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Another Undersea Cable Damaged in Baltic Sea. Criminal Sabotage Investigation Launched
"An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday," reports the Financial Times, "in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure..."
Criminal investigations have...
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Bad Week for Unoccupied Waymo Cars: One Hit in Fatal Collision, One Vandalized by Mob
For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was "hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour," a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ("Two other victims were taken to the hospital with life-thre...
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Linux 6.14 Brings Some Systems Faster Suspend and Resume
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which "will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems."
Wikipedia defines ACPI as "an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware com...
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New CIA Director Touts 'Low Confidence' Assessment About Covid Lab Leak Theory
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: "Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon," CNN reported today.
But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than Covid-19 originating from wild animal meat traded the Wuhan Ma...
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FSF: Meta's License for Its Llama 3.1 AI Model 'is Not a Free Software License'
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1.
But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that "this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it."
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