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Red Hat Tries on a McKinsey Cap in Quest To Streamline Techies’ Jobs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world’s largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work. Red Hat confirmed the partnership with McKinsey & Company to The Reg, sharing this extract from an email from … ⌘ Read more

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Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GamingOnLinux: After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions. I’ve covered the issues with the Snap Store a few times now like on March 19th when ten scam crypto apps appeared, got t … ⌘ Read more

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Proxmox Import Wizard Makes for Easy VMware VM Migrations
Lyle Smith reports via StorageReview.com: Proxmox has introduced a new import wizard for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), aiming to simplify the migration process for importing VMware ESXi VMs. This new feature comes at an important time in the industry, as it aims to ease the transition for these organizations looking to move away from VMware’s vSphere due to … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Sues Former Employee For Leaking Journal App, Vision Pro Details
Apple has sued its former employee Andrew Aude for leaking information about more than a half-dozen Apple products and policies, including its then-unannounced Journal app and Vision Pro headset, product development policies, strategies for regulatory compliance, employee headcounts, and more. MacRumors reports: Aude joined Apple as an … ⌘ Read more

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Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: They’re vast expanses that can be as big as towns: open landfills where household waste ends up, whether it’s vegetable scraps or old appliances. These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regu … ⌘ Read more

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Michigan Nuclear Plant Aims To Be First Ever To Reopen In US
The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan has won a $1.5 billion conditional federal loan to reopen after being closed for decommissioning in 2022. Canary Media reports: If the loan is granted (subject to Holtec meeting closing conditions) and the 800-megawatt reactor located on Lake Michigan is repowered, it would be the first nuclear plant in the U.S … ⌘ Read more

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Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage
Tobias Mann reports via The Register: Cloud server provider Vultr has rapidly revised its terms-of-service after netizens raised the alarm over broad clauses that demanded the “perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free” rights to customer “content.” The red tape was updated in January, as captured by the Internet Archi … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Is Adding AI To Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Starting next month, Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses will support multimodal AI features to perform translation, along with object, animal, and monument identification. The Verge reports: Users can activate the glasses’ smart assistant by saying “Hey Meta,” and then saying a prompt or asking a question. It will then respond through the speakers built into the frames. The NYT offers a … ⌘ Read more

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Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was kneecapped starting in 2018 to protect Zuckerberg’s advertising relationship … ⌘ Read more

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US, UK Investigate $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers To Garantex Russian Exchange
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. and U.K. are investigating more than $20 billion worth of USDT transactions that have passed through Garantex, a Russia-based crypto exchange. Milk Road reports: If confirmed, the $20 billion in transactions would represent one of the most significant breaches of the sanctions imposed o … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis. The Linux Foundation went public today with their intent to fork Valkey as an open-source alternative … ⌘ Read more

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Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The White House has announced the “first government-wide policy (PDF) to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits.” To coordinate these efforts, every federal agency must appoint a chief AI officer with “significant expertise in AI.” Some agencies have already appointed chie … ⌘ Read more

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How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them
An anonymous reader writes: What if you could update the device while it’s still in the box? That’s the latest plan cooked up by Apple, which is close to rolling out a system that will let Apple Stores wirelessly update new iPhones while they’re still in their boxes. The new system is called “Presto.” French site iGeneration has the first picture of what this s … ⌘ Read more

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AI Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the AI race. From a report: In recent weeks, American lawmakers have moved to ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok. President Biden reinforced his commitment to overcome China’s rise in tech. And the Chinese government added chips from Intel and … ⌘ Read more

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New York City Welcomes Robotaxis - But Only With Safety Drivers
An anonymous reader shares a report: New York City announced a new permitting system for companies interested in testing autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a requirement that a human safety driver sit behind the steering wheel at all times. As cities like San Francisco continue to grapple with the problems posed by fully driverless for-hir … ⌘ Read more

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‘Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab’
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for ComputerWorld: Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys’ count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Lately, though, there’s been a very disturbing trend. A company will make its program using open source, make millions from it, and then – and only then – switch licenses, leaving thei … ⌘ Read more

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Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena For the First Time
Anthropic’s recently released Claude 3 Opus large language model has beaten OpenAI’s GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models. A report adds: “The king is dead,” tweeted software developer Nick Dobos in a post comparing GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 … ⌘ Read more

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Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, ‘consonance’ – a pleasant-sounding combination of notes – is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, scholars have tried to find psychological explanations, but these ‘integer ratios … ⌘ Read more

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Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison
Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years [non-paywalled link] in prison for a massive fraud that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. From a report: Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy – a dramatic fall from a crest of success. U.S. D … ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom
Amazon plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services. From a report: The spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to maintain its grip on the cloud services mark … ⌘ Read more

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Fisker Lost Track of Millions of Dollars in Customer Payments For Months
An anonymous reader shares a report: Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned.

The EV startup was ultimately able to track down a majority of those payments or reques … ⌘ Read more

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Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Nigeria doesn’t exactly have a stellar reputation when it comes to respecting the speech rights of its own citizens, nor the rights of platforms that its citizens use. But I will admit that even with that reputation in place, I’m a bit at a loss as to why the country decided to arrest and charg … ⌘ Read more

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Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash
Longtime Slashdot reader kriston writes: Core PostgreSQL developer Simon Riggs dies in airplane crash in Duxford, England. Riggs was the sole occupant of a Cirrus SR22-T which crashed on March 26 after performing touch-and-go maneuvers. Riggs was responsible for much of the enterprise-level features in PostgreSQL, including point-in-time recovery, synchronous replication, … ⌘ Read more

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A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks around 2029 because the planet is rotating faster than it used to. The Associated Press reports: “This is an unprecedented situation and a big deal,” said study lead author Duncan … ⌘ Read more

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