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Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, is [45]facing a significant decline in revenue and profit due to decreased demand for personal computers in a post-pandemic world. According to The Register, the company "[46]reported (PDF) revenue of $12.635 billion for Q4 of its fiscal 2023 ended March 31, down a brutal 24 percent year-on-year. Pre-tax profit was down 75 percent to $130 million on the back of workforce restructuring charges." From the report: The Intelligent Devices Group -- the PC and smart gadget division -- was most devastated by shifting buying patterns: revenue fell to $9.79 billion versus $14.69 billion a year earlier, a 33.3 percent decline, and one that may mark a bottoming out of shipments. [...] According to Gartner, PC shipments declined 30 percent to 55.154 million across the industry in calendar Q1, which tracks with Lenovo's Q4. Vendors used discounts to drive sales. In its previous quarter, Lenovo reported its first profit decline in three years and hatched a plan to save $850 million in annual overheads. One of the levers was cutting jobs. During this latest quarter, it recorded a one-time restructuring charge of $249 million. Lenovo is trying to emphasize other divisions to seek out higher growth in areas including servers and tech services. The Infrastructure Solutions Group grew to $2.2 billion in the latest quarter, up from $1.408 billion, selling servers and the like to SMEs, larger enterprises, and cloud service providers. The Solutions and Services Group, which includes managed services, grew to $6.66 billion for $5.441 billion a year earlier. For the full year, Lenovo revenues fell to 14 percent to $61.94 billion and it reported a profit before tax of $2.136 billion, down 23 percent. "By the end of this quarter or early next, the inventory digestion will come to an end so that the activation number and the shipment number will be more consistent," said Lenovo CEO Yanqing Yang. apply tags__________ 171017315 story [47]Space [48]'Alien' Signal Beamed To Earth From Mars In SETI Test [49](space.com) [50]21 Posted by [51]BeauHD on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:00AM from the this-is-just-a-test dept. A new SETI project has begun, where a coded message was [52]beamed from Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter Mars probe to Earth and received by three radio telescopes, "kicking off a global effort to decipher the cryptic signal," reports Space.com. From the report: That effort is A Sign in Space, a multiweek project led by Daniela de Paulis, the current artist in residence at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. "Throughout history, humanity has searched for meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena," de Paulis [53]said in a statement. "Receiving a message from an extraterrestrial civilization would be a profoundly transformational experience for all humankind," she added. "A Sign in Space offers the unprecedented opportunity to tangibly rehearse and prepare for this scenario through global collaboration, fostering an open-ended search for meaning across all cultures and disciplines." The Green Bank Observatory is one of the three scopes that listened for the Trace Gas Orbiter's signal today, along with the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in northern California and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station in northern Italy, which is managed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. Researchers at each of those facilities will now process the signal and make it available to their colleagues around the world and to the public at large. The project team wants folks from a range of backgrounds to study the signal and try their hand at deciphering it. You can learn more about the project, and submit your own ideas about the message, [54]here. There are also workshops available [55]you can attend that discuss the societal implications of detecting a "technosignature" from advanced alien life, among other topics. apply tags__________ 171015723 story [56]Medicine [57]A Paralyzed Man Can Walk Naturally Again With Brain and Spine Implants [58]20 Posted by [59]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:30PM from the life-changing-procedures dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Gert-Jan Oskam was living in China in 2011 when he was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the hips down. Now, with a combination of devices, scientists have given him control over his lower body again. "For 12 years I've been trying to get back my feet," Mr. Oskam said in a press briefing on Tuesday. "Now I have learned how to walk normal, natural." In a study [60]published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers in Switzerland described implants that [61]provided a "digital bridge" between Mr. Oskam's brain and his spinal cord, bypassing injured sections. The discovery allowed Mr. Oskam, 40, to stand, walk and ascend a steep ramp with only the assistance of a walker. More than a year after the implant was inserted, he has retained these abilities and has actually showed signs of neurological recovery, walking with crutches even when the implant was switched off. "We've captured the thoughts of Gert-Jan, and translated these thoughts into a stimulation of the spinal cord to re-establish voluntary movement," Gregoire Courtine, a spinal cord specialist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, who helped lead the research, said at the press briefing. In the new study, the brain-spine interface, as the researchers called it, took advantage of an artificial intelligence thought decoder to read Mr. Oskam's intentions -- detectable as electrical signals in his brain -- and match them to muscle movements. The etiology of natural movement, from thought to intention to action, was preserved. The only addition, as Dr. Courtine described it, was the digital bridge spanning the injured parts of the spine. [...] To achieve this result, the researchers first implanted electrodes in Mr. Oskam's skull and spine. The team then used a machine-learning program to observe which parts of the brain lit up as he tried to move different parts of his body. This thought decoder was able to match the activity of certain electrodes with particular intentions: One configuration lit up whenever Mr. Oskam tried to move his ankles, another when he tried to move his hips. Then the researchers used another algorithm to connect the brain implant to the spinal implant, which was set to send electrical signals to different parts of his body, sparking movement. The algorithm was able to account for slight variations in the direction and speed of each muscle contraction and relaxation. And, because the signals between the brain and spine were sent every 300 milliseconds, Mr. Oskam could quickly adjust his strategy based on what was working and what wasn't. Within the first treatment session he could twist his hip muscles. Over the next few months, the researchers fine-tuned the brain-spine interface to better fit basic actions like walking and standing. Mr. Oskam gained a somewhat healthy-looking gait and was able to traverse steps and ramps with relative ease, even after months without treatment. Moreover, after a year in treatment, he began noticing clear improvements in his movement without the aid of the brain-spine interface. The researchers documented these improvements in weight-bearing, balancing and walking tests. Now, Mr. Oskam can walk in a limited way around his house, get in and out of a car and stand at a bar for a drink. For the first time, he said, he feels like he is the one in control. apply tags__________ 171015679 story [62]Government [63]Right-To-Repair Rules Are Now the Law In Minnesota [64](theverge.com) [65]17 Posted by [66]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @10:02PM from the it's-a-great-start dept. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has [67]signed a groundbreaking right-to-repair law, which will come into effect on July 1, 2024. The Verge reports: The rules, part of an [68]omnibus appropriations bill, require electronics manufacturers to let independent repair shops and consumers buy the parts and tools necessary to repair their own equipment. But the rules don't apply to some notable categories, including farm equipment, game consoles, medical devices, and motor vehicles. The new Minnesota rules take effect July 1st, 2024, and they cover products sold on or after July 1st, 2021. If manufacturers sell a product in the state, they must offer residents the equipment to repair it on "fair and reasonable" terms within 60 days, and they must offer documentation for performing repairs and service free of charge. Failure to do so will violate Minnesota's Deceptive Trade Practices statute, opening manufacturers up to penalties from the attorney general. "This is the biggest right to repair win to date," said Nathan Proctor, who leads the right to repair initiative at public interest group PIRG, [69]in a statement. PIRG notes that Minnesota is the first state to offer right-to-repair protections for home appliances and commercial and educational computing systems, which were carved out of [70]New York's law. In a [71]blog post, repair site iFixit focused on the free documentation element. "With online documentation, people everywhere in the world -- not just in Minnesota -- will benefit from this," said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens. apply tags__________ 171015601 story [72]Nintendo [73]Nintendo Sued For 'Immoral' Mario Kart Loot Boxes [74](axios.com) [75]36 Posted by [76]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:25PM from the is-it-2019? dept. Nintendo is facing a potential [77]class-action lawsuit filed by a young gamer and backed by his father, [78]alleging that the microtransactions in the mobile game Mario Kart Tour are "immoral." Axios reports: The suit calls for refunds for all minors in the U.S. who paid to use Mario Kart Tour's "Spotlight Pipes," which delivered players in-game rewards using undisclosed odds. Until last year, Mario Kart Tour players could spend real money to repeatedly activate the pipes, in the hope they'd randomly produce useful upgrades. The suit alleges that Nintendo intentionally made the game difficult to proceed in without paying, using "dark patterns," an industry term for tricking consumers, to steer players toward spending more. The suit was filed in March but emerged on the federal docket last week after it was moved out of state court. Its plaintiff, identified as N.A., spent more than $170 on Mario Kart Tour microtransactions, via his father's credit card, which was linked to their Nintendo user account. "Defendant's lootbox mechanism capitalized on and encouraged addictive behaviors akin to gambling," according to N.A.'s suit. It states that minors are particularly susceptible to systems that involve surprise rewards. Axios notes that Nintendo "[79]discontinued use of spotlight pipes in Mario Kart Tour last September, switching to a system that lets players directly purchase items offered in its in-game shop." apply tags__________ 171015571 story [80]Transportation [81]Uber Teams Up With Waymo To Add Robotaxis To Its App [82](theverge.com) [83]14 Posted by [84]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:45PM from the joined-forces dept. Waymo and Uber [85]announced a new partnership today that will [86]make robotaxis available via the Uber app in Phoenix. The Verge reports: A "set number" of Waymo vehicles will be available to Uber riders and Uber Eats delivery customers in Phoenix, where the Alphabet company [87]recently doubled its service area to 180 square miles. The partnership was described as "multi-year," with the goal of bringing together "Waymo's world-leading autonomous driving technology with the massive scale of Uber's ridesharing and delivery networks." Katherine Barna, a spokesperson for Waymo, declined to disclose the number of vehicles that would be hail-able through Uber's app, though she did share that the vehicles will not be exclusive to Uber. For example, Phoenix residents can also summon a Waymo vehicle through the company's Waymo One app. apply tags__________ 171015549 story [88]Privacy [89]'iRecorder Screen Recorder' App Turns Malicious, Sends Mic Recordings Every 15 Minutes [90](arstechnica.com) [91]14 Posted by [92]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:02PM from the PSA dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play [93]surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said. The app, titled iRecorder Screen Recorder, started life on Google Play in September 2021 as a benign app that allowed users to record the screens of their Android devices, ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko said in a [94]post published on Tuesday. Eleven months later, the legitimate app was updated to add entirely new functionality. It included the ability to remotely turn on the device mic and record sound, connect to an attacker-controlled server, and upload the audio and other sensitive files that were stored on the device. The secret espionage functions were implemented using code from AhMyth, an open source RAT (remote access Trojan) that has been incorporated into several other Android apps in recent years. Once the RAT was added to iRecorder, all users of the previously benign app received updates that allowed their phones to record nearby audio and send it to a developer-designated server through an encrypted channel. As time went on, code taken from AhMyth was heavily modified, an indication that the developer became more adept with the open source RAT. ESET named the newly modified RAT in iRecorder AhRat. Stefanko installed the app repeatedly on devices in his lab, and each time, the result was the same: The app received an instruction to record one minute of audio and send it to the attacker's command-and-control server, also known colloquially in security circles as a C&C or C2. Going forward, the app would receive the same instruction every 15 minutes indefinitely. [...] Stefanko said it's possible that iRecord is part of an active espionage campaign, but so far, he has been unable to determine if that's the case. "Unfortunately, we don't have any evidence that the app was pushed to a particular group of people, and from the app description and further research (possible app distribution vector), it isn't clear if a specific group of people was targeted or not," he wrote. "It seems very unusual, but we don't have evidence to say otherwise." apply tags__________ 171015453 story [95]Operating Systems [96]Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation [97](xda-developers.com) [98]38 Posted by [99]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @07:20PM from the closed-off-environments dept. At its Build 2023 conference this week, Microsoft announced Windows 11 will [100]soon be able to run Win32 apps in isolation mode. XDA Developers reports: Starting [today], Microsoft is [101]launching a preview of Win32 apps in isolation for Windows 11 customers. As the name suggests, it will allow users to run Win32 apps in an isolated environment so that they can be sandboxed from the rest of the operating system in order to further strengthen security. The idea is to leverage Windows 11's isolation capabilities to run Win32 apps in an environment where they don't have access to critical Windows components and subsystems. This will ensure that if someone runs a compromised Win32 app in isolation, it will be very difficult for an attacker to break through the sandbox and penetrate the rest of the system. This capability will be available in public preview for both enterprise customers and consumers. apply tags__________ 171015061 story [102]Books [103]European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe [104](torrentfreak.com) [105]23 Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:40PM from the how-about-that dept. The European Commission has published its biannual list of foreign countries with problematic copyright policies. One of the [106]highlighted issues is a lack of pirate site blocking, which is seen as an effective enforcement measure, writes TorrentFreak, a news website that tracks piracy news. Interestingly, the EU doesn't mention the United States, which is arguably the most significant country yet to implement an effective site-blocking regime. apply tags__________ 171015421 story [107]The Courts [108]Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To Warrantless Pole Camera Surveillance [109](aclu.org) [110]80 Posted by [111]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:00PM from the invasive-surveillance dept. An anonymous reader shares a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The U.S. Supreme Court [Monday] [112]declined to hear Moore v. United States, leaving in place a patchwork of lower court decisions on an important and recurring question about privacy rights in the face of advancing surveillance technology. In this case, police secretly attached a small camera to a utility pole, using it to surveil a Massachusetts home 24/7 for eight months -- all without a warrant. Law enforcement could watch the camera's feed in real time, and remotely pan, tilt, and zoom close enough to read license plates and see faces. They could also review a searchable, digitized record of this footage at their convenience. The camera captured every coming and going of the home's residents and their guests over eight months. As a result, the government targeted the home of a community pillar -- a lawyer, respected judicial clerk, devoted church member, and a grandmother raising her grandkids -- to cherry-pick images from months of unceasing surveillance in an effort to support unwarranted criminal charges against an innocent person. Federal courts of appeals and state supreme courts have divided on the question of whether such sweeping surveillance is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant. The highest courts of Massachusetts, Colorado, and South Dakota have held that long-term pole camera surveillance of someone's home requires a warrant. In Moore v. United States, the members of the full en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit split evenly on the question, with three judges explaining that a warrant is required, and three judges expressing the belief that the Fourth Amendment imposes no limit on this invasive surveillance. This issue will continue to arise in the lower courts; the ACLU filed an [113]amicus brief on the question in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit earlier this month. "The Supreme Court's decision not to hear this case means that people across the country remain vulnerable to law enforcement's claim of unfettered authority to surveil any of us at our homes, for as long as they wish, with no judicial oversight," said Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. "As the cost of surveillance technology falls and its use by law enforcement expands, the need to resolve whether the Fourth Amendment poses any constraint has become all the more urgent. We will continue fighting for essential privacy protections." apply tags__________ 171015079 story [114]United States [115]48 States Sue Phone Company That Allegedly Catered To Needs of Robocallers [116]39 Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:20PM from the no-mercy dept. Nearly every US state yesterday [117]sued a telecom company accused of routing billions of illegal robocalls to millions of US residents on the Do Not Call Registry. From a report: Avid Telecom, an Arizona-based company formed in 2000, "chose profit over running a business that conforms to state and federal law," according to a lawsuit led by Arizona AG Kris Mayes and joined by the attorneys general of 47 other states and the District of Columbia. The case involves every US state except Alaska and South Dakota. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the District of Arizona against Avid Telecom, CEO Michael Lansky, and VP of Operations and Sales Stacey Reeves. The lawsuit arises from work done by the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force of 51 attorneys general. "In the more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, Avid Telecom used spoofed or invalid caller ID numbers, including more than 8.4 million calls that appeared to be coming from government and law enforcement agencies, as well as private companies," a press release from the Arizona AG's office said. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial, a permanent injunction to prevent additional illegal robocalls, and financial penalties including "restitution or other compensation on behalf of residents" for illegal calls. The lawsuit cites the federal Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and certain state laws regarding unfair and deceptive trade practices. apply tags__________ 171015499 story [118]China [119]Microsoft Warns That China Hackers Attacked US Infrastructure [120](cnbc.com) [121]32 Posted by [122]BeauHD on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:45PM from the ongoing-attack dept. Microsoft has [123]issued a warning that Chinese state-sponsored hackers, known as "Volt Typhoon," have [124]compromised "critical" U.S. cyber infrastructure across various industries with a focus on gathering intelligence. CNBC reports: The Chinese hacking group, codenamed "Volt Typhoon," has operated since mid-2021, Microsoft said in an advisory. The organization is apparently working to disrupt "critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia," Microsoft said, to stymie efforts during "future crises." The National Security Agency put out a [125]bulletin (PDF) on Wednesday, detailing how the hack works and how cybersecurity teams should respond. The attack is apparently ongoing. In an advisory, Microsoft urged impacted customers to "close or change credentials for all compromised accounts." U.S. intelligence agencies became aware of the incursion in February, around the same time that a Chinese spy balloon [126]was downed, the New York Times reported. The infiltration was focused on communications infrastructure in Guam and other parts of the U.S., the Times reported, and was particularly alarming to U.S. intelligence because Guam sits at the heart of an American military response in case of a Taiwanese invasion. Volt Typhoon is able to infiltrate organizations using a unnamed vulnerability in a popular cybersecurity suite called FortiGuard, Microsoft said. Once the hacking group has gained access to a corporate system, it steals user credentials from the security suite and uses them to try to gain access to other corporate systems. The state-sponsored hackers aren't looking to create disruption yet, Microsoft said. Rather, "the threat actor intends to perform espionage and maintain access without being detected for as long as possible." Infrastructure in nearly every critical sector has been impacted, Microsoft said, including the communications, transport, and maritime industries. Government organizations were also targeted. apply tags__________ 171015027 story [127]AMD [128]AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time [129]19 Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:01PM from the easy-peasy dept. Michael Larabel, reporting at Phoronix: AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an [130]easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time. AMD engineer Basavaraj Natikar realized a missing check in the USB XHCI driver can avoid an extra 120ms delay during system resume time. It's only 120 ms, but it's a broad win given it's for the XHCI driver code and part of their larger effort of improving the AMD Ryzen platform on Linux and this 120ms savings is from altering one line of code. apply tags__________ 171014799 story [131]Facebook [132]Meta's 'Efficiency' Layoffs Take a Toll on Employee Productivity [133](bloomberg.com) [134]42 Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:20PM from the tough-luck dept. Meta employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts, which affected thousands of workers in the company's business departments. Now, remaining staff are [135]hoping an uncomfortable limbo at the company can end. From a report: The layoffs complete the bulk of the restructuring Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced in March to eliminate 10,000 positions. Initial reductions affected the company's recruiting and human resources departments, and in late April jobs in Meta's tech groups were slashed. Zuckerberg has said further cuts will come in only a "small number of cases" for the rest of the year, giving those people left a cold sense of relief. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said the layoffs were necessary to improve efficiency, after over-hiring during the pandemic. Meta promised faster product development and decision-making that sent its shares up more than 100% so far this year. But employees said some important work and planning has been at a standstill. Notably, Meta is still deciding on its product roadmap for the rest of the year, while it sorts out resources following cuts in the tech group, a person familiar with the matter said. During the limbo, employees have been unsure who to collaborate with, how to shift responsibilities on their teams or who would be cut next, according to current and recently let-go employees, who asked not to be named discussing internal issues. apply tags__________ 171014787 story [136]Python [137]PyPI Was Subpoenaed [138]29 Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:37PM from the troubling-precedence dept. The PyPI [139]blog: In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for PyPI user data. All three subpoenas were issued by the United States Department of Justice. The PSF was not provided with context on the legal circumstances surrounding these subpoenas. In total, user data related to five (5) PyPI usernames were requested. The data request was: "Names (including subscriber names, user names, and screen names);" "Addresses (including mailing, residential addresses, business addresses, and email addresses);" "Connection records;" "Records of session times and durations, and the temporarily assigned network address (such as Internet Protocol addresses) associated with those sessions;" "Length of service (including start date) and type of services utilized;" "Telephone or instrument numbers (including the registration Internet Protocol address);" "Means and source of payment of any such services (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records;" "Records of all Python Package Index (PyPI) packages uploaded by..." given usernames "IP download logs of any Python Package Index (PyPI) packages uploaded by..." given usernames The privacy of PyPI users is of utmost concern to PSF and the PyPI Administrators, and we are committed to protecting user data from disclosure whenever possible. In this case, however, PSF determined with the advice of counsel that our only course of action was to provide the requested data. I, as Director of Infrastructure of the Python Software Foundation, fulfilled the requests in consultation with PSF's counsel. We have waited for the string of subpoenas to subside, though we were committed from the beginning to write and publish this post as a matter of transparency, and as allowed by the lack of a non-disclosure order associated with the subpoenas received in March and April 2023. apply tags__________ [140]« Newer [141]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [142]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 [143]Read the 60 comments | 15750 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. 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