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But "Amid all the hysteria about ChatGPT and co, one thing is being missed," argues the Observer — "[42]how energy-intensive the technology is." The current moral panic also means that a really important question is missing from public discourse: what would a world suffused with this technology do to the planet? Which is worrying because its environmental impact will, at best, be significant and, at worst, could be really problematic. How come? Basically, because AI requires staggering amounts of computing power. And since computers require electricity, and the necessary GPUs (graphics processing units) run very hot (and therefore need cooling), the technology consumes electricity at a colossal rate. Which, in turn, means CO2 emissions on a large scale — about which the industry is extraordinarily coy, while simultaneously boasting about using offsets and other wheezes to mime carbon neutrality. The implication is stark: the realisation of the industry's dream of "AI everywhere" (as Google's boss once put it) would bring about a world dependent on a technology that is not only flaky but also has a formidable — and growing — environmental footprint. Shouldn't we be paying more attention to this? Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [43]mspohr for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 172584261 story [44]Christmas Cheer [45]'Therapy Llamas' Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers [46](wsvn.com) [47]21 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:34AM from the reindeer-games dept. "The Portland International Airport in Oregon understands holiday travel is stressful. So this season, it invited a few specialists..." [48]writes the Washington Post. [49]One TV station describes them as "therapy llamas... two 400-pound fluffballs serving as therapy animals" stationed at Portland International Airport (or PDX) earlier this week, for "travelers, in need of a calming moment." From the Washington Post: Airports around the globe use a variety of methods to inject some Zen into one of the busiest travel periods of the year. They decorate their halls in holiday lights, host carolers and concerts, and bring in therapy dogs for group canine counseling. Portland does all of the above. True to the city's quirky spirit, it also invites local camelids to the airport to canoodle with passengers. That's where Gregory, president and founder of Mountain Peaks Therapy Llamas & Alpacas, comes in. "PDX has an ongoing partnership with various therapy animal programs," said Allison Ferre, media relations manager with the Port of Portland, which operates the airport. "So this year, when we were bringing back holiday concessions programing, we just thought, "Who better to lead that parade than the llamas and alpacas?" This year's theme was "reindeer." Gregory and her daughter, Shannon Joy, dressed the pair in antler headbands, glittery halters with tinkling bells and poinsettia-adorned wreathes. Red velvet banners worn like saddles were inscribed with their names and silvery snowflakes. "They looked pretty fancy," Gregory said... Though the pair had to pass through security, they didn't have to submit to a pat down, which they might have enjoyed for the extra pets. apply tags__________ 172584359 story [50]Electronic Frontier Foundation [51]EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' [52](eff.org) [53]8 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:00AM from the naughty-or-nice dept. "It's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year..." [54]notes Lifehacker senior writer Thorin Klosowski. "But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into." A number of these gifts raise red flags for us as privacy-conscious digital advocates. Ring cameras are one of [55]the most obvious examples, but [56]countless others over the years have made the security or privacy naughty list (and many of these same electronics directly [57]clash with your right to repair). One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance practice, likely without their full knowledge of what they're really signing up for... And let's not forget about kids. Long subjected to surveillance [58]from elves and [59]their managers, electronics gifts for kids can come with all sorts of surprise issues, like the [60]kid-focused tablet we found this year that was packed with malware and riskware. [61]Kids' smartwatches and a number of connected toys are also potential privacy hazards that may not be worth the risks if not set up carefully. Of course, you don't have to avoid all technology purchases. There are plenty of products out there that aren't creepy, and a few that just need extra attention during set up to ensure they're as privacy-protecting as possible. While we don't endorse products, you don't have to start your search in a vacuum. One helpful place to start is [62]Mozilla's Privacy Not Included gift guide, which provides a breakdown of the privacy practices and history of products in a number of popular gift categories.... [63]U.S. PIRG also has guidance for shopping for kids, including details about what to look for in popular categories like smart toys and watches.... Your job as a privacy-conscious gift-giver doesn't end at the checkout screen. If you're more tech savvy than the person receiving the item, or you're helping set up a gadget for a child, there's no better gift than helping set it up as privately as possible.... Giving the gift of electronics shouldn't come with so much homework, but until we have a [64]comprehensive data privacy law, we'll likely have to contend with these sorts of set-up hoops. Until that day comes, we can all take the time to help those who need it. apply tags__________ 172584095 story [65]AI [66]ChatGPT Exploit Finds 24 Email Addresses, Amid Warnings of 'AI Silo' [67](thehill.com) [68]25 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:00PM from the beyond-forever dept. [69]The New York Times reports: Last month, I received an alarming email from someone I did not know: Rui Zhu, a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University Bloomington. Mr. Zhu had my email address, he explained, because GPT-3.5 Turbo, one of the latest and most robust large language models (L.L.M.) from OpenAI, had delivered it to him. My contact information was included in a list of business and personal email addresses for more than 30 New York Times employees that a research team, including Mr. Zhu, had managed to [70]extract from GPT-3.5 Turbo in the fall of this year. With some work, the team had been able to "bypass the model's restrictions on responding to privacy-related queries," Mr. Zhu wrote. My email address is not a secret. But the success of the researchers' experiment should ring alarm bells because it reveals the potential for ChatGPT, and generative A.I. tools like it, to reveal much more sensitive personal information with just a bit of tweaking. When you ask ChatGPT a question, it does not simply search the web to find the answer. Instead, it draws on what it has "learned" from reams of information — training data that was used to feed and develop the model — to generate one. L.L.M.s train on vast amounts of text, which may include personal information pulled from the Internet and other sources. That training data informs how the A.I. tool works, but it is not supposed to be [71]recalled verbatim... In the example output they provided for Times employees, many of the personal email addresses were either off by a few characters or entirely wrong. But 80 percent of the work addresses the model returned were correct. The researchers used the API for accessing ChatGPT, the article notes, where "requests that would typically be denied in the ChatGPT interface were accepted..." "The vulnerability is particularly concerning because no one — apart from a limited number of OpenAI employees — really knows what lurks in ChatGPT's training-data memory." And there was a broader related warning in another article published the same day. Microsoft may be building an AI silo in a walled garden, argues [72]a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's school of information, calling the development "detrimental for technology development, as well as costly and potentially dangerous for society and the economy." [In January] Microsoft sealed its OpenAI relationship with another major investment — this time around [73]$10 billion, much of which was, once again, in the form of cloud credits instead of conventional finance. In return, OpenAI agreed to [74]run and power its AI exclusively through Microsoft's Azure cloud and granted Microsoft [75]certain rights to its intellectual property... Recent reports that [76]U.K. competition authorities and the U.S. [77]Federal Trade Commission are scrutinizing Microsoft's investment in OpenAI are encouraging. But Microsoft's failure to report these investments for what they are — a de facto acquisition — demonstrates that the company is keenly aware of the stakes and has taken advantage of OpenAI's somewhat [78]peculiar legal status as a non-profit entity to work around the rules... The U.S. government needs to quickly step in and reverse the negative momentum that is pushing AI into walled gardens. The longer it waits, the harder it will be, both politically and technically, to re-introduce robust competition and the open ecosystem that society needs to maximize the benefits and manage the risks of AI technology. apply tags__________ 172583403 story [79]Christmas Cheer [80]FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' [81](fsf.org) [82]18 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @08:00PM from the sharing-the-software dept. "Share [83]this holiday fairy tale with your loved ones," [84]urges the Free Software Foundation. A company offers you a tool to make your life easier, but, when you use it, you find out that the tool forces you to use it only in the way the tool's manufacturer approves. Does this story ring a bell? It's what millions of software users worldwide experience again and again, day after day. It's also the story of Wendell the Elf and the ShoeTool. They suggest enjoying the video "to remind yourself why you shouldn't let your tools tell you how to use them." First [85]released in 2019, it's available on the free/open-source video site PeerTube, a decentralized (and ActivityPub-federated) platform powered by WebTorrent. They've also created a [86]shortened URL for sharing on social media (recommending the hashtag #shoetool ). "And, of course, you can adapt the video to your liking after [87]downloading the source files." Or, you can share the holiday fairy tale with your loved ones so that they can learn not to let their tools control them. If we use free software, we don't need anyone's permission to, for example, modify our tools ourselves or install modifications shared by others. We don't need permission to ask someone else to tailor our tools to serve our wishes, exercise our creativity. The Free Software Foundation believes that everyone deserves full control over their computers and phones, and we hope this video helps you explain the importance of free software to your friends and family. "Don't let your tools tell you how to use them," the video ends. "Join the Free Software Foundation!" apply tags__________ 172583225 story [88]Christmas Cheer [89]Epic's Free Game Giveaway Continues with Bethesda's 'Ghostwire: Tokyo' [90](comicbook.com) [91]16 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:00PM from the my-true-love-gave-to-me dept. For Epic's Christmas special this year, they're giving away for free "an AAA game that only launched back in 2022..." [92]reports ComicBook.com — a game that invites players to "ally with a powerful spectral entity on theirâquest for vengeance." ComicBook.com notes that the game giveaway is "not for long... Starting today and lasting until the late morning of December 25." The latest free game on the Epic Games Store is almost certainly the biggest title that users have received so far to coincide with the holidays... Initially released back in March 2022, [93]Ghostwire: Tokyo is developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda. Since this is a AAA title, Ghostwire: Tokyo normally retails for $59.99 in total. As such, for it to now be free means that this is one of the best deals that Epic has had so far to close out the year... Epic's ongoing holiday promotion is set to extend to January and should see 17 games in total being handed out at no cost. This promotion will continue tomorrow on Christmas Day when a new freebie lands on the PC platform. apply tags__________ 172582569 story [94]Television [95]'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Streams on Disney+ and the BBC [96](cnet.com) [97]30 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @06:03PM from the church-on-Ruby-Road dept. An anonymous Slashdot reader shared [98]this report from CNET: Marking its 60th year on television, the British time-travel series will close out 2023 with one last anniversary special that arrives on Christmas Day. Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor helms the Tardis in The Church on Ruby Road, which centers on an abandoned baby who grows up looking for answers... Disney Plus will stream Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road on Monday, Dec. 25, at 12:55 p.m. ET (9:55 a.m. PT) in all regions except the UK and Ireland, where it will air on the BBC. In case you missed it, viewers can also watch David Tennant starring in the other three anniversary specials: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle. All releases are available on Disney Plus. But what's interesting is CNET goes on to explain "why a VPN could be a useful tool." Perhaps you're traveling abroad and want to stream Disney Plus while away from home. With a VPN, you're able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the series from anywhere in the world. There are other good reasons to use a VPN for streaming too. A VPN is the best way to encrypt your traffic and stop your ISP from throttling your speeds... You can use a VPN to stream content legally as long as VPNs are allowed in your country and you have a valid subscription to the streaming service you're using. The U.S. and Canada are among the countries where VPNs are legal apply tags__________ 172582903 story [99]Red Hat Software [100]A Proposed Change for Fedora 40: Unify /usr/bin With /usr/sbin [101](phoronix.com) [102]58 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:03PM from the modest-proposals dept. "This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux..." emphasizes [103]its page on the Fedora project Wiki. "As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee." But Phoronix reports that "One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora 40 is to [104]unify their /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations." The change proposal explains: "The /usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin, which means paths like /usr/bin/foo and /usr/sbin/foo point to the same place. /bin and /sbin are already symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, so effectively /bin/foo and /sbin/foo also point to the same place. /usr/sbin will be removed from the default $PATH." Fedora years ago merged /bin and /usr/bin and as the last step they want to unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. The change proposal argues that with this change, "Fedora becomes more compatible with other distributions." - We have /sbin/ip while Debian has /bin/ip - We have /bin/chmem and /bin/isosize, but Debian has /sbin/chmem and /sbin/isosize - We also have /sbin/{addpart,delpart,lnstat,nstat,partx,ping,rdma,resizepart,ss,udeva dm,update-alternatives}, while Debian has those in under /bin, etc. - Fedora becomes more compatible with Arch, which did the merge a few years ago. The proposal on the Fedora project Wiki offers this summary: The split between /bin and /sbin is not useful, and also unused. The original split was to have "important" binaries statically linked in /sbin which could then be used for emergency and rescue operations. Obviously, we don't do static linking anymore. Later, the split was repurposed to isolate "important" binaries that would only be used by the administrator. While this seems attractive in theory, in practice it's very hard to categorize programs like this, and normal users routinely invoke programs from /sbin. Most programs that require root privileges for certain operations are also used when operating without privileges. And even when privileges are required, often those are acquired dynamically, e.g. using polkit. Since many years, the default $PATH set for users includes both directories. With the advent of systemd this has become more systematic: systemd sets $PATH with both directories for all users and services. So in general, all users and programs would find both sets of binaries... Since generally all user sessions and services have both directories in $PATH, this split actually isn't used for anything. Its main effect is confusion when people need to use the absolute path and guess the directory wrong. Other distributions put some binaries in the other directory, so the absolute path is often not portable. Also, it is very easy for a user to end up with /sbin before /bin in $PATH, and for an administrator to end up with /bin before /sbin in $PATH, causing confusion. If this feature is dropped, the system became a little bit simpler, which is useful especially for new users, who are not aware of the history of the split. apply tags__________ 172578039 story [105]AI [106]'What Kind of Bubble Is AI?' [107](locusmag.com) [108]76 Posted by FirehoseFavorites on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:56PM from the you're-really-not-going-to-like-it dept. "Of course AI is a bubble," [109]argues tech activist/blogger/science fiction author Cory Doctorow. The real question is what happens when it bursts? Doctorow examines history — the "irrational exuberance" of the dotcom bubble, 2008's financial derivatives, NFTs, and even cryptocurrency. ("A few programmers were trained in Rust... but otherwise, the residue from crypto is a lot of bad digital art and worse Austrian economics.") So would an AI bubble leave anything useful behind? The largest of these models are incredibly expensive. They're expensive to make, with billions spent acquiring training data, labelling it, and running it through massive computing arrays to turn it into models. Even more important, these models are expensive to run.... Do the potential paying customers for these large models add up to enough money to keep the servers on? That's the 13 trillion dollar question, and the answer is the difference between WorldCom and Enron, or dotcoms and cryptocurrency. Though I don't have a certain answer to this question, I am skeptical. AI decision support is potentially valuable to practitioners. Accountants might value an AI tool's ability to draft a tax return. Radiologists might value the AI's guess about whether an X-ray suggests a cancerous mass. But with AIs' tendency to "hallucinate" and confabulate, there's an increasing recognition that these AI judgments require a "human in the loop" to carefully review their judgments... There just aren't that many customers for a product that makes their own high-stakes projects betÂter, but more expensive. There are many low-stakes applications — say, selling kids access to a cheap subscription that generates pictures of their RPG characters in action — but they don't pay much. The universe of low-stakes, high-dollar applications for AI is so small that I can't think of anything that belongs in it. There are some promising avenues, like "federated learning," that hypothetically combine a lot of commodity consumer hardware to replicate some of the features of those big, capital-intensive models from the bubble's beneficiaries. It may be that — as with the interregnum after the dotcom bust — AI practitioners will use their all-expenses-paid education in PyTorch and TensorFlow (AI's answer to Perl and Python) to push the limits on federated learning and small-scale AI models to new places, driven by playfulness, scientific curiosity, and a desire to solve real problems. There will also be a lot more people who understand statistical analysis at scale and how to wrangle large amounts of data. There will be a lot of people who know PyTorch and TensorFlow, too — both of these are "open source" projects, but are effectively controlled by Meta and Google, respectively. Perhaps they'll be wrestled away from their corporate owners, forked and made more broadly applicable, after those corporate behemoths move on from their money-losing Big AI bets. Our policymakers are putting a lot of energy into thinking about what they'll do if the AI bubble doesn't pop — wrangling about "AI ethics" and "AI safety." But — as with all the previous tech bubbles — very few people are talking about what we'll be able to salvage when the bubble is over. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [110]mspohr for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 172581375 story [111]Movies [112]DC's 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' Flops at the Box Office [113](variety.com) [114]93 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:49PM from the lost-kingdoms dept. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom "is headed for one of the lowest starts in the history of the DC Cinematic Universe," writes the Hollywood Reporter, "with a projected four-day Christmas weekend gross of $40 million, including $28 million for the three days." "The sequel cost $205 million," [115]notes Variety, "and ranks among the worst debuts of the year for a superhero movie." It's softer than [116]November's misfire The Marvels ($47 million), which ended its run as the lowest-grossing installment in the history of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Marvels was shocking because it was the rare MCU movie to tumble out of the gate. By contrast, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is shaping up to be the fourth of four DC movies this year to crumble at the box office. Already in 2023, The Flash ($55 million debut), Shazam! Fury of the Gods ($30 million debut) and Blue Beetle ($25 million debut) majorly flopped in theaters. December releases are known to start slower but enjoy staying power through the new year. That was the case with 2018's Aquaman, which opened unspectacularly to $67 million and powered to $335 million in North America (and $1.15 billion globally). However, "Aquaman 2" faces choppier waters. Beyond the minimal buzz and terrible reviews, The Lost Kingdom is the final installment before DC's new bosses, James Gunn and Peter Safran, reset the sprawling superhero universe without heroes like Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry to save the day. A movie consultant tells Variety that superhero films should perform better in 2024 with the release of Joker 2, Venom 3 and Deadpool 3. As for Aquaman, the Hollywood Reporter writes that "The hope now is that moviegoing will pick up in earnest once presents are unwrapped on Monday. (Hollywood studios never like it when Dec. 25 falls on a Monday since it messes with the weekend.)" The Verge argues that, for better or worse, Aquaman 2 is [117]the quintessential product of the DC Extended Universe: In Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom, you can plainly see just how much attention Warner Bros. has been paying to the public's response to its own unwieldy franchise of comic book adaptations and to the direction that its competitors like Disney / Marvel have been taking their projects lately. But in the wake of [118]the entire DCEU being shuttered and set aside in favor of a hard reboot, you can also see The Lost Kingdom as a monument to everything that was great (which was not a lot) and terrible about this particular superhero movie experiment. apply tags__________ 172581099 story [119]Programming [120]Quantum Computing Gets a 'Hard, Cold Reality Check' [121](ieee.org) [122]56 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:49PM from the baby-it's-cold-outside dept. A Canadian cybersecurity firm has [123]warned that as soon as 2025, quantum computers could make current encryption methods useless. But now Slashdot reader [124]christoban shares a "reality check" — [125]an IEEE Spectrum takedown with the tagline "Hype is everywhere, skeptics say, and practical applications are still far away." The [126]quantum computer revolution may be further off and more limited than many have been led to believe. That's the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry... [T]here's growing pushback against what many see as unrealistic expectations for the technology. Meta's head of AI research [127]Yann LeCun recently [128]made headlines after pouring cold water on the prospect of quantum computers making a meaningful contribution in the near future. Speaking at a media event celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Meta's Fundamental AI Research team he said the technology is "a fascinating scientific topic," but that he was less convinced of "the possibility of actually fabricating quantum computers that are actually useful." While LeCun is not an expert in quantum computing, leading figures in the field are also sounding a note of caution. Oskar Painter, head of quantum hardware for Amazon Web Services, says there is a "tremendous amount of hype" in the industry at the minute and "it can be difficult to filter the optimistic from the completely unrealistic." A fundamental challenge for today's quantum computers is that they are very prone to errors. Some have suggested that these so-called "noisy intermediate-scale quantum" ([129]NISQ) processors could still be put to useful work. But Painter says there's growing recognition that this is unlikely and [130]quantum error-correction schemes will be key to achieving practical quantum computers. The leading proposal involves spreading information over many physical qubits to create "[131]logical qubits" that are more robust, but this could require as many as 1,000 physical qubits for each logical one. Some have suggested that [132]quantum error correction could even be fundamentally impossible, though that is not a mainstream view. Either way, realizing these schemes at the scale and speeds required remains a distant goal, Painter says... "I would estimate at least a decade out," he says. A Microsoft technical fellow believes [133]there's fewer applications where quantum computers can really provide a meaningful advantage, since operating a qubit its magnitudes slower than simply flipping a transistor, which also makes the throughput rate for data thousands or even millions of times slowers. "We found out over the last 10 years that many things that people have proposed don't work," he says. "And then we found some very simple reasons for that." apply tags__________ 172566121 story [134]Christmas Cheer [135]30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Go Online - Including 2023's [136](thenewstack.io) [137]23 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:34AM from the under-the-trees dept. "It's like visiting an old friend for the holidays," [138]according to this article: Approaching his 86th birthday, Donald Knuth — Stanford's beloved computer science guru — honored what's become a long-standing tradition. He gave [139]a December "Christmas lecture" that's also [140]streamed online for all of his fans... More than 60 years ago, back in 1962, a 24-year-old Donald Knuth first started writing The Art of Computer Programming — a comprehensive analysis of algorithms which, here in 2023, he's still trying to finish. And [141]30 years ago Knuth also began making rare live appearances each December in front of audiences of Stanford students... Recently Stanford [142]uploaded several decades of Knuth's past Christmas lectures, along with a series of [143]22 videos of Knuth from 1985 titled "the 'Aha' Sessions'" (courses in mathematical problem-solving). There are also [144]two different sets of [145]five videos from 1981 showing Knuth introducing his newly-created typesetting system TeX. There are even [146]12 videos from 1982 of what Knuth calls "an intensive course about the internal details." And on Dec. 6, wearing his traditional brown holiday sweater, Knuth gave yet another live demonstration of the beautifully clear precision that's made him famous. apply tags__________ 172575013 story [147]Earth [148]CNN Shares Hopeful Signs for Our Fight Against Climate Change [149](cnn.com) [150]118 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:34AM from the spreading-sunshine dept. With everyone worrying about climate change, CNN shares [151]a list of reasons to feel positive: The year 2023 is on track to see the biggest increase in renewable energy capacity to date, according to the [152]International Energy Agency. China, the world's biggest climate polluter, has made [153]lightning advances in renewables, with the country set to shatter its wind and solar target five years early. A report published in June found that China's solar capacity is now greater than the rest of the world's nations combined, in a surge described by the report's author, Global Energy Monitor, as "jaw-dropping...." The popularity of electric vehicles has [154]surged this year, with American sales at an all-time high. People in China and Europe are snapping up EVs in large numbers as well... Americans purchased 1 million fully electric vehicles in 2023, an annual record, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Electric vehicles accounted for about 8% of all new vehicles sales in the US during the first half of 2023, according to the report. In China, EVs accounted for 19% of all vehicle sales, and worldwide, they made up 15% of new passenger vehicle sales. EV sales in Europe were up 47% in the first nine months of 2023, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (EAMA) Other positive developments from the article: * "For more than six days straight, between October 31 to November 6, the nation of more than 10 million people relied solely on renewable energy sources — setting an exciting example for the rest of the world." * "Deforestation in Brazil fell by 22.3% in the 12 months through July, according to data from the national government, as President Luiz Ignácio Lula da Silva started to make progress on his pledge to rein in the rampant forest destruction that occurred under his predecessor..." * "The Earth's ozone layer is on track to recover completely within decades, a UN-backed panel of experts announced in January, as ozone-depleting chemicals are phased out across the world." apply tags__________ 172578171 story [155]Google [156]Remembering 'The Tech That Died in 2023' [157](pcmag.com) [158]105 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:34AM from the should-auld-acquaintance-be-forgot dept. "10 years later, the [159]demise of Google Reader still stings," [160]writes PC Magazine. But "Time marches on and corporate priorities shift. Here are the products and services that took a final bow in 2023..." Some of the highlights? 'Clubhouse' Clones In the early days of the pandemic, when Zoom happy hours and sourdough starters proliferated, Clubhouse burst onto the scene with an app that facilitated audio-only chats between groups large and small. Tech giants quickly churned out their own Clubhouse clones, but these party-line throwbacks were not long for this world. Facebook was the first to go, ditching its Live Audio Rooms in December 2022, but 2023 also saw the end of Reddit Talk, Spotify Live, and [161]Amazon's live radio DJ Amp app. [X Spaces is still around] Amazon Smile Launched in 2013, AmazonSmile saw Amazon donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases made through smile.amazon.com to charity, with consumers able to choose from over a million charitable organizations to support. On Feb. 20, however, the [162]program shut down because it "has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped," Amazon said at the time. NFTs on Facebook and Instagram Remember non-fungible tokens (NFTs)? Somehow, crypto bros convinced people to spend big bucks on what are essentially JPEGs. (Don't try to convince me [163]otherwise.) Meta got in on the action in 2022, allowing [164]Instagram users to create NFTs and [165]Facebook users to share them. It didn't exactly set either social network on fire and Meta said in March it would be "[166]winding down digital collectibles." Cortana on Windows In June, AI claimed its latest victim by coming after Microsoft's Cortana. The voice assistant never really made a splash compared to Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, and with the launch of Bing Chat (now Copilot), Microsoft [167]removed Cortana as a built-in app on Windows. Also on the list are [168]Blizzard's Overwatch League, third-party [169]Reddit clients, and [170]Venmo as a payment option on Amazon (effective this January 10). Looking further into the future, Gmail's Basic HTML View [171]disappears in 2024, while Wordpad will eventually be [172]removed in an unspecified future release of Windows. apply tags__________ 172575671 story [173]United States [174]US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say [175](fastcompany.com) [176]79 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:34PM from the water-work dept. An anonymous reader shared [177]this report from Fast Company: Providers of critical infrastructure in the United States are doing a sloppy job of defending against cyber intrusions, the National Security Council tells Fast Company, pointing to recent [178]Iran-linked attacks on U.S. water utilities that exploited basic security lapses [earlier this month]. The security council tells Fast Company it's also aware of recent intrusions by hackers linked to China's military at American infrastructure entities that include water and energy utilities in multiple states. Neither the Iran-linked or China-linked attacks affected critical systems or caused disruptions, according to reports. "We're seeing companies and critical services facing increased cyber threats from malicious criminals and countries," Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging tech, tells Fast Company. The White House had been urging infrastructure providers to upgrade their cyber defenses before these recent hacks, but "clearly, by the most recent success of the criminal cyberattacks, more work needs to be done," she says... The [179]attacks hit at least 11 different entities using Unitronics devices across the United States, which included six local water facilities, a pharmacy, an aquatics center, and a brewery... Some of the compromised devices had been connected to the open internet with a default password of "1111," federal authorities say, making it easy for hackers to find them and gain access. Fixing that "doesn't cost any money," Neuberger says, "and those are the kinds of basic things that we really want companies urgently to do." But cybersecurity experts say these attacks point to a larger issue: the general vulnerability of the technology that powers physical infrastructure. Much of the hardware was developed before the internet and, though they were retrofitted with digital capabilities, still "have insufficient security controls," says Gary Perkins, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm CISO Global. Additionally, many infrastructure facilities prioritize "operational ease of use rather than security," since many vendors often need to access the same equipment, says Andy Thompson, an offensive cybersecurity expert at CyberArk. But that can make the systems equally easy for attackers to exploit: freely available web tools allow anyone to generate lists of hardware connected to the public internet, like the Unitronics devices used by water companies. "Not making critical infrastructure easily accessible via the internet should be standard practice," Thompson says. apply tags__________ [180]« Newer [181]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [182]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Do you have a poll idea? (*) Yes, I will post in the comments ( ) No ( ) Cowboy Neal probably does (BUTTON) vote now [183]Read the 81 comments | 4599 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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