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• Intel's Stock Jumps 18.8% - But What's In Its Future?

  16-03-2025 23:29 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Intel's stock jumped nearly 19% this week. "However, in the past year through Wednesday's close, Intel stock had fallen 53%," notes Investor's Business Daily:
  The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO is a "good start" but Intel has significant challenges, Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore said in a client note. Those challenges include delays in its server chip product line, a very competitive PC chip market, lack of a compelling AI chip offering, and over $10 billion in losses in its foundry busi
  
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• 'There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI To Cheat'

  16-03-2025 22:21 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Wall Street Journal K-12 education reporter Matt Barnum has a heads-up for parents: There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat. Barnum writes: "A high-school senior from New Jersey doesn't want the world to know that she cheated her way through English, math and history classes last year. Yet her experience, which the 17-year-old told The Wall Street Journal with her parent's permission, shows how generative AI has rooted in America's education syste
  
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• Is Oracle Closer to Running TikTok?

  16-03-2025 20:59 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  America's Vice President "expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline," reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said "There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise.")
  The article adds that TikTok owner ByteDance "has not publicly confirmed negotiations with any
  
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• After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller

  16-03-2025 19:39 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... We will absolutely continue to support and promote it." (They added that they were "appalled by Meta's tactics to silence our author through the use of a non-disparagement clause in a severance agreeme
  
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• Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090

  16-03-2025 17:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025," notes Tom's Hardware, "from around 10 in 2000." (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...)
  No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into competition against these three contenders, so the very emergence of Bolt Graphics seems like a breakthrough. However, the major focuses of Bolt's Zeus are high-quality rendering for movie and scientific industri
  
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• Codon Python Compiler Gets Faster - and Changes to Apache 2 License

  16-03-2025 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon:In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially single threaded and checks the shape (type) of each variable as it interprets scripts. Codon fixes types and compiles Python into compact, executable binaries that execute much faster.
  Several things have changed with their lat
  
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• Cybersecurity Alert Warns of 300 Attacks with 'Medusa' Ransomware

  16-03-2025 15:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  A ransomware-as-a-service variant called "Medusa" has claimed over 300 victims in "critical infrastructure sectors" (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center.
  And that alert reminds us that Medusa is a globe-spanning operation that recruits third-party affiliates to plant ransomware and negotiate with victims, notes the Register. "Even organizations that have good ransomware recovery regimes, meaning they don't ne
  
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• Ocean Levels Rise to a 30-Year High - and Faster Than Expected

  16-03-2025 12:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post reports:
  Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea level rise was 0.23 inches per year, higher than the expected 0.17 inches per year, NASA said in a news release.
  The rate of global sea level rise follows a trend of rapidly increasing rates over the past 30 years. From 199
  
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• Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit

  16-03-2025 08:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit," reports the BBC, "in the Brazilian city of Belém."The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people at the conference this November:
  The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact... Along the partially built road, lush
  
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• Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?

  16-03-2025 04:34 via ask.slashdot.org
  
  "Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally," asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others.
  Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that "doesn't spy... and no one else owns it."
  We download it, from souce-code if you like, install it, if we want. And it assists: us... No one gate-keeps it. It's not out to get us...
  And this is important: because no one owns it, the AI software is ours and leaks no data anywhere — to no one,
  
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• Firefly's 'Athena' Lander Watched Friday's Eclipse - from the Moon

  16-03-2025 02:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface," reports Daily Galaxy.
  While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander "continues to beam home incredible imagery," writes Space.com, and since its landing on March 2 "has been sending us stunning photos and videos..." A new video of Blue Ghost's moon-side view captures the eerie red li
  
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• Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers

  16-03-2025 00:48 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better. (See 2024-03-11, 2024-07-08, and 2025-01-30.)
  This time around it has been over six weeks and CloudFlare has been unable or unwilling to fix the problem on their end, effectively
  
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