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• America's Next NASA Administrator May Be Former SpaceX Astronaut Jared Isaacman

  04-12-2024 23:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  America's next president "announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX, to become the next NASA administrator," reports Ars Technica:
  In a post on X, Isaacman said he was "honored" to receive Trump's nomination. "Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history," Isaacman wrote. "On my last mission to space, my c
  
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• Monday Americans Spent $13.3 Billion in Biggest Cyber Monday Ever

  04-12-2024 22:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  "$15.8 million every 60 seconds. That's how much US consumers spent in two hours on Monday night," reports CNN, "capping off a five-day spending spree that smashed previous records."
  U.S. consumers spent a total of $13.3 billion on Cyber Monday, up 7.3% from the previous year, according to Adobe Analytics... Consumers spent a record $41.1 billion across the five days beginning Thanksgiving Day, according to Adobe. "While Cyber Monday remained the season's and year's biggest online shopping day,
  
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• Enron has Been Resurrected in What Appears to Be an Elaborate Joke

  04-12-2024 21:34 via idle.slashdot.org
  
  Have you been to Enron.com lately?"It's the comeback story no one asked for," reports CNN, "the resurrection of a brand so toxic it remains synonymous with corporate fraud more than two decades after it collapsed in bankruptcy.
  "That's right, folks: Enron is back. But only kind of."TL;DR: A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark and appears to be trying to sell some merch on behalf of the guy behind the satirical conspiracy theory "Birds Aren't Real...."
  On Monday, the 23rd anniv
  
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• Founder of Cryptocurrency Lender 'Celsius Network' Pleads Guilty to Fraud

  04-12-2024 20:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  59-year-old Alex Mashinsky, the founder/former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, "pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of fraud," reports Reuters.
  He'd been indicted in July on seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and market manipulation charges, according to the article, and federal prosecutors in Manhattan "said he misled customers of Celsius to persuade them to invest, and artificially inflated the value of his company's proprietary crypto token."On Tuesday, during a hearing befor
  
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• Vodka Maker Stoli Says August Ransomware Attack Contributed To Bankruptcy Filing

  04-12-2024 19:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, according to the company's CEO. From a report: In a Texas bankruptcy court filing on November 29, CEO Chris Caldwell attributed a range of external factors to the financial woes of Stoli Group USA and Kentucky Owl (KO) -- which are facing $84 million in debt. But one of the most prominent was a ransomware attack this year that damaged the parent company's IT syst
  
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• Meta Using OpenAI's GPT-4 in Internal Coding Tool Despite Llama Push

  04-12-2024 18:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Meta is using OpenAI's GPT-4 alongside its own Llama AI model in Metamate, an internal coding assistance tool, Fortune reported Tuesday. The dual-model approach has been in place since early 2024, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg's public promotion of Llama as a leading AI model.
  Metamate, previously known as Code Compose, serves Meta's developers and employees with coding support. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg's philanthropic organization, is separately developing an educational AI tool
  
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• Hyundai Has Best Month Ever in U.S. Electric SUV Sales Suddenly Double

  04-12-2024 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Hyundai "just had its best sales month ever in the U.S.," reports Electrek
  Hyundai's impressive EV lineup is charging up demand, with its best-selling Hyundai IONIQ 5 SUV also setting a new U.S. record after sales more than doubled in November. With 76,008 vehicles sold in November, Hyundai's record-breaking U.S. sales streak is not slowing down. Hyundai Motor America CEO Randy Parker credited the growing demand for EVs and hybrid vehicles to the growth.Hyundai's EV sales rose 77% from last year
  
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• 2024's Geek 'Advent Calendar's Offer Challenges - and a Magnus Carlsen-Signed Chessboard

  04-12-2024 16:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  The long-running Advent of Code site just entered its 10th year, with 162,809 people completing both of its Day One puzzles (which involve a hunt for the missing historian of the North Pole).But its not the only site offering Christmas-themed programming puzzles:
  Hundreds of SQL lovers are trying the daily challenges from the "Advent of SQL" site.You can sign up for daily emails with webdev challenges from the Advent of JavaScript and Advent of CSS sites.The "Advent of No-Code" site challenges y
  
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• Wikipedia Announces the Most Popular Articles of 2024

  04-12-2024 14:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Tuesday the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual list of the most-visited Wikipedia pages. (Scroll down to where it says "The full top 25"...)
  But while the top subjects seem to be politics and pop culture, CNN reports that in the end "a list of deaths in 2024 was the most visited page, garnering over 44 million views."A page about deaths in a given year has ranked at the top of the list five times since 2015, when the Wikimedia Foundation began releasing the data. The topic has never fallen
  
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• CISA Releases New Public Version of CDM Data Model Document

  04-12-2024 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an updated public version of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Data Model Document. Version 5.0.1 aligns with fiscal year 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) metrics.
  The CDM Data Model Document provides a comprehensive description of a common data schema to ensure that prescribed diagnostic activities within CDM solutions are consistent across all participating federal agencies. Age
  
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• Handful of Countries Responsible For Climate Crisis, Top Court Told

  04-12-2024 12:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ). From a report: During a hearing at the Peace Palace in The Hague, which began on Monday, Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's special envoy for climate change and environment, said responsibility for the climate crisis lay squarely with "a handful of readily identifiable states" that had produced the vast maj
  
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• US Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps Amid Unprecedented Cyberattack

  04-12-2024 09:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers...
  In the call Tuesday, two officials — a senior FBI official who asked not to be named and Jeff Greene, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen
  
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• Musk Signals Fresh Push To End US Daylight Saving Time

  04-12-2024 06:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appears to be signaling its intention to tackle daylight saving time. Musk has indicated support for ending biannual clock changes in recent days on his social media platform X, sharing a poll showing majority opposition to the practice.
  DOGE co-head Ramaswamy also backed the stance, calling time changes "inefficient and easy to change."
  The initiative follows a failed 2022 legislative attempt, the Sunshine Protect
  
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• Meta Says It's Mistakenly Moderating Too Much

  04-12-2024 06:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta is mistakenly removing too much content across its apps, according to a top executive. Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, told reporters on Monday that the company's moderation "error rates are still too high" and pledged to "improve the precision and accuracy with which we act on our rules."
  "We know that when enforcing our policies, our error rates are still too high, which gets in the way of the free expression that we set out to enable,"
  
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• South Korea Becomes First Country To Replace 10% of Its Workforce With Robots

  04-12-2024 03:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: A new report suggests South Korea is the first country to have replaced 10% of its workforce with robots to tackle its shrinking population due to its low birth rate, reports Independent.
  For every 10,000 employees, South Korea now has 1,102 robots, making the country number one in the world in using technology instead of human labour to do tasks, according to the annual survey by World Robotics 2024.
  South Korea now has twice the number of robots working in
  
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• Slashdot Asks: What Happened To Intel?

  04-12-2024 01:30 via ask.slashdot.org
  
  Intel's board of directors ousted CEO Pat Gelsinger after losing confidence in his ambitious turnaround strategy. The move comes as Intel posted significant losses, including $16.6 billion in Q3 2024, its worst quarterly result ever. Under Gelsinger's leadership, Intel struggled to compete in the AI chip market dominated by Nvidia, while facing manufacturing challenges and declining data center revenue.
  Analysts suggest the board may be considering splitting off Intel's foundry business, though
  
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• Walmart Closes $2.3 Billion Acquisition of Vizio

  04-12-2024 00:29 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Walmart said Tuesday it had completed its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business. From a report: The closing of the deal follows the expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations. Walmart announced the deal to buy Vizio in February 2024. Walmart said the acquisition of Vizio will let it "bring to market new and differentiated ways for advertisers to meaningfully connect with customers at scale and boost p
  
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