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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 12:42 EDT

Palantir CTO Urges Pentagon To Prioritize Speed in Defense Spending

Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar has called for faster defense spending, arguing the Pentagon should focus on rapid deployment over higher budgets. "The biggest challenge is speed," Sankar told Axios in an interview. "The Department of Defense would be better off spending half as much money twice as quickly." The U.S. military has "lost our ability to value time," he said. The Denver-based software company, known for its work... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 12:02 EDT

Video Game Adaptation 'Borderlands' Hits Theaters With Rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

An anonymous reader shares a report: I'm not sure I knew of anyone, Borderlands fan or not, who believed that the movie adaptation of the game was going to be good, based on everything from casting to trailers. Now as reviews come in ahead of its release tomorrow, those fears have been validated. And then some. As I write this, the Borderlands movie has a flat 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 11:22 EDT

Nasdaq Has Hundreds of Penny Stocks. Now It's Trying to Purge Them.

Nasdaq is taking steps to purge itself of dubious companies whose shares trade below $1 each, following criticism that the exchange has become home to hundreds of risky penny stocks. From a report: [...] When a stock closes below $1 for 30 consecutive trading days, Nasdaq deems the company to be noncompliant and gives it 180 days to remedy the situation. After 180 days, if the stock hasn't climbed above... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 10:48 EDT

Home Security Giant ADT Says It Was Hacked

ADT confirmed this week that it was recently hacked, compromising some customer data. From a report: The home security company did not say when the cyberattack and data breach occurred, but disclosed that the attackers accessed the company's databases containing customer home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. In a brief regulatory filing published late Wednesday, ADT said it has "no reason to believe" that customer home security systems were... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 10:05 EDT

ICANN Reserves .Internal For Private Use at the DNS Level

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks. From a report: Those blocks are reserved for private use by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which requires they never appear on the public internet. As The Register reported when we spotted the proposal... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 09:00 EDT

Mayor Shows Pirated Movie On Town Square Big Screen In Brazil

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In Brazil, there was a [...] unbelievable display of public piracy last week that went on to make national headlines. The mayor of the municipality Acopiara, in the north-east of the country, invited citizens of the small town Trussu to join a screening of the blockbuster "Inside Out 2" at the local town square. With little more than a thousand inhabitants, many... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 06:00 EDT

Judge Fines Ripple $125 Million, Bans Future Securities Law Violations

Nikhilesh De writes via CoinDesk: A federal judge ordered Ripple to pay $125 million in civil penalties and imposed an injunction against future securities law violations on Wednesday. District Judge Analisa Torres, of the Southern District of New York, imposed the fine (PDF) after finding that 1,278 institutional sale transactions by Ripple violated securities law, leading to the fine. The $125.035 million fine is well below the $1 billion in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/08/2024 03:00 EDT

After AI, Quantum Computing Eyes Its 'Sputnik' Moment

The founder of Cambridge-based Riverlane, Steve Brierley, predicts quantum computing will have its "Sputnik" breakthrough within years. "Quantum computing is not going to be just slightly better than the previous computer, it's going to be a huge step forward," he said. Phys.org reports: His company produces the world's first dedicated quantum decoder chip, which detects and corrects the errors currently holding the technology back. In a sign of confidence in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 23:30 EDT

China Launches Satellites For Major Network To Rival Starlink

An anonymous reader quotes a report originally published by Business Insider: A Chinese state-backed company has launched its first 18 satellites in its bid to build a vast orbital network aimed at rivaling Starlink, according to local media. The launch on Monday by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology involved 18 satellites and one rocket, per The China Securities Journal, which is run by state news agency Xinhua. According to the outlet,... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 21:20 EDT

UK Royal Mint To Extract Gold From E-Waste

"The Royal Mint, which has produced coins since the 9th Century, has begun to recover gold from electronic waste as the use of cash has declined and fewer new coins are needed," writes Slashdot reader newcastlejon. "In 2022, construction began on a new site in Llantrisant, Wales. This facility will now be used to initially produce gold for jewelry and later for commemorative coins." The BBC reports: At the Royal... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 20:45 EDT

Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers

Sony's Crunchyroll streaming service dedicated to anime has passed 15 million monthly paid subscribers. "Today marks an exciting milestone not only for Crunchyroll, but for the entire anime industry," Rahul Purini, president of Crunchyroll, said in a press release. "It is proof that the rich stories, characters and experiences that our partners create are resonating deeply with fans at record numbers all over the world. As the number of people... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 20:02 EDT

Dell Reportedly Laying Off 12,500 Employees

"We are getting leaner," said Dell's Bill Scannell and John Byrne in an internal memo to employees on Monday. "We're streamlining layers of management and reprioritizing where we invest." While no official numbers have been confirmed, a source close to the matter told SiliconANGLE that 12,500 layoffs, or about 10% of Dell's worldwide workforce, were planned across the company starting Tuesday. However, that number could be high. "It's unlikely the... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 19:20 EDT

Australian State Orders Public Servants To Stop Remote Working After a Newspaper Campaign Against It

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The government of Australia's most populous state ordered all public employees to work from their offices by default beginning Tuesday and urged stricter limits on remote work, after news outlets provoked a fraught debate about work-from-home habits established during the pandemic. Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, said in a notice to agencies Monday that jobs could be made... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 18:40 EDT

macOS Sequoia Makes It Harder To Run Apps That Aren't Properly Signed or Notarized

Ryan Christoffel writes via 9to5Mac: Since the Mac doesn't have the same locked-down app distribution system of iOS and iPadOS, Apple has created other tools meant to protect users. Some of those tools include app signing and notarization. Essentially, these provide a way for Apple to perform a level of vetting for macOS apps, even ones that don't hit the Mac App Store. The intent is to ultimately prevent harmful... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 18:00 EDT

Morgan Stanley Tells Wealth Advisors They Can Pitch Bitcoin ETFs

Starting today, Morgan Stanley's advisors are allowed to offer bitcoin ETFs to some clients -- a first among major Wall Street banks. "Those funds are BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund," reports CNBC. From the report: Morgan Stanley made the move in response to demand from clients and in an attempt to follow an evolving marketplace for digital assets [...].The bank is still striking a note... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 17:20 EDT

The Business World's Favorite Laptop Has Barely Changed in 30 Years

Lenovo's widely used ThinkPad laptop hasn't changed much over the years. Corporate technology leaders say that's why they love it. From a report: "There's a lot to be said for familiarity and that consistent experience," said Ace Hardware Chief Information Officer Rick Williams, whose company uses about 4,000 ThinkPads. The ThinkPad brand of personal computers, originally created by International Business Machines, hit the market in 1992 before Lenovo acquired it,... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 16:42 EDT

NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home On SpaceX In 2025

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For weeks, NASA has downplayed problems experienced by Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft that took two astronauts to the International Space Station in June. But on Wednesday, NASA officials admitted that the problems with the spacecraft were more serious than first thought and that the astronauts may not travel home on the Boeing vehicle, after all. The agency is exploring... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 16:01 EDT

Hottest Ocean Temperatures in 400 years an 'Existential Threat' To the Great Barrier Reef, Report Finds

Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef are now the hottest in at least 400 years and are an "existential threat" to the planet's unique natural wonder , according to new scientific research. From a report: Scientists analysed long-lived corals in and around the reef that keep a record of temperature hidden in their skeleton and matched them to modern observations. The research, published in the journal Nature, used climate... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 15:20 EDT

Your Windows Updates Can All Be Downgraded, Says Security Researcher

Security researchers from SafeBreach have found what they say is a Windows downgrade attack that's invisible, persistent, irreversible and maybe even more dangerous than last year's BlackLotus UEFI bootkit. From a report: After seeing the damage that UEFI bootkit could do by bypassing secure boot processes in Windows, SafeBreach's Alon Leviev became curious whether there were any other fundamental Windows components that could be abused in a similar manner. He... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 08/07/2024 14:45 EDT

After Breaking Free, World's Largest Iceberg Is Stuck Spinning in Circles

For more than 30 years, the world's largest iceberg was stuck in the Antarctic. Five times the size of New York City's land area and more than 1,000 feet deep, the mammoth piece of ice finally became loose in 2020 and began a slow drift toward the Southern Ocean. Now, A23a, as it's known, is spinning in place. From a report: After leaving Antarctic waters, the iceberg got stuck in... Read more ›

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