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• Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14

  10-03-2025 23:50 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Today marks the release of Framework Mono 6.14, the first major Mono release in five years and the first under WineHQ's stewardship. This update includes long-awaited improvements such as native macOS ARM64 support, enhancements to System.Windows.Forms for X11, better COM interface support, and various stability fixes. Phoronix reports: In addition to the native macOS ARM64 support and System.Windows.Forms improvements for X11, some of the other Mono 6.14 improvements carried out over the past h
  
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• Sony Experiments With AI-Powered PlayStation Characters

  10-03-2025 23:10 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. The Verge: An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony's PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment who works on video game technology, AI, computer vision, and face technology for Sony's PlayStation
  
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• Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri'

  10-03-2025 22:30 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Apple has pulled an iPhone 16 ad featuring a "more personal Siri" after delaying Apple Intelligence features originally planned for iOS 18. The now-private video starred actor Isabella Ramsey demonstrating contextual awareness capabilities. Apple stated the delayed features, including personal context and improved app integration, will release "in the coming year," while Bloomberg reports some Apple AI staff believe these features might be completely rebuilt.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Firmware Update Bricks HP Printers, Makes Them Unable To Use HP Cartridges

  10-03-2025 21:50 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: HP, along with other printer brands, is infamous for issuing firmware updates that brick already-purchased printers that have tried to use third-party ink. In a new form of frustration, HP is now being accused of issuing a firmware update that broke customers' laser printers -- even though the devices are loaded with HP-brand toner. The firmware update in question is version 20250209, which HP issued on March 4 for its LaserJet MFP M232-M237
  
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• Microsoft To Launch Xbox Handheld in 2025, Next-Gen Consoles in 2027

  10-03-2025 21:10 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft plans to launch an Xbox-branded gaming handheld later in 2025 through partnership with a PC gaming manufacturer, followed by next-generation Xbox consoles targeting 2027, according to WindowsCentral. The handheld device, codenamed "Keenan," will run full Windows with Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass integration, featuring distinct Xbox design elements including an official guide button.
  Microsoft is expected to use the device to test new Windows 11 "device aware" capabilities while red
  
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• Developer Convicted For 'Kill Switch' Code Activated Upon His Termination

  10-03-2025 20:30 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
  Davis Lu was convicted by a jury for causing intentional damage to protected computers owned by power management company Eaton Corp., the US Department of Justice announced Friday. Lu, who worked at Eaton for 11 years, became disgruntled after a 2018 corporate "realignment" reduced his
  
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• Are Microplastics Bad For Your Health? More Rigorous Science is Needed

  10-03-2025 19:51 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a Nature story: In March last year, researchers found that among a group of nearly 300 participants, people who had higher concentrations of plastics in deposits of fat in their arteries (arterial plaques) were more likely to experience heart attacks or strokes, and more likely to die as a result, than those in whom plastics were not detected. Since it was published, the New England Journal of Medicine study has been mentioned more than 6,600 times on social media and
  
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• US Will Be 'Central' To Climate Fight, Says Cop30 President

  10-03-2025 19:10 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The US will be "central" to solving the climate crisis despite Donald Trump's withdrawal of government support and cash, the president of the next UN climate summit has said. From a report: Andre Correa do Lago, president-designate of the Cop30 summit for the host country, Brazil, hinted that businesses and other organisations in the US could play a constructive role without the White House. "We have no idea of ignoring the US," he told journalists on a call on Friday. "The US is a key country i
  
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• Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs

  10-03-2025 18:42 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Sony has removed more than 75,000 AI-generated deepfake songs mimicking artists including Harry Styles and Beyonce from online platforms, the company revealed in a submission to the UK government, adding this likely represents just a fraction of fake songs circulating online.
  The proliferation of these unauthorized AI replicas has caused "direct commercial harm to legitimate recording artists, including UK artists," Sony stated. The company's intervention comes as Britain considers new copyright
  
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• Microsoft Admits GitHub Hosted Malware That Infected Almost a Million Devices

  10-03-2025 17:52 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devices to information thieves. From a report: Discovered by Microsoft Threat Intelligence late last year, the campaign saw pirate vid-streaming websites embed malvertising redirectors to generate pay-per-view or pay-per-click revenue from malvertising platforms. "These redirectors subsequently routed traffic through one or two additional malicious redirectors, ultimately leading
  
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• Feds Link $150M Cyberheist To 2022 LastPass Hacks

  10-03-2025 17:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  AmiMoJo writes: In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing last week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.
  On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they
  
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• Volkswagen Bringing Back Physical Buttons, Says Removing Them Was a Mistake

  10-03-2025 16:23 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake".
  "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans and the hazard light -- below the screen," he explained, adding: "It's not a phone: it's a car."
  
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• How the AI Talent Race Is Reshaping the Tech Job Market

  10-03-2025 15:44 via slashdot.org
  
  Nearly one in four U.S. tech jobs posted in 2025 require AI skills, according to data from the University of Maryland's AI job tracker, as companies across sectors adapt to the technology.
  Companies across healthcare, retail and utilities are increasingly seeking candidates who can integrate AI into existing roles rather than creating entirely new positions, with these skills commanding premium pay and greater job security.
  The information sector leads with 36% of IT jobs in January seeking AI e
  
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• AI Isn't Creating New Knowledge, Hugging Face Co-Founder Says

  10-03-2025 15:05 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead, it's just filling in the blanks between exis
  
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• Thousands of Freed Scam Center Workers Now Trapped in Overcrowded Detention Centers

  10-03-2025 12:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  August, 2023: Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says Bloomberg Reporter. ("They'd lure young people from across Southeast Asia...with the promise of well-paying jobs in customer service or online gambling.")February, 2025: A coordinated response begins by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities, which includes cutting power, internet, and fuel supplies to the scam centers.
  Today: The Associated Press reports that thousands of the people liberated from locked
  
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• Zuckerberg's Meta Considered Sharing User Data with China, Whistleblower Alleges

  10-03-2025 08:54 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post reports:Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company.
  The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China policy, alleges that the social media giant so desperately wanted to enter the l
  
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• Oscar-Winning Movie Criticized for Using AI To Correct Dialects

  10-03-2025 05:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Nominated for 10 Oscars, The Brutalist (directed and produced by Brady Corbet) has an "intriguing and controversial technical feature," according to the Baffler, that threatens to turn movie-viewing into "a drab appreciation of machine-managed flawlessness, and acting less interesting..."In January, the film's editor Dávid Jancsó revealed that he and Corbet used tools from AI speech software company Respeecher to make the Hungarian-language dialogue spoken by Adrien Brody (who play
  
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• New Open Source Windows-Compatible Operating System Released

  10-03-2025 03:45 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Red Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub:Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console applications, but its developer promises to keep working on it to reach DirectX and even game compatibility.
  "Free95 is your friendly Windows Environment with an added trust of the open source community," according to its README fi
  
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• Adafruit Successfully Automates Arduino Development Using 'Claude Code' LLM

  10-03-2025 01:59 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Adafruit Industries used large language model (LLM) tool Claude Code to streamline hardware development, writes managing director ptorrone.
  In a demo video Limor 'Ladyada' Fried compares the LLM's command-line interface to working with the build-automation tool CMake or "a weird cross between IRC and a BBS." The first step was converting a PDF of the hardware's datasheet into text, and Claude Code first displays the appropriate Bash command, while asking "Do you want to proceed?" ("What's nice i
  
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• That Galaxy Next Door? It's Home to a Monster Black Hole

  10-03-2025 00:19 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NPR reports on "a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door."This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that's appearing in The Astrophysical Journal... "Now that there is strong evidence that it should be there, you can rest assured that we are very excitedly following up," says Jesse Han of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, who led the study...
  Han and his colleagues realized that
  
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