It’s one of America’s best hospitals — a nonprofit “academic medical center” called the Cleveland Clinic. And this week it installed an IBM-managed quantum computer to accelerate healthcare research (according to an announcement from IBM). IBM is calling it “the first quantum computer in the world to be uniquely dedicated to healthcare research.” The clinic’s CEO said the technology “holds …
The New US-China Proxy War Over Undersea Internet Cables
400 undersea cables carry 95% of the world’s international internet traffic, reports Reuters (citing figures from Washington-based telecommunications research firm TeleGeography). But now there’s “a growing proxy war between the United States and China over technologies that could determine who achieves economic and military dominance for decades to come.” In February, American subsea cable company SubCom LLC began laying a …
Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes
An anonymous reader quotes Neowin: Google Project Zero is a security team responsible for discovering security flaws in Google’s own products as well as software developed by other vendors. Following discovery, the issues are privately reported to vendors and they are given 90 days to fix the reported problems before they are disclosed publicly…. Now, the security team has reported …
Amazon Rejects Petition from 30,000 Workers Opposing Return-to-Office Mandate
An anonymous reader shares this report from the New York Post: Disgruntled Amazon corporate employees are reportedly devastated after a top human resources executive shot down an internal petition that asked the tech giant’s leaders to nix its return-to-office plan. Approximately 30,000 workers had signed a petition begging CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his directive that most employees work on …
DoomLinux: the Distro That Loads Only Enough Software to Play DOOM
Hackaday recently shared some thoughts on “purpose-built” distros: Some examples are Kali for security testing, DragonOS for software-defined radio, or Hannah Montana Linux for certain music fans. Anyone can roll their own Linux distribution with the right tools, including [Shadly], who recently created one which only loads enough software to launch the 1993 classic DOOM…. It loads the Linux kernel …
FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, ‘Replicant’ Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami
The Free Software Foundation held their annual LibrePlanet conference last week — and announced that Eli Zaretskii, co-maintainer of GNU Emacs, won their “Advancement of Free Software” award. “He has been a contributor to Emacs for more than thirty years,” notes the FSF announcement, “and as co-maintainer, coordinates the work of more than two hundred active contributors. During Zaretskii’s tenure …
TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-Government Websites, Review Finds
Toronto-based Feroot Security “found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices.” The review was performed in January and February. The presence of that code means that U.S. state governments around …
Internet Archive Loses in Court. Judge Rules They Can’t Scan and Lend eBooks
The Verge reports: A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more than create …
OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Leaked Some Payment Data, Blames Open-Source Bug
OpenAI took ChatGPT offline earlier this week “due to a bug in an open-source library which allowed some users to see titles from another active user’s chat history,” according to an OpenAI blog post. “It’s also possible that the first message of a newly-created conversation was visible in someone else’s chat history if both users were active around the same …
A Geometric Shape That Does Not Repeat Itself When Tiled
IHTFISP shares a report from Phys.Org: A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have written a paper describing how they discovered the unique shape …