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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · 03/31/2025 21:30 EDT

'There is No Vibe Engineering'

Software engineer Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on the new hype: The term caught on and Twitter quickly flooded with posts about how AI has radically transformed coding and will soon replace all software engineers. While AI undeniably impacts the way we write code, it hasn't fundamentally changed our role as engineers. Allow me to explain. [...] Vibe coding is interacting with the codebase via prompts. As the implementation is hidden... Read more

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · 03/31/2025 18:20 EDT

Intel and Microsoft Staff Allegedly Lured To Work For Fake Chinese Company In Taiwan

Taiwanese authorities have accused 11 Chinese companies, including SMIC, of secretly setting up disguised entities in Taiwan to illegally recruit tech talent from firms like Intel and Microsoft. The Register reports: One of those companies is apparently called Yunhe Zhiwang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd and develops high-end network chips. The Bureau claims its chips are used in China's "Data East, Compute West" strategy that, as we reported when it was... Read more

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msmash @ Slashdot 3 place · 03/31/2025 10:09 EDT

FBI Raids Home of Prominent Computer Scientist Who Has Gone Incommunicado

An anonymous reader shares a report: A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at... Read more

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 16:20 EDT

Honey Lost 4 Million Chrome Users After Shady Tactics Were Revealed

The Chrome extension Honey has lost over 4 million users after a viral video exposed it for hijacking affiliate codes and misleading users about finding the best coupon deals. 9to5Google reports: As we reported in early January, Honey had lost around 3 million users immediately after the video went viral, but ended up gaining back around 1 million later on. Now, as of March 2025, Honey is down to 16... Read more

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 17:00 EDT

Google To Pay $100 Million To Settle 14-Year-Old Advertising Lawsuit

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to settle a long-running lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers by failing to provide promised discounts and charged for clicks on ads outside the geographic areas the advertisers targeted. A preliminary settlement of the 14-year-old class action, which began in March 2011, was filed late Thursday in the San Jose, California, federal court, and... Read more

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 12:40 EDT

'No Longer Think You Should Learn To Code,' Says CEO of AI Coding Startup

Learning to code has become sort of become pointless as AI increasingly dominates programming tasks, said Replit founder and chief executive Amjad Masad. "I no longer think you should learn to code," Masad wrote on X. The statement comes as major tech executives report significant AI inroads into software development. Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently revealed that 25% of new code at the tech giant is AI-generated, though still reviewed... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 07:34 EDT

California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles

California has 11.3% of America's population — but bought 30% of America's new zero-emission vehicles. That's according to figures from the California Air Resources Board, which also reports 1 in 4 Californians have chosen a zero-emission car over a gas-powered one... for the last two years in a row. But what about chargers? It turns out that California now has 48% more public and "shared" private EV chargers than the... Read more

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 14:12 EDT

Micron Hikes Memory Prices Amid Surging AI Demand

Micron will raise prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory chips through 2026 as AI and data center demand strains supply chains, the U.S. chipmaker confirmed Monday. The move follows a market rebound from previous oversupply, with memory prices steadily climbing as producers cut output while AI and high-performance computing workloads grow. Rivals Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to implement similar increases. Micron cited "un-forecasted demand across various... Read more

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 11:30 EDT

Apple Fined $162 Million for App Privacy System That Harms Developers

France's competition authority has fined Apple 150 million euros ($162.4 million) for abusing its market dominance through its App Tracking Transparency system, ruling the privacy initiative unfairly disadvantages app developers. The watchdog determined that requiring third-party developers to use two pop-ups for tracking permissions while Apple's own apps need just one tap creates an "excessively complex" process that particularly harms smaller publishers lacking sufficient proprietary data for alternative Read more

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 15:40 EDT

Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with "a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments" in the United States and elsewhere. "The largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma,"... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 03:54 EDT

HTTPS Certificate Industry Adopts New Security Requirements

The Certification Authority/Browser Forum "is a cross-industry group that works together to develop minimum requirements for TLS certificates," writes Google's Security blog. And earlier this month two proposals from Google's forward-looking roadmap "became required practices in the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements," improving the security and agility of TLS connections... Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration Before issuing a certificate to a website, a Certification Authority (CA) must verify. Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/31/2025 00:34 EDT

Linus Torvalds Gently Criticizes Build-Slowing Testing Code Left in Linux 6.15-rc1

"The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged," writes Phoronix, "but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request." The new "hdrtest" code is for the Intel Xe kernel driver and is around trying to help ensure the Direct Rendering Manager header files are self-contained and pass kernel-doc tests — basic maintenance checks on the included DRM header files to ensure... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 21:34 EDT

As Microsoft Turns 50, Four Employees Remember Its Early Days

"Microsoft built things. It broke things." That's how the Seattle Times kicks off a series of articles celebrating Microsoft's 50th anniversary — adding that Microsoft also gave some people "a lucrative retirement early in their lives, and their own stories to tell." What did they remember from Microsoft's earliest days? Scott Oki joined Microsoft as employee no. 121. The company was small; Gates was hands-on, and hard to please. "One... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 20:34 EDT

Copilot Can't Beat a 2013 'TouchDevelop' Code Generation Demo for Windows Phone

What happens when you ask Copilot to "write a program that can be run on an iPhone 16 to select 15 random photos from the phone, tint them to random colors, and display the photos on the phone"? That's what TouchDevelop did for the long-discontinued Windows Phone in a 2013 Microsoft Research 'SmartSynth' natural language code generation demo. ("Write scripts by tapping on the screen.") Long-time Slashdot reader theodp reports... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 19:11 EDT

China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories

The U.S. and China "are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker," the Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday, adding that "Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries." "The time has come for robots," Nvidia's chief executive said at a conference in March, adding "This could very well be the largest industry of all." China's government has said it wants the country to be a world leader... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 17:17 EDT

Microsoft Attempts To Close Local Account Windows 11 Setup Loophole

Slashdot reader jrnvk writes: The Verge is reporting that Microsoft will soon make it harder to run the well-publicized bypassnro command in Windows 11 setup. This command allows skipping the Microsoft account and online connection requirements on install. While the command will be removed, it can still be enabled by a regedit change — for now. "However, there's no guarantee Microsoft will allow this additional workaround for long," writes the... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 16:11 EDT

Bloomberg's AI-Generated News Summaries Had At Least 36 Errors Since January

The giant financial news site Bloomberg "has been experimenting with using AI to help produce its journalism," reports the New York Times. But "It hasn't always gone smoothly." While Bloomberg announced on January 15 that it would add three AI-generated bullet points at the top of articles as a summary, "The news outlet has had to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year." (This Wednesday... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 15:11 EDT

How Rust Finally Got a Specification - Thanks to a Consultancy's Open-Source Donation

As Rust approaches its 10th anniversary, "there is an important piece of documentation missing that many other languages provide," notes the Rust Foundation. While there's documentation and tutorials — there's no official language specification: In December 2022, an RFC was submitted to encourage the Rust Project to begin working on a specification. After much discussion, the RFC was approved in July 2023, and work began. Initially, the Rust Project specification... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 13:34 EDT

What that Facebook Whistleblower's Memoir Left Out

A former Facebook director of global policy recently published "the book Meta doesn't want you to read," a scathing takedown of top Meta executives titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. But Wednesday RestofWorld.org published additional thoughts from Meta's former head of public policy for Bangladesh (who is now an executive director at the nonprofit policy lab Tech Global Institute). Though their time at Facebook... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 12:34 EDT

Has the Decline of Knowledge Worker Jobs Begun?

The New York Times notes that white-collar workers have faced higher unemployment than other groups in the U.S. over the past few years — along with slower wager growth. Some economists wonder if this trend might be irreversible... and partly attributable to AI: After sitting below 4% for more than two years, the overall unemployment rate has topped that threshold since May... "We're seeing a meaningful transition in the way... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 11:34 EDT

Google Sunsets Two Devices From Its Nest Smart Home Product Line

"After a long run, Google is sunsetting two of its signature Nest products," reports PC World: Google has just announced that it's discontinuing the 10-year-old Nest Protect and the 7-year-old Nest x Yale lock. Both of those products will continue to work, and — for now — they remain on sale at the Google Store, complete with discounts until supplies run out. But while Google itself is exiting the smoke... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 10:34 EDT

Microsoft Announces 'Hyperlight Wasm': Speedy VM-Based Security at Scale with a WebAssembly Runtime

Cloud providers like the security of running things in virtual machines "at scale" — even though VMs "are not known for having fast cold starts or a small footprint..." noted Microsoft's Open Source blog last November. So Microsoft's Azure Core Upstream team built an open source Rust library called Hyperlight "to execute functions as fast as possible while isolating those functions within a VM." But that was just the beginning...... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 07:34 EDT

Nearly 1.5 Million Private Photos from Five Dating Apps Were Exposed Online

"Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps — many of which are explicit — being stored online without password protection," reports the BBC, "leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists." And the images weren't limited to those from profiles, the BBC learned from the ethical hacker who discovered the issue. "They included pictures which had been sent privately in messages, and even some which had been... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2025 03:34 EDT

Samsung Unveils AI-Powered, Screen-Enabled Home Appliances

Samsung teased its "AI Vision Inside" refrigerators at January's CES tradeshow. (Its internal sensors can now detect 37 different fresh ingredients and 50 processed foods, generating lists for your cellphone or a screen on your refrigerator's door.) But the refrigerators are part of a larger "AI Home" lineup of screen-enabled appliances with advanced AI features, and Engadget got to see them all together this weekend at Samsung's Bespoke AI conference... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 23:34 EDT

Aptera Takes First 300-Mile Highway Trip in Solar-Powered EV

"I've been dreaming of this moment for 20 years," says Aptera co-CEO Steve Fambro. Aptera's solar-powered electric car just drove 300 miles on a single charge. "We're one step closer to a future where every journey is powered by the sun," Aptera says in their announcement. "This go around, Aptera took to the highway for the first time ever..." writes the EV blog Electrek. "At one point, Aptera's video noted... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 21:34 EDT

Did Life on Earth Come from 'Microlightning' Between Charged Water Droplets?

Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth's bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago," reports CNN. "But where did that organic material come from...?" Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in Frankenstein: Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth's oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 20:34 EDT

Reddit's 50% Stock-Price Plunge Fails to Entice Buyers as Growth Slows

Though it's stock price is still up 200% from its IPO in March of 2024 — last week Reddit's stock had dropped nearly 50% since February 7th. And then this week, it dropped another 10%, reports Bloomberg, citing both the phenomenon of "volatile technology stocks under pressure" — but also specifically "the gloomy sentiment around Reddit..." The social media platform has struggled to recover since an earnings report in February... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 18:34 EDT

'Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?'

Automotive historian Dan Albert loves the "adorable tiny truck" he's driving. It's one of the small Japan-made "kei" pickups and minivans that "make up about a third of car sales in Japan." Americans can legally import older models for less than $10,000, and getting 40 miles per gallon they're "Cheap to buy and run... rugged, practical, no-frills machines — exactly what the American-built pickup truck used to be." But unfortunately,... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 16:44 EDT

Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X?

"I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over," a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there's a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That's because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically,... Read more

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/29/2025 15:34 EDT

Why a Lost Cellphone Forced an Airplane to Turn Around in Mid-Flight

Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, "after a passenger could not locate their cellphone." Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew couldn't find the phone — the Boeing 777 turned around off the coast of France "and returned to the airport, according to the flight-tracking service... Read more

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