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Thursday June 6, 2024. 05:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined 'Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes ...
Michael 'Mike' Karels, one of the authors of 'The Design and Implementation of the 4.4Bsd Operating System' and a part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, who received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award, has died. Longtime Slashdot reader...
Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Computex Taiwanese storage vendor Synology has revealed a range of backup appliances.…
The Marubo people, an isolated Indigenous tribe in the Amazon, have gained high-speed internet access through Elon Musk's Starlink service, drastically altering their traditional way of life. While the internet has brought significant benefits like improved communication and ...
Cailey Gleeson reports via Forbes: A group backed by more than two dozen investors -- including Citadel Securities and BlackRock -- is planning to start its own stock exchange in Texas, it said Wednesday, in an attempt to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq....
No, this isn't the weird logic of cryptocurrency infecting the IRS. It's a 'Fight us and everyone loses even more' kinda deal Imploded cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes a lot of people a lot of money – but has convinced America's tax collectors at the IRS to give it a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza,...
Tycoon's private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn’t use them yet Comment Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed he redirected Nvidia H100 GPUs intended for the car manufacturer to X and xAI, two private firms he owns.…
Humane is telling AI Pin owners today that they should 'immediately' stop using the charging case that came with its AI gadget. From a report: There are issues with a third-party battery cell that 'may pose a fire safety risk,' the company wrote in an email to customers....
Nvidia has reached a market cap of $3 trillion, surpassing Apple to become the second-largest public company behind Microsoft. CNBC reports: Nvidia's milestone is the latest stunning mark in a run that has seen the stock soar more than 3,224% over the past five years. The...
Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.
Wednesday June 5, 2024. 11:50 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As we're currently seeing with AI, when a new technology becomes buzzy, companies will do almost anything to cram that tech into their products. Trends fade, however, and corporate priorities shift -- resulting in...
Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs Miscreants exploited a zero-day in TikTok to compromised the accounts of CNN and other big names. The app maker has confirmed there was a cyberattack, and that it has scrambled to secure accounts and prevent any further...
Meta Platforms withheld information from federal regulators during their original reviews of the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing as part of a lawsuit seeking to break up the social networking giant. From a report:...
Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Wednesday celebrated five years of cat herding, which is to say shepherding the responsible development of machine...
Slashdot readers destinyland and LazarusQLong share a report from CNN: The third attempt was the charm for Boeing's Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight test Wednesday in a milestone that has been a decade in the making. The new spacecraft's maiden...
Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims RansomHub, a newish cyber-crime operation that has claimed to be behind the theft of data from Christie's auction house and others, is 'very likely' some kind of rebrand of the Knight ransomware gang,...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A Chinese research team says it has uncovered a significant security flaw in processor design that could have a wide impact on China's booming domestic chip industry. China was relying on the structure of the world's largest open-source...
Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems We may be inching closer to a post-turbine wind energy future if a grant awarded to a University of Bristol boffin for wind-harvesting, ground-tethered drone research is any indication of things to...
In-process OLAP database flies the nest DuckDB has become a fully fledged database release with its 1.0 iteration, promising a new data model and greater stability to enhance backwards compatibility.…
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