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   [35]Education

[36]New Michigan Law Requires High Schools to Offer CS Classes
[37](michigan.gov)

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:34PM from the
   if-else-loop dept.
   The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the
   state to [38]offer at least one computer science course to its
   students. "This bill aligns Michigan with a majority of the country,"
   according to the state's announcement, which says the bill "advances
   technological literacy" and ensures their students "are well-equipped
   with the critical thinking skills necessary for success in the
   workforce."
   Slashdot reader [39]theodp writes: From the Michigan [40]House Fiscal
   Agency Analysis: "Supporters of the bill say that increasing access to
   computer science courses for students in schools should be a priority
   of the state in order to ensure that students can compete for the types
   of jobs that have good pay and will be needed in the coming decades."
   That analysis goes on to report that testifying in favor of the bill
   were tech-giant backed nonprofit [41]Code.org (Microsoft is a $30
   million Code.org donor), Amazon and AWS (Amazon is a $30+ million
   Code.org donor), the tech-supported [42]Computer Science Teachers
   Association (CSTA), and the lobbying organization [43]TechNet, whose
   members include Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and OpenAI).
   It's [44]not clear how many high schools in Michigan are already
   teaching CS courses, but this still raises a [45]popular [46]question
   for discussion. Should high schools be required to teach at least one
   CS course?

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   [47]Linux

[48]Linux 6.14 Brings Some Systems Faster Suspend and Resume
[49](phoronix.com) [50]11

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:34AM from the
   Linux-lifestyles dept.
   Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix
   [51]spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which "will allow for
   faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems."
   Wikipedia [52]defines ACPI as "an open standard that operating systems
   can use to discover and configure computer hardware components" for
   things like power management and putting unused hardware components to
   sleep. Phoronix reports: The ACPI change worth highlighting for Linux
   6.14 is switching from msleep() to usleep_range() within the
   acpi_os_sleep() call in the kernel. This reduces spurious sleep time
   due to timer inaccuracy. Linux ACPI/PM maintainer Rafael Wysocki of
   Intel who authored this change noted that it could "spectacularly"
   reduce the duration of system suspend and resume transitions on some
   systems...
   Rafael explained in [53]the patch making the sleep change:
   "The extra delay added by msleep() to the sleep time value passed to it
   can be significant, roughly between 1.5 ns on systems with HZ = 1000
   and as much as 15 ms on systems with HZ = 100, which is hardly
   acceptable, at least for small sleep time values."
   One [54]2022 bug report complained a Dell XPS 13 using Thunderbolt took
   "a full 8 seconds to suspend and a full 8 seconds to resume even though
   no physical devices are connected." In November an Intel engineer
   posted on the kernel mailing list that the fix gave a Dell XPS 13 [55]a
   42% improvement in kernel resume time (from 1943ms to 1127ms).

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   [56]EU

[57]Europe Made More Electricity from Solar Than Coal In 2024
[58](theguardian.com) [59]27

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:34AM from the
   here-comes-the-sun dept.
   Long-time Slashdot reader [60]AmiMoJo shared [61]this report from the
   Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU
   last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a "milestone"
   for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU's
   electricity in 2024, while coal-burning power plants generated 10%,
   according to [62]data from climate thinktank Ember...
   Coal-burning in the EU power sector peaked in 2003 and has fallen by
   68% since then. At the same time, clean sources of electricity have
   boomed. Wind and solar energy rose to 29% of EU electricity generation
   in 2024, while hydropower and nuclear energy continued to rebound from
   the 2022 lows...
   The report found the share of coal fell in 16 of the 17 countries that
   still used it in 2024. It said the fuel has become "marginal or absent"
   in most systems. Germany and Poland, the two countries that burn most
   of the EU's coal, were among those where there was a shift to cleaner
   sources of energy. The share of coal in Germany's electricity grid fell
   17% year-on-year, while in Poland it dropped8%, the report found.
   Fossil gas also fell for the fifth year in a row, declining in 14 of
   the 26 countries, according to the article, and now accounting for just
   16% of the electricity mix.
   "The findings come despite a small increase in electricity demand after
   two years of steep decline brought on by Russia's full-scale invasion
   of Ukraine."

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   [63]United States

[64]New CIA Director Touts 'Low Confidence' Assessment About Covid Lab Leak
Theory [65](cnn.com) [66]87

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:34AM from the
   here-we-go-again dept.
   Slashdot reader [67]DevNull127 writes: "Every US intelligence agency
   still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a
   biological weapon," [68]CNN reported today.
   But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than
   Covid-19 originating in wild animal meat from the Wuhan Market)? "The
   agency has for years said it did not have enough information to
   determine which origin theory was more likely."
   CNN notes there's suddenly been a new announcement "just days" after
   the CIA's new director took the reins — former lawyer turned Republican
   House Representative John Ratcliffe. While the market-origin theory
   remains a possibility according to the CIA, CNN notes that Ratcliffe
   himself "has long favored the theory that the pandemic originated from
   research being done in China and vowed in an interview published in
   Breitbart on Thursday that he would make the issue a Day 1 priority."
   "We have low confidence in this judgement," the CIA says in the
   complete text of its announcement, "and will continue to evaluate any
   available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source
   information that could change CIA's assessment."
   After speaking to a U.S. official, CNN added these details about the
   assessment: It was not made based on new intelligence gathered by the
   US government — officials have long said such intelligence is unlikely
   to surface so many years later — and instead was reached after a review
   of existing information.
   "CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin
   scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible," a CIA
   spokesperson said in a statement Saturday.
   CNN adds that "[69]Many scientists believe the virus occurred naturally
   in animals and spread to humans in an outbreak at a market in Wuhan,
   China...."

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   [70]GNU is Not Unix

[71]FSF: Meta's License for Its Llama 3.1 AI Model 'is Not a Free Software
License' [72](fsf.org) [73]24

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:34AM from the
   that's-not-good-hackers dept.
   July saw the news that Meta had [74]launched a powerful open-source AI
   model, Llama 3.1.
   But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license
   agreement, and announced this week that "this [75]is not a free
   software license and you should not use it, nor any software released
   under it." Not only does it deny users their freedom, but it also
   purports to hand over powers to the licensors that should only be
   exercised through lawmaking by democratically-elected governments.
   Moreover, it has been applied by Meta to a machine-learning (ML)
   application, even though the license completely fails to address
   software freedom challenges inherent in such applications....
   We decided to review the Llama license because it is being applied to
   an ML application and model, while at the same time being [76]presented
   by Meta as if it grants users a degree of software freedom. This is
   certainly not the case, and we want the free software community to have
   clarity on this.
   In other news, the FSF also [77]announced the winner of the logo
   contest for their [78]big upcoming 40th anniversary celebration.

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   [79]Books

[80]Bill Gates Began the Altair BASIC Code in His Head While Hiking as a
Teenager [81](msn.com) [82]78

   Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:04AM from the
   road-behind dept.
   Friday Bill Gates [83]shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir
   [84]Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal,
   the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12
   (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine).
   Gates remembers forming "a sort of splinter group" from the Boy Scouts
   when he was 13 with a group of boys who "wanted more freedom and more
   risk" and took long hikes around Seattle, travelling hundreds of miles
   together on hikes as long as "seven days or more." (His favorite
   breakfast dish was Oscar Mayer Smokie Links.) But he also remembers
   another group of friends — Kent, Rick, and... Paul — who connected to a
   mainframe computer from a phone line at their private school. Both
   hiking and programming "felt like an adventure... exploring new worlds,
   traveling to places even most adults couldn't reach."
   Like hiking, programming fit me because it allowed me to define my own
   measure of success, and it seemed limitless, not determined by how fast
   I could run or how far I could throw. The logic, focus and stamina
   needed to write long, complicated programs came naturally to me. Unlike
   in hiking, among that group of friends, I was the leader.
   When Gates' school got a (DEC) PDP-8 — which cost $8,500 — "For a
   challenge, I decided I would try to write a version of the Basic
   programming language for the new computer..." And Gates remembers a
   long hike where "I silently honed my code" for its formula evaluator: I
   slimmed it down more, like whittling little pieces off a stick to
   sharpen the point. What I made seemed efficient and pleasingly simple.
   It was by far the best code I had ever written...
   By the time school started again in the fall, whoever had lent us the
   PDP-8 had reclaimed it. I never finished my Basic project. But the code
   I wrote on that hike, my formula evaluator — and its beauty — stayed
   with me. Three and a half years later, I was a sophomore in college not
   sure of my path in life when Paul Allen, one of my Lakeside friends,
   burst into my dorm room with news of a groundbreaking computer. I knew
   we could write a Basic language for it; we had a head start.
   Gates typed his code from that hike, "and with that planted the seed of
   what would become one of the world's largest companies and the
   beginning of a new industry."
   Gates cites Richard Feynman's description of the excitement and
   pleasure of "finding the thing out" — the reward for "all of the
   disciplined thinking and hard work." And he remembers his teenaged
   years as "intensely driven by the love of what I was learning, accruing
   expertise just when it was needed: at the dawn of the personal
   computer."

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   [85]Social Networks

[86]Oracle and US Investors (Including Microsoft) Discuss Taking Control of
TikTok in the US [87](npr.org) [88]44

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @09:34PM from the
   art-of-the-deal dept.
   A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. "involves tapping software
   company Oracle and a group of outside investors," [89]reports NPR, "to
   effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to
   two people with direct knowledge of the talks..."
   "[P]otential investors who are engaged in the talks include Microsoft."
   Under the deal now being negotiated by the White House, TikTok's
   China-based owner ByteDance would retain a minority stake in the
   company, but the app's algorithm, data collection and software updates
   will be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of
   TikTok's web infrastructure... "The goal is for Oracle to effectively
   monitor and provide oversight with what is going on with TikTok," said
   the person directly involved in the talks, who was not authorized to
   speak publicly about the deliberations. "ByteDance wouldn't completely
   go away, but it would minimize Chinese ownership...." Officials from
   Oracle and the White House held a meeting on Friday about a potential
   deal, and another meeting has been scheduled for next week, according
   to the source involved in the discussions, who said Oracle is
   interested in a TikTok stake "in the tens of billions," but the rest of
   the deal is in flux...
   Under a law [90]passed by Congress and [91]upheld by the Supreme Court,
   TikTok must execute what is known as "qualified divestiture" from
   ByteDance in order to stay in business in the U.S... A congressional
   staffer involved in talks about TikTok's future, who was not authorized
   to speak publicly, said binding legal agreements from the White House
   ensuring ByteDance cannot covertly manipulate the app will prove
   critical in winning lawmakers' approval. "A key part is showing there
   is no operational relationship with ByteDance, that they do not have
   control," the Congressional staffer said. "There needs to be no
   backdoors where China can potentially gain access...."
   Chinese regulators, who have for years opposed the selling of TikTok,
   recently signaled that they would not stand in the way of a TikTok
   ownership change, saying acquisitions "should be independently decided
   by the enterprises and based on market principles." The statement, at
   first, does not seem to say much, but negotiators in the White House
   believe it indicates that Beijing is not planning to block a deal that
   gives American investors a majority-stake position in the company.
   "Meanwhile, Apple and Google still have not returned TikTok to app
   stores..."

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   [92]Power

[93]Could New Linux Code Cut Data Center Energy Use By 30%?
[94](datacenterdynamics.com) [95]51

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:34PM from the
   loving-Linux dept.
   Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe
   changing 30 lines of code in Linux "could cut energy use at some data
   centers by up to 30 percent," [96]according to the site Data Centre
   Dynamics.
   It's the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux "is
   the most widely used OS for data center servers," according to the
   article: The team tested their solution's effectiveness and submitted
   it to Linux for consideration, and the code was published this month as
   part of Linux's newest kernel, release version 6.13. "All these big
   companies — Amazon, Google, Meta — use Linux in some capacity, but
   they're very picky about how they decide to use it," said Martin
   Karsten [professor of Computer Science in the Waterloo's Math Faculty].
   "If they choose to 'switch on' our method in their data centers, it
   could save gigawatt hours of energy worldwide. Almost every single
   service request that happens on the Internet could be positively
   affected by this."
   The University of Waterloo is building a green computer server room as
   part of its new mathematics building, and Karsten believes
   sustainability research must be a priority for computer scientists. "We
   all have a part to play in building a greener future," he said. The
   Linux Foundation, which oversees the development of the Linux OS, is a
   founder member of the [97]Green Software Foundation, an organization
   set up to look at ways of developing "green software" — code that
   reduces energy consumption.
   Karsten "teamed up with Joe Damato, distinguished engineer at Fastly"
   to develop the 30 lines of code, according to [98]an announcement from
   the university. "The Linux kernel code addition developed by Karsten
   and Damato was based on research [99]published in ACM SIGMETRICS
   Performance Evaluation Review" (by Karsten and grad student Peter Cai).
   Their paper "reviews the performance characteristics of network stack
   processing for communication-heavy server applications," devising an
   "indirect methodology" to "identify and quantify the direct and
   indirect costs of asynchronous hardware interrupt requests (IRQ) as a
   major source of overhead...
   "Based on these findings, a small modification of a vanilla Linux
   system is devised that improves the efficiency and performance of
   traditional kernel-based networking significantly, resulting in up to
   45% increased throughput..."

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   [100]Space

[101]Report of Newly-Discovered Asteroid Turns Out to Be... a Tesla Roadster
[102](usatoday.com) [103]63

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:34PM from the
   there's-a-Starman-waiting-in-the-sky dept.
   Founded in 1947, the [104]Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide
   authority "for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other
   small bodies in the solar system," [105]reports USA Today.
   Unfortunately, "What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly
   discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster," The Minor
   Planet Center didn't initially consider the possibility when the
   organization [106]announced the discovery on Jan. 2 of the unusual
   asteroid, complete with an official name: 2018 CN41. But less than 17
   hours later, the Minor Planet Center issued an [107]editorial notice
   that it would be deleting 2018 CN41 from its records... According to
   the Minor Planet Center's notice regarding the deletion, turns out the
   object was the Roadster, along with the Falcon Heavy rocket's upper
   stage.

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   [108]Social Networks

[109]Pixelfed Creator Crowdfunds More Capacity, Plus Open Source Alternatives
to TikTok and WhatsApp [110](techcrunch.com) [111]8

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:34PM from the
   friend-requests dept.
   An anonymous reader shared [112]this report from TechCrunch: The
   developer behind [113]Pixelfed, [114]Loops, and [115]Sup, open source
   alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now
   [116]raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps' further
   development. The trio is part of the growing open social web, also
   known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used
   by X alternative Mastodon... [and] challenge Meta's social media
   empire... "Help us put control back into the hands of the people!"
   [Daniel Supernault, the Canadian-based developer behind the federated
   apps] said in a post [117]on Mastodon where he announced the
   [118]Kickstarter's Thursday launch.
   As of the time of writing, the campaign has raised $58,383 so far.
   While the goal on the Kickstarter site has been surpassed, Supernault
   said that he hopes to raise $1 million or more so he can hire a small
   team... A fourth project, [119]PubKit, is also a part of these efforts,
   offering a toolset to support developers building in the fediverse...
   The stretch goal of the Kickstarter campaign is to register the
   Pixelfed Foundation as a not-for-profit and grow its team beyond
   volunteers. This could help address the issue with Supernault being a
   single point of failure for the project... Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko
   made a similar decision [120]earlier this month to transition to a
   nonprofit structure. If successful, the campaign would also fund a
   blogging app as an alternative to Tumblr or LiveJournal at some point
   in the future.
   The funds will also help the apps manage the influx of new users. On
   [121]Pixelfed.social, the main Pixelfed instance, (like Mastodon,
   anyone can run a Pixelfed server), there are now more than 200,000
   users, thanks in part to the mobile app's launch, according to the
   campaign details shared with TechCrunch. The server is also now the
   second-largest in the fediverse, behind only Mastodon.social, according
   to network statistics from [122]FediDB. New funds will help expand the
   storage, CDNs, and compute power needed for the growing user base and
   accelerate development. In addition, they'll help Supernault dedicate
   more of his time to the apps and the fediverse as a whole while also
   expanding the moderation, security, privacy, and safety programs that
   social apps need.
   As a part of its efforts, Supernault also wants to introduce E2E
   encryption to the fediverse.
   [123]The Kickstarter campaign promises "authentic sharing reimagined,"
   calling the apps "Beautiful sharing platforms that puts you first. No
   ads, no algorithms, no tracking — just pure photography and authentic
   connections... More Privacy, More Safety. More Variety. "
   Pixelfed/Loops/Sup/Pubkit isn't a ambitious dream or vaporware —
   they're here today — and we need your support to continue our mission
   and shoot for the moon to be the best social communication platform in
   the world.... We're following the both the [124]Digital Platform
   Charter of Rights & [125]Ethical Web Principles of the W3C for all of
   our projects as guidelines to building platforms that help people and
   provide a positive social benefit.
   The campaign's page says they're building "a future where social
   networking respects your privacy, values your freedom, and prioritizes
   your safety."

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   [126]Power

[127]Heat Pumps Are Now Outselling Gas Furnaces In America
[128](cleantechnica.com) [129]111

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:34PM from the
   power-plays dept.
   [130]CleanTechnicareports that last year Americans "bought [131]37%
   more air source heat pumps than the next most popular heating appliance
   — gas furnaces."
   And Americans bought 21% more heat pumps than they did in 2023.
   [132]Canary Media is quick to point out that in many homes, more than
   one heat pump is required, so that data should be interpreted with that
   in mind. Typically, a home uses only one furnace. Nevertheless, the
   trend for heat pumps is up. Russell Unger, the head of decarbonizing
   buildings at RMI, said, "There's just been this long term, consistent
   trend."
   It's easy to understand why [133]heat pumps are gaining in popularity.
   In addition to providing heated air in the winter and cool air in the
   summer, they are far more efficient than conventional heat sources —
   delivering three to four times more heat per dollar spent than oil- or
   gas-fired heating equipment or old fashioned electric baseboard heat.
   They also create far less carbon pollution. How much less depends on
   the [134]source of electricity in the local area,
   Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [135]AmiMoJo for sharing the news.

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   [136]AI

[137]'Copilot' Price Hike for Microsoft 365 Called 'Total Disaster' with
Overwhelmingly Negative Response [138](zdnet.com) [139]108

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:34PM from the
   Microsoft-is-my-copilot dept.
   ZDNET's senior editor sees [140]an "overwhelmingly negative" response
   to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying
   subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first
   price hike in more than 12 years, "they made it a 30% price increase" —
   going from $10 a month to $13 a month — "and blamed it all on
   artificial intelligence." Bad idea. Why? Because...
   No one wants to pay for AI...
   If you ask Copilot in Word to write something for you, the results will
   be about what you'd expect from an enthusiastic summer intern. You
   might fare better if you ask Copilot to turn a folder full of photos
   into a PowerPoint presentation. But is that task really such a
   challenge...?
   The announcement was bungled, too... I learned about the new price
   thanks to a pop-up message on my Android phone... It could be worse, I
   suppose. Just ask the French and Spanish subscribers who got a similar
   pop-up message telling them their [141]price had gone from €10 a month
   to €13,000. (Those pesky decimals.) Oh, and I've lost count of the
   number of people who were baffled and angry that Microsoft had forcibly
   installed the Copilot app on their devices. It was just a rebranding of
   the old Microsoft 365 app with the new name and logo, but in my case it
   was days later before I received yet another pop-up message telling me
   about the change...
   [T]hey turned the feature on for everyone and gave Word users a
   well-hidden checkbox that reads Enable Copilot. The feature is on by
   default, so you have to clear the checkbox to make it go away. As for
   the other Office apps? "Uh, we'll get around to giving you a button to
   turn it off next month. Maybe." Seriously, the [142]support page that
   explains where you can find that box in Word says, "We're working on
   adding the Enable Copilot checkbox to Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint on
   Windows devices and to Excel and PowerPoint on Mac devices. That is
   tentatively scheduled to happen in February 2025." Until the Enable
   Copilot button is available, you can't disable Copilot.
   ZDNET's senior editor concludes it's a naked grab for cash, adding "I
   could plug the numbers into Excel and tell you about it, but let's have
   Copilot explain instead."
   Prompt: If I have 84 million subscribers who pay me $10 a month, and I
   increase their monthly fee by $3 a month each, how much extra revenue
   will I make each year?
   Copilot describes the calculation, concluding with "You would make an
   additional $3.024 billion per year from this fee increase." Copilot
   then posts two emojis — a bag of money, and a stock chart with the line
   going up.

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   [143]Transportation

[144]EV Maker Canoo 'Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas' [145](sfgate.com)
[146]64

   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @01:34PM from the
   all-hat-and-no-cattle dept.
   2021: "[147]Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric
   Pickup"
   2025: Canoo "[148]Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas"
   "Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash
   burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over
   $300 million..." [149]reports AutoWeek. "It was able to deliver small
   batches of vans to a few customers, but apparently remained distant
   from anything approaching volume production."
   "Back in 2020, electric vehicle maker Canoo snagged a $2.4 billion
   valuation before it had shipped a single car," [150]remembers SFGate.
   "Now, just months after yanking its headquarters from Los Angeles
   County to Texas, the company [151]has gone belly-up." In its four-year
   span as a public company, Canoo battled investor lawsuits, Securities
   and Exchange Commission charges, [152]executive departures and a mixed
   reception of its cars. Auto tech blogger Steven Symes recently
   [153]likened Canoo's cargo-style van to an "eraser on wheels."
   "Canoo is the latest EV startup to go bankrupt after merging with a
   special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) as a shortcut to going
   public," [154]notes TechCrunch. "Electric Last Mile Solutions was the
   first [155]in June 2022. But since then, [156]Fisker, [157]Lordstown
   Motors, [158]Proterra, [159]Lion Electric, and [160]Arrival all filed
   for different levels of bankruptcy protection in their various home
   countries." In the years since it went public, [Canoo] made a small
   number of its bubbly electric vans and handed them over to partners —
   some paying — willing to trial the vehicles. The U.S. Postal Service,
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[162]People are Hawking TikTok-Loading Phones for Thousands on eBay, Facebook
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   Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 25, 2025 @12:34PM from the
   TikTokker-born-every-minute dept.
   TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores,
   [165]reports CBS News. So "Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling
   phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars
   online." The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas
   Matthews "listed an iPhone 14 Plus with TikTok for $10,000. As of
   Friday, [166]Matthews said his highest bid was for $4,550."
   Another example [167]from The New York Times: An information technology
   engineer, Mr. Gustab listed his iPhone 15 Pro with TikTok downloaded
   onto it for $3,000 on Facebook Marketplace. That's about three times
   the cost of a brand-new iPhone 16 Pro. On Thursday night, he had an
   offer for $1,200, still more than almost every brand-new iPhone and
   nearly twice as much as a refurbished iPhone 15 Pro without TikTok.
   [168]Business Insider reports the search term iPhone TikTok "yielded
   more than 45,000 results" on eBay...

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[170]Bambu Labs' 3D Printer 'Authorization' Update Beta Sparks Concerns
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   printer-net-service-providers dept.
   Slashdot reader [173]jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer
   Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing
   a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving
   towards an HP-style subscription model.
   [174]Bambu Labs responded that there's misinformation circulating
   online, adding "we acknowledge that our communication might have
   contributed to the confusion." Bambu Labs spokesperson Nadia Yaakoubi
   did "damage control", [175]answering questions from the Verge: Q: Will
   Bambu publicly commit to never requiring a subscription in order to
   control its printers and print from them over a home network?
   A: For our current product line, yes. We will never require a
   subscription to control or print from our printers over a home
   network...
   Q: Will Bambu publicly commit to never putting any existing printer
   functionality behind a subscription?
   Yes...
   Bambu's site adds that the security update "[176]is beta testing, not a
   forced update. The choice is yours. You can participate in the beta
   program to help us refine these features, or continue using your
   current firmware."
   Hackaday [177]notes another wrinkle: This follows the [178]original
   announcement which had the 3D printer community up in arms, and quickly
   saw the new tool that's supposed to provide safe and secure
   communications with Bambu Lab printers ripped apart to [179]extract the
   security certificate and private key... As the flaming wreck that's
   Bambu Lab's PR efforts keeps hurtling down the highway of public
   opinion, we'd be remiss to not point out that with the security
   certificate and private key being easily obtainable from the Bambu
   Connect Electron app, there is absolutely no point to any of what Bambu
   Lab is doing.
   The Verge asked Bambu Labs about that too: Q: Does the private key
   leaking change any of your plans?
   No, this doesn't change our plans, and we've taken immediate action.
   Bambu Labs had said their security update would "ensure only authorized
   access and operations are permitted," [180]remembers Ars Technica.
   "This would, Bambu suggested, mitigate risks of 'remote hacks or
   printer exposure issues' and lower the risk of 'abnormal traffic or
   attacks.'" This was necessary, Bambu wrote, because of increases in
   requests made to its cloud services "through unofficial channels,"
   targeted DDOS attacks, and "peaks of up to [181]30 million unauthorized
   requests per day" (link added by Bambu).
   But Ars Technica also found some skepticism online: Repair advocate
   Louis Rossmann, noting Bambu's altered original blog post,
   [182]uploaded a video soon after, "Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass:
   Denying their own documented restrictions"... suggesting that the
   company was asking buyers to trust that Bambu wouldn't enact
   restrictive policies it otherwise wrote into its user agreements.
   And Ars Technica also cites another skeptical response [183]from a
   video posted by open source hardware hacker and YouTube creator Jeff
   Geerling: "Every IoT device has these problems, and there are better
   ways to secure things than by locking out access, or making it harder
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