- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSouth Korean authorities have arrested the operator of Yubin Archive, a Telegram-based "pirate library" that grew to over 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures, and exam prep materials under the banner of "eliminating educational inequality." TorrentFreak reports: An official statement confirming the operator's arrest was published ...Posted 6 days 2 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSam Altman's brain-chip venture is exploring the idea of genetically altering brain cells to make better implants. "The company, which has been referred to as Merge Labs, is looking at an approach involving gene therapy that would modify brain cells," reports Bloomberg. "In addition, an ultrasound device would be implanted in the head that could detect and ...Posted 6 days 2 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedWine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break, introducing a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, new ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 cryptographic algorithms, OpenGL WoW64 thunk generation, and expanded Windows Runtime metadata support. The update also delivers 32 bug fixes," which is more than normal given the month of ...Posted 6 days 3 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCroatia has extended its digital nomad visa from one year to up to three years, allowing non-EU residents and their close family members to live and work remotely in the country. CNBC reports: A digital nomad visa is a short-term permit that allows individuals to stay in a country for an extended period and work remotely. The length of time a nomad can stay ...Posted 6 days 4 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The United States' practice of installing location trackers in chip shipments at risk of diversion to China reflects the "instincts of a surveillance empire," China's state-run media outlet Xinhua said in a commentary published on Friday. Reuters reported earlier this week that U.S. authorities had secretly ...Posted 6 days 4 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew data from Digital Content Next shows Google's AI Overviews are linked to notable drops in publisher referral traffic, with surveyed sites seeing year-over-year declines between 1% and 25%. From a report: Digital Content Next (DCN), which counts the New York Times, Conde Nast and Vox among its approximately 40 member companies, checked in with 19 of them ...Posted 6 days 5 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedWIRED identified 120 YouTube channels creating AI-generated celebrity confrontation/rage-baiting videos using still images and artificial voiceovers (rather than deepfake technology). One channel, Talk Show Gold, accumulated 88,000 subscribers with a fake Mark Wahlberg and Joy Behar confrontation that drew 460,000 views. YouTube removed 37 flagged channels ...Posted 6 days 6 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US, global EV sales are up 27% over last year, with some legacy automakers -- but not all -- indicating the potential for a successful transition to electric mobility. CleanTechnica has spilled much ink on the pace of plug-in hybrid and full ...Posted 6 days 6 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew Zealand citizens leaving the country have hit the highest levels in 13 years, with more than a third of those emigrating aged under 30 years as unemployment rises and economic growth remains soft. From a report: Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Friday showed 71,800 New Zealand citizens departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2025, up from ...Posted 6 days 7 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew research suggests exposure to some common Pfas or "forever chemical" compounds causes changes to gene activity, and those changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease. From a report: The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause disease and ...Posted 6 days 8 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader writes: Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distro packed with tools for sysadmins, system rescue, and network diagnostics, is shutting down. This comes not long after Intel's Clear Linux also reached the end of the road. Kaisen offered multiple desktop environments like KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, plus a "toram" mode that could load ...Posted 6 days 8 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedVP.NET has released the source code for its Intel SGX enclave on GitHub, allowing anyone to build the enclave and verify its mrenclave hash matches what's running on the servers. This takes "don't trust, verify" from marketing to reality, making privacy claims testable all the way down to hardware-enforced execution. A move like this could set a new ...Posted 6 days 8 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedalternative_right writes: A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed "machines that can grow by consuming other machines." Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form ...Posted 6 days 9 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedProton has begun relocating infrastructure outside Switzerland ahead of proposed surveillance legislation requiring VPNs and messaging services with over 5,000 users to identify customers and retain data for six months. The company's AI chatbot Lumo became the first product hosted on German servers rather than Swiss infrastructure. CEO Andy Yen confirmed ...Posted 6 days 10 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMicrosoft is updating its pricing approach for Online Services in Enterprise Agreements in the name of consistency and transparency, but could leave some customers paying more. From a report: Many customers, particularly larger ones, enjoy substantial discounts via volume licensing and the change, which will bring the Online Services pricing model into line ...Posted 6 days 11 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that AI investments have entered bubble territory. His remarks: "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes." "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth. If you look at most of the bubbles in history, like the tech bubble, there was a real ...Posted 6 days 11 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA Chinese storage manufacturer has developed a solid-state drive smaller than a U.S. penny that delivers sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second, according to The Verge. The "Mini SSD" by Biwin measures 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick and connects via PCIe 4x2, offering 512GB to 2TB capacities. The drive inserts into devices using a SIM card-style ...Posted 6 days 12 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe Linux kernel project lacks a formal succession plan for when Linus Torvalds steps down, Register columnist Rupert Goodwins writes. Torvalds has said "there's no need for formality" and that succession will occur naturally through community trust. "The next benevolent overlord will appear naturally," Torvalds believes. Goodwins calls this approach ...Posted 6 days 12 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedChina launched the World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday. The three-day event will see 280 teams from 16 countries compete in football, track and field, and table tennis alongside robot-specific challenges including medicine sorting and cleaning services. The event also features 192 university teams and 88 private enterprise teams from the U.S., Germany, ...Posted 6 days 13 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is building so many AI servers that they're now bringing in more cash than consumer electronics -- even counting the colossal quantity of iPhones it creates for Apple. The Taiwanese company revealed the shift in its Thursday announcement of Q2 results, which saw revenue grow 16% to ...Posted 6 days 14 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died on July 18 in Brighton, England. She was 88. ...Posted 6 days 15 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedhackingbear shares a report from Bloomberg: Top U.S. chip-equipment supplier Applied Materials was sued by a rival in China over alleged trade secret theft, a further escalation in the technology war between the world's two largest economies. Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co. filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Intellectual Property Court against ...Posted 6 days 18 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedalternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: In February 2023, a detector called KM3NeT, located deep under the Mediterranean Sea, picked up a signal that seemed to indicate a neutrino with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts (PeV). For reference, the previous record was a mere 10 PeV. Now, an exhaustive analysis of all the data on ...Posted 6 days 21 hours ago - 08/15/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe African Union has endorsed the "Correct The Map" campaign, urging governments and global institutions to replace the distorted 16th-century Mercator projection with the Equal Earth map that more accurately represents Africa's true size. Reuters reports: "It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not," AU Commission deputy chairperson Selma ...Posted 1 week 15 minutes ago - 08/14/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway's intelligence service has said. The admission, by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), marks the first time that Oslo has formally attributed the ...Posted 1 week 2 hours ago - 08/14/25
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