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• How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File

  23-03-2025 23:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule configuration files, Pillar Security researchers reported Tuesday. Rules files are used by AI coding agents to guide their behavior when generating or editing code. For example, a rules file may include instructions for the as
  
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• Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?

  23-03-2025 22:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now "Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative," according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht University community):Employees of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) were recently advised to switch to Signal. Avans University of Applied Sciences has also been discussing a switch...The National Student Union is
  
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• Developer Loads Steam On a $100 ARM Single Board Computer

  23-03-2025 21:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  "There's no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs," writes Slashdot reader VennStone. "So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-powered single-board computers, using Box86/64 and Armbian."The guides I came across were out of date, had a bunch of extra steps thrown in, or were outright incorrect... Up first, we need to add the Box86 and Box64 ARM repositories [along with depend
  
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• Doc Searls Proposes We Set Our Own Terms and Policies for Web Site Tracking

  23-03-2025 20:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Today long-time open source advocate/journalist Doc Searls revealed that years of work by consumer privacy groups has culminated in a proposed standard "that can vastly expand our agency in the digital world" — especially in a future world where agents surf the web on our behalf:
  Meet IEEE P7012 , which "identifies/addresses the manner in which personal privacy terms are proffered and how they can be read and agreed to by machines." It has been in the works since 2017, and should be ready
  
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• Facebook Whistleblower Demands Overturn of Interview Ban - as Her Book Remains a Bestseller

  23-03-2025 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The latest Facebook whistleblower, a former international lawyer, "cannot grant any of the nearly 100 interview requests she has received from journalists from print and broadcast news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom," reports the Washington Post (citing "a person familiar with the matter").
  That's because of an independent arbiter's ruling that "also bars her from talking with lawmakers in the U.S., London and the EU, according to a legal challenge she lodged against the rul
  
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• FSF Holds Live Auction of 'Historically Important' Free Software Memorabilia

  23-03-2025 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  In 30 minutes the Free Software Foundation holds a live auction of memorabilia to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary. "By moving out of the FSF office, we got to sort through all the fun and historically important memorabilia and selected the best ones," they announced earlier — and 25 items will up for bids. (To participate in the live auction, you must register in advance.)
  "This is your chance to get your very own personal souvenir of the FSF," explains an 11-page auction booklet
  
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• US Security Agencies Halt Coordinated Effort to Counter Russian Sabotage and Cyberattacks

  23-03-2025 17:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Reuters reported this week that several U.S. national security agencies "have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks..."
  The plan was led by the president's National Security Council (NSC) and involved at least seven national security agencies working with European allies to disrupt plots targeting Europe and the United States, seven former officials who participated in the working groups told Reuters... [S]ince Trump took office on Janua
  
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• Raspberry Pi Announces New Tool for Customized Software Images

  23-03-2025 16:34 via build.slashdot.org
  
  "For developers and organisations that require a custom software image, a flexible and transparent build system is essential," according to an announcement Friday at Raspberry Pi.com.
  "[T]o support these customers, we have created rpi-image-gen, a powerful new tool designed to put you in complete control of your Raspberry Pi images."If you're building an embedded system or an industrial controller, you'll need complete control over the software resident on the device, and home users may wish to
  
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• 'This Is the Sharpest Image Yet of Our Universe As a Baby'

  23-03-2025 15:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Science magazine reports:
  A strange-looking telescope that scanned the skies from a perch in northern Chile for 15 years has released its final data set: detailed maps of the infant universe showing the roiling clouds of hydrogen and helium gas that would one day coalesce into the stars and galaxies we see today.The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is not the first to survey the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the light released 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the early universe's soup of pa
  
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• 'Wired' Drops Paywalls for Articles Based on Public Records Requests, Urges Other Sites to Follow

  23-03-2025 12:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Wired's web site "is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act," their global editorial director announced this week:They're called public records for a reason, after all. And access to public documents is more important than ever at this moment, with government websites and records disappearing... [S]ome may argue that, from a business standpoint, not charging for stories primarily relying on public records autom
  
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• NASA Considers Eliminating Its Headquarters in Washington D.C.

  23-03-2025 08:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NASA is considering "closing its headquarters and scattering responsibilities among the states," reports Politico, citing two people familiar with the plan."The proposal could affect up to 2,500 jobs and redistribute critical functions, including who manages space exploration and organizes major science missions."
  While much of the day-to-day work occurs at NASA's 10 centers, the Washington office plays a strategic role in lobbying for the agency's priorities in Congress, ensuring the White Hous
  
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• Hungary To Use Facial Recognition to Suppress Pride March

  23-03-2025 04:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Hungary's Parliament not only voted to ban Pride events. They also voted to "allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them," reports the Guardian.[The nationwide legislation] amends the country's law on assembly to make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary's contentious "child protection" legislation, which bars any "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality to minors under the age of 18. The legislation was condemned b
  
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• Italy Demands Google Poison Its Public DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law

  23-03-2025 02:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google," reports Ars Technica, "with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers" to prevent people from reaching pirate streams of football games.
  "Italy's communication regulator praises the ruling and hopes to continue sticking it to international tech firms."
  Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of the
  
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