- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedHot on the heels of United Airlines' Starlink announcement, Hawaiian Airlines said it, too, is offering "fast and free Starlink Wi-Fi" across its entire Airbus fleet. CNET reports: Hawaiian Airlines is now the first major carrier to use Elon Musk's satellite internet service, which taps more than 7,000 satellites in low earth orbit to deliver high-speed ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/27/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld, written by Michael Crider: The latest perpetrator of questionable AI branding? HP. The company is introducing "Print AI," what it calls the "industry's first intelligent print experience for home, office, and large format printing." What does that mean? It's essentially a new beta software driver package for ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedArs Technica's Dan Goodin reports: Last week, NIST released its second public draft of SP 800-63-4, the latest version of its Digital Identity Guidelines. At roughly 35,000 words and filled with jargon and bureaucratic terms, the document is nearly impossible to read all the way through and just as hard to understand fully. It sets both the technical ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feed"Dozens of Fortune 100 organizations" have unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers using fake identities, generating revenue for the North Korean government while potentially compromising tech firms, according to Google's Mandiant unit. "In a report published Monday [...], researchers describe a common scheme orchestrated by the group it tracks as ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: After a horseback riding accident left him paralyzed from the waist down in 2009, former jockey Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of a $100,000 ReWalk Personal exoskeleton. Earlier this month, that exoskeleton broke because of a malfunctioning piece of wiring in an accompanying watch ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMozilla has been hit with a complaint by EU privacy group noyb, accusing it of violating GDPR by tracking Firefox users by default without their consent. TechCrunch reports: Mozilla calls the feature at issue "Privacy Preserving Attribution" (PPA). But noyb argues this is misdirection. And if EU privacy regulators agree with the complaint the Firefox-maker ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe Verge's Emma Roth reports: NotebookLM, Google's AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video's transcript, including autogenerated ones. Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief summary of key topics discussed in ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052906The organizations have worked closely together over the years.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052825"To stop the assassin, you must become the assassin."Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA New York federal court has ordered (PDF) the operators of shadow library LibGen to pay $30 million in copyright damages to publishers. The default judgment also comes with a broad injunction that affects third-party services including domain registries, browser extensions, CDN providers, IPFS gateways, advertisers, and more. These parties must restrict ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAccording to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Super Micro Computer after short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged "accounting manipulation" at the AI server maker. Super Micro's shares fell about 12% following the report. Reuters reports: The WSJ report, which cited people familiar with the matter, said the probe was ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052715Hugging Face cites community-driven customization as fuel for diverse AI model boom.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052751Opinion: Printers have gotten boring and untrustworthy.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple has pulled 60 VPNs from its App Store in Russia, according to research from anti-censorship org GreatFire. From a report: The iThing-maker's action comes amid a Kremlin crackdown on VPNs that has already seen a ban on privacy-related extensions to the open source Firefox browser. The software's developer, Mozilla, defied that ban and allowed the ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052802US says ex-cons exchanged letters while in different prisons, then planned attack.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052859New California law reminds us we don't own games and movies.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it's been common for lawyers to try to overturn patents held by competitors by pointing out errors or inconsistencies. But now, in a surprise twist, the team that earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR is asking to cancel two ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedGoogle has restricted the creation of new accounts for Russian users, state news agencies cited Russia's digital ministry as saying on Thursday. Reuters: Google has been under pressure in Russia for several years, particularly for not taking down content Moscow considers illegal and for blocking the YouTube channels of Russian media and public figures since ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052637Here's what happened when Ford tried to react to the Volkswagen Beetle.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052226"You may have read a little bit of nonsense in the papers recently."Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052799The collection includes the 2017 remaster of the original StarCraft.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a New Yorker story: Ultimately, the iPhone 16 does little to meaningfully improve on the experience I had with the 12, besides, perhaps, charging with a USB-C, as my laptop does, cutting down on the number of cords I have to keep track of. Instead, the greatest leaps in Apple's hardware are largely directed at those niche users ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCybersecurity firm Kaspersky has defended its decision to automatically replace its antivirus software on U.S. customers' computers with UltraAV, a product from American company Pango, without explicit user consent. The forced switch, affecting nearly one million users, occurred as a result of a U.S. government ban on Kaspersky software. Kaspersky ...Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052717Only two new cases were identified since last month, bringing total to 59.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2052674Crashing is caused by a confluence of four separate power and voltage bugs.Posted 1 week 2 days ago - 09/26/24
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