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After 27 Years, Engineer Discovers How To Display Secret Photo In Power Mac ROM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display ...
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Japan's Civil War Over Surnames
Japanese politicians failed to pass legislation last month that would have allowed married couples to keep separate surnames, despite surveys showing majority public support for the change. Japan remains the only country requiring married couples by law to share the same surname, with women taking t...
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Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thurs...
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Cars' Forward Blind Zones Are Worse Now Than 25 Years Ago
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver with the comment: "Lack of visibility is a significant consequence of improving safety on the front overlap crash testing." Here's an excerpt from the report: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has a new method to look at wha...
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Android 16 Will Tell You When Fake Cell Towers Try To Track Your Phone
Android 16 will include a new security feature that warns users when their phones connect to fake cell towers designed for surveillance. The "network notification" setting alerts users when devices connect to unencrypted networks or when networks request phone identifiers, helping protect against "s...
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