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• More Business School Researchers Accused of Fabricated Findings

  23-11-2024 23:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  June, 2023: "Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings."November, 2024: "The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger." A senior editor at the Atlantic raises the possibility of systemic dishonesty-rewarding incentives where "a study must be even flashier than all the other flashy findings if its authors want to stand out," writing that "More than a year since all of this began, the evidence of fraud has only multiplied."
  And the suspect isn't just Fran
  
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• Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Downloaders

  23-11-2024 22:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now Meta's campaign "is picking up momentum" with legislators in the U.S. Congress.
  Federal and state lawmakers have recently proposed a raft of measures requiring that platforms such as Meta's Facebook and Instagram block users under a certain age from using their sites. The push has triggered fierce debate over the best way to ascertain how old users
  
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• Sabotage or Accident? American and European Officials Disagree On What Caused Cuts to Two Undersea Cables

  23-11-2024 21:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  CNN reports that investigators "are trying to crack the mystery of how two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea were cut within hours of each other." But there's now two competing viewpoints, "with European officials saying they believe the disruption was an act of sabotage and U.S. officials suggesting it was likely an accident."
  The foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a joint statement that they were "deeply concerned" about the incident and raised the possibility that it wa
  
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• SilverStone's Retro Beige PC Case Turns April Fools' Joke into Actual Product

  23-11-2024 20:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader jjslash shared this report from TechSpot:
  The SilverStone FLP01 made quite the impression when it was shared on X for April Fools' Day 2023. Loosely modeled after popular desktops from yesteryear like the NEC PC-9800 series, the chassis features dual 5.25-inch faux floppy bays that could stand to look a bit more realistic. Notably, the covers flip open to reveal access to a more modern (yet still legacy) optical drive and front I/O ports.
  Modern-looking fan grills can be found on
  
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• 'It's Surprisingly Easy To Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots'

  23-11-2024 19:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Instead of focusing on chatbots, a new study reveals an automated way to breach LLM-driven robots "with 100 percent success," according to IEEE Spectrum. "By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs..."[The researchers] have developed RoboPAIR, an algorithm designed to attack any LLM-controlled robot. In experiments with three different robotic systems &mdash
  
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• Red Hat is Becoming an Official Microsoft 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' Distro

  23-11-2024 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "You can use any Linux distribution inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux" Microsoft recently reminded Windows users, "even if it is not available in the Microsoft Store, by importing it with a tar file."
  But being an official distro "makes it easier for Windows Subsystem for Linux users to install and discover it with actions like wsl --list --online and wsl --install," Microsoft pointed out this week. And "We're excited to announce that Red Hat will soon be delivering a Red Hat Enterprise
  
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• Will AI Kill Google?

  23-11-2024 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "The past 15 years were unique in ways that might be a bad predictor of our future," writes the Washington Post, with a surge in the number of internet users since 2010, and everyone spending more time online.
  But today, "lots of smart people believe that artificial intelligence will upend how you find information. Googling is so yesterday."Sam Altman, the top executive overseeing ChatGPT, has said that AI has a good shot at shoving aside Google search. Bill Gates predicted that emerging AI will
  
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• Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime 'Pig Butching' Scams

  23-11-2024 16:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:
  Meta says it's taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost victims worldwide billions of dollars.
  In a Thursday blog post, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp says the pig butchering scam operations — based in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Ph
  
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• Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial?

  23-11-2024 14:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024 flagship tutorials, which include Microsoft Minecraft, Amazon Music, and Transformers One movie-themed intros to coding. The press release announcing the tutorials from tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which organizes the Hour of Cod
  
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• Neuralink Receives Canadian Approval For Brain Chip Trial

  23-11-2024 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Neuralink, the brain chip startup founded by Elon Musk, says it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. Reuters reports: [T]he Canadian study aims to assess the safety and initial functionality of its implant which enables people with quadriplegia, or paralysis of all four limbs, to control external devices with their thoughts. Canada's University Health Network h
  
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• Student-Built Rocket Breaks Multiple 20-Year Spaceflight Records

  23-11-2024 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A team of undergraduate students from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Lab set multiple amateur spaceflight records with their rocket, Aftershock II. "The student-made missile soared 90,000 feet (27,400 meters) beyond the previous record-holder -- a rocket launched more than 20 years ago," reports Live Science. From the report: The students launched Aftershock II on Oct. 20 from a site in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The rocket stood about 14 feet (4 meters) tall and weigh
  
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• Remembering Cyberia, the World's First Ever Cyber Cafe

  23-11-2024 04:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE: It's early on a Sunday morning in late 1994, and you're shuffling your way through Fitzrovia in Central London, bloodstream still rushing after a long night at Bagley's. The sun comes up as you come down. You navigate side streets that you know like the back of your hand. But your hand's stamped with a party logo. And your brain's kaput. Coffee... yes, coffee. Good idea. Suddenly, you find yourself outside a teal blue cafe. Walking in is like enteri
  
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• China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History'

  23-11-2024 03:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from Gizmodo: Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in ways that President Joe Biden's administration hasn't yet acknowledged, according to new reports from the Washington Post and New York Times. The hackers were able to listen to phone calls and read text messages, reportedly exploiting the system U.S. authorities use to wiretap Americans in criminal cases. The worst part? The netw
  
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• Economist Makes the Case For Slow Level 1 EV Charging

  23-11-2024 02:25 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Economist Phillip Kobernick makes the case that the emphasis on fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the U.S. is misplaced. According to an article from CleanTechnica, he argues that, from an economic standpoint, what we should be doing is installing more slow chargers. All thing equal, who wouldn't choose a 10-minute charge over a 3-hour charge or a 10-hour charge? But all things are not equal.Superfast chargers are far more expensive
  
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• Russian Spies Jumped From One Network To Another Via Wi-Fi

  23-11-2024 01:45 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  "Steven Adair, of cybersecurity firm Veloxity, revealed at the Cyberwarcon security conference how Russian hackers were able to daisy-chain as many as three separate Wi-Fi networks in their efforts to attack victims," writes Longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. Wired reports: Adair says that Volexity first began investigating the breach of its DC customer's network in the first months of 2022, when the company saw signs of repeated intrusions into the customer's systems by hackers who had car
  
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• Google Sues Ex-Engineer In Texas Over Leaked Pixel Chip Secrets

  23-11-2024 01:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has sued one of its former engineers in Texas federal court, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to its chip designs and sharing them publicly on the internet. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday (PDF), said that Harshit Roy "touted his dominion" over the secrets in social media posts, tagging competitors and making threatening statements to the company including "I need to take unethical means to get what I am entitled to" and "remem
  
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• Steam Cuts the Cord For Legacy Windows, macOS

  23-11-2024 00:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The latest Steam client drops support for operating systems older than Windows 10 or macOS 10.15 Catalina. "That means Mac users can't run 32-bit games anymore, as all macOS versions from Catalina onward only run 64-bit binaries," reports The Register. From the report: [I]f you have a well-specified older Mac, here is another reason to check out Open Core Legacy Patcher. For now, macOS 10.15 Catalina will do but we suspect it won't for long. This version of Steam uses the equivalent to Chrome 12
  
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