Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Submission + - Elon Musk Says X Outages Were Caused by a Cyberattack From Ukraine 1

Submitted by hcs_$reboot
hcs_$reboot writes: Elon Musk’s X hit by waves of outages in what he claims is a massive cyberattack from Ukraine[paywall]. Mr. Musk on Monday quickly blamed Ukraine[no paywall] without providing evidence. X, which Mr. Musk purchased in 2022, experienced intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages were reported before 6 a.m. Eastern time, after which the site and app seemed to resume functioning. But about 10 a.m. more problems arose, and there were 41,000 reports of outages on X, according to Downdetector. Shortly after 11 a.m., a third spike of reported outages emerged, and the site remained down for many users.

“There was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Mr. Musk said during a Monday interview with Fox’s Larry Kudlow.

Submission + - DeepSeek, China and the Japanese art of 'kaizen' (ft.com)

Submitted by berghem
berghem writes: An Article on FT.com (paywalled) reports how behind China’s recent achievements — in LLMs like DeepSeek, electric cars, robotics, electronics, etc — some version of kaizen is at work.

Kaizen is a patient process of iterative improvement of product and process, which Japan made famous in the 70s and 80s.

According to Japanese recruitment agents, China these days employs older and experienced "Japanese semiconductor, railway and robotics engineers as consultants". Japan did not pay these engineers very much, and China has found that they can tempt them away from their own country with better pay and by valuing their expertise. "Kaizen is fundamentally a process of trial and error, and an experienced engineer can impart the invaluable, cost-saving nod on what was tried but didn’t work."

Comment of course, nothing to do with this other news... (Score 1) 27

by berghem (#65075877) Attached to: Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Deal
Italians detain Iranian citizen. Iranians want their citizen back, who is waiting for extradition from Italy to the USA. Iranians detain Italian journalist https://apnews.com/article/ita...
Meloni meets Trump: "Meloni met US president-elect Donald Trump at the weekend, when the journalist's detention is thought to have been discussed" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...
Italian journalist released https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...
Meloni gives massive Italian Government contract to Musk (this post)
--> Expect release of Iranian detainee to close the circle

Submission + - Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites (yahoo.com)

Submitted by DogFoodBuss
DogFoodBuss writes: SpaceX deployed its 7000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation. The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than it's nearest competitors, offering unprecedented access to low-latency broadband from anywhere on the planet.

Comment from the "browser wars" onwards... (Score 2) 39

by berghem (#64450950) Attached to: Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech's Polarizing Power?
from the "browser wars" onwards... the US have preferred having "tech champions" ruling the waves around the world to any effective anti-monopoly action. a choice was made in decades past to block the monopoly of standard oil and co. However the distributed and international nature of the internet makes monopoly busting far harder and the US does not have the discipline to do this. now the US is living with the consequences of these choices. we are all behold to trillion-dollar companies which own and control the "data" of the whole population, in the US and everywhere else. these companies have an almost unlimited financial and political clout, a fact that is starting to tear apart the whole edifice of the country. good luck to you if you want to rein them in now. any attempts to stop their collection of our data will be met by an impenetrable wall of dollars influencing the political process, which will derail the attempt.

Submission + - PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows (theguardian.com)

Submitted by berghem
berghem writes: The Guardian reports:

For the first time, researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, adding a new level of concern to the controversial chemicalsâ(TM) wide use.

The findings are especially significant because proving an association with death by chemical exposure is difficult, but researchers were able to establish it by reviewing death records from northern Italyâ(TM)s Veneto region, where many residents for decades drank water highly contaminated with PFAS, also called âoeforever chemicalsâ.

âoeThis is the first time that anyone has found strong evidence of an association of PFAS exposure and cardiovascular mortality,â said Annibale Biggeri, the peer-reviewed studyâ(TM)s lead author, and a researcher with the University of Padua.

PFAS are a class of 15,000 chemicals used across dozens of industries to make products resistant to water, stains and heat. Though the compounds are highly effective, previous research has linked them to cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, decreased immunity, liver problems and a range of other serious diseases.

Submission + - China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship (techtimes.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: China has reached a major landmark in green transportation with the launch of the world's largest fully electric container ship. Developed and manufactured by China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco), the vessel is now operating a regular service route between Shanghai and Nanjing, aiming to reduce emissions significantly along its journey.

The Greenwater 01, an all-electric container ship, is positioning itself to be a shipping industry pioneer. Equipped with a main battery exceeding 50,000 kilowatt-hours, the vessel can accommodate additional battery boxes for longer voyages. These battery boxes, each containing 1,600 kilowatt-hours of electricity and similar in size to standard 20-foot containers, provide flexibility in extending the ship's travel range. With 24 battery boxes onboard, the Greenwater 01 can complete a journey consuming 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity. This is equivalent to saving 15 tonnes of fuel compared to a standard container ship, highlighting the efficiency of electric propulsion systems.

Submission + - Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (fosspost.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacement called “run0”.

The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface. For example, sudo supports network access, LDAP configurations, other types of plugins, and much more. But most importantly, its SUID binary provides a large attack service according to Lennart:

"I personally think that the biggest problem with sudo is the fact it’s a SUID binary though – the big attack surface, the plugins, network access and so on that come after it it just make the key problem worse, but are not in themselves the main issue with sudo. SUID processes are weird concepts: they are invoked by unprivileged code and inherit the execution context intended for and controlled by unprivileged code. By execution context I mean the myriad of properties that a process has on Linux these days, from environment variables, process scheduling properties, cgroup assignments, security contexts, file descriptors passed, and so on and so on."

He’s saying that sudo is a Unix concept from many decades ago, and a better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards:

  "So, in my ideal world, we’d have an OS entirely without SUID. Let’s throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX’ bad ideas. An execution context for privileged code that is half under the control of unprivileged code and that needs careful manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore."

Submission + - Russia arrests former world chess champion Garry Kasparov (mirror.co.uk)

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Russia has arrested Garry Kasparov and charged him in connection with foreign agent and terrorist charges — much to the former chess champion's amusement.

The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi region, announced it had arrested the grandmaster in absentia alongside former Russian parliament member Gennady Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin co-founder of the Free Russia Forum — which has been designated as an 'undesirable organisation in the country — as well as former environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova.

All were charged with setting up a terrorist society, according to the court's press service. As all were charged in their absence, none were physically held in custody.

"The court has selected a measure of restraint for Garry Kasparov, Gennady Gudkov, Yevgenia Chirikova and Ivan Tyutrin, charged with establishing and heading a terrorist society, funding terrorist activity and justifying it publicly," the court said according to Kremlin-backed outlet TASS. "The court granted the investigative bodies’ motions to remand Kasparov, Gudkov, Chirikova and Tyutrin in custody as a measure of restraint."

Kasparov responded to the court's bizarre arrest statement in an April 24 post shared on X, formerly Twitter. "In absentia is definitely the best way I've ever been arrested," he said. "Good company, as well. I'm sure we're all equally honoured that Putin's terror state is spending time on this that would otherwise go persecuting and murdering."

Slashdot Top Deals

I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!

Close