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Axiom Space aims for the International Space Station with its Orbital Data Center Node

TheRegister - 8 hours 23 min ago
But will the ISS still be there to host it?

Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…

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Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis

Slashdot - 8 hours 29 min ago
Scripted TV production peaked in 2022 at 599 shows and has declined since, according to FX's research division tracking. New prestige series have dropped sharply while streaming platforms prioritize returning shows over new development. Netflix has shifted majority output to unscripted content including docuseries and reality programming since 2018. YouTube leads streaming viewership ahead of Netflix, Paramount+, and Hulu. Free ad-supported platforms YouTube, Tubi and Roku Channel continue gaining market share. Subscription prices across major streaming services have increased while scripted content volume decreased. Second season of Severance cost $200 million. Fourth season of Stranger Things reached $270 million in production expenses.

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Anthropic Denies Federal Agencies Use of Claude for Surveillance Tasks

Slashdot - 9 hours 9 min ago
Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage policies prohibit domestic surveillance, limiting how agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deploy its technology. While Anthropic maintains a $1 contract with federal agencies through AWS GovCloud and works with the Department of Defense on non-weapons applications, administration officials said the restrictions amount to making moral judgments about law enforcement operations.

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OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

TheRegister - 9 hours 11 min ago
Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.…

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Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

TheRegister - 9 hours 48 min ago
Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'

A Microsoft exec claims Copilot is boosting productivity among the customers that adopted it yet sustained efforts to convince many them of the returns on investment remains a work in progress.…

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Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels

Slashdot - 10 hours 13 min ago
The home appliance industry would like you to believe that gas-burning stoves are not a risk to your health -- and several companies that make the devices are scrambling to erase their prior acknowledgements that they are. From a report: That claim is at the heart of a lawsuit the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has filed against the state of Colorado to stop it from requiring natural gas stoves, which burn methane, to carry health labels not unlike those on every pack of cigarettes. "Understand the air quality implications of having an indoor gas stove," the warning would read. The law was to take effect August 5 but is now on hold, and state officials did not respond to a request for comment. In its federal lawsuit, the Association -- whose board includes representatives of LG Electronics, BSH Home Appliance Corp. (which makes Bosch appliances), Whirlpool, and Samsung Electronics -- asserts that the labeling requirement is "unconstitutional compelled speech" and illegal under the First Amendment. It calls the legislation a climate law disguised as a health law and, most strikingly, it claims there is "no association between gas stoves and adverse health outcomes."

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Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

TheRegister - 10 hours 30 min ago
But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New features include beginner-friendly compact source files, succinct module imports, and more flexible constructors.…

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BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch

TheRegister - 10 hours 34 min ago
Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage

The founder of the popular cybercrime website BreachForums will spend three years in prison after previously being let off with a slap on the wrist.…

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UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November

TheRegister - 11 hours 29 min ago
Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable

Brit telco Colt Technology Services says its recovery from an August cyberattack might not be completed until late November.…

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Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

TheRegister - 11 hours 56 min ago
Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India

Exclusive Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.…

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Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

TheRegister - 12 hours 23 min ago
Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town

Microsoft appears to have trumped Google's UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the country.…

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Permanent Standard Time Could Cut Strokes, Obesity Among Americans

Slashdot - 13 hours 14 min ago
A new Stanford-led study finds that switching permanently to standard time could prevent 300,000 strokes and reduce obesity in 2.6 million Americans by better aligning circadian rhythms with natural light. Researchers argue that the twice-yearly clock changes are the worst option for public health, while permanent daylight saving time would offer two-thirds of the benefits. From a report: "We found that staying in standard time or staying in daylight saving time is definitely better than switching twice a year," senior researcher Jamie Zeitzer said in a news release. He's a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in California. For the study, researchers estimated how different national time policies might affect American's circadian rhythms -- the body's innate clock that regulates many physiological processes. The human circadian cycle isn't exactly 24 hours, researchers noted. It's about 12 minutes longer for most people, and it can be changed based on a person's exposure to light. "When you get light in the morning, it speeds up the circadian cycle. When you get light in the evening, it slows things down," Zeitzer said. "You generally need more morning light and less evening light to keep well synchronized to a 24-hour day." An out-of-sync circadian cycle has been linked with many different poor health outcomes, researchers said. "The more light exposure you get at the wrong times, the weaker the circadian clock," Zeitzer said. "All of these things that are downstream -- for example, your immune system, your energy -- don't match up quite as well." Most people would experience the least circadian burden under permanent standard time, which prioritizes morning light, researchers found. The research team then linked its analysis of circadian rhythms to county-level data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to see how each time policy might affect people's health. Their models showed that permanent standard time would reduce obesity nationwide by 0.78% and stroke by 0.09%. Those seemingly small percentage changes, when played out across the national population, would mean 2.6 million fewer people with obesity and 300,000 fewer cases of stroke. Permanent daylight savings time would result in a 0.51% drop in obesity -- around 1.7 million people -- and a 0.04% reduction in strokes, or 220,000 cases. Either move would help American health. "You have people who are passionate on both sides of this, and they have very different arguments," Zeitzer said. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers

TheRegister - 13 hours 44 min ago
Screw-up or conspiracy?

Lurking within the Windows Bluetooth stack is a hardcoded reference to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Is this nostalgic favoritism from Microsoft? Or is it just somebody, somewhere, making a mistake that an engineer had to work around?…

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Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

TheRegister - 14 hours 29 min ago
Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026

The Home Office is flinging nearly £40 million in taxpayer cash at PA Consulting to get the big-ticket successor to the Police National Computer (PNC) over the finish line.…

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China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia's AI Chips

Slashdot - 14 hours 31 min ago
China's internet regulator has told the country's biggest technology companies to stop buying all of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and terminate their existing orders, as Beijing steps up efforts to boost its homegrown semiconductor industry and compete with the US. From a report: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed companies including ByteDance and Alibaba this week to terminate their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia's tailor-made product for the country introduced two months ago, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Several companies had indicated they would order tens of thousands of the RTX Pro 6000D, and had started testing and verification work with Nvidia's server suppliers before telling them to stop the work after receiving the CAC order, said the people.

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AI, Arm, and Copilot: Living with Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7

TheRegister - 15 hours 14 min ago
Nice hardware, shame about the OS

COMMENT The Arm-based Surface Laptop 7 was introduced in 2024, followed by an Intel-powered version a few months later. As with much of the Surface line, it's a well-engineered piece of hardware. I needed something that could run off the battery for a full day, wouldn't break the strap of a courier bag or the bank, and featured a decent spec.…

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UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand?

TheRegister - 15 hours 59 min ago
Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…

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Scientists Find That Ice Generates Electricity When Bent

Slashdot - 16 hours 14 min ago
"Phys.org is reporting on a study published in Nature Physics involving ICN2 at the UAB campus, Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xi'an) and Stony Brook University (New York), showing for the first time that ordinary ice is a flexoelectric material -- meaning it can generate electricity when subjected to mechanical deformation," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From the report: "We discovered that ice generates electric charge in response to mechanical stress at all temperatures. In addition, we identified a thin 'ferroelectric' layer at the surface at temperatures below -113C (160K)," explains Dr. Xin Wen, a member of the ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group and one of the study's lead researchers. "This means that the ice surface can develop a natural electric polarization, which can be reversed when an external electric field is applied -- similar to how the poles of a magnet can be flipped. The surface ferroelectricity is a cool discovery in its own right, as it means that ice may have not just one way to generate electricity, but two: ferroelectricity at very low temperatures, and flexoelectricity at higher temperatures all the way to 0 C." This property places ice on a par with electroceramic materials such as titanium dioxide, which are currently used in advanced technologies like sensors and capacitors.

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UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department

TheRegister - 16 hours 44 min ago
Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment

The Cabinet Office, the strategic center of UK government, has handed a much-delayed project to migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (M365) to another department.…

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Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack

TheRegister - 17 hours 59 min ago
Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware

Researchers from Google and Swiss university ETH Zurich have found a new class of Rowhammer vulnerability that could allow attackers to access info stored in DDR5 memory.…

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