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• How Spaceport America Will Grow

  11-05-2025 23:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  18 years ago Slashdot covered the creation of Spaceport America.Today Space.com hails it as "the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world." But engineer/executive director Scott McLaughlin has plans to grow even more.
  Already home to an array of commercial space industry tenants, such as Virgin Galactic, SpinLaunch, Up Aerospace, and Prismatic, Spaceport America is a "rocket-friendly environment of 6,000 square miles of restricted airspace, low population density, a 12,000-foot by 2
  
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• Whoop Promises Free Upgrades - But Some Users Will Have to Pay to Extend Their Subscriptions

  11-05-2025 22:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Whoop fitness trackers had promised free upgrades to anyone who'd been a member for at least six months — and then reneged. "After customers began complaining, the company responded with a Reddit post, according to a report from TechCrunch:Now, anyone with more than 12 months remaining on their subscription is eligible for a free upgrade to Whoop 5.0 (or a refund if they've already paid the fee). And customers with less than 12 months can extend their subscription to get the upgrade at no
  
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• OpenAI Enters 'Tough Negotiation' With Microsoft, Hopes to Raise Money With IPO

  11-05-2025 21:01 via slashdot.org
  
  OpenAI is currently in "a tough negotiation" with Microsoft, the Financial Times reports, citing "one person close to OpenAI."
  On the road to building artificial general intelligence, OpenAI hopes to unlock new funding (and launch a future IPO), according to the article, which says both sides are at work "rewriting the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a high-stakes negotiation...."
  Microsoft, meanwhile, wants to protect its access to OpenAI's cutting-edge AI models...
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• 'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless'

  11-05-2025 20:01 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline," writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). "To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette — except all six chambers are loaded with undefined behavior."
  But you know what? We don't need a compiler nanny. No borrow checker. No lifetimes. No ownership models. No black magic. Not even Valgrind is required. Just r
  
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• Chinese Hackers Exploit SAP NetWeaver RCE Flaw

  11-05-2025 18:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "A China-linked unnamed threat actor dubbed Chaya_004 has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in SAP NetWeaver," reports The Hacker News:Forescout Vedere Labs, in a report published Thursday, said it uncovered a malicious infrastructure likely associated with the hacking group weaponizing CVE-2025-31324 (CVSS score: 10.0) since April 29, 2025. CVE-2025-31324 refers to a critical SAP NetWeaver flaw that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) by uploading w
  
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• What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving?

  11-05-2025 17:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Fast Company's "AI Decoded" newsletter makes the case that the first "killer app" for generative AI... is coding.
  Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at Databricks, estimates that coding accounts for half of all large language model usage today. A 2024 GitHub survey found that over 97% of developers have used AI coding tools at work, with 30% to 40% of organizations actively encoura
  
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• Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server?

  11-05-2025 16:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Exposure-management company Tenable recently discussed how the MCP tool-interfacing framework for AI can be "manipulated for good, such as logging tool usage and filtering unauthorized commands." (Although "Some of these techniques could be used to advance both positive and negative goals.")
  Now an anonymous Slashdot reader writes: In a demonstration video put together by security researcher Seth Fogie, an AI client given a simple prompt to 'Scan and exploit' a web server leverages various conne
  
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• Nintendo Can Render Your Switch 2 'Permanently Unusable' If You Break Their Rules

  11-05-2025 13:34 via games.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:The new Nintendo Switch 2 is almost here. Next month, eager fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular hybrid console. But before you line up (or frantically refresh your browser for a preorder), you might want to read the fine print, because Nintendo might be able to kill your console.Yes, really. That's not just speculation, folks. According to its newly updated user agreement, Nintendo has granted
  
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• CISA/DOGE Software Engineer's Login Credentials Appeared in Multiple Leaks From Info-Stealing Malware in Recent Years

  11-05-2025 09:35 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware," reports Ars Technica, "a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years."
  As an employee of DOGE, [30-something Kyle] Schutt accessed FEMA's proprietary software for managing both disaster and non-disaster funding grants [to Dropsite News]. Under his
  
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• Blizzard's 'Overwatch' Team Just Voted to Unionize

  11-05-2025 06:15 via games.slashdot.org
  
  "The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized," reports Kotaku:That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since the World of Warcraft team unionized last July... Like unions at Bethesda Game Studios and Raven Software, the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild now has to bargain for its first contract, a process
  
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• Theranos Fraudster's Partner Launches His Own Blood-Testing Startup

  11-05-2025 03:49 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "The romantic partner of Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a start-up that sounds eerily similar to the venture that landed his girlfriend behind bars," writes The Daily Beast.He's incorporated "Haemanthus" in Delaware a year and a half ago (though the company operates out of his neighborhood in Austin), according to the New York Times. Haemanthus appears to have around 10 employees.
  From The Daily Beast:
  California hotel heir Billy Evans' new company is a blood-testing firm that
  
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• Life of a Marathon Streamer: Online for Three Years, Facing Isolation and Burnout

  11-05-2025 01:36 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley's pioneering "JenniCam" livestream (saying "It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...")
  But a new article in the Washington Post remembers how "Once, Ringley looked directly into the camera and held a note in front of her eye. It read: 'I FEEL SO LONELY.'"
  By 2003, Ringley had shut down the site and disappeared. She began declining interview r
  
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• Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust

  11-05-2025 00:14 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes:As we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this "portable operating system" back to life on modern hardware, in a modern language (Rust).Wikipedia describes UCSD Pascal as "a version that ran on a custom operating system that could be ported to different platforms. A key platform was the Apple II, where i
  
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