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Yesterday, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced the bipartisan ''Unplug the Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020'' (S. 4646), which would help protect Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights by preventing a president from using emergency powers to unilaterally take control over or deny access to the internet and other telecommunications capabilities. Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares an excerpt from the announcement: In a World War II-era amendment to Section
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Elon Musk's $55 billion pay package was approved, but some institutional Tesla investors remain skeptical of the CEO's leadership. Read more ›
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Delayed vehicle purchases could lead to a "deflationary spiral" and recession for the auto industry. High interest rates aren't helping. Read more ›
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Body-language expert Darren Stanton said that the first glimpse of the princess set the tone for the annual royal event, Read more ›
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There are ton of benefits and not too many downsides to hybrid work, according to a new study published in Nature. Read more ›
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Image: NASA Voyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles. Voyager 1 stopped sending back good data in November, and fixing it was fraught as engineers had to wait 45 hours to hear anything back.... Read more ›
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As fast food prices soar, some diners are turning to independent restaurants, casual dining chains, and home cooking instead. Read more ›
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Biden has "pursued a policy that has led to proper economic development," German chancellor Olaf Scholz said Read more ›
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Karl Stanley raised concerns about OceanGate's Titan after a 2019 trip but didn't know the true extent of the submersible's problems until this week. Read more ›
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OpenAI has hired former NSA Director Paul Nakasone, raising concern among privacy advocates. But that's only part of the problem. Read more ›
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Star Wars has a particular type of music that runs throughout most of its media. Following on from John Williams, composers like Kevin Kiner, John Powell, and Michael Giacchinno have evoked the score of his films through the various spinoffs like Rogue One and Clone Wars. It’s only been recently that Star Wars: Jedi…Read more... Read more ›
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Will iPhone owners accept being public beta testers for an AI strategy that's obscenely late to the party? Read more ›
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Some Cybertruck buyers who were scheduled to receive their new trucks this week have been told they’ll have to wait a little while longer as the company addresses a safety issue with the windshield wiper motor. Tesla hasn’t publicly confirmed any such problems or issued an official recall, but numerous commenters on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum and Reddit said they were notified that deliveries have been halted and their... Read more ›
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Joe Alwyn said navigating his breakup with Taylor Swift was "hard" in an interview with The Sunday Times. The pair broke up after six years of dating. Read more ›
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Sea of Thieves was the most-downloaded game on PS5 across both Europe and North America/Canada in May.That's according to Sony's own metrics and a new blog post which revealed that Rare's 2018 swashbuckler tops the PS5 chart after Xbox finally brought the game to its competitor's system at the end of April.Other Xbox Game Studios games like Grounded, Fallout, 4 and Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – which... Read more ›
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Recent college graduates are struggling to find work. Some could come to question the value of their college degree. Read more ›
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Sorry, Helldivers, but no – Arrowhead has no plans to introduce a story mode for Helldivers 2.Responding to a commenter on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, newly-appointed CEO Shams Jorjani confirmed a story mode was "not happening".When asked if the team could "create a story mode for co-op [...] with epic moments and tragic scenes," Jorjani replied briefly but candidly. Read more Read more ›
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Hikers said they experienced vomiting, diarrhea, and fever symptoms while visiting the Grand Canyon. Health officials say the cause remains unknown. Read more ›
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The Princess of Wales made a return to the public eye on Saturday as she attended the 2024 Trooping the Colour parade in London. Read more ›
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New Atlas reports on a research team that successfuly used GPT-4 to exploit 87% of newly-discovered security flaws for which a fix hadn't yet been released. This week the same team got even better results from a team of autonomous, self-propagating Large Language Model agents using a Hierarchical Planning with Task-Specific Agents (HPTSA) method: Instead of assigning a single LLM agent trying to solve many complex tasks, HPTSA uses a... Read more ›
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The New York Times has confirmed that its internal source code was leaked on 4chan after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024. BleepingComputer reports: As first seen by VX-Underground, the internal data was leaked on Thursday by an anonymous user who posted a torrent to a 273GB archive containing the stolen data. "Basically all source code belonging to The New York Times Company, 270GB," reads the... Read more ›
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Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees last month after investigating claims that they were faking work. From a report: The staffers, all in the firm's wealth- and investment-management unit, were "discharged after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work," according to disclosures filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. "Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical... Read more ›
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In November Google agreed to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million annually "in order to be exempt from the Online News Act, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news publishers," writes the Canadian Press. On Friday Google "named the organization it has selected to distribute the $100 million..." The Canadian Journalism Collective will be responsible for ensuring eligible news organizations get their share of the money. The... Read more ›
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Drew Turney reports via Live Science: The "Turing test," first proposed as "the imitation game" by computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, judges whether a machine's ability to show intelligence is indistinguishable from a human. For a machine to pass the Turing test, it must be able to talk to somebody and fool them into thinking it is human. Scientists decided to replicate this test by asking 500 people to... Read more ›
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Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said. The vehicle was damaged, but no passengers or bystanders were hurt in the incident. From a report: The company is filing the recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after completing a software update to 672 vehicles -- the total number of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Singapore's CNA news channel: Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months' jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorized access to computer material. Another charge was taken into consideration for sentencing. His contract with NCS was terminated in October 2022 due to poor work performance and his official last date of employment was Nov 16, 2022. According... Read more ›
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Intel has begun ferrying around 20 "super loads" across Ohio for the construction of its new $28 billion Ohio One Campus. The extensive planning and coordination required for these shipments are expected to cause road closures and delays during the nine days of transport. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's new campus coming to New Albany, OH, is in heavy construction, and around 20 super loads are being ferried across Ohio's roads... Read more ›
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Brazil's government is partnering with OpenAI to use AI for expediting the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits to reduce costly court losses impacting the federal budget. Reuters reports: The AI service will flag to government the need to act on lawsuits before final decisions, mapping trends and potential action areas for the solicitor general's office (AGU). AGU told Reuters that Microsoft would provide the artificial intelligence services from... Read more ›
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The Ukraine cyber police, supported by information from the Dutch police, arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for aiding Conti and LockBit ransomware operations by making their malware undetectable and conducting at least one attack himself. He was arrested on April 18, 2024, as part of a global law enforcement operation known as "Operation Endgame," which took down various botnets and their main operators. "As the Conti ransomware group... Read more ›
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