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Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:50PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. Huawei is accused by a semiconductor manufacturers association of setting up secret chip-making facilities in China to evade U.S. sanctions. The Guardian reports: The Chinese tech firm moved into chip production last year and was receiving an estimated $30 billion in state funding from the government, the Washington-based Semiconductor Industry Association was quoted as saying by Bloomberg, adding that Huawei had acquired at least two existing plants and was building three others. If Huawei is constructing facilities under names of other companies, as the Semiconductor Industry Association alleges, then it may be able to circumvent U.S. government restrictions to indirectly purchase American chip-making equipment, according to Bloomberg. In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter Working...

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Posted by BeauHD on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:00PM from the who's-to-blame dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new proposed class-action lawsuit (as noticed by Bloomberg Law) accuses user-generated "metaverse" company Roblox of profiting from and helping to power third-party websites that use the platform's Robux currency for unregulated gambling activities. In doing so, the lawsuit says Roblox is effectively "work with and facilitat the Gambling Website Defendants... to offer illegal gambling opportunities to minor users." The three gambling website companies named in the lawsuit -- Satozuki, Studs Entertainment, and RBLXWild Entertainment -- allow users to connect a Roblox account and convert an existing balance of Robux virtual currency into credits on the gambling site. Those credits act like virtual casino chips that can be used for simple wagers on those sites, ranging from Blackjack to "coin flip" games. If a player wins, they can transfer their winnings back to the Roblox platform in the form of Robux. The gambling sites use fake purchases of worthless "dummy items" to facilitate these Robux transfers, according to the lawsuit, and Roblox takes a 30 percent transaction fee both when players "cash in" and "cash out" from the

SHORT FILMS by Alex Billington August 21, 2023Source: Vimeo "Maybe we're not always able to go to college like our siblings… But that doesn't mean we don't have dreams." This wonderful short film is about an institution in Southern California called Hope Center for the Arts. Directed by Brandon Bloom, A Crack in the Universe is an exceptionally lovely portrait of the history & times of Hope, all the ups & downs they've been through, with a focus on celebrating how vital they've always been. The 12-minute doc premiered last year and is now available to watch in full online. For decades, Hope Center for the Arts has been cultivating a niche corner of Anaheim's musical & visual arts scene giving the city's intellectually disabled community a place to express themselves through the arts. It's worth a bit of your time to meet these people and be inspired by them. This short is also clearly influenced by the excellent doc Crip Camp, available on Netflix anytime. Both films are extraordinarily heart-warming. Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip on this short doc. Brief intro direct from Vimeo: "For the last several decades, Hope Center for the Arts has been

On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished (theamericanconservative.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:34AM from the let's-go-exploring dept. In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from "the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood," writes the American Conservative. Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, "I had virtually no life beyond the drawing board," he said of the years leading up to the decision... So it came as some surprise earlier this year when Watterson's publisher announced his first new book in nearly thirty years. The Mysteries is a "modern fable"... At seventy-two pages, the book itself is a slight thing, in no way a return to the daily grind of the funny pages. It is being sold exclusively in print. And, typical of Watterson, press access is limited. Andrews McMeel is not sending review copies until the week of its publication

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:34PM from the A's-versus-AI dept. Professors now fear that ignoring or discouraging the use of AI "will be a disservice to students and leave many behind when entering the workforce," reports CNN: According to a study conducted by higher education research group Intelligent.com, about 30% of college students used ChatGPT for schoolwork this past academic year and it was used most in English classes. Jules White, an associate professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, believes professors should be explicit in the first few days of school about the course's stance on using AI and that it should be included it in the syllabus. "It cannot be ignored," he said. "I think it's incredibly important for students, faculty and alumni to become experts in AI because it will be so transformative across every industry in demand so we provide the right training." Vanderbilt is among the early leaders taking a strong stance in support of generative AI by offering university-wide training and workshops to faculty and students. A three-week 18-hour online course taught by White this summer was taken by over 90,000 students, and his paper on "prompt engineering" best practices is

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:34PM from the remember-me? dept. A Bloomberg investigative reporter wrote a new book titled Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. This week Bloomberg published an excerpt that begins when the reporter received a flirtatious text message from a woman named Vicky Ho for a scam that's called "pig butchering". "Vicky's random text had found its way to pretty much exactly the wrong target. I'd been investigating the crypto bubble for more than a year..." After a day, Vicky revealed her true love language: Bitcoin price data. She started sending me charts. She told me she'd figured out how to predict market fluctuations and make quick gains of 20% or more. The screenshots she shared showed that during that week alone she'd made $18,600 on one trade, $4,320 on another and $3,600 on a third... For days, she went on chatting without asking for me to send any money. I was supposed to be the mark, but I had to work her to con me.... Vicky sent me a link to download an app called ZBXS. It looked pretty much like other crypto-exchange apps. "New safe and stable trading