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Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots (msn.com)
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While still employed at Intel, Varun Gupta downloaded about 4,000 files, which included trade secrets and proprietary materials, from his work computer to personal portable hard drives, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon. While working for Microsoft, between February and July 2020, Gupta accessed and used information during ongoing negotiations with Intel regarding chip purchases, according to a sentencing memo. Some of the information containing trade secrets included a PowerPoint presentation that referenced Intel's pricing strategy with another major customer, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon in a sentencing memo.
Intel raised concerns in 2020, and Microsoft and Intel launched a joint investigation, the sentencing memo says. Intel filed a civil lawsuit in February 2021 that resulted in Gupta being ordered to pay $40,000.
Oregon Live reports that the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Narus, sought an eight-month prison term for Gupta. Narus spoke about Gupta's purposeful and repeated access to secret documents. Eight months of federal imprisonment was sought as Gupta repetitively abused his cache of secret documents, according to the prosecutor.
For the defense, attorney David Angeli described Gupta's actions as a "serious error in judgment." Mitigating circumstances, such as Gupta's permanent loss of high-level employment opportunities in the industry, and that he had already paid $40,000 to settle a civil suit brought by Intel, were highlighted.
U.S. District Judge Amy Baggio concluded the court hearing by delivering a balance between the above adversarial positions. Baggio decided that Gupta should face a two-year probationary sentence [and pay a $34,472 fine — before heading back to France]... The ex-tech exec and his family have started afresh in La Belle France, with eyes on a completely new career in the wine industry. According to the report, Gupta is now studying for a qualification in vineyard management, while aiming to work as a technical director in the business.
In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%. "Is all of this focus on training worth the outcome?" asked researcher Ariana Mirian, a senior security researcher at Censys and recently a Ph.D. student at U.C. San Diego, where the study was conducted. "Training barely works..."
[Research partner Christian Dameff, co-director of the U.C. San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity] and Mirian wanted scientifically rigorous, real-world results. (You can read their academic paper here.) They enrolled more than 19,000 employees of the UCSD Health system and randomly split them into five groups, each member of which would see something different when they failed a phishing test randomly sent once a month to their workplace email accounts... Over the eight months of testing, however, there was little difference in improvement among the four groups that received different kinds of training. Those groups did improve a bit over the control group's performance — by the aforementioned 1.7%...
[A]bout 30% of users clicked on a link promising information about a change in the organization's vacation policy. Almost as many fell for one about a change in workplace dress code... Another lesson was that given enough time, almost everyone falls for a phishing email. Over the eight months of the experiment, just over 50% failed at least once.
In Massachusetts, the Teamsters labor union is backing a proposed state law that would require autonomous vehicles to have a human safety operator who can intervene during the ride, effectively forbidding truly driverless rides. Oregon lawmakers recently passed a bill supported by the Oregon Nurses Association that prohibits AI from using the title "nurse" or any associated abbreviations. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, a federation of 63 national and international labor unions, launched a national task force last month to work with state lawmakers on more laws that regulate automation and AI affecting workers... The AFL-CIO task force plans to help unions take on problematic use of AI in collective bargaining and contracts and in coming months to develop a slate of model legislation available to state leaders, modeled on recently passed and newly proposed legislation in places including California and Massachusetts.
This breakthrough allows us to harness light energy more effectively, driving challenging and energy-demanding chemical reactions.
We have applied this technology to generate carbanions — negatively charged carbon atoms that serve as crucial building blocks in the creation, or synthesis, of carbon- and hydrogen-rich chemicals known as organic chemicals. Carbanions are vital in making drugs, polymers and many other important materials. However, traditional methods to produce carbanions often require lots of energy and dangerous reagents, and generate significant chemical waste, posing environmental and safety challenges... Our new method offers a greener, safer alternative [using visible light and renewable starting materials]...
We've used it to synthesize important drug molecules, including antihistamines, in a single step using simple, cheap and commonly available "commodity chemicals" — amines and alkenes. And importantly, the reaction scales well in commercial-scale continuous flow reactors, highlighting its potential for industrial applications.
According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and Malaysian offices, in conjunction with local Malaysian authorities, conducted a raid on a warehouse in May that was engaged in cooking up counterfeit Seagate hard drives, situated outside Kuala Lumpur.
During the raid, authorities reportedly uncovered approximately 700 counterfeit Seagate hard drives, with SMART values that had been reset to facilitate their sale as new... However, Seagate-branded drives were not the only items involved, as authorities also discovered drives from Kioxia and Western Digital. Seagate suspects that the used hard drives originated from China during the Chia [cryptocurrency] boom. Following the cryptocurrency's downfall, numerous miners sold these used drives to workshops where many were illicitly repurposed to appear new. This bust may represent only the tip of the iceberg, as Heise estimates that at least one million of these Chia drives are circulating, although the exact number that have been recycled remains uncertain.
The clandestine workshop, likely one of many establishments in operation, reportedly employed six workers. Their responsibilities included resetting the hard drives' SMART values, cleaning, relabeling, and repackaging them for distribution and sale via local e-commerce platforms.
Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks. Companies are also not allowed to offer AI-powered therapy services — or advertise chatbots as therapy tools — without the involvement of a licensed professional.
Nevada passed a similar set of restrictions on AI companies offering therapy services in June, while Utah also tightened regulations for AI use in mental health in May but stopped short of banning the use of AI.
The bans come as experts have raised alarms about the potential dangers of therapy with AI chatbots that haven't been reviewed by regulators for safety and effectiveness. Already, cases have emerged of chatbots engaging in harmful conversations with vulnerable people — and of users revealing personal information to chatbots without realizing their conversations were not private.
Some AI and psychiatry experts said they welcomed legislation to limit the use of an unpredictable technology in a delicate, human-centric field.
The discovery resolves a long-standing scientific mystery about the giant planet, because observational analyses from Voyager 2 in 1986 didn't suggest the presence of significant internal heat — contradicting scientists' understanding of how giant planets form and evolve...
Additionally, the team's methodology provides testable theories and models that could also be applied to explore radiant energy of other planets within and beyond our solar system... It could even impact technology innovation and climate understanding on Earth [giving insights intoi "the fundamental processes that shape planetary atmospheres, weather systems and climate systems," said one of the paper's authors.]
- Microsoft shared details about a prototype for a new agent that can automatically detect malware — although it's able to detect only 24% of malicious files as of now.
- Trend Micro released new AI-driven "digital twin" capabilities that let companies simulate real-world cyber threats in a safe environment walled off from their actual systems.
- Several companies and research teams also publicly released open-source tools that can automatically identify and patch vulnerabilities as part of the government-backed AI Cyber Challenge.
Yes, but: Threat actors are now using those AI-enabled tools to speed up reconnaissance and dream up brand-new attack vectors for targeting each company, John Watters, CEO of iCounter and a former Mandiant executive, told Axios.
One says defenders still have the upper hand. Cybercriminals lack the money and computing resources to build out AI-powered tools, and large language models have clear limitations in their ability to carry out offensive strikes. This leaves defenders with time to tap AI's potential for themselves. [In a DEF CON presentation a member of Anthropic's red team said its Claude AI model will "soon" be able to perform at the level of a senior security researcher, the article notes later]
Then there's the darker view. Cybercriminals are already leaning on open-source LLMs to build tools that can scan internet-connected devices to see if they have vulnerabilities, discover zero-day bugs, and write malware. They're only going to get better, and quickly...
Right now, models aren't the best at making human-like judgments, such as recognizing when legitimate tools are being abused for malicious purposes. And running a series of AI agents will require cybercriminals and nation-states to have enough resources to pay the cloud bills they rack up, Michael Sikorski, CTO of Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat research team, told Axios. But LLMs are improving rapidly. Sikorski predicts that malicious hackers will use a victim organization's own AI agents to launch an attack after breaking into their infrastructure.
[I]f you look at the Linux 6.15 kernel contributor list (as just one example), the top contributor, as measured by change sets, is Intel... Another example: Take the last year of contributions to Kubernetes. Google (of course), Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware, and AWS all headline the list. Not because it's sexy, but because they make billions of dollars selling Kubernetes services... Some companies (including mine) sell proprietary software, and so it's easy to mentally bucket these vendors with license fees or closed cloud services. That bias makes it easy to ignore empirical contribution data, which indicates open source contributions on a grand scale.
In the [Linux kernel] 6.1 release cycle, Oracle emerged as the top contributor by lines of code changed across the entire kernel... [I]t's Oracle that patches memory-management structures and shepherds block-device drivers for the Linux we all use. Oracle's kernel work isn't a one-off either. A few releases earlier, the company topped the "core of the kernel" leaderboard in 5.18, and it hasn't slowed down since, helping land the Maple Tree data structure and other performance boosters. Those patches power Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), of course, but they also speed up Ubuntu on your old ThinkPad. Self-interested contributions? Absolutely. Public benefit? Equally absolute.
This isn't just an Oracle thing. When we widen the lens beyond Oracle, the pattern holds. In 2023, I wrote about Amazon's "quiet open source revolution," showing how AWS was suddenly everywhere in GitHub commit logs despite the company's earlier reticence. (Disclosure: I used to run AWS' open source strategy and marketing team.) Back in 2017, I argued that cloud vendors were open sourcing code as on-ramps to proprietary services rather than end-products. Both observations remain true, but they miss a larger point: Motives aside, the code flows and the community benefits.
If you care about outcomes, the motives don't really matter. Or maybe they do: It's far more sustainable to have companies contributing because it helps them deliver revenue than to contribute out of charity. The former is durable; the latter is not.
Going forward, we should expect to see even more counterintuitive contributor lists. Generative AI is turbocharging code generation, but someone still has to integrate those patches, write tests, and shepherd them upstream. The companies with the most to lose from brittle infrastructure — cloud providers, database vendors, silicon makers — will foot the bill. If history is a guide, they'll do so quietly.
Volkswagen is offering a subscription model for extra horsepower on its ID.3 electric cars. Want to bump your ride from the standard 201 bhp to the full 228 bhp? That will be about £16.50 per month or £165 per year, or a one-time £649 "lifetime" fee that is tied to the car, not you. If you sell it, you have to pay again.
VW defended this to the BBC by saying you are basically paying for a sportier experience without buying a higher powered model upfront, calling it "nothing new." Nothing changes mechanically. You are just paying VW to essentially flip a boolean somewhere in the car's software.
A network of 69,000 home batteries can generate as much electricity as a small natural gas turbine during an emergency, temporarily covering about 2 percent of the island's energy needs when things go wrong... "It has very, very certainly prevented more widespread outages," said Daniel Haughton, [transmission and distribution planning director for Puerto Rico's grid operator]. "In the instances that we had to [cut power], it was for a much shorter duration: A four-hour outage became a one- or two-hour outage."
Puerto Rico's experience offers a glimpse into the future for the rest of the United States, where batteries are starting to play a big role in keeping the lights on. Authorities in Texas, California and New England have credited home batteries with preventing blackouts during summer energy crunches. As power grids across the country groan under the increasing strain of new data centers, factories and EVs, batteries offer a way for homeowners to protect themselves — and all of their neighbors — from the threat of outages. Batteries have been booming in the U.S. since 2022, when Congress created generous installation tax credits for homeowners and power companies.
Home batteries generally come as an option alongside rooftop solar panels, according to Christopher Rauscher, head of grid services and electrification for Sunrun, a company that installs both. More than 70 percent of the people who hire Sunrun to put up solar panels also get a battery. With the tax credits — and the money saved on rising electricity costs — solar panels and batteries make financial sense for most American homes, according to a study Stanford University scientists published Aug. 1. About 60 percent of homes would save money in the long run with solar panels and batteries...
Those batteries can have broader benefits, too. Utilities pay customers hundreds of dollars a year to sign their batteries up to form "virtual power plants," which send electricity to the grid whenever power plants can't keep up with demand. California's network of home batteries can now add 535 megawatts of electricity in an emergency — about half as much energy as a nuclear power plant... [H]omeowners can make thousands of dollars a year lowering their energy bills, selling solar power back to the grid or enrolling their batteries in a virtual power plant, depending on their power company's policies and state regulations. "Over time, you would get the full payback for your system and basically get your backup for free," said Ram Rajagopal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who co-authored the Stanford study.
Some companies said GPT-5 now matches or beats Claude on code and interface design, a space Anthropic once dominated. Box, another enterprise customer, has been testing GPT-5 on long, logic-heavy documents. CEO Aaron Levie told CNBC the model is a "breakthrough," saying it performs with a level of reasoning that prior systems couldn't match...
Still, the economics are brutal. The models are expensive to run, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are spending big to lock in customers, with OpenAI on track to burn $8 billion this year. That's part of why both Anthropic and OpenAI are courting new capital... GPT-5 is significantly cheaper than Anthropic's top-end Claude Opus 4.1 — by a factor of seven and a half, in some cases — but OpenAI is spending huge amounts on infrastructure to sustain that edge. For OpenAI, it's a push to win customers now, get them locked in and build a real business on the back of that loyalty...
GPT-5 API usage has surged since launch, with the model now processing more than twice as much coding and agent-building work, and reasoning use cases jumping more than eightfold, said a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity in order to discuss company data. Enterprise demand is rising sharply, particularly for planning and multi-step reasoning tasks.
GPT-5âs traction over the past week shows how quickly loyalties can shift when performance and price tip in OpenAI's favor. AI-powered coding platform Qodo recently tested GPT-5 against top-tier models including Gemini 2.5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Grok 4, and said in a blog post that it led in catching coding mistakes. The model was often the only one to catch critical issues, such as security bugs or broken code, suggesting clean, focused fixes and skipping over code that didn't need changing, the company said. Weaknesses included occasional false positives and some redundancy.
According to recent studies of Stanford University (Yegor Denisov-Blanch), AI code assistants such as Microsoft Copilot, Cursor or Google Gemini Code Assist are 20% more effective if used for popular programming languages. The reason for this is obvious: there is more code for these languages available to train the underlying models. This trend is visible in the TIOBE index as well, where we see a consolidation of languages at the top. Why would you start to learn a new obscure language for which no AI assistance is available? This is the modern way of saying that you don't want to learn a new language that is hardly documented and/or has too few libraries that can help you.
Drug treatment can help people newly diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to reduce their risk of substance misuse, suicidal behavior, transport accidents and criminality, a study suggests. These issues are linked to common ADHD symptoms such as acting impulsively and becoming easily distracted. Some 5% of children and 2.5% of adults worldwide are thought to be affected by the disorder -- and growing numbers are being diagnosed. The findings, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), confirm the wider potential benefits of drug treatment and could help patients decide whether to start medication, the researchers say.
Take note of the name: ReHMGB1. A new study pinpoints this protein as being able to spread the wear and tear that comes with time as it quietly travels through the bloodstream. This adds significantly to our understanding of aging. The researchers were able to identify ReHMGB1 as a critical messenger passing on the senescence signal by analyzing different types of human cells grown in the lab and conducting a variety of tests on mice. When ReHMGB1 transmission was blocked in mice with muscle injuries, muscle regeneration happened more quickly, while the animals showed improved physical performance, fewer signs of cellular aging, and reduced systemic inflammation.
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Excellent! No nested table is detected on this page (nested table : 0, total table : 2)
nested tables could slow down page rendering and lead to bad user experience.
Tips:
1. avoiding <table> for your page layout.
2. using <div> instead of <table>. |
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Plain Text Email
Excellent! No Plain Text Email is detected on this page.
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Redirect Count
1 redirection was detected for loading this page.
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Using HTTPS
Excellent! HTTPS is used for your page.
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WWW Resolve
Excellent! the websites http://www.slashdot.org and http://slashdot.org are resolved to the same url :https://slashdot.org/
Search Engines treat URLs with or without "www" as two different records.
Tips:
1. edit your .htaccess file and permanently redirect one to the other (eg redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com). |
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IP Canonicalization
Excellent! IP address of the site http://104.18.5.215 is forwarded to its domain name site https://slashdot.org/.
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URL Rewrite
Non SEO Friendly URLs
| http://slashdot.org/software/?pk_campaign=SD300&pk_source=sidebar |
You may use url rewrite techniques to make these 1 urls to be SEO friendly.
clean, short and relevant URLs are favoured by users and search engines
Tips:
1. use url rewrite to turn dynamic pages with query parameters into seo friendly static pages.
2. put your important keywords in the url.
3. good urls are not only user friendly but also seo friendly. |
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Underscore In URL
URLs with underscore
| http://slashdot.org/~alternative_right | | http://slashdot.org/softw...pk_campaign=SD300&pk_source=sidebar |
You have 2 Urls with underscore.
Search Engines treat hyphen as word separator, they do not treat underscore as word separator.
Tips:
1. use hyphen "-" instead of underscore "_" to optimize your page url.
2. help search engines to better understand your url, eventually will benefit your page`s ranking. |
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Links
Internal Links
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External Links
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104 |
You have more than 100 links (104).
Internal Links (link to pages within this domain) - 17
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| https://slashdot.org/software/ | Software | | https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain | RSS | | https://www.slashdot.org/~spatwei | spatwei | | https://interviews.slashd...uestions-about-ubuntu-and-canonical | answered questions from Slashd... | | http://slashdot.org/~darwinmac | darwinmac | | http://slashdot.org/~alternative_right | alternative_right | | http://slashdot.org/# | « Newer | | http://slashdot.org/softw...pk_campaign=SD300&pk_source=sidebar | | | http://deals.slashdot.org/ | Slashdot Deals | | http://slashdot.org/poll/3281/when-will-agi-be-achieved | Read the 49 comments | | http://slashdot.org/poll/3281/when-will-agi-be-achieved | view results | | http://slashdot.org/poll/3281/when-will-agi-be-achieved | Read the 49 comments | | http://slashdot.org/submit | Submit Story | | http://slashdot.org/# | Mobile View | | http://slashdot.org/# | | | http://slashdot.org/# | Close | | http://slashdot.org/# | Close |
External Links (link to pages on other websites) - 87
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| https://www.facebook.com/slashdot | Facebook | | https://www.linkedin.com/company/slashdot | LinkedIn | | https://x.com/slashdot | Twitter | | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsW36751Gy-EAbHQwe9WBNw | Youtube | | https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot | Mastodon | | https://bsky.app/profile/slashdot.org | BlueskyBluesky | | http://feeds.feedburner.com/SlashdotSitenews | subscribing to our blog RSS fe... | | https://shift.com/lp/buil...itad&utm_campaign=site_sponsor_1024 | Shift transforms your browser ... | | https://www.tomshardware....ded-them-a-new-job-with-the-company | (tomshardware.com) | | https://www.justice.gov/u...s-oregon-semiconductor-manufacturer | release, according to Oregon's... | | https://www.kgw.com/artic...e416bab-7a5b-4dc7-b4b9-d21cf25fbc32 | Portland's KGW reports | | https://www.tomshardware....ded-them-a-new-job-with-the-company | summarizes the trial | | https://www.oregonlive.co...ng-trade-secrets-for-microsoft.html | Oregon Live reports | | 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https://blogs.oracle.com/...pping-contributions-to-linux-kernel | topped the "core of the kernel... | | https://www.infoworld.com...s-quiet-open-source-revolution.html | wrote about Amazon's "quiet op... | | https://www.infoworld.com...ramps-2.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com | argued that cloud vendors were... | | https://www.infoworld.com...2269353/open-source-is-selfish.html | former is durable | | https://www.neowin.net/ne...-monthly-to-unlock-more-horsepower/ | (neowin.net) | | https://www.neowin.net/ne...-monthly-to-unlock-more-horsepower/ | offering a subscription model ... | | https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo | defended this to the BBC | | https://www.msn.com/en-us...-america-from-blackouts/ar-AA1Krtjs | (msn.com) | | https://www.msn.com/en-us...-america-from-blackouts/ar-AA1Krtjs | reports the Washington Post | | https://www.washingtonpos...ts-clean-energy-electricity-demand/ | Texas | | https://www.canarymedia.c...it?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template | California | | 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https://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/?source=sd_slashbox | VLC media player 899M download... | | https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/?source=sd_slashbox | eMule 686M downloads | | https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=sd_slashbox | MinGW 631M downloads | | https://sourceforge.net/?source=sd_slashbox | sf | | https://slashdotmedia.com...advertising-and-marketing-services/ | Advertising | | https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/ | Terms | | https://slashdotmedia.com/privacy-statement/ | Privacy Statement |
reasonable number of links (below 100) per page will give a better user experience.
Tips:
1. keep the number of links per page below 100.
2. having more than 100 links in a single page will lead to a bad user experience, and it possibly runs into the risk of been considered as spam.
3. search engines may not follow all the links if you have too many of them in a single page. |
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Images
| Total Images |
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Alt values are missing for all the images (0), it will be hard for search engines to include your site for image searches!
search engines cannot `see` images, proper Alt content will help them to better understand and index images.
Tips:
1. always add alt attributes to images. Alt is mandatory for accessibility and for valid XHTML.
2. words used within an image`s Alt attribute should be its text equivalent and convey the same information.
3. use a human-readable caption and descriptive text around the image. |
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CSS
| Style Block In Same Page |
Links to External Style Files |
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0 |
2 |
You have 2 style blocks in the same file, try to put them in a separate file.
Links To External Stylesheet Files - 0
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Script
| Scripts Block In Same Page |
Links to External Script Files |
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| 47 |
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Too many (5) external scripts files , it will slow down the downlaoding.
Links To External Script Files - 5
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put scripts together and link them from an external files rather then put them in the same file as the main page.
Tips:
1. reduce the use of in-page scripts, put them in separate files and link them in.
2. reduce the number of external script files, it will help browser to make lesser number of http requests from the server.
3. optimize or compress the script files to have smaller size and faster loading. |
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Blog Or News Release
Link to Blog / News Release Page
| http://feeds.feedburner.com/SlashdotSitenews | subscribing to our blog RSS fe... |
Excellent! we have found blog linked to your site.
Having a blog is a great way to provide fresh content and retain users, search engines favour it too.
Tips:
1. regularly update your blog and provide fresh and quality content.
2. relevant blogs of your website topics, generate more credits in the eyes of your visitors, as well as search engines. |
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DMOZ Listing
Yes
Excellent! the website is listed in the DMOZ open directory. DMOZ Open Directory Project
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Google Analytics
UA-199823890-2 Excellent! the website implements Google Analytics.
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Google Page Rank
7 Excellent! the website has a high page rank (7/10).
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Links From Root Domains
683
Excellent! You do have a lot of root domains (683) linked to your site slashdot.org.
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Number of backlinks from some other root domains is an indicator of domain authority, the more backlinks your site has, the higher its domain authority, which leads to a higher chance of better ranking.
Tips:
1. make it easy for others to link to your site, provide the code if possible.
2. links from older domains are more powerful than links from new domains.
3. links from .edu and .gov generally have a higher value. |
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Social Engagement
Your site has an excellent social media engagement!
 Facebook Likes 684  Facebook Shares 3,141  Facebook Comments 1,008  Tweets 25,105  LinkedIn 167
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Social Media Integration
Good! your site is integrated with social media.
| Facebook Page | https://www.facebook.com/slashdot | | Twitter Account | Not Found | | Google+ Page | Not Found |
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Trustworthiness
92
Excellent! the website has a good Trustworthiness Score (92/100).
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Users are concerned about the safety of their online transactions. Trustworthiness rating is based on real user ratings and that tells you how much other users trust this site, so do the serch engines. note: this trustworthiness score is provided by WOT (Web of Trust).
Tips:
1. pay attention to the look and design of your site, many people look for visual cues when assessing a site`s credibility
2. make your site easy to use, sites that are easy to navigate are perceived as being more trustworthy.
3. make it easy for user to contact you, users will be more comfortable and feel more secured shall they need to get in touch with you. |
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Child Safe
89 Excellent! the website has a good Child Safe Score (89/100).
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Safe Browsing
Safe! the site slashdot.org is NOT currently listed as suspicious, most-likely it is clean from malware and phining code [ verify this by Google Safe Browsing ]
Ensure that your site is malware free and does not cause harm to users` computers.
Tips:
1. do not put virus, malicious worms, adwares, trojans, spywares and suspicious phishing code in your server.
2. take suspicious behaviours seriously, have a regular check-up and monitor closely of your server`s log files.
3. if your site is black-listed by Google as suspicious, clean it up before requesting for a review. |
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Traffic Rank
4,671th most visited website in the world.
898th most visited website in India 
your site has an excellent high traffic rank in the world. |
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Websites On Same Server
Excellent! You do have very few domains (1 - airliners.net) hosted on the same server as slashdot.org (ip : 104.18.5.215).
Too many domains hosted on the same server is an indicator that you are not really serious about your website, and your site will have a higher chance to be surrounded by bad neighbours.
Tips:
1. the fewer domains hosted on the same server/ip the better.
2. avoid shared hosting whenever possible, especially when there are already hundreds or thousands of sites are hosted on the same server.
3. dedicated ip or resources for your site not only do good to your site visitors but also favoured by search engines. |
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Server Location
your server (IP : 104.18.5.215) is located at United States 
the most site visitors come from India
your server is located in different place from where most of your site visitors come from. |
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HTTP Compression
No
your website server does not support HTTP Compression.
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Caching
No
your website server does not support Caching.
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Server Signature
Excellent! the website server signature is off.
A secure and safe server is not only good for your site visitors but also good for search engines.
Tips:
1. server software version information can be utilized by malicious visitors to attack your server.
2. by turning off the server signature, you actually have made your server a little bit more secure.
3. for Apache server - edit the apache2.conf or the .htaccess file to turn server signature off. |
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Domain Age
28 years, 118 days old ( 1st registered on : 1997-05-10 )
[ To check the detailed whois info, Use this Whois Lookup Tool ]
excellent, the domain age is old enough.
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Domain Expires
2 years, 27 days from today ( expires on : 2027-10-03 )
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domain is expiring soon.
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Domain Info
slashdot.org ( 12 characters )
Domain Registrar : Public Interest Registry
[ To check the detailed whois info, Use this Whois Lookup Tool ]
| Domain Created On |
Last Modified On |
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| 1997-05-10 |
2024-11-17 |
2027-10-03 |
| 28 years, 118 days old |
0 years, 292 days ago |
2 years, 27 days from today |
28 years, 118 days old
Domain Name Servers used by slashdot.org
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| ns11.constellix.com | 96.45.80.1 | | ns21.constellix.com | 46.31.236.1 | | ns31.constellix.com | 43.247.170.1 | | ns41.constellix.net | 96.45.81.1 | | ns51.constellix.net | 46.31.237.1 | | ns61.constellix.net | 43.247.171.1 |
You have a nice choice of domain name, which is of a right length (12 characters).
domain name choice and domain age are crucial for SEO.
Tips:
1. keep the domain name short and relevant to the content, which will be easier to be remembered and related to.
2. older domain tends to be more trustworthy.
3. register a domain for more than 1 year, and search engine will think it is a serious business. |
