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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2118214/micro-center-partners-with-ifixit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Micro Center and iFixit have announced a partnership that combines the DIY repair giant's guides, parts, and toolkits with Micro Center's nationwide chain of computer and electronics stores. Customers browsing iFixit online can now find local Micro Center locations through a built-in locator and even stop in for a free consultation with a certified technician. Inside stores, shoppers will see iFixit toolkits and parts on shelves, while Micro Center's in-house technicians begin using iFixit's gear for professional repairs.

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ccpro

есть такой странный, но интересный муз коллектив
до 2014 года слушать его невозможно. а потом хорошо
э, проходя мимо, услашал их песенку утро с радио огонь и зшел засвидетельствовать своё почтение
также он посоветовал белорусский коллектив "молчат дома"
ещё не слушал

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2110246/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Sora 2, Open AI's new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little cartoon-eyed cloud logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes. A simple search for "sora watermark" on any social media site will return links to places where a user can upload a Sora 2 video and remove the watermark. 404 Media tested three of these websites, and they all seamlessly removed the watermark from the video in a matter of seconds. Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and an expert on digitally manipulated images, said he's not shocked at how fast people were able to remove watermarks from Sora 2 videos. "It was predictable," he said. "Sora isn't the first AI model to add visible watermarks and this isn't the first time that within hours of these models being released, someone released code or a service to remove these watermarks." [...] According to Farid, Open AI is decent at employing strategies like watermarks, content credentials, and semantic guardrails to manage malicious use. But it doesn't matter. "It is just a matter of time before someone else releases a model without these safeguards," he said. Both [Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security] and Farid said that the ease at which people can remove watermarks from AI-generated content wasn't a reason to stop using watermarks. "Using a watermark is the bare minimum for an organization attempting to minimize the harm that their AI video and audio tools create," Tobac said, but she thinks the companies need to go further. "We will need to see a broad partnership between AI and Social Media companies to build in detection for scams/harmful content and AI labeling not only on the AI generation side, but also on the upload side for social media platforms. Social Media companies will also need to build large teams to manage the likely influx of AI generated social media video and audio content to detect and limit the reach for scammy and harmful content." "I'd like to know what OpenAI is doing to respond to how people are finding ways around their safeguards," Farid said. "Will they adapt and strengthen their guardrails? Will they ban users from their platforms? If they are not aggressive here, then this is going to end badly for us all."

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Posted by BeauHD

https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2057223/openai-bans-suspected-china-linked-accounts-for-seeking-surveillance-proposals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Tuesday it has banned several ChatGPT accounts with suspected links to the Chinese government entities after the users asked for proposals to monitor social media conversations. In its latest public threat report (PDF), OpenAI said some individuals had asked its chatbot to outline social media 'listening' tools and other monitoring concepts, violating the startup's national security policy. The San Francisco-based firm's report raises safety concerns over potential misuse of generative AI amid growing competition between the U.S. and China to shape the technology's development and rules. OpenAI said it also banned several Chinese-language accounts that used ChatGPT to assist phishing and malware campaigns and asked the model to research additional automation that could be achieved through China's DeepSeek. It also banned accounts tied to suspected Russian-speaking criminal groups that used the chatbot to help develop certain malware, OpenAI said.

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cali4nickation

Trump is calling up Southern troops to
pacify Northern cities and you’re blackpilling?

"There were two schools of thought on the Spanish Right in the lead-up to the civil war: Accidentalism and Catastrophism.

Accidentalists believed that the serious issues facing the Spanish Republic were not baked into the institution itself, but rather an accident that could be attributed to the early Marxist bent of the first government.

The Republic had gotten off on the wrong foot, but Conservatives could and would steer the ship in the right direction once they peacefully won political power through the electoral process and formed a government capable of addressing the Right's concerns regarding government attacks on the Church and private property. They were strictly committed to following the rule of law and operating within the constitutional framework.

The second group believed the Republic was a catastrophe from the start, and that there could be no saving the Republic from itself.

They asserted that the Left would never recognize any non-Leftist government, no matter how much they claimed to uphold the rule of law, because the problem was not with the Republic's legalistic procedures but rather with the fact that the entire system was merely a facade to facilitate a Socialist and eventually Communist state that would permanently exclude Conservatives from power.

These two camps were largely united in their politics but divided in how to engage in politics. One pursued reform, while the other waited for an opportunity to overthrow the system itself once enough of the Right realized that there would be no voting their way out of this mess.

After the Right won the 1933 elections and were met with: 1) Legalistic stonewalling when they attempted to form a government, and 2) An attempted Left-wing revolution in Asturias in 1934, the Catastrophists were proven to be correct.

As 1936 dawned, most Conservatives in Spain had been convinced by the events of the previous five years that the Republic was a catastrophe initiated by a delusional and vindictive set of Left-wing fanatics who sought absolute power. And they were right.

The problem was that the Left associated the Spanish Republic with Left-wing policies, not with concepts like "democracy" or the "rule of law." So when Socialists talked about "democracy," they meant it was their political experiment to wield power, not someone else's. The Right didn't realize this until it was too late. When they sought to play by the rules and win elections through the legitimate democratic process, they found out that the Spanish Left was utterly unwilling to recognize the Right's moral legitimacy to even exist, let alone wield political power to "turn back" any of the "progress" they had already inflicted on the country.

From the moment the Republic itself was declared in April 1931, power was supposed to be the Left's forever. Any deviation, even if through the legitimate electoral process, was seen as an act of treason. It had simply taken the Conservatives five years to come to this realization. The Left was not interested in compromise or coexistence. One side was going to win.

The Right became convinced, through the Left's own actions, that they would never follow the rule of law and that if they continued to operate within the framework of a political system engineered to guarantee their defeat, their very way of life would be extinguished.

Faced with the threat of an adversary that respected no limitations on power and which had explicitly declared its intentions to destroy everything they believed in, the Right abandoned parliamentary democracy and collectively began planning to overthrow the Republic rather than to run it through a political process that it knew the other side had no intentions of ever respecting."

В числе мер по декоммунизации должно быть переименование Сан Франциско в честь Франциско Франко.

#thereisnothingnewunderthesun

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Posted by BeauHD

https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2050249/anthropic-and-ibm-announce-strategic-partnership?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Longtime Slashdot reader kamesh shares a report from TechCrunch: Tech behemoth IBM is teaming up with AI research lab Anthropic to bring AI into its software. Armonk, New York-based IBM announced it will be adding Anthropic's Claude large language model family into some of its software products on Tuesday. The first product to tap Claude will be IBM's integrated development environment, which is already available to a select group of customers. IBM also announced it created a guide in partnership with Anthropic on how enterprises can build, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AI agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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redbird

I woke up at about 7:30 a.m., had a cup of black tea, showered, and went to my doctor’s office for a fasting blood, which I wanted to do before I see her in a couple of weeks. There was a little bit of annoying delay: Mt Auburn Hospital is being moved to a different MyChart system, and some balls are being dropped. Specifically, the order for my lab work wasn’t on the new system, so they had to copy it from the old system, which is in read-only mode for a few weeks, after which it won’t be available even to medical staff. Carmen said her office is going to be sending an email to all patients, advising us to follow up on existing referrals and orders for lab work before the end of the month. I hope that doesn’t miss too many people, but I made a point of telling Adrian about it.

Once they had my test tube of blood, I stopped at a couple of stores on the same block as my doctor’s office, to buy (frozen) ground lamb and some more cannabis edibles. Then I treated myself to an apple, grape, and brie crepe for breakfast, which I ate at an outdoor table. After eating the crepe, I went to CVS and got a flu vaccine, then took the subway home. I am feeling very accomplished, and a bit tired.

The flu and covid tests I mentioned in my previous post arrived yesterday.

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https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2032219/qualcomm-is-buying-arduino-releases-new-raspberry-pi-esque-arduino-board?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its announcement, Qualcomm said that Arduino would "[retain] its brand and mission," including its "open source ethos" and "support for multiple silicon vendors." Qualcomm didn't disclose what it would pay to acquire Arduino. The acquisition also needs to be approved by regulators "and other customary closing conditions." The first fruit of this pending acquisition will be the Arduino Uno Q, a Qualcomm-based single-board computer with a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor installed. The QRB2210 includes a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU and a Qualcomm Adreno 702 GPU, plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and combines that with a real-time microcontroller "to bridge high-performance computing with real-time control." "Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers as it enters this next chapter within the Qualcomm family," Qualcomm said in its press release. "Following this acquisition, the 33M+ active users in the Arduino community will gain access to Qualcomm Technologies' powerful technology stack and global reach. Entrepreneurs, businesses, tech professionals, students, educators, and hobbyists will be empowered to rapidly prototype and test new solutions, with a clear path to commercialization supported by Qualcomm Technologies' advanced technologies and extensive partner ecosystem." CNBC notes in its reporting that this acquisition gives Qualcomm "direct access to the tinkerers, hobbyists and companies at the lowest levels of the robotics industry." From the report: Arduino products can't be used to build commercial products but, with chips preinstalled, they're popular for testing out a new idea or proving a concept. Qualcomm hopes that Arduino can help it gain loyalty and legitimacy among startups and builders as robots and other devices increasingly need more powerful chips for artificial intelligence. When some of those experiments become products, Qualcomm wants to sell them its chips commercially.

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https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2012240/without-data-centers-gdp-growth-was-01-in-the-first-half-of-2025-harvard-economist-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was driven almost entirely by investment in data centers and information processing technology. The GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis without these technology-related categories, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. Investment in information-processing equipment and software accounted for only 4% of U.S. GDP during this period but represented 92% of GDP growth. Renaissance Macro Research estimated in August that the dollar value contributed to GDP growth by AI data-center buildout had surpassed U.S. consumer spending for the first time. Consumer spending makes up two-thirds of GDP. Tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Nvidia poured tens of billions of dollars into building and upgrading data centers.

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/201229/play-store-changes-coming-this-month-as-scotus-declines-to-freeze-antitrust-remedies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader shares a report: Changes are coming to the Play Store in spite of a concerted effort from Google to maintain the status quo. The company asked the US Supreme Court to freeze parts of the Play Store antitrust ruling while it pursued an appeal, but the high court has rejected that petition. That means the first elements of the antitrust remedies won by Epic Games will have to be implemented in mere weeks. The app store case is one of three ongoing antitrust actions against Google, but it's the furthest along of them. Google lost the case in 2023, and in 2024, US District Judge James Donato ordered a raft of sweeping changes aimed at breaking Google's illegal monopoly on Android app distribution. In July, Google lost its initial appeal, leaving it with little time before the mandated changes must begin. [...] The more dramatic changes are not due until July 2026, but this month will still bring major changes to Android apps. Google will have to allow developers to link to alternative methods of payment and download outside the Play Store, and it cannot force developers to use Google Play Billing within the Play Store. Google is also prohibited from setting prices for developers.

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livelight

Вот, например, история ~~британского~~ американского учёного Фреда Рамсделла: он послал всех фпень, отправился в глушь ~~в Саратов~~ ~~в тайгу~~ к медведям и устроил там себе цифровой детокс, где его ~~с вертолётами~~ с трудом разыскал нобелевский комитет, чтобы сообщить, что очень хочет вручить ему премию.
Где-то там приветливо улыбается ему Диоклетиан со своей капустой.

x-post: https://livelight.livejournal.com/694278.html

artyom_ferrier

Помнится, где-то в начале этого лета один приятель заметил: «Многим давно очевидно, что Китай фактически поддерживает Россию в этом Zамуте, поскольку видит в том явные плюсы для себя. Прежде всего в том — что конфликт отвлекает американское внимание. Но теперь — об этом практически открытым текстом говорит китайский министр иностранных дел. Интересно, зачем он это говорит?»

Я предположил: «Ну, возможно, поскольку сам факт поддержки Пекином Москвы уж окончательно сделался секретом полишинеля, Китай нашёл уместным подчеркнуть, что его целью является именно отвлечение американского внимания, а не, скажем, крупнооптовая отгрузка в украинские чернозёмы персон, способных сражаться за Россию. Ведь могут найтись подозрительные люди, которые предположат, что именно в этом заключается цель китайской «братской помощи», подпитывающей войну».

На самом деле, конечно, не думаю, что Китай мечтает обескровить Россию, чтобы воткнуть свой флаг над Сибирью или хотя бы вернуть Владивосток.

Зачем ему это?

Он действует по-иному, более тонко. Пугать же мир явным и хищническим экспансионизмом — ну, хватает одного придурка, решившегося на это в двадцать первом веке.

И при этом, поддерживая Путина, Китай не только отвлекает, раздёргивает американское внимание (и ресурсы), но и — выставляет Штаты как не очень надёжного союзника.

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telesyk

Сегодня утром в центре Донецка на Гладковке население обнаружило коробки с водой

Ватня прочла этикетку и бросилась трезвонить полицаям: Караул! Диверсия!

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/1913224/youtubes-biggest-star-mrbeast-fears-ai-could-impact-millions-of-creators-after-sora-launch?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson, the creator behind the platform's biggest channel MrBeast, is worried there are "scary times" ahead for the creator economy as AI video tools make it increasingly difficult to tell what is real. "When AI videos are just as good as normal videos, I wonder what that will do to YouTube and how it will impact the millions of creators currently making content for a living.. scary times," Donaldson said on X on Sunday. Donaldson's concerns come on the heels of OpenAI's release of a Sora social media platform able to AI generated short-form videos, including of individuals who "upload" themselves onto the app. Meta launched its similar video-generating Vibes platform last month.

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https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/1855232/rgb-led-is-getting-its-time-in-the-spotlight-will-tv-shoppers-tune-in?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Samsung, Hisense, TCL and Sony presented RGB LED TVs at IFA in Berlin last month. The technology replaces each standard LED backlight with a trio of red, green and blue LEDs to expand the range of colors a screen can display. Each manufacturer is using different name for the technology: Hisense has called it RGB-MiniLED, Samsung named it Micro RGB, Sony introduced Sony RGB Technology, and TCL branded it RGB Micro LED. The companies previously tried other monikers at CES. Avi Greengart of Techsponential told PCMag the difference in color fidelity was not subtle when he viewed Samsung's version. PCMag found the Hisense 116UX the brightest TV with the widest color range he had evaluated. Both the 116-inch Hisense and Samsung's 115-inch model list at $30,000. TCL introduced RGB sets in China at prices starting at the equivalent of $1,150 for a 65-inch model. Greengart cautioned that it remained unclear whether the technology would rapidly decline in price or stay expensive like MicroLED.

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https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/1811221/apple-turned-the-crowdstrike-bsod-issue-into-an-anti-pc-ad?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader shares a report: It's been a while since Apple last mocked Windows security, but the iPhone maker has just released an ad that hits Windows hard. The eight-minute commercial pokes fun at the CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue that took down millions of Windows machines last year. Apple's ad follows The Underdogs, a fictional company that's about to attend a trade show, before a PC outage causes chaos and a Blue Screen of Death shuts down machines at the convention. If it wasn't clear Apple was mocking the infamous CrowdStrike incident, an IT expert appears in the middle of the ad and starts discussing kernel-level functionality, the core part of an operating system that has unrestricted access to system memory and hardware.

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kostya_moskowit

Повышение НДС до 22% со следующего года, а так же почти полное уничтожение льгот для малого бизнеса - это конечно плата за ведение войны. С учетом того, что я ожидал выплату зарплаты в виде сначала электронных рублей, а потом просто замены электронных рублей на акции военного займа - не самый худший сценарий.

Малый бизнес пустят под нож просто по той причине, что людей не хватает в крупном бизнесе.

Владельцы ИП уже просекли и стали чаще присылать мне свои резюме.

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/1728206/denmark-aims-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-15-pm-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The Danish government wants to introduce a ban on several social media platforms for children under the age of 15, as Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced Tuesday. From a report: "Mobile phones and social media are stealing our children's childhood," she said in her opening speech to the Danish parliament, the Folketing. "We have unleashed a monster," Frederiksen said, noting that almost all Danish seventh graders, where pupils are typically 13 or 14 years old, own a cellphone. "I hope that you here in the chamber will help tighten the law so that we take better care of our children here in Denmark," she added. However, Frederiksen did not give further details on what such a ban would entail, nor does a bill on an age limit appear in the government's legislative program for the upcoming parliamentary year.

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https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/1556256/openais-computing-deals-top-1-trillion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

OpenAI has signed about $1 trillion in deals this year for computing power to run its AI models, commitments that dwarf its revenue and raise questions about how it can fund them. From a report: Monday's deal with chipmaker AMD follows similar agreements with Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave, as OpenAI races to find the computing power it thinks it will need to run services such as ChatGPT. The deals would give OpenAI access to more than 20 gigawatts of computing capacity, roughly equivalent to the power from 20 nuclear reactors, over the next decade. Each 1GW of AI computing capacity costs about $50bn to deploy in today's prices, according to estimates by OpenAI executives, making the total cost about $1tn. The deals have bound some of the world's biggest tech groups to OpenAI's ability to become a profitable business that can meet its increasingly steep financial obligations.

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