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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 11/21/2024 20:25 EDT

Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Documents, CEO Emails

According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently let customers access sensitive information, such as CEO emails and HR documents. Now, Microsoft is working to fix the situation, deploying new tools and a guide to address the privacy concerns. The story was highlighted by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. From the report: These updates are designed "to identify and mitigate oversharing and ongoing governance concerns," the company said in a... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 18:50 EDT

Internet Archive Suffers 'Catastrophic' Breach Impacting 31 Million Users

BleepingComputer's Lawrence Abrams: Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 18:50 EDT

Internet Archive Claims 'Catastrophic' Breach Impacting 31 Million Users

BleepingComputer's Lawrence Abrams: Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 18:10 EDT

Bankrupt Fisker Unable To Port EV Data, Risking Multi-Million Dollar Fleet Deal

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fisker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy has hit a major snag, as the company buying the startup's remaining fleet of electric SUVs says it might not complete the purchase because of a surprising technical issue. The buyer, a New York-area leasing company called American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 17:30 EDT

80% of Software Engineers Must Upskill For AI Era By 2027, Gartner Warns

80% of software engineers will need to upskill by 2027 to keep pace with generative AI's growing demands, according to Gartner. The consultancy predicts AI will transform the industry in three phases. Initially, AI tools will boost productivity, particularly for senior developers. Subsequently, "AI-native software engineering" will emerge, with most code generated by AI. Long-term, AI engineering will rise as enterprise adoption increases, requiring a new breed of professionals skilled... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 16:50 EDT

After Winning Nobel Prize, Geoffrey Hinton Said He Was Proud Ilya Sutskever 'Fired Sam Altman'

An anonymous reader shares a report: Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that earned him the nickname "godfather of AI." In a speech Tuesday, Professor Hinton praised one student -- alluding to OpenAI's former Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever -- for revolting against OpenAI's CEO. "I was particularly fortunate to have many very clever students -- much cleverer than me --... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 16:11 EDT

How the US Lost the Solar Power Race To China

An anonymous reader shares a report: Washington blames China's dominance of the solar industry on what are routinely dubbed "unfair trade practices." But that's just a comforting myth. China's edge doesn't come from a conspiratorial plot hatched by an authoritarian government. It hasn't been driven by state-owned manufacturers, subsidized loans to factories, tariffs on imported modules or theft of foreign technological expertise. Instead, it's come from private businesses convinced of... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 15:30 EDT

Eating Less Can Lead To a Longer Life: Massive Study in Mice Shows Why

Cutting calorie intake can lead to a leaner body -- and a longer life, an effect often chalked up to the weight loss and metabolic changes caused by consuming less food. Now, one of the biggest studies of dietary restrictions ever conducted in laboratory animals challenges the conventional wisdom about how dietary restriction boosts longevity. From a report: The study, involving nearly 1,000 mice fed low-calorie diets or subjected to... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 14:54 EDT

Bitcoin Creator Suspect Says He is Not Bitcoin Creator Suspect

The man identified as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new HBO documentary has something to say: Wrong again, world. From a report: In the just-released HBO film on the history of the world's biggest digital currency -- Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery -- documentary filmmaker Cullen Hoback comes to the conclusion that the anonymous creator of Bitcoin was none other than a long-time member of the community and early... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 14:15 EDT

Zoom Will Let AI Avatars Talk To Your Team For You

Zoom is getting one step closer to letting AI avatars attend meetings for you. As part of a broader AI expansion, Zoom announced it will soon let you create an AI avatar of yourself that you can use to send brief messages to your team. From a report: To create a digital avatar, you'll need to record an initial video of yourself that Zoom's AI will use to make an... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 13:20 EDT

Unreleased M4 MacBook Pro Offered For Sale on Russian Site

9to5Mac: Following apparent photos of an M4 MacBook Pro box and a subsequent unboxing video, the unreleased model has now been offered for sale on a Russian classified ads site -- at a highly inflated price, naturally. Multiple units were advertised before the listings were removed, and it does now seem increasingly likely that the leaks are real. Apple Pro tweeted a screengrab of one of the listing, which offered... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 12:42 EDT

Wimbledon Abolishes Line Judges in Favor of Automated Technology After 147 Years

The greatest tennis players in the world will be left to rage against a machine after any tight line calls at Wimbledon next year as the All England Club will break with tradition by removing line judges from all courts during the championships for the first time in its 147-year history. From a report: From 2025 onwards live electronic line calling (ELC) will be used on all courts in both... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 12:01 EDT

Nintendo Announces New Hardware: a $100 Alarm Clock

Nintendo has a new piece of game hardware coming in 2024. It's not the Switch 2, it's the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a new motion-sensing alarm clock that will rouse you from sleep with the sounds of video games like Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more. Polygon adds: The $99.99 alarm clock includes 35 wake-up "scenes" from Nintendo Switch games. Users will "experience... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 11:20 EDT

OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees

OpenAI said a group with apparent ties to China tried to carry out a phishing attack on its employees, reigniting concerns that bad actors in Beijing want to steal sensitive information from top US artificial intelligence companies. From a report: The AI startup said Wednesday that a suspected China-based group called SweetSpecter posed as a user of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT earlier this year and sent customer support emails to staff.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 10:41 EDT

How a UK Treaty Could Spell the End of the .io Domain

AmiMoJo writes: A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 -- relinquishing the .io domain with it. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has a process for retiring old country code domains within five... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 10:03 EDT

Google DeepMind Scientists Win Nobel Chemistry Prize for Work on Proteins

Three scientists won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work in predicting and designing protein structures, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm. David Baker of the University of Washington shares the prize with Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind. Baker pioneered the creation of novel proteins, while Hassabis and Jumper developed AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts protein structures from... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/09/2024 03:00 EDT

DOJ Indicates It's Considering Google Breakup Following Monopoly Ruling

In a new 32-page filing (PDF), the Department of Justice indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy for its search and advertising monopoly. The remedies necessary to "prevent and restrain monopoly maintenance could include contract requirements and prohibitions; non-discrimination product requirements; data and interoperability requirements; and structural requirements," the department said in the filing. CNBC reports: The DOJ also said it was "considering... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 23:30 EDT

Researchers Claim New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use By 95%

Researchers at BitEnergy AI, Inc. have developed Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a technique that reduces AI model power consumption by up to 95% by replacing energy-intensive floating-point multiplications with simpler integer additions. This method promises significant energy savings without compromising accuracy, but it requires specialized hardware to fully realize its benefits. Decrypt reports: L-Mul tackles the AI energy problem head-on by reimagining how AI models handle calculations. Inste Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 22:02 EDT

Bitcoin Creator Is Peter Todd, HBO Film Says

A new HBO documentary claims Canadian developer Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of bitcoin. The documentary's director, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cullen Hoback, "comes to the conclusion by stitching together old clues and new ones," reports Politico. In the film's finale, Hoback confronted Todd and said: "It seems like you had these deep insights into bitcoin at the time?" Todd replies: "Well, yeah, I'm Satoshi Nakamoto." From the report:... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 21:25 EDT

Foxconn Building Nvidia Superchip Facility In Mexico

Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips. These chips are a "key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform," notes Reuters. From the report: "We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet," said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group. Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 20:45 EDT

Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left In a Bar

"Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010," writes MacRumors' Joe Rossignol. From the report: The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today... Read more ›

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