October 26, 2021 at 5:14:26 PM UTC
VERIFY
Websites
Runtime: 5.6s
On October 26, 2021 at 5:14:26 PM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS138168 in Myanmar (Burma).
Failures
HTTP Experiment
null
DNS Experiment
null
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DNS Queries
Resolver:
74.125.190.152
Query:
IN A slashdot.org
Engine:
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TTL
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Answer IP Info
@
IN
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204.68.111.106
AS6130 (American Internet Services, LLC.)
TCP Connections
204.68.111.106:443: succeeded
HTTP Requests
URL
GET https://slashdot.org/
Response Headers
Cache-Control:no-cacheContent-Security-Policy:frame-ancestors 'self'; upgrade-insecure-requestsContent-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8Date:Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:14:34 GMTPragma:no-cacheServer:nginxSlash_log_data:shtmlStrict-Transport-Security:max-age=31536000X-Frame-Options:SAMEORIGINX-Xrds-Location:https://slashdot.org/slashdot.xrds
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Amazon is officially <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/amazon-quantum-computer-caltech/">entering the race to develop a quantum computer</a>, joining U.S. and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the properties of nature's tiniest particles into computing power far surpassing existing machines. From a report:<i> Amazon will base its quantum team at a new center on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., which officially opens this week. Caltech described it as the first "corporate-partnership building" on the university's campus, showing "Caltech's interests in bringing fundamental science to the marketplace." The investment reflects growing corporate interest in quantum computers, which are still at an early stage of development but could someday crack problems that existing computers can't, such as identifying new materials to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or new chemical compounds to treat intractable diseases. In the defense sphere, some scientists believe quantum computers might someday be able to break existing forms of encryption, making them a hot development priority for the United States, China and other nations.</i><br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: <i>After already targeting verticals like hotels and apartment complexes, Amazon <a href="https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-brings-alexa-senior-living-communities-and-healthcare">announced</a> today it's now <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/25/amazon-brings-alexa-to-hospitals-and-senior-living-centers/">rolling out new solutions for healthcare providers and senior living centers</a>. The solutions, which are a part of Alexa Smart Properties, are designed specifically to meet the needs of deploying Alexa devices at scale and will allow the facility's administrators to create customized experiences for their residents or patients. In senior living centers, the residents would be able to use Alexa devices to call their family members and other loved ones, as well as keep up with the goings-on at their community and other community news. The devices could also be used to make announcements, allow the residents to communicate with each other through direct audio messages and make voice and video calls, and they can streamline other center activities -- like check-ins, maintenance requests and various administrative tasks. Amazon believes this could help make facilities more efficient and productive. Amazon says senior living communities include Atria and Eskaton will integrate with its new solution.
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With Amazon's new solution for hospitals, patients will be able to use Alexa to communicate with care staff, control the devices in their room, and stay entertained with news and music. Healthcare providers can also communicate with their patients using Alexa features like calling and Drop-In, without having to enter the patient rooms. This could also help hospitals be more productive and conserve their medical supplies and protective equipment like gloves, masks and gowns, notes Amazon. (PPE shortages had been an ongoing issue in some locations as COVID spiked during the pandemic.) Though Amazon has struggled with privacy issues related to its use of voice recordings and transcriptions, the healthcare and senior living center solutions will not save the voice recordings and don't require users to share personal info with Alexa to use the device, the company explains. Users can also mute the Echo's microphone at any time with the button on top. Amazon also claims it safeguards protected health information received through HIPAA-eligible Alexa skill interactions. Both of the new Alexa Smart Properties solutions will roll out in the U.S. starting next month, Amazon says.</i><br>
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Last week, Facebook <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/10/18/2049212/facebook-plans-to-hire-10000-in-europe-to-build-metaverse">announced</a> plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union to help build "the metaverse," a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality. We now know how much the company plans to spend on this venture, as revealed in the company's <a href="https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2021/Facebook-Reports-Third-Quarter-2021-Results/default.aspx">third-quarter earnings release</a>. According to The Verge, "Facebook <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/25/22745381/facebook-reality-labs-10-billion-metaverse">plans to spend at least $10 billion this year on Facebook Reality Labs</a>, its metaverse division tasked with creating AR and VR hardware, software, and content." From the report: <i> "We are committed to bringing this long-term vision to life and we expect to increase our investments for the next several years," the company writes in its third-quarter earnings release this afternoon. Facebook sees AR and VR as being core to "the next generation of online social experiences." The division, which already makes the Oculus Quest headset and Portal lineup of calling devices, is clearly being positioned as the next big thing inside of Facebook. For one, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been talking about the metaverse nonstop for the past several months. And today, Facebook said it's going to begin reporting earnings specifically for its Reality Labs segment, while Facebook's main ads business -- a staggering $28 billion this last quarter alone -- will be reported under another bucket. It's a sign to investors that the Reality Labs business matters and should be judged separately from how they value Facebook today.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Debrief: <i>How do we how know to speak and to read? These essential questions led to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that <a href="https://thedebrief.org/your-brain-uses-autocorrect-to-decipher-language-and-ai-just-helped-us-prove-it-new-study-says/">uses AI models to examine how and why our brains understand language</a>. Oddly enough, your brain may work just like your smartphone's autocorrect feature. The new study, <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932342">published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>, shows that the function of these AI language models resembles the method of language processing in the human brain, suggesting that the human brain may use next-word prediction to drive language processing.
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In this new study, a team of researchers at MIT analyzed 43 different language models, many of which were optimized for next-word prediction. These models include the GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), which can generate realistic text when given a prompt, or other ones designed to provide a fill-in-the-blanks function. Researchers presented each model with a string of words to measure the activity of its neural nodes. They then compared these patterns to activity in the human brain, measured when test subjects performed language tasks like listening, reading full sentences, and reading one word at a time. The study showed that the best performing next-word prediction models had activity patterns that bore the most resemblance to those of the human brain. In addition, activity in those same models also correlated with human behavioral measures, such as how fast people could read the text.
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The new study results suggest that next-word prediction is one of the key functions in language processing, supporting a previously proposed hypothesis but has yet to be confirmed. Scientists have not found any brain circuits or mechanisms that conduct that type of processing. Moving forward, the researchers plan to build variants of the next-word prediction models to see how small changes between each model affect their processing ability. They also plan to combine these language models with computer models developed to perform other brain-like tasks, such as perception of the physical world.</i><br>
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Despite a world economy that slowed significantly because of COVID-19, the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048960283/greenhouse-emissions-reached-record-levels-in-2020">reached a new record last year</a>, putting the goal of slowing the rise of global temperatures "way off track," according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). NPR reports: <i> The United Nations body said Monday that carbon dioxide had risen by more than the 10-year average in 2020 to 413.2 parts per million, despite a slight decrease in emissions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Methane and nitrous oxide, two other potent greenhouse gases, also showed increases, the WMO said in the <a href="https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10838">latest issue of its Greenhouse Gas Bulletin</a>. "At the current rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, we will see a temperature increase by the end of this century far in excess of the Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to 2 C above preindustrial levels," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said. "We are way off track," he said.
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (AFL) is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that <a href="https://newatlas.com/science/argon-fluoride-laser-practical-fusion-reactor/">may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology</a>. New Atlas reports: <i> The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is designed to have the shortest laser wavelength that can scale up to power a self-sustaining fusion reaction. [...] The NRL's ArF laser is intended for a test facility based on the principle of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). In this, a bead of deuterium or tritium, which are heavy isotopes of hydrogen, is fired upon by multiple lasers, heating and compressing it in a fraction of a second to such an extent that the hydrogen atoms implode, fuse together, and release enormous amounts of energy.
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An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-finds-that-linux-users-generate-more-better-bug-reports/">generated over 38% of the bug reports</a>. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either. Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux. PC Gamer reports: <i> The developer, posting as Koderski for developer Kodera Software <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/">on Reddit</a>, makes indie game [<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/846030/V_Rings_of_Saturn/">Delta] V: Rings of Saturn</a> -- that's Delta V, or DV, for the non-rocket-science-literate. [...] Koderski says he's sold a little over 12,000 copies of his game, and about 700 of those were bought by Linux players. "I got 1040 bug reports in total, out of which roughly 400 are made by Linux players," says Koderski's post. "That's one report per 11.5 users on average, and one report per 1.75 Linux players. That's right, an average Linux player will get you 650% more bug reports." Koderski's numbers are a limited sample size drawn from one person's experience, but tell a compelling story.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: <i>The reign of Apple's M1 SoC at the top of the Geekbench speed benchmarks may soon be over with the impending arrival of Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake mobile processors. Hardware site Wccftech appears to have been leaked Intel's upcoming Core i9-12900HK mobile CPU, and has now <a href="https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-mobility-cpu-benchmarks-leaked-faster-than-the-apple-m1-max-smokes-amd-5980hx-11980hk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">revealed</a> the first benchmarks. The results show Intel's mobile CPU <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/cpu-benchmarks-pre-release-intel-alder-lake-chip-beats-apples-m1-max/">narrowly outperforming Apple's flagship 10-core M1 Max</a>, which also integrates a 32-core GPU and 64GB of unified memory.
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In these latest tests, the Core i9-12900HK outperforms the M1 Max on both single-core and multi-core benchmarks. The margin is slim, but is important for Intel since Apple ditched its CPUs for its own designs in new MacBooks. Intel's Alder Lake CPU didn't beat the M1 Max by much, with respective single-core scores of 1851 and 1785. It beat the Core i9-11980HK and AMD's top mobile CPU, the Ryzen 5980HX, by a bigger margin: the latter two CPUs saw scores of 1616 and 1506, respectively. In the multi-core benchmark, the Core i9-12900HK scored 13256 versus the M1 Max's score of 12753. Again, it trounced AMD's 5980HX, which scored 8217. Wccftech's Alder Lake benchmarks were run using Windows 11, so it's possible Thread Director's hardware scheduling influenced the results.</i><br>
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China locked down a county that has seen the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/china-locks-down-thousands-in-north-as-delta-outbreak-spreads">most Covid-19 cases in the nation's latest delta outbreak</a>, as an initial flareup in the northwest quickly spirals into a nationwide surge. From a report:<i> Ejin, a county in China's Inner Mongolia region, asked its 35,700 residents to stay home from Monday and warned of civil and criminal liabilities should anyone disobey the order, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing a local government statement. The small county bordering Mongolia is the current outbreak's hotspot, home to nearly one-third of the more than 150 infections found over the past week in the mainland. The lockdown comes a day after a warning from National Health Commission officials that the outbreak would continue to worsen after spreading to 11 provinces in about a week. China reported 38 Covid infections on Monday, half of which were found in Inner Mongolia.<br> <br>
The capital Beijing -- which has seen a dozen new cases traced back to the northwest -- has all but banned entry by people arriving from anyplace in the country that's reported locally-transmitted Covid cases. People who have to visit Beijing from these areas must provide a negative Covid test conducted no longer than two days earlier, and undergo two weeks of unspecified health monitoring.</i><br>
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Owen Jones, a British newspaper columnist and activist for the Labour Party, writes in an opinion piece for The Guardian: <i> The aftermath of the horrific killing of Conservative MP David Amess should have been a moment for politicians and the public to unite in an effort to protect democracy. Instead, the discussion has been derailed by a push to ban anonymous social media accounts, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/25/banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-stifle-free-speech-abuse">which would stifle free speech and democratic rights</a>. Threatening online messages to politicians and other public figures should be taken seriously. As someone who has experienced online abuse, and a physical attack at the hands of the far right, I know all too well the danger. But, in this tragic event, there seems to be no known connection between the death of Amess and anonymous online posting.
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While MPs are grieving, and understandably feel vulnerable, we must ask whether strengthening the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Bill">online safety bill</a> is the right approach. By shifting attention away from extremism toward online anonymity, do we hinder our democracy? There are many legitimate reasons why a citizen may not feel comfortable posting their opinion or sharing information under their own identity. Given the number of politicians who offer off-the-record quotes to journalists on a daily basis, generally for fear of their jobs or other harmful consequences, MPs will be able to empathize with this. The bill would allow Ofcom to punish social networks that fail to remove "lawful but harmful" content. Defining abuse is politically subjective -- what is seen as accountability by some could be seen as abuse by others. Mark Francois, who is campaigning for the changes, said "while people in public life must remain open to legitimate criticism, they can no longer be vilified or their families subject to the most horrendous abuse." While there is no place for verbally violent, threatening or disturbing language, what can be defined as vilification versus illegitimate criticism is harder to judge...</i> <b>Friendly reminder</b>: Slashdot continues to allow users to post comments and stories anonymously as an "Anonymous Coward." This is something that's been criticized <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/01/25/1713206/in-defense-of-anonymous-cowards">since its inception</a>, but it's something we think is important and <a href="https://slashdot.org/faq/misc.shtml">plan to continue</a> for the foreseeable future.<br>
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