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Top Broadband Official Exits Commerce Department With Warning About Starlink(2025-03-17 20:00:14)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: A top Commerce Department official sent a blistering email to his former colleagues on his way out the door Sunday warning that the Trump administration is poised to unduly enrich Elon Musk's satellite internet company with money for rural broadband...
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Xbox 360 Consoles Can Now Be Hacked With Just a USB Key(2025-03-17 15:00:03)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Xbox 360 modders have discovered a new way to get homebrew apps and games running on the console. A new software-only exploit known as BadUpdate allows you to use a USB key to hack past Microsoft's Hypervisor protections and run unsigned code and games. Modern ...
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FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today(2025-03-17 10:00:17)

This week the Free Software Foundation published memorabilia items for an online silent auction — part of their big 40th anniversary celebration. "Starting March 17, the FSF will unlock items each day for bidding on the LibrePlanet wiki at 12:00 EDT.. Bidding on all items will conclude at 15:...
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BlueSky Proposes 'New Standard' for When Scraping Data for AI Training(2025-03-17 05:00:04)

An anonymous reader shared this article from TechCrunch: Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay ...
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Google's AI 'Co-Scientist' Solved a 10-Year Superbug Problem in Two Days(2025-03-17 00:00:14)

Google collaborated with Imperial College London and its "Fleming Initiative" partnership with Imperial NHS, giving their scientists "access to a powerful new AI designed" built with Gemini 2.0 "to make research faster and more efficient," according to an announcement from the school. And the result...
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