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• Meta Is Ushering In a 'World Without Facts,' Says Nobel Peace Prize Winner

  08-01-2025 23:42 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta's decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means "extremely dangerous times" lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users. The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg's move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a "world without facts" and that was "a world that's right for
  
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• Telegram Hands US Authorities Data On Thousands of Users

  08-01-2025 23:05 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Telegram's Transparency Report reveals a sharp increase in U.S. government data requests, with 900 fulfilled requests affecting 2,253 users. "The news shows a massive spike in the number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in August, in part because of the company's unwillingness to provide user data in a child abuse investigation," notes 404 Media. From the report: Between January 1 and September 30, 2024, Telegram fulfilled 14 reque
  
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• DEF CON's Hacker-In-Chief Faces Fortune In Medical Bills

  08-01-2025 22:20 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The Register's Connor Jones reports: Marc Rogers, DEF CON's head of security, faces tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills following an accident that left him with a broken neck and temporary quadriplegia. The prominent industry figure, whose work has spanned roles at tech companies such as Vodafone and Okta, including ensuring the story lines on Mr Robot and The Real Hustle were factually sound, is recovering in hospital. [...] Rogers said it will be around four to six weeks before he re
  
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• AT&T Promises Bill Credits For Future Outages

  08-01-2025 21:40 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T, following last year's embarrassing botched update that kicked every device off its wireless network and blocked over 92 million phone calls, is now promising full-day bill credits to mobile customers for future outages that last at least 60 minutes and meet certain other criteria. A similar promise is being made to fiber customers for unplanned outages lasting at least 20 minutes, but only if the customer uses an AT&T-provided
  
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• Apple's $1 Billion Indonesia Investment Fails To Unlock iPhone 16 Sales Ban

  08-01-2025 21:01 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Indonesia will continue to block iPhone 16 sales despite Apple's planned $1 billion AirTag factory investment, as the facility does not meet local content requirements for smartphones, Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said on Wednesday. Indonesia banned iPhone 16 sales last year after Apple failed to meet rules requiring 35% locally-made components in smartphones sold domestically.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Samsung is Rolling Out a Smartphone Subscription Next Month

  08-01-2025 20:21 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Samsung is finally ready to roll out a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it might not look like what we were expecting.
  According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice chair Han Jong-hee has confirmed that the company's AI Subscription Club, which launched last December for some of Samsung's home appliances in South Korea, will soon roll out to both Galaxy phones and the upcoming Ballie AI robot.
  "We will apply the subscription
  
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• Boxed Video Game Sales Collapse in UK as Digital Revenues Flatten

  08-01-2025 19:41 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of $3 billion -- the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation -- the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The most significant decline was in boxed video game sales, down 35%.
  Data from Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) puts the total worth of the UK video game market in 2024 at $5.7 billion, double the music market and
  
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• Microsoft Kills Free OneDrive Storage Loophole

  08-01-2025 19:01 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft will begin enforcing storage limits on unlicensed OneDrive accounts from January 27, 2025, ending a loophole that allowed organizations to retain departed employees' data without cost.
  Data from accounts unlicensed for over 93 days will move to recycle bins for another 93 days before permanent deletion, unless under retention policies. Archived data retrieval will cost $0.60 per gigabyte plus $0.05 monthly per gigabyte. Organizations must either retrieve data, add licenses, or risk los
  
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• Japan Says Chinese Hackers Targeted Its Government and Tech Companies For Years

  08-01-2025 18:22 via it.slashdot.org
  
  The Japanese government published an alert on Wednesday accusing a Chinese hacking group of targeting and breaching dozens of government organizations, companies, and individuals in the country since 2019. From a report: Japan's National Police Agency and the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity attributed the years-long hacking spree to a group called MirrorFace.
  "The MirrorFace attack campaign is an organized cyber attack suspected to be linked to China, with th
  
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• Six Big US Banks Quit Net Zero Alliance

  08-01-2025 17:41 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry's net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action.
  JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored net zero banking alliance (NZBA), following Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. All six have left since the start of December. Analysts ha
  
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• MoviePass Ex-Chief Pleads Guilty To Fraud Over 'Unlimited' Cinema Scheme

  08-01-2025 17:01 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Former MoviePass CEO Theodore Farnsworth has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy charges for misleading investors about the movie subscription service's "unlimited plan" and its parent company's capabilities, U.S. prosecutors said.
  Farnsworth falsely claimed the $9.95 monthly unlimited movie plan was sustainable and that Helios & Matheson Analytics could monetize subscriber data through artificial intelligence, knowing both statements were untrue. He faces up to 20 years in pri
  
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• Nvidia's Huang Says His AI Chips Are Improving Faster Than Moore's Law

  08-01-2025 16:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia's AI chips are advancing faster than Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry's historical performance benchmark, according to chief executive Jensen Huang. "Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore's Law," Huang told TechCrunch. Nvidia's chips have improved thousand-fold over the past decade, outpacing Moore's Law's prediction of doubled transistor density every year, Huang said. He adds: We can build the architecture, the chip, the system, the libraries, and the algorithms all a
  
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• Nvidia's Huang Says 'Very Useful' Quantum Computers Likely Decades Away

  08-01-2025 15:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Nvidia founder and chief executive Jensen Huang believes "very useful" quantum computers are likely decades away, tempering expectations for the emerging technology. "If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30, it's probably on the late side," Huang said during Nvidia's analyst day. "If you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Akamai To Quit Its CDN in China

  08-01-2025 15:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it's finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom. News of Akamai's decision to end CDN services in China emerged in a letter it recently published and sent to customers and partners that opens by reminding them the company has a "commitment to providing world-class delivery and security solutions" -- and must therefore inform them that "Effective June 30, 2026,
  
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• Pre-Lunch Coffee Drinkers Enjoy Lower Risk of Death, Analysis Finds

  08-01-2025 14:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: People who get their coffee hit in the morning reap benefits that are not seen in those who have shots later in the day, according to the first major study into the health benefits of the drink at different times. Analysis of the coffee consumption of more than 40,000 adults found that morning coffee drinkers were 16% less likely to die of any cause and 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease during a 10-year follow-up period than
  
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• Ivanti Releases Security Updates for Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways

  08-01-2025 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Ivanti released security updates to address vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283) in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. A cyber threat actor could exploit CVE-2025-0282 to take control of an affected system.CISA has added CVE-2025-0282 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
  CISA urges organizations to hunt for any malicious activity, report any positive findings to CISA, and review the following for more inform
  
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• CISA Adds One Vulnerability to the KEV Catalog

  08-01-2025 13:00 via cisa.gov
  CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.CVE-2025-0282 Ivanti Connect Secure VulnerabilityThese types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise.
  CISA urges organizations to apply mitigations as set forth in the CISA instructions linked below to include conducting hunt activities, taking remediation actions if applicabl
  
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• Chinese RISC-V Project Teases 2025 Debut of Freely Licensed Advanced Chip Design

  08-01-2025 11:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  China's Xiangshan project aims to deliver a high-performance RISC-V processor by 2025. If it succeeds, it could be "enormously significant" for three reasons, writes The Register's Simon Sharwood. It would elevate RISC-V from low-end silicon to datacenter-level capabilities, leverage the open-source Mulan PSL-2.0 license to disrupt proprietary chip models like Arm and Intel, and reduce China's dependence on foreign technology, mitigating the impact of international sanctions on advanced processo
  
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• Scientists Find 'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement Within Individual Protons

  08-01-2025 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Scientists have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons are quantum entangled, challenging traditional views of proton structure and revealing a more complex, dynamic system influenced by strong interactions. Space.com reports: Entanglement is the aspect of quantum physics that says two affected particles can instantaneously influence each other's "state" no matter how widely separated they are -- even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Albert Einstein founded his theories o
  
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• Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons

  08-01-2025 04:30 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler's. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fixler took to the bimah himself. "The audio you heard a moment ago may have sounded like my words," he said. "But t
  
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• Science Paper Piracy Site Sci-Hub Shares Lots of Retracted Papers

  08-01-2025 02:25 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The shift from paywalled to open-access scientific publishing is progressing, driven in part by platforms like Sci-Hub -- a website that allows users to upload PDFs of published papers and share them with anyone. While the shadow library website has faced ongoing attempts by publishers to block access, it has another problem: the platform features many outdated or retracted papers that could spread misinformation or flawed findings. Ars Technica reports: Sci-Hub works a bit like a combination of
  
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• Man Used ChatGPT To Plan Las Vegas Cybertruck Blast

  08-01-2025 01:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  According to police, the man killed in the January 1st Las Vegas Cybertruck blast used ChatGPT to plan the explosion. The Hill reports: In a press conference, Tuesday, Las Vegas police released more details of the intentions of 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, who died of a gunshot wound prior to the car exploding. Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said it was concerning that Livelsberger used ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence model created by OpenAI, to carry out the explosion. Accordi
  
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• Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS

  08-01-2025 01:02 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  At CES 2025 today, Lenovo introduced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console. It marks the first officially licensed handheld that comes pre-loaded with Valve's Arch Linux based SteamOS operating system. Phoronix reports: This first officially licensed SteamOS handheld is making use of the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC with Radeon 700M graphics, an 8-inch 1200p LCD touchscreen with VRR support, up to 32GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, up to 1TB of PCIe Gen4 SSD storage, and a 55 Whr battery. Pricing starts
  
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• Lenovo's Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen

  08-01-2025 00:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Laptop screens can feel cramped. But what if you could magically get more real estate without having to carry around a portable monitor? That's precisely the purpose of Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC -- yes, rollable. It has an OLED display that, with the push of a button, extends the 14-inch screen upward to make for an awkward aspect ratio, but roughly doubles the screen space to 16.7 inches. Two screens are better than one for prod
  
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• Review Roundup: OnePlus 13

  08-01-2025 00:00 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  The OnePlus 13 launched in the North American market today, making it the first flagship smartphone of 2025. As the smartphone market continues to consolidate, it has become increasingly difficult for non-Samsung, Google, and Apple devices to gain significant traction in the competitive U.S. market. Nevertheless, OnePlus has continually released premium flagship-tier devices at relatively modest price points, hoping to pry users away from the Big Tech monoliths.The OnePlus 13 features Qualcomm's
  
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