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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]× 170769080 story [39]Power [40]German Government Rejects Bavaria's Offer to Reopen Its Closed Nuclear Plant [41](reuters.com) [42]24 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:34AM from the no-nukes dept. Germany consists of [43]16 states, the largest of which is [44]Bavaria (covering about of fifth of Germany by area). Hours after Germany [45]closed its last three nuclear power plants, Bavaria's premier offered to keep one of the three reactors running as a state-controlled power plant (rather than as a federally-controlled plant), according to [46]a report in DW. It reports that the premier told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Bavaria was "demanding that the federal government give states the responsibility for the continued operation of nuclear power. Until the [energy] crisis ends and while the transition to renewables has not succeeded, we must use every form of energy until the end of the decade. Bavaria is ready to face up to this responsibility." He also told the newspaper that Germany is "a pioneer in nuclear fusion research and are examining the construction of our own research reactor, in cooperation with other countries. It can't be that a country of engineers like Germany gives up any claim to shaping the future and international competitiveness." Now [47]Reuters reports that Germany's federal government just issued their answer. No. Germany's Environment Ministry on Sunday rejected a demand from the state of Bavaria to allow it to continue operating nuclear power plants, saying jurisdiction for such facilities lies with the federal government... Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said the authorisation for [the Bavaria-based nuclear plant] had expired and restarting its reactor would require a new license. "It is important to accept the state of the art in science and technology and to respect the decision of the German Bundestag," Lemke said in a statement sent to Reuters. apply tags__________ 170769020 story [48]AI [49]Frozen Driverless Cars are Delaying San Francisco's Buses [50](wired.com) [51]61 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:34AM from the no-one-to-honk-at dept. There's a new problem with driverless test vehicles. Wired obtain records from San Francisco's public transit agency for about six months showing that driverless cars testing on city streets "[52]resulted in at least 83 minutes of direct delays" for the city's "Muni" buses. And "that data likely doesn't reflect the true scale of the problem," Wired argues, since "a single delay can slow other lines, worsening the blow." Some examples from the article: - On January 22, a Cruise at a green light wouldn't budge, preventing a San Francisco light-rail train from moving for nearly 16 minutes. As the train driver headed out to investigate, a passenger said, "Nobody in there, huh?" Over a span of 10 minutes, the driver chatted with passengers, checked with managers over the radio, and walked around the motionless Cruise vehicle. Someone wearing a reflective vest and holding a tablet eventually got into the Cruise and drove it away... - On September 30, 2022, a Muni light-rail train, or streetcar, that was full of celebrating baseball fans began driving from a station into an intersection. An empty Cruise robotaxi at a stop sign to the train's left then also drove forward... It was seven minutes before the driverless car cleared the track and the train started again, drawing cheers from riders... - On January 21, a Muni bus with a couple of riders aboard had lost six minutes because a Cruise was lingering across an intersection crowded by police and fire vehicles, video shows. While other cars maneuvered past, the Cruise did not. "I have one of those autonomous cars in front of me, so I'm stuck," the driver radioed. "I could make this turn on Sixth Avenue if this car wasn't in front of me...." - In November, one light-rail passenger called it quits after waiting nearly six minutes for a Cruise driverless car in front to move. "There's nobody in the car," the driver told the person as they stepped off the train. - [After a white Waymo SUV stopped in the middle of the road, Waymo spokesperson Sandy Karp] says one of the company's roadside assistance crews arrived within 11 minutes of being dispatched to drive the SUV, clearing the blockage about 15 minutes after it began. Karp declined to elaborate on why the remote responder's guidance failed but said engineers have since introduced an unspecified change that allows addressing "these rare situations faster and with more flexibility...." apply tags__________ 170768612 story [53]IT [54]Recruiters Try Asking Laid Off Tech Workers to Return to the Same Companies as Contractors [55](seattletimes.com) [56]76 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:04AM from the same-as-the-old-boss dept. The Seattle Times reports: After losing their jobs at one of Seattle's biggest tech companies, some workers find themselves facing an unexpected question: Do you want to return to the company that just let you go? There's a catch. Those offers, from third-party recruiters eager to place workers at the companies they just left, [57]are for contract positions rather than staff positions. They would come with an end date, a lower salary, no benefits and no stock options. For workers the messages range from insensitive to insulting. "We all just got the shock of our life, the last thing I need is for you to continue to ask me to go to a company that just let me go," said one former Microsoft worker who was laid off in March and asked to remain anonymous during the job hunt. Another worker who was laid off from Amazon in January and also asked to remain anonymous out of concern for future job prospects said they've heard from several recruiters looking specifically for people with Amazon experience. In one response, the former Amazonian passed this message to the recruiter: "Tell Amazon if they want an engineer, they can just not fire me later this month...." Because companies and recruiters cast such a wide net, workers who were recently cut are still getting caught in the pool of potential candidates -- whether they want to be or not... [T]ech companies often ask recruiters to find workers who have already worked at their company, particularly when hiring for a contract position that would require a worker to get up to speed quickly, said Nabeel Chowdhury, senior vice president at recruiting firm 24 Seven Talent. That's what happened with the former Amazon worker. One recruiter sent a message that began "Reaching out to see if you might be open to returning to Amazon on a contract position?" One former Microsoft worker told the Seattle Times "I do have a sense of pride. There's no way I want to go back ... making half the amount." apply tags__________ 170768328 story [58]AI [59]How Should AI Be Regulated? [60](nytimes.com) [61]88 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @09:34PM from the large-legislative-models dept. A New York Times opinion piece argues people in the AI industry "[62]are desperate to be regulated, even if it slows them down. In fact, especially if it slows them down." But how? What they tell me is obvious to anyone watching. Competition is forcing them to go too fast and cut too many corners. This technology is too important to be left to a race between Microsoft, Google, Meta and a few other firms. But no one company can slow down to a safe pace without risking irrelevancy. That's where the government comes in -- or so they hope... [A]fter talking to a lot of people working on these problems and reading through a lot of policy papers imagining solutions, there are a few categories I'd prioritize. The first is the question -- and it is a question -- of interpretability. As I said above, it's not clear that interpretability is achievable. But without it, we will be turning more and more of our society over to algorithms we do not understand... The second is security. For all the talk of an A.I. race with China, the easiest way for China -- or any country for that matter, or even any hacker collective -- to catch up on A.I. is to simply steal the work being done here. Any firm building A.I. systems above a certain scale should be operating with hardened cybersecurity. It's ridiculous to block the export of advanced semiconductors to China but to simply hope that every 26-year-old engineer at OpenAI is following appropriate security measures. The third is evaluations and audits. This is how models will be evaluated for everything from bias to the ability to scam people to the tendency to replicate themselves across the internet. Right now, the testing done to make sure large models are safe is voluntary, opaque and inconsistent. No best practices have been accepted across the industry, and not nearly enough work has been done to build testing regimes in which the public can have confidence. That needs to change -- and fast. The piece also recommends that AI-design companies "bear at least some liability for what their models." But what legislation should we see -- and what legislation will we see? "One thing regulators shouldn't fear is imperfect rules that slow a young industry," the piece argues. "For once, much of that industry is desperate for someone to help slow it down." apply tags__________ 170768014 story [63]Chrome [64]Compromised Sites Use Fake Chrome Update Warnings to Spread Malware [65](bleepingcomputer.com) [66]10 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:51PM from the burning-Chrome dept. Bleeping Computer warned this week about compromised web sites "that [67]display fake Google Chrome automatic update errors that distribute malware to unaware visitors." The campaign has been underway since November 2022, and [68]according to NTT's security analyst Rintaro Koike, it shifted up a gear after February 2023, expanding its targeting scope to cover users who speak Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. BleepingComputer has found numerous sites hacked in this malware distribution campaign, including adult sites, blogs, news sites, and online stores... If a targeted visitor browses the site, the scripts will display a fake Google Chrome error screen stating that an automatic update that is required to continue browsing the site failed to install. "An error occurred in Chrome automatic update. Please install the update package manually later, or wait for the next automatic update," reads the fake Chrome error message. The scripts will then automatically download a ZIP file called 'release.zip' that is disguised as a Chrome update the user should install. However, this ZIP file contains a Monero miner that will utilize the device's CPU resources to mine cryptocurrency for the threat actors. Upon launch, the malware copies itself to C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome as "updater.exe" and then launches a legitimate executable to perform process injection and run straight from memory. [69]According to VirusTotal, the malware uses the "BYOVD" (bring your own vulnerable driver) technique to exploit a vulnerability in the legitimate WinRing0x64.sys to gain SYSTEM privileges on the device. The miner persists by adding scheduled tasks and performing Registry modifications while excluding itself from Windows Defender. Additionally, it stops Windows Update and disrupts the communication of security products with their servers by modifying the IP addresses of the latter in the HOSTS file. This hinders updates and threat detection and may even disable an AV altogether. apply tags__________ 170768024 story [70]Chrome [71]Google Releases Emergency Chrome Security Update [72](hothardware.com) [73]23 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @06:21PM from the bug-hunt dept. "Earlier this week, Google released an emergency security update for the Chrome browser due to a vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild," [74]reports Hot Hardware: On Friday, Google [75]highlighted CVE-2023-2033, reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's own Threat Analysis Group (TAG). This vulnerability is a '[76]type confusion' bug in the JavaScript engine for Chromium browsers useing the V8 Javascript engine. In short, type confusion is a bug that allows memory to be accessed with the wrong type, allowing for the reading or writing of memory out of bounds. The [77]CVE page says that an attacker could create an HTML page that allows the exploitation of heap corruption. While there is no Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score attached to the vulnerability yet, Google is tracking this as a "high" severity issue. This is likely due in part to the fact that "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-2033 exists in the wild." The article notes that Chrome updates are generally done automatically, but you can also check for updates by clicking Chrome's three-dots menu in the top-right corner, then "Help" and "About Chrome." apply tags__________ 170766920 story [78]Power [79]After 18 Years, Europe's Largest Nuclear Reactor Starts Regular Output [80](reuters.com) [81]77 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @05:21PM from the power-up dept. Finland finally began regular output Sunday from [82]its first new nuclear power plant in more than four decades. Reuters reports that the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor is also Europe's first new nuclear plant in 16 years. Construction started in 2005, with the plant due to open four years later -- but it was then "plagued by technical issues" which continued to the very end. OL3 [83]first supplied test production to Finland's national power grid in March last year and was expected at the time to begin regular output four months later, but instead suffered a string of [84]breakdowns and [85]outages that took months to fix. The reactor will be Europe's largest, the article points out: OL3's operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), which is owned by Finnish utility Fortum and a consortium of energy and industrial companies, has said the unit is expected to meet around 14% of Finland's electricity demand, reducing the need for imports from Sweden and Norway. The new reactor is expected to produce for at least 60 years, TVO said in a statement on Sunday after completing the transition from testing to regular output. "The production of Olkiluoto 3 stabilises the price of electricity and plays an important role in the Finnish green transition," TVO Chief Executive Jarmo Tanhua said in the statement. "News of OL3's start-up comes as Germany on Saturday [86]switches off its last three remaining reactors, while [87]Sweden, [88]France, Britain and others plan new developments." apply tags__________ 170767410 story [89]Earth [90]Utah's Record Snowfall 'Buys Us Time' for Drying Great Salt Lake [91](cnn.com) [92]30 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @04:21PM from the climate-changes dept. Utah's Great Salt Lake had [93]shrunk by two thirds its original size, the New York Times reported last June. And "It was only three months ago that nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists sounded the alarm that the Great Salt Lake in Utah [94]faces 'unprecedented danger'," CNN [95]reports. "Unless the state's lawmakers fast-tracked 'emergency measures' to dramatically increase the lake's inflow by 2024, it [96]would likely disappear in the next five years." Now, after an incredible winter full of rain and snow, there is a glimmer of hope on North America's largest terminal lake, where water levels had fallen to a record-low last fall amid a historic, climate change-fueled drought across the West. As of Thursday, the snowpack in the Great Salt Lake basin was [97]more than double the average for this time of year. All of this winter's rain and snow that fell directly into the Great Salt Lake increased the water level there by three feet... In reality, the precipitation only made up for what was lost to last year's drought and evaporation... To reverse the decline, the Great Salt Lake needs an additional 1 million acre-feet of water -- roughly 326 billion gallons -- per year, according to the January assessment. Bonnie Baxter, the director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College and one of the authors of the January report, said the state would "need another five years like this in order to get the system healthy again." "If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic," Baxter told CNN. "But the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we're pretty much even, and that's not a good place to be." Baxter says the rainfall "buys us some time" to work on long-term issues like water rights and metering the water used in agriculture -- maybe a year or two -- but "We're not going to be bailed out by excess snow." There's hope melting snow could add more water, but Baxter warns that it might not. "If it melts really quickly, which is probably going to happen because we have these late snows and now we're right up against warm temperatures, then you get the water just rushing over the land and not taking time to charge the aquifers and just evaporating off the surface." apply tags__________ 170767604 story [98]Social Networks [99]Leaked Documents Show Russians Boasted Just 1% of Fake Social Profiles are Detected [100](msn.com) [101]50 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:21PM from the fake-friends dept. "The Russian government has become [102]far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known," reports the Washington Post, "boosting lies about Ukraine's military and the side effects of vaccines with hundreds of thousands of fake online accounts, according to documents recently leaked on the chat app Discord. "The Russian operators of those accounts boast that they are detected by social networks only about 1 percent of the time, one document says." That claim, described here for the first time, drew alarm from former government officials and experts inside and outside social media companies contacted for this article. "Google and Meta and others are trying to stop this, and Russia is trying to get better. The figure that you are citing suggests that Russia is winning," said Thomas Rid, a disinformation scholar and professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He added that the 1 percent claim was likely exaggerated or misleading. The undated analysis of Russia's effectiveness at boosting propaganda on Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram and other social media platforms cites activity in late 2022 and was apparently presented to U.S. military leaders in recent months. It is part of a trove of documents circulated in a Discord chatroom and obtained by The Washington Post. Air National Guard technician Jack Teixeira was charged Friday with taking and transmitting the classified papers, charges for which he faces 15 years in prison... Many of the 10 current and former intelligence and tech safety specialists interviewed for this article cautioned that the Russian agency whose claims helped form the basis for the leaked document may have exaggerated its success rate. The leaked document was apparently prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Cyber Command and Europe Command, which directs American military activities in Europe. "It refers to signals intelligence, which includes eavesdropping, but does not cite sources for its conclusions," the Post reports, describing the document as offering "a rare candid assessment by U.S. intelligence of Russian disinformation operations." The assessment concludes that foreign bots "view, 'like,' subscribe and repost content and manipulate view counts to move content up in search results and recommendation lists." And the document says a Russian center's disinformation network -- working directly for Russia's presidential administration -- was still working on improvements as recently as late 2022 and expected to improve its ability to "promote pro-Russian narratives abroad." After Russia's 2016 efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, social media companies stepped up their attempts to verify users, including through phone numbers. Russia responded, in at least one case, by buying SIM cards in bulk, which worked until companies spotted the pattern, employees said. The Russians have now turned to front companies that can acquire less detectable phone numbers, the document says. A separate top-secret document from the same Discord trove summarized six specific influence campaigns that were operational or planned for later this year by a new Russian organization, the Center for Special Operations in Cyberspace. The new group is mainly targeting Ukraine's regional allies, that document said. Those campaigns included one designed to spread the idea that U.S. officials were hiding vaccine side effects, intended to stoke divisions in the West. apply tags__________ 170767228 story [103]Electronic Frontier Foundation [104]EFF Warns US 'Deserves Stronger Spyware Protections Than Biden's Executive Order' [105](eff.org) [106]26 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:51PM from the spy-where dept. In March U.S. President Joe Biden "signed an [107]executive order that limits U.S. government agencies from using commercially available spyware," [108]writes EFF senior policy analyst Matthew Guariglia. "But that doesn't mean there will be no government use of spyware in the United States...." The executive order arrived only days before revelations that the United States, which was previously thought to have steered clear of some of the most infamous foreign spyware products, actually had a [109]contract to test and deploy the notorious [110]Pegasus created by Israeli company NSO Group. The contract was signed under a fake name on November 8, 2021 between an organization that acts as a front for the U.S. government and an American affiliate of NSO group. Only five days before, on November 3, 2021, the U.S. Commerce Department [111]added NSO Group and other foreign spyware companies to a blacklist -- the "Entity List for engaging in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States." So the signing of this straw contract was in apparent breach of this ban. NSO Group is just one of the companies that should be covered by the new executive order.... Though the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware has garnered particular attention for its widespread use against human rights advocates, journalists, and politicians, the executive order did not name any company specifically, keeping the policy broad. This may lead some government agencies to think that their purchase of foreign spyware might fly under the radar if it comes from another, smaller vendor, or the vendor can plausibly deny that it is really spyware that they are selling. We urge the Biden administration to publish a non-exhaustive list of spyware companies included as part of this ban. That would send a clear message to agencies who wish to exploit any ambiguity in order to skirt the law. The EFF applauds the U.S. order for specyfing ways in which spyware is not to be used -- including a ban on its use against journalists, activists, political figures, and any U.S. person "without proper legal authorization, safeguards, and oversight." And the EFF also notes positive signs of progress towards stopping government misuse of spyware: Building upon the U.S. executive order, a global coalition of eleven countries, including Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, are working towards a [112]common goal of countering the misuse of commercial spyware. This alliance is committed to establishing robust guardrails and procedures that uphold fundamental human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law, within each of their respective systems. But the EFF also points out the biggest concern of the U.S. government appears to be with the dangers in spyware that's foreign made. "While this signals discomfort with foreign-made spyware, no one should take this as an indication that the U.S. government is averse to using similar technologies developed internally, or indeed acquiring foreign spyware companies for domestic use. "Given the government's long history of using and abusing incredibly invasive techniques, people in the United States should push for [113]robust human rights safeguards to ensure the government won't proceed with only the minor restrictions of this executive order to rein them in." apply tags__________ 170762344 story [114]EU [115]Solar Projects in North Africa + Undersea Cables = Green Energy for Europe? [116](msn.com) [117]87 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:34PM from the power-plays dept. "The abundant sun of northern Africa may soon power Europe's homes and businesses," reports the Washington Post, "as European leaders [118]consider connecting massive North African solar projects to undersea power cables to free their continent from Russian energy." The projects would take advantage of the climate quirk that one side of the Mediterranean is far drearier and cloudier than the other, although Europe and North Africa are geographically close. Abundant desert land also makes North African megaprojects far easier than in Europe, where open spaces tend to be agricultural or mountainous. The sudden need for alternative energy following Russia's invasion of Ukraine means that North African solar projects intended to send electricity to Europe are under active discussion, officials and experts say, as European leaders see a straightforward way to secure large amounts of green power. Past proposals have suggested that North African energy projects could meet as much as 15 percent of Europe's electricity demand. The interest is especially high in Morocco, where undersea electrical cables already cross the 10-mile span to Spain at the Strait of Gibraltar. Moroccan leaders -- who never had any fossil fuels to export -- see a chance to promote their country as a renewable energy giant. Europe, meanwhile, wants to hit its ambitious climate goals and address its need for non-Russian energy at the same time. The result is a confluence of interests that could lead to a sudden leap forward for Europe's renewable energy uptake. More broadly, it is a test for the concept of shipping green energy from sunny parts of the world to regions where the sun doesn't shine as brightly.... Europe alone doesn't have "the potential for the scale to create the dimensions of the renewable energy that we need," said European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, speaking alongside Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. The article cites [119]estimates from the International Renewable Energy Agency that North Africa's "installable capacity" is 2,792 gigawatts of solar power and 223 gigawatts of wind power. Laura El-Katiri, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in North African renewable energy, writes that could generate [120]more than two and a half times Europe's 2021 electricity output. apply tags__________ 170763730 story [121]Programming [122]Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn? [123](infoworld.com) [124]105 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:34AM from the running-everywhere dept. "Java would become easier for students to learn under [125]a proposal to introduce flexible main methods and anonymous main classes to the language," [126]reports InfoWorld. Details of the plan include enhancing the protocol by which Java programs are launched to be flexible, in particular to allow the String[] parameter of main methods to be omitted and allow main methods to be neither public nor static; the Hello World program would be simplified. Anonymous main classes would be introduced to make the class declaration implicit. It's currently a disabled-by-default preview language feature in JDK 21 (scheduled for General Availability in September), included to provoke developer feedback based on real world use (which may lead to it becoming permanent in the future). This wouldn't introduce a separate beginner's dialect or beginners' toolchain of Java, emphasizes [127]Java Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 445. "Student programs should be compiled and run with the same tools that compile and run any Java program." But it argues that a simple "Hello World" program today has "too much clutter...too much code, too many concepts, too many constructs -- for what the program does." public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } } Anonymous main classes would make the public class declaration implicit (while also sparing newbies the "mysterious" modifier static and the args parameter String[] ). The program is streamlined to: void main() { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } The proposal argues this change reduces "the ceremony of writing simple programs such as scripts and command-line utilities." And since Java is intended to be a first programming language, this change would mean students "can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs," using instead "streamlined declarations for single-class programs". (This allows students and educators to explore language features more gradually.) A Hello, World! program written as an anonymous main class is much more focused on what the program actually does, omitting concepts and constructs it does not need. Even so, all members are interpreted just as they are in an ordinary class. To evolve an anonymous main class into an ordinary class, all we need to do is wrap its declaration, excluding import statements, inside an explicit class declaration. apply tags__________ 170763800 story [128]Cloud [129]New Spectre-Related 'Medium Severity' Flaw Patched in Linux Kernel [130](theregister.com) [131]8 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @10:34AM from the ghost-from-your-past dept. "The Spectre vulnerability that has haunted hardware and software makers since 2018 continues to defy efforts to bury it," [132]reports the Register: On Thursday, Eduardo (sirdarckcat) Vela Nava, from Google's product security response team, [133]disclosed a Spectre-related flaw in version 6.2 of the Linux kernel. The bug, designated medium severity, was initially reported to cloud service providers -- those most likely to be affected -- on December 31, 2022, and was [134]patched in Linux on February 27, 2023. "The kernel failed to protect applications that attempted to protect against Spectre v2, leaving them open to attack from other processes running on the same physical core in another hyperthread," the vulnerability disclosure explains. The consequence of that attack is potential information exposure (e.g., leaked private keys) through this pernicous problem.... Spectre v2 -- the variant implicated in this particular vulnerability -- relies on timing side-channels to measure the misprediction rates of indirect branch prediction in order to infer the contents of protected memory. That's far from optimal in a cloud environment with shared hardware... The bug hunters who identified the issue found that Linux userspace processes to defend against Spectre v2 didn't work on VMs of "at least one major cloud provider." apply tags__________ 170761860 story [135]Businesses [136]Remote Working Increases VC Investments in Other Areas Besides Silicon Valley [137](msn.com) [138]8 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:34AM from the down-on-the-valley dept. Silicon Valley had $74.9 billion in venture-capital investments just in 2022, [139]reports the Washington Post (citing data from PitchBook). With 3,206 deals, "that's about $45.36 billion and 1,058 deals more than New York, the second highest region for VC fundraising." And in addition, the Silicon Valley region "was also the home of 86% of start-ups, up from 53% last year, funded by famed start-up accelerator Y Combinator." And yet Silicon Valley's share of U.S. venture capital investments last year was its lowest since 2012, "as lenient remote work policies and a spate of layoffs have fueled the departures of workers and cleared the way for rising investment in other tech hubs across the United States, notably Austin and Miami.... [N]early 250,000 people left the Silicon Valley region during the pandemic, according to census data from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022." Funding for companies in Miami has nearly quadrupled in the past three years, totaling $5.39 billion in 2022, while deal volume jumped 81 percent. Austin venture capital investments rose 77 percent to $4.95 billion with the number of deals jumping 23 percent. New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver and Houston also saw relatively large increases in investment and deals, data shows.... "There's no doubt that [Silicon Valley's] sort of exemplary, center-of-the-universe status has really absorbed some blows," said Mark Muro, senior fellow at Brookings Institution. Miami and Austin both benefited from fewer restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Early on, cryptocurrency and Web3 -- a broad term for the next generation of the internet that would give people more control and ownership -- were major drivers of Miami's growth. Seattle benefited from having Amazon and Microsoft in its backyard, attracting more enterprise technology and also biotech, said Kyle Stanford, lead venture capital analyst at PitchBook. "A redistribution [of funding] has definitely started. The pandemic, the fleeing of start-ups and remote work helped catalyze growth in those smaller markets," he said. Brianne Kimmel, founder of investment firm Worklife Ventures, has noticed a change in identity for the Silicon Valley region as many tech workers have moved out of San Francisco to other places like Austin or Seattle. "That's really created room for young, very technical, traditional hacker types to come to San Francisco," she said. "It's giving the city a personality it may have lost in years prior." The Post got this assessment from a VC company partner focused on investing in AI and software infrastructure. "Five years ago, 90 percent of companies would've been founded in San Francisco. Now it might be more like 70 percent, with others starting in places like Seattle and New York." apply tags__________ 170763502 story [140]GNU is Not Unix [141]FSF Says Google's Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice [142](fsf.org) [143]118 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:34AM from the sharing-the-software dept. "The fact remains that Google Chrome is the arbiter of web standards," [144]argues FSF campaigns manager Greg Farough (while adding that Firefox, "through ethical distributions like GNU IceCat and Abrowser, can weaken that stranglehold.") "Google's deprecation of the JPEG-XL image format in February in favor of its own patented [145]AVIF format might not end the web in the grand scheme of things, but it does highlight, once again, the disturbing amount of control it has over the platform generally." Part of Google's official [146]rationale for the deprecation is the following line: "There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG-XL." Putting aside the [147]problematic aspects of the term "ecosystem," let us remark that it's easy to gauge the response of the "entire ecosystem" when you yourself are by far the largest and most dangerous predator in said "ecosystem." In relation to Google's overwhelming power, the average web user might as well be a microbe. In supposedly gauging what the "ecosystem" wants, all Google is really doing is asking itself what Google wants... While we can't link to Google's issue tracker directly because of another freedom issue -- its use of [148]nonfree JavaScript -- we're told that the issue regarding JPEG-XL's removal is the second-most "starred" issue in the history of the Chromium project, the nominally free basis for the Google Chrome browser. Chromium users came out of the woodwork to plead with Google not to make this decision. It made it anyway, not bothering to respond to users' concerns. We're not sure what metric it's using to gauge the interest of the "entire ecosystem," but it seems users have given JPEG-XL a strong show of support. In turn, what users will be given is yet another facet of the web that Google itself controls: the AVIF format. As the response to JPEG-XL's deprecation has shown, our rallying together and telling Google we want something isn't liable to get it to change its mind. It will keep on wanting what it wants: control; we'll keep on wanting what we want: freedom. Only, the situation isn't hopeless. At the present moment, not even Google can stop us from creating the web communities that we want to see: pages that don't run huge chunks of malicious, nonfree code on our computers. We have the power to choose what we run or do not run in our browsers. Browsers like [149]GNU IceCat (and extensions like [150]LibreJS and [151]JShelter> ) help with that. Google also can't prevent us from exploring networks beyond the web like Gemini. What our community can do is rally support behind those free browsers that choose to support JPEG-XL and similar formats, letting the big G know that even if we're smaller than it, we won't be bossed around. apply tags__________ [152]« Newer [153]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [154]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. Do you agree that AI development should be temporarily halted? (*) Yes ( ) No (BUTTON) vote now [155]Read the 60 comments | 7801 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. 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