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NaNoWriMo To Close After 20 Years

Today at 03:07 AM, via Slashdot

NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit behind the annual novel-writing challenge, is shutting down after 20 years but will keep its websites online temporarily so users can retrieve their content. The Guardian reports: A 27-minute YouTube video posted the same day by the organization’s interim executive director Kilby Blades explained that it had to close due to ongoing financial problems, which were...

I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Today at 02:21 AM, via The Guardian

I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?

It has finally happened. After a decade of avoiding the show, my wife and I decided that we would try out the new season of Married at First Sight. We consume quite a bit of reality TV, so it’s not that we avoided it precisely, but something about the idea of watching people struggle to build...

Five VPN Apps In the App Store Had Links To Chinese Military

Today at 02:20 AM, via Slashdot

A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have “racked up more than a million downloads.” The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder VPN,...

Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities

Today at 01:40 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, with a few additional capabilities. One piece of Claude for Education is “Learning...

Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases

Today at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients

Doctors have reported a rise in the number of patients with Victorian diseases such as scabies, as the Royal College of Physicians urged the government to do more to fight poverty.

The survey of 882 doctors found 89% were concerned about the impact of health inequalities on their patients,...

India Set For $100 Billion Startup IPO Surge By 2027

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

According to Bloomberg, India is set for a surge in tech startup IPOs valued at around $100 billion by 2027, with major players like Flipkart, PhonePe, and Oyo preparing to go public. From a report: A report from Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group suggests that the new wave of IPO hopefuls is in a stronger financial position than their predecessors. Many of the startups that were listed...

Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th By Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

To mark Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates has released the original Altair BASIC source code he co-wrote with Paul Allen, calling it the “coolest code” he’s ever written and a symbol of the company’s humble beginnings. Thurrott reports: “Before there was Office or Windows 95 or Xbox or AI, there was Altair BASIC,” Bill Gates writes on his Gates Notes website. “In 1975, Paul Allen and I...

The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok

Yesterday at 23:57 PM, via Wired

Billionaire Tim Stokely partnered with a crypto company to bid for TikTok as the social media company faces a deadline to either sell or be banned in the US. Amazon also placed a last minute bid.

Vast Pedophile Network Shut Down In Europol’s Largest CSAM Operation

Yesterday at 23:41 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free to preview low-quality videos depicting child sex abuse materials (CSAM). To see higher-resolution videos, users had to...

Global Scam Industry Evolving at ‘Unprecedented Scale’ Despite Recent Crackdown

Yesterday at 23:01 PM, via Slashdot

Online scam operations across Southeast Asia are rapidly adapting to recent crackdowns, adopting AI and expanding globally despite the release of 7,000 trafficking victims from compounds along the Myanmar-Thailand border, experts say. These releases represent just a fraction of an estimated 100,000 people trapped in facilities run by criminal syndicates that rake in billions through investment...

European Commission Takes Aim At End-to-End Encryption and Proposes Europol Become an EU FBI

Yesterday at 22:20 PM, via Slashdot

The European Commission has announced its intention to join the ongoing debate about lawful access to data and end-to-end encryption while unveiling a new internal security strategy aimed to address ongoing threats. From a report: ProtectEU, as the strategy has been named, describes the general areas that the bloc’s executive would like to address in the coming years although as a strategy it...

NIH sued over ‘ideological purge’ of research related to DEI, Covid and vaccines

Yesterday at 21:43 PM, via The Guardian

Agency canceled about $17bn in grants for projects that go beyond Trump’s orders targeting diversity, suit alleges

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A group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over what they call an “ongoing ideological purge” of scientific research.

In a legal complaint filed on Wednesday, the American Public...

Microsoft Urges Businesses To Abandon Office Perpetual Licenses

Yesterday at 21:41 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft is pushing businesses to shift away from perpetual Office licenses to Microsoft 365 subscriptions, citing collaboration limitations and rising IT costs associated with standalone software. “You may have started noticing limitations,” Microsoft says in a post. “Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you’re away from your office. You can’t easily access your...

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

The FBI searched two homes of Indiana University Bloomington data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang last week, following months of university inquiries into whether he received unreported research funding from China, WIRED reported Wednesday. Wang, who leads the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, was terminated on March...

AI Masters Minecraft: DeepMind Program Finds Diamonds Without Being Taught

Yesterday at 20:30 PM, via Slashdot

An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft — a difficult task requiring multiple steps — without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report: “Dreamer marks a...

Dinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Jacobite leader was unknowingly ‘following the footprints’ of megalosaurs after escaping to the Isle of Skye in 1746

When Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the Scottish Highlands after defeat at the Battle of Culloden, his route may have crossed the fossilised footsteps of massive meat-eating dinosaurs, researchers say.

Newly discovered impressions at Prince Charles’s Point on the Isle of Skye,...

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