channe
  
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• US Regulators Seek To Break Up Google, Forcing Chrome Sale

  21-11-2024 06:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  In a 23-page document (PDF) filed late Wednesday, U.S. regulators asked a federal judge to break up Google after a court found the tech giant of maintaining an abusive monopoly through its dominant search engine. As punishment, the DOJ calls for a sale of Google's Chrome browser and restrictions to prevent Android from favoring its own search engine. The Associated Press reports: Although regulators stopped short of demanding Google sell Android too, they asserted the judge should make it clear
  
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• Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry

  21-11-2024 04:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and various AI apps. The practice, first reported by 404 Media in April, has since exploded in popularity, showing that Instagram is unable or unwilling to stop the flood of AI-generated content on
  
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• Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old 'needrestart' Flaw That Gives Root

  21-11-2024 02:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in the Linux utility "needrestart" -- widely used on Ubuntu to manage service updates -- allow attackers with local access to escalate privileges to root. The flaws were discovered by Qualys in needrestart version 0.8, and fixed in version 3.8. BleepingComputer reports: Complete information about the flaws was made available in a separate text file, but a summary can be found below:- CVE-2024-48990: Needrestart executes the Python interpreter
  
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• Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

  21-11-2024 01:15 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  A new study reveals that many users, particularly students and Redditors, view Z-Library as a vital resource for overcoming economic barriers to education, reflecting a "Robin Hood" mentality that prioritizes access to knowledge over copyright concerns. TorrentFreak reports: The research looks at the motivations of two groups; Reddit users and Chinese postgraduate students. Despite the vast differences between these groups, their views on Z-Library are quite similar. The 134 Reddit responses wer
  
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• Musi Fans Refuse To Update iPhones Until Apple Unblocks Controversial App

  21-11-2024 00:30 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Who up missing Musi?" a Reddit user posted in a community shocked by the free music streaming app's sudden removal from Apple's App Store in September. Apple kicked Musi out of the App Store after receiving several copyright complaints. Musi works by streaming music from YouTube -- seemingly avoiding paying to license songs -- and YouTube was unsurprisingly chief among those urging Apple to stop allowing the alleged infringement.Musi was pre
  
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