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lundi 7 octobre 2024, 06:31
800,000 tons of rock have been excavated from a South Dakota research facility — part of a multi-year process 'to help answer some of physics' biggest questions,' writes America's Energy Department. 'The caverns they excavated will hold a massive particle detector and...
Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah writes: Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its then-treasurer stealing money from the society.. Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated due to the theft of...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia's public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers' houses — to...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police seldom disclose their...
dimanche 6 octobre 2024, 23:58
Amazon launched 'cashierless checkout' stores In 2018, reports CNBC — but by 2020 it was licensing the 'Just Walk Out' technology to other stores in airports, hospitals, and stadiums. In April, Amazon announced it was removing cashierless checkout from its U.S. Fresh stores...
'Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: The [10.1-inch e-ink display] PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and...
The British Post Office scandal 'was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffered due to Horizon accounting software,' remembers Computer Weekly, 'which led to the most widespread miscarriage of...
'Scientists can't agree on the exact rate of expansion of the universe, dictated by the Hubble constant,' a new article at Space.com reminds us: The rate can be measured starting from the local (and therefore recent) universe, then going farther back in time — or, it can be...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Three new theft protection features that Google announced earlier this year have reportedly started rolling out on Android. The tools — Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device Lock and Remote Lock — are aimed at giving users...
He's the long-time Slashdot reader who installed Linux on a 1993 PC — and then installed a 1994 version of MS-DOS on a modern Thinkpad X13. (And somewhere along the way, he even built a ChatGPT client for DOS...) But in a new blog post, yeokm1 reveals 'I recently built myself...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil....
'China Telecom, one of the largest wireless carriers in mainland China, says that it has developed two large language models (LLMs) relying solely on domestically manufactured AI chips...' reports Tom's Hardware. 'If the information is accurate, this is a crucial milestone...
'Pig Butchering Alert: Fraudulent Trading App targeted iOS and Android users.' That's the title of a new report released this week by cybersecurity company Group-IB revealing the official Apple App Store and Google Play store offered apps that were actually one part of a...
Wired reports on 'AI-powered cameras mounted on cars and trucks, initially designed to capture license plates, but which are now photographing political lawn signs outside private homes, individuals wearing T-shirts with text, and vehicles displaying pro-abortion bumper...
The Washington Post interviewed Lebanese officials, people close to Hezbollah, and Israeli, Arab and U.S. security officials and politicians about a years-long plan (originated at Mossad headquarters) that ultimately killed or maimed 'as many as 3,000 Hezbollah officers and...
samedi 5 octobre 2024, 23:21
'A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests. 'For ...
This week the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed charges over a 'scheme to commit fraud' in carbon markets, which they say fraudulently netted one company 'tens of millions of dollars' worth of credits — which led to 'securing an investment...
The Washington Post on scientists who 'discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of Earth's major pollution problems.' In a study...
T-Mobile experienced three major data breaches in 2021, 2022, and 2023, according to CSO Online, 'which impacted millions of its customers.' After a series of investigations by America's Federal Communications Commission, T-Mobile agreed in court to a number of settlement...
Last week the Register warned 'If you're running the Unix printing system CUPS, with cups-browsed present and enabled, you may be vulnerable to attacks that could lead to your computer being commandeered over the network or internet.' (Although the CEO of cybersecurity...
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