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• Thanks to AI, the Hottest New Programming Language is... English

  08-12-2024 22:57 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "Generative AI is transforming software development by enabling natural language prompts to generate code, reducing the need for traditional programming skills," argues Analytics India magazine.
  Traditionally, coding was the bastion of the select few who had mastered mighty languages like C++, Python, or Java. The idea of programming seemed exclusively reserved for those fluent in syntax and logic. However, the narrative is now being challenged by natural language coding being implemented in AI
  
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• Disney Beats Tolkein? Anime 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Outpaced by 'Moana 2'

  08-12-2024 21:46 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Peter Jackson is co-executive producer of a new animated Lord of the Rings prequel called The War of the Rohirrim. "Set in an epic world 183 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the King of Rohan is forced into a last stand in ancient Hornburg after a sudden attack..." explains The Hollywood Reporter.
  But Variety writes that the movie "fizzled" in its overseas debut this weekend:"Moana 2" has notched $600 million in global ticket sales, standing as the sixth-biggest movie of
  
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• Elon Musk's X Upgrades Grok AI Chatbot with Image Generating

  08-12-2024 20:46 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
  On Saturday, a new image generator called Aurora became available for some Grok users, many of whom shared the tool's results on X touting their photorealism. [One user posted an image of Mickey Mouse fighting Luigi from Super Mario.] But as of Sunday afternoon, Aurora appears to be gone. While it briefly showed up as an option in Grok's model selection menu as "Grok 2 + Aurora (beta)," it's since been replaced with "Grok 2 + Flux (beta)." It
  
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• Small AI Chip Maker Marvell is Now More Valuable Than Intel

  08-12-2024 18:55 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  This year Marvell's stock rose 95%, giving it a $100 billion market capitalization, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  "The latest gains have even put Marvell's market cap ahead of much-beleaguered Intel, which still generates 10 times as much annual revenue."
  Marvell's recent trajectory suggests that the revenue gap will continue to narrow. The explosive growth of its data center business has finally reached a point where it can more fully offset weakness in the company's more legacy segment
  
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• America's Phone Networks Could Soon Face Financial - and Criminal - Penalties for Insecure Networks

  08-12-2024 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The head of America's FCC "has drafted plans to regulate the cybersecurity of telecommunications companies," reports the Washington Post, and the plans could include financial penalties phone network operators with insufficient security — "the first time the agency has asserted such powers under federal wiretapping law."
  Rosenworcel said the FCC's authority in this matter comes from Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [passed in 1994] — a single sente
  
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• The 2024 'Advent Calendars' Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories

  08-12-2024 16:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Not every tech "advent calendar" involves programming puzzles. Instead the geek tradition of programming-language advent calendars "seems to have started way back in 2000," according to one history, "when London-based programmer Mark Fowler launched a calendar highlighting a different Perl module each day."So the tradition continues...Nearly a quarter of a century later, there's still a Perl Advent Calendar, celebrating tips and tricks like "a few special packages waiting under the tree that can
  
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• Drones, Surveillance, and Facial Recognition: Startup Named 'Sauron' Pitches Military-Style Home Security

  08-12-2024 12:34 via slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post details a vision of home security "pitched by Sauron, a Silicon Valley start-up boasting a waiting list of tech CEOs and venture capitalists."In the future, your home will feel as safe from intruders as a state-of-the-art military base. Cameras and sensors surveil the perimeter, scanning bystanders' faces for potential threats. Drones from a "deterrence pod" scare off trespassers by projecting a searchlight over any suspicious movements. A virtual view of the home is rendered
  
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• Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top US Official Says

  08-12-2024 09:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  China-linked spies may still be lurking in U.S. telecommunications networks — but the breach could be much, much wider. In fact, a "couple dozen" countries were hit by the attack, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, citing a top U.S. national security adviser. "Chinese government hackers have compromised telecommunications infrastructure across the globe as part of a massive espionage campaign..."Speaking during a press briefing Wednesday, Anne Neuberger, President Biden's deputy n
  
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• OpenAI Partners with Anduril, Leaving Some Employees Concerned Over Militarization of AI

  08-12-2024 05:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "OpenAI is partnering with defense tech company Anduril," wrote the Verge this week, noting that OpenAI "used to describe its mission as saving the world."It was Anduril founder Palmer Luckey who advocated for a "warrior class" and autonomous weapons during a talk at Pepperdine University, saying society's need people "excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims." The Verge notes it's OpenAI's first partnership with a defense contractor "and a significant reversal of its ea
  
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• From Atomic to Nuclear Clocks - and a Leap in Timekeeping Accuracy?

  08-12-2024 03:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "In September 2024, U.S. scientists made key advances towards building a nuclear clock — a step beyond an atomic clock," according to ScienceAlert:In contrast to the atomic clock, the transition measured by this new device happens in the nucleus, or core, of the atom (hence the name), which gives it an even higher frequency. Thorium-229, the atom used for this study, offers a nuclear transition that can be excited by ultraviolet light. The team working on the nuclear clock overcame the tec
  
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• Wuhan Lab Researcher Fully Sequences Genomes of Coronavirus Samples From 2004 to 2021, Finds No Close Relatives to SARS-CoV-2

  08-12-2024 00:50 via science.slashdot.org
  
  60-year-old Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli led the Wuhan Institute of Virology's group studying bat coronaviruses (prompting Science magazine to call her "Bat Woman"). In June of 2020 Scientific American described Zhengli as "distressed because stories from the Internet and major media have repeated a tenuous suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 accidentally leaked from her lab — despite the fact that its genetic sequence does not match any her lab had previously studied."
  More than four years later
  
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