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Comment Thomas Boue's endless mouthfuls of lies (Score 1) 40

by JustAnotherOldGuy (#66177130) Attached to: BSA Lashes Out At Mandatory Open-Source Licensing

"What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a company files its corporate papers," said Thomas Boue of BSA.

Ah yes, auditing closed-source software has always been a walk in the park, companies are only too happy to open up their proprietary trade-secret software so people can have a look, right?

Fuck Thomas Boue and his endless mouthfuls of lies.

Submission + - A China-linked hacking group is quietly living inside Microsoft IIS servers (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: ReliaQuest says it uncovered a previously unknown China-linked hacking cluster called OP-512 that has reportedly been targeting outdated Microsoft IIS servers running unsupported .NET Framework software. According to the security company, the attackers used custom web shells, encrypted command channels, timestomping, and DNS-based âoephone homeâ techniques designed to evade traditional antivirus detection and maintain long-term access for espionage operations.

The company claims its âoeAgentic AIâ platform pieced together what initially looked like unrelated low-level security events into a single coordinated intrusion. ReliaQuest says the malware framework generates cryptographically unique deployments that make signature-based detection ineffective. The report also warns that organizations still exposing legacy IIS infrastructure to the internet remain attractive targets for increasingly sophisticated state-linked attackers.

Submission + - Code.org Rebrands to CodeAI, Disbands Its K-12 CS Education Advocacy Coalition

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "The Code.org Advocacy Coalition is growing the movement to make Computer Science a fundamental part of the K-12 education," explained tech-backed nonprofit Code.org in 2018. Eight years later, that mission — which began in 2013 — has changed. On Monday, Code.org rebranded as CodeAI (press release), solidifying its shift to AI education. And on Tuesday, members of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition were rounded up for a conference call and informed that their 100+ organization group was being disbanded and from here on in it'll be the AI Way or the Highway for current members.

From the transcript: "We're now at a crossroads. AI is completely transforming all of society, including education and especially computer science. In the past, the focus of computer science was coding. Today, the focus is AI. [...] Preparing every student for the age of AI requires a broader vision. Starting today, Code.org is CodeAI. [...] We're moving into the next chapter. So, just to be clear, we are sunsetting the Code.org Advocacy Coalition. This will be our last meeting of the Code.org advocacy coalition. We will be standing up the CodeAI advocacy coalition. [...] [Expect an email] giving you a chance to say 'Our organization is in line with the direction that Code AI is heading and we want to be part of those advocacy efforts. But it also gives your organization a chance to say, 'You know what? We're not in line with the direction that CodeAI is heading, so we're not going to be part of the new advocacy coalition.' [...] We are also going to be focused on bringing in new AI focused entities that will help us advance this mission."

Or, to paraphrase Ken Kesey, "You're either on the K-12 AI literacy bus or off the K-12 AI literacy bus."

Submission + - Capita launched civil service pension scheme site without 'basic' web security

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Capita launched civil service pension scheme site without ‘basic’ web security

‘Capita was warned in December that the security of the web domain which manages the pensions of 1.7 million members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), lacked “basic controls”. ’

“News of the CSPS issues prompted us to undertake some research as cited experts and the threat intelligence is simply too damning not to try and reach out to you all collectively.”

Submission + - Is the AI boom quietly becoming a water problem?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Is the AI boom quietly becoming a water problem?

“By the end of this decade, global freshwater demand is projected to exceed supply by around 40%, at the same time as AIdriven technologies are expected to push global water use from roughly 1.1 billion to 6.6 billion cubic metres a year by 2027.”

“By the end of this decade, global freshwater demand is projected to exceed supply by around 40%, at the same time as AIdriven technologies are expected to push global water use from roughly 1.1 billion to 6.6 billion cubic metres a year by 2027.”

Submission + - Patreon terms & conditions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Terms of Use:

‘In order to be eligible to use Patreon, you must not be located, organised or ordinarily resident in a country or territory subject to comprehensive US sanctions or embargoes (currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and the Crimea, so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, and so-called Luhansk People’s Republic regions of Ukraine) and you must not be designated on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List or any other sanctions lists maintained by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”).’

Submission + - After empty promises, string theory finds new uses (science.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: For decades, string theory promised a “theory of everything” that described all particles and forces as tiny vibrating strings. Physicists hoped it could also solve one of the field’s deepest problems: reconciling quantum mechanics with gravity. But as string theory grew increasingly elaborate—and experimentally unreachable—many physicists lost hope.

Now, some researchers are revisiting the theory from first principles. In a paper in press at Physical Review Letters, Clifford Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues lay out a small set of assumptions about the universe and show that they inevitably give rise to string theory. The work is part of a broader revival of the “bootstrap” philosophy that inspired string theory in the first place: building up explanations from a small set of consistent, general principles rather than deriving laws from a particular mechanistic framework. “It’s a trend away from a specific model that someone came down from the mountain with on two tablets,” Cheung says. “People are kind of going back to the basics.”

The approach does not prove string theory is correct. But, “It’s quite remarkable that with fairly minimal assumptions you are led to string theory,” says Andrew Tolley, a physicist at Imperial College London who works on an alternative model of gravity. Clarifying what assumptions underlie the theory could help limit the range of possible versions of string theory and its competitors, he adds. “It’s tremendously interesting to know what is allowed or not.”

Submission + - Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week (theverge.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds.

People in Texas who are creating a new Apple account will need to verify they’re over 18 using a credit card or government ID. Apple may also automatically verify users’ age using the age of their account and whether they have a credit card on file.

Despite Apple’s attempts to push back on app store-level age verification, the company has announced plans to implement age checks to comply with laws in places like Utah, Louisiana, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and the UK. Google is required to make similar changes to the Play Store and is also introducing age-checking tools for developers.

Last December, a judge blocked the App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) from taking effect, but an appeals court has now reversed this decision — at least while the court figures out whether the law is constitutional. Even if this law gets struck down in Texas, a federal version with the same name is still making its way through Congress and could impose age verification at the app store nationwide.

Submission + - Google Ordered to Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the CMA said today. “This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google. To boost consumer trust, Google is also now required to make sure that publisher content is properly attributed, using clear links, in AIgenerated search results.”

The CMA ruled that Google may not penalize publishers for opting out of AI, meaning that Google can’t downrank opted-out publishers in general search results. The CMA said Google will have nine months to comply with all requirements but that the agency “expects important parts of the controls to become available to publishers well before that deadline. Google will also be required to submit and publish compliance reports, supported by key data and metrics, explaining changes it has made and how it has complied.” [...] The CMA applied the rules to Google after determining that it has “strategic market status” in general search services, and has ongoing investigations into Apple and Microsoft. Google today said it will comply with the CMA decision.

Comment I can't disagree (Score 3, Insightful) 187

by NoOnesMessiah (#66174198) Attached to: EU Plots To Abandon US Tech

American big tech is untrustworthy at its core. In the boardroom, in the back room, and in the data center. They have no guard rails, no good law (at the present) that makes them play nice. I think that not just Europe needs to be looking at digital sovereignty. Japan, Australia, Canada, are you listening? Most of the big tech companies CAN'T be trusted, so now it's time to start rolling your own, so to speak. Good luck.

Submission + - WriterAgent Week 8-9: Adding NumPy to LibreOffice

Submitted by KeithCu
KeithCu writes: It was exciting to have my Libreoffice extension writeup get picked up by Slashdot.org, but at the time I was working on features even more compelling. This update discusses adding capabilities LibreOffice probably should have added many years ago: real scientific Python.

LibreOffice has lagged behind Excel in data science workflows. With my recent work in WriterAgent, you can now leverage the full Python ecosystem: Run NumPy in Calc, generate pandas DataFrames from Writer, or let AI agents create scripts and insert results into your document.

Submission + - A New California Proposal Could Effectively Ban All Aftermarket Tires (caranddriver.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

California's proposed "Replacement Tire Efficiency Program" would set standards requiring all aftermarket tires to be at least as efficient as the tires sold on new cars. The proposal posits that OE tires are more energy or fuel-efficient than their replacement counterparts, and that by improving the efficiency of replacement tires, California could cut back on the state's CO2 emissions, and California drivers could save on fuel costs.

California comes up with yet another bad idea.

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