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iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise

iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple

Dan Goodin reports via Ars Technica: Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads...

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AI Risk Must Be Treated As Seriously As Climate Crisis, Says Google DeepMind Chief

AI Risk Must Be Treated As Seriously As Climate Crisis, Says Google DeepMind Chief - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world must treat the risks from artificial intelligence as seriously as the climate cris...

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Hackers Can Force iOS and macOS Browsers To Divulge Passwords

Hackers Can Force iOS and macOS Browsers To Divulge Passwords - Slashdot

Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple

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Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change?

Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change? - Slashdot

A team of scientists drove hundreds of miles through the steppes of Kazakhstan in search of what may be one of the largest and most diverse fungi e...

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South Korea Warns Google, Apple of Possible Fines Over Apps Marketing

South Korea Warns Google, Apple of Possible Fines Over Apps Marketing - Slashdot

South Korea

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Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software

Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software - Slashdot

A parallel acquisition system -- buying needed apps by monthly or yearly subscription to meet changing mission requirements -- could improve deterr...

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Kidnapped By a Runaway Electric Car

Kidnapped By a Runaway Electric Car - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: Regardless of their other potential benefits, modern cars, and modern electric cars in particular, inv...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Microsoft Kills Its Classic Azure DaaS, Because It Isn't Really Azure

Microsoft Kills Its Classic Azure DaaS, Because It Isn

Microsoft will deprecate the classic edition of its Azure Virtual Desktop desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and has given customers three years to keep u...

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The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists

The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists - Slashdot

Stanford

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China's AI 'War of a Hundred Models' Heads For a Shakeout

China

An anonymous reader shares a report: China

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Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz Andre Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center

Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz Andre Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center - Slashdot

Brazilian engineer Luiz Andre Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died. His radical ideas for data centers laid the foundations for ...

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US Federal Agencies Seek to Streamline 'Hodgepodge' of Cyber Reporting Rules

US Federal Agencies Seek to Streamline

The Department of Homeland Security wants Congress and other federal agencies to help it streamline 52 different cyber reporting requirements to pr...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

European Governments Shrinking Railways in Favour of Road-Building, Report Finds

European Governments Shrinking Railways in Favour of Road-Building, Report Finds - Slashdot

European governments have "systematically" shrunk their railways and starved them of funding while pouring money into expanding their road ...

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The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term For It: 'Noctalgia'

The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term For It:

Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: "no...

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Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System

Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System - Slashdot

In late August the blog of Harvard professor Avi Loeb declared he had "Wonderful news! For the first time in history, scientists analyzed mater...

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Space Industry Is Growing Faster Than Its Workforce, Analysts Say

Space Industry Is Growing Faster Than Its Workforce, Analysts Say - Slashdot

Analysts are concerned that a lack of skilled labor in the space industry "could impact aerospace

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Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking

Google To Pay $155 Million In Settlements Over Location Tracking - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google agreed to pay $155 million to settle claims by California and private plaintiffs that the ...

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Apple Will Update iPhone 12 in France After Regulators Said It Emitted Too Much Radiation

Apple Will Update iPhone 12 in France After Regulators Said It Emitted Too Much Radiation - Slashdot

Apple has agreed to install updates for the iPhone 12 in France after French regulators ordered the company to stop selling the model because it em...

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Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company

Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company - Slashdot

Plex informed some users this week that it will no longer allow users to run servers at a hosting provider where lots of TOS violations occur. Torr...

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Iranian Hackers Target Satellite and Defense Firms, Microsoft Says

Iranian Hackers Target Satellite and Defense Firms, Microsoft Says - Slashdot

Iranian hackers have hacked dozens of companies in the defense, satellite and pharmaceutical sectors this year using a fairly unsophisticated, blun...