#[1]alternate [2]News for nerds, stuff that matters [3]Search Slashdot [4]Slashdot RSS [5]Slashdot * [6]Stories * + Firehose + [7]All + [8]Popular * [9]Polls * [10]Software * [11]Apparel * [12]Newsletter * [13]Jobs [14]Submit Search Slashdot ____________________ (BUTTON) * [15]Login * or * [16]Sign up * Topics: * [17]Devices * [18]Build * [19]Entertainment * [20]Technology * [21]Open Source * [22]Science * [23]YRO * Follow us: * [24]RSS * [25]Facebook * [26]LinkedIn * [27]Twitter * [28]Youtube * [29]Mastodon * [30]Newsletter Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the [31]Slashdot story archive Nickname: ____________________ Password: ____________________ [ ] Public Terminal __________________________________________________________________ Log In [32]Forgot your password? [33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror [34]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! OR [35]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically [36]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [37]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! [38]× 171448118 story [39]AI [40]Ask Slashdot: What Happens After Every Programmer is Using AI? [41](infoworld.com) [42]13 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:34AM from the code-forks dept. There's been several articles on how programmers can [43]adapt to [44]writing code [45]with AI. But presumably AI companies will then gather more data from how real-world programmers use their tools. So long-time Slashdot reader [46]ThePub2000 has a question. "Where's the generative leaps if the humans using it as an assistant don't make leaps forward in a public space?" Let's posit a couple of things: - First, your AI responses are good enough to use. - Second, because they're good enough to use you no longer need to post publicly about programming questions. Where does AI go after it's "perfected itself"? Or, must we live in a dystopian world where code is scrapable for free, regardless of license, but access to support in an AI from that code comes at a price? apply tags__________ 171449084 story [47]Red Hat Software [48]RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard [49](sfconservancy.org) [50]10 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:34AM from the Rocky-roads dept. Last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the Software Freedom Conservancy hosted a new conference called the Free and Open Source Software Yearly. And long-time free software activist Bradley M. Kuhn (currently a policy fellow/hacker-in-residence for the Software Freedom Conservancy) hosted [51]a lively panel discussion on "the recent change" to public source code releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux which shed light on what may happen next. The panel also included: * benny Vasquez, the Chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation * Jeremy Alison, Samba co-founder and software engineer at CIQ (focused on Rocky Linux). Allison is also [52]Jeremy Allison - Sam Slashdot reader #8,157. * James (Jim) Wright, Oracle's chief architect for Open Source policy/strategy/compliance/alliances "Red Hat themselves did not reply to our repeated requests to join us on this panel... SUSE was also invited but let us know they were unable to send someone on short notice to Portland for the panel." One interesting audience question for the panel came from Karsten Wade, a one-time [53]Red Hat senior community architect who left Red Hat in April after 21 years, but said he was "responsible for bringing the CentOS team onboard to Red Hat." Wade argued that CentOS "was always doing a clean rebuild from source RPMS of their own..." So "isn't all of this thunder doing Red Hat's job for them, of trying to get everyone to say, 'This thing is not the equivalent to RHEL.'" In response Jeremy Alison made a good point. "None of us here are the arbiters of whether it's good enough of a rebuild of Red Hat Linux. The customers are the arbiters." But this led to an audience member asking a very forward-looking question: what are the chances the community could adopt a new (and open) enterprise Linux standard that distributions could follow. AlmaLinux's Vasquez replied, "Chances are real high... I think everyone sees that as the obvious answer. I think that's the obvious next step. I'll leave it at that." And Oracle's Wright added "to the extent that the market asks us to standardize? We're all responsive." When asked if they'd consider adding features not found in RHEL ("such as high-security gates through reproducible builds") AlmaLinux's Vasquez said "100% -- yeah. One of the things that we're kind of excited about is the opportunities that this opens for us. We had decided we were just going to focus on this north star of 1:1 Red Hat no matter what -- and with that limitation being removed, we have all kinds of options." And CIQ's Alison said "We're working on FIPS certification for an earlier version of Rocky, that Red Hat, I don't believe, FIPS certified. And we're planning to release that." AlmaLinux's Vasquez emphasized later that "We're just going to build Enterprise Linux. Red Hat has done a great job of establishing a fantastic target for all of us, but they don't own the rights to enterprise Linux. We can make this happen, without forcing an uncomfortable conversation with Red Hat. We can get around this." And Alison later applied a "Star Wars" quote to Red Hat's predicament. "The more things you try and grab, the more things slip through your fingers." The more somebody tries to exert control over a codebase, the more the pushback will occur from people who collaborate in that codebase." AlmaLinux's Vasquez also said they're already "in conversations" with independent software vendors about the "flow of support" into non-Red Hat distributions -- though that's always been the case. "Finding ways to reduce the barrier for those independent software vendors to add official support for us is, like, maybe more cumbersome now, but it's the same problem that we've had..." Early in the discussion Oracle's Jim Wright pointed out that even [54]Red Hat's own web site defines open source code as "designed to be publicly accessible — anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit." ("Until now," Wright added pointedly...) There was some mild teasing of Oracle during the 50-minute discussion -- someone asked at one point if they'd re-license their proprietary implementation of ZFS under the GPL. But at the end of the panel, Oracle's Jim Wright still reminded the audience that "If you want to work on open source Linux, we are hiring." [55]Read Slashdot's transcript of highlights from the discussion. apply tags__________ 171448204 story [56]Earth [57]Eating Less Meat 'Like Taking 8 Million Cars Off the Road' [58](bbc.com) [59]101 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:34AM from the don't-have-a-cow dept. "Having big U.K. meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet [60]would be like taking 8 million cars off the road," reports the BBC: That's just one of the findings of new research that scientists say gives the most reliable calculation yet of how what we eat impacts our planet. The Oxford University study is the first to pinpoint the difference high- and low-meat diets have on greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say... [Oxford University] professor Peter Scarborough, who is part of the Livestock Environment And People project surveyed 55,000 people who were divided into big meat-eaters, who ate more than 100g of meat a day, which equates to a big burger, low meat-eaters, whose daily intake was 50g or less, approximately a couple of [61]chipolata sausages, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans... The research shows that a big meat-eater's diet produces an average of 10.24 kg of planet-warming greenhouse gasses each day. A low meat-eater produces almost half that at 5.37 kg per day. [Fish diet: 4.74 kg. "Vegetarian" diet: 4.16 kg] And for vegan diets — it's halved again to 2.47 kg a day. The analysis is the first to look at the detailed impact of diets on other environmental measures all together. These are land use, water use, water pollution and loss of species, usually caused by loss of habitat because of expansion of farming. In all cases high meat-eaters had a significantly higher adverse impact than other groups... A separate study also published in [62]Nature Food in 2021 concluded that food production was responsible for a third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And an independent review for the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) called for a [63]30% reduction in meat consumption by 2032 in order to meet the UK's net zero target. "The meat industry said the analysis overstated the impact of eating meat." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [64]beforewisdom for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 171447974 story [65]Television [66]Voice Actors Warn AI Could 'Steal Voices', Call for Laws Protecting a Person's Likeness [67](ew.com) [68]67 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @09:34PM from the voice-over dept. Something unexpected happened at this year's Comic-Con, [69]reports Entertainment Weekly: As film and TV actors skipped San Diego Comic-Con in support of the [70]SAG-AFTRA strike, a number of voice actors gathered to show their support — and raise awareness about the threat of artificial intelligence on their industry. The National Association of Voice Actors hosted a panel Saturday morning, where multiple actors and SAG officials spoke to a packed room about how rapidly changing AI technology can threaten both fans and creators... The panelists took a deep dive into the many different forms of AI, particularly in its use in voice work — from original voices like Apple's Siri to synthetic voices copying live actors. All cautioned that AI inherently is not a bad tool and can in some ways enhance voice performances, but fans and actors should push back against exploitative methods. "Voice acting is the tip of the spear of how AI can either be used to lift people up and enhance the opportunities that actors have — or be used in a negative way to steal their voices and crush human creativity," SAG-AFTRA executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told the crowd. "We need to be very vigilant about that. AI isn't implementing itself. People are choosing to implement AI. So, we've got to reject the idea that this is something that is going to happen to us, and there's nothing to be done about that. That is an absolute myth that is being foisted upon us by the people who want us to think we have no power." Ultimately, the panelists explained, it all comes down to consent. Currently, there are no federal or international laws protecting a person's likeness, and many existing contracts allow a company to capture an actor's voice or likeness and use it "in perpetuity." NAVA and SAG-AFTRA are calling upon voice actors and fans alike to push back, both by establishing protective contract language and by pushing for global laws. In addition, the site also reports that "Actors, cosplayers, and a congressman [71]hit the streets of San Diego during Comic-Con 2023 on Friday to show their support for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike." apply tags__________ 171447506 story [72]Australia [73]Hundreds of Drones Crash Into River During Display [74](abc.net.au) [75]61 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @06:34PM from the droning-on dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [76]maxcelcat writes: A fleet of some 500 drives were performing a display over Melbourne's Docklands in the lead up to the FIFA Women's World Cup. About 350 of them didn't come back and are now being [77]fished out of the Yarra River, no doubt somewhat worse for wear. According to the operators, the drones experienced some kind of malfunction or loss of signal, which triggered a fail safe — an automated landing. So hundreds of drones landed safely... on the surface of a river! One [78]local newscaster called it "a spectacular malfunction" (in a report with a [79]brief clip of the drones gently lowering themselves into the water). The report also notes another drone company also once lost 50 drones in a river — worth tens of thousands of dollars — during a Christmas show. apply tags__________ 171447446 story [80]AI [81]California City Tests AI Cameras On Buses for Parking Tickets [82](ktla.com) [83]63 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @05:34PM from the stay-in-your-lane dept. Los Angeles TV station KTLA [84]reports: It's an issue for cities across America: cars parked in bus lanes when they shouldn't be. Now, new AI camera technology is letting the buses themselves write tickets instantly. Santa Monica recently tested the technology with their Big Blue Bus Line. Last year, they provided 7.7 million trips, but not all were on schedule due to cars improperly parked or stopped in dedicated bus lanes. "The question becomes how do we and other cities keep vehicles that should not be in the transit lane out of the lane," said Robert McCall, who oversees Community Engagement for the City of Santa Monica. Santa Monica is among a growing number of cities exploring the use of AI cameras that can spot violations and issue tickets instantly. As buses drive their routes, special cameras capture the license plates of cars that shouldn't be parked or stopped where they are... Already, their cameras are installed in buses in New York City and soon, Washington, DC... During Santa Monica's 45-day pilot, the system identified more than 500 potential violations. Each fine is nearly $300 dollars... Santa Monica still hasn't decided if they'll actually implement this technology, but it paves the way for a bigger trend in the future where AI will write tickets automatically when people break the rules. "Although this might seem like a good way to keep people out of the bus lanes, it seems to me another encroachment on privacy and use of technology in ways that could harm more than help without oversight," writes long-time Slashdot reader [85]neoRUR. "Also what is the role of traffic police when it's all done automatically?" apply tags__________ 171446642 story [86]Earth [87]Norfolk Coast Giant Offshore Windfarm Halted Due To Spiralling Costs [88]40 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @04:34PM from the not-easy-being-green dept. Slashdot reader [89]sonlas writes: The government's green energy plans faced a setback as the Norfolk Boreas offshore windfarm project by Vattenfall was halted due to soaring supply chain costs and rising interest rates. Vattenfall's chief executive Anna Borg said: "It's important to understand that our suppliers are being squeezed. They have problems in their supply chain so it's not so easy to mitigate these situations." The 40% increase in expenses was driven by high global gas prices impacting manufacturing costs, making the project unprofitable. The decision to halt work on the Norfolk Boreas windfarm has cost Vattenfall £415 million, but Borg said the move was "prudent" given the impact of costs on the project's future profitability. In a related news, [90]energy majors BP and TotalEnergies have won a 7GW offshore wind site auction in Germany worth a record $14.1 billion. However, even back in 2022 market experts were warning governments that those additional costs for energy producers [91]have negative impacts. It is important to bear in mind that negative bidding places extra financial burdens on wind farm developers. These additional costs need to be transferred to someone else, either to consumers through increased energy bills or to suppliers, as the developers have less money to invest in the turbines. Those two news are related in the sense that what has been shown so far is that in a world where fossil fuels are cheap and abundant, renewables, and especially offshore windfarm, are cheap and easy to deploy. However, signs are pointing toward a world where fossil fuels supply is not as cheap and abundant as expected, and that may have an impact on plans made by governments to reach Net Zero, or to even just reduce their CO2 emissions. apply tags__________ 171443192 story [92]The Almighty Buck [93]FTX Lobbyist Tried to Buy Pacific Island to Create a New Superspecies, Lawsuit Says [94](cnbc.com) [95]54 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:34PM from the and-the-rest dept. An anonymous reader shared [96]this report from CNBC: Sam Bankman-Fried's younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows. Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the "event where 50%-99.99% of people die" to protect his philanthropic allies and create a genetically enhanced human species, according to the suit filed Thursday by attorneys from Sullivan & Cromwell, which is seeking to recover billions of dollars following the collapse of FTX... Along with an unnamed philanthropic officer of FTX, Gabe Bankman-Fried considered buying Nauru, in part to foster "sensible regulation around human genetic enhancement, and build a lab there...." In addition to serving as a haven in case of apocalypse, "probably there are other things it's useful to do with a sovereign country, too," according to a memo between the younger Bankman-Fried and the philanthropic advisor, which was noted in the suit. "A representative for Nauru confirmed the island nation was not and has never been for sale." apply tags__________ 171443090 story [97]Chrome [98]Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection [99](msn.com) [100]41 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @02:34PM from the click-no-evil dept. The Washington Post's "Tech Friend" newsletter has the [101]latest on Google's "Enhanced Safe Browsing" for Chrome and Gmail, which "monitors the web addresses of sites that you visit and compares them to constantly updated Google databases of suspected scam sites." You'll see a red warning screen if Google believes you're on a website that is, for example, impersonating your bank. You can also check when you're downloading a file to see if Google believes it might be a scam document. In the normal mode without [102]Enhanced Safe Browsing, Google still does many of those same security checks. But the company might miss some of the rapid-fire activity of crooks who can create a fresh bogus website minutes after another one is blocked as a scam. This enhanced security feature has been around [103]for three years, but Google recently started putting a [104]message in Gmail inboxes suggesting that people turn on Enhanced Safe Browsing. Security experts told me that it's a good idea to turn on this safety feature but that it comes with trade-offs. The company already knows plenty about you, particularly when you're logged into Gmail, YouTube, Chrome or other Google services. If you turn on Enhanced Safe Browsing, Google may know even more about what sites you're visiting even if you're not signed into a Google account. It also collects bits of visual images from sites you're visiting to scan for hallmarks of scam sites. Google said it will only use this information to stop bad guys and train its computers to improve security for you and everyone else. You should make the call whether you are willing to give up some of your privacy for extra security protections from common crimes. Gmail users can toggle the feature on or off [105]at this URL. Google tells users that enabling the feature will provide "faster and more proactive protection against dangerous websites, downloads, and extensions." The Post's reporter also asked Google why it doesn't just enable the extra security automatically, and "The company told me that because Google is collecting more data in Enhanced Safe Browsing mode, it wants to ask your permission." The Post adds as an aside that "It's also not your fault that phishing scams are everywhere. Our [106]whole online security system is unsafe and stupid... Our goal should be to slowly replace the broken online security system with newer technologies that ditch our crime-prone password system for [107]different methods of verifying we are who we say we are." apply tags__________ 171442908 story [108]Space [109]How Astronomers Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades [110](cnn.com) [111]22 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @01:34PM from the twinkle-twinkle dept. In 2018 a doctoral student spotted "a [112]spinning celestial space object," [113]reports CNN. "The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour." But that was just the beginning... In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse. Researchers thought the phenomenon might be a remnant of a collapsed star — either a dense neutron star or a dead white dwarf star — with a strong magnetic field. Or perhaps the object was something else entirely... "We were stumped," said Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker, senior lecturer at the Curtin University node of ICRAR, in a statement. "So we started searching for similar objects to find out if it was an isolated event or just the tip of the iceberg." The team observed the sky using the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope on Wajarri Yamaji Country in outback Western Australia, between July and September 2022. The scientists discovered an object 15,000 light-years from Earth in the Scutum constellation. The object, dubbed GPM J1839-10, released radio waves every 22 minutes. The bursts of energy lasted up to five minutes. Astronomers believe it could be a magnetar, or a rare type of star with extremely strong magnetic fields that is capable of releasing powerful, energetic bursts. But if the object is a magnetar, it defies description because all known magnetars release energy in a matter of seconds, or a few minutes at the most. A study detailing the discovery was published Wednesday [114]in the journal Nature. "This remarkable object challenges our understanding of neutron stars and magnetars, which are some of the most exotic and extreme objects in the Universe," said Hurley-Walker, who was the lead author of the new report... "Assuming it's a magnetar, it shouldn't be possible for this object to produce radio waves. But we're seeing them. And we're not just talking about a little blip of radio emission. Every 22 minutes, it emits a five-minute pulse of radio wavelength energy, and it's been doing that for at least 33 years. Whatever mechanism is behind this is extraordinary." The astronomers "searched through the archives of radio telescopes that have been operational for decades," the article points out — and ultimately confirmed the existence of the phenomenon. "It showed up in observations by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India and the Very Large Array in the USA had observations dating as far back as 1988," Hurley-Walker said. "That was quite an incredible moment for me. I was five years old when our telescopes first recorded pulses from this object, but no one noticed it, and it stayed hidden in the data for 33 years. They missed it because they hadn't expected to find anything like it." apply tags__________ 171442578 story [115]Transportation [116]Many People Don't Actually Like Their Car's Infotainment Systems [117](theverge.com) [118]90 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:34PM from the touchy-about-touchscreens dept. "People are getting increasingly fed up with their car infotainment systems," [119]reports the Verge: According to JD Power's Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study, overall satisfaction among car owners is 845 (on a 1,000-point scale), a decrease of two points from a year ago and three points lower than in 2021. That's the first time in the 28-year history of the study that the consumer research firm registered a consecutive year-over-year decline in owner satisfaction... Only 56 percent of owners prefer to use their vehicle's built-in system to play audio, down from 70 percent in 2020, JD Power found. Less than half of owners said they like using their car's native controls for navigation, voice recognition, or to make phone calls... [I]t seems like most people are preferring to use smartphone-mirroring systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which have proven to be incredibly popular over the years... But it seems like people are warming up to native operating systems, as long as they're developed by Google and not the automaker. JD Power found that models that have Android Automotive with Google Automotive's operating system, AAOS, "score higher in the infotainment category than those with no AAOS whatsoever." But here's where things get kind of weird: AAOS without Google Automotive Services (GAS) receives the lowest scores for infotainment of the three categories. [120]Google Automotive Services refers to all the apps and services that come with the car when Google is built into the car — also known as "Google built-in." [121]Ford, [122]GM, and [123]Volvo have all said they will use GAS for their current and upcoming vehicles... That's surely music to GM's ears, which recently made the [124]controversial decision to block access to CarPlay and Android Auto in its future EV lineup in favor of a native Google infotainment system. apply tags__________ 171442768 story [125]Programming [126]Is C++ Gaining in Popularity? [127](i-programmer.info) [128]68 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:34AM from the C-if-I-care dept. An anonymous reader [129]shares this report from Dice.com: C++ is enjoying a surge in popularity, according to the latest update to the TIOBE Index, which tracks programming languages' "buzz." C++ currently [130]sits right behind C and Python on TIOBE's list. "A few months ago, the programming C++ language claimed position 3 of the TIOBE index (at the expense of Java). But C++ has not finished its rise. C seems to be its next victim," added the note accompanying the data... ["At the moment, the gap between the two is only 0.76%."] Matlab, Scratch and Rust also match their all time high records at respectively positions #10, #12 and #17. So here, according to TIOBE, are the 10 most popular programmings languages: 1. Python 2. C 3. C++ 4. Java 5. C# 6. JavaScript 7. Visual Basic 8. SQL 9. PHP 10. MATLAB The site I Programmer [131]digs deeper: C++ was the only one of the top four languages to see a positive year-on-year change in its percentage rating — adding 0.79% to stand at 10.8%. Python had the smallest loss of the entire Top 20, -0.01% leaving it with a share of 13,42% while Visual Basic had the greatest loss at -2.07%. This, combined with JavaScript gaining 1.34%, led to JavaScript overtaking it to occupy #6, its highest ever ranking in the TIOBE Index. They also note that COBOL "had a 3-month rise going from a share of 0.41% in April to 0.86% in July which moved it into #20 on the index." apply tags__________ 171442468 story [132]Earth [133]Heat Indices Above 105 Degrees for 80 Million Americans This Weekend [134](axios.com) [135]96 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 22, 2023 @10:34AM from the cruel-summer dept. An anonymous reader shared [136]this report from Axios: Over 20% of the U.S.' population — 80 million people — are expected to face an air temperature or heat index above 105 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend as a [137]record-breaking heat wave persists over most of the South, the [138]National Weather Service (NWS) warns... The extreme temperatures, which have been exacerbated by [139]human-caused climate change, will come after several days of excessive heat and will be an immediate [140]risk to public health... [141]Heat index is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature, and indices 103 degreesF or above can lead to dangerous heat disorders. "Dozens" of temperature records could break across the Southern U.S., including overnight highs, the NWS [142]said... About 115 million people in over a dozen states from California to [143]Florida were under heat [144]alerts on Thursday morning... The threatening heat is forecast to continue over the Southwest through "at least" July 28 and may expand into other parts of the country... [145]Global temperatures are hitting unprecedented highs, too, this year amid climate change and global warming. Elevated temperatures are also contributing to [146]Canada's worst fire season on record, in which at least 27.1 million acres have burned across the country so far. On Wednesday the city of Phoenix, Arizona — population 1.6 million — "experienced its 20th straight day with a temperature of over 110 degreesF," the article points out. And meanwhile Austin Texas (population 960,000) "saw its [147]10th straight day of temperatures at or above 105 degreesF for the first time in recorded history." The National Weather Service's advice? "Take the heat seriously and avoid extended time outdoors." apply tags__________ 171441718 story [148]Chrome [149]ChromeOS 115 Rolling Out: Android App Streaming, PDF Signatures [150](9to5google.com) [151]3 Posted by [152]BeauHD on Saturday July 22, 2023 @09:00AM from the new-and-improved dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Google is [153]rolling out ChromeOS 115 as a bigger-than-usual update with a number of user-facing additions over the coming days. Amidst I/O 2023, Google announced the beta availability of Android App Streaming from your Pixel (4a+) or Xiaomi (12T, 12T Pro, 13, 13 Pro) phone running Android 13 and newer with Cross-Device Services installed. It's now entering stable with ChromeOS 115 so that you can stream apps from your mobile device to your Chromebook. This is framed as letting you "complete quick tasks like replying to a conversation, checking on the status of a rideshare or delivery, and editing your shopping list." Android apps, which open in a phone-sized window, can be launched via the Phone Hub where you get a row of Recent apps at the bottom of the panel with the ability to browse all compatible "Apps from your phone." Applications can also open when you tap through a messaging notification. When opening PDFs in the Gallery app, ChromeOS 115 adds a signature tool. Appearing next to Draw in the top toolbar, you can add a signature, which is much easier with a touchscreen than a trackpad and save it for future use. You can place it in any document and resize the signature to ensure line fit. Lastly, Google has updated the keyboard Shortcuts app with "new navigation and taxonomy," improved search, and a "refreshed shortcut visualization" that better shows what to press. Meanwhile, this is unmentioned in the stable release notes, but ChromeOS 115 is testing better windowing options in the beta channel. Hovering over the expand/minimize button in the top-right corner control group will show you a new layout menu. There's Split (half), Partial, Full and Float. That last option is new and makes it so that the window is always on top, just like Picture-in-Picture (PiP) for video. The other options were previously accessed by dragging a window and moving to the left/right side of the screen until an overlay appears. This approach is much more accessible and hopefully sees a wide launch soon. The announcement can be read [154]here. apply tags__________ 171441678 story [155]Biotech [156]Structure of Elusive Boron Monoxide Finally Determined After 83 Years [157](phys.org) [158]23 Posted by [159]BeauHD on Saturday July 22, 2023 @06:00AM from the solving-old-problems dept. In an effort to discover new 2D materials, a team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory [160]determined the structure of boron monoxide. Phys.Org reports: This compound was first discovered in the 1940s and maintained research interest throughout the years. Scientists were, however, unable to determine the structure of the material due to technological limitations of the time. Using new NMR methods and previously unavailable analytical tools, the team from Ames Lab finally solved the structure of this deceptively simple material. "We initially weren't really looking into studying this particular material," said Frederic Perras, a scientist from Ames Lab and member of the research team. "We were actually trying to make a carbon-free covalent organic framework." A covalent organic framework is a low-density and porous material with a periodically ordered crystal structure. It is composed of organic molecules that are linked together through covalent bonds. [...] Perras explained that boron monoxide is made using a precursor molecule that acts like building blocks. These molecules stick together through dehydration reactions. The key to understating the structure is to figure out how the blocks are physically arranged. "So we developed some NMR methods that allow us to study the orientation of these building blocks relative to each other. Basically, we found that adjacent precursor molecules were getting organized parallel to each other, which matched one of the previously proposed models," Perras said. "We also applied a lot of other techniques, including powder X-ray diffraction, which showed that these nanosheets organized themselves into what's called a turbostratic arrangement," said Perras. He explained that these stacked nanosheets are like a stack of paper thrown onto a desk. Once they land, they are not perfectly aligned, but they remain in a stack. The findings have been [161]published in the journal American Chemical Society. apply tags__________ [162]« Newer [163]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [164]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Are you currently using AI tools for programming? (*) Yes ( ) No ( ) I don't do any programming (BUTTON) vote now [165]Read the 37 comments | 14614 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. Are you currently using AI tools for programming? 0 Percentage of others that also voted for: * [166]view results * Or * * [167]view more [168]Read the 37 comments | 14614 voted Most Discussed * 164 comments [169]Reddit Takes Over One of the Biggest Protesting Subreddits * 127 comments [170]NOAA Confirms June Was Earth's Hottest on Record * 111 comments [171]T-Mobile's Charging an Extra $5 Plus Tax for Paying Your Phone Bill In-Store * 107 comments [172]There's a Heatwave In the Sea and Scientists Are Worried * 100 comments [173]AT&T May Have Nearly 200,000 Miles of Lead-Covered Phone Cables Across US [174]Ask Slashdot * [175]Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Tips For Creating Effective Documentation? * [176]Ask Slashdot: Why Should I Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? * [177]Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Good AI Regulations? * [178]Ask Slashdot: Should Libraries Eliminate Fines for Overdue Books? * [179]Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC? [180]This Day on Slashdot 2012 [181]Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s 696 comments 2010 [182]Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ 878 comments 2008 [183]World's Oldest Bible Going Online 1183 comments 2004 [184]Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? 1104 comments 2003 [185]A Geek's Tour Of North America? 1335 comments [186]Sourceforge Top Downloads * [187]TrueType core fonts 2.2B downloads * [188]Notepad++ Plugin Mgr 1.5B downloads * [189]VLC media player 899M downloads * [190]eMule 686M downloads * [191]MinGW 631M downloads Powered By [192]sf [193]Slashdot * [194]Today * [195]Saturday * [196]Friday * [197]Thursday * [198]Wednesday * [199]Tuesday * [200]Monday * [201]Sunday * [202]Submit Story As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert * [203]FAQ * [204]Story Archive * [205]Hall of Fame * [206]Advertising * [207]Terms * [208]Privacy Statement * [209]About * [210]Feedback * [211]Mobile View * [212]Blog * * (BUTTON) Icon Do Not Sell My Personal Information Copyright © 2023 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved. × [213]Close [214]Close [215]Slashdot [njs.gif?217] Working... References Visible links: 1. https://m.slashdot.org/ 2. https://slashdot.org/ 3. https://slashdot.org/search.pl 4. https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain 5. https://slashdot.org/ 6. https://slashdot.org/ 7. https://slashdot.org/recent 8. https://slashdot.org/popular 9. https://slashdot.org/polls 10. https://slashdot.org/software/ 11. https://www.slashdotstore.com/ 12. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 13. https://slashdot.org/jobs 14. https://slashdot.org/submission 15. https://slashdot.org/my/login 16. https://slashdot.org/my/newuser 17. https://devices.slashdot.org/ 18. https://build.slashdot.org/ 19. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/ 20. https://technology.slashdot.org/ 21. https://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=opensource 22. https://science.slashdot.org/ 23. https://yro.slashdot.org/ 24. https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain 25. https://www.facebook.com/slashdot 26. https://www.linkedin.com/company/slashdot 27. https://twitter.com/slashdot 28. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsW36751Gy-EAbHQwe9WBNw 29. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot 30. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 31. https://slashdot.org/archive.pl 32. https://slashdot.org/my/mailpassword 33. https://slashdot.org/ 34. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 35. https://slashdot.org/jobs-2 36. https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/GitHub Importer/ 37. https://sourceforge.net/p/import_project/github/ 38. https://slashdot.org/ 39. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ai 40. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0037247/ask-slashdot-what-happens-after-every-programmer-is-using-ai 41. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3700771/coding-with-ai-developer-tips-and-best-practices.html 42. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0037247/ask-slashdot-what-happens-after-every-programmer-is-using-ai#comments 43. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-programming 44. https://thenewstack.io/tales-from-production-how-real-world-coders-are-using-ai/ 45. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3700771/coding-with-ai-developer-tips-and-best-practices.html 46. https://slashdot.org/~ThePub2000 47. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=redhat 48. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0517219/rhel-response-discussed-by-sfc-conferences-panel---including-a-new-enterprise-linux-standard 49. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/ 50. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0517219/rhel-response-discussed-by-sfc-conferences-panel---including-a-new-enterprise-linux-standard#comments 51. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/ 52. https://slashdot.org/~Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam 53. https://www.redhat.com/en/authors/karsten-wade 54. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/open-source/what-is-open-source 55. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/0517219/rhel-response-discussed-by-sfc-conferences-panel---including-a-new-enterprise-linux-standard#transcript 56. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=earth 57. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/017203/eating-less-meat-like-taking-8-million-cars-off-the-road 58. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66238584 59. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/017203/eating-less-meat-like-taking-8-million-cars-off-the-road#comments 60. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66238584 61. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipolata 62. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00225-9 63. https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/National-Food-Strategy-Chapter-16.pdf 64. https://slashdot.org/~beforewisdom 65. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=tv 66. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2352242/voice-actors-warn-ai-could-steal-voices-call-for-laws-protecting-a-persons-likeness 67. https://ew.com/events/comic-con/voice-actors-denounce-exploitative-ai-at-comic-con/ 68. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2352242/voice-actors-warn-ai-could-steal-voices-call-for-laws-protecting-a-persons-likeness#comments 69. https://ew.com/events/comic-con/voice-actors-denounce-exploitative-ai-at-comic-con/ 70. https://ew.com/tv/actors-sag-aftra-strike-updates-rules-everything-we-know/ 71. https://ew.com/events/comic-con/cosplayers-actors-sag-aftra-strike-comic-con-2023/ 72. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=australia 73. https://idle.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2147205/hundreds-of-drones-crash-into-river-during-display 74. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-16/hundreds-of-drones-plunge-into-yarra-river/102607576 75. https://idle.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2147205/hundreds-of-drones-crash-into-river-during-display#comments 76. https://slashdot.org/~maxcelcat 77. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-16/hundreds-of-drones-plunge-into-yarra-river/102607576 78. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxFwMQs6-Pg 79. https://youtu.be/kxFwMQs6-Pg?t=49 80. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ai 81. https://slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2130230/california-city-tests-ai-cameras-on-buses-for-parking-tickets 82. https://ktla.com/morning-news/santa-monica-tests-ai-cameras-for-parking-tickets/ 83. https://slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/2130230/california-city-tests-ai-cameras-on-buses-for-parking-tickets#comments 84. https://ktla.com/morning-news/santa-monica-tests-ai-cameras-for-parking-tickets/ 85. https://slashdot.org/~neoRUR 86. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=earth 87. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/1845215/norfolk-coast-giant-offshore-windfarm-halted-due-to-spiralling-costs 88. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/1845215/norfolk-coast-giant-offshore-windfarm-halted-due-to-spiralling-costs#comments 89. https://slashdot.org/~sonlas 90. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-big-oil-won-bidding-german-offshore-wind-sites-2023-07-13/ 91. https://windeurope.org/newsroom/news/negative-bidding-in-wind-auctions-is-bad-for-consumers-and-bad-for-the-supply-chain/ 92. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=money 93. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0455207/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-pacific-island-to-create-a-new-superspecies-lawsuit-says 94. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html 95. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0455207/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-pacific-island-to-create-a-new-superspecies-lawsuit-says#comments 96. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html 97. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=chrome 98. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0424224/google-urges-gmail-users-to-enable-enhanced-safe-browsing-for-faster-more-proactive-protection 99. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-has-an-enhanced-safe-browsing-feature-should-you-use-it/ar-AA1eb0PY 100. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0424224/google-urges-gmail-users-to-enable-enhanced-safe-browsing-for-faster-more-proactive-protection#comments 101. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-has-an-enhanced-safe-browsing-feature-should-you-use-it/ar-AA1eb0PY 102. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/11577602 103. https://security.googleblog.com/2020/05/enhanced-safe-browsing-protection-now.html 104. https://9to5google.com/2023/07/17/gmail-enhanced-safe-browsing/ 105. https://myaccount.google.com/account-enhanced-safe-browsing 106. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/10/lastpass-breach-kill-passwords/?itid=lk_inline_manual_55 107. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709318/google-accounts-passkey-support-password-2fa-fido-security-phishing 108. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=space 109. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0332245/how-astronomers-discovered-an-unusual-object-pulsing-radio-waves-in-space-for-decades 110. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/new-stellar-object-radio-waves-scn/index.html 111. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0332245/how-astronomers-discovered-an-unusual-object-pulsing-radio-waves-in-space-for-decades#comments 112. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/world/unusual-space-object-transient-scn/index.html 113. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/new-stellar-object-radio-waves-scn/index.html 114. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06202-5 115. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=transportation 116. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/026226/many-people-dont-actually-like-their-cars-infotainment-systems 117. https://www.theverge.com/23801545/car-infotainment-customer-satisifaction-survey-jd-power 118. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/026226/many-people-dont-actually-like-their-cars-infotainment-systems#comments 119. https://www.theverge.com/23801545/car-infotainment-customer-satisifaction-survey-jd-power 120. https://www.androidpolice.com/android-auto-vs-android-automotive-vs-google-automotive-services/ 121. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/1/22260176/ford-google-android-infotainment-os-2023 122. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20851021/general-motors-android-auto-google-infotainment 123. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17325550/android-auto-volvo-maps-assistant-google-io-2018 124. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-apple-carplay-android-auto-google 125. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=programming 126. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0254258/is-c-gaining-in-popularity 127. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/16455-languages-closely-tied-at-top-of-tiobe-index.html 128. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0254258/is-c-gaining-in-popularity#comments 129. https://www.dice.com/career-advice/c-continues-to-surge-up-popular-languages-list 130. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ 131. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/16455-languages-closely-tied-at-top-of-tiobe-index.html 132. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=earth 133. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0144208/heat-indices-above-105-degrees-for-80-million-americans-this-weekend 134. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/19/heat-wave-us-weekend-record-breaking 135. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0144208/heat-indices-above-105-degrees-for-80-million-americans-this-weekend#comments 136. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/19/heat-wave-us-weekend-record-breaking 137. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/16/brutal-heat-wave-peaks-southwest-records-set 138. https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1681738264418603008 139. https://www.axios.com/2021/08/10/global-warming-cause-humans-climate-change 140. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/13/worlds-increasing-heat-bodies 141. https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex 142. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd 143. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/miami-weather-heat-wave-climate 144. https://www.heat.gov/ 145. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/05/warmest-june-global-temperatures-hottest-day 146. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/19/canada-wildfires-climate-carbon-emissions 147. https://twitter.com/nwssanantonio/status/1681749709613051904?s=46&t=mbhlpilIVdY_yw97wVBW-Q 148. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=chrome 149. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/221254/chromeos-115-rolling-out-android-app-streaming-pdf-signatures 150. https://9to5google.com/2023/07/21/chromeos-115-rolling-out/ 151. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/221254/chromeos-115-rolling-out-android-app-streaming-pdf-signatures#comments 152. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 153. https://9to5google.com/2023/07/21/chromeos-115-rolling-out/ 154. https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/226740277/introducing-chromeos-m115-to-the-stable-channel?hl=en&sjid=16733946602995839292-NA 155. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=biotech 156. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/2155222/structure-of-elusive-boron-monoxide-finally-determined-after-83-years 157. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-elusive-boron-monoxide-years.html 158. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/2155222/structure-of-elusive-boron-monoxide-finally-determined-after-83-years#comments 159. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 160. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-elusive-boron-monoxide-years.html 161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c02070 162. https://slashdot.org/ 163. https://slashdot.org/?page=1 164. http://deals.slashdot.org/ 165. https://slashdot.org/poll/3242/are-you-currently-using-ai-tools-for-programming 166. https://slashdot.org/poll/3242/are-you-currently-using-ai-tools-for-programming 167. https://slashdot.org/polls 168. https://slashdot.org/poll/3242/are-you-currently-using-ai-tools-for-programming 169. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/1210216/reddit-takes-over-one-of-the-biggest-protesting-subreddits?sbsrc=md 170. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/1438229/noaa-confirms-june-was-earths-hottest-on-record?sbsrc=md 171. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/1946245/t-mobiles-charging-an-extra-5-plus-tax-for-paying-your-phone-bill-in-store?sbsrc=md 172. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/2145205/theres-a-heatwave-in-the-sea-and-scientists-are-worried?sbsrc=md 173. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/20/2320226/att-may-have-nearly-200000-miles-of-lead-covered-phone-cables-across-us?sbsrc=md 174. https://ask.slashdot.org/ 175. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/06/13/0011226/ask-slashdot-what-are-some-tips-for-creating-effective-documentation?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&sbsrc=askslashdot 176. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/05/21/0112227/ask-slashdot-why-should-i-be-afraid-of-artificial-intelligence?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&sbsrc=askslashdot 177. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/05/17/0325219/ask-slashdot-what-are-some-good-ai-regulations?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&sbsrc=askslashdot 178. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/05/07/1746258/ask-slashdot-should-libraries-eliminate-fines-for-overdue-books?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&sbsrc=askslashdot 179. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/04/02/0058226/ask-slashdot-what-was-your-longest-lived-pc?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed&sbsrc=askslashdot 180. https://slashdot.org/ 181. https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/138249/economists-us-poverty-on-track-to-hit-highest-level-since-1960s?sbsrc=thisday 182. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/23/1838243/google-engineer-decries-complexity-of-java-c?sbsrc=thisday 183. https://news.slashdot.org/story/08/07/23/0110243/worlds-oldest-bible-going-online?sbsrc=thisday 184. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/04/07/23/1912226/experiences-with-laser-eye-surgery?sbsrc=thisday 185. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/03/07/22/032205/a-geeks-tour-of-north-america?sbsrc=thisday 186. https://slashdot.org/ 187. https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/?source=sd_slashbox 188. https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/?source=sd_slashbox 189. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/?source=sd_slashbox 190. https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/?source=sd_slashbox 191. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=sd_slashbox 192. https://sourceforge.net/?source=sd_slashbox 193. https://slashdot.org/ 194. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230723 195. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230722 196. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230721 197. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230720 198. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230719 199. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230718 200. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230717 201. https://books.slashdot.org/?issue=20230716 202. https://slashdot.org/submit 203. https://slashdot.org/faq 204. https://slashdot.org/archive.pl 205. https://slashdot.org/hof.shtml 206. https://slashdotmedia.com/advertising-and-marketing-services/ 207. https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/ 208. https://slashdotmedia.com/privacy-statement/ 209. https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml 210. mailto:feedback@slashdot.org 211. https://slashdot.org/ 212. https://slashdot.org/blog 213. https://slashdot.org/ 214. https://slashdot.org/ 215. https://slashdot.org/ Hidden links: 217. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 218. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 219. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 220. https://slashdot.org/