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Comment Re:That's okay then, since it's not what will happ (Score 1) 123

Maybe, just maybe, they'll also place ads better than humans - following an intense battle during Star Wars Andor with a children's yogurt ad was very jarring. (I know I'm cheap, but the Disney+ with ads subscription was free on my supermarket loyalty scheme)

Submission + - Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by ZipNada
ZipNada writes: The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.

The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence.

This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their findings yesterday at RootedCON in Madrid.

"Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices," reads a Tarlogic announcement shared with BleepingComputer.

"Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls."

The researchers warned that ESP32 is one of the world's most widely used chips for Wi-Fi + Bluetooth connectivity in IoT (Internet of Things) devices, so the risk of any backdoor in them is significant.

Submission + - Daylight Saving Time Preferences (poll) (gallup.com) 2

Submitted by superposed
superposed writes: Daylight Saving Time is a perennial flashpoint on Slashdot that is coming up again this weekend in the U.S.. Gallup reports that most Americans prefer to eliminate DST but they canâ(TM)t agree on which alternative to adopt. In other words, there is no majority support for any of the three options: switch twice a year, permanent standard time, or permanent advanced time.

Each of these has downsides. I suspect that DST is a solid second-choice winner that canâ(TM)t get a plurality, but might win in anti-plurality voting (everyoneâ(TM)s least-bad choice).

To assess that, please choose the poll item that best matches your ranking of most-preferred to least-preferred option. Then we can hash out a winner via instant-runoff or anti-plurality voting in the comments (they will probably differ).

A. Standard, Advanced, DST
B. Advanced, Standard, DST
C. Standard, DST, Advanced
D. Advanced, DST, Standard
E. DST, Standard, Advanced
F. DST, Advanced, Standard
G. Sync with CowboyNeal

Submission + - Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed Friday to finally end a seven-decade war this year, and pursue the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula. Kim and Moon embraced after signing the deal during a historic meeting on their militarized border, the first time a North Korean leader set foot on the southern side. They announced plans to replace the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities with a peace treaty by year’s end. Their statement on a “common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” stopped short of the “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearnization” long sought by the U.S. and its allies. The statement didn’t elaborate on what the term meant and Kim didn’t personally utter the word during remarks Friday. “We have agreed to share a firm determination to open a new era in which all Korean people enjoy prosperity and happiness on a peaceful land without war,” Kim told reporters, without taking questions.
Science

Entanglement Could Be a Deterministic Phenomenon 259

Posted by kdawson from the playing-dice dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft has joined the likes of computer scientists Stephen Wolfram and Ed Fredkin in claiming that the universe can be accurately modeled by cellular automata. The novel aspect of 't Hooft's model is that it allows quantum mechanics and, in particular, the spooky action at a distance known as entanglement to be deterministic. The idea that quantum mechanics is fundamentally deterministic is known as hidden variable theory but has been widely discounted by physicists because numerous experiments have shown its predictions to be wrong. But 't Hooft says his cellular automaton model is a new class of hidden variable theory that falls outside the remit of previous tests. However, he readily admits that the new model has serious shortcomings — it lacks some of the basic symmetries that our universe enjoys, such as rotational symmetry. However, 't Hooft adds that he is working on modifications that will make the model more realistic (abstract)."
Security

Submission + - UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes (computerweekly.com) 1

Submitted by
Death Metal
Death Metal writes: "The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.

The newspaper hired computer expert Adam Laurie to test the security that protects the information embedded in the chip on the card.

Using a Nokia mobile phone and a laptop computer, Laurie was able to copy the data on a card that is being issued to foreign nationals in minutes."

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