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Hammeh writes:
PyTorch, the open source AI framework led by Meta researchers, is to become a project governed under the Linux Foundation. It moves governance of the project to a neutral home, with the promise of greater trust to act as a catalyst for more rapid development.
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Hammeh writes:
Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.
In the days that followed, complaints about devices caught in an endless startup boot loop began to appear on various internet discussion boards, and videos documenting the device failure appeared on YouTube.
To fix the issue, Samsung eventually advised customers to return their inoperable video players for repairs. There is no software fix.
"We are aware of the boot loop issue that appeared on certain 2015 Samsung Blu-Ray players and are offering free mail-in repairs to customers who have been impacted," a representative of the mega-manufacturer said in a Samsung forum post.
It was speculated by netizens and some media reports that a HTTPS certificate error was to blame. However, it's been suggested to The Register that the cause of the failure was an XML file downloaded by the network-connected devices from Samsung servers during periodic logging policy checks.
This file, when fetched and saved to the device's flash storage and processed by the equipment, crashed the system software and force a reboot. Upon reboot, the player parsed the XML file again from its flash storage, crashed and rebooted again. And so on, and so on, and so on. Crucially, the XML file would be parsed before a new one could be fetched from the internet, so once the bad configuration file was fetched and stored by these particular Samsung Blu-ray players in the field, they were bricked.
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Hammeh writes:
Reuters reports that Semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products Inc for about $21 billion. This is the largest U.S. deal this year and aims to boost its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking. The deal will create a chipmaking force with a combined enterprise value of about $68 billion that will compete with larger rivals including Texas Instruments.
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Hammeh writes:
Similar to a previous Slashdot report featuring American Airlines, the BBC reports the UK government is requiring all major UK airports must introduce 3D baggage screening equipment before the end of 2022. From the report:
Ministers say the technology will boost security, speed up pre-boarding checks, and could end the restrictions on travelling with liquids and laptops.
The equipment, similar to CT scanners used in hospitals, is already being installed at London's Heathrow Airport.
It provides a clearer picture of a bag's contents, which staff can zoom in to and rotate for inspection.
Currently, passengers taking liquid in their cabin baggage are restricted to containers holding no more than 100ml, which must be shown to security staff in a single, transparent, resealable plastic bag of about 20cm (8in) x 20cm.
The limits have been in place since November 2006. Their introduction ended a ban on liquids in the cabin imposed three months earlier, when British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 planes using explosives hidden in drinks bottles.
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Hammeh writes:
Today marks the first time in it's history since it's creation that the Investigative Powers Tribunal (IPT), who are responsible for oversight and complaints relating to all of the UK Intelligence agencies, upheld a complaint against GCHQ, stating that accessing data provided to them by the NSA was in breach of human rights. The ruling comes as the saga into online privacy continues to unfold. Last year, the same court ruled that internal surveillance of British citizens did not breach human rights, the difference: NSA data is claimed to have side stepped the protections provided by the UK legal system. It was also noted during the tribunal, that although the UK government where willing to admit that Prism and Upstream, both NSA programs outed by Edward Snowdon, existed they would not comment on the existence or non-existence of the Tempora program.
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Hammeh writes:
According to a report on Mashable, Twitter have sent out messages to some of their high profile users prompting them to share images using Twitter's own service rather than Instagram links. The news comes 2 years since Instagram pulled support for Twitter cards and has been part of the continuing battle between the two social networks. With Instagram now having overtaken Twitter in terms of users, this may be a move to try and use high profile users to show off Twitter's own image and content tools.
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Hammeh writes:
BBC news reports that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Warg has been found guilty of hacking into computers and illegally downloading files in Denmark. Found guilty of breaching security to access computers owned by technology giant CSC to steal police and social security files, Mr Warg faces a sentence of up to six years behind bars. Mr Warg argued that although the computer used to commit the offence was owned by him, the hacks were carried out by another individual who he declined to name.
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Hammeh writes:
Blackberry today announced on their blog they have reached a licensing agreement with Amazon to provide the Amazon Android Appstore to be shipped with BlackBerry OS 10.3 due to be released this fall. The Amazon Appstore will exist alongside the current BlackBerry World, bringing more than 200,000 android apps directly to BB 10.3 devices. As part of the announcement, BlackBerry also outlined they will be closing the Music and Video sections of BlackBerry world as they will be provided by the Amazon Appstore.
The question is, is it enough to save BlackBerry in the consumer market or is it too little too late?
