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Longtime Slashdot reader penciling_in shares a report from CircleID: Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service, has hit a major milestone by surpassing 4 million subscribers worldwide. SpaceX confirmed the news on Thursday after company Presi… Continue reading Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers
U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former officials to steal sensitive data.
The D… Continue reading U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes
[Project 326] wanted to know exactly what gas was in some glass tubes. The answer, of course, is to use a spectrometer, but that’s an expensive piece of gear, right? …read more Continue reading Spectroscopy on the Cheap
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The Dutch Supreme Court has requested guidance from the EU’s top court on geo-blocking, VPNs, and copyright in a case involving the online publication of Anne Frank’s manuscripts. The CJEU’s respon… Continue reading ‘Anne Frank’ Copyright Dispute Triggers VPN, Geoblocking Questions At EU’s Highest Court
A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal canceled Marvel and DC’s jointly owned “Super Hero” trademarks after the companies failed to respond to a request by London-based Superbabies Ltd, which argued the marks couldn’t be owned collectively or monopolize the … Continue reading US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC’s ‘Super Hero’ Trademarks
The software defined radio has opened up unimaginable uses of the radio spectrum for radio enthusiasts, but it’s fair to say that there’s one useful feature of an old-fashioned radio …read more Continue reading Turn A Mouse Into An Analogue Tuning Knob
The Register’s Tobias Mann reports: Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud. A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere … Continue reading Oracle Owns Nearly a Third of Arm Chip House Ampere, Could Take Control In 2027
At its Connect event earlier this week, Meta said it’ll be adding conversational voices to its AI chatbot from celebrities like Awkwafina, John Cena, Dame Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key and Kristen Bell. The Verge reports: These celebrity voices will o… Continue reading Meta’s AI Can Now Talk To You In the Voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Jack Ryan from San Diego was recently being interviewed for a job. On a video call, the interviewer, a woman with red hair, said, “I find it helps when candidates tell me a story in answering the ques… Continue reading AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now
Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, pr… Continue reading Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text