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The decision "with immediate effect" will result in "the temporary limitation of the processing of Italian user data vis-a-vis OpenAI," said the Italian Data Protection Authority. apply tags__________ 170657458 story [43]Space [44]Ultramassive Black Hole Discovered To Be 33 Billion Times More Massive Than the Sun [45](sciencealert.com) [46]15 Posted by [47]BeauHD on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:00AM from the hide-and-seek dept. Researchers have discovered one of the most massive black holes ever discovered, [48]clocking in at around 32.7 billion times the mass of the sun. It's located in a galaxy at the center of a massive cluster named Abell 1201, some 2.7 billion light-years away. ScienceAlert reports: The new figure exceeds previous estimates by at least 7 billion solar masses, demonstrating the power of curved light for measuring masses with precision. One way we can find these black holes is looking for an effect called gravitational lensing. This occurs when space-time itself is warped by mass; imagine space-time as a rubber sheet, and the mass as a heavy weight on it. Any light traveling through that region of space-time has to travel along a curved path, and that can look very interesting to an observer watching from afar. [...] The central galaxy, or brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of Abell 1201, is a large, diffuse elliptical galaxy well-known as a strong gravitational lens. A galaxy far beyond the BCG appears alongside it as an elongated smear, like an eyebrow closely wrapped around its outskirts. This smear was discovered in 2003; in 2017, astronomers found a second, fainter smear, even closer to the galactic center. This implies, astronomers proposed, the presence of a very large black hole at the center of the BCG, but the data available was not detailed enough to resolve the central mass, or reveal more about what was in there. [Researchers] not only had access to more recent observations, but devised the tools to understand them. They conducted hundreds of thousands of simulations of light moving through the Universe, altering the mass of the black hole at the galaxy's center, looking for results that replicate the lensing we observe with Abell 1021 BCG. All but one of their models preferred a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy; and the best fit for the mass of that black hole was 32.7 billion times the mass of the Sun. That pushes it well into ultramassive territory, black holes more massive than 10 billion Suns, and close to the theoretical upper limit for black hole masses of 50 billion Suns. The research has been published in the [49]Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. apply tags__________ 170657400 story [50]Businesses [51]Virgin Orbit Fails To Secure Funding, Will Cease Operations [52](cnbc.com) [53]13 Posted by [54]BeauHD on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:00AM from the uncontrolled-descent dept. Virgin Orbit is [55]ceasing operations "for the foreseeable future" after failing to secure a funding lifeline, CEO Dan Hart told employees during an all-hands meeting Thursday afternoon. The company will lay off nearly all of its workforce. CNBC reports: "Unfortunately, we've not been able to secure the funding to provide a clear path for this company," Hart said, according to audio of the 5 p.m. ET meeting obtained by CNBC. "We have no choice but to implement immediate, dramatic and extremely painful changes," Hart said, audibly choking up on the call. He added this would be "probably the hardest all-hands that we've ever done in my life." The company will eliminate all but 100 positions, amounting to about 90% of the workforce, Hart said, noting the layoffs will affect every team and department. In a securities filing, the company said the layoffs constituted 675 positions, or approximately 85%. "This company, this team -- all of you -- mean a hell of a lot to me. And I have not, and will not, stop supporting you, whether you're here on the journey or if you're elsewhere," Hart said. Virgin Orbit will "provide a severance package for every departing" employee, Hart said, with a cash payment, extension of benefits, and support in finding a new position -- with a "direct pipeline" set up with sister company Virgin Galactic for hiring. apply tags__________ 170655910 story [56]Science [57]Stressed Plants Emit Sounds That Can Be Detected More Than a Meter Away [58](phys.org) [59]45 Posted by [60]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:30PM from the sounds-of-trauma dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel [61]report in the journal Cell on March 30 that tomato and tobacco plants that are stressed -- from dehydration or having their stems severed -- [62]emit sounds that are comparable in volume to normal human conversation. The frequency of these noises is too high for our ears to detect, but they can probably be heard by insects, other mammals, and possibly other plants. "Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don't hear, and those sounds carry information," says senior author Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University. "There are animals that can hear these sounds, so there is the possibility that a lot of acoustic interaction is occurring." The researchers used microphones to record healthy and stressed tomato and tobacco plants, first in a soundproofed acoustic chamber and then in a noisier greenhouse environment. They stressed the plants via two methods: by not watering them for several days and by cutting their stems. After recording the plants, the researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm to differentiate between unstressed plants, thirsty plants, and cut plants. The team found that stressed plants emit more sounds than unstressed plants. The plant sounds resemble pops or clicks, and a single stressed plant emits around 30-50 of these clicks per hour at seemingly random intervals, but unstressed plants emit far fewer sounds. "When tomatoes are not stressed at all, they are very quiet," says Hadany. Water-stressed plants began emitting noises before they were visibly dehydrated, and the frequency of sounds peaked after five days with no water before decreasing again as the plants dried up completely. The types of sound emitted differed with the cause of stress. The machine-learning algorithm was able to accurately differentiate between dehydration and stress from cutting and could also discern whether the sounds came from a tomato or tobacco plant. Although the study focused on tomato and tobacco plants because of their ease to grow and standardize in the laboratory, the research team also recorded a variety of other plant species. "We found that many plants -- corn, wheat, grape, and cactus plants, for example -- emit sounds when they are stressed," says Hadany. The researchers suggest that these noises "might be due to the formation and bursting of air bubbles in the plant's vascular system, a process called cavitation," reports Phys.Org. It's unclear if the plants are producing these sounds in order to communicate with other organisms. apply tags__________ 170655884 story [63]Security [64]'Vulkan Files' Leak Reveals Putin's Global and Domestic Cyberwarfare Tactics [65](theguardian.com) [66]26 Posted by [67]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:02PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. "The Gaurdian reports on a [68]document leak from Russian cyber 'security' company Vulkan," writes Slashdot reader [69]Falconhell. From the report: Inside the six-storey building, a new generation is helping Russian military operations. Its weapons are more advanced than those of Peter the Great's era: not pikes and halberds, but hacking and disinformation tools. The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin's cyberwarfare capabilities. Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan's engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company's work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence organization. One document links a Vulkan cyber-attack tool with the notorious hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said twice [70]caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and [71]launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history. Codenamed Scan-V, it scours the internet for vulnerabilities, which are then stored for use in future cyber-attacks. Another system, known as Amezit, amounts to a blueprint for surveilling and controlling the internet in regions under Russia's command, and also enables disinformation via fake social media profiles. A third Vulkan-built system -- Crystal-2V -- is a training program for cyber-operatives in the methods required to bring down rail, air and sea infrastructure. A file explaining the software states: "The level of secrecy of processed and stored information in the product is 'Top Secret'." apply tags__________ 170655816 story [72]Facebook [73]Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection [74](arstechnica.com) [75]20 Posted by [76]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:25PM from the that's-a-first dept. Meta [77]announced that starting next Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union will for the first time be able to [78]opt out of sharing first-party data used to serve highly personalized ads, The Wall Street Journal [79]reported. The move marks a big change from Meta's current business model, where every video and piece of content clicked on its platforms provides a data point for its online advertisers. Ars Technica reports: People "familiar with the matter" told the Journal that Facebook and Instagram users will soon be able to access a form that can be submitted to Meta to object to sweeping data collection. If those requests are approved, those users will only allow Meta to target ads based on broader categories of data collection, like age range or general location. This is different from efforts by other major tech companies like Apple and Google, which prompt users to opt in or out of highly personalized ads with the click of a button. Instead, Meta will review objection forms to evaluate reasons provided by individual users to end such data collection before it will approve any opt-outs. It's unclear what cause Meta may have to deny requests. A Meta spokesperson told Ars that Meta is not sharing the objection form publicly at this time but that it will be available to EU users in its Help Center starting on April 5. That's the deadline Meta was given to comply with an Irish regulator's rulings that it was illegal in the EU for Meta to force Facebook and Instagram users to give consent to data collection when they signed contracts to use the platforms. Meta still plans to appeal those Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) rulings, believing that its prior contract's legal basis complies with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the meantime, though, the company must change the legal basis for data collection. Meta [80]announced in a blog post today that it will now argue that it does not need to directly obtain user consent because it has a "legitimate interest" to collect data to operate its social platforms. "We believe that our previous approach was compliant under GDPR, and our appeal on both the substance of the rulings and the fines continues," Meta's blog said. "However, this change ensures that we comply with the DPC's decision." apply tags__________ 170655778 story [81]Anime [82]China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint From Japan [83](torrentfreak.com) [84]10 Posted by [85]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:45PM from the cease-to-exist dept. Anti-piracy group CODA is [86]reporting the shutdown of B9Good, a pirate manga site that targeted Japan but was operated from China. In response to a criminal complaint [87]filed by CODA on behalf of six Japanese companies, which were backed by 21 others during the investigation, Chinese authorities [88]arrested four people and seized one house worth $580,000. TorrentFreak reports: Manga piracy site B9Good initially appeared in 2008 and established itself under B9DM branding. SimilarWeb stats show that the site was enjoying around 15 million visits each month, with CODA noting that in the two-year period leading to February 2023, the site was accessed more than 300 million times Around 95% of the site's visitors came from Japan. B9Good had been featured in an MPA submission to the USTR's notorious markets report in 2019. Traffic was reported as almost 16 million visits per month back then, meaning that site visitor numbers remained stable for the next three years. The MPA said the site was possibly hosted in Canada, but domain records since then show a wider spread, including Hong Kong, China, United States, Bulgaria, and Japan. Wherever the site ended up, the location of its operator was more important. In 2021, CODA launched its International Enforcement Project (CBEP), which aimed to personally identify the operators of pirate sites, including those behind B9Good who were eventually traced to China. Pursuing copyright cases from outside China is reportedly difficult, but CODA had a plan. In January 2022, CODA's Beijing office was recognized as an NGO with legitimate standing to protect the rights of its member companies. Working on behalf of Aniplex, TV Tokyo, Toei Animation, Toho, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), and Bandai Namco Film Works, CODA filed a criminal complaint in China, and starting February 14, 2023, local authorities began rounding up the B9Good team. apply tags__________ 170655680 story [89]AI [90]Google Assistant Division Is Reorganizing To Focus On Bard [91](cnbc.com) [92]11 Posted by [93]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:02PM from the shifting-priorities dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Google is [94]reshuffling the reporting structure of its virtual assistant unit -- called Assistant -- to focus more on Bard, the company's new artificial intelligence chat technology. In a memo to employees on Wednesday, titled "Changes to Assistant and Bard teams," Sissie Hsiao, vice president and lead of Google Assistant's business unit, announced changes to the organization that show the unit heavily prioritizing Bard. "As the Bard teams continue this work, we want to ensure we continue to support and execute on the opportunities ahead," Hsiao said in the email. "This year, more than ever, we have been focused on delivery with impact to our users." Jianchang "JC" Mao, who reported directly to Hsiao, will be leaving the company for personal reasons, according to the memo, which was viewed by CNBC. Mao held the position of vice president of engineering for Google Assistant and "helped shape the Assistant we have today," Hsiao wrote. Taking Mao's place will be 16-year Google veteran Peeyush Ranjan, who most recently held the title of vice president in Google's commerce organization, overseeing payments. The new leadership changes suggest that the Assistant organization may be planning on integrating Bard technology into similar products in the future. [...] As part of Wednesday's change, Google Assistant engineering vice president Amar Subramanya will now lead engineering for the Bard team, the email said. Trevor Strohman, who previously led engineering efforts for Bard, will continue as an "Area Tech Lead" for Bard, reporting to Hsiao. Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo ponders if the Google Assistant is facing a "[95]looming Google shutdown." "If we assume the idea of the Google Assistant -- a voice assistant that helps you do things -- isn't completely dead at Google, you could imagine a future where Bard's language model helps it understand what you want to do and will do it, but it feels like the service is years away from something like that," writes Amadeo. "The Assistant today doesn't have language model problems, though, just voice recognition problems, and Bard won't help with that." apply tags__________ 170655598 story [96]Businesses [97]Roku To Cut 200 Jobs, or 6% of Its Workforce, In Second Round of Layoffs [98]12 Posted by [99]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:20PM from the cuts-keep-on-coming dept. Roku will [100]lay off 6% of its workforce, or 200 employees, in its second round of job cuts, the U.S. streaming device maker said. Reuters reports: In a bid to lower expenses, the company also decided to exit and sub-lease office facilities that it did not currently occupy. Roku had in November cut 200 jobs in the United States, where companies, led by technology giants such as Meta Platforms and Amazon.com Inc, are bracing for a potential economic downturn amid rising borrowing costs around the world. Roku, which had about 3,600 full-time employees as of Dec. 31, expects to incur charges of between $30 million and $35 million related to the restructuring. Majority of the restructuring charges will be incurred in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, while the job cuts will be completed by the end of the second quarter, the company said. apply tags__________ 170655576 story [101]Books [102]Missouri Reps Vote To Completely Defund State's Public Libraries [103](vice.com) [104]186 Posted by [105]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:40PM from the retaliatory-acts dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives [106]voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and the governor's office, state funding for public libraries is very much on the chopping block in Missouri. This comes after Republican House Budget Chairman Cody Smith proposed a $4.5 million cut to public libraries' state aid last week in the initial House Budget Committee hearing, where Smith cited a lawsuit filed against Missouri by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU-MO) as the reason for the cut. ACLU-MO filed the suit on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association (MLA) in an effort to overturn a state law passed in 2022 that bans sexually explicit material from schools. Since it was first enacted in August, librarians and other educators have faced misdemeanor charges punishable by up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine for giving students access to books the state has deemed sexually explicit. The Missouri law [107]defined (PDF) explicit sexual material as images "showing human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse," "sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, sadomasochistic abuse," or showing human genitals. The lawsuit claims that school districts have been pulling books from their shelves. "The house budget committee's choice to retaliate against two private, volunteer-led organizations by punishing the patrons of Missouri's public libraries is abhorrent," Tom Bastian, deputy director for communications for ACLU-MO said in a statement to Motherboard. Like in all ACLU cases, the organization is not charging the two Missouri library groups for services. Both library organizations are also run by volunteers -- every state has an equivalent of these two organizations that serve public and school libraries. In other words, a politician either lied or didn't have his facts straight, and now 160 library districts risk losing state aid in June. "State Aid helps libraries provide relevant collections, literacy based programming, and technology resources to their communities," Otter Bowman, president of the MLA told Motherboard in a statement. "Our rural libraries rely the most heavily on this funding to serve their communities, and they will be crippled by this drastic budget cut." apply tags__________ 170654880 story [108]Android [109]Lenovo Gives Up on Its Dream of Android Gaming Phones [110](arstechnica.com) [111]11 Posted by msmash on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:00PM from the tough-luck dept. An anonymous reader writes: Android manufacturers occasionally try to push this idea of a "gaming smartphone" -- usually, these companies try to extend the "PC gamer" design motif to smartphones, with RGB LEDs and aggressive marketing. Since Android games are mostly casual pay-to-win tap fests, though, we often have to ask, does anyone want a gaming smartphone? If you're Lenovo, [112]the answer is apparently "no," as Android Authority reports Lenovo is killing the "Legion" gaming phone business. apply tags__________ 170655544 story [113]E3 [114]E3 2023 Has Been Canceled [115](theverge.com) [116]27 Posted by [117]BeauHD on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:20PM from the called-off dept. E3 2023 [118]has been called off "after huge gaming companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all said they wouldn't be participating in the event," reports The Verge. From the report: E3 2023 was [119]scheduled for June 13th through 16th with a mix of industry-focused days and days that would be open to the public. But in the lead-up to June, there had been some worrying signs that things might be rocky for E3's revival. According to an email sent to employees and [120]verified by IGN, E3 2023 "simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size, strength, and impact of our industry." In an email to The Verge, Kyle Marsden-Kish, global VP of gaming at ReedPop, wrote: "This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what's right for the industry and what's right for E3. We appreciate and understand that interested companies wouldn't have playable demos ready and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer an obstacle they couldn't overcome. For those who did commit to E3 2023, we're sorry we can't put on the showcase you deserve and that you've come to expect from ReedPop's event experiences." Marsden-Kish suggested the convention could return in subsequent years. apply tags__________ 170654984 story [121]Businesses [122]South Korea Passes Tax Break-Driven 'Chips Act' as Protectionism Fears Mount [123](theregister.com) [124]6 Posted by msmash on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:40PM from the moving-forward dept. South Korea has passed legislation [125]giving tax breaks to its semiconductor companies in a bill being labelled as the "Korean Chips Act." At the same time, the nation's trade minister repeated its complaints that the criteria for Korean companies to access US funding are unpalatable in a possible sign of growing protectionism in the worldwide chip market. From a report: To bump up the level of tax breaks, the Korean National Assembly passed a revision bill to the Restriction of Special Taxation Act. The reductions will be given to companies investing in semiconductor production and other strategic industries in the country. These tax breaks appear to be largely in line with earlier reports regarding the Korean government's plans, and will see large corporations such as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix offered tax credits of up to 15 percent on investments into strategic technologies such as semiconductor manufacturing, up from 8 percent previously. Raising the deduction rate from 8 percent to 15 percent would save some 2.5 trillion won ($1.9 billion) in taxes for the local chip industry, according to The Korea Herald. For small and medium-sized enterprises, the tax credit rate is set to be raised from 16 percent to 25 percent, in moves designed to bolster domestic investment in key technology sectors. The move follows the announcement of plans from the Korean government earlier this month to pour cash into several key industries including semiconductors and electric vehicles. As part of those plans, Samsung said it aimed to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years to build five new local semiconductor plants. South Korea is not the only nation offering such tax breaks. In January, Taiwan -- home to semiconductor giant TSMC -- passed similar legislation that will allow its domestic chipmakers to turn up to 25 percent of their annual research and development expenses into tax credits, in efforts to ensure the country's continued leadership in chip manufacturing. apply tags__________ 170654956 story [126]AI [127]Inside the Deepfake Porn Economy [128](nbcnews.com) [129]57 Posted by msmash on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:00PM from the closer-look dept. The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, [130]but it's easily accessible, and some creators can accept major credit cards. From a report: Digitally edited pornographic videos featuring the faces of hundreds of unconsenting women are attracting tens of millions of visitors on websites, one of which can be found at the top of Google search results. The people who create the videos charge as little as $5 to download thousands of clips featuring the faces of celebrities, and they accept payment via Visa, Mastercard and cryptocurrency. While such videos, often called deepfakes, have existed online for years, advances in artificial intelligence and the growing availability of the technology have made it easier -- and more lucrative -- to make nonconsensual sexually explicit material. An NBC News review of two of the largest websites that host sexually explicit deepfake videos found that they were easily accessible through Google and that creators on the websites also used the online chat platform Discord to advertise videos for sale and the creation of custom videos. The deepfakes are created using AI software that can take an existing video and seamlessly replace one person's face with another's, even mirroring facial expressions. Some lighthearted deepfake videos of celebrities have gone viral, but the most common use is for sexually explicit videos. According to Sensity, an Amsterdam-based company that detects and monitors AI-developed synthetic media for industries like banking and fintech, 96% of deepfakes are sexually explicit and feature women who didn't consent to the creation of the content. Most deepfake videos are of female celebrities, but creators now also offer to make videos of anyone. A creator offered on Discord to make a 5-minute deepfake of a "personal girl," meaning anyone with fewer than 2 million Instagram followers, for $65. apply tags__________ 170655026 story [131]Security [132]US, Partner Countries Call For Controls To Counter Misuse of Spyware [133](reuters.com) [134]18 Posted by msmash on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:20PM from the growing-push dept. The United States and some of its partner countries on Thursday called for strict domestic and international controls to [135]counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware. From a report: The joint statement was issued by the governments of Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The countries said they were committed to preventing the export of technology and equipment to end-users who are likely to use them for "malicious cyber activity." The joint statement also said the countries would share information with each other on spyware proliferation and misuse, including to better identify these tools. On Monday, U.S. President Joseph Biden signed an executive order intended to curb the malicious use of digital spy tools around the globe targeting U.S. personnel and civil society. 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