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• The Rust Foundation's Plan to Grow the Pool of Well-Trained Rust Developers

  05-12-2024 23:25 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "The Rust Foundation is dedicated to ensuring a healthy Rust ecosystem," according to a new announcement today, " which depends on a growing pool of well-trained developers to thrive."The latest SlashData Developer Nation survey found Rust to be the fastest-growing programming language, doubling its users over the past two years. As Rust's adoption continues to accelerate, the demand for a multifaceted ecosystem of quality training will too.
  Their blog post highlights three examples of the Rust
  
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• After 7.0 Earthquake, Coastal Northern California Phones Get 'Tsunami Warning' Alert (Since Cancelled)

  05-12-2024 22:17 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A tsunami warning was issued — and then cancelled about an hour later — for 400 miles of California coastline after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near California's northern border with Oregon. "About 5 million people were under the warning while it was in effect," reports a San Francisco news site.
  Phones had sounded with an emergency tone in affected areas, with a warning that "You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now." War
  
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• Backdoor in Compromised Solana Code Library Drains $184,000 from Digital Wallets

  05-12-2024 20:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Solana JavaScript SDK "was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack," reports BleepingComputer, "with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets."
  Solana offers an SDK called "@solana/web3.js" used by decentralized applications (dApps) to connect and interact with the Solana blockchain. Supply chain security firm Socket reports that Solana's Web3.js library was hijacked to push out two malicious versions to steal privat
  
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• Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $800 Million. Lawsuits Continue

  05-12-2024 18:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $800 million... and James Howell wants it back.
  The Guardian reports that his "bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still possible to launch a hunt for his missing hard drive containing the bitcoin."They claimed that rather than searching for a "needle in a haystack", the position of the bitcoin hoard had been narrowed down to a small ar
  
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• Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $8 Billion. Lawsuits Continue

  05-12-2024 18:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $8 billion... and James Howell wants it back.
  The Guardian reports that his "bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still possible to launch a hunt for his missing hard drive containing the bitcoin."They claimed that rather than searching for a "needle in a haystack", the position of the bitcoin hoard had been narrowed down to a small area
  
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• Is Europe Better Prepared to Protect Undersea Internet Cables?

  05-12-2024 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Carnegie Endowment for Peace, a nonpartisan international affairs think tank, points out that when subsea internet cables were cut in November, Europe was more prepared:
  Where in the past there were no contingency plans for sabotage, there are now more maritime patrols, an attempt to forge deeper intelligence connections, and the beginnings of a new relationship with the private sector...Even before the October 2023 incident, NATO, the EU, and certain European governments began to increase t
  
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• Elon Musk's xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis

  05-12-2024 13:34 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:
  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), the Greater Memphis Chamber said on Wednesday, as xAI races to compete against rivals like OpenAI.The move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI's chatbot called Grok. As part of the expansion, Nvidia, w
  
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• ASD’s ACSC, CISA, and US and International Partners Release Guidance on Choosing Secure and Verifiable Technologies

  05-12-2024 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA—in partnership with the Australian Signals Directorate Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC), and other international partners—released updates to a Secure by Design Alert, Choosing Secure and Verifiable Technologies. Partners that provided recommendations in this alert include:The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS).
  United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK).
  New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ).
  Republic of Korea
  
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• Could Evidence of Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Plain Sight?

  05-12-2024 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "Are Primordial Black Holes real...?" asks Universe Today. "If they do exist, a "new paper suggests they may be hiding in places so unlikely that nobody ever thought to look there..." — in planets, in asteroids, and here on earth.Physicists hypothesize that Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe from extremely dense pockets of sub-atomic matter that collapsed directly into black holes. They could form part or all of what we call dark matter. However, they remain hypothe
  
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• Music Sector Workers Will Lose Nearly a Quarter of Their Income to AI in 4 Years, Study Suggests

  05-12-2024 05:44 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  The Guardian reports:
  People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity. Those working in the audiovisual sector will also see their income shrink by more than 20% as the market for generative AI grows from €3bn (A$4.9bn) annually to a predicted €64bn by 2028.
  The findings were released in Par
  
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• Bitcoin reaches and surpasses $100k USD

  05-12-2024 03:50 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Internet Archive: We Will Not Appeal 'Hachette v. Internet Archive' Ruling

  05-12-2024 03:39 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  In March, 2023 the Internet Archive lost in court, with a judge ruling they couldn't scan entire books and then lend them as ebooks. The Internet Archive appealed to a higher court, which also ruled against them in September of 2024.
  Today, the Internet Archive made an announcement: that "While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit's opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review."
  We will continue to honor the Associatio
  
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• Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid

  05-12-2024 00:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls "Post Open" to "meet goals that Open Source fails at today" — even providing a way to pay developers for their work.
  To make it all happen, he envisions software developers owning (and controlling) a not-for-profit corporation developing a body of
  
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