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• UN Plastic Treaty Talks Collapse Without a Deal

  01-12-2024 23:29 via news.slashdot.org
  
  United Nations members gathered this week in Busan, South Korea to negotiate the first treaty reducing plastic pollution. But Politico reports that "talks collapsed late Sunday after negotiators failed to resolve their differences and agree on a global plastic treaty.
  At the heart of the disagreement was a refusal by oil-rich nations led by Saudi Arabia to accept a deal that put limits on plastic production... Throughout the two years of talks, oil-rich and plastic-producing states had repeatedl
  
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• Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts 'Scammers and Impersonators'

  01-12-2024 21:58 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, "Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."But "the influx of new users has opened up new opportunities for scammers and impersonators," Engadget reported this week:A recent analysis by Alexios Mantzarlis, director o
  
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• Greg Kroah-Hartman Sees 'Tipping Point' for Rust Drivers in Linux Kernel

  01-12-2024 20:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Greg Kroah-Hartman noted some coming changes in Linux 6.13 will make it possible to create "way more" Rust-based kernel drivers. "The veteran kernel developer believes we're at a tipping point of seeing more upstream Rust drivers ahead," reports Phoronix:These Rust char/misc changes are on top of the main Rust pull for Linux 6.13 that brought 3k lines of code for providing more Rust infrastructure. Linux 6.13 separately is also bringing Rust file abstractions.
  "Sorry for doing this at the end of
  
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• CJIT - C, Just In Time!

  01-12-2024 19:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader jaromil writes:
  As a fun project, we hacked together a C interpreter (based on Tiny C Compiler) that compiles C code in-memory and runs it live.
  CJIT today is a 2MB executable that can do a lot, including call functions from any installed library on Linux, Windows, and MacOSX.Slashdot reader oliwer points out "they are also including a REPL, which could be interesting." And the CJIT web page promises there's "no EULA to sign, no IDE to install... 100% Free and open sour
  
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• Leaked Documents Show What Phones Secretive Tech 'Graykey' Can Unlock

  01-12-2024 18:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  Primarily used by law enforcement, Graykey unlocks mobile devices to extract data from both Android and iOS systems, according to the blog AppleInsider, "though its effectiveness varies depending on the specific hardware and software involved."But while its capabilities are rarely disclosed, "a leak of some Grayshift's internal documents was recently reported on by 404 Media."According to the data, Graykey can only perform "partial" data retrieval from iPhones running iOS 18 and iOS 18.0.1. Thes
  
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• 'Hour of Code' Cartoon Includes a Shout-Out to AI

  01-12-2024 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Nonprofit Code.org has posted this year's cartoon for "Hour of Code," their annual learn-to-code event for schoolchildren.
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes its animated pigeon gives a shout-out to the AI that could ultimately replace programmers:In an Instagram post introducing the video, Code.org explains: "Bartlett the Pigeon just learned how to code and now thinks he's smarter than us. Honestly...he might be. Meet the face (and feathers) of this year's #HourOfCode." In the video, Bartle
  
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• Spacecraft Face 'Sophisticated and Dangerous' Cybersecurity Threats

  01-12-2024 16:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "Spacecraft, satellites, and space-based systems all face cybersecurity threats that are becoming increasingly sophisticated and dangerous," reports CNBC.
  "With interconnected technologies controlling everything from navigation to anti-ballistic missiles, a security breach could have catastrophic consequences."Critical space infrastructure is susceptible to threats across three key segments: in space, on the ground segment and within the communication links between the two. A break in one can be
  
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• Utilities Are Trying Enormous 'Flow' Batteries Big Enough to Oust Coal Power Plants

  01-12-2024 13:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  To help replace power plants, Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, "is turning to a new generation of batteries designed to stockpile massive amounts of energy," reports the Washington Post.
  "The Hokkaido Electric Power Network (HEPCO Network) is deploying flow batteries, an emerging kind of battery that stores energy in hulking tanks of metallic liquid."[F]low batteries are making their debut in big real-world projects. Sumitomo Electric, the company that built the Hokkaido plant, has also bu
  
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• What 'The Oregon Trail' Co-Creator Thinks of Apple's Plans for a Movie

  01-12-2024 09:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  It's one of the most successful — and oldest — computer games of all-time. This week CBS News Minnesota interviewed Bill Heinemann, who in 1971 co-created "The Oregon Trail" as an educational video game simulating pioneers travelling west."It's surprising and gratifying and humbling, in a way, that a little thing that I spent two weeks on has become a worldwide phenomenon," Heinemann said... The game's become known for the many ways players can die, including by dysentery, but Heinem
  
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• Despite Clean Energy Use, Global Warming is Still Projected to Continue

  01-12-2024 05:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The world's use of clean energy "is rapidly growing", reports the Washington Post, "but not fast enough to keep temperatures in check..."
  Many experts say it will be the economics of clean energy that defines the future of the planet — and how developing countries choose to meet their growing electricity demands. "What happens in emerging and developing economies in the next decade in some sense is the whole ballgame," said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center for Global Energy P
  
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• OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt

  01-12-2024 03:14 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Friday the Software Freedom Conservancy announced the production release of the new OpenWrt One network router — designed specifically for running the Linux-based router OS OpenWrt (a member project of the SFC). "This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind.
  "The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable."
  This device services your needs as its owner and user. Everyone deserves control of their c
  
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• Oceans Cool the Climate More Than We Thought, Study Finds

  01-12-2024 00:23 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "Polar oceans constitute emission hotspots during the summer," according to a new paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science Advances. "And including those sea-to-air fluxes in an atmospheric chemistry-climate model "results in a net radiative effect that has far-reaching implications."
  The research was led by a team of scientists from Spain's Institute of Marine Sciences and the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry, according to an announcement from the UK's Univers
  
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