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America’s CIA Recruited Iran’s Nuclear Scientists – By Threatening To Kill Them

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

A former U.S. spy spoke to The New Yorker about “years of clandestine work for the C.I.A. — which, he said, had ‘prevented Iran from getting a nuke’.”[Kevin] Chalker told me that, as he understood it, the Pentagon had suggested running commando operations to kill key Iranian scientists, as Israel subsequently did. But the C.I.A. proposed recruiting those scientists to defect, as U.S. spies...

Before Webcomics: Selling Political Cartoons On BBSes In 1992

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writes: A year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems. His “telecomics,” as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics. Lokke launched his main series, “Mack the Mouse” at the height of the 1992 Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential race. His...

Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You’ll Accept?

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

MarketWatch looks at “surveillance wages,” pay rates “based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective...

Artemis II’s Jeremy Hansen calls Project Hail Mary ‘a real treat’ before his space mission

Yesterday at 22:09 PM, via The Guardian

Astronaut calls fellow Canadian Ryan Gosling’s movie ‘extraordinary’ ahead of Artemis II crew’s lunar fly-around

The new space movie Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling has gotten a rave review from more than halfway to the moon.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said on Saturday that he and his Artemis II crewmates got to watch the film with their families before launching on the lunar...

Anthropic Announces Claude Subscribers Must Now Pay Extra to Use OpenClaw

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Anthropic’s making a big and sudden change — and connecting its Claude AI to third-party agentic tools “is about to get a lot more expensive,” writes the Verge: Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will “no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw,” according to an email sent to users on Friday evening. Instead, if users want to use...

No, AMD Is Not Buying Intel

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“The April 1st timing should have been your first clue,” writes Gadget Review. TechSpot’s false story was just an April Fool’s prank — although Gadget Review thinks it’s still funny how “something about this particular piece of satire felt uncomfortably plausible.” Maybe it’s because AMD stock sits around $196 while Intel hovers near $41, or perhaps it’s the poetic justice of the underdog...

Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon “must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island,” reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The union formed in 2022, according to the article, and “has been seeking to negotiate with Amazon over pay, working conditions and other matters.” The NLRB said in its ruling that...

The Document Foundation Removes Dozens of Collabora Developers

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributorMichael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code...

Medicines watchdog to investigate UK peptide clinics over health claims

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds several clinics making potentially unlawful claims about benefits of unregulated therapies

What are peptides, are they safe and is there evidence to back up the hype?

The medicines regulator is investigating whether UK clinics are breaking the law by making claims about the benefits of unregulated, experimental peptide therapies, the Guardian can...

What are peptides, are they safe and is there evidence to back up the hype?

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Influencers and athletes are among those claiming substances can help with injury repair, weight loss and angi-ageing

Medicines watchdog to investigate UK peptide clinics over health claims

From influencers to athletes, high-profile figures are hailing peptides as the route to wellness, claiming they help with injury repair, weight loss, anti-ageing and mood. We take a look at what these...

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Leads AI Users To Abandon Logical Thinking, Research Finds

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their...

Colorado’s New Speed Camera System Makes Waze Nearly Useless

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

Colorado is rolling out an average-speed camera system that tracks vehicles across multiple points instead of catching them at a single camera, making it much harder for drivers to dodge tickets with apps like Waze and Radarbot. Motor1 reports: The state’s new automated vehicle identification systems (AVIS) use several cameras to calculate your average speed between them, and if it is 10 miles...

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