- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA blind worker for the National Federation of the Blind said Sonos had a reputation for making products usable for people with disabilities, but that "Overnight they broke that trust," according to the Washington Post. They're not the only angry customers about the latest update to Sonos's wireless speaker system. The newspaper notes that nonprofit worker ...Posted 41 minutes 11 seconds ago - 05/18/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAfter Adobe threatened legal action, the Delta Emulator said it'll abandon its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark. The issue centers around Delta's stylized letter "D", which the digital media giant says is too similar to its stylized letter "A". The Verge reports: On May 7th, Adobe's lawyers reached out to Delta with a firm but kindly ...Posted 7 hours 41 minutes ago - 05/18/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Proteins in the blood could warn people of cancer more than seven years before it is diagnosed, according to research [published in the journal Nature Communications]. Scientists at the University of Oxford studied blood samples from more than 44,000 people in the UK Biobank, including over 4,900 people ...Posted 11 hours 43 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedKarl Bode writes via Techdirt: Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA -- (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an "open access" fiber network that allows any ISP ...Posted 13 hours 44 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedWestern Digital has unveiled new 6TB external hard drives -- "the first new capacity point for this hard drive drive form factor in about seven years," reports Tom's Hardware. "There is a catch, though: the HDD is slow and will unlikely fit into any mobile PCs, so it looks like it will exclusively serve portable and specialized storage products." From the ...Posted 15 hours 45 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedEmilia David reports via The Verge: OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit's data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products. It's an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million. The deal will also "enable ...Posted 16 hours 45 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian, written by Caroline Haskins: On May 7th and 8th in Washington, D.C., the city's biggest convention hall welcomed America's military-industrial complex, its top technology companies and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that's not how they would describe it. It was the inaugural "AI ...Posted 16 hours 45 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIn what's marked as an EU first, the French government has blocked TikTok in its territory of New Caledonia amid widespread pro-independence protests. Politico reports: A French draft law, passed Monday, would let citizens vote in local elections after 10 years' residency in New Caledonia, prompting opposition from independence activists worried it will ...Posted 17 hours 46 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe head of Canada's Security Intelligence Service warned Canadians against using video app TikTok, saying data gleaned from its users "is available to the government of China," CBC News reported on Friday. From a report: "My answer as director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is that there is a very clear strategy on the part of the ...Posted 18 hours 46 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to Regulation S-P that require certain financial institutions to disclose data breach incidents to impacted individuals within 30 days of discovery. Regulation S-P was introduced in 2000 and controls how some financial entities must ...Posted 18 hours 46 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feednecro81 writes: Robert Dennard was working at IBM in the 1960s when he invented a way to store one bit using a single transistor and capacitor. The technology became dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which when implemented using the emerging technology of silicon integrated circuits, helped catapult computing by leaps and bounds. The first commercial ...Posted 19 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew submitter txyoji shares a report: Enterprise workplace collaboration platform Slack has sparked a privacy backlash with the revelation that it has been scraping customer data, including messages and files, to develop new AI and ML models. By default, and without requiring users to opt-in, Slack said its systems have been analyzing customer data and ...Posted 20 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedTwo university students discovered a security flaw in over a million internet-connected laundry machines operated by CSC ServiceWorks, allowing users to avoid payment and add unlimited funds to their accounts. The students, Alexander Sherbrooke and Iakov Taranenko from UC Santa Cruz, reported the vulnerability to the company, a major laundry service ...Posted 20 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone [non-paywalled source] that could be released as early as 2025, The Information reported Friday, citing three people with direct knowledge of the project. From the report: The slimmer iPhone could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, expected in September 2025, according to the three ...Posted 21 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedVolkswagen has walked away from talks with Renault to jointly develop an affordable electric version of the Twingo car, Reuters reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation, in a setback for the EU carmakers' efforts to fend off Chinese rivals. From the report: The collapse of negotiations could mean the German carmaker may have to go it ...Posted 22 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple's grudging accommodation of European law -- allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices -- apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and support third-party browser engines for the region. From a report: The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development ...Posted 22 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist and one of the company's cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. ...Posted 23 hours 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMicrosoft plans a major shakeup of its videogame sales strategy by releasing the coming installment of Call of Duty to its subscription service instead of the longtime, lucrative approach of only selling it a la carte. WSJ: The plans, which mark the biggest change to Microsoft's gaming division since it closed the $75 billion takeover of Activision ...Posted 1 day 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedHopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned. The Guardian: There is currently "no realistic or scalable alternative" to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted "sustainable aviation fuels" are well off track to ...Posted 1 day 47 minutes ago - 05/17/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North Korea's ballistic missile program by helping citizens of that country land IT jobs at US-based Fortune 500 companies. Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal ...Posted 1 day 1 hour ago - 05/17/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedData center construction levels are at an all-time high. And more than ever, companies that need them have already called dibs. From a report: In the first quarter of 2024, what amounts to about half of the existing supply of data center megawattage in the US is under construction, according to real estate services firm CBRE. And 84% of that is already ...Posted 1 day 4 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMichael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Following Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government. The Sovereign Tech Fund notes that the FFmpeg project ...Posted 1 day 7 hours ago - 05/17/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly, that is, because the dogged researchers and enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is likely the last ...Posted 1 day 11 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSeven Spirals writes: NetBSD committers are now banned from using any AI-generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other AI tools. Time will tell how this plays out with both their users and core team. "If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits ...Posted 1 day 12 hours ago - 05/16/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIn a press release today, the best music player of the 1990s announced that it'll open up its source code to developers worldwide. "Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development," said the company. "This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can ...Posted 1 day 13 hours ago - 05/16/24
As of Sat, May 18, 09:55 AM CDT