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This will be largely driven by launches of upgraded Starlink satellites with the ability to connect directly with consumer cell phones, a service SpaceX calls "Starlink Direct to Cell," a company official told Ars this week. The goal next year is [43]12 launches per month, for a total of 144 Falcon rocket flights. Like this year, most of those missions will be primarily devoted to launching Starlink broadband satellites. So far in 2023, more than 60 percent of SpaceX's launches have delivered the company's own Starlink satellites into orbit. Here are some numbers. Last year, SpaceX launched 61 missions. In 2021, the number was 31. In the last 12 months, SpaceX has launched 88 Falcon rockets, plus one test flight of the company's much larger Starship rocket. SpaceX's success in recovering and reusing Falcon 9 boosters and payload fairings has been vital to making this possible. SpaceX has gone past the original goal of launching each Falcon 9 booster 10 times before a major overhaul, first to 15 flights, and then recently certifying boosters for up to 20 missions. Technicians can swap out parts like engines, fins, landing legs, and valves that malfunction in flight or show signs of wear. With so many launches planned next year, 20 flights is probably not a stopping point. "We might go a little higher," the SpaceX official said. SpaceX may also see an uptick in missions for external customers, like NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial companies. "External demand for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches is 'steady,' the official said, but some customers that had launches scheduled for this year encountered delays with their satellites, moving them into 2024." apply tags__________ 172057897 story [44]Data Storage [45]British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection At a Cost of $12.1 Million In Response To Thefts [46](artnews.com) [47]33 Posted by [48]BeauHD on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:00AM from the digitization-projects dept. Karen K. Ho reports via ARTnews: British Museum has [49]announced plans to digitize its entire collection in order to increase security and public access, as well as ward off calls for the repatriation of items. The project will require 2.4 million records to upload or upgrade and is estimated to take five years to complete. The museum's announcement on October 18 came after the news 2,000 items had been stolen from the institution by a former staff member, identified in news reports as former curator Peter Higgs. About 350 have been recovered so far, and last month the museum launched a public appeal for assistance. [...] On the same day the British Museum announced its digitization initiative, Jones and board chairman George Osborne gave oral evidence to the UK Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Their comments included an explanation of how the thefts occurred, policy changes made as a result, and how the museum will handle whistleblower complaints going forward. They also gave more details about the British Museum's strategy for digitizing its collection, estimated at a cost of $12.1 million. "We are not asking the taxpayer or the Government for the money; we hope to raise it privately," Osborne said. The increased digital access to the collection would also be part of the museum's response to requests for items to be returned or repatriated. "Part of our response can be: "They are available to you. Even if you cannot visit the museum, you are able to access them digitally." That is already available -- we have a pretty good website -- but we can use this as a moment to make that a lot better and a lot more accessible," Osborne said. apply tags__________ 172057261 story [50]The Courts [51]Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts [52](nbcnews.com) [53]38 Posted by [54]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:30PM from the red-light-green-light dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Supreme Court on Friday blocked in full a lower court ruling that [55]would have curbed the Biden administration's ability to communicate with social media companies about contentious content on such issues as Covid-19. The decision in a [56]short unsigned order (PDF) puts on hold a Louisiana-based judge's ruling in July that specific agencies and officials should be barred from meeting with companies to discuss whether certain content should be stifled. The Supreme Court also agreed to immediately take up the government's appeal, meaning it will hear arguments and issue a ruling on the merits in its current term, which runs until the end of June. Three conservative justices noted that they would have denied the application: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. "At this time in the history of our country, what the court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate," Alito wrote in a dissenting opinion. GOP attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, along with five social media users, filed the underlying lawsuit, alleging that U.S. government officials went too far in what they characterize as coercion of social media companies to address posts, especially those related to Covid-19. The individual plaintiffs include Covid-19 lockdown opponents and Jim Hoft, the owner of the right-wing website Gateway Pundit. They claim that the government's actions violated free speech protections under the Constitution's First Amendment. apply tags__________ 172057137 story [57]Television [58]Jon Stewart's Apple TV Plus Show Ends, Reportedly Over Coverage of AI and China [59](theverge.com) [60]58 Posted by [61]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:00PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. [62]Shakrai writes: [63]Multiple [64]outlets [65]are reporting that Apple TV Plus has cancelled Jon Stewart's popular show [66]The Problem with Jon Stewart, reportedly over editorial disagreements with regards to planned stories on the People's Republic of China and AI. Fans and haters of Apple will both recall that Apple [67]recently made changes to AirDrop, one of the few effective means Chinese dissidents and protesters had for exchanging information off-grid at scale, and will ask why Apple is apparently not only willing, but eager, to carry water for the PRC, overriding both human rights and practical business concerns in the process. "Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be 'aligned' with the company's views on topics discussed," reports The Verge, citing [68]The Hollywood Reporter. "Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk." apply tags__________ 172056899 story [69]Businesses [70]Amazon Eliminated Plastic Packaging At One of Its Warehouses [71](theverge.com) [72]13 Posted by [73]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:25PM from the demonstrating-what's-possible dept. Umar Shakir reports via The Verge: Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to [74]switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company [75]announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit boxes to wrap some products, use paper mailers for small items, and slide in paper fillers instead of plastic ones in standard boxes. As Amazon transitions over to curbside recyclable packaging, it will "reduce the company's plastic waste and the amount of plastic pollution that can reach the seas," says Matt Littlejohn, senior vice president of Oceana, a conservation organization. However, Littlejohn questions Amazon's commitment to end plastic use in the US, its largest market, compared to the commitments it made for the UK, Germany, and other markets. Amazon says it'll be a "multiyear effort" to move US warehouses to recyclable paper. "Unfortunately, Amazon, in this announcement, did not make a clear, quantifiable, and time-bound commitment, so it is unclear when, where, and how much real plastic reduction there will be," Littlejohn says. apply tags__________ 172056733 story [76]United States [77]Thousands of Remote IT Workers Sent Wages To North Korea To Help Fund Weapons Program, Says FBI [78](apnews.com) [79]37 Posted by [80]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:45PM from the ongoing-investigations dept. [81]echo123 shares a report from the Associated Press: Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years [82]secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials [83]said. The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in St. Louis and elsewhere in the U.S. have been using false identities to get the jobs. The money they earned was funneled to the North Korean weapons program, FBI leaders said at a news conference in St. Louis. Court documents allege that North Korea's government dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees. The workers used various techniques to make it look like they were working in the U.S., including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections, said Jay Greenberg, special agent in charge of the St. Louis FBI office. Greenberg said any company that hired freelance IT workers "more than likely" hired someone participating in the scheme. An FBI spokeswoman said Thursday that the North Koreans contracted with companies across the U.S. and in some other countries. "We can tell you that there are thousands of North Korea IT workers that are part of this," spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said. Federal authorities announced the seizure of $1.5 million and 17 domain names as part of the investigation, which is ongoing. FBI officials said the scheme is so prevalent that companies must be extra vigilant in verifying whom they are hiring, including requiring interviewees to at least be seen via video. The IT workers generated millions of dollars a year in their wages to benefit North Korea's weapons programs. In some instances, the North Korean workers also infiltrated computer networks and stole information from the companies that hired them, the Justice Department said. They also maintained access for future hacking and extortion schemes, the agency said. Officials didn't name the companies that unknowingly hired North Korean workers, say when the practice began, or elaborate on how investigators became aware of it. But federal authorities have been aware of the scheme for some time. apply tags__________ 172056661 story [84]United States [85]US Chip Curbs Give Huawei a Chance To Fill the Nvidia Void In China [86](reuters.com) [87]17 Posted by [88]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:02PM from the unintended-consequences dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. measures to [89]limit the export of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China [90]may create an opening for Huawei to expand in its $7 billion home market as the curbs force Nvidia to retreat, analysts say. While Nvidia has historically been the leading provider of AI chips in China with a market share exceeding 90%, Chinese firms including Huawei have been developing their own versions of Nvidia's best-selling chips, including the A100 and the H100 graphics processing units (GPU). Huawei's Ascend AI chips are comparable to Nvidia's in terms of raw computing power, analysts and some AI firms such as China's iFlyTek say, but they still lag behind in performance. Jiang Yifan, chief market analyst at brokerage Guotai Junan Securities, said another key limiting factor for Chinese firms was the reliance of most projects on Nvidia's chips and software ecosystem, but that could change with the U.S. restrictions. "This U.S. move, in my opinion, is actually giving Huawei's Ascend chips a huge gift," Jiang said in a post on his social media Weibo account. This opportunity, however, comes with several challenges. Many cutting edge AI projects are built with CUDA, a popular programming architecture Nvidia has pioneered, which has in turn given rise to a massive global ecosystem that has become capable of training highly sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI's GPT-4. Huawei own version is called CANN, and analysts say it is much more limited in terms of the AI models it is capable of training, meaning that Huawei's chips are far from a plug-and-play substitute for Nvidia. Woz Ahmed, a former chip design executive turned consultant, said that for Huawei to win Chinese clients from Nvidia, it must replicate the ecosystem Nvidia created, including supporting clients to move their data and models to Huawei's own platform. Intellectual property rights are also a problem, as many U.S. firms already hold key patents for GPUs, Ahmed said. "To get something that's in the ballpark, it is 5 or 10 years," he added. apply tags__________ 172056599 story [91]Open Source [92]OpenBSD 7.4 Released [93](phoronix.com) [94]8 Posted by [95]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:20PM from the new-and-improved dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [96]Noryungi writes: OpenBSD 7.4 has been officially [97]released. The 55th release of this BSD operating system, known for being security oriented, brings a lot of new things, including dynamic tracer, pfsync improvements, loads of security goodies and virtualization improvements. Grab your copy today! As mentioned by [98]Phoronix's Michael Larabel, some of the key highlights include: - Dynamic Tracer (DT) and Utrace support on AMD64 and i386 OpenBSD - Power savings for those running OpenBSD 7.4 on Apple Silicon M1/M2 CPUs by allowing deep idle states when available for the idle loop and suspend - Support for the PCIe controller found on Apple M2 Pro/Max SoCs - Allow updating AMD CPU Microcode updating when a newer patch is available - A workaround for the AMD Zenbleed CPU bug - Various SMP improvements - Updating the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver support against the upstream Linux 6.1.55 state - New drivers for supporting various Qualcomm SoC features - Support for soft RAID disks was improved for the OpenBSD installer - Enabling of Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) on x86_64 and Branch Target Identifier (BTI) on ARM64 for capable processors You can download and view all the new changes [99]via OpenBSD.org. apply tags__________ 172056017 story [100]Windows [101]Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45% [102]82 Posted by msmash on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:40PM from the PSA dept. An anonymous reader shares a Tom's Hardware report: Unfortunately, a default setting in Windows 11 Pro, having its software BitLocker encryption enabled, [103]robs as much as 45 percent of the speed from your SSD as it forces your processor to encrypt and decrypt everything. According to our tests, random writes and reads -- which affect the overall performance of your PC -- get hurt the most, but even large sequential transfers are affected. While many SSDs come with hardware-based encryption, which does all the processing directly on the drive, Windows 11 Pro force-enables the software version of BitLocker during installation, without providing a clear way to opt out. (You can circumvent this with tools like Rufus, if you want, though that's obviously not an official solution as it allows users to bypass the Microsoft's intent.) If you bought a prebuilt PC with Windows 11 Pro, there's a good chance software BitLocker is enabled on it right now. Windows 11 Home doesn't support BitLocker so you won't have encryption enabled there. To find out just how much software BitLocker impacts performance, we ran a series of tests with three scenarios: unencrypted (no BitLocker), software BitLocker (the Windows 11 Pro default), and with hardware BitLocker (OPAL) enabled. While the software encryption increased latency and decreased transfer rates, hardware encryption and no encryption at all were basically tied. If you have software BitLocker enabled, you may want to change your settings. apply tags__________ 172056539 story [104]Power [105]BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, and Lexus Are Switching To Tesla's EV Charging Standard [106](arstechnica.com) [107]32 Posted by [108]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:00PM from the everybody's-doin'-it dept. Toyota and BMW are two of the latest automakers to announce they're [109]adopting Tesla's North American Charging System (NACS) plug for their North American EVs, giving drivers access to Tesla's Supercharger network. Ars Technica reports: BMW's announcement applies to all its car brands, which means that in addition to EVs like the BMW i5 or i7, it's also swapping over to NACS for the upcoming Mini EVs as well as the Rolls-Royce Spectre. BMW will start adding native NACS ports to its EVs in 2025, and that same year its customers will gain access to the Tesla Supercharger network. BMW's release doesn't explicitly mention a CCS1-NACS adapter being made available, but it does say that BMW (and Mini and Rolls-Royce) EVs with CCS1 ports will be able to use Superchargers from early 2025. Similarly, the Toyota news applies to its brand as well as Lexus. Toyota says that it will start incorporating NACS ports into "certain Toyota and Lexus BEVs starting in 2025." And customers with Toyota or Lexus EVs that have a CCS1 port will be offered an adapter allowing them to use NACS chargers, also in 2025. And -- you guessed it -- 2025 is when Toyota and Lexus EVs gain access to the Supercharger network. While virtually all the brands that sell EVs in the North American market have announced the switch, there are still a couple holdouts. Stellantis has yet to make the switch, "meaning Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Maserati, and Ram are all sticking with CCS1 for now," reports Ars. "Volkswagen Group has also yet to take the plunge, which means that Audi and Porsche are also staying with CCS1 for now, as well as the soon-to-be-reborn Scout brand." That said, they're expected to announce a switch to the NACS plug any day now. apply tags__________ 172056473 story [110]Security [111]Hackers Stole Access Tokens From Okta's Support Unit [112](krebsonsecurity.com) [113]9 Posted by [114]BeauHD on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:20PM from the another-day-another-breach dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has [115]suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Okta says the incident affected a "very small number" of customers, however it appears the hackers responsible had access to Okta's support platform for at least two weeks before the company fully contained the intrusion. In an advisory sent to an undisclosed number of customers on Oct. 19, Okta said it "has identified adversarial activity that leveraged access to a stolen credential to access Okta's support case management system. The threat actor was able to view files uploaded by certain Okta customers as part of recent support cases." Okta explained that when it is troubleshooting issues with customers it will often ask for a recording of a Web browser session (a.k.a. an HTTP Archive or HAR file). These are sensitive files because in this case they include the customer's cookies and session tokens, which intruders can then use to impersonate valid users. "Okta has worked with impacted customers to investigate, and has taken measures to protect our customers, including the revocation of embedded session tokens," their notice continued. "In general, Okta recommends sanitizing all credentials and cookies/session tokens within a HAR file before sharing it." Okta has published a [116]blog post about this incident that includes some "indicators of compromise" that customers can use to see if they were affected. But the company stressed that "all customers who were impacted by this have been notified. If you're an Okta customer and you have not been contacted with another message or method, there is no impact to your Okta environment or your support tickets." The security firm BeyondTrust is among the Okta customers who was involved in the breach. "BeyondTrust Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret said that [Okta's] alert came more than two weeks after his company alerted Okta to a potential problem," reports Krebs. They have also [117]published a blog post detailing their findings. apply tags__________ 172055983 story [118]The Courts [119]Frying Pan Company Sued for Claiming Temperatures That Rival the Sun [120](theverge.com) [121]96 Posted by msmash on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:40PM from the reality-check dept. Can you heat up a pan to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit? That's the burning question at the center of [122]this proposed class action lawsuit, which claims the advertising for SharkNinja's nonstick cookware violates the laws of physics and thermodynamics. From a report: While SharkNinja is the company best known for its Shark robovacs and Ninja kitchen gadget, this lawsuit takes issue with the Ninja NeverStick Premium Cookware collection, a line of pots and pans it advertises as having superior nonsticking and nonflaking qualities thanks to its manufacturing process. Instead of making its pans at a measly 900-degree temperature that other brands use, SharkNinja says it heats up the cookware to a maximum of 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That process, according to SharkNinja, fuses "plasma ceramic particles" to the surface of the pan, "creating a super-hard, textured surface that interlocks with our exclusive coating for a superior bond." But Patricia Brown, the person who filed this lawsuit, isn't buying it. As cited in Brown's lawsuit, NASA recently said the "surface of the Sun is a blisteringly hot 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit," meaning SharkNinja's manufacturing process reaches about three times that temperature. apply tags__________ 172055907 story [123]IT [124]In-memory Database Redis Wants To Dabble in Disk [125](theregister.com) [126]4 Posted by msmash on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:05PM from the up-next dept. Redis, the go-to in-memory database used as a cache and system broker, is looking to [127]include disk as part of a tiered storage architecture to reduce costs and broaden the system's appeal. From a report: Speaking to The Register, CEO Rowan Trollope said he hoped the move would help customers lower costs and simplify their architecture. Redis counts Twitter X, Snapchat, and Craigslist among its customers, and it's popular among developers of modern internet-scale applications owing to its ability to create a cache to prevent the main database from overloading. Trollope said the sub-millisecond distributed system gives devs the performance they need, but admitted other systems built for internet scale, such as MongoDB, might offer price advantages. To address this, the company has already created a tiered approach to memory by offering flash support behind its in-memory system. "We have a half-step between disk and memory. For some specific use cases, in gaming for example, a company might use us for leaderboards and other in-game stats, which they need in real time," he said. However, after an initial flush of the game launch, a large chunk of users would finish the game and their accounts would go dormant until the release of a new episode or some new content, when they might return. Trollope said using flash allowed users to dynamically tier memory. "We can take the lesser-used data that hasn't been touched in a while and shuttle it off to flash where it can sit for a while. When the user comes back eventually, it's very easy for us to seamlessly move it from flash back into memory. And that allows the company to save costs," he said. apply tags__________ 172055639 story [128]AI [129]New Nvidia AI Agent, Powered by GPT-4, Can Train Robots [130](venturebeat.com) [131]8 Posted by msmash on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:25PM from the moving-forward dept. Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and can [132]autonomously teach robots complex skills. From a report: In a blog post, the company said Eureka, which autonomously writes reward algorithms, has, for the first time, trained a robotic hand to perform rapid pen-spinning tricks as well as a human can. Eureka has also taught robots to open drawers and cabinets, toss and catch balls, and manipulate scissors, among nearly 30 tasks. "Reinforcement learning has enabled impressive wins over the last decade, yet many challenges still exist, such as reward design, which remains a trial-and-error process," Anima Anandkumar, senior director of AI research at Nvidia and an author of the Eureka paper, said in the blog post. "Eureka is a first step toward developing new algorithms that integrate generative and reinforcement learning methods to solve hard tasks." apply tags__________ 172055535 story [133]AI [134]'Mind-Blowing' IBM Chip Speeds Up AI [135](nature.com) [136]17 Posted by msmash on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:59PM from the closer-look dept. An anonymous reader [137]shares a report: A brain-inspired computer chip that could supercharge artificial intelligence by working faster with much less power has been developed by researchers at IBM in San Jose, California. Their massive NorthPole processor chip eliminates the need to frequently access external memory, and so performs tasks such as image recognition faster than existing architectures do -- while consuming vastly less power. "Its energy efficiency is just mind-blowing," says Damien Querlioz, a nanoelectronics researcher at the University of Paris-Saclay in Palaiseau. The work, published in Science, shows that computing and memory can be integrated on a large scale, he says. "I feel the paper will shake the common thinking in computer architecture." NorthPole runs neural networks: multi-layered arrays of simple computational units programmed to recognize patterns in data. A bottom layer takes in data, such as the pixels in an image; each successive layer detects patterns of increasing complexity and passes information on to the next layer. 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