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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 21:00 EDT

FCC To Eliminate Gigabit Speed Goal, Scrap Analysis of Broadband Prices

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is proposing (PDF) to roll back key Biden-era broadband policies, scrapping the long-term gigabit speed goal, halting analysis of broadband affordability, and reinterpreting deployment standards in a way that favors industry metrics over consumer access. The proposal, which is scheduled for a vote on August 7, narrows the scope of Section 706 evaluations to focus on whether broadband is being deployed rather than whether it's affordable... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 20:20 EDT

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

Spotify was found publishing AI-generated songs on the official pages of deceased artists like Blaze Foley and Guy Clark -- without permission from their estates or labels. The tracks, flagged for deceptive content and now removed, were uploaded via TikTok's SoundOn distribution platform. "We've flagged the issue to SoundOn, the distributor of the content in question, and it has been removed for violating our Deceptive Content policy," a Spotify spokesperson... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 19:40 EDT

Alaska Airlines Resumes Operations After System Glitch Grounds All Flights

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air grounded all flights Sunday night due to a major IT outage, prompting a system-wide FAA ground stop that lasted until early Monday. Although operations have since resumed, passengers are still facing delays and residual disruptions. Gizmodo reports: The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m.... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 19:00 EDT

Figma Aims At $16.4 Billion Valuation As Tech IPOs Bounce Back

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design software firm prepares for a debut on the NYSE that could inject fresh momentum into a resurgent market for tech listings. The San Francisco-based company, along with some investors, is eyeing proceeds of up to $1.03 billion by selling nearly 37 million... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 18:20 EDT

NVIDIA Makes More Hopper, Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

NVIDIA has released additional open-source header files for its Blackwell and Hopper GPU architectures, continuing its effort to support open-source drivers like Nouveau/NVK and the NOVA Rust driver. Phoronix reports: Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 16:40 EDT

Xbox Cloud Games Will Soon Follow You Across Xbox, PC, and Windows Handhelds

Microsoft is rolling out updates to the Xbox PC app and consoles that sync your cloud gaming history and progress across devices, making it easier to resume cloud-playable titles on PCs, handhelds, and other Xbox hardware. The Verge reports: Cloud-playable games are now starting to show inside play history or the library on the Xbox PC app. "This includes all cloud playable titles, even console exclusives spanning from the original... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 16:00 EDT

Weak Password Allowed Hackers To Sink a 158-Year-Old Company

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP -- a Northamptonshire transport company -- is just one of tens of thousands of UK businesses that have been hit by such attacks. Big names such as M&S, Co-op and Harrods have all been... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 15:08 EDT

Advanced Version of Gemini With Deep Think Officially Achieves Gold-Medal Standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad

An anonymous reader shares a blog post: The International Mathematical Olympiad is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 14:11 EDT

Former Google CEO Tells Workers: Turn Off Your Phone To Focus

Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, has a simple suggestion for young workers struggling to focus at work or relax: turn off your phone. Schmidt told the "Moonshots" podcast that researchers "can't think deeply" when their phones keep buzzing with notifications. The tech veteran, who spent 10 years running Google and helped build Android's notification system, admitted the industry has worked to "monetize your attention" through constant ads and alerts. Read... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 13:38 EDT

Hackers Exploit a Blind Spot By Hiding Malware Inside DNS Records

Hackers are hiding malware inside DNS records, allowing malicious code to bypass security defenses that typically monitor web and email traffic. DomainTools researchers discovered the technique being used to host Joke Screenmate malware, with binary files converted to hexadecimal format and broken into chunks stored in TXT records across subdomains of whitetreecollective[.]com. Attackers retrieve the chunks through DNS requests and reassemble them into executable malware. The method exploits a blind... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 12:44 EDT

UK Backing Down on Apple Encryption Backdoor After Pressure From US

Sir Keir Starmer's government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK's demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, Financial Times reported Monday, citing two officials. From the report: The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 12:01 EDT

Microsoft To Help France Showcase Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in Digital Replica

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France's most visited monument, the U.S. tech company's president, Brad Smith, said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 11:23 EDT

Microsoft Releases Emergency Patches for Actively Exploited SharePoint Zero-Days

Microsoft has released emergency security updates for two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, that have compromised servers worldwide in what researchers call "ToolShell" attacks. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned over the weekend that hackers were exploiting the vulnerabilities to gain remote code execution on on-premises SharePoint installations, while Microsoft has not yet provided patches for all affected Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 10:47 EDT

T-Mobile is Bringing Low-Latency Tech To 5G For the First Time

T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard across its 5G Advanced network over the next few weeks, becoming the first wireless carrier in the United States to implement the Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput technology. The standard helps high-priority internet packets move with fewer delays to make video calls and cloud games feel smoother by allowing devices to manage congestion and reduce buffering issues that can occur even... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 10:00 EDT

Replit Wiped Production Database, Faked Data to Cover Bugs, SaaStr Founder Says

AI coding service Replit deleted a user's production database and fabricated data to cover up bugs, according to SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin. Lemkin documented his experience on social media after Replit ignored his explicit instructions not to make code changes without permission. The database deletion eliminated 1,206 executive records representing months of authentic SaaStr data curation. Replit initially told Lemkin the database could not be restored, claiming it had "destroyed... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 07:44 EDT

Debian 13.0 To Begin Supporting RISC-V as an Official CPU Architecture

It was nearly a decade ago when the first RISCV64 port was started for Debian, reports Phoronix. But one of the big features planned for Debian 13.0 (planned for 9 August) is supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by slow hardware. A... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 04:04 EDT

Should California's Grid Join a Larger Regional Electricity Market?

One in every 9 Americans lives in California. And right now its Congress is debating a bill that "would help establish a regional electricity market capable of tying together the American West's three dozen independent power grids," according to the Los Angeles Times' newsletter about climate change and energy issues. But that bill "has bitterly divided environmentalists," with some seeing it "as a plot by greedy energy companies to enrich... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/21/2025 00:34 EDT

Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider

"Scientists at the world's largest particle collider have observed a new class of antimatter particles breaking down at a different rate than their matter counterparts," reports Scientific American: [P]hysicists have been on the hunt for any sign of difference between matter and antimatter, known in the field as a violation of "charge conjugation-parity symmetry," or CP violation, that could explain why some matter escaped destruction in the early universe. [Wednesday]... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/20/2025 21:44 EDT

'Fossil' Discovered Beyond Pluto Implies 'Something Dramatic' Happened 400M Years Ago

"The distant reaches of the Solar System are still mysterious," writes ScienceAlert. "Not much sunlight pierces these regions, and there are strong hints that undiscovered objects lurk there. The objects that astronomers have discovered in these dim reaches are primordial, and their orbits suggest the presence of more undiscovered objects." And now thanks to the giant 8.2-meter Subaru telescope at Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatory, astronomers have discovered "a massive new... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/20/2025 19:44 EDT

'Tens of Thousands' of SharePoint Servers at Risk. Microsoft Issues No Patch

"Anybody who's got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem," the senior VP of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike told the Washington Post. "It's a significant vulnerability." And it's led to a new "global attack on government agencies and businesses" in the last few days, according to the article, "breaching U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, energy companies and an Asian telecommunications company, according to state officials and private researchers..." "Tens... Read more ›

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