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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 10:52:32 JST Slashdot :verified:

Fintech Founder Charged With Fraud After 'AI' Shopping App Found To Be Powered By Humans in the Philippines https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0018218/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Fintech Founder Charged With Fraud After 'AI' Shopping App Found To Be Powered By Humans in the Philippines - Slashdot
  
  Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a "universal" checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. From a report: Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million f...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 13:08:39 JST Slashdot :verified:

Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/04/0153232/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [...] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 11:49:09 JST Slashdot :verified:

Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2047228/jack-ma-backed-ant-touts-ai-breakthrough-using-chinese-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Jack Ma-backed Ant Group used Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by 20%, according to people familiar with the matter. Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba and Huawei, ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 06:30:07 JST Slashdot :verified:

'What CERN Does Next Matters For Science and For International Cooperation' https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/206247/what-cern-does-next-matters-for-science-and-for-international-cooperation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  'What CERN Does Next Matters For Science and For International Cooperation' - Slashdot
  
  CERN faces a pivotal decision about its future as the Large Hadron Collider approaches the end of its usefulness by the early 2040s. Management proposes building the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a machine with a 90-kilometer circumference that would smash particles at eight times the energy of th...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 11:08:45 JST Slashdot :verified:

Italy Demands Google Poison Its Public DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/23/0043217/italy-demands-google-poison-its-public-dns-under-strict-piracy-shield-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Italy Demands Google Poison Its Public DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law - Slashdot
  
  "Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google," reports Ars Technica, "with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers" to prevent people from reaching pirate streams of football games. "Italy's communication regulator praises the ruling an...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 21:11:13 JST Slashdot :verified:

Cloudflare Turns AI Against Itself With Endless Maze of Irrelevant Facts https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/22/014247/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Cloudflare Turns AI Against Itself With Endless Maze of Irrelevant Facts - Slashdot
  
  Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare unveiled "AI Labyrinth" this week, a feature designed to thwart unauthorized AI data scraping by feeding bots realistic but irrelevant content instead of blocking them outright. The system lures crawlers into a "maze" of AI-generated pages containing neutral sc...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:46:50 JST Slashdot :verified:

France Runs Fusion Reactor For Record 22 Minutes https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/19/1922241/france-runs-fusion-reactor-for-record-22-minutes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  France Runs Fusion Reactor For Record 22 Minutes - Slashdot
  
  France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes -- a new record. From a report: The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat a lenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor. Achieving the dream...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 22:09:05 JST Slashdot :verified:

Free Software Foundation Speaks Up Against Red Hat Source Code Announcement https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/02/18/0953205/free-software-foundation-speaks-up-against-red-hat-source-code-announcement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Free Software Foundation Speaks Up Against Red Hat Source Code Announcement - Slashdot
  
  PAjamian writes: Two years ago Red Hat announced an end to its public source code availability. This caused a great deal of outcry from the Enterprise Linux community at large. Since then many have waited for a statement from the Free Software Foundation concerning their stance on the matter. Now...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 08:04:44 JST Slashdot :verified:

China's 'Salt Typhoon' Hackers Continue to Breach Telecoms Despite US Sanctions https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/15/2244220/chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-continue-to-breach-telecoms-despite-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  China's 'Salt Typhoon' Hackers Continue to Breach Telecoms Despite US Sanctions - Slashdot
  
  "Security researchers say the Chinese government-linked hacking group, Salt Typhoon, is continuing to compromise telecommunications providers," reports TechCrunch, "despite the recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on the group." TechRadar reports that the Chinese state-sponsored threat ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 22:36:52 JST Slashdot :verified:

The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/15/0540249/the-irs-is-buying-an-ai-supercomputer-from-nvidia?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia - Slashdot
  
  According to The Intercept, the IRS is set to purchase an Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer to enhance its machine learning capabilities for tasks like fraud detection and taxpayer behavior analysis. From the report: With Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency installing itself at...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 11:07:18 JST Slashdot :verified:

First Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Detected https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/2327213/first-ultra-high-energy-neutrino-detected?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  First Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Detected - Slashdot
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader JoeRobe writes: Scientists associated with the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT, have reported detection of an ultra-high energy neutrino deep in the Mediterranean sea. The neutrino reportedly had an energy of 120 million billion electron volts (1.2x10^17 eV, or...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 12:51:25 JST Slashdot :verified:

New Hack Uses Prompt Injection To Corrupt Gemini's Long-Term Memory https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/0011205/new-hack-uses-prompt-injection-to-corrupt-geminis-long-term-memory?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  New Hack Uses Prompt Injection To Corrupt Gemini's Long-Term Memory - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, researcher Johann Rehberger demonstrated a new way to override prompt injection defenses Google developers have built into Gemini -- specifically, defenses that restrict the invocation of Google Workspace or other sensitive tools when...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 08:20:20 JST Slashdot :verified:

Nvidia's RTX 5090 Power Connectors Are Melting https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/2125226/nvidias-rtx-5090-power-connectors-are-melting?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Nvidia's RTX 5090 Power Connectors Are Melting - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two owners of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs. The images look identical to reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting from two years ago. Nvidia blamed the issu...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 09:41:24 JST Slashdot :verified:

El Salvador Congress Votes to Revoke Bitcoin's 'Legal Currency' Status https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/08/2344254/el-salvador-congress-votes-to-revoke-bitcoins-legal-currency-status?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  El Salvador Congress Votes to Revoke Bitcoin's 'Legal Currency' Status - Slashdot
  
  After finalizing loan terms with the IMF, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved changes to the country's Bitcoin Law last week by a 55-2 vote, "effectively removing bitcoin's status as legal currency," reports Reason. Under the new rules, bitcoin is no longer considered "currency," though it...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 02:07:43 JST Slashdot :verified:

Internet Archive Celebrates New Public Domain Works with Remixes in Short Film Contest https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/02/08/0620224/internet-archive-celebrates-new-public-domain-works-with-remixes-in-short-film-contest?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Internet Archive Celebrates New Public Domain Works with Remixes in Short Film Contest - Slashdot
  
  To celebrate 3035's newest arrivals in the public domain, the Internet Archive held a special in-person event at their San Francisco headquarters, as well as a virtual celebration online. (It opens with an absolutely gorgeous rendition of "Happy Days are Hear Again" played on a musical saw.) An...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 04:08:16 JST Slashdot :verified:

Warner Bros. Releases Dozens of Old Films for Free on YouTube, Bypassing Paid Streaming https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/02/06/1728243/warner-bros-releases-dozens-of-old-films-for-free-on-youtube-bypassing-paid-streaming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Warner Bros. Releases Dozens of Old Films for Free on YouTube, Bypassing Paid Streaming - Slashdot
  
  Warner Bros. Discovery has quietly begun releasing dozens of its older films for free on YouTube, marking an unexpected shift in how the major studio handles its back catalog. Over the past month, the company has uploaded more than 30 full-length movies across five YouTube channels, without digital ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 11:20:13 JST Slashdot :verified:

Disney Lost 700,000 Subscribers From October-December 2024 https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/02/06/0038245/disney-lost-700000-subscribers-from-october-december-2024?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers From October-December 2024 - Slashdot
  
  Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in the last quarter of 2024, largely due to price hikes and expiring promotions. Despite the decline, Disney's overall streaming business remained profitable, boosted by strong box office results from Moana 2 and Hulu's 1.6 million added subscribers. IndieWire report...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 05:38:00 JST Slashdot :verified:

'I'm Done With Ubuntu' https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1819218/im-done-with-ubuntu?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  'I'm Done With Ubuntu' - Slashdot
  
  Software developer and prolific blogger Herman Ounapuu, writing in a blog post: I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the Ubuntu GNOME flavor, and after they ditched the Unity desktop environment, GNOME became the default option. I was really...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 01:54:15 JST Slashdot :verified:

Developer Runs Doom On $50 Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1314221/developer-runs-doom-on-50-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Developer Runs Doom On $50 Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter - Slashdot
  
  A developer has successfully run the classic video game Doom on Apple's $50 Lightning to HDMI adapter, exploiting the device's built-in system-on-chip that runs a simplified iOS version.
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:24:39 JST Slashdot :verified:

RISC-V Mainboard For the Framework Laptop 13 Is Now Available https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/02/04/217248/risc-v-mainboard-for-the-framework-laptop-13-is-now-available?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  RISC-V Mainboard For the Framework Laptop 13 Is Now Available - Slashdot
  
  The DeepComputing RISC-V Mainboard that Framework announced last year for its 13-inch laptops is now available for $199. Liliputing reports: If you already have a Framework Laptop 13 with an Intel or AMD motherboard, the new board is a drop-in replacement. But if you don't have a Framework Laptop y...

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