Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror

Submission + - Carmakers Rush to Remove Chinese Code Under New Federal Rules (wsj.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The U.S. bans Chinese software in connected cars starting March 17, forcing automakers to purge code fast.

New U.S. rules will soon ban Chinese software in vehicle systems that connect to the cloud, part of an effort to prevent cameras, microphones and GPS tracking in cars from being exploited by foreign adversaries.

The move is “one of the most consequential and complex auto regulations in decades,” according to Hilary Cain, head of policy at trade group the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. “It requires a deep examination of supply chains and aggressive compliance timelines.”

Submission + - Why is China building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom (yahoo.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Even as China's expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world's largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change.

More than 50 large coal units — individual boiler and turbine sets with generating capacity of 1 gigawatt or more — were commissioned in 2025, up from fewer than 20 a year over the previous decade, a research report released Tuesday said. Depending on energy use, 1 gigawatt can power from several hundred thousand to more than 2 million homes.

Overall, China brought 78 gigawatts of new coal power capacity online, a sharp uptick from previous years, according to the joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, which studies air pollution and its impacts, and Global Energy Monitor, which develops databases tracking energy trends.

“The scale of the buildout is staggering,” said report co-author Christine Shearer of Global Energy Monitor. “In 2025 alone, China commissioned more coal power capacity than India did over the entire past decade.”

Comment Re:Death penalty is rarely an effective crime dete (Score 1) 122

by schwit1 (#65963146) Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia

Fine, first degree murder - life without parole
Same for crimes like Bernie Madoff did. The people scamming the elderly should get life.
Same for anyone that assaults a child or elderly person.
Same should go for anyone convicted of 2 violent felonies or a political assassination and attempts.

Iryna Zarutska's killer had been arrested 14 times and released.
Logan Federico's killer had been arrested 39 times and released.

It's time to flush these people from society.

Submission + - White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules (securityweek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The White House has announced that software security guidance issued during the Biden administration has been rescinded due to “unproven and burdensome” requirements that prioritized administrative compliance over meaningful security investments. The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued Memorandum M-26-05 (PDF), officially revoking the previous administration’s 2022 policy, ‘Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain through Secure Software Development Practices’ (M-22-18), as well as the follow-up enhancements announced in 2023 (M-23-16).

The new guidance shifts responsibility to individual agency heads to develop tailored security policies for both software and hardware based on their specific mission needs and risk assessments. “Each agency head is ultimately responsible for assuring the security of software and hardware that is permitted to operate on the agency’s network,” reads the memo sent by the OMB to departments and agencies. “There is no universal, one-size-fits-all method of achieving that result. Each agency should validate provider security utilizing secure development principles and based on a comprehensive risk assessment,” the OMB added. While agencies are no longer strictly required to do so, they may continue to use secure software development attestation forms, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and other resources described in M-22-18.

Submission + - Former Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for Chinese firms (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A former Google engineer has been found guilty on multiple federal charges for stealing the tech giant's trade secrets on artificial intelligence to benefit Chinese companies he secretly worked for, federal prosecutors said.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, a jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets, following an 11-day trial. The 38-year-old, also known as Leon Ding, was hired by Google in 2019 and was a resident of Newark.

"Silicon Valley is at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation, pioneering transformative work that drives economic growth and strengthens our national security. The jury delivered a clear message today that the theft of this valuable technology will not go unpunished," U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said in a statement.

According to evidence presented at trial, Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential information containing Google AI trade secrets between May 2022 and April 2023. He uploaded the information to his personal Google Cloud account. Around the same time, Ding secretly affiliated himself with two Chinese-based technology companies. Around June 2022, prosecutors said Ding was in discussions to be the chief technology officer for an early-stage tech company.

Several months later, he was in the process of founding his own AI and machine learning company in China, acting as the company's CEO. Prosecutors said Ding told investors that he could build an AI supercomputer by copying and modifying Google's technology.

In late 2023, prosecutors said Ding downloaded the trade secrets to his own personal computer before resigning from Google. According to the superseding indictment, Google uncovered the uploads after finding out that Ding presented himself as CEO of one of the companies during an Beijing investor conference. Around the same time, Ding told his manager he was leaving the company and booked a one-way flight to Beijing.

Submission + - ChatGPT gets full marks in 9 Japan unified university entrance exam subjects

Submitted by united_notions
united_notions writes: From the Japan Times:

The artificial intelligence ChatGPT earned perfect scores in nine subjects in this year's unified university entrance examinations, marking its first full score, an AI venture said Tuesday. When LifePrompt Inc tested the generative AI chatbot for the weekend's university exams, the chatbot's latest version had an accuracy rate of 97 percent across 15 subjects, including the nine. The nine subjects with full scores included mathematics, chemistry, informatics, and politics and economy. The generative AI chatbot performed worst in Japanese language, with a score of 90 percent, according to the Tokyo-based company.

Over on Reddit, user Gizmotech-mobile adds:

Lol. Giant database with predictive language abilities aces memorization multiple choice test.... ohh the shocks.

Submission + - Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption (pcmag.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a sham, and is demanding damages, but the app's parent company, Meta, calls the claims "false and absurd."

The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco US district court on Friday and comes from a group of users based in countries such as Australia, Mexico, and South Africa, according to Bloomberg.

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption.

"A worker need only send a "task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job," the lawsuit claims. "The Meta engineering team will then grant access — often without any scrutiny at all — and the worker's workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user's messages based on the user's User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products.

"Once the Meta worker has this access, they can read users' messages by opening the widget; no separate decryption step is required," the 51-page complaint adds. "The WhatsApp messages appear in widgets commingled with widgets containing messages from unencrypted sources. Messages appear almost as soon as they are communicated — essentially, in real-time. Moreover, access is unlimited in temporal scope, with Meta workers able to access messages from the time users first activated their accounts, including those messages users believe they have deleted."

Slashdot Top Deals

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. -- Russell

Close