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https://slashdot.org/
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On December 04, 2024, 08:00 AM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS57043 in Netherlands.
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The Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appears to be signaling its intention to tackle daylight saving time. Musk has indicated support for ending biannual clock changes in recent days on his social media platform X, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1861801650383659230">sharing a poll</a> showing majority opposition to the practice. <br> <br>
DOGE co-head Ramaswamy also backed the stance, calling time changes "<a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1861808163512627652">inefficient and easy to change</a>." <br> <br>
The initiative follows <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/06/0130207/why-hasnt-the-us-ended-daylight-saving-time">a failed 2022 legislative attempt</a>, the Sunshine Protection Act, which <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/03/15/200203/senate-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent">passed the Senate but stalled in the House</a>. The Department of Transportation, which oversees time changes, cannot alter the system without congressional action.<br> <br>
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For every 10,000 employees, South Korea now has 1,102 robots, making the country number one in the world in using technology instead of human labour to do tasks, according to the annual survey by World Robotics 2024.<br> <br>
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Walmart said Tuesday it had <a href="https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/walmart-closes-vizio-acquisition-1236233418/">completed its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio</a>, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business. From a report:<i> The closing of the deal follows the expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations. Walmart <a href="https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/02/20/1218207/walmart-to-buy-tv-maker-vizio-for-23-billion">announced the deal</a> to buy Vizio in February 2024. Walmart said the acquisition of Vizio will let it "bring to market new and differentiated ways for advertisers to meaningfully connect with customers at scale and boost product discovery" through Walmart Connect, the company's U.S. retail media business.<br> <br>
Walmart and Vizio will continue to operate separately "for the foreseeable future," according to the announcement. William Wang will continue to lead Vizio as CEO, reporting to Seth Dallaire, executive VP and chief growth officer of Walmart U.S. Vizio, founded in 2002, is a leading vendor of value-priced HDTVs. Its device ecosystem and its smart TV operating system, SmartCast, provide free, ad-supported access to streaming content.</i><br>
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China-linked spies are still <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/03/salt-typhoon-china-phone-hacks">lurking inside U.S. telecommunications networks</a> roughly six months after American officials started investigating the intrusions, senior officials told reporters Tuesday. From a report:<i> This is the first time U.S. officials have confirmed reports that Salt Typhoon hackers still have access to critical infrastructure -- and they're proving difficult to kick out. Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.<br> <br>
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI released guidance Tuesday for the communications sector to harden their networks against Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The guide includes basic steps like maintaining logs of activity on the network, keeping an inventory of all devices in the telecom's environment and changing any default equipment passwords. The hack has given Salt Typhoon unprecedented access to records from U.S. telecommunications networks about who Americans are communicating with, a senior FBI official told reporters during a briefing.</i><br>
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Nature:<i> Millions of research articles are <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03842-z">absent from major digital archives</a>. This worrying finding, which Nature <a href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/03/07/0614207/millions-of-research-papers-at-risk-of-disappearing-from-the-internet">reported on earlier this year</a>, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a string of characters used to identify and link to specific publications, such as scholarly articles and official reports. Of these, he found that more than two million were 'missing' from archives -- that is, they were not preserved in major archives that ensure literature can be found in the future.<br> <br>
Eve, who is also a research developer at Crossref, an organization that registers DOIs, carried out the study in an effort to better understand a problem librarians and archivists already knew about -- that although researchers are generating knowledge at an unprecedented rate, it is not necessarily being stored safely for the future. One contributing factor is that not all journals or scholarly societies survive in perpetuity. For example, a 2021 study found that a lack of comprehensive and open archiving meant that 174 open-access journals, covering all major research topics and geographical regions, vanished from the web in the first two decades of this millennium.<br> <br>
A lack of long-term archiving particularly affects institutions in low- and middle-income countries, less-affluent institutions in rich countries and smaller, under-resourced journals worldwide. Yet it's not clear whether researchers, institutions and governments have fully taken the problem on board. [...] At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. [...] For institutions that can afford it, one solution is to pay a preservation archive to safeguard content. Examples include Portico, based in New York City, and CLOCKSS, based in Stanford, California, both of which count a raft of publishers and libraries as customers.</i><br>
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More Americans are looking to switch jobs <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/more-workers-feel-stuck-on-the-job/ar-AA1vbpNz">than at any point in the past decade</a>. In a cooling job market, that's a lot easier said than done. From a report:<i> White-collar hiring continues to slow, but workers' restlessness to find new work is intensifying, new Gallup data show. More than half of 20,000 U.S. workers surveyed in November said they were watching for or actively seeking a new job. That's the largest share since 2015, eclipsing the so-called Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022, when millions of people quit jobs for better ones.<br> <br>
The result? Job satisfaction has fallen to its lowest level in recent years as employees feel more stuck -- and frustrated -- where they are, according to Gallup, whose quarterly surveys are widely viewed as a bellwether of workplace sentiment. Smaller raises and fewer promotions are spurring some of the discontent, workers say. So are cost-cutting moves and stepped-up requirements to be working in offices more often.</i><br>
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Amazon's data centers could soon <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/01/2024/amazon-ai-data-centers-to-double-as-carbon-capture-machines">double as carbon capture machines</a>, offsetting the harmful effects of the massive amounts of energy required to run them. From a report:<i> Amazon Web Services is partnering with startup Orbital Materials, which used artificial intelligence to create a new material specifically designed for separating carbon from hot air exhaust in data centers, the companies announced Monday.<br> <br>
Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin said he expects AWS to capture enough carbon to exceed the fossil fuel consumption used to power its AI data centers, giving them a net negative impact on climate change. The process will cost less than purchasing captured carbon to offset its climate impact, according to Godwin. The system, part of a pilot program at a to-be-determined data center location, works when outside air is sucked in and used to cool extremely hot semiconductors designed to run or train powerful AI models, such as Anthropic's Claude chatbot.</i><br>
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<a href="/~MojoKid">MojoKid</a> writes: <i>Intel officially revealed its next generation discrete graphics cards, code named Battlemage, this morning. There are two midrange cards in the series so far, <a href="https://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-arc-b580-debut-battlemage-discrete-gpus-arrive">branded Arc B580 and Arc B570</a>, though future higher-end B700 series cards are unknown currently. The graphics architecture for Battlemage is Xe2, and it debuted in the iGPU on Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V mobile processors earlier this year. <br> <br>
Arc B580 is paired to 12GB of GDDR6 memory operating at an effective data rate of 19Gbps over a 192-bit interface, and its average GPU clock should hover around 2,670MHz. The Arc B570 is based on the same slice of silicon, but scales things down with 10GB of GDDR6 memory operating at the same speed as the B580, but connected over a narrower 160-bit interface. The B570's average GPU clock will also be lower, in the 2,500MHz range. Performance-wise, Intel is projecting that Arc B580 will be about 10% faster than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 on average but will be priced at $249 USD, undercutting GeForce RTX 4060 substantially while offering 4GB more onboard graphics memory. Arc B580 cards are due to arrive in market this month, with Arc B570 arriving in January 2025 at $219 USD.</i><br>
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The cyber risks facing the United Kingdom are being "<a href="https://therecord.media/uk-cyber-chief-warns-underestimate">widely underestimated</a>," the country's new cyber chief will warn on Tuesday as he launches the National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) annual review. From a report:<i> In his first major speech since joining the NCSC -- part of the signals and cyber intelligence agency GCHQ -- Richard Horne will drive a shift in tone in how the cybersecurity agency communicates these risks. Despite some evidence showing cyberattacks growing year-on-year for half a decade, the NCSC has not previously confirmed the trend nor expressed alarm about it.<br> <br>
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