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OR [34]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 [35]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [36]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 20 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [37]× 174044663 story [38]China [39]Monthly Drop Hints That China's CO2 Emissions May Have Peaked in 2023 [40](carbonbrief.org) [41]5 Posted by msmash on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:03PM from the encouraging-feedback dept. CarbonBrief: China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions [42]fell by 3% in March 2024, ending a 14-month surge that began when the economy reopened after the nation's "zero-Covid" controls were lifted in December 2022. The new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures and commercial data, reinforces the view that China's emissions could have peaked in 2023. The drivers of the CO2 drop in March 2024 were expanding solar and wind generation, which covered 90% of the growth in electricity demand, as well as declining construction activity. Oil demand growth also ground to a halt, indicating that the post-Covid rebound may have run its course. A 2023 peak in China's CO2 emissions is possible if the buildout of clean energy sources is kept at the record levels seen last year. apply tags__________ 174044099 story [43]Bug [44]NYSE Investigating 'Technical Issue' That Showed Berkshire Hathaway Share Price Dropping 99% [45](nbcnews.com) [46]12 Posted by msmash on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:55AM from the how-about-that dept. The New York Stock Exchange said Monday it was investigating a "technical issue" that was [47]leading to large fluctuations in the prices of certain stocks including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. From a report: According to a notice posted on its website, the issue involved "limit up, limit down bands," which are designed to limit volatility. Some 50 stocks were affected, the website indicated, and trades in those companies was halted. NYSE trading data incorrectly showed so-called Class A shares of Berkshire down 99% from its price above $620,000 a share. apply tags__________ 174044031 story [48]AI [49]CEO of Zoom Wants AI Clones in Meetings [50](theverge.com) [51]48 Posted by msmash on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:47AM from the how-about-that dept. Zoom's CEO Eric Yuan predicts that AI will significantly transform the workplace, potentially ushering in a four-day workweek, he told The Verge in an interview. Yuan said Zoom is transitioning from a videoconferencing platform to a comprehensive collaboration suite called Zoom Workplace. He believes AI will [52]automate routine tasks such as attending meetings, reading emails, and making phone calls, enabling employees to dedicate time to more creative and meaningful work. The Verge adds: The Verge: I'm asking you which meetings do you look at and think you would hand off? Yuan: I started with the problem first, right? And last but not least, after the meeting is over, let's say I'm very busy and missed the meeting. I really don't understand what happened. That's one thing. Another thing for a very important meeting I missed, given I'm the CEO, they're probably going to postpone the meeting. The reason why is I probably need to make a decision. Given that I'm not there, they cannot move forward, so they have to reschedule. You look at all those problems. Let's assume AI is there. AI can understand my entire calendar, understand the context. Say you and I have a meeting -- just one click, and within five seconds, AI has already scheduled a meeting. At the same time, every morning I wake up, an AI will tell me, "Eric, you have five meetings scheduled today. You do not need to join four of the five. You only need to join one. You can send a digital version of yourself." For the one meeting I join, after the meeting is over, I can get all the summary and send it to the people who couldn't make it. I can make a better decision. Again, I can leverage the AI as my assistant and give me all kinds of input, just more than myself. That's the vision. apply tags__________ 174043727 story [53]Windows [54]Arm Targets 50% of Windows PC Market Share in Five Years, CEO Says [55](reuters.com) [56]28 Posted by msmash on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:06AM from the new-world-order dept. British chip designer Arm [57]expects to capture more than half of the Windows PC market within the next five years, CEO Rene Haas said in an interview. The company's optimism comes as Microsoft and its hardware partners gear up to introduce a new generation of AI-powered PCs running on Arm-designed chips, potentially reshaping the Intel-dominated industry. Haas attributed Microsoft's commitment to supporting Arm's technology through enhanced developer tools as a key factor in the anticipated market shift. apply tags__________ 174040893 story [58]AMD [59]AMD Unveils Ryzen AI and 9000 Series Processors, Plus Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot [60](betanews.com) [61]27 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:34AM from the in-the-chips dept. The highlight of AMD's presentation Sunday at Computex 2024 was "the introduction of AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series processors for laptops and the Ryzen 9000 Series for desktops," writes Slashdot reader [62]BrianFagioli (sharing his [63]report at Beta News): AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, designed for next-generation AI laptops, come with AMD's latest XDNA 2 architecture. This includes a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that delivers 50 TOPS of AI processing power, significantly enhancing the AI capabilities of laptops. Among the processors announced were the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which features 12 cores and 24 threads with a boost frequency of 5.1 GHz, and the Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10 cores and 20 threads, boosting up to 5.0 GHz... In the desktop segment, the Ryzen 9000 Series processors, based on the "Zen 5" architecture, demonstrated an average 16% improvement in IPC performance over their predecessors built on the "Zen 4" architecture. The Ryzen 9 9950X stands out with 16 cores and 32 threads, reaching up to 5.7 GHz boost frequency and equipped with 80MB of cache... AMD also reaffirmed its commitment to the AM4 platform by introducing the Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT processors. These models are compatible with existing AM4 motherboards, providing an economical upgrade path for users. The article adds that AMD also unveiled its Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot workstation graphics card — priced at $3,499 — "further broadening its impact on high-performance computing... "AMD also emphasized its strategic partnerships with leading OEMs such as Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, and MSI, who are set to launch systems powered by these new AMD processors." And there's also a software collaboration with Microsoft, reportedly "to enhance the capabilities of AI PCs, thus underscoring AMD's holistic approach to integrating AI into everyday computing." apply tags__________ 174040755 story [64]Security [65]Cybercriminal Posed as 'Helpful' Stack Overflow User To Recommend Malware Hosted on PyPi [66](bleepingcomputer.com) [67]37 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:34AM from the worst-answer dept. An anonytmous reader shared [68]a recent report from BleepingComputer: Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware — answering users' questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware... "We further noticed that a StackOverflow account 'EstAYA G' [was] exploiting the platform's community members seeking debugging help [[69]1, [70]2, [71]3] by directing them to install this malicious package as a 'solution' to their issue even though the 'solution' is unrelated to the questions posted by developers," explained Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma in the [72]Sonatype report. Sonatype's researcher "noticed that line 17 was laden with ...a bit too many whitespaces," according to the report, "in turn hiding code much further to the right which would be easy to miss, unless you notice the scroll bar. The command executes a base64-encoded payload..." And then, reports BleepingComputer... When deobfuscated, this command will download an executable named 'runtime.exe' from a remote site and execute it. This executable is actually a Python program converted into an .exe that acts as an information-stealing malware to harvest cookies, passwords, browser history, credit cards, and other data from web browsers. It also appears to search through documents for specific phrases and, if found, steal the data as well. All of this information is then sent back to the attacker, who can sell it on dark web markets or use it to breach further accounts owned by the victim. apply tags__________ 174040177 story [73]Security [74]Law Student Claims Unfair Discipline After He Reported a Data Breach [75](computerweekly.com) [76]52 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:36PM from the blaming-the-messenger dept. An anonymous Slashdot reader shared [77]this report from Computer Weekly: A former student at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) says he was hauled over the coals by the college for having acted responsibly and "with integrity" in reporting a security blunder that [78]left sensitive information about students exposed. Bartek Wytrzyszczewski faced misconduct proceedings after alerting the college to a data breach exposing sensitive information on hundreds of past and present ICCA students... The ICCA, which offers training to future barristers, informed data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office of a breach "experienced" in August 2023 after Wytrzyszczewski alerted the college that sensitive files on nearly 800 students were accessible to other college users via the ICCA's web portal. The breach saw personal data such as email addresses, phone numbers and academic information — including exam marks and previous institutions attended — accessible to students at the college. Students using the ICCA's web portal were also able to access ID photos, as well as student ID numbers and sensitive data, such as health records, visa status and information as to whether they were pregnant or had children... After the college secured a written undertaking from Wytrzyszczewski not to disclose any of the information he had discovered, it launched misconduct proceedings against him. He had stumbled across the files in error, he said, and viewed a significant number to ensure he could report their contents with accuracy. "The panel cleared Wytrzyszczewski and found it had no jurisdiction to hear the matter," according to the article. But he "said the experience caused him to unenroll from the ICCA's course and restart his training at another provider." apply tags__________ 174039193 story [79]AI [80]AI Researchers Analyze Similarities of Scarlett Johanssson's Voice to OpenAI's 'Sky' [81](npr.org) [82]65 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @09:34PM from the Her dept. AI models can evaluate how similar voices are to each other. So NPR asked forensic voice experts at Arizona State University to [83]compare the voice and speech patterns of OpenAI's "Sky" to Scarlett Johansson's... The researchers measured Sky, based on audio from demos OpenAI delivered last week, against the voices of around 600 professional actresses. They found that Johansson's voice is more similar to Sky than 98% of the other actresses. Yet she wasn't always the top hit in the multiple AI models that scanned the Sky voice. The researchers found that Sky was also reminiscent of other Hollywood stars, including Anne Hathaway and Keri Russell. The analysis of Sky often rated Hathaway and Russell as being even more similar to the AI than Johansson. The lab study shows that the voices of Sky and Johansson have undeniable commonalities — something many listeners believed, and that now can be supported by statistical evidence, according to Arizona State University computer scientist Visar Berisha, who led the voice analysis in the school's College of Health Solutions and the College of Engineering. "Our analysis shows that the two voices are similar but likely not identical," Berisha said... OpenAI maintains that Sky was not created with Johansson in mind, saying it was never meant to mimic the famous actress. "It's not her voice. It's not supposed to be. I'm sorry for the confusion. Clearly you think it is," Altman [84]said at a conference this week. He said whether one voice is really similar to another will always be the subject of debate. apply tags__________ 174039037 story [85]Biotech [86]Male Birth Control Gel Continues to Show Promise [87](gizmodo.com) [88]100 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @07:38PM from the on-the-gel dept. Gizmodo reports there's been [89]progress on a male birth-control gel "being developed with the help of several organizations, including the U.S. government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the larger NIH." It's now being tested in a larger-scale Phase IIB trial, which involves around 400 couples. [Five milliliters of gel — about a teaspon — is applied to each shoulder blade once a day, [90]reports NBC News.] That trial is still ongoing, but researchers have already begun to pore through some of the available data, which has provided encouraging results. In the summer of 2022, for instance, Diana Blithe, chief of the NICHD's Contraceptive Development Program, reported that the NES/T gel's efficacy rate so far [91]appeared to be on par or even better than contraceptive hormonal options for women... The findings are still preliminary, and it will take more time for the full Phase II data to be collected and analyzed. But Blithe and her team have been encouraged by everything they've seen to date. In the team's early assessments, the gel appears to be both effective and safe, with minimal side effects for men taking it... Blithe and her colleagues are set to meet with the FDA next year about the steps needed to begin a larger Phase III trial and are still seeking a commercial partner to help bring the NES/T gel to the market. Initial findings also showed that the contraceptive worked faster than expected, Blithe said, [92]according to NBC News. They add that at least three other companies are also working on male birth control: Also at the Boston conference on Sunday, YourChoice Therapeutics said a very small trial in the U.K. — just 16 men — showed that its nonhormonal pill, YCT-529, was safe and free of side effects. The San Francisco company's nonhormonal pill works by blocking the vitamin A receptor important for male fertility.YourChoice is planning a larger trial, according to CEO Akash Bakshi. apply tags__________ 174038903 story [93]Input Devices [94]8BitDo's Reimagining of IBM's Model-M Keyboard Draws Reactions Online [95](omgubuntu.co.uk) [96]59 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @06:38PM from the buckling-spring-time dept. "Few computer keyboards are as iconic, as influential, or as beige as the IBM Model-M," [97]writes the blog OMG Ubuntu adding that it's "no surprise then that it's been given [98]a modern reimagining by 8BitDo." Following on from their Nintendo NES and Famicom and Commodore 64 homages, 8BitDo has unveiled its latest retro-inspired mechanical keyboard. This one pays tribute to a true computing classic: the [99]IBM Model-M keyboard. Lest anyone familiar with the real thing get too excited I'll mention up front that 8BitDo's Keyboard-M is a mechanical keyboard, using Kailh Box V2 white switches (swappable, of course) and not the buckling spring mechanism synonymous with the original. On Linux you can enable a [100]buckling spring sound effect for every key press though, should you buy this and want the clatter to accompany it...! Like 8BitDo's other retro keyboards you can use this over Bluetooth, 2.4G wireless (USB adapter sits underneath), or wired. It has a built-in rechargeable 2000mAh Li-on battery that's good for 200 hours between charges. "It certainly looks the business," [101]writes the Verge, "especially with the slick new [102]wireless numpad / calculator combo pad 8BitDo will sell alongside it for another $44.99." And [103]Ars Technica adds that "The M Edition's color scheme, chunkier build, and typeface selection, including on the Tab key with arrows and elsewhere, are nods to IBM's Model M," (noting that the Model M first succeeded the Model F keyboard in 1985). "Of course, the keyboard's naming, and the IBM behemoth and floppy disks strategically placed in marketing images, are notes of that, too..." "The M Edition also comes with the detachable A and B "Super Buttons" that connect to the keyboard via a 3.5 mm jack and are programmable without software." "The paint job is pretty faithful to the original," [104]notes Windows Central, "with a combination of gray and white throughout, right down to the accurately recreated LED status panel in the right-hand corner. There are even two key caps with an IBM-inspired blue font on them. It's just tremendous." Ars Technica [105]offers this advice to unconvinced purists: If you want a real Model M, there's a market of found and restored models available online and in thrift stores and electronics stores. For a modern spin, like USB ports and Mac support, [106]Unicomp also makes new Model M keyboards that are truer to the original IBM design, particularly in their use of buckling spring switches. apply tags__________ 174038219 story [107]Transportation [108]Amazon's Drones Gets Key Approval, Can Now Fly Farther to More Customers [109](apnews.com) [110]18 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:10PM from the sky-high-expectations dept. The Associated Press reports that U.S. federal regulators "have given Amazon [111]key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program, the company announced Thursday." In a [112]blog post published on its website, Seattle-based Amazon said that the Federal Aviation Administration has given its Prime Air delivery service the OK to operate drones "beyond visual line of sight," removing a barrier that has prevented its drones from traveling longer distances. With the approval, Amazon pilots can now operate drones remotely without seeing it with their own eyes. An FAA spokesperson said the approval applies to College Station, Texas, where the company launched drone deliveries in late 2022. Amazon said its planning to immediately scale its operations in that city in an effort to reach customers in more densely populated areas. It says the approval from regulators also "lays the foundation" to scale its operations to more locations around the country... Amazon, which has sought this permission for years, said it received approval from regulators after developing a strategy that ensures its drones could detect and avoid obstacles in the air. Furthermore, the company said it submitted other engineering information to the FAA and conducted flight demonstrations in front of federal inspectors. Those demonstrations were also done "in the presence of real planes, helicopters, and a hot air balloon to demonstrate how the drone safely navigated away from each of them," Amazon said. The article also points out that by the end of the decade, Amazon "has a goal of delivering 500 million packages by drone every year." To achieve this, Amazon said in its [113]blog post, "we knew we had to design a system capable of serving highly populated areas and that was safer than driving to the store." apply tags__________ 174037691 story [114]Medicine [115]Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Lower Sales of Junk Food [116](yahoo.com) [117]83 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @04:10PM from the end-of-obesity dept. Will appetite-suppressing drugs hurt the sugar industry? Executives from Walmart warned that Ozempic and Zepbound "are impacting food sales," [118]reports Bloomberg, "and multiple analyst surveys have showed that less-hungry customers are spending fewer dollars at grocery stores and restaurants." The drugs, which cut cravings, will result in a decline in calorie consumption in the US of 1.5% to 2.5% by 2035, with a drop of as much as 5% in the consumption of sweets such as baked goods, confectionery and soda, Morgan Stanley analysts including Pamela Kaufman said in a report last month. Morgan Stanley forecast about a 10th of the US population will be on the so-called GLP-1 medications — originally designed to treat diabetes but being used by many as a powerful weight-loss tool — by 2035... Even with tight supplies and sky-high prices limiting uptake of the medications, sales of GLP-1 drugs for both obesity and diabetes already exceeded $19 billion in 2023. The global obesity market alone could top $100 billion by the end of the decade, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates, while Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts $80 billion of sales. More than 60% of US consumers taking the drugs said they had cut back on sweet treats like candy, ice cream and baked goods, and many said they had either significantly — or entirely — stopped eating those products, according to Morgan Stanley. apply tags__________ 174037411 story [119]Microsoft [120]Is the New 'Recall' Feature in Windows a Security and Privacy Nightmare? [121](thecyberexpress.com) [122]108 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:03PM from the total-Recall dept. Slashdot reader [123]storagedude shares [124]a provocative post from the cybersecurity news blog of Cyble Inc. (a [125]Ycombinator-backed company promising "AI-powered actionable threat intelligence"). The post delves into concerns that the new "Recall" feature planned for Windows (on upcoming Copilot+ PCs) is "a security and privacy nightmare." Copilot Recall will be enabled by default and will capture frequent screenshots, or "snapshots," of a user's activity and store them in a local database tied to the user account. The potential for exposure of personal and sensitive data through the new feature has alarmed security and privacy advocates and even sparked a [126]UK inquiry into the issue. In a long [127]Mastodon thread on the new feature, Windows security researcher Kevin Beaumont wrote, "I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this is the dumbest cybersecurity move in a decade. Good luck to my parents safely using their PC." In a [128]blog post on Recall security and privacy, Microsoft said that processing and storage are done only on the local device and encrypted, but even Microsoft's own explanations raise concerns: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry." Security and privacy advocates take issue with assertions that the data is stored securely on the local device. If someone has a user's password or if a court orders that data be turned over for legal or law enforcement purposes, the amount of data exposed could be much greater with Recall than would otherwise be exposed... And hackers, malware and infostealers will have access to vastly more data than they would without Recall. Beaumont said the screenshots are stored in a SQLite database, "and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and [129]can be stolen.... Recall enables threat actors to automate scraping everything you've ever looked at within seconds." Beaumont's LinkedIn [130]profile and [131]blog say that starting in 2020 he worked at Microsoft for nearly a year as a senior threat intelligence analyst. And now Beaumont's Mastodon post is also raising other concerns (according to Cyble's blog post): * "Sensitive data deleted by users will still be saved in Recall screenshots... 'If you or a friend use disappearing messages in WhatsApp, Signal etc, it is recorded regardless.'" * "Beaumont also questioned Microsoft's assertion that all this is done locally." The blog post also notes that Leslie Carhart, Director of Incident Response at Dragos, had this reaction to Beaumont's post. "The outrage and disbelief are warranted." apply tags__________ 174036973 story [132]Education [133]College-Level Minecraft-Based CS Courses Approved for US High School Students [134]43 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:52PM from the yours-and-Minecraft dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [135]theodp writes: "This is truly game-changing news!" exclaims Minecraft Education's Laylah Bulman in a LinkedIn post targeting high school CS educators. "We're thrilled to announce that [136]the AP Computer Science Principles with Minecraft and MakeCode Curriculum has officially been approved by The College Board! And we are offering free professional learning for our inaugural cohort this summer...! "Minecraft's highly engaging environment makes complex coding concepts relatable and fun, fostering a deeper understanding and encouraging broader participation. Ready to empower your students? Don't miss this opportunity!" Recent Edsurge articles (sponsored by Minecraft Education) touted how Minecraft has found its way into computer science and other curricula in [137]New York City and [138]Broward County (Florida), two of the nation's largest school districts... [139]Microsoft-backed nonprofit Code.org has also [140]pushed Minecraft-themed CS tutorials into the nation's classrooms via its wildly-popular annual [141]Hour of Code events [142]since 2015, a year after Microsoft [143]paid $2.5B to buy Minecraft. ("The best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft," declared Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the time). Minecraft-related learning initiatives have also received millions of dollars in grants from the [144]U.S. Department of Education and the [145]National Science Foundation. apply tags__________ 174025843 story [146]Power [147]A Simple Fix Could Double the Size of the U.S. Electricity Grid [148](msn.com) [149]180 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:34PM from the power-plays dept. "There is one big thing holding the United States back from a pollution-free electricity grid running on wind, solar and battery power," [150]writes the Washington Post. "Not enough power lines... the nation's sagging, out-of-date power lines are being overwhelmed — slowing the transition to clean energy and the fight against climate change." But experts say that there is a remarkably simple fix: installing new wires on the high-voltage lines that already carry power hundreds of miles across the United States. Just upgrading those wires, new [151]reports [152]show, could double the amount of power that can flow through America's electricity grid... Most of America's lines are wired with a technology that has been around since the early 1900s — a core steel wire surrounded by strands of aluminum. When those old wires heat up — whether from power passing through them or warm outdoor temperatures — they sag. Too much sag in a transmission line can be dangerous, causing fires or outages. As a result, grid operators have to be careful not to allow too much power through the lines. But a couple of decades ago, engineers designed a new type of wire: a core made of carbon fiber, surrounded by trapezoidal pieces of aluminum. Those new, carbon-fiber wires don't sag as much in the heat. That means that they can take up to double the amount of power as the old lines. According to the recent study from researchers at UC-Berkeley and GridLab, replacing these older steel wires could provide up to 80 percent of the new transmission needed on the electricity grid — without building anything new. It could also cost half as much as building an entirely new line and avoid the headaches of trying to get every state, city and even landowner along the route to agree to a new project... If stringing new lines is so easy — and cheap — why hasn't it been done already? Part of the problem, experts say, is that utilities profit more from big infrastructure projects. Routine maintenance or larger-scale upgrades of the electricity grid don't help utilities make a lot of cash compared with building new transmission lines... Duncan Callaway, a professor of energy and resources at UC-Berkeley and one of the authors of the recent study, said that many transmission engineers are not used to thinking of rewiring as one of their tools. "But it's a much faster way," he said. Some changes are already underway to encourage this approach. For a long time, utilities had to undergo lengthy environmental reviews if they were rewiring a line longer than 20 miles. 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