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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/24/2024 10:41 EDT

Note-Taking App Notion Readies Email Product

Notion, the maker of a popular eponymous note-taking app, appears to be getting ready to launch its own email product, called Notion Mail, TechCrunch reported Thursday, citing sources. From the report: Earlier this year, Notion acquired Skiff, a privacy-focused email service and app. At the time, Skiff said that it would provide a 12-month sunset window to users so that they have enough time to migrate to a different email... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/24/2024 10:00 EDT

Intel Weighed $20 Billion Nvidia Takeover in 2005

Intel considered acquiring graphics chip maker Nvidia for up to $20 billion in 2005, a move that could have reshaped the AI industry, according to The New York Times. Then-CEO Paul Otellini pitched the acquisition to Intel's board, recognizing the potential of graphics processors for data center computing. The board rejected the proposal, citing Intel's poor track record with acquisitions and the deal's unprecedented size, the report added. Today, Nvidia... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/24/2024 09:00 EDT

Journals With High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged By Science-Integrity Startup

schwit1 shares a report from Nature: Which scientific publishers and journals are worst affected by fraudulent or dubious research papers -- and which have done least to clean up their portfolio? A technology start-up founded to help publishers spot potentially problematic papers says that it has some answers, and has shared its early findings with Nature. The science-integrity website Argos, which was launched in September by Scitility, a technology firm... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/24/2024 06:00 EDT

Humanoid Robot Is the 'Fastest In the World' Thanks To Pair of Sneakers

AmiMoJo shares a report from Live Science: Scientists have demonstrated a new humanoid robot that can run at a top speed of just over 8 miles per hour (mph) -- or 3.6 meters per second (m/s) to be exact. This makes it the speediest machine of its kind built so far, albeit these speeds were only achieved with the help of added footwear. STAR1 is a bipedal robot built by... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/24/2024 03:00 EDT

Boeing-Made Satellite Explodes In Space

"Boeing has had a series of issues over the past few years," writes Slashdot reader quonset. "From planes crashing, lost service records, to a recent strike which cost them $6 billion, now comes word a satellite they made has exploded in space." CBS News reports: The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched in 2016 and provides communications across Europe, Asia and Africa, experienced "an anomaly" on Saturday, Intelsat said in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 23:30 EDT

Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As November 5 draws closer, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warned on Wednesday that malicious foreign influence operations launched by Russia, China, and Iran against the US presidential election are continuing to evolve and should not be ignored even though they have come to feel inevitable. In the group's fifth report, researchers emphasize the range of ongoing activities (source may be... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 21:25 EDT

Norway To Increase Minimum Age Limit On Social Media To 15 To Protect Children

Norway plans to enforce a strict minimum social media age of 15 to protect children from harmful content and the influence of algorithms. The Guardian reports: The Scandinavian country already has a minimum age limit of 13 in place. Despite this, more than half of nine-year-olds, 58% of 10-year-olds and 72% of 11-year-olds are on social media, according to research by the Norwegian media authority. The government has pledged to... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 20:45 EDT

Huawei Makes Divorce From Android Official With HarmonyOS NEXT Launch

The Register's Laura Dobberstein reports: Huawei formally launched its home-brewed operating system, HarmonyOS NEXT, on Wednesday, marking its official separation from the Android ecosystem. Huawei declared it released and "officially started public beta testing" of the OS for some of its smartphones and tablets that run its own Kirin and Kunpeng chips. Unlike previous iterations of HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS NEXT no longer supports Android apps. Huawei maintains top Chinese outfits aren't... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 20:02 EDT

White Hat Hackers Earn $500,000 On First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek.com: White hat hackers taking part in the Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 contest organized by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have earned half a million dollars on the first day of the event, for exploits targeting NAS devices, cameras, printers and smart speakers. The highest single reward, $100,000, was earned by Sina Kheirkhah of Summoning Team, who chained a total of nine vulnerabilities... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 19:20 EDT

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

Ancient Slashdot reader szo shares a report from Phoronix: Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers. [...] [Greg Kroah-Hartman who authored the patch] simply commented in there: "Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 18:40 EDT

Adobe Made Its Painting App Completely Free To Take On Procreate

Adobe's Fresco painting app is now free for everyone, in an attempt to lure illustrators to join its creative software suite. The Verge reports: Fresco is essentially Adobe's answer to apps like Procreate and Clip Studio Paint, which all provide a variety of tools for both digital art and simulating real-world materials like sketching pencils and watercolor paints. Adobe Fresco is designed for touch and stylus-supported devices, and is available... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 18:20 EDT

Russia Says 'Unprecedented' Cyberattack Hits Foreign Ministry Amid BICS Summit

The Russian Foreign Ministry says it had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). "A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on the infrastructure of the official website, the Russian Foreign Ministry's portal," said spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. She noted that the ministry regularly encounters similar attacks, but today's attack was "unprecedented in scale." Reuters notes that the attack coincided with the major BRICS summit taking place in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 18:00 EDT

Internet Users Ask FCC To Ban Data Caps

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It's been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data caps, and the docket is filling up with comments from users who say they shouldn't have to pay overage charges for using their Internet service. The docket has about 190 comments so far, nearly all from individual broadband customers. Federal Communications Commission dockets are usually... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 17:22 EDT

Apple and Goldman Sachs Fined Millions For Misleading Apple Card Holders

Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89 million in penalties and customer refunds over widespread service failures and deceptive practices in their joint Apple Card venture, U.S. consumer watchdog CFPB said on Wednesday. The agency found Goldman mishandled credit card disputes while Apple failed to forward thousands of customer complaints. Both companies deceived users about interest-free payment plans for Apple devices, affecting hundreds of thousands of cardholders since the card's... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 16:41 EDT

Pollution-Free Environment a 'Fundamental Right', India's Top Court Says

Living in a pollution-free environment is a fundamental right, India's Supreme Court said on Wednesday as it urged authorities to address deteriorating air quality in the north of the country. From a report: India's capital Delhi recorded a "very poor" air quality index of 364 on Wednesday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board, which considers readings below 50 to be good. Swiss group IQAir rated Delhi the world's most... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 16:00 EDT

Dinosaur Fossils Found For First Time in Hong Kong

Hong Kong officials discovered the city's first dinosaur fossils on an uninhabited island in a local geopark, they said Wednesday. Initial examinations indicate the remains belong to a large Cretaceous-era dinosaur from 66-145 million years ago, with species identification pending further study. Associated Press adds: Experts speculate that the dinosaur was likely buried by sand and gravel after its death before it was later washed to the surface by a... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 15:21 EDT

New Commission May Ban English Water Companies From Making a Profit

Water companies in England could be banned from making a profit under plans for a complete overhaul of the system. The Guardian: The idea is one of the options being considered by a new commission set up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) amid public fury over the way firms have prioritised profit over the environment. Sources at the department said they would consider forcing the... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 14:42 EDT

Disney and Apple Are Splitting Over App Store Fees

If you want to sign up for a subscription to Hulu or Disney+, don't bother taking out your iPhone. Disney is now telling would-be customers to pay for subscriptions on Disney's own site, instead of on Apple's App Store -- though people who've already started paying for either service via Apple can keep doing that. From a report: The two companies are still working together on some projects. But the... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 14:03 EDT

Users Say T-Mobile Must Pay For Killing 'Lifetime' Price Lock

An anonymous reader shares a report: T-Mobile promised users who bought certain mobile plans that it would never raise their prices for as long as they lived -- but then raised their prices this year. So it's no surprise that 2,000 T-Mobile customers complained to the government about a price hike on plans that were advertised as having a lifetime price lock. "I am still alive and T-Mobile is increasing... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/23/2024 13:20 EDT

White-Collar Jobs Freeze Triggers MBA Applications Boom

Applications to MBA programs jumped 12% in 2024, with full-time programs surging 32% to decade-high levels, WSJ is reporting, citing the Graduate Management Admission Council's latest survey. Top-tier U.S. schools reported significant gains, with Columbia Business School seeing a 27% rise and Harvard Business School applications climbing 21%. So what's behind the surge? The story adds: Today, the U.S. job market is strong, and unemployment remains low. But lower wage... Read more ›

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