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• Chase Will Soon Block Zelle Payments To Sellers on Social Media

  17-02-2025 22:32 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase Bank (Chase) will soon start blocking Zelle payments to social media contacts to combat a significant rise in online scams utilizing the service for fraud.
  Zelle is a highly popular digital payments network that allows users to transfer money quickly and securely between bank accounts. It is also integrated into the mobile apps of many banks in the United States, allowing for almost instant transfers without requiring cash or checks but lacking
  
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• The 'White Collar' Recession is Pummeling Office Workers

  17-02-2025 20:15 via slashdot.org
  
  White-collar workers are facing their deepest hiring slump in a decade, with one in four U.S. job losses last year hitting professional workers, according to S&P Global. A 2024 Vanguard report shows hiring for employees earning over $96,000 has fallen to its lowest level since 2014. The downturn has been particularly severe for job seekers â" 40% of applicants failed to secure even a single interview in 2024, according to a survey of 2,000 respondents by the American Staffing Associati
  
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• Reddit Mods Are Fighting To Keep AI Slop Off Subreddits

  17-02-2025 19:01 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Reddit moderators are struggling to police AI-generated content on the platform, according to ArsTechnica, with many expecting the challenge to intensify as the technology becomes more sophisticated. Several popular Reddit communities have implemented outright bans on AI-generated posts, citing concerns over content quality and authenticity.
  The moderators of r/AskHistorians, a forum known for expert historical discussion, said that AI content "wastes our time" and could compromise the subreddit
  
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• Hardware Mod Showcases an iPhone SE 3 in the Body of a Windows Phone

  17-02-2025 18:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  A tech enthusiast has successfully transplanted the internal components of an iPhone SE 3 into the body of a Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, according to a post on Reddit's r/hackintosh forum. The modification preserves all key functions of the iPhone SE 3, including its 12-megapixel camera, 5G capabilities, and Touch ID sensor, which has been relocated to the back of the device. The project retains the Lumia 1020's distinctive design while upgrading its outdated microUSB port to Apple's Lightni
  
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• Nearly 10 Years After Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier Says: Privacy's Still Screwed

  17-02-2025 17:01 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Ten years after publishing his influential book on data privacy, security expert Bruce Schneier warns that surveillance has only intensified, with both government agencies and corporations collecting more personal information than ever before. "Nothing has changed since 2015," Schneier told The Register in an interview. "The NSA and their counterparts around the world are still engaging in bulk surveillance to the extent of their abilities."
  The widespread adoption of cloud services, Internet-of
  
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• Apple Weighs Adding Paid Business Listings To Maps App

  17-02-2025 16:20 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple is exploring ways to monetize its Maps app by introducing paid business listings and prioritized search results, Bloomberg News reports, citing an internal company meeting with the Maps team. The initiative would allow businesses to pay for higher placement in search results and more prominent display on maps, similar to Google Maps' advertising model. While no timeline has been set and no active development is underway, the move would mark Apple's first attempt to generate direct revenue
  
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• 'New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code'

  17-02-2025 15:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Junior software developers' overreliance on AI coding assistants is creating knowledge gaps in fundamental programming concepts, developer Namanyay Goel argued in a post. While tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude enable faster code shipping, developers struggle to explain their code's underlying logic or handle edge cases, Goel wrote. Goel cites the decline of Stack Overflow, a technical forum where programmers historically found detailed explanations from experienced developers, as particularl
  
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• Will Amazon's Return-to-Office Mandate Revitalize Downtown Seattle?

  17-02-2025 13:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Amazon required employees to work from the office five days a week starting January 2nd," writes the Seattle Times, "a change from the company's three-day in-office mandate that had been in effect since May 2023."
  And as Seattle's largest employer (with 50,000 Seattle-based workers), this had an impact, according to data the Times cites from the nonprofit Downtown Seattle Association:In January, downtown Seattle recorded the second-highest daily average for weekday worker foot traffic since Mar
  
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• DeepSeek Removed from South Korea App Stores Pending Privacy Review

  17-02-2025 09:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Today Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission "said DeepSeek would no longer be available for download until a review of its personal data collection practices was carried out," reports AFP.A number of countries have questioned DeepSeek's storage of user data, which the firm says is collected in "secure servers located in the People's Republic of China"... This month, a slew of South Korean government ministries and police said they blocked access to DeepSeek on their computers. Italy
  
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• California Considers Taking Over Some Oil Refineries

  17-02-2025 06:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  California is "considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries," reports the Los Angeles Times.
  They call the idea "one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the refinery business in the state.""The state recognizes that they're on a pathway to more refinery closures," said Skip York, chief energy strategist at energy consultant Turner Mason & Co. The risk to consumers and the state's ec
  
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• Why A Maintainer of the Linux Graphics Driver Nouveau Stepped Down

  17-02-2025 04:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  For over a decade Karol Herbst has been a developer on the open-source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux. "He went on to become employed by Red Hat," notes Phoronix. "While he's known more these days for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver."
  But Saturday Herbst stepped down as a nouveau kernel maintainer, in a mailing list message that begins "I was ponderi
  
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• 697-Page Book Publishes a Poet's 2,000 Amazon Reviews Posthumously

  17-02-2025 02:09 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Cleveland Review of Books ponders a new 697-page hardcover collection of American poet/author Kevin Killian's.... reviews from Amazon. (Over 2,000 of 'em — written over the course of 16 years.)In 2012, he wrote three substantial paragraphs about the culinary perfection that can be found in a German Potato Salad Can (15 oz., Pack of 12). Often, he'd open with something like "as an American boy growing up in rural France." Killian grew up on Long Island, New York. He didn't take himself
  
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• Are Technologies of Connection Tearing Us Apart?

  17-02-2025 00:13 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies "are changing us individually and collectively," writes the Los Angeles Review of Books.The book's title? Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart .
  But if these systems are indeed tearing us apart, the reasons are neither obvious nor simple. Carr suggests that this isn't really about the evil behavior of our tech overlords
  
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