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Saturday April 27, 2024. 10:34 PM
'A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning,' reports CBS News, 'after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording...' One-time Pikesville High School employee Dazhon Darien is facing charges that...
Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration 'is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets.' The employees' union 'said the two...
America's Federal Trade Commission 'is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers,' reports the Associated Press, 'as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.' In a 2023...
1,000 petabytes. A million terabytes. One quintillion bytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). That's the amount of storage reported by users of the Ceph storage solution (across more than 3,000 Ceph clusters). The Ceph Foundation is a 'directed fund' of the Linux Foundation,...
'For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism,' reports the Independent: The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as ...
'Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry,' writes CNBC. But now 'it's struggling to stay relevant.' Intel's long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares down 9% on Friday to...
'Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years,' Ars Technica reported this week, 'in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented tool, the software maker disclosed Monday. 'When Microsoft ...
Macworld Spring is here and summer is on its way. For those taking to the outdoors, ensure you’re set up with the right equipment, especially a reliable flashlight for getting around in the dark and exploring nature’s delights. Fortunately, you can get ambient lighting and...
Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it...
Macworld If you’re a sensitive listener or simply dislike in-ear audio options, consider upgrading to these open-ear headphones. These Mercato headphones have an open-ear design for comfort and crisp audio, all while keeping you aware of your surroundings. Now, they’re on...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly ...
The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access...
In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft reported a 30% drop in Xbox console sales, after reporting a 30% drop last April. 'It blamed the nosedive on a 'lower volume of consoles sold' during the start of 2024,' reports Kotaku. From the report: In February,...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating that ISPs offer $15 broadband plans to low-income families. Ars Technica reports: The ruling (PDF) is a loss for six trade...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new campaign tracked as 'Dev Popper' is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). The developers are asked to perform...
The free tax filing pilot from the IRS that rolled out in 12 states last month saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for federal returns, said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. CNBC reports: This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed...
Tobias Mann reports via The Register: Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Darktrace is set to go private in a deal that values the U.K.-based cybersecurity giant at around $5 billion. A newly formed entity called Luke Bidco Ltd., formed by private equity giant Thoma Bravo, has tabled an all-cash ...
Friday April 26, 2024. 11:20 PM
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by superconductivity physicist Ranga Dias against his employer, the University of Rochester in New York. From a report: In February, a university investigation found that he had committed scientific misconduct by, among other things,...
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