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samedi 11 novembre 2023, 22:59
From AaronSwartzDay.com: Aaron Swartz Day was founded, in 2013, after the death of Aaron Swartz, with these combined goals: To draw attention to what happened to Aaron, in the hopes of stopping it from happening to anyone else. - This includes clarifying that, although Aaron ...
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With 1.4 billion people, India is the second most-populous country in the world. But a new article in the Washington Post alleges that India has 'set a global standard for online censorship.' For years, a committee of executives from U.S. technology companies and Indian...
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The longest actor's strike in Hollywood history ended with 'groundbreaking' protections against the use of AI, reports CNN: Studios will have to provide informed consent for the creation of any kind of digital replica of a performer or background actor, with a specific...
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A new book argues lockdowns during the pandemic were 'a failure.' But in response CNN published an opinion piece disagreeing — written by physician/infectious disease expert Kent Sepkowitz from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York — who argues 'You bet it...
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Slashdot reader sciencehabit writes: The Scottish wildcat--a fierce, solitary feline with striking stripes and a legendary reputation in Scotland--may be extinct, due to breeding with domestic cats. Domestic cats and European wildcats (a species to which the Scottish wildcat ...
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Wednesday five of the U.S. Republican candidates for president gathered for their third debate in Miami — where they again urged the banning of TikTok in America: Moderator: Last week congressman Mike Gallagher, who is chairman of the House bipartisan select committee on the...
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'Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet,' reports the CBC, calling it 'a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.' 'The findings, published Monday, confirm what until now were theories that supermassive black holes existed at the dawn of ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: One of the nation's largest private radiology companies agreed to pay a $450,000 fine after a 2021 ransomware attack led to the exposure of sensitive information from nearly 200,000 patients. In an agreement announced on...
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Alison Snyder reports via Axios: For more than 15 years, scientists have worked to build a complex cell with an entire genome built from scratch. This week they announced a major milestone: They've created synthetic versions of the 16 chromosomes in a yeast cell and...
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Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shares a report from Ars Technica: Frank Borman, an Air Force test pilot, astronaut, and accomplished businessman who led the first crew to fly to the Moon in 1968, died Tuesday in Montana, NASA said Thursday. He was 95 years old. Borman,...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: This week doctors announced they had completed the first successful transplant of a partial face and an entire eye. In May at NYU Langone Health in New York City, the surgery was performed on a 46-year-old man who ...
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According to Nikkei Asia (paywalled), Indonesia has officially launched Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant. It covers an area of over 250 hectares (2.5 km^2) and should be able to produce enough renewable energy to power 50,000 homes. Interesting Engineering...
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schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: Apple will pay $25 million in back pay and civil penalties to settle a matter over the company's hiring practices under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Apple has agreed to pay $6.75 million ...
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9to5Mac has found evidence in the iOS 17.2 beta code that hints the company is moving towards enabling sideloading on iOS devices. From the report: iOS 17.2 has a new public framework called 'Managed App Distribution.' While our first thought was that this API would be...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The star of long-running videogame review series Zero Punctuation has quit after 16 years. Ben Croshaw, known as Yahtzee, was famous for his very fast, very rude, quickfire opinions on the latest games. His five-minute videos ...
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Long-time Slashdot reader cusco writes: Forty years ago today Microsoft introduced its new Graphical User Interface for MS-DOS. Inspired by the Xerox PARC project Alto, as was the Apple Mac, it was their first attempt to address the user unfriendliness of the standard...
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vendredi 10 novembre 2023, 23:40
Press2ToContinue writes: 01.AI, a Chinese AI startup, has stockpiled enough Nvidia AI and HPC GPUs to last 18 months, in anticipation of a U.S. export ban. Looks like 01.AI is taking 'goo big or go home' to a new level with their GPU shopping spree. They're basically the...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Modern versions of Windows have become more annoying as time has gone on, pushing additional Microsoft products and services on users who are just trying to turn on their computers and get something done. Often, as we've ...
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The Canadian federal government hired KPMG consultants at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for advice on how to save money on consultants, documents show. From a report: New spending details tabled in Parliament show the department of Natural Resources, led by...
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Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau's.tk domain had more users than any other country. Here's why: Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to...
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