- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe U.S. FBI is working towards charging hackers from the aggressive Scattered Spider criminal gang who are largely based in the U.S. and western countries and have breached dozens of American organisations, a senior official said. From a report: The young hackers grabbed headlines last year when they broke into the systems of casino-operators MGM Resorts ...Posted 1 minute 9 seconds ago - 05/10/24
- http://entertainment.slashdot.or...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Disney Plus, Hulu, and Max are teaming up for a new bundle this summer, Netflix is focused on the WWE and celebrity boxing, Disney Plus is getting ESPN, and Bloomberg reported earlier this week that Max could get a price hike. A familiar refrain emerged around all this news: streaming is becoming cable TV all over again ...Posted 1 hour 1 minute ago - 05/10/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedEconomist: What is the ideal job to outsource to AI? Today's AIs, in particular the Chatgpt-like generative sort, have a leaky memory, cannot handle physical objects and are worse than humans at interacting with humans. Where they excel is in manipulating numbers and symbols, especially within well-defined tasks such as writing bits of computer code. This ...Posted 1 hour 1 minute ago - 05/10/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Interesting Engineering: Imagine exploring the intricate world within a single cubic millimeter of human brain tissue. It might seem insignificant, but within that tiny space lies a universe of complexity -- 57,000 individual cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and a staggering 150 million synapses, the ...Posted 2 hours 2 minutes ago - 05/10/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLast week, NASA announced it is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could transport humans to Mars in only two months -- down from the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet. Gizmodo reports: NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program recently selected six promising projects for ...Posted 8 hours 3 minutes ago - 05/10/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple has apologized for its tone-deaf "Crush!" ad that sparked a furious backlash with artists, musicians and other creators. AdAge reports that Apple said the video "missed the mark" and has scrapped plans to run the cutesy-turned-cringey commercial on TV. From a report: It's clear that Apple intended for the ad to serve as a metaphor for all the myriad ...Posted 10 hours 3 minutes ago - 05/10/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Tens of millions of Americans each day breathe in carcinogenic chemicals that are woven into the interiors of their cars, a new study has found. While opening a window can help reduce the risk, only reforms can keep people safe, researchers wrote in a study in Environmental Science and Technology. ...Posted 12 hours 4 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedDuring a Bloomberg event today, Xbox president Sarah Bond said the company plans to launch a mobile gaming store to rival Apple and Google. "According to Bond, the as-yet-unnamed store will launch in July on web browsers, rather than a designated app, with Microsoft's recently-acquired Candy Crush Saga serving as a day-one tentpole franchise," reports ...Posted 14 hours 5 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAncient Slashdot reader jd shares a report from The Guardian: Neuralink's first attempt at implanting its chip in a human being's skull hit an unexpected setback after the device began to detach from the patient's brain, the company revealed on Wednesday. The patient, Noland Arbaugh, underwent surgery in February to attach a Neuralink chip to his brain, but ...Posted 16 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedT-Mobile and Verizon are in talks to buy parts of U.S. Ceullar in separate transactions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Reuters reports: T-Mobile is closing in on a deal to buy a chunk of U.S. Cellular for more than $2 billion, taking over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses, the report said citing people familiar with the matter. ...Posted 17 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedJess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: At least 224 people with diabetes have reported injuries linked to a defective iOS app that caused their insulin pumps to shut down prematurely, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On Wednesday, the agency announced that California-based medical device manufacturer Tandem Diabetes Care has issued a ...Posted 17 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: In 2022, at the height of the "great resignation," a record 4.5 million workers each month -- about 3% of the U.S. workforce -- were quitting their jobs. While some economists have said this pandemic-era trend is over, new research from Microsoft and LinkedIn forecasts that even more people plan to leave their ...Posted 18 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCiting a memo distributed to Apple Store employees, 9to5Mac reports that the new iPad Pro and iPad Air lineups will not include Apple stickers in the box -- "a key piece of memorabilia" that dates back as far as 1977's Apple II, notes Ars Technica. While the company says that this is part of its environmental goals to completely remove plastic from its ...Posted 19 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedArchieBunker quotes a report from Bloomberg: Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall. Spot prices at the North Hub, which includes Dallas, jumped to more than $3,000 a megawatt-hour just before 7 p.m. local time, versus about $32 at the same time Tuesday, ...Posted 19 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Maryland legislature passed two bills over the weekend limiting tech platforms' ability to collect and use consumers' data. Maryland Governor Wes Moore is expected to sign one of those bills, the Maryland Kids Code, on Thursday, MoCo360 reports. If signed into law, the other bill, the Maryland Online ...Posted 20 hours 6 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple will deliver some of its upcoming AI features this year via data centers equipped with its own in-house processors, part of a sweeping effort to infuse its devices with AI capabilities. From a report: The company is placing high-end chips -- similar to ones it designed for the Mac -- in cloud-computing servers designed to process the most advanced AI ...Posted 21 hours 7 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide laden in the world's atmosphere has just occurred, according to researchers who monitor the relentless accumulation of the primary gas that is heating the planet. From a report: The global average concentration of carbon dioxide in March this year was 4.7 parts per million (or ppm) higher than ...Posted 22 hours 8 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world's foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C. From a report: A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the ...Posted 22 hours 8 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Sonos has responded to the avalanche of feedback -- some good, plenty bad -- about the company's redesigned mobile app that was released on May 7th. In the days since, customers have complained about missing features like sleep timers, broken local music library management, and no longer having the ability to edit ...Posted 23 hours 8 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring whether users should be allowed to create AI-generated pornography and other explicit content with its products. From a report:While the company stressed that its ban on deepfakes would continue to apply to adult material, campaigners suggested the proposal undermined its mission statement to produce "safe ...Posted 1 day 8 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedTechnology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers' names and physical addresses. TechCrunch: In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating "an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited ...Posted 1 day 8 minutes ago - 05/09/24
- http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft's Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn't finished. From a report: This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according ...Posted 1 day 1 hour ago - 05/09/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks is alerting thousands of filers whose private addresses were exposed following a second data spill in as many years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said in an email to affected trademark applicants this week that ...Posted 1 day 2 hours ago - 05/09/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe North Yorkshire Council in England announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs as it can affect geographical databases. Resident Anne Keywood told the BBC that she urged the authority to retain apostrophes, saying: "If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn't it?" From the report: North Yorkshire Council said it ...Posted 1 day 5 hours ago - 05/09/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCarl Zimmer reports via the New York Times: Ever since the discovery of whale songs almost 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher their lyrics. Are the animals producing complex messages akin to human language? Or sharing simpler pieces of information, like dancing bees do? Or are they communicating something else we don't yet understand? In ...Posted 1 day 8 hours ago - 05/09/24
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