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[33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Do you develop on GitHub? 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]× 170804142 story [39]Earth [40]'Devastating' Melt of Greenland, Antarctic Ice Sheets Found [41]16 Posted by [42]BeauHD on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:00AM from the devastating-trajectory dept. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now [43]losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study. Phys.Org reports: Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that Greenland's melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years. Greenland's average annual melt from 2017 to 2020 was 20% more a year than at the beginning of the decade and more than seven times higher than its annual shrinkage in the early 1990s. From 1992 to 1996, the two ice sheets -- which hold 99% of the world's freshwater ice -- were shrinking by 116 billion tons (105 billion metric tons) a year, two-thirds of it from Antarctica. But from 2017 to 2020, the newest data available, the combined melt soared to 410 billion tons (372 billion metric tons) a year, more than two-thirds of it from Greenland, said the study in Thursday's journal [44]Earth System Science Data. Since 1992, Earth has lost 8.3 trillion tons (7.6 trillion metric tons) of ice from the two ice sheets, the study found. That's enough to flood the entire United States with 33.6 inches (almost 0.9 meters) of water or submerge France in 49 feet (nearly 15 meters). But because the world's oceans are so huge, the melt just from the ice sheets since 1992 still only adds up to a little less than inch (21 millimeters) of sea level rise, on average. Globally sea level rise is accelerating and melt from ice sheets has gone from contributing 5% of the sea level rise to now accounting for more than one-quarter of it, the study said. The rest of the sea rise comes from warmer water expanding and melt from glaciers. apply tags__________ 170803920 story [45]AI [46]Humane's Wearable AI Projector in Action [47]12 Posted by msmash on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:30AM from the closer-look dept. Humane, the top-secret tech startup founded by ex-Apple vets Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, just showed off the first demo for its projector-based wearable at a TED talk. From a report: Axios' Ina Fried [48]broke the news, and Inverse has seen a recording of the full TED talk given by Chaudhri. Journalist Zarif Ali, who had tweeted out an image of Humane's wearable projecting a phone call function onto Chaudhri's palm, says the full TED talk video is not slated to become available until April 22. I've [49]clipped out a [50]demo of the AI-powered wearable in action. apply tags__________ 170803064 story [51]Communications [52]China Building Cyberweapons To Hijack Enemy Satellites, Says US Leak [53](arstechnica.com) [54]11 Posted by [55]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:30PM from the progress-is-being-made dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: China is [56]building sophisticated cyber weapons to "seize control" of enemy satellites, rendering them useless for data signals or surveillance during wartime, according to a leaked US intelligence report. The US assesses that China's push to develop capabilities to "deny, exploit or hijack" enemy satellites is a core part of its goal to control information, which Beijing considers to be a key "war-fighting domain." The CIA-marked document, which was issued this year and has been reviewed by the Financial Times, was one of dozens allegedly shared by a 21-year-old US Air Guardsman in the most significant American intelligence disclosures in more than a decade. A cyber capability of this nature would far exceed anything Russia has deployed in Ukraine, where electronic warfare teams have taken a brute-force approach with little effect. These attacks, first developed in the 1980s, attempt to drown out signals between low-orbit SpaceX satellites and their on-ground terminals by broadcasting on similar frequencies from truck-borne jamming systems such as the Tirada-2. China's more ambitious cyber attacks aim to mimic the signals that enemy satellites receive from their operators, tricking them into either being taken over completely or malfunctioning during crucial moments in combat. The classified US document said this cyber capability would allow China "to seize control of a satellite, rendering it ineffective to support communications, weapons, or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems." The US has never disclosed whether it has similar capabilities. Taiwan, which has taken note of how indispensable satellite communications have been to the Ukrainian military, is seeking to build out communications infrastructure that can survive an attack from China. It is courting investors to establish its own satellite provider, while experimenting with non-geostationary satellite receivers in 700 locations around Taiwan to guarantee bandwidth in the event of war or disasters, the Financial Times reported in January. China's goals, according to the leaked assessment, [...] would seek to knock out the ability of satellites -- which tend to operate in interconnected clusters -- to communicate with each other, to relay signals and orders to weapons systems, or to send back visual and intercepted electronic data, according to experts. "China understands the superiority that the United States has in the space and cyber domains, so they are very interested in not only improving their own capabilities but in capitalizing on what we refer to as a first-mover advantage in both domains," said Moore, now a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. "They are working on all the capabilities that they want to have from a defensive and offensive standpoint, and from an ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] standpoint. They're firing on all cylinders," he said. apply tags__________ 170803020 story [57]United States [58]Smart Gun Operating On Facial Recognition Goes On Sale In US [59](reuters.com) [60]90 Posted by [61]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:00PM from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept. Colorado-based Biofire Tech is [62]taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalized weapons that can only be fired by verified users. Reuters reports: But in a sign of the long, challenging road that smart guns have faced, a prototype twice failed to fire when demonstrated for Reuters this week. Company founder and Chief Executive Kai Kloepfer said the software and electronics have been fully tested, and the failure was related to the mechanical gun which was made from pre-production and prototype parts. At other times during the demonstration the weapon fired successfully and the facial-recognition technology appeared to function. Biofire's gun can also be enabled by a fingerprint reader, one of several smart gun features designed to avoid accidental shootings by children, reduce suicides, protect police from gun grabs, or render lost and stolen guns useless. The first consumer-ready versions of the 9mm handgun could be shipped to customers who pre-ordered as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, with the standard $1,499 model possibly available by the second quarter of 2024, Biofire said. That could make it the first commercially available smart gun in the United States since the Armatix briefly went on sale in 2014. At least two other American companies, LodeStar Works and Free State Firearms, are also attempting to get a smart gun to market. apply tags__________ 170802998 story [63]Crime [64]Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Loses Appeal Against Extradition To US [65](theguardian.com) [66]14 Posted by [67]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:20PM from the that's-tough dept. Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur once hailed as Britain's answer to Bill Gates, has [68]lost an appeal against extradition to the US to answer criminal fraud charges. The Guardian reports: Lynch, the founding investor of the British cybersecurity firm Darktrace, is facing allegations that he duped the US firm Hewlett-Packard into overpaying when it [69]struck an $11bn deal for his software firm Autonomy in 2011. Two high court judges considered Mike Lynch's challenge at a recent hearing in London and on Friday issued a ruling rejecting his appeal against extradition to face the charges. Lynch, who could face a maximum prison sentence of 25 years if found guilty, has always denied the allegations and any wrongdoing. Lord Justice Lewis and Justice Julian Knowles ruled on Friday that Lynch, who made 500 million pounds from the sale to HP and was hailed as one of Britain's few global tech champions, should be extradited to the US to stand trial. Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy's former finance director, is already serving time in jail in the US after being found guilty of fraud relating to the same deal. A spokesperson for Lynch said he was considering appealing to the European court of human rights. "Dr Lynch is very disappointed, but is reviewing the judgment and will continue to explore his options to appeal, including to the European court of human rights (ECHR)," he said. "The United States' legal overreach into the UK is a threat to the rights of all British citizens and the sovereignty of the UK." However, criminal defense law firm Corker Binning said that only 8% of applications to the ECHR in such cases -- seeking a Rule 39 order to stop the UK extradition until it has considered the case -- were successful last year. apply tags__________ 170802964 story [70]AI [71]ChatGPT Creates Mostly Insecure Code, But Won't Tell You Unless You Ask [72]48 Posted by [73]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:40PM from the heads-up dept. ChatGPT, OpenAI's large language model for chatbots, [74]not only produces mostly insecure code but also fails to alert users to its inadequacies despite being capable of pointing out its shortcomings. The Register reports: Amid the frenzy of academic interest in the possibilities and limitations of large language models, four researchers affiliated with Universite du Quebec, in Canada, have delved into the security of code generated by ChatGPT, the non-intelligent, text-regurgitating bot from OpenAI. In a [75]pre-press paper titled, "How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?" computer scientists Raphael Khoury, Anderson Avila, Jacob Brunelle, and Baba Mamadou Camara answer the question with research that can be summarized as "not very." "The results were worrisome," the authors state in their paper. "We found that, in several cases, the code generated by ChatGPT fell well below minimal security standards applicable in most contexts. In fact, when prodded to whether or not the produced code was secure, ChatGPT was able to recognize that it was not." [...] In all, ChatGPT managed to generate just five secure programs out of 21 on its first attempt. After further prompting to correct its missteps, the large language model managed to produce seven more secure apps -- though that's "secure" only as it pertains to the specific vulnerability being evaluated. It's not an assertion that the final code is free of any other exploitable condition. [...] The academics observe in their paper that part of the problem appears to arise from ChatGPT not assuming an adversarial model of code execution. The model, they say, "repeatedly informed us that security problems can be circumvented simply by 'not feeding an invalid input' to the vulnerable program it has created." Yet, they say, "ChatGPT seems aware of -- and indeed readily admits -- the presence of critical vulnerabilities in the code it suggests." It just doesn't say anything unless asked to evaluate the security of its own code suggestions. Initially, ChatGPT's response to security concerns was to recommend only using valid inputs -- something of a non-starter in the real world. It was only afterward, when prompted to remediate problems, that the AI model provided useful guidance. That's not ideal, the authors suggest, because knowing which questions to ask presupposes familiarity with specific vulnerabilities and coding techniques. The authors also point out that there's ethical inconsistency in the fact that ChatGPT will refuse to create attack code but will create vulnerable code. apply tags__________ 170802824 story [76]Google [77]Google's 80-Acre San Jose Mega-Campus Is On Hold [78](cnbc.com) [79]25 Posted by [80]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:00PM from the change-of-plans dept. According to CNBC, Google has [81]halted construction of its proposed 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase. "Some sources close to the development told CNBC that the company doesn't have plans to revive the project in the near future." From the report: In June 2021, Google [82]won approval to build an 80-acre campus, spanning 7.3 million square feet of office space, in San Jose, California, the third-largest city in the country's most populous state. The estimated economic impact: $19 billion. [...] The city of San Jose may now be paying the price. What was poised to be a mega-campus called "Downtown West," with thousands of new housing units and 15 acres of public parks, is largely a demolition zone at risk of becoming a long-term eyesore and economic zero. CNBC has learned that, as part of Google's downsizing that went into effect early this year, the company has gutted its development team for the San Jose campus. The construction project, which was supposed to break ground before the end of 2023, has been put on pause, and no plan to restart construction has been communicated to contractors, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named due to non-disclosure agreements. While sources are optimistic that a campus will be built at some point and said Google representatives have expressed a commitment to it, they're concerned the project may not reach the scale promised in the original master plan. The Mercury News, one of Silicon Valley's main newspapers, [83]previously reported that Google was reassessing its timeline. Sources told CNBC that the company started signaling to contractors late last year that the project could face delays and changes. In February, LendLease, the lead developer for the project, laid off 67 employees, including several community engagement managers, according to filings viewed by CNBC. Senior development managers, a head of business operations and other executives were among those let go. Last month, Google also removed construction updates from its website for the project, according to internal correspondence viewed by CNBC. apply tags__________ 170802716 story [84]AI [85]Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants For Training Data [86](wired.com) [87]23 Posted by [88]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:20PM from the time-to-pay-up dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Stack Overflow, a popular internet forum for computer programming help, [89]plans to begin charging large AI developers as soon as the middle of this year for access to the 50 million questions and answers on its service, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says. The site has more than 20 million registered users. Stack Overflow's decision to seek compensation from companies tapping its data, part of a broader generative AI strategy, has not been previously reported. It follows an announcement by Reddit this week that it will [90]begin charging some AI developers to access its own content starting in June. "Community platforms that fuel LLMs absolutely should be compensated for their contributions so that companies like us can reinvest back into our communities to continue to make them thrive," Stack Overflow's Chandrasekar says. "We're very supportive of Reddit's approach." Chandrasekar described the potential additional revenue as vital to ensuring Stack Overflow can keep attracting users and maintaining high-quality information. He argues that will also help future chatbots, which need "to be trained on something that's progressing knowledge forward. They need new knowledge to be created." But fencing off valuable data also could deter some AI training and slow improvement of LLMs, which are a threat to any service that people turn to for information and conversation. Chandrasekar says proper licensing will only help accelerate development of high-quality LLMs. Chandrasekar says that LLM developers are violating Stack Overflow's terms of service. Users own the content they post on Stack Overflow, [91]as outlined in its TOS, but it all falls under a Creative Commons license that requires anyone later using the data to mention where it came from. When AI companies sell their models to customers, they "are unable to attribute each and every one of the community members whose questions and answers were used to train the model, thereby breaching the Creative Commons license," Chandrasekar says. Neither Stack Overflow nor Reddit has released pricing information. "Both Stack Overflow and Reddit will continue to license data for free to some people and companies," notes Wired. "Chandrasekar says Stack Overflow only wants remuneration only from companies developing LLMs for big, commercial purposes." "When people start charging for products that are built on community-built sites like ours, that's where it's not fair use," he says. apply tags__________ 170802618 story [92]Businesses [93]Lyft Is Reportedly Slashing 1,200 Jobs, Or 30% of Its Workforce [94](businessinsider.com) [95]15 Posted by [96]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:40PM from the they-need-a-lift dept. According to the [97]Wall Street Journal, ride-hailing company Lyft is [98]planning to cut 1,200 jobs, or more than 30% of the company's 4,000-person workforce. These figures don't include drivers because they aren't counted as employees at Lyft. Insider reports: It's another round of reductions for the company that last cut 700 employees in November. The cuts come just days after David Risher took the helm as Lyft's new CEO and could help the company reduce costs by 50%, the Journal said. In [99]a memo to employees sent Friday morning that has since been posted on Lyft's site, Risher noted that the company intends to use the savings to "invest in competitive pricing, faster pick-up times, and better driver earnings." In the memo, Risher said employees would receive an email with details of their employment status on April 27 at 8:30 am Pacific time. A spokesperson for Lyft told Insider that the company would not be able to confirm the number of affected employees until next week. However, in an emailed statement, the spokesperson said that "David has made clear to the company that his focus is on creating a great and affordable experience for riders and improving drivers' earnings." The spokesperson added, "to do so requires that we reduce our costs and structure our company so that our leaders are closer to riders and drivers. This is a hard decision and one we're not making lightly. But the result will be a far stronger, more competitive Lyft." apply tags__________ 170802590 story [100]Movies [101]Redbox Owner Interested In Buying Netflix's DVD Business [102](hollywoodreporter.com) [103]42 Posted by [104]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:00PM from the not-for-sale dept. Redbox CEO Bill Rouhana told The Hollywood Reporter that [105]he'd like to buy the business, saying: "I wish Netflix would sell me that business instead of [106]shutting it down." From the report: Redbox is already the biggest DVD rental company in the U.S., with a network of some 32,000 red DVD kiosks across the country. Just this week, it announced plans to add another 1,500 kiosks at Dollar General stores (Rouhana says the Dollar General kiosks are some of the company's most profitable). While the DVD business kickstarted Netflix's meteoric rise, in recent years it has been on the decline. In 2022, it had $146 million in revenue, down $40 million from the year prior. Q1 had revenue of $32 million, suggesting a further decline this year. And Rouhana says he has reached out to Netflix over the years expressing a desire to acquire the DVD business, to no avail. "I have tried like three or four times to reach out to the corporate development people about it but just got rebuffed each time," Rouhana says. "So when I saw it being closed, I thought, 'Well, maybe they'll do it now.'" A Netflix source tells THR that the company is winding down the business, and not selling it. (As for what happens to those warehouses full of DVDs that fueled Netflix's red envelope business, they seem to be in limbo for now.) Even if that is the case, Rouhana says he believes Netflix's decision to shutter the service will benefit his company. "This could be a great boon to us because now there are a whole bunch of people who are going to look for a new place to get their DVDs, and we're close to 90 percent of them based on where our kiosks are located," he says. And, he notes, he does not expect the DVD business to go away anytime soon. "We believe in it, and we believe it's going to be around for a while. Like most legacy things, it's a lot harder to kill them than people say, I believe," he adds. In fact, he believes the DVD business is in a position for growth over the next few years, thanks to a larger slate of movies hitting theaters and a desire from studios to reengage with windowing strategies. "We programmed our business plan for us to get back to about 30 percent of the 2019 level," Rouhana says. "I feel that's pretty conservative, I think we'll be better than that. But, you know, that's how we built the business plan that we've articulated. So people can decide for themselves whether they think that's overly optimistic or overly pessimistic." apply tags__________ 170802564 story [107]Transportation [108]The Car Thieves Using Tech Disguised Inside Old Nokia Phones and Bluetooth Speakers [109](vice.com) [110]34 Posted by [111]BeauHD on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:20PM from the making-it-look-easy dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A man sitting in the driver's seat of a Toyota is repeatedly tapping a button next to the steering wheel. A red light flashes -- no luck, the engine won't start. He doesn't have the key. In response, the man pulls up an usual tool: a Nokia 3310 phone. The man plugs the phone into the car using a black cable. He then flicks through some options on the 3310's tiny LCD screen. "CONNECT. GET DATA," the screen says. He then tries to start the car again. The light turns green, and the engine roars. This [112]under 30 second clip shows a new breed of car theft that is spreading across the U.S. Criminals use tiny devices, [113]sometimes hidden inside innocuous looking bluetooth speakers or mobile phones, to interface with the vehicle's control system. This allows thieves with very little technical experience to steal cars without needing the key, sometimes in just 15 seconds or so. With the devices available to buy online for a few thousand dollars, the barrier of entry for stealing even high-end luxury cars is dramatically reduced. The video showing the man using a Nokia 3310 to start a Toyota is just one of many YouTube videos Motherboard found demonstrating the technique. Others show devices used on Maserati, Land Cruiser, and Lexus-branded vehicles. Multiple websites and Telegram channels advertise the tech for between 2,500 Euro and 18,000 Euro ($2,700 and $19,600). One seller is offering the Nokia 3310 device for 3,500 Euro ($3,800); another advertises it for 4000 Euro ($4,300). Often sellers euphemistically refer to the tech as "emergency start" devices nominally intended for locksmiths. Some of the sites offer tools that may be of use to locksmiths, but legitimate businesses likely have no use for a tool that is hidden inside a phone or other casing. Some of the sites even claim to offer updates for devices customers have already purchased, suggesting that development of the devices and their capabilities is an ongoing process. "At the moment, impacted vehicles are generally wide open to these sorts of attacks," says Motherboard. "The only proper fix would be to introduce cryptographic protections to CAN messages [...] via a software update." apply tags__________ 170801886 story [114]Privacy [115]Mullvad VPN Maker Says Police Tried To Raid Its Offices But Couldn't Find Any User Data [116](theverge.com) [117]64 Posted by msmash on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:43PM from the closer-look dept. Mullvad, the Swedish company behind Mullvad VPN (virtual private network), says police walked away with nothing [118]after attempting to seize computers from its office. From a report: According to an update on Mullvad's site, the authorities left and didn't take anything after it informed them that the company doesn't store customer data. "We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law," Mullvad writes. "After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information." [...] Mullvad says this is the first time in its 14 years of operating a VPN that police have issued a search warrant, and company CEO Jan Jonsson tells The Verge he doesn't "know exactly what they were looking for." Even if the authorities had seized its servers, Jonsson says that police wouldn't have found anything due to its strict policies against keeping data. The Verge reached out to Swedish authorities with a request for more information but didn't immediately hear back. apply tags__________ 170801714 story [119]Programming [120]Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+ [121](techcrunch.com) [122]14 Posted by msmash on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:01PM from the closer-look dept. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the [123]launch of the TLA+ Foundation to promote the adoption and development of the TLA+ programming language. AWS, Oracle and Microsoft are among the inaugural members. From a report: What is the TLA+ programming language, you ask? It's a formal "spec" language developed by computer scientist and mathematician Leslie Lamport. Best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, Lamport -- now a scientist at Microsoft Research -- created TLA+ to design, model, document and verify software programs -- particularly those of the concurrent and distributed variety. To give a few examples, ElasticSearch, the organization behind the search engine of the same name, used TLA+ to verify the correctness of their distributed systems algorithms. Elsewhere, Thales, the electrical systems manufacturing firm, used TLA+ to model and develop fault-tolerant modules for its industrial control platform. "TLA+ is unique in that it's intended for specifying a system, rather than for implementing software," a Linux Foundation spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. "Based on mathematical concepts, notably set theory and temporal logic, TLA+ allows for the expression of a system's desired correctness properties in a formal and rigorous manner." apply tags__________ 170800990 story [124]Communications [125]US Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications [126](wsj.com) [127]71 Posted by msmash on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:21PM from the closer-look dept. The Biden administration is beginning to [128]plan for 6G wireless telecommunications, seeking to expand internet access while reasserting U.S. leadership in a sector where China has notched gains. WSJ: The White House on Friday will meet with corporate, government and academic experts to begin developing goals and strategies for the new 6G communications technology, which would have the ability to take cloud computing and the mobile internet to true global ubiquity, among other improvements. The next generation of telecom is still years away from deployment, but it could pave the way for global internet access still unavailable with the current 5G standard, which makes smartphone downloads and wireless hot-spot connections faster. Expanding access to the internet has been a priority for the Biden administration as part of its infrastructure initiatives. The 6G planning initiative also aims to reassert the leadership of the U.S. and its allies in telecommunications, where China has made gains thanks in part to careful nurturing of homegrown equipment manufacturing and increased participation in international standard-setting. apply tags__________ 170800850 story [129]Businesses [130]Cities Keep Building Luxury Apartments Almost No One Can Afford [131](bloomberg.com) [132]197 Posted by msmash on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:41PM from the closer-look dept. Cutting red tape and unleashing the free market was supposed to help strapped families. So far, it [133]hasn't worked out that way. From a report: Austin is experiencing an unrivaled apartment boom. In 2021 the region including the Texas capital issued nearly 26,000 multifamily housing permits, about 11 units per 1,000 residents. That's more per capita than any large US metro area since 1996, when Las Vegas OK'd new apartments at only a slightly higher level, according to rental marketing firm Apartment List. By the same measure, which is based on an analysis of US census data, Austin topped the 50 largest US metropolitan areas in 9 of the last 10 years. Many, if not most, of these apartments are classified as luxury, depending on how you define it. (Some developments are likely using a bit of real estate puffery.) Buildings such as the Hanover have become a flashpoint in a fierce, often bitter debate raging in Texas, the US and around the world. It's about the best way to shelter this generation and the next, particularly in the most sought-after and expensive cities. Academics, developers and people in their 20s and 30s -- particularly those most active on social media -- have reached an unusual level of consensus. Their solution, supported by a wealth of scholarly research, is simple and elegant: Loosen regulations, such as zoning, and build more homes of any kind -- cheap, modest and palatial. The shorthand for the movement has become "Build, build, build" or "Yes, in my backyard" -- Yimby, for short. It's a rejoinder to the "Not in my backyard," or Nimby, crowd, the hidebound folks who typically thwart construction. Texas is famous for its business-friendly ways, and David Ott is one of many embracing the Yimby approach. He oversees the Texas projects of Houston-based Hanover, which developed the building Young was showing on a recent March afternoon. He says Austin is getting overbuilt, so rents will indeed come down, especially in the suburbs. 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