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Slashdot Stories Firehose All Popular Polls Ask Events -- Deals Submit Search Slashdot Login or Sign up Topics: Devices Build Entertainment Technology Open Source Science YRO more... -- Follow us: RSS Facebook Google+ Twitter Newsletter Slashdot is powered by your submissions , so send in your scoop Nickname: Password: Public Terminal Forgot your password? Close binspam dupe notthebest offtopic slownewsday stale stupid fresh funny insightful interesting maybe offtopic flamebait troll redundant overrated insightful interesting informative funny underrated descriptive typo dupe error ! -- Automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach. Check out all of SourceForge’s improvements. | Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn × 129369748 story Hackers Steal $25 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency From Uniswap and LendfMe (zdnet.com) 4 -- 4 Posted by msmash on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:06AM from the closer-look dept. Hackers have stolen more than $25 million in cryptocurrency from the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf.me lending platform. From a report: The attacks took place over the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Although an investigation is currently underway, the two attacks are believed to be related, and most likely carried out by the same group or individual. According to investigators, hackers appear to have chained together bugs and legitimate features from different blockchain technologies to orchestrate a sophisticated "reentrancy attack." Reentrancy attacks allow hackers to withdraw funds repeatedly, in a loop, before the original transaction is approved or declined. business money lendfme 129356732 story Ask Slashdot: What Are You Doing To Help? 154 -- 154 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:24AM from the going-viral dept. Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: With all the news stories about how the pandemic is impacting our world, some of us have been just plain lucky. As an information worker, I was already working from home, so I still have my full-time job — and my full-time income. So my question is, if we really are all "in this together," then what can I be doing to help the others who need it? Here's what I've done so far. First just by staying at home, I'm keeping myself healthy, while not adding to the burdens of medical workers, or spreading the virus to anyone else. But I'm also at least trying to place some food orders at local restaurants, having it delivered to my home (and also adding a big tip.) The post office will be sending me two sheets of "Forever" stamps that I bought to help pre-fund future postal services. And though I haven't bought any gift cards yet, I've ordered $40 worth of books to support my local bookstore, and placed a second order for a bunch of graphic novels from my favorite local comic book shop. Bookstores do need our support. You can also try buying your books through BookShop.org , a new e-commerce site whose profits go to local independent bookstores while giving book-buyers an alternative to Amazon. But some stores are just turning to crowdfunding campaigns. When people heard that San Francisco's iconic City Lights Bookstore might be forced to close after 60 years, they contributed over $484,000 to its GoFundMe campaign to keep it alive. In fact, there's now at least 30,000 coronavirus-related GoFundMe pages to choose from. If you want to do something more organized, the New York Times has launched its own fundraising page for "four nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to those facing economic hardship." The nonprofit-evaluating site Charity Navigator has also created a list of trustworthy organizations seeking donations to support communities affected by the pandemic. Everyone's got their own ideas about how to help — so what are the rest of you doing? If you've been lucky, what ways have you found to give back, to pitch in, or just feel like you're connecting to the community beyond your door? Leave your answers in the comments. What are you doing to help? books social askslashdot 129353120 story Programmer's Real-Time Deepfake Lets Him Impersonate Elon Musk on Zoom (vice.com) 35 -- 35 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:42PM from the Musk-bombing dept. Motherboard reports on a new open source program "that superimposes someone else's face onto yours in real-time, during video meetings ." Programmer Ali Aliev used the open-source code from the " First Order Motion Model for Image Animation ," published on the arxiv preprint server earlier this year [and developed by researchers at the University of Trento in Italy as well as Snap] ... With other face-swap technologies, like deepfakes, the algorithm is trained on the face you want to swap, usually requiring several images of the person's face you're trying to animate. This model can do it in real-time, by training the algorithm on similar categories of the target (like faces)... Aliev made a video of himself as Elon Musk , pretending to join the wrong meeting, to demonstrate the tech. It's pretty clear that it's a fake, but the eyes and head move around well enough that it'd be a neat trick for a few seconds, before the rest of the call looks any closer. He's released his program on GitHub , naming it "Avatarify". But Motherboard warns it requires "a bit of programming knowledge" plus a powerful gaming PC. "You have to run Zoom or Skype, as well as streaming software and Avatarify at the same time, which takes a decent amount of computing power." graphics opensource ai 129348700 story Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content (nzherald.co.nz) 136 -- 136 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:39PM from the link-sharing dept. "Social media giants Facebook and Google will be forced to pay Australian media companies for sharing their content or face sanctions under a landmark decision..." reports the New Zealand Herald: The move comes as the media industry reels from tumbling advertising revenue, already in decline before the Covid 19 coronavirus outbreak collapsed the market. Australia will become the first government to impose a legal regime including financial penalties for digital platforms that profit from content produced by the news media. The federal Government has instructed competition watchdog, the ACCC, to develop a mandatory code of conduct for the digital giants to adhere to. Writing in the Australian newspaper this morning, treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it was "only fair" that the search engines and social media giants pay for the original news content that they use to drive traffic to their sites. facebook google australia 129335760 story Will Companies Cut Open Source Investment Because of COVID-19? (www.tfir.io) 35 -- 35 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 19, 2020 @12:34PM from the long-term-support dept. The editor of TFIR posed an interesting question to Rob Hirschfeld, the Founder/CEO of RackN (which automates and integrates bare-metal infrastructure). Will the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the sustainability of open source software? Hirschfeld responded: "The idea that big companies are maintaining open-source projects for the community good is going to get tested , as companies look for places where they can conserve revenue. I think that's a really critical thing." "The same is going to be true with open-source startups that are hoping to monetize support or consulting but have no real gate across the front of their infrastructure... Companies might decide they can use the open-source project and not pay the sustaining engineers that are working in that project. "These are really serious concerns about the whole open-source model, which relies on goodwill and free money." business opensource contagion 129333450 story O'Reilly Makes 'Prototype to Product' eBook Free to Help COVID-19 Innovators (oreilly.com) 27 -- 27 Posted by EditorDavid o...