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• Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year

  16-11-2025 23:10 via apple.slashdot.org
  From the Business Standard:
  Apple has accelerated its succession plans as the company prepares for Chief Executive Tim Cook to potentially step down as early as next year, Financial Times reported. Apple's board and senior leaders have recently increased their focus on a smooth leadership transition after Cook's more than 14 years at the helm of the $4 trillion tech giant, the news report said.
  John Ternus, senior Vice-President of hardware engineering, is seen by many inside Apple as the top co
  
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• Deaths Linked to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Rose 17% in England in 2024

  16-11-2025 21:47 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
  The number of deaths linked to superbugs that do not respond to frontline antibiotics increased by 17% in England last year, according to official figures that raise concerns about the ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance.
  The figures, released by the UK Health Security Agency, also revealed a large rise in private prescriptions for antibiotics, with 22% dispensed through the private sector in 2024. The increase in private prescri
  
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• The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google's AI Overviews)

  16-11-2025 19:55 via tech.slashdot.org
  CNN profiled the non-profit Internet Archive today — and included this tidbit about how they archive parts of the internet that are now "tucked in conversations with AI chatbots."
  The rise of artificial intelligence and AI chatbots means the Internet Archive is changing how it records the history of the internet. In addition to web pages, the Internet Archive now captures AI-generated content, like ChatGPT answers and those summaries that appear at the top of Google search results.
  The Int
  
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• Could Firefox Be the Browser That Protects the Privacy of AI Users?

  16-11-2025 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Tech entrepreneur/blogger Anil Dash has been critical of AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. (He's written that Atlas "substitutes its own AI-generated content for the web, but it looks like it's showing you the web," while its prompt-based/command-line interface resembles a clunky text adventure, and it's true purpose seems to be ingesting more training data.)And at the Mozilla Festival in Spain, "Virtually everyone shared some version of what I'd articulated as the majority view on AI, which is ap
  
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• Are Data Centers Raising America's Electricity Prices?

  16-11-2025 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Residential utility bills in America "rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year," reports CNBC, citing statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration:The reasons for price increases are often complex and vary by region. But in at least three states with high concentrations of data centers, electric bills climbed much faster than the national average during that period. Prices, for example, surged by 13% in Virginia, 16% in Illinois and
  
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• Security Researchers Spot 150,000 Function-less npm Packages in Automated 'Token Farming' Scheme

  16-11-2025 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from The Register:
  Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" — but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.
  Amazon Inspector security researchers, using a new detection rule and AI assistance, originally spotted the suspicious npm packages in
  
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• Solar and Wind are Covering ALl New Power Demand in 2025

  16-11-2025 13:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
  Solar and wind are growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand worldwide for the first three quarters of 2025, according to new data from energy think tank Ember.
  The group now expects fossil power to stay flat for the full year, marking the first time since the pandemic that fossil generation won't increase. Solar and wind aren't just expanding; they're outpacing global electricity demand itself. Solar generation jumped 498 TWh (+
  
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• 'Holy Winamp! Opera Puts a Music Visualizer Inside Its Browser'

  16-11-2025 09:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World:It won't whip the llama's ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera's Dynamic Themes, which use the WebGPU standard to employ a dynamic theme that runs in the background of the browser. It's essentially a shader, which uses your PC's graphics engine to generate the moving background.The browser also comes with a music player, which i
  
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• Could C# Overtake Java in TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Rankings?

  16-11-2025 06:58 via developers.slashdot.org
  It's been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And "The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python's familiar lead," writes TechRepublic. "C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose some ground, and C# moves sharply upward, narrowing the gap with Java to less than a percentage point..."TIO CEO Paul Jansen said this month that "Instead of Python, programmin
  
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• Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector

  16-11-2025 04:58 via it.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring within genAI tools. 'Traditional governance built for email, file-sharing, and sanctioned SaaS didn't ant
  
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• Google Begins Aggresively Using the Law To Stop Text Message Scams

  16-11-2025 02:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message," reports BGR:
  Google said it's bringing suit against Lighthouse, an impressively large operation that allegedly provides tools customers can buy to set up their own specialized phishing scams. All told, Google estimates that Lighthouse-affiliated scams in the U.S. have stolen anywhere between 12.7 million and 115 million credit cards. "Bad actors built Lighthouse as a phishing-
  
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• A Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough?

  16-11-2025 01:22 via tech.slashdot.org
  The dream of quantum computers has been hampered by the challenge of error correction, writes the Harvard Gazette, since qubits "are inherently susceptible to slipping out of their quantum states and losing their encoded information."
  But in a newly-published paper, a research team "combined various methods to create complex circuits with dozens of error correction layers" that "suppresses errors below a critical threshold — the point where adding qubits further reduces errors rather than
  
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• Fear Drives the AI 'Cold War' Between America and China

  16-11-2025 00:22 via news.slashdot.org
  A new "cold war" between America and China is "pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models," reports the Wall Street Journal, "including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of superintelligent AI systems misaligned with human values..."
  "Both countries are driven as much by fear as by hope of progress. "In Washington and Silicon Valley, warnings abound that China's
  "authoritarian AI," left unchecked, will erode American tec
  
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