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You can keep using GitHub but automatically [34]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [35]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [36]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! or [37]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area. [38]× 170522153 story [39]Programming [40]Go Finally Returns to Top 10 of Programming Language Popularity List [41](infoworld.com) [42]8 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 12, 2023 @06:34AM from the on-the-Go dept. "Google's Go language has re-entered the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, after a nearly six-year absence," [43]reports InfoWorld: Go ranks 10th in the [44]March edition of the index, after placing 11th the [45]previous month. The language last appeared in the top 10 in July 2017. The re-emergence of Go in the March 2023 index is being attributed to its popularity with software engineers and its strength in combining the right features, namely built-in concurrency, garbage collection, static typing, and good performance. Google's backing also helps, improving long-term trust in the language, Tiobe said. The languages Go beat out include "assembly language" at #11, followed by MATLAB, Delphi/Object Pascal, Scratch, and Classic Visual Basic. Here's the complete top-ten most popular programming languages, according to TIOBE: * Python * C * Java * C++ * C# * Visual Basic * JavaScript * SQL * PHP * Go apply tags__________ 170522065 story [46]Government [47]Why Are We Still Observing Daylight Saving Time? [48](thehill.com) [49]46 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:34AM from the springing-forward dept. As millions set their clocks forward one hour, there's pockets of resistance, according to [50]this local news report: - "According to a March 2022 CBS News poll, 46% of Americans prefer permanent daylight saving time, while 33% prefer permanent standard time. The remaining 21% simply favor the status quo." - "Exceptions to this adopted norm include residents of Hawaii and most of Arizona, where standard time is permanent throughout the year." But The Hill notes that America [51]appears to be stuck halfway toward repealing daylight saving time: Earlier this month, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced [52]the Sunshine Protection Act of 2023, which would make daylight saving time permanent. So far, the bill has received [53]bipartisan support in the Senate and has been referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. If passed, the March 12 changing of the clocks would be the final such event -- we wouldn't "fall back" in November. A similar bill introduced by Rubio [54]last year passed with unanimous support in the Senate, but it wasn't as well-received in the House. So before America can end daylight saving time, that bill would need approval from the U.S. House of Representatives -- and then the president's signature. Meanwhile at least U.S. [55]at least 19 states have already enacted legislation or resolutions to make daylight saving time permanent, the article points out. "But these states can't make the change without congressional approval, or their neighboring states enacting similar legislation." apply tags__________ 170522531 story [56]Power [57]12 Years After Fukushima, Removal of Melted Nuclear Fuel Hasn't Started [58](apnews.com) [59]23 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:37PM from the getting-a-reaction dept. "Twelve years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan is preparing to release a massive amount of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea," [60]writes the Associated Press. "Japanese officials say the release is unavoidable and should start soon. "Dealing with the wastewater is less of a challenge than the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. That process has barely progressed, and the removal of melted nuclear fuel hasn't even started." Massive amounts of fatally radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors. Robotic probes have provided some information but the status of the melted debris is largely unknown. kira Ono, who heads the cleanup as president of TEPCO's decommissioning unit, says the work is "unconceivably difficult." Earlier this year, a remote-controlled underwater vehicle successfully collected a tiny sample from inside Unit 1âs reactor -- only a spoonful of about 880 tons of melted fuel debris in the three reactors. That's 10 times the amount of damaged fuel removed at the Three Mile Island cleanup following its 1979 partial core melt. Trial removal of melted debris will begin in Unit 2 later this year after a nearly two-year delay. Spent fuel removal from Unit 1 reactor's cooling pool is to start in 2027 after a 10-year delay. Once all the spent fuel is removed the focus will turn in 2031 to taking melted debris out of the reactors.... The government has stuck to its initial 30-40 year target for completing the decommissioning, without defining what that means.... Some experts say it would be impossible to remove all the melted fuel debris by 2051. Meanwhile, groundwater is creating 130 tons of contaminated water each day, according to the article. The tanks holding that water "are 96% full and expected to reach their capacity of 1.37 million tons in the fall." apply tags__________ 170522443 story [61]Businesses [62]Tech Layoffs Caused by Vain Over-Hiring for 'Fake Work', Argues Former PayPal Executive [63](yahoo.com) [64]68 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:34PM from the office-spaces dept. Fortune reports: The thousands of layoffs in Big Tech are thanks to [65]an over-hiring spree to satisfy the "vanity" of bosses at the likes of Meta and Alphabet, according to a member of the so-called PayPal Mafia. Speaking remotely at an event hosted by banking firm Evercore, Silicon Valley VC Keith Rabois said Meta and Google had hired thousands of people to do "fake work" to hit hiring metrics out of "vanity". Rabois, who was an executive at PayPal in the early 2000s alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk, said the axing of droves of jobs is overdue. "All these people were extraneous, this has been true for a long time, the vanity metric of hiring employees was this false god in some ways," Rabois said, according to [66]Insider. "There's nothing for these people to do -- it's all fake work. Now that's being exposed, what do these people actually do, they go to meetings." The DoorDash investor added Google had intentionally hired engineers and tech talent to stop them from being snapped up by competitors. apply tags__________ 170517767 story [67]China [68]The Daring Ruse That Exposed China's Campaign To Steal American Secrets [69](nytimes.com) [70]33 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:28PM from the spy-vs-spy dept. The New York Times magazine tells the story of an innocuous-seeming message on LinkedIn in 2017 from Qu Hui, the deputy director of the China-based Provincial Association for International Science and Technology Development. Federal agents eventually obtained search warrants for two Gmail addresses the official was using, and "In what would prove to be a lucky break, the investigators found that each email address was the Apple ID used for an iPhone, linked to an iCloud account where data from the phones was periodically backed up. The agents were later able to obtain search warrants for the two iCloud accounts [that] opened a treasure trove." This included confirmation of what they had suspected all along: that [71]Qu worked for Chinese intelligence. His real name was Xu Yanjun. He had worked at the Ministry of State Security since 2003, earning six promotions to become a deputy division director of the Sixth Bureau in the Jiangsu Province M.S.S. Like so many of us, he had taken pictures of important documents using his iPhone -- his national ID card, pay stubs, his health insurance card, an application for vacation -- which is how they ended up in his iCloud account. There, investigators also found an audio recording of a 2016 conversation with a professor at N.U.A.A. in which Xu had talked about his job in intelligence and the risks associated with traveling. "The leadership asks you to get the materials of the U.S. F-22 fighter aircraft," he told the professor. "You can't get it by sitting at home." The discovery of evidence of Xu's identity in an iCloud account makes for a kind of delicious reversal. The ubiquitous use of iPhones around the world -- a result of America's technological prowess -- was helping to fight back against a rival nation's efforts to steal technology. Qu scheduled a meeting in Brussels with one American target -- where he was arrested and extradited to America, becoming the first-ever Chinese intelligence official convicted on U.S. soil on charges of economic espionage. The prosecution contended that Xu had been systematically going after intellectual property at aerospace companies in the United States and Europe through cyberespionage and the use of human sources. It's not often that prosecutors find a one-stop shop for much of their evidence, but that's what Xu's iCloud account was -- a repository of the spy's personal and professional life. That's because often Xu used his iPhone calendar as a diary, documenting not just the day's events but also his thoughts and feelings.... The messages in Xu's iCloud account enabled investigators to make another damning discovery. Xu had helped coordinate a cyberespionage campaign [72]that targeted several aviation technology companies.... At the end of the trial, Xu was convicted of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.... According to Timothy Mangan, who led the prosecution, the evidence laid out during Xu's trial goes far beyond merely proving his guilt -- it uncovers the systematic nature of China's vast economic espionage. The revelation of Xu's activities lifts the veil on how pervasive China's economic espionage is, according to the F.B.I. agent. If just one provincial officer can do what he did, the agent suggests, you can imagine how big the country's overall operations must be. The article notes that the Chinese government "also offers financial incentives to help Chinese expats start their own businesses in China using trade secrets stolen from their American employers." It also cites a 2019 report from a congressional committee's security review that found "myriad ways in which Chinese companies, often backed by their government, help transfer strategic know-how from the United States to China." The maneuvers range from seemingly benign (acquiring American firms with access to key intellectual property) to notoriously coercive (compelling American companies to form joint ventures with Chinese firms and share trade secrets with them in return for access to the Chinese market) to outright theft. Cyberattacks have become an increasingly common tactic because they can't always be linked directly to the Chinese government. Over the past few years, however, federal agents and cybersecurity experts in the U.S. have identified the digital footprints left along the trails of these attacks -- malware and I.P. addresses among them -- and traced this evidence back to specific groups of hackers with proven ties to the Chinese government. One 2020 indictment blamed five "computer hackers" in China for [73]breaching more than 100 organizations. Thanks to Slashdot reader [74]schwit1 for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 170521877 story [75]Programming [76]Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language [77](infoworld.com) [78]88 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @06:28PM from the for-great-justice dept. Systems-oriented developers already have programming languages like C, C++, Rust, and Go, [79]notes InfoWorld. But now, "we also have Zig, a newer language that seeks to absorb what's best about these languages and offer comparable performance with a better, more reliable developer experience." Zig is a [80]very active project. It was started by [81]Andrew Kelley in 2015 and now seems to be reaching critical mass. Zig's ambition is rather momentous in software history: to become the heir to C's longstanding reign as both the go-to portable low-level language and as a standard to which other languages are compared.... Currently, Zig is being used to implement the [82]Bun.js JavaScript runtime as an alternative to Node.js. Bun's creator Jarred Sumner told me "Zig is sort of similar to writing C, but with better memory safety features in debug mode and modern features like defer (sort of similar to Go's) and arbitrary code can be executed at compile-time via comptime. It has very few keywords so it's a lot easier to learn than C++ or Rust." Zig differs from most other languages in its small feature footprint, which is the outcome of an explicit design goal: Only one obvious way to do things. Zig's developers take this goal so much to heart that for a time, [83]Zig had no for loop, which was deemed an unnecessary syntactic elaboration upon the already adequate while loop. Kevin Lynagh, coming from a Rust background, [84]wrote, "The language is so small and consistent that after a few hours of study I was able to load enough of it into my head to just do my work." Nathan Craddock, a C developer, [85]echoed the sentiment. Programmers seem to really like the focused quality of Zig's syntax. While Zig is "[86]approaching" production-ready status, the article notes its high degree of interoperability with C and C++, its unique error-handling system, and its elimination of a malloc keyword (leaving memory allocation to the standard library). "For now, the Zig team appears to be taking its time with the 1.0 release, which may [87]drop in 2025 or later -- but none of that stops us from building all sorts of things with the language today." apply tags__________ 170521429 story [88]AI [89]Researchers Claim Their AI Algorithm Can Recreate What People See Using Brain Scans [90](science.org) [91]22 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:45PM from the data-visualizations dept. Slashdot readers [92]madsh, [93]Ellis Haney, and [94]sciencehabit all submitted [95]this report from Science: A [96]recent study, scheduled to be presented at an upcoming computer vision conference, demonstrates that AI can read brain scans and re-create largely realistic versions of images a person has seen.... Many labs have used AI to read brain scans and re-create images a subject has recently seen, such as [97]human faces and [98]photos of landscapes. The new study marks the first time an AI algorithm called [99]Stable Diffusion, developed by a German group and publicly released in 2022, has been used to do this.... For the new study, a group in Japan added additional training to the standard Stable Diffusion system, linking additional text descriptions about thousands of photos to brain patterns elicited when those photos were observed by participants in brain scan studies. Unlike previous efforts using AI algorithms to decipher brain scans, which had to be trained on large data sets, Stable Diffusion was able to get more out of less training for each participant by incorporating photo captions into the algorithm.... The AI algorithm makes use of information gathered from different regions of the brain involved in image perception, such as the occipital and temporal lobes, according to Yu Takagi, a systems neuroscientist at Osaka University who worked on the experiment. The system interpreted information from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans, which detect changes in blood flow to active regions of the brain. When people look at a photo, the temporal lobes predominantly register information about the contents of the image (people, objects, or scenery), whereas the occipital lobe predominantly registers information about layout and perspective, such as the scale and position of the contents. All of this information is recorded by the fMRI as it captures peaks in brain activity, and these patterns can then be reconverted into an imitation image using AI. In the new study, the researchers added additional training to the Stable Diffusion algorithm using an online [100]data set provided by the University of Minnesota, which consisted of brain scans from four participants as they each viewed a set of 10,000 photos. If a study participant showed the same brain pattern, the algorithm sent words from that photo's caption to Stable Diffusion's text-to-image generator. Iris Groen, a neuroscientist at the University of Amsterdam who was not involved with the work, told Science that "The accuracy of this new method is impressive." apply tags__________ 170521117 story [101]Cloud [102]US Plans More Regulations to Improve Cloud Security [103](politico.com) [104]11 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:45PM from the outlook-is-cloudy dept. Politico reports: Governments and businesses have spent two decades rushing to the cloud -- trusting some of their most sensitive data to tech giants that promised near-limitless storage, powerful software and the knowhow to keep it safe. Now the White House worries that the cloud is becoming a huge security vulnerability. So it's embarking on the nation's first comprehensive plan to [105]regulate the security practices of cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle, whose servers provide data storage and computing power for customers ranging from mom-and-pop businesses to the Pentagon and CIA.... Among other steps, the Biden administration [106]recently said it will require cloud providers to verify the identity of their users to prevent foreign hackers from renting space on U.S. cloud servers (implementing an idea first introduced in a Trump administration executive order). And last week the administration warned in its national cybersecurity strategy that more cloud regulations are coming -- saying it plans to identify and close regulatory gaps over the industry.... So far, cloud providers have haven't done enough to prevent criminal and nation-state hackers from abusing their services to stage attacks within the U.S., officials argued, pointing in particular to the 2020 SolarWinds espionage campaign, in which Russian spooks avoided detection in part by renting servers from Amazon and GoDaddy. For months, they used those to slip unnoticed into at least nine federal agencies and 100 companies. That risk is only growing, said Rob Knake, the deputy national cyber director for strategy and budget. Foreign hackers have become more adept at "spinning up and rapidly spinning down" new servers, he said -- in effect, moving so quickly from one rented service to the next that new leads dry up for U.S. law enforcement faster than it can trace them down. On top of that, U.S. officials express significant frustration that cloud providers often up-charge customers to add security protections -- both taking advantage of the need for such measures and leaving a security hole when companies decide not to spend the extra money. That practice complicated the federal investigations into the SolarWinds attack, because the agencies that fell victim to the Russian hacking campaign had not paid extra for Microsoft's enhanced data-logging features.... Part of what makes that difficult is that neither the government nor companies using cloud providers fully know what security protections cloud providers have in place. [107]In a study last month on the U.S. financial sector's use of cloud services, the Treasury Department found that cloud companies provided "insufficient transparency to support due diligence and monitoring" and U.S. banks could not "fully understand the risks associated with cloud services." apply tags__________ 170520905 story [108]Star Wars Prequels [109]Disney World is Having Trouble Selling Its $4,800 Simulated 'Star Wars' Space Cruises [110](sfgate.com) [111]76 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:45PM from the attack-of-the-clones dept. $4,800 buys you a two-day "immersive" experience on the Star Wars-themed "Galactic Starcruiser" at Disney World -- a pseudo cruise ship in space. But one year after it opened, Disney [112]is "cutting back" some of its bookings, reports SFGate: Earlier this year, it began offering its first [113]sizable discounts to the general public. Now, the Starcruiser booking calendar shows only two voyages per week will be available for most of October, November and December. Only Thanksgiving week and Christmas week are offering three voyages.... "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is one of the most ambitious, innovative projects we've ever brought to life and is unlike anything we've done before -- it continues to be among our highest-rated guest experiences due to its immersive environment and incredible service provided by our stellar crew," a Disney spokesperson told SFGATE. "We learned a lot from our guests during the first year of operation and have made some adjustments along the way to continue delivering an unforgettable experience for everyone who visits." apply tags__________ 170520701 story [114]Crime [115]Does IceFire Ransomware Portend a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux? [116](darkreading.com) [117]24 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @01:45PM from the year-of-the-Linux-ransomware dept. An anonymous reader shares [118]this report from Dark Reading: In recent weeks, hackers have been deploying the "IceFire" ransomware against Linux enterprise networks, a noted shift for what was once a Windows-only malware. A [119]report from SentinelOne suggests that this may represent a budding trend. Ransomware actors have been targeting Linux systems more than ever in cyberattacks in recent weeks and months, notable not least because "in comparison to Windows, Linux is more difficult to deploy ransomware against, particularly at scale," Alex Delamotte, security researcher at SentinelOne, tells Dark Reading.... "[M]any Linux systems are servers," Delamotte points out, "so typical infection vectors like phishing or drive-by download are less effective." So instead, recent IceFire attacks have exploited [120]CVE-2022-47986 -- a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the IBM Aspera data transfer service, with a CVSS rating of 9.8. Delamotte posits a few reasons for why more ransomware actors are choosing Linux as of late. For one thing, she says, "Linux-based systems are frequently utilized in enterprise settings to perform crucial tasks such as hosting databases, Web servers, and other mission-critical applications. Consequently, these systems are often more valuable targets for ransomware actors due to the possibility of a larger payout resulting from a successful attack, compared to a typical Windows user." A second factor, she guesses, "is that some ransomware actors may perceive Linux as an unexploited market that could yield a higher return on investment." While previous reports had IceFire targetting tech companies, SentinelLabs says they've seen recent attacks against organizations "in the media and entertainment sector," impacting victims "in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates, which are typically not a focus for organized ransomware actors." apply tags__________ 170520431 story [121]Printer [122]'Relativity Space' Aborts Second Launch Attempt of Its 3D-Printed Rocket [123](wired.com) [124]12 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:45PM from the final-frontiers dept. "Based on initial data review, vehicle is healthy," Relativity Space [125]tweeted today. "More info to follow on cause of aborts today. Thanks for playing." Remaining back on the launchpad is the largest 3D printed object ever to exist. And they're still hoping to launch it into space. They'd planned a launch this morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida of a 110-foot rocket (33.5 meters) on a mission they're calling GLHF -- "Good Luck, Have Fun". The rocket's makers -- California-based Relativity Space -- call it "the world's first 3D printed rocket." A full 85% of the rocket's weight comes from 3D printed parts, [126]explains Wired, and "only the computing system, electronics, and readily available parts like fasteners were not." Named Terran 1, the 7.5-foot-wide rocket (2.2 meters) inaugurates the company's ambitious plans for 3D printing in space: Relativity Space wants to use Terran 1 to (comparatively) cheaply lift satellites for other companies and NASA into Earth orbit. It also plans to construct Terran R, a larger, more powerful, fully reusable rocket that the company hopes will compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9, which has a smaller payload capacity and only reuses the rocket's first stage. In late 2024, Relativity plans to test using Terran R to launch payloads to Mars; another startup, Impulse Space, will provide the lander. From [127]the company's web site: Like its structure, all Relativity engines are 3D printed and use liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas, which are not only the best for rocket propulsion, but also for reusability, and the easiest to eventually transition to methane on Mars. The tagline for the company's [128]Twitter feed says they're "Building humanity's multiplanetary future." And excitement [129]is running high, reports Spaceflight Now" "There are a number of firsts here potentially on this rocket," said Josh Brost, vice president of revenue operations at Relativity Space.... "Hard to believe the day is nearly here to launch Terran 1, our first rocket!" Tim Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space tweeted Tuesday.... The company now boasts some 1,000 employees, a million-square-foot headquarters and factory in Long Beach, California, and $1.3 billion in venture capital and equity fundraising, including an early $500,000 investment from billionaire Mark Cuban. In 2021, the company reached a valuation of $4.2 billion before launching any rockets.... "No new company has ever had their liquid rocket make it to space on their first attempt," Brost, also a former engineer and manager at SpaceX, told Spaceflight Now in a pre-launch interview. "So if everything goes incredibly well, and we achieve orbit on our first launch ... that would be a remarkable milestone for us, which we would be, of course, over the moon excited about. But that doesn't define success for us." Wired adds that they're not the only company working on space-related 3D printing: Australia's Fleet Space has already been producing lightweight, 3D-printed radio frequency antennas for satellites. Next year, using printers half the size of a bus, they plan to create a satellite constellation called Alpha that will be entirely 3D-printed.... Flavia Tata Nardini, the company's CEO, believes space-based 3D printing is coming next. "In my ideal future, in 10 to 15 years, I won't have to launch satellites from here; I can build them up there." apply tags__________ 170517831 story [130]Earth [131]Scientists Propose Turning Carbon Pollution Into Baking Soda and Storing it In Oceans [132](cnn.com) [133]89 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:34AM from the pinch-of-saltwalter dept. Slashdot reader [134]beforewisdom shared [135]this report from CNN: Scientists have set out a way to [136]suck planet-heating carbon pollution from the air, turn it into sodium bicarbonate and store it in oceans, according to a new paper. The technique could be up to three times more efficient than current carbon capture technology, say the authors of the [137]study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.... The team have used copper to modify the absorbent material used in direct air capture. The result is an absorbent "which can remove CO2 from the atmosphere at ultra-dilute concentration at a capacity which is two to three times greater than existing absorbents," Arup SenGupta, a professor at Lehigh University and a study author, told CNN. This material can be produced easily and cheaply and would help drive down the costs of direct air capture, he added. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it can then be turned into sodium bicarbonate -- baking soda -- using seawater and released into the ocean at a small concentration. The oceans "are infinite sinks," SenGupta said. "If you put all the CO2 from the atmosphere, emitted every day -- or every year -- into the ocean, the increase in concentration would be very, very minor," he said. SenGupta's idea is that direct air capture plants can be located offshore, giving them access to abundant amounts of seawater for the process. Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the study, told CNN that the chemistry was "novel and elegant." The process is a modification of one we already know, he said, "which is easier to understand, scale-up and develop than something totally new." apply tags__________ 170516929 story [138]Education [139]Jaded With Education, More Americans are Skipping College [140](apnews.com) [141]166 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2023 @10:34AM from the lower-education dept. In America, the number of high school graduates going to college "was generally on the upswing," reports the Associated Press, "[142]until the pandemic reversed decades of progress. Rates fell even as the nation's population of high school graduates grew." Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists say the impact could be dire. At worst, it could signal a new generation with little faith in the value of a college degree. At minimum, it appears those who passed on college during the pandemic are opting out for good. Predictions that they would enroll after a year or two haven't borne out. Fewer college graduates could worsen labor shortages in fields from health care to information technology. For those who forgo college, it usually means lower lifetime earnings -- 75% less compared with those who get bachelor's degrees, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. And when the economy sours, those without degrees are more likely to lose jobs. "It's quite a dangerous proposition for the strength of our national economy," said Zack Mabel, a Georgetown researcher. In dozens of interviews with The Associated Press, educators, researchers and students described a generation jaded by education institutions. Largely left on their own amid remote learning, many took part-time jobs. Some [143]felt they weren't learning anything, and the idea of four more years of school, or even two, held little appeal. At the same time, the nation's student debt has soared.... If there's a bright spot, experts say, it's that more young people are pursuing education programs other than a four-year degree. Some states are seeing growing demand for apprenticeships in the trades, which usually provide certificates and other credentials. After a dip in 2020, the number of new apprentices in the U.S. has rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels, according to the Department of Labor. Community college is even free in Tennessee, the article notes. "Searching for answers, education officials crossed the state last year and heard that easy access to jobs, coupled with student debt worries, made college less attractive." They also found that restaurant and retail jobs pay better than they have before, with other high school graduates being recruited by manufacturing companies that have aggressively raised wages in response to labor shortages. One 19-year-old making $24-an-hour at a [144]new Ford plant gushed that "The type of money we're making out here, you're not going to be making that while you're trying to go to college." apply tags__________ 170517297 story [145]China [146]TikTok Whistleblower Tells Congress Data Protections Don't Stop Chinese Access [147](gizmodo.com) [148]47 Posted by [149]BeauHD on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:00AM from the complete-re-engineering-required dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: A former TikTok employee turned whistleblower has reportedly met with multiple U.S. senators expressing concerns TikTok's plan to secure U.S. user data [150]won't go far enough to stop possible Chinese espionage. The whistleblower [151]told The Washington Post in an interview that the company's policy plan, dubbed [152]Project Texas, doesn't go far enough and that properly ensuring U.S. data is secured from Chinese employees requires nothing short of a "complete re-engineering" of the way the app works. Those allegations come just days after another whistleblower raised concerns regarding TikTok's U.S. user controls. Combined, the comments could fan the flames for what looks like growing bipartisan support for a full-on nationwide TikTok ban. The former TikTok employee turned whistleblower told the Post he worked at the company for around six months ending in early 2022 as a risk manager and head of a unit in TikTok's Safety Operations team. Part of that job, he claims, put him in charge of knowing which employees had access to certain tools and user data. He claims he was fired after speaking up about his data privacy concerns. Though he left TikTok prior to its finalization of the so-called Project Texas policy, he maintains he saw enough evidence to suggest the guardrails put in place to placate U.S. regulators fearful of Chinese employees viewing U.S. user data were insufficient. The whistleblower has reportedly already met with staffers from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner's offices. Specifically, the whistleblower shared a snippet of code with the Post which they say shows TikTok's code connecting with Toutiao, a Chinese news app also run by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance. The whistleblower alleges that connection could let Chinese employees intercept and potentially view U.S. user data. Gizmodo could not independently confirm those claims. The whistleblower, meanwhile reportedly did not advocate for an outright nationwide ban. Instead, he said the problems could be solved but would require further steps than what is included in the Project Texas proposal. Another alleged whistleblower came forward just days before the Post interview, alleging TikTok's access controls on U.S. data were "superficial" at best. "TikTok and ByteDance employees, he alleged, possess the ability to 'switch between Chinese and U.S. data with nothing more than the click of a button,'" reports Gizmodo. The whistleblower alleged in [153]a letter sent to ByteDance by Republican Missouri Rep. Josh Hawley: "I have seen first-hand China-based engineers flipping over to non-China datasets and creating scheduled tasks to backup, aggregate, and analyze data. TikTok and ByteDance are functionally the same company." apply tags__________ 170517269 story [154]Medicine [155]People Were Unwittingly Implanted With Fake Devices In Medical Scam, FBI Alleges [156](vice.com) [157]54 Posted by [158]BeauHD on Saturday March 11, 2023 @05:00AM from the placebo-devices dept. Chronic pain patients were [159]implanted with "dummy" pieces of plastic and told it would ease their pain, according to an indictment charging the former CEO of the firm that made the fake devices with fraud. Motherboard reports: Laura Perryman, the former CEO of Stimwave LLC, was arrested in Florida on Thursday. According to an FBI [160]press release, Perryman was indicted "in connection with a scheme to create and sell a non-functioning dummy medical device for implantation into patients suffering from chronic pain, resulting in millions of dollars in losses to federal healthcare programs." According to the indictment, patients underwent unnecessary implanting procedures as a result of the fraud. Perryman was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud, and one count of healthcare fraud. Stimwave received FDA approval in 2014, according to [161]Engadget, and was positioned as an alternative to opioids for pain relief. The Stimwave "Pink Stylet" system consisted of an implantable electrode array for stimulating the target nerve, a battery worn externally that powered it, and a separate, 9-inch long implantable receiver. When doctors told Stimwave that the long receiver was difficult to place in some patients, Perryman allegedly created the "White Stylet," a receiver that doctors could cut to be smaller and easier to implant -- but was actually just a piece of plastic that did nothing. "To perpetuate the lie that the White Stylet was functional, Perryman oversaw training that suggested to doctors that the White Stylet was a 'receiver,' when, in fact, it was made entirely of plastic, contained no copper, and therefore had no conductivity," the FBI stated. "In addition, Perryman directed other Stimwave employees to vouch for the efficacy of the White Stylet, when she knew that the White Stylet was actually non-functional." 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