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dimanche 3 novembre 2024, 08:34
'It's that time again,' writes USA Today, noting that Sunday morning millions of Americans (along with millions more in Canada, Europe, parts of Australia, and Chile) 'will set their clocks back an hour, and many will renew their twice-yearly calls to put an end to the...
This week's Ubuntu Summit 2024 was attended by Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030). He's also a FOSS correspondent for the Register, where he's filed this report: One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software...
The Washington Post reports that a former Etsy CEO remodeled their home into what's known as a passive house. It's 'designed to be as energy efficient as possible, typically with top-notch insulation and a perfect seal that prevents outside air from penetrating the home; air ...
samedi 2 novembre 2024, 23:53
GM's president of global markets says their EV portfolio 'is growing faster than the market,' according to Investopedia, 'because we have an all-electric vehicle for just about everybody, no matter what they like to drive.' The headline at Barrons? 'Don't Look Now, but GM's...
'AI-driven 0-day detection is here,' argues a new blog post from ZeroPath, makers of a GitHub app that 'detects, verifies, and issues pull requests for security vulnerabilities in your code.' They write that AI-assisted security research 'has been quietly advancing' since...
Former FTX executive Nishad Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion, reports CNBC — and is subject to three years of supervised release, making him 'the fourth ex-employee of the collapsed crypto exchange to be punished.' But while he'd faced a maximum sentence of 75 years,...
The Washington Post reports that America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) 'is considering legal action against Meta over allegations that it improperly used financial data obtained from third parties in its highly-lucrative advertising business...' The...
While Amazon, Google, and other companies build new data centers — sometimes for their AI projects — parts of America 'are facing higher electric bills,' reports the Washington Post: The facilities' extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can d...
In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or DJIA) was created as a kind of proxy indicator for the wider stock market. 'A stock is typically added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth and is of interest to a large number of...
The free face-image search engine PimEyes 'scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer's website,'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn't look right... The microscopic proof was there that a chunk of the electronic ...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from CNBC: Threads now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. 'We continue to be on track towards this becoming our next major social app,' Zuckerberg said on a call with analysts, adding that ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries in banning a widely used weedkiller linked to Parkinson's disease and other health dangers. In a...
Starlink has launched home Internet service to 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) after a multi-year collaboration with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to minimize interference with radio telescopes. 'The vast majority of people within the...
Jay Newman, who made billions for Elliott Management pursuing Argentina's defaulted debt, wrote a 2022 thriller about corrupt spies and hedge funds. Now federal prosecutors are examining parallels between his novel 'Undermoney' and real-world events. The investigation...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new global inventory has catalogued air pollution from space activities from 2020 to 2022. The inventory includes time, position and pollution from 446 launchers as they ascended and the tracks of re-entries as objects ...
Identity management firm Okta said Friday it has patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that affected customers using usernames longer than 52 characters in its AD/LDAP delegated authentication service. The flaw, introduced on July 23 and fixed October 30,...
California signed an agreement with major airlines to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuels, aiming to reach 200 million gallons by 2035 or about 40% of the state's air travel demand. The Hill reports: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Airlines for...
Waymo is advancing autonomous driving with a new training model for its robotaxis built on Google's multimodal large language model (MLLM) Gemini. The Verge reports: Waymo released a new research paper today that introduces an 'End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous...
The feds have indicted Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national and founder of Gotbit, on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation. Crypto News reports: According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the indictment alleges that Andriunin and his...
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