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Monday September 23, 2024. 06:42 PM
Messaging app Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests, according to Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov. From a report: The platform changed its terms of service to deter criminals from abusing...
SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday. From a report: Earlier this month, Musk had said that the first Starships to Mars would launch in two years 'when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.' The...
Sonos launched a disastrous app update in May, prompting CEO Patrick Spence to commission an internal investigation led by chief counsel Eddie Lazarus. The software release, plagued with missing features and bugs, has sparked widespread customer outrage and led to a $200...
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine -- a managed WordPress hosting provider that has raised nearly $300 million in funding over its 14-year history -- a 'cancer to WordPress.' From a...
The US Commerce Department on Monday will propose a ban on the sale or import of smart vehicles that use specific Chinese or Russian technology because of national security concerns, according to US officials. From a report: A US government investigation that began in...
In 2022 about 346,000 electric cars were reportedly sold in California. But the same year its greenhouse gas emissions dropped a whopping 9.3 million metric tons — the amount produced by 2.2 million gas-powered cars — lowering emissions 2.4% from the year before. 'The biggest...
Nature published an introduction to running an LLM locally, starting with the example of a bioinformatician who's using AI to generate readable summaries for his database of immune-system protein structures. 'But he doesn't use ChatGPT, or any other web-based LLM.' He just...
First released on July 11th, the Firefox-based Zen browser is 'taking a different approach to the user interface,' according to the blog It's FOSS. The Register says the project 'reminds us strongly of Arc, a radical Chromium-based web browser... to modernize the standard...
German law enforcement seized 47 cryptocurrency exchange services 'that facilitated illegal money laundering activities for cybercriminals,' according to BleepingComputer, 'including ransomware gangs.' Long-time Slashdot reader Arrogant-Bastard shares their report: The...
The republic of Cyprus 'has outstripped all other EU member states in embracing hot-water solar systems,' reports the Guardian, 'with an estimated 93.5 % of households exploiting the alternative energy form for domestic needs.' EU figures show the eastern Mediterranean...
'Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code,' reports Krebs on Security — citing an email shared by one of his readers: 'Hey there! We have detected a security vulnerability in your repository. Please contact...
Sunday September 22, 2024. 11:12 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: On Thursday, Amazon Ads announced Video Generator and Live Image, 'our first generative AI-powered technology designed to remove creative barriers and enable brands to produce lifestyle imagery that enhances ad performance.' Amazon's...
In the antitrust trial alleging Google had an ad-selling monopoly, 'government lawyers have said some of their strongest evidence is in Google's own internal communications,' reports the Wall Street Journal: [In 2010] a new crop of ad-tech companies were threatening Google's ...
Salon looks closer at a new $51,744-per-violation AI regulation officially approved one month ago by America's FTC — calling it a financial blow 'If you're a digital media company whose revenue comes from publishing AI-generated articles and fake product reviews. But they...
An anonymous reader shared this story from SFGate: A boy who was kidnapped from an Oakland playground in 1951 has been found alive on the East Coast, a remarkable resolution to a mystery that has haunted his family for over half a century. On February 21, 1951, 6-year-old...
The JavaScript runtime Bun is a Node.js/Deno alternative (that's also a bundler/test runner/package manager). And Bun 1.1.28 now includes experimental support for '>compiling and running native C from JavaScript, according to this report from The New Stack: 'From compression...
The Washington Post reports that electric vehicles made by General Motors now can use Tesla's Superchargers. (GM's charger adapters 'will first be made available to customers in the United States, followed by availability for Canadian customers later this year.') The Post...
Polypropylene and polyethylene plastics 'can be recycled,' reports Ars Technica. But as 'polyolefin' polymers, 'the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. 'Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have...
'In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we'll find evidence of life on another planet...' begins a new essay by author Dave Eggers in the Washington Post. 'In more than a dozen conversations with some of the best minds in astrophysics, I did not meet anyone who was...
The administrators of Great Britain's power grid admit that it's often unable to use energy-storage batteries due to old computer systems and an old network with 'not enough cables', according to the Financial Times — though the system operator says they're making progress...
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