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Monday March 11, 2024. 07:41 PM
The US could further tighten controls on China's access to sophisticated semiconductor technologies, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said, signaling Washington may intensify its campaign to prevent Beijing catching up in military capabilities. From a report: 'We cannot...
The U.S. government must move 'quickly and decisively' to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which could, in the worst case, cause an 'extinction-level threat to the human species,' says a report commissioned by the U.S....
Several French government agencies were hit by 'intense' cyberattacks beginning Sunday night. From a report: The attacks' impact on most services has been reduced and access to agencies' websites restored, the prime minister's office said in a statement Monday. Read more...
Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to use indoor security cameras, regardless of where they're placed or what they're used for. In an update on Monday, Airbnb says the change to 'prioritize the privacy' of renters goes into effect on April 30th. From a report: The vacation...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Linus Torvalds has released version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel. 'So it took a bit longer for the commit counts to come down this release than I tend to prefer,' Torvalds wrote on the Linx kernel mailing list on Sunday, 'but a lot of that...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently took to the stage to claim that Nvidia's GPUs are 'so good that even when the competitor's chips are free, it's not cheap enough.' Huang further explained that Nvidia GPU pricing isn't really significant...
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, the entrepreneur said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open-source roots. From a report: xAI released Grok last year,...
CNN's national security analyst interviewed a U.S. intelligence officer who worked on the newly-released Defense report debunking UFO sightings — physicist Sean Kirkpatrick. He tells CNN 'about two to five percent' of UFO reports are 'truly anomalous.' But CNN adds that 'he...
A Toronto Sun columnist writes that two Canadian civil liberties groups are 'sounding alarms' about the proposed new Online Harms Act (C-63): The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) say while the proposed legislation...
Streamers narrowly avoided getting shut out at the 2024 Oscars: Netflix came away with just one trophy and Apple left empty-handed, after they garnered a total of 32 nominations. From a report: Netflix collected its one win for Wes Anderson's 'The Wonderful Story of Henry...
In 1995 Scottish video game designer Chris Sawyer created the business simulator game Transport Tycoon Deluxe — and within four years, Wikipedia notes, work began on the first version of an open source version that's still being actively developed. 'According to a study of...
Researchers at Cado Security Labs received an alert about a honeypot using the Docker Engine API. 'A Docker command was received...' they write, 'that spawned a new container, based on Alpine Linux, and created a bind mount for the underlying honeypot server's root...
An anonymous reader shared this story from the New York Times: Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago...
Sunday March 10, 2024. 10:34 PM
An article in Inc notes a 'wild projection' in Reddit's SEC filing that Reddit's global market opportunity by 2027 is $1.4 trillion.' Some of the numbers lead back to a single individual: Sam Altman. The co-founder and chief executive of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI owns an 8.7...
America's Department of Justice 'has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane,' reports the Associated Press, citing a report from the Wall Street Journal. 'As part of the new investigation, the...
Science magazine 'has confirmed that a panel of two dozen geologists has voted down a proposal to end the Holocene — our current span of geologic time, which began 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age — and inaugurate a new epoch, the Anthropocene. 'Starting in...
An anonymous reader shared this article from Futurism: More than two years since MIT claimed its scientists achieved a breakthrough in fusion energy, the university is claiming that new research 'confirms' that the magnet-based design used in those tests isn't just...
One year after Silicon Valley Bank's collapse and seizure, 'Regional bank stocks remain volatile compared to other types of financial institutions,' reports the Observer, 'indicating investors' lingering worries about the sector.' But not everyone suffered: Benefiting from...
Ubuntu-based Linux Mint includes HexChat software by default 'to offer a way for users of the distro to talk to, ask questions, and get support from other users,' according to the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. But in February HexChat's developer announced its final release... That...
Long-time Slashdot reader garote writes: It's the year 1991. You're a teenage computer geek. You've just upgraded to an Apple IIgs, your first '16-bit' computer. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embark on the computer geek...
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