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• US Expands Export Blacklist To Keep Computing Tech Out of China

  26-03-2025 23:50 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The U.S. has added 80 entities to its export blacklist to prevent China from acquiring advanced American chips for military development, including AI, quantum tech, and hypersonic weapons. The Verge reports: More than 50 of the new entities added to the list are based in China, with others located in Iran, Taiwan, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. BIS says the restrictions have been applied to entities that acted "contrary to US national security and foreign policy," and are
  
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• Business Schools Are Back

  26-03-2025 23:10 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of decline, the number of applications to the country's two-year MBA programs rebounded in 2024 -- rising 19%, according to a survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council. The pandemic saw a blossoming of new ways to deliver an MBA, but tradition has reasserted itself: The biggest growth last year was in conventional two-year and part-time programs.
  As in recent years, the great majority of student demand came from overseas, but application
  
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• VMware Sues Siemens For Allegedly Using Unlicensed Software

  26-03-2025 22:30 via slashdot.org
  
  VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations. From a report: The case was filed last Friday in the US District Court for the District Delaware. VMware's complaint [PDF] alleges that Siemens AG's US operations used more VMware software that it had licensed. Siemens's use of VMware became contentious when it tried to arrange extended support for some products.
  On September 9, 2024, Siemens appar
  
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• Google Will Develop the Android OS Fully In Private

  26-03-2025 21:50 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: No matter the manufacturer, every Android phone has one thing in common: its software base. Manufacturers can heavily customize the look and feel of the Android OS they ship on their Android devices, but under the hood, the core system functionality is derived from the same open-source foundation: the Android Open Source Project. After over 16 years, Google is making big changes to how it develops the open source version of Android in a
  
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• Dell's Staff Numbers Have Dropped By 25,000 in Just 2 Years

  26-03-2025 21:14 via slashdot.org
  
  Computer maker Dell's staff numbers have fallen by 25,000 in the last two years. In its latest 10-K filing, published on Tuesday, the company said that it had about 108,000 global employees as of January 31, 2025. In February 2024, that number was 120,000, marking a 10% annual reduction in the workforce. From a report: Looking back two years, Dell's head count stood at 133,000, meaning that since February 2023, the Texas-based tech company has reduced its workforce by 19%. The decline in Dell's
  
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• Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says

  26-03-2025 19:32 via slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence. From a report: The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US, said the latest move also reflected the company's choice to forgo some new bus
  
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• Who Wins Nobel Prizes?

  26-03-2025 18:22 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The United States has won far more Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine than any other nation, with the UK and Germany following in second and third place, according to an analysis of nearly 900 prize-winning publications.
  Universities account for roughly three-fourths of Nobel Prize-winning research, with a small number of elite institutions producing a disproportionate share of winners. Cambridge University leads with 32 prizes, followed by Harvard (22) and Columbia (13). While pri
  
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• Quitting Your Job Won't Help You Get Paid More Money Right Now

  26-03-2025 17:45 via slashdot.org
  
  Here's one more reason to cling to a steady job: It doesn't pay to quit. From a report: Typically workers who snag a new position see higher pay bumps than those holding down the same job. But in February, median wage growth of 4.4% for job stayers surpassed a 4.2% gain for job switchers, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The change, as measured by a three-month moving average, is yet another sign of a softening labor market. White collar workers have been clinging to t
  
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• Signal President Blasts WhatsApp's Privacy Claims

  26-03-2025 17:05 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Signal president Meredith Whittaker challenged recent assertions by WhatsApp head Will Cathcart that minimal differences exist between the two messaging platforms' privacy protections. "We're amused to see WhatsApp stretching the limits of reality to claim that they are just like Signal," Whittaker said in a statement published Monday, responding to Cathcart's comments to Dutch journalists last week.
  While WhatsApp licenses Signal's end-to-end encryption technology, Whittaker said that WhatsApp
  
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• Streaming Services Are Facing Identity Crisis, Research Shows

  26-03-2025 16:22 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Streaming platforms are increasingly indistinguishable to consumers despite high brand awareness, according to Hub Entertainment Research. The annual Evolution of Video Branding report shows major services like Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Max experiencing year-over-year declines in viewers' ability to articulate what makes each platform unique.
  Fewer consumers (37% in 2025, down from 41% in 2023) report signing up for services to watch specific shows, while many can't correctly identify where si
  
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• London Bans Most E-Bikes on Public Transport Over Fire Risk

  26-03-2025 15:44 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Transport for London will ban most e-bikes across its network from March 31 amid growing safety concerns over battery fires, the transport authority announced on Wednesday. The ban, covering London Underground, Overground, Elizabeth Line and DLR trains, exempts only folding e-bikes, which are considered less likely to have been modified and pose a reduced safety risk.
  TfL implemented the measure following union strike threats after several incidents, including an e-bike that exploded into flames
  
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• Apple Barred From Google Antitrust Trial, $20 Billion Search Deal at Risk

  26-03-2025 15:11 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Apple cannot participate in Google's upcoming antitrust trial, potentially jeopardizing a $20 billion annual deal between the tech giants. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Apple waited too long to join the proceedings, filing its request 33 days after the government proposed remedies in the case Google lost last August.
  "The delay seems difficult to justify," the judges ruled. While Apple can still submit written testimony and file friend-of-court
  
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• Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal

  26-03-2025 14:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. The scientists investigated a region of seafloor recently exposed by the calving of a gigantic iceberg -- A-84 -- which is as large as Chicago. The team found a surprisingly vibrant community of critters on the seafloor below where A-84 was once attached t
  
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• Google Patches Chrome Sandbox Escape Zero-Day Caught By Kaspersky

  26-03-2025 11:00 via slashdot.org
  
  wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Google late Tuesday rushed out a patch for a sandbox escape vulnerability in its flagship Chrome browser after researchers at Kaspersky caught a professional hacking operation launching drive-by download exploits. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, was chained with a second exploit for remote code execution in what appears to be a nation-state sponsored cyberespionage campaign [dubbed Operation ForumTroll] targeting organizations in Russia.
  
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• Ethically Sourced 'Spare' Human Bodies Could Revolutionize Medicine

  26-03-2025 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In an op-ed for MIT Technology Review, authors Carsten T. Charlesworth, Henry T. Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi make the case for human "bodyoids" that could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages: Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why do so few drugs that enter clinical trials receive regulatory approval? And why is the waiting list for organ transplantation so long? These chall
  
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• Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries

  26-03-2025 04:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures -- adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic -- Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them, spoofing user-agents an
  
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• GameStop To Invest Corporate Cash In Bitcoin, Following In Footsteps of MicroStrategy

  26-03-2025 02:01 via slashdot.org
  
  GameStop announced it will invest part of its corporate cash in bitcoin and stablecoins, following MicroStrategy's lead. The meme stock jumped more than 6% in extended trading Tuesday following the news. CNBC reports: The video game retailer said a portion of its cash or future debt and equity issuances may be invested in bitcoin and U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins. As of Feb. 1, GameStop held nearly $4.8 billion in cash. The firm also said it has not set a ceiling on the amount of bitcoin i
  
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• Microsoft's Many Outlooks Are Confusing Users

  26-03-2025 00:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Register's Richard Speed reports: Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing. It's a problem common to several Microsoft products. A file needs to be opened, but which app should be used? Should it be Outlook New, or Outlook (New)? With tongue firmly in cheek, Hanselman listed some more options: Outlook (Zero Sugar), Outlook (Caffeine Free), and so on. Ha
  
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