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11:20 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Rolls-Royce Plans To Stop Making Gas-Powered Cars By 2030
Rolls-Royce is the latest automaker to reveal plans to move entirely to electric vehicles within the next decade. Engadget reports: Spectre, Rolls-Royce's first EV, will arrive in the last quarter of ...
10:40 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot US Attempts To Slow China's Innovation Rate
AltMachine writes: U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo wants the U.S. to work with Europe to slow China's innovation rate, while at the same time accusing China of ripping of western intellectual propert...
10:02 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Apple AirTag Bug Enables 'Good Samaritan' Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs On Security: The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with ...
09:24 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot German IT Security Watchdog Examines Xiaomi Mobile Phone
Germany's federal cybersecurity watchdog, the BSI, is conducting a technical examination of a mobile phone manufactured by China's Xiaomi, a spokesperson for the interior ministry told Reuters on Wedn...
08:45 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Chromebook Demand is Plummeting as the Pandemic Eases
A global deceleration of laptop sales is being linked in a new report from market research firm Trendforce to increasing vaccination rates and a corresponding decrease in remote work and remote learni...
08:06 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Blue Origin 'Gambled' With Its Moon Lander Pricing, NASA Says in Legal Documents
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin "gambled" with its Moon lander proposal last year by hoping NASA would be willing to negotiate its $5.9 billion price tag, agency attorneys argued in blunt legal filings obtain...
07:25 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot School Reopenings Stymie Teens' Reseller Gigs
It turns out school reopenings are disrupting the cash flow of industrious teenagers who spent the pandemic scooping up in-demand products via bots and reselling them for a hefty profit. From a report...
06:45 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Phone Companies Must Now Block Carriers That Didn't Meet FCC Robocall Deadline
In a new milestone for the US government's anti-robocall efforts, phone companies are now prohibited from accepting calls from providers that did not comply with a Federal Communications Commission de...
06:05 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Google Search's Next Phase: Context is King
At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet to get people to do more than type a few words into a search box. From a repor...
05:26 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Gene Editing 'Would Allow Us To Create Hardier Farm Breeds'
Leading UK researchers, vets and farmers have urged ministers to free livestock science of unnecessary legal curbs as the country prepares, post-Brexit, to ease gene-editing rules. Such a move would a...
04:45 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Russian Authorities Arrest Cybersecurity Giant Group-IB's CEO on Treason Charges
Russian authorities have arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the co-founder and chief executive of Group-IB -- one of the biggest cybersecurity companies in the country -- on charges of treason. From ...
04:29 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot A New 'Standalone' Valve VR Headset Teased by Deep SteamVR File Drive
What's in the future for VR headsets made by Valve, which launched the pricey, bulky, and impressive Valve Index in August 2019? The best information in the wild right now seems to be coming from Valv...
03:25 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine
YouTube will begin removing content questioning any approved medical vaccine, not just those for Covid-19, a departure from the video site's historically hands-off approach. From a report: The divisio...
02:44 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Russia Threatens Retaliation After YouTube Deletes RT Germany Account
Russia's Foreign Ministry has threatened harsh retaliatory measures against YouTube after the video sharing service suspended two German-language accounts run by Russian state media, according to a re...
02:02 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot FTC Weighs New Online Privacy Rules
The Federal Trade Commission is considering strengthening online privacy protections, including for children, in an effort to bypass legislative logjams in Congress. WSJ: The rules under consideration...
01:00 pm - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Secret Military Aircraft Possibly Exposed On TikTok
An anonymous reader quotes a report from War Is Boring: An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military, this time after someone revea...
10:00 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Ring Puts An Eero Router Inside Its New Home Alarm System
Eero and Ring -- two Amazon-owned companies -- have teamed up to produce a home security system that incorporates an Eero router inside. Engadget reports: Ring COO Mike Harris said that the decision t...
07:00 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot AI Study Suggests a London Gallery's Been Exhibiting a Fake For Years
Thomas Macaulay writes via The Next Web: Samson and Delilah is among the most famous works by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most influential artists of the 17th century. The painting depicts an Old Te...
03:30 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new script allows you to install Windows 11 on devices with incompatible hardware, such as missing TPM 2.0, incompatible CPUs, or the lack ...
02:02 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Identical Twins Carry Genetic Modifications No One Else Has
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: Identical twins are living proof of how genetics shapes our looks and traits. Now, researchers have found they carry a molecular signature on their DNA t...
01:25 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot April Fools' Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale
Stack Overflow's copy-paste keyboard, an April Fools' Day prank that ribbed lazy programmers, is now actually for sale. CNET reports: It's been a joke in programming circles for years: Instead of writ...
12:45 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do
em1ly shares a report from Motherboard: Amazon's new robot called Astro is designed to track the behavior of everyone in your home to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties, according to l...
12:02 am - Wed, September 29, 2021
Slashdot Facebook's Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Facebook has come under increasing fire in recent days for its effect on young users and its efforts to create products for them. Insi...
11:20 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Apple Watch Can Detect Arrhythmias Other Than AFib, Study Shows
According to new research published this week in American Heart Association Journal, Apple Watch can detect arrhythmias other than Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). The Apple watch irregular pulse detection...
10:40 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Knew of Exchange Autodiscover Flaw Five Years Ago
Thomas Claburn writes via The Register: Microsoft Exchange clients like Outlook have been supplying unprotected user credentials if you ask in a particular way since at least 2016. Though aware of thi...
10:02 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Paying For Taco Bell With Dogecoin May Be Soon Be a Reality
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: How about paying for your Taco Bell order with Dogecoin? Or some of Whole Food's avocado ice cream with Bitcoin. That's the goal of a new partnershi...
09:25 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot NSA, CISA Publish Guide for Securing VPN Servers
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published today technical guidance on properly securing VPN servers used by organizations to all...
08:45 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once
GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. It is surrounded by a huge disk of dust and gas, a common feature of young star systems that are forming planets. Bu...
08:05 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot For Flagging Amazon Games Unit, New World 'Has to Be Our Breakthrough'
Amazon has been successful in nearly every industry it has entered, from books and grocery shopping to cloud computing and movie streaming. So it has been puzzling to many that success in the lucrativ...
07:25 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Air Pollution Likely Cause of Up To 6 Million Premature Births, Study Finds
Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies worldwide every year, research shows. From a report: The analysis, which combines...
06:45 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Little Fluffy Clouds May Help Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef
To slow the speed at which high temperatures and warm waters bleach the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australian scientists are spraying droplets of ocean water into the sky to form clouds to prot...
06:12 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Just Revealed its First Home Robot
Amazon announced its long-rumored $999 Astro home robot on Tuesday. CNBC: I had a chance to check it out in a demo with Amazon last week and wanted to share a few thoughts on what Astro is, what it ca...
05:29 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Bank of Russia's Computer Says Officials Must Speak More Simply
A computerized neural network has spoken: central banker Elvira Nabiullina needs to use simpler language if she wants more Russians to believe she can really reduce inflation. From a report: A study c...
04:45 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Opens Its Windows Store Up To Third-party App Stores
Microsoft is opening up its own app store in Windows even further today, inviting third-party app stores to integrate into the Microsoft Store. It's a significant change that will see both Amazon and ...
04:05 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot 1Password Adds Its Own 'Hide My Email' Feature
1Password is launching a new feature to let users create unique email aliases for logins, much like Apple's iCloud Plus Hide My Email function. From a report: 1Password is partnering with Fastmail to ...
03:25 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot China's Growing Power Crunch Threatens More Global Supply Chain Chaos
Hmmmmmm writes: A growing power supply crunch in China is triggering blackouts for households and forcing factories to cut production, threatening to slow the country's vast economy and place even mor...
02:49 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot 131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest
The Wall Street Journal: More than 130 federal judges have violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. A Wall Street ...
02:06 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Google Tells Judges It's So Popular It's Bing's Top Search Term
Google is so successful that it's the most searched for term on Microsoft's Bing search engine, the company's lawyer told a European Union court on Tuesday. From a report: "We have submitted evidence ...
01:00 pm - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Film Studios Sue 'No Logs' VPN Provider For $10 Million
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: LiquidVPN's business model was a fierce one, thriving on the fence of the law. In webpages seen by Ars, the VPN company boasted itself as "the be...
10:00 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot UK Electric Car Inquiries Soar During Fuel Supply Crisis
Electric car inquiries are soaring as petrol stations in parts of the UK have started running out of fuel on Friday. The Guardian reports: While scenes of chaos play out at petrol stations across the ...
07:00 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot SpaceX Satellite Signals Used Like GPS To Pinpoint Location On Earth
schwit1 shares a report from GPS Daily: Engineering researchers have developed a method to use signals broadcast by Starlink internet service satellites to accurately locate a position here on Earth, ...
03:30 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?
An anonymous reader shares a report from Daring Fireball, written by John Gruber: Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge, "The Lightning Port Isn't About Convenience; It's About Control": "Notably ab...
02:20 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot Ford Recalls Mustang Mach-Es Over Risk of Glass Roof Flying Off
Ford has issued a recall of 5,000 Mustang Mach-E electric SUVs in Canada over a risk of the glass roof and windshield potentially coming loose and falling off. Ironically, the automaker mocked Tesla f...
01:40 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot YouTube 'Valuable' For Teens' Mental Health, Says CEO
YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki said Google's video platform is beneficial to adolescents' mental health, amid growing concern that rival Instagram may be "toxic" for teenage girls. Fro...
01:00 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot A Tesla Big Battery Is Getting Sued Over Power Grid Failures In Australia
Tesla's Big Battery, located in southern Australia, just got hit with a federal lawsuit for failing to provide the crucial grid support it once promised it could. Motherboard reports: Built by Tesla i...
12:20 am - Tue, September 28, 2021
Slashdot US To Open Program To Replace Huawei Equipment In US Networks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday said it would open a $1.9 billion program to reimburse mostly rural U.S. telecom carriers f...
11:40 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot What It's Like To Spend 40-50 Hours In VR Every Week
Technologist, physicist, and virtual reality professional Paul Tomlinson shares what it's like to spend 4,500+ hours "banging away at real work on virtual screens." Slashdot reader Keighvin shares an ...
11:00 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say
University students in courses from engineering to physics are having to be taught what files and folders are, The Verge reports, because that's not how they've grown up using computers. Whenever they...
10:20 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Robinhood CEO Unwittingly Inspired $1 Million Meme Stock Fraud
According to the SEC, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev unwittingly inspired brokerages to engage in a scheme involving illegal wash trading, or trading with yourself. An anonymous reader shares the report fro...
09:44 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot MediaLab Acquires Imgur
In a blog post, Imgur announced that it has been acquired by a company called MediaLab. "It's the beginning of a new chapter, and we're excited to share the news with you," writes the Imgur team. From...
09:00 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Google, in Fight Against Record EU Fine, Slams Regulators for Ignoring Apple
Alphabet unit Google on Monday blasted EU antitrust regulators for ignoring rival Apple as it launched a bid to get Europe's second-highest court to annul a record 4.34-billion euro ($5.1 billion) fin...
08:20 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Prosecutors in Mexico Seeking Arrest Warrants For More Than 30 Scientists
Mexico's scientific community has reacted with outrage after the country's chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for 31 scientists, researchers and academics on accusations of organised crime, mo...
07:42 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Coinbase To Let You Deposit Part of Your Paycheck Into Your Coinbase Account
Cryptocurrency company Coinbase is announcing a handful of new features. While the company is better known for its exchange that lets you convert USD into various cryptocurrencies, Coinbase wants to e...
07:00 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Eftpos Granted Government Accreditation as First Private ID Exchange Operator
Eftpos has become Australia's first accredited non-government operator of a digital identity exchange under the federal government's Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF). From a report: By becomi...
06:27 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Facebook is Spending $50 Million To 'Responsibly' Build the Metaverse
Facebook has announced a $50 million fund that it says will help it develop the metaverse more responsibly. From a report: It's officially called the XR Programs and Research Fund, and the company say...
05:27 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot US Agrees Not To Pursue Fraud Charges Against Huawei CFO
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou would appear in a Brooklyn federal courtroom today via streaming video and enter a plea regarding US charges against her. From a report: Canadian authorities arrested the Chine...
04:49 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Facebook is Hitting the Brakes on Instagram for Kids
Instagram is pressing pause on plans to develop a version of its service for kids under 13 after facing pressure from lawmakers to back down on the effort and new questions about the impact the photo-...
04:08 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot TikTok Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users
TikTok announced in a blog post today that 1 billion people use TikTok every month. From a report: That means that on this big rock in space that we call home, about one in seven-and-a-half people are...
03:21 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot US Space Force Awards $87.5 Million To Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA for Next-gen Rocket Testing
The U.S. Space Force, the military branch spun out of the Air Force in December 2019, has announced its next batch of awards for projects related to next-gen rocket engine testing and upper stage impr...
02:43 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security
Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company, already has its fingers in a lot of customer security pots, from DDoS protection to browser isolation to a mobile VPN. Now the company is taking on a c...
02:00 pm - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot After IBM Failed To Sail an Autonomous Boat Across the Atlantic, It's Trying Again
After failing its first attempt to re-create the Mayflower's voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, a crewless ocean vessel, powered by artificial intelligence, has returned to sea. From a report: Propelle...
11:34 am - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot As Environmental Criticism Mounts, Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power
"Bitcoin miners, under fire for their sizable environmental footprint, are forging partnerships with owners of struggling nuclear-power plants with electricity to spare," reports the Wall Street Journ...
07:34 am - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Should Billionaires Try Constructing 'Cities of the Future' in the Desert?
The Guardian looks at a billionaire's plan to build a $400 billion "city of the future" in a U.S. desert. The city — to be named Telosa — "doesn't exist yet, nor is it clear which state wi...
03:42 am - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years
When America's law enforcement investigators serve tech companies with subpoenas or search warrants,"the target of the investigation has no idea their data is being seized," the Washington Post pointe...
01:42 am - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid
"Microsoft has joined forces with LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit working to accelerate the energy transition of the world's grids and transportation systems through open source," reports ZDNe...
12:11 am - Mon, September 27, 2021
Slashdot With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension
The Record reports:The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it is preparing to retire the famous HTTPS Everywhere browser extension after HTTPS adoption has picked up and after several web browsers hav...
10:52 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot US Military Seeks Comments on Its Plan to Build a Small, Transportable Nuclear Reactor
America's Department of Defense "is taking input on its plan to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho," reports the Associated Press...
08:43 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Samsung Engineers Propose 'Copying and Pasting' the Brain onto AI Chips
Samsung has proposed a way to build brain-like computer chips by "copying and pasting" a brain's neuron wiring map onto 3D neuromorphic chips. Engadget reports:The approach would rely on a nanoelectro...
07:42 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot A Cryptocurrency-Trading Hamster Beats Warren Buffett's Performance - and the S&P 500
"What if we told you there was a hamster who has been trading cryptocurrencies since June — and recently was doing better than Warren Buffett and the S&P 500?" asks NPR:Meet Mr. Goxx, a hams...
06:42 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Former Reddit CEO Asks: Why Is Theranos' Holmes the Only Tech CEO Facing Prosecution?
Federal prosecutors allege that Elizabeth Holmes and the No. 2 at Theranos, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, "broke the law by deceiving investors about how well the business was doing and the capabilities of ...
05:43 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Report: In 2017 America's CIA Plotted to Kidnap Julian Assange From Ecuador
"In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder," reports Yahoo News, "spurring heated debate among Trump admi...
04:34 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot The World's Longest Cave System Just Got Even Longer
schwit1 shared this report from LiveScience: The world's longest known cave system just set a new record after surveyors spent hours mapping an additional 8 miles (13 kilometers) of the passageways at...
03:34 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Chipmakers To Carmakers: Time To Get Out of the Semiconductor Stone Age
Long-time Slashdot reader BoredStiff shares this report from Fortune:Moore's law of ever-increasing miniaturization seemingly never reached the automotive industry. Dozens of chips found in everything...
02:34 pm - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Find Hormone That Allows Seeds To Germinate In Low Water Conditions
Slashdot reader StellarThoughts shares an announcement from the University of California, Riverside. (Alternate URL):Plants have the ability to perceive drought. When they do, they emit a hormone that...
11:34 am - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot After 47 Years, US Power Company Abandons Still-Unfinished $6 Billion Nuclear Power Plant
America's federally-owned electric utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority, has spent billions of dollars with nothing to show for it, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press. "Nearly 47 years after ...
07:34 am - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot Facing Post-Brexit Petrol Shortage, UK Issues Emergency Visas for EU Truck Drivers
Slashdot reader AleRunner tipped us off to some excitement in the UK:The British government said on Friday it may draft in the army to help deliver gas after shortages caused by a scarcity of truck dr...
03:34 am - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot 26,000 and Counting: America is Installing Hundreds More Bitcoin ATMs Each Week
The cryptocurrency-ATM company Coinmover has over 100 machines in stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Washington state — and plans to have 1,250 machines in 18 states by the...
01:34 am - Sun, September 26, 2021
Slashdot VoIP.ms Battles Week-Long Sustained DDoS-for-Ransom Attack
Slashdot reader Striek writes: VoIP.ms, a Canadian VoIP provider [also serving the US], has been under a sustained, and presumably massive DDoS attack which started on the September 16th, 2021. The at...
10:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot 110,000 Affected by Epik Breach - Including Those Who Trusted Epik to Hide Their Identity
Epik's massive data breach is already affecting lives. Today the Washington Post describes a real estate agent in Pompano Beach who urged buyers on Facebook to move to "the most beautiful State." His ...
09:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Can Antimatter Be Generated in a Lab?
"An international team of physicists have come up with a way to generate antimatter in the lab," reports Popular Mechanics, theoretically "allowing them to recreate conditions that are similar to thos...
08:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot 6,000 Evacuated After Volcanic Lava Flow Spreads on Spanish Island
On Monday RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wrote: Regular readers may remember recurring concerns over the instability of the island of La Palma, in the Canaries archipelago [population: 85,000]. ...
07:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot What Happened When Germany Tried to Fight Online Hate Speech?
"Harassment and abuse are all too common on the modern internet," writes the New York Times. "Yet it was supposed to be different in Germany."In 2017, the country enacted one of the world's toughest l...
06:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Linus Torvalds Recognizes Linux's 'True' 30th Anniversary Date
While it's been argued that Linux has four different "birthdays," last Friday saw the 30th anniversary of Linux's very, very first release — version 0.01. That special first release "was never p...
05:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Google Sues India's Competition Commission - For Sharing Its Findings About Google
Google used its "huge financial muscle" to illegally hurt competitors, the Competition Commission of India found after an antitrust investigation. But now Reuters says Google is suing the commission &...
04:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot The Semiconductor Shortage is Getting Worse
"The global semiconductor shortage that has paralyzed automakers for nearly a year shows signs of worsening," reports the Washington Post, "as new coronavirus infections halt chip assembly lines in So...
03:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters
EFF.org has the story:For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto de...
02:34 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Chris Pratt Cast as Voice of Mario for New 'Super Mario Bros' Movie
Newsweek reports:Chris Pratt is in a celebratory mood, following the announcement that he's set to voice lead character Mario in an animated movie adaptation of the enduring video game Super Mario Bro...
01:00 pm - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Google Photos' Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon
Google Photos' Locked Folder feature, which lets you hide sensitive photos and videos from your main library and secure them in a passcode- or biometric-protected folder, is coming to all devices runn...
10:00 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Engineer Devises 'UFO Patents' For US Navy
Paul Ratner writes via Interesting Engineering: Theoretical inventions known as the "UFO patents" have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the American engineer Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, ...
07:00 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot 'Doctor Who' Showrunner Russell T. Davies To Return For Next Season
spaceman375 shares a report from the BBC: Screenwriter Russell T Davies is to take charge again of Doctor Who, the sci-fi show he helped revive in 2005. Davies, who was the fantasy drama's showrunner ...
03:30 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For a Utility Company
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bitcoin's massive power consumption is the cryptocurrency's dirty secret. To mine bitcoin, computers across the globe chew through enough electri...
02:02 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Chinese Scientists Synthesized Starch From Carbon Dioxide
AltMachine shares a report from Phys.Org: Chinese scientists recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. Relevant results were publi...
01:25 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Rushes To Register Autodiscover Domains Leaking Credentials
Microsoft is rushing to register Internet domains used to steal Windows credentials sent from faulty implementations of the Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol. BleepingComputer reports: On Monda...
12:45 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: For the past 10 years, Sonia Grego has been thinking about toilets -- and more specifically what we deposit into them. "We are laser-focused on t...
12:02 am - Sat, September 25, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Will Open Its Fiber Networks To Expand Broadband Access In Rural Virginia
Facebook announced a new project on Thursday that will bring broadband service to thousands of households in Virginia this fall, in partnership with a local ISP and utility company. The Verge reports:...
11:20 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Google Seeks Search Deals For TikTok and Instagram Videos
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you've ever tried searching on Google for one of those TikTok or Instagram videos all your friends are gushing about -- such as sea shanties or the Renegade dan...
10:40 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou To Be Released After Agreement With US In Wire Fraud Case
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech firm Huawei will be released and allowed to return to China after reaching an agreement with the U.S. government on fraud charges, prosecutors said Friday i...
10:02 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot ExpressVPN Employees Complain About Ex-Spy's Top Role At Company
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: When a senior executive at virtual private network company ExpressVPN admitted to working on behalf of a foreign intelligence service to hack American...
09:22 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot William Shatner's Going To Space On Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
schwit1 shares a report from TMZ: The 90-year-old actor is slated to be part of the second crew to take the space flight in the New Shepard capsule. That would make him the oldest person ever to be la...
08:45 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot UC Reactor Makes Martian Fuel
Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel to address climate change and get astronauts home from Mars. UC: UC College of Engineering and App...
08:05 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Americans Ramp Up Google Searches for Covid Tests Amid Scarcity
Searches for Covid-19 tests on Google are surging as the delta variant spreads in the U.S. and more employers and large-scale events require testing. From a report: The number of Americans looking up ...
07:25 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot A Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies With a Single Video
Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager. From a report: The July 23rd video is short and simple. It opens with recent Florida hi...
06:44 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Other than Prison, Electronic Monitoring is 'the Most Restrictive Form' of Control, Research Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the past 18 months, as the judicial system has increasingly used electronic monitoring instead of prisons to monitor inmates through the coronavirus pandemic, n...
06:05 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot FCC Showers Schools Across the US With $1.2 Billion From Emergency Connectivity Fund
The FCC has sent out the first checks from its Emergency Connectivity Fund, an effort to help close the "homework gap" at schools by covering the cost of computers and internet services. From a report...
05:21 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot White House Weighs Invoking Defense Law To Get Chip Data
The Biden administration is considering invoking a Cold War-era national security law to force companies in the semiconductor supply chain to provide information on inventory and sales of chips, Comme...
04:41 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot California Makes Zero-emission Autonomous Vehicles Mandatory by 2030
Starting in 2030, California will require all light-duty autonomous vehicles that operate in the state to emit zero emissions. From a report: Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, SB 5...
04:04 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot UK Airports Briefly Snarled By Border Force Software Outage
A software outage temporarily affected the U.K. Border Force's automated entry gates, slowing arrivals at airports across the country. From a report: Hubs in London Heathrow and Manchester reported is...
03:20 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Researcher Dumps Three iOS Zero-days After Apple Failed To Fix Issues for Months
A security researcher has published details about three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, claiming that Apple has failed to patch the issues, which they first reported to the company earlier this year. Fr...
03:06 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Cambodia's Prime Minister is Zoombombing Opposition Meetings
When Cambodia's banned opposition party held a Zoom call on September 9, they hardly expected it to be personally infiltrated by the country's prime minister. From a report: Appearing abruptly and int...
02:46 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Cambodia's Prime Minister is Zoombombing Opposition Meetings
When Cambodia's banned opposition party held a Zoom call on September 9, they hardly expected it to be personally infiltrated by the country's prime minister. From a report: Appearing abruptly and int...
02:01 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot China Says All Cryptocurrency-related Transactions Are Illegal and Must Be Banned
China's central bank said on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal in the country and they must be banned, citing concerns around national security and "safety of people's as...
01:00 pm - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Windows 11 Setup Warns That You Aren't 'Entitled' To Updates On Unsupported PCs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Verge has spotted an apparently new warning message in the Windows 11 Setup app that explicitly warns users of the dangers of installing Wind...
10:00 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor
The United Kingdom is the latest country to rule that an artificial intelligence can't be legally credited as an inventor. Engadget reports: Per the BBC, the UK Court of Appeal recently ruled against ...
07:00 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
Samoa is joining Japan, India, and China in scrapping daylight saving time, which was first proposed in 1895 so entomologist and astronomer George Hudson could study insects at night. "Hudson is dead,...
03:30 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Engineers Figured Out How To Cook 3D-Printed Chicken With Lasers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Engineers at Columbia University [...] figured out how to simultaneously 3D-print and cook layers of pureed chicken, according to a recent paper ...
02:02 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Use AI To Create Drug Regime For Rare Form of Brain Cancer In Children
Scientists have successfully used artificial intelligence to create a new drug regime for children with a deadly form of brain cancer that has not seen survival rates improve for more than half a cent...
01:25 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Impossible Foods To Launch Meatless Pork In US, Hong Kong and Singapore
Impossible Foods' latest meatless product is set to hit tables from Thursday: plant-based pork that claims to be tastier and healthier than the real deal. CNBC reports: The ground pork product will fi...
12:45 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot Hackers Breached Computer Network At Key US Port But Did Not Disrupt Operations
Suspected foreign government-backed hackers last month breached a computer network at one of the largest ports on the US Gulf Coast, but early detection of the incident meant the intruders weren't in ...
12:02 am - Fri, September 24, 2021
Slashdot California Passes Law Targeting Amazon Labor Algorithms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Wednesday that would block Amazon and other companies from punishing warehouse workers who fail to me...
11:20 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot 'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America'
The Salesforce CEO and owner of Time Magazine, Marc Benioff, sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on Facebook. "This digital revolution r...
10:42 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot New York Passes Sweeping Bills To Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers
The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a groundbreaking package of legislation on Thursday that will set minimum pay and improve working conditions for couriers employed by app-based food d...
10:02 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot 2021 Has Broken the Record For Zero-Day Hacking Attacks
According to multiple databases, researchers, and cybersecurity companies who spoke to MIT Technology Review, 2021 has had the highest number of zero-day exploits on record. "At least 66 zero-days hav...
09:25 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Hackers Leak LinkedIn 700 Million Data Scrape
A collection containing data about more than 700 million users, believed to have been scraped from LinkedIn, was leaked online this week after hackers previously tried to sell it earlier this year in ...
08:45 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot The Imaginary Rocket Driving a Small-Town Spaceport
Is the FAA licensing spaceports that are doomed to fail? From a report: The latest launch attempt out of Kodiak, Alaska's spaceport shows in vivid detail just how quickly things can go sideways. In th...
08:20 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot CDC Panel Endorses Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots For People 65 and Older
A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group unanimously voted Thursday to recommend distributing Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 booster shots to older Americans and nursing home re...
08:02 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure Is a Winged Microchip, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: It's neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollutio...
07:25 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Why Deliveries Are So Slow
Americans are habitually unattuned to the massive and profoundly human apparatus that brings us basically everything in our lives. Much of the country's pandemic response has treated us as somehow sep...
06:45 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot A Stalkerware Firm Is Leaking Real-Time Screenshots of People's Phones Online
A stalkerware company that's designed to let customers spy on their spouses's, children's, or employees' devices is exposing victims' data, allowing anyone on the internet to see screenshots of phones...
06:05 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Twitter Adds Bitcoin Tipping, Pushes Further Into NFTs
Twitter will let users send and receive tips using Bitcoin as part of a broader push to help users make money from the service. From a report: Twitter also said Thursday that it's looking into authent...
05:28 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Tracking Stolen Crypto is a Booming Business
Crypto heists are becoming increasingly common, but forensic investigators are getting savvier at figuring out who is behind specific accounts. From a report: Paolo Ardoino was on the front lines of o...
04:45 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Tech Firms' Nightmare: Vanishing Green Cards
Thousands of green cards are about to go to waste, leaving Google, Microsoft and other tech companies fuming -- and pushing the Biden administration to ensure it doesn't happen again. Axios: Tech work...
04:05 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Today's Students Don't Understand the Basics of Computer Operations
DesScorp writes: A new article in The Verge reports that professors are increasingly seeing the rise of a generation that can't understand even the basic fundamentals of how computers and operating sy...
03:34 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot How Google Spies on Its Employees
At Google, a seemingly innocuous action can earn an employee the attention of the company's corporate security department. The Information: For example, when Google wants to find out who has been acce...
02:45 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Spain To Ban Sale of Fruit and Vegetables in Plastic Wrapping From 2023
The sale of fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping will be prohibited in Spain's supermarkets and grocery stores starting in 2023. From a report: This is one of the measures in a decree being drafte...
02:05 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot EU Proposes Mandatory USB-C on All Devices, Including iPhones
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has announced plans to force smartphone and other electronics manufacturers to fit a common USB-C charging port on their devices. From...
01:00 pm - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Discord Starts Testing YouTube Integration
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Discord is starting to test YouTube integration, just weeks after Google-owned YouTube forced two popular Discord music bots offline. YouTube integr...
10:00 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot FedEx Uses Autonomous Trucks For First Time On Delivery Route
On Wednesday FedEx announced its first autonomously-driven Class 8 truck delivery route. Mashable reports: Working with truck maker PACCAR and self-driving company Aurora, which is backed by Amazon, F...
07:00 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot Judge Releases Redacted Lunar Lander Lawsuit From Bezos' Blue Origin Against NASA-SpaceX Contract
ytene writes: As reported by CNBC, the US Court of Federal Claims has released a redacted version of the lawsuit, filed by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, in a complaint against NASA. Earlier this year, the ...
03:30 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot 'We Need Software Updates Forever'
The creator of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) and founder of the first virtual reality startup, Mark Pesce, opines an IEEE Spectrum piece that we need software updates forever. Slashdot ...
02:02 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot 'Jumping Gene' May Have Erased Tails In Humans and Other Apes
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Mammals from mice to monkeys have tails. But humans and our cousins the great apes lack them. Now, researchers may have unearthed a simple genetic c...
01:25 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do
TikTok users are watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress to help them determine which stocks to invest in. NPR reports: Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTo...
12:48 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot FDA Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots For Older and At-Risk Americans
After weeks of internal strife at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency on Wednesday authorized people over 65 who had received Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine to get a booster shot at le...
12:02 am - Thu, September 23, 2021
Slashdot First RISC-V Computer Chip Lands At the European Processor Initiative
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has run the successful first test of its RISC-V-based European Processor Accelerator (EPAC), touting it a...
11:20 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Robinhood Will Start Testing Crypto Wallets Next Month
Robinhood plans to start a cryptocurrency wallet next month, the company announced on Wednesday. Engadget reports: The tool will allow you to send and receive digital currencies, as well as trade them...
10:40 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with its study into whether to implement its own digital currency and will be releasing a paper on the issue shortly...
10:02 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Apple CEO Tim Cook in Leaked Memo: 'We Are Doing Everything in Our Power' To Identify Leakers
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned employees about leaking company information. Cook's memo: Dear Team, It was great to connect with you at the global employee meeting on Friday. There was much to celebrat...
09:25 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Debuts Surface Duo 2 Dual-Screen Android Phone With Larger Displays and 5G
At Microsoft's Surface event today, the company announced its Surface Duo 2 dual-screen Android smartphone, featuring a trio of new cameras, a faster processor, larger displays, and support for 5G. Th...
08:34 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer To Step Down
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, a 13-year veteran who oversees the social network's work in artificial intelligence, virtual reality and the blockchain, will step down next year. Fr...
08:05 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot YouTube Tests Video Downloads for Your Desktop Browser
YouTube is testing an official way to download videos on your desktop web browser. From a report: If you want to see if you're eligible for the test, which runs through October 19th, check out YouTube...
07:47 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Google Finally Shifting To 'Upstream First' Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features
Phoronix reports: Google's Android had been notorious for all of its downstream patches carried by the mobile operating system as well as various vendor/device kernel trees while in recent years more ...
06:45 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot UK Publishes 10-Year Plan To Become 'AI Superpower,' Seeking To Rival US and China
New submitter iarlakd writes: The U.K. government on Wednesday released its 10-year plan to make the country a global "artificial intelligence superpower," seeking to rival the likes of the U.S. and C...
06:05 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices
One of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates, Let's Encrypt, will stop using an older root certificate next week -- meaning you might need to upgrade your devices to prevent them from breaking. ...
05:25 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Apple Bans Fortnite Until Appeals Are Exhausted in Legal Fight
Apple plans to keep Fortnite off of its App Store until appeals are exhausted in its legal battle with Epic Games, the maker of the popular battle-royale game. From a report: Apple sent a letter to Ep...
04:45 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Lithuania Says Throw Away Chinese Phones Due To Censorship Concerns
Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built...
04:08 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft's New Powerful Flagship Laptop
Microsoft is announcing the Surface Laptop Studio today, a successor to the Surface Book line of powerful laptops. It presents a total redesign for Microsoft's flagship laptop, ditching the removable ...
03:25 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Surface Pro 8 is a Media-Centric 13-inch Tablet With a 120Hz Dolby Vision Display
Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Pro 8. Engadget: Microsoft's new Surface Pro 8 tablet can actually go toe-to-toe with most ultraportables. It features a 13-inch PixelSense screen, a significant upg...
02:44 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot No More Apologies: Inside Facebook's Push To Defend Its Image
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals. From a report: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, ...
02:05 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Catalogue of Errors Led To $1.36 Billion of State Pension Underpayments
Repeated human errors made for years were to blame for a scandal which led to more than 1bn pound of state pensions not being paid, a report has concluded. BBC: The National Audit Office (NAO) said 13...
01:00 pm - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is On the Rise, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vice: If you live near a freshwater river or lake, odds are good that you have seen warning signs about harmful algal and bacterial blooms posted on its shores...
10:00 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot SEC's Gensler Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies Lasting Long
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, "Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said Tuesday he doesn't see much long-term viability for cryptocurrencies (Warning: source pa...
07:00 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Jeff Bezos Says Traveling To Space Changed How He Thinks About Nature
Jeff Bezos on Monday pledged to give away $1 billion in grants this year with a focus on conservation efforts. "Nature is our life support system and it's fragile," Bezos said Monday at an event in Ne...
03:30 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Develop the Next Generation of Reservoir Computing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: A relatively new type of computing that mimics the way the human brain works was already transforming how scientists could tackle some of the most di...
02:02 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot China Vows End To Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that his country "will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad" and plans to boost support for clean energy in deve...
01:25 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot US Committee Is Reviewing Zoom's $14.7 Billion Deal For Five9 On National-Security Grounds
A U.S. government committee is reviewing Zoom's agreement to acquire cloud contact center software company Five9 for $14.7 billion on national-security grounds. CNBC reports: According to a letter dat...
12:45 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot iOS 15.1 Beta Lets Users Add COVID Vaccination Card To Wallet App
The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet. MacRumors reports: T...
12:02 am - Wed, September 22, 2021
Slashdot FBI Held Back Ransomware Decryption Key From Businesses To Run Operation Targeting Hackers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a majo...
11:20 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Comcast and UK Subsidiary Sky Reportedly Launching Smart TVs
Comcast appears to be planning to offer TVs running its own software across at least two territories, according to recent reports from Protocol and The Financial Times. It comes a little more than a w...
10:40 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot China's Lehman Brothers Moment?
The New York Times: Angry home buyers are waiting on as many as 1.6 million apartments. Suppliers that sold cement, paint, rebar and copper pipes are owed more than $100 billion in payments. Employees...
10:00 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot CIA Director 'Fuming' After Havana Syndrome Strikes Team Member In India
FallOutBoyTonto shares a report from Ars Technica: A US intelligence officer traveling in India earlier this month with CIA director William Burns reported experiencing a mysterious health incident an...
09:20 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Relaxes Drug Testing Policies, Will Lobby To Legalize Marijuana
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon is further relaxing its screening policies for marijuana, as it ramps up support for federal legislation to legalize the drug. In a blog post Tues...
08:41 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Apple is Working on Mental Health Monitoring Using iPhone Data
Apple is working on ways to help detect and diagnose conditions such as depression, anxiety and cognitive decline using an iPhone, WSJ is reporting. Techcrunch: Researchers hope that analysis of data ...
08:01 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot EU Plans To Legislate for Common Phone Charger Despite Apple Grumbles
The European Commission will on Thursday present a legislative proposal for a common charger for mobile phones, tablets and headphones, a move likely to affect iPhone maker Apple more than its rivals,...
07:40 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Endangered African Penguins, With Multiple Bee Stings, Are Found Dead
More than 60 endangered African penguins were recently found dead, all with multiple bee stings and no other external injuries, according to officials in a coastal city in South Africa where the birds...
07:22 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot PayPal Launches Its 'Super App' Combining Payments, Savings, Bill Pay, Crypto, Shopping and More
PayPal has been talking about its "super app" plans for some time, having recently told investors its upcoming digital wallet and payments app had been given a go for launch. Today, the first version ...
06:42 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Crypto Channels Targeted in Biden's Fight Against Ransomware
The Biden administration plans a fresh campaign against ransomware attacks through sanctions to cut off criminals' cryptocurrency pipelines, and it urged companies to report extortion attempts and bet...
06:01 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Researcher Discloses iPhone Lock Screen Bypass on iOS 15 Launch Day
On the day Apple released iOS 15, a Spanish security researcher disclosed an iPhone lock screen bypass that can be exploited to grant attackers access to a user's notes. From a report: In an interview...
05:25 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Netflix Launches Free Plan in Kenya To Boost Growth
Netflix said on Monday it is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the global streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users. From a report: The...
04:42 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data
Facebook has begun rolling out an update that is interfering with watchdogs monitoring the platform. From a report: The Markup has found evidence that Facebook is adding changes to its website code th...
04:02 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Googlers Protest Removal of Russian App as Bend To Government
Google employees have joined the slew of politicians and activists blasting the internet giant for pulling a voting app from Russia's opposition leader, a move critics say showed the company was cavin...
03:22 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Leaked Apple Training Videos Show How the iPhone-Maker Undermines Third-Party Repair
em1ly shares a report from Motherboard, which obtained leaked training videos Apple made for its authorized repair partners, showing how the company trains repair technicians to undermine third party ...
02:44 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Each Get a Decade of Support from Canonical
Canonical has announced that it is extending the life of Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 to a decade. BetaNews: In other words, Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 are getting longer Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) per...
02:03 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Google is Buying a New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion
Google is buying a new office building on Manhattan's West Side for $2.1 billion, the most expensive sale of a U.S. office building since the pandemic started. From a report: The tech giant is already...
01:00 pm - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Virgin Media Subscribers Told To Pay 'Thousands of Pounds' To Settle Piracy Laws
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Virgin Media subscribers receiving letters accusing them of movie piracy may find that settling their cases will be a costly affair. TorrentFreak...
10:00 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Amazon's AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers For Mistakes They Didn't Make
em1ly shares a report from Motherboard: Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control. In February, Amazon announ...
07:00 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot NASA Reviews Private Space Station Proposals, Expects To Save Over $1 Billion Annually After ISS Retires
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to retire the International Space Station by the end of this decade, so the U.S. space agency is turning to private companies to build new space...
03:30 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot World's Largest Chip Foundry TSMC Sets 2050 Deadline To Go Carbon Neutral
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: TSMC announced last week that it would flatten its emissions growth by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon by 2050. That'll be a tall order for a comp...
02:02 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot The Chinese Version of TikTok Is Limiting Kids To 40 Minutes a Day
The Chinese version of TikTok is introducing a "teenage mode" that will limit the amount of time children under the age of 14 spend on the short-form video app to 40 minutes a day. CNN reports: The me...
01:25 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Senate Democrats Call on FTC To Fix Data Privacy 'Crisis'
Senate Democrats are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules to protect consumer data privacy in a new letter to the agency authored on Monday. From a report: The letter, led by Sen...
12:45 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Warned Over 'Very Small' Indicator LED On Smart Glasses
The Data Protection Commission in Ireland, Facebook's lead privacy regulator in Europe, has asked Facebook to demonstrate than an LED indicator light on its pair of "smart" Ray-Ban sunglasses -- which...
12:02 am - Tue, September 21, 2021
Slashdot Linux Foundation Survey Shows Companies Desperate To Hire Open-Source Talent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At the Open Source Summit in Seattle, The Linux Foundation, and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider released the 2021 Open Sourc...
11:20 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Peter Thiel Claims Zuckerberg Agreed To Push 'State-Sanctioned Conservatism' Under Trump Deal
ytene writes: Danika Fears over at The Daily Beast carries some pretty explosive reporting, describing how Peter Thiel -- of Palantir infamy -- claims in a new biography by Max Chafkin that Mark Zucke...
10:40 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Kids 5-11 Appear Safely Protected By Small Doses of COVID Vaccine, Pfizer Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Small doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 appeared to produce strong antibody responses and comparable side effects ...
10:02 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections
Twitter on Monday said it has agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the social network of violating securities laws by misleading investors about its prospects for...
09:25 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses That of 1918 Pandemic
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed that of the 1918 flu pandemic, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University. The Hill reports: The U.S. has passed 675,000 deaths, the estimated...
08:45 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot 'Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord'
Luke Plunkett, writing for Kotaku: A few days ago Eurogamer closed their forums, bringing to an end over 20 years of community discussion. The site explained the move like sites and companies always d...
08:05 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot The Pandemic Made Our Workweeks Longer
The average American's workweek has gotten 10% longer during the pandemic, according to a new Microsoft study published in Nature Human Behaviour. From a report: These longer hours are a key part of t...
07:26 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Amazon is Piling Ads Into Search Results
An anonymous reader shares a report: Search for "toothpaste" on Amazon, and the top of the web page will show you a mix of popular brands like Colgate, Crest and Sensodyne. Try a separate search for "...
06:54 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15
Apple today released iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the newest operating system updates designed for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. From a report: As with all of Apple's software updates, iOS and iPadOS 15 ...
05:25 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Coinbase Drops Lend Product Plans After SEC Lawsuit Threat
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has canceled plans to launch Lend, a product designed to deliver high-interest returns on USDC stablecoin holdings. From a report: A Coinbase representative confirmed ...
04:42 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot BlackMatter Hits Grain Cooperative With Ransomware Attack
Iowa-based grain cooperative New Cooperative was struck by ransomware in recent days and has shut down its computer systems as it tries to mitigate the attack. From a report: The attack occurred on or...
04:01 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Leaked Surface Pro 8 Specs Include Thunderbolt Ports and a 120 Hz Screen
Just days ahead of Microsoft's next Surface hardware event, Twitter user @Shadlow_Leak has posted what appears to be a leaked retail listing showing some key specs of a new Surface Pro device. From a ...
03:43 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Alaska Discloses 'Sophisticated' Nation-State Cyberattack on Health Service
A nation-state cyber-espionage group has gained access to the IT network of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Service (DHSS), the agency said last week. From a report: The attack, which is st...
02:42 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Says It's Permanently Banned 600 Chinese Brands for Review Fraud
An anonymous reader shares a report: Remember when gadget vendors Aukey, Mpow, RavPower, Vava, TaoTronics and Choetech started mysteriously disappearing from Amazon's online storefront, and it turned ...
02:02 pm - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Amazon is Investigating Whether Its Lawyers Bribed Government Officials in India
Amazon has launched an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India following a complaint from a whistleblower who alleged that one or more of the company's reps had bribed gov...
11:34 am - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot Stanford's Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Creates Controversy
ellithligraw writes: Last month a Stanford research paper coauthored by dozens of Stanford researchers which terms some artificial intelligence models "foundations" is causing a debate over the future...
07:34 am - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot 'Freedom Hosting' Web Admin Gets 27 Years In Prison For Hosting 200 Child Pornography Sites
An anonymous reader quotes the Record: An Irish man who ran a cheap dark web hosting service has been sentenced today to 27 years in prison for turning a blind eye to customers hosting child sex abuse...
03:34 am - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot NYT: Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By an 'AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine'
For 14 years Israel had wanted to kill Iran's chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons program, who they suspected of leading Iran's quest to build nuclear weapons. Then last Nov...
01:34 am - Mon, September 20, 2021
Slashdot After a For-Profit Company Bought EdX -- What Happens Next?
jyosim summarizes an article at EdSurge: edX, founded by Harvard University and MIT a decade ago as a nonprofit alternative to for-profit online education providers, has agreed [in June] to sell its o...
10:25 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot What's the Best Ransomware Backup Solution: Disk or Tape?
Slashdot reader storagedude writes: With the release of LTO-9, just about every tape vendor has pushed its wares as a solution to the ransomware problem. After all, is there any backup technology that...
09:19 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot China Tells Its Tech Giants To Stop Blocking Rivals' Links
"China fired a fresh regulatory shot at its tech giants on Monday," writes Reuters, "telling them to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other's links on their sites or face consequences."Th...
08:13 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot As Two Pilots Eject, US Military Plane Crashes Into Texas Neighborhood
"Y'all a plane just crashed into all those houses," one eyewitness says in an online video. "People jumped out of the plane with parachutes." The two people — jumping from the 38-foot-long train...
06:59 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot Banks Beware? Amazon, Walmart, IKEA Experiment with Their Own 'Embedded Finance' Services
"Anyone can be a banker these days," argues Reuters. All it takes it the right software:Global brands from Mercedes and Amazon to IKEA and Walmart are cutting out the traditional financial middleman a...
06:04 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot At Least 20 Americans Have Been Hospitalized for Ivermectin Overdoses This Year
Oregon Health & Science University reported Friday that in the 45 days before September 14, five Oregonians had to be hospitalized "because they consumed a potent antiparasitic drug despite there ...
05:34 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot Merck Ivermectin Researcher Proud of Its Success - For Treating River Blindness
A Pennsylvania newspaper tracked down Dr. Kenneth Brown — who wrote Merck's original research protocols in the 1980s for studying ivermectin as a "river blindness" treatment. They describe Brown...
04:34 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot Can the Computer Chip Industry Reduce Its Carbon Footprint?
"Last week Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest chipmaker, which supplies chips to Apple, pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050," reports the Guardian. "But decarboniz...
03:34 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot YouTube Blocks 31st Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, Citing Copyright on a Recording from 1914
The 31st annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at a special ceremony on September 9th, announced the magazine responsible for the event, the Annals of Improbable Research. But this week they made anothe...
02:34 pm - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot World's Whitest Paint Sets Guinness Record, Could Reduce Need For Air Conditioning
"The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University," reports USA Today, "a paint so white that it could eventually reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning, s...
11:04 am - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot Bad for your Health? Salesforce CEO Argues Facebook 'is the New Cigarettes'
Social media may be bad for our health, argues long-time technology reporter/commentator Kara Swisher in the New York Times:In March of 2018, I interviewed Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesfo...
07:04 am - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot Is 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop?
"2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop," writes PC Magazine. "No, really..."Walk into any school now, and you'll see millions of Linux machines. They're called Chromebooks. For a free project launc...
03:04 am - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot What Happened After El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as Legal Currency?
Foreign Policy magazine explores just what happened after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal currency and launched its official government-approved bitcoin wallet Chivo:Chivo launched just after mid...
12:01 am - Sun, September 19, 2021
Slashdot SpaceX's All-Tourist Crew Safely Splashes Back Down to Earth
Watch the video here! "SpaceX safely returned its Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit on Saturday, with the capsule carrying the four members of the Inspiration4 mission back to Earth after three days i...
10:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Report: Boeing Official Expected to Face Criminal Charges Over Fatal Boeing 737 Max Issues
"Federal prosecutors plan to criminally charge a former Boeing Co. pilot they suspect of misleading aviation regulators about safety issues blamed for two fatal crashes of the 737 Max," reports the Wa...
09:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Boston Dynamics' Spot Becomes a Robotic Watchdog for Hyundai
CNET's Roadshow reports that a safety-oriented version of Boston Dynamics' headless dog-shaped robot "Spot" will begin patrolling a Kia plant in South Korea, "to survey industrial areas remotely and h...
08:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Mozilla Experiment: Set Default Search Engine to Bing for 1% of Firefox Users
"Mozilla is running an experiment on 1% of the Firefox desktop population currently, which sets the default search engine to Bing in the web browser," reports Ghacks:[I]n most regions, it is Google Se...
07:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Is Python About to Become the Most Popular Programming Language?
"According to one measure, Python is potentially on the verge of becoming the most popular computer programming language," reports ZDNet, joining C and Java as the only other two languages to attain t...
06:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot FDA Approves Human Clinical Trials of a Possible CRISPR-Based HIV Cure
"A CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology that has shown promise in clearing HIV from mice is headed into human testing," reports Fierce Biotech:We don't like to throw the word "cure" around here. But Ex...
05:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Global Computing's Carbon Footprint Is Bigger Than Previously Estimated
An anonymous reader quotes a report from UPI: According to a new study, published Friday in the journal Patterns, information and communications technology, or ICT for short, is responsible for a grea...
04:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Richard Stallman Shares His Concerns About GitHub's Copilot -- and About GitHub
destinyland writes: A newly-released video at GNU.org shows an hour-long talk given by free software advocate Richard Stallman for the BigBlueBotton open source conference (which was held online last ...
03:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes
This week the Wall Street Journal reported that a 2018 algorithm change at Facebook "rewarded outrage," according to Facebook's own internal memos. But the Journal says the memos showed "that CEO Mark...
02:34 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Despite 'Economic Distress', Two US Nuclear Power Plants Saved From Closing Through Subsidies
Slashdot reader oumuamua writes that two U.S. nuclear plants owned by Exelon "were almost shutdown prematurely...but were saved at the last minute by the Illinois Senate."The Illinois Senate has appro...
01:00 pm - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot In Finland, Scientists Are Growing Coffee In a Lab
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: [R]esearchers in Finland are experimenting with growing coffee from plant cells in bioreactors. There are several reasons why it might make sense...
10:00 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot GM Tells Bolt Owners to Park 50 Feet Away From Other Cars
General Motors urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park and store the vehicles at least 50 feet away from other cars to reduce the risk that a spontaneous fire could spread. Bloomberg...
07:00 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot ITER Nuclear Fusion Reactor Hit By COVID Delay, Rising Costs
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) currently under construction in Cadarache, southern France, will see cost overruns and delays due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 p...
03:30 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Sequoias Are Being Wrapped In Foil Blankets To Protect Against Wildfires
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Firefighters are swaddling giant sequoias in a flame-retardant foil in an effort to protect the ancient trees from wildfires that are ragin...
02:20 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating
The US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in what climate experts hailed as one of the most significant steps yet towards fu...
01:40 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot United Kingdom To Regress To Imperial Weights and Measures
New submitter Generic User Account writes: Under plans unveiled by ministers today, it will once again become legal for market stalls, shops, and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain's ...
01:00 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Tesla Will Open Controversial FSD Beta Software To Owners With a Good Driving Record
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software can access the latest beta version that...
12:20 am - Sat, September 18, 2021
Slashdot Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Researchers have found a new and surprisingly simple method for bypassing facial recognition software using makeup patterns. A new study from Ben-...
11:40 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Man Who Unlocked Nearly 2 Million AT&T Phones Gets 12 Years In Prison
A man who the Department of Justice says unlocked AT&T customers' phones for a fee was sentenced to 12 years in prison, in what the judge called "a terrible cybercrime over an extended period," wh...
11:02 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Aircraft Completes 15-Minute Maiden Voyage
Rolls-Royce's "Spirit of Innovation" all-electric airplane completed a 15 minute flight, marking "the beginning of an intensive flight-testing phase in which we will be collecting valuable performance...
10:25 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Google Will Extend Permission Auto-Reset Feature To Older Android Versions
Google announced plans today to port its Permission Auto-Reset feature from Android 11 to older versions of its mobile operating system, as far back as Android 6. From a report: Launched last fall, th...
09:45 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Google and Apple, Under Pressure From Russia, Remove Voting App
Apple and Google removed an app meant to coordinate protest voting in this weekend's Russian elections from the country on Friday, a blow to the opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin and a display ...
08:45 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot FDA Panel Rejects Plan To Administer Pfizer's COVID-19 Booster Doses To General Public
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: An influential Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Friday resoundingly rejected a plan to administer booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech'...
08:02 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Web Host Epik Was Warned of a Critical Security Flaw Weeks Before it Was Hacked
An anonymous reader shares a report: Hackers associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous say they have leaked gigabytes of data from Epik, a web host and domain registrar that provides service...
07:22 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot A US Company Sold iPhone Hacking Tools To UAE Spies
An American cybersecurity company was behind a 2016 iPhone hack sold to a group of mercenaries and used by the United Arab Emirates. From a report: When the United Arab Emirates paid over $1.3 million...
06:45 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot States Act Against Celsius Network for Unregistered Products
States on Friday took action against Celsius Network, accusing the company, which purports to be one of the world's largest cryptocurrency lenders, of offering residents unregistered securities. From ...
06:00 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot FTC Releases Findings on How Big Tech Eats Little Tech
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan signaled changes are on the way in how the agency scrutinizes acquisitions after revealing the results of a study of a decade's worth of Big Tech company deals...
05:21 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot 36,000 Gigatons of Carbon Heralded History's Biggest Mass Extinction
New insights into the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago. From a report: The end-Permian mass extinction was a big deal. It was the largest mass extinction event ever and occurred 252 m...
04:45 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot New Type of Dark Energy Could Solve Universe Expansion Mystery
Cosmologists have found signs that a second type of dark energy -- the ubiquitous but enigmatic substance that is pushing the current Universe's expansion to accelerate -- might have existed in the fi...
04:06 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot US To Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions
The Biden administration is preparing an array of actions, including sanctions [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled, alternative source], to make it harder for hackers to use digital currency to ...
03:21 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Over 60 South Korean Crypto Exchanges Set To Suspend Services Next Week
More than 60 cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea must notify customers of a partial or full suspension of trading by Friday midnight, a week before a new regulation comes into effect. An anonymous...
02:41 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Tencent Opens WeChat To Rivals' Links as App Walls Crumble
Tencent allowed users of its main WeChat social media service to link to rivals' content for the first time in years, taking initial steps to comply with Beijing's call to dismantle walls around platf...
02:01 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Telegram Emerges as New Dark Web for Cyber Criminals
Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy, sell and share stolen data and hacking tools, new research shows, as the messaging app emerges as an alternative to the dark web. From...
01:00 pm - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Solar Power Could Become a Catalyst For a Major Synthetic Fuel Upgrade
An anonymous reader quotes a report from InterestingEngineering: As global carbon emissions that stem from fossil fuels keep adding to our ever-growing climate change issue, energy companies have turn...
10:00 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Razer Says Its New Mechanical Keyboards Have 'Near-Zero' Input Latency
Razer has announced an update to its popular Huntsman lineup of mechanical keyboards that reduces input latency to "near-zero," the company claims. The Verge reports: [T]he newly announced Huntsman V2...
07:00 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Amateur Astronomer Spots Possible New Impact Flash At Jupiter
RockDoctor writes: A recent flurry of posts to astronomy news sites points to an amateur astronomer spotting a new impact on Jupiter. Every such case documented improves our estimates of how many bodi...
03:30 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Larger Than Usual, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: Scientists say the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual and already surpasses the size of Antarctica. The European Union's Copernicus At...
02:02 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Stefan He Qin, the founder of two cryptocurrency-focused hedge funds who pled guilty to securities fraud in February, has been sentenced to 90 m...
01:25 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Free REvil Ransomware Master Decrypter Released For Past Victims
A free master decryptor for the REvil ransomware operation has been released, allowing all victims encrypted before the gang disappeared to recover their files for free. BleepingComputer reports: The ...
12:45 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot Lucid Air Electric Sedan Zips By Tesla With EPA-Rated 520-Mile Range
The EPA says the Lucid Air electric sedan will do 520 miles on a full charge, which is well over 100 miles more than the Tesla Model S Long Range, which delivers an estimated 405 miles. CNET reports: ...
12:02 am - Fri, September 17, 2021
Slashdot China Intensifies Hunt For Cryptocurrency Miners In Hiding
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: China's campaign against the cryptocurrency industry is now targeting miners who tried to disguise themselves as data researchers and storage facili...
11:20 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot WhatsApp Reinvents the 'Yellow Pages'
WhatsApp is testing a new "Yellow Pages" like feature in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that will let users search for local shops. The Next Web reports: WhatsApp's head, Will Cathcart, announced this feature and...
10:40 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot AMC Theaters Will Accept Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin
In August, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said the company will start accepting bitcoin as payment for movie tickets and concessions at all of its U.S. theaters. Now, Aron says he expects the company...
10:00 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Tech Giants Used 'Loopholes' To Duck Merger Reviews, FTC Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Hundreds of deals by U.S. technology giants flew under the radar of merger watchdogs, fueling the companies' unchecked growth in the digital economy...
09:25 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Home Computing Pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair Dies Aged 81
LoTonah writes: Sir Clive Sinclair, the man behind the Sinclair Spectrum and the first computer to retail for under a hundred dollars (the Sinclair ZX-81, A.K.A. The Timex/Sinclair 1000), died Septemb...
08:45 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot New Microsoft Office Arrives Early Next Month, and Won't Require You To Pay For a Subscription
Microsoft's new, flat-price version of its Office productivity software will arrive on Oct. 5 -- the same day Windows 11 begins rolling out, according to a company blog post Thursday. From a report: M...
08:05 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Wikipedia Bans Seven Chinese Users Amid Concerns of 'Infiltration, Physical Harm'
Thelasko writes: The Wikimedia Foundation has revealed efforts to gather personal information on some Chinese Wikipedia editors by entities opposed to their activities on the platform and likely to th...
07:25 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Instagram Boss Says Social Media is Like Cars: People Are Going To Die
An anonymous reader shares a report: Adam Mosseri isn't doing Facebook any favors. The head of Instagram was interviewed on the Recode Media podcast this week following a damning series of articles in...
06:48 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot OpenSea's Product Chief is Out After Insider NFT Flipping Accusations
OpenSea head of product Nate Chastain, who was recently accused of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company. His Twitter bio now includes the phrase "Past: @opens...
06:05 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Locast's Free TV Service Ordered To Shut Down Permanently After Copyright Loss
Locast has been ordered to shut down its online TV service forever in a permanent injunction issued yesterday by a federal judge. From a report: The order came two weeks after the judge gave major bro...
05:25 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot New Tolling Systems Are Poised To Hit Highways
Electric vehicles might be good for the environment, but they're terrible for state budgets, which depend on fuel taxes to pay for road maintenance. So states like Oregon and Utah are experimenting wi...
04:45 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot AMD: We Stand Ready To Make Arm Chips
AMD's CFO Devinder Kumar has commented that AMD stands ready to manufacture Arm chips if needed, noting that the company's customers want to work with AMD on Arm-based solutions. From a report: Kumar'...
04:05 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Jay-Z's NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend
As a young rapper, Jay-Z once teamed up with Damon Dash to sell CDs of his music out of a car in the Brooklyn projects. Today, the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Records are embroiled in a legal fight inv...
03:25 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot China's Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why
Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry. WSJ: She directed award-winning films, sold millions...
02:58 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot FTC Warns Health Apps To Notify Consumers Impacted by Data Breaches
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps that handle sensitive health information, warning these companies to comply. From ...
02:48 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot FTC Warns Health Apps To Notify Consumers Impacted by Data Breaches
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps that handle sensitive health information, warning these companies to comply. From ...
02:05 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Alphabet's Project Taara Laser Tech Beamed 700TB of Data Across Nearly 5km
An anonymous reader shares a report: In January, Google's parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet ...
01:00 pm - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Walmart To Begin Driverless Deliveries With Ford and Argo AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Our streets might not be overflowing with robotaxis as we were promised circa 2017, but here and there, AV companies are beginning commercial dep...
10:00 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Ransomware Encrypts South Africa's Entire Department of Justice Network
The justice ministry of the South African government is working on restoring its operations after a recent ransomware attack encrypted all its systems, making all electronic services unavailable both ...
07:00 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions On Mars
Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of "super eruptions," the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year period. NASA repo...
03:30 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Travis CI is a popular software-testing tool due to its seamless integration with GitHub and Bitbucket. As the makers of the tool explain: "When ...
02:10 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot Physicists Make Square Droplets and Liquid Lattices
Aalto University reports via Phys.Org: When two substances are brought together, they will eventually settle into a steady state called thermodynamic equilibrium; examples include oil floating on top ...
01:30 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Feature Dual eSIM Support
Apple introduced eSIM support on iPhone with iPhone XR and iPhone XS in 2018. However, while you can use a regular SIM and an eSIM simultaneously, there was no way to use two eSIMs simultaneously -- u...
01:05 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot DoorDash Sues NYC Over Customer Data Law
DoorDash sued New York City on Wednesday over a new law requiring food delivery companies to share customer data with restaurants, saying it violates customer privacy and lets restaurants compete unfa...
12:40 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot SpaceX Launches First All-Tourist Crew Into Orbit
SpaceX has successfully launched the crew of Inspiration4 into orbit. It's the first-ever orbital flight crewed entirely by tourists. From a report: The SpaceX rocket blasted off from NASA's Kennedy S...
12:10 am - Thu, September 16, 2021
Slashdot ExpressVPN Knew 'Key Facts' of Executive Who Worked For UAE Spy Unit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: ExpressVPN, a popular VPN company, said it was aware of the "key facts" of its chief information officer Daniel Gericke's previous employment befo...
11:30 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot PS5 Software Update Brings SSD Installation, 3D Audio Wednesday
Sony has released a new software update for the PlayStation 5 that will let you expand the console's internal storage and use the PS5's 3D audio effects on external speakers. CNET reports: The PS5 upd...
10:50 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Kazakhstan Moves To Restrict Foreign Social Media Usage
Kazakhstan's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday requiring owners of foreign social media and messaging apps to set up offices in the country or risk being blocked as part of a campaign against cy...
10:10 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens
Two top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee's panel over consumer protection said they were launching a probe into Facebook after The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the company was a...
09:30 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Emergency Software Patches Are on the Rise
Emergency software patches, in which users are pushed to immediately update phones and computers because hackers have figured out some novel way to break in, are becoming more common. From a report: R...
08:50 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot FCC Wants Landlords To Stop Screwing Up Your Internet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The FCC has announced (PDF) it's investigating deals the broadband industry strikes with landlords that block broadband competition in apartment c...
08:10 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Most Plans for New Coal Plants Scrapped Since Paris Agreement
The global pipeline of new coal power plants has collapsed since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to research that suggests the end of the polluting energy source is in sight. From a report...
07:34 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot When the Wind Stops Blowing, an Energy Storm Brews
An anonymous reader shares a report (paywalled): Gas made up the largest share of the UK's energy mix in 2020, at 34%; followed by wind on a quarter; nuclear at 17%; biomass at 6.5% and solar at 4.4%....
06:47 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot SpaceX Rocket To Take World's First All-Civilian Crew Into Orbit
The world's first crew of "amateur astronauts" is preparing to blast off on a mission that will carry them into orbit before bringing them back down to Earth at the weekend. From a report: The four ci...
06:05 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Loss of Executive To Microsoft Sets Up Potential Clash
Microsoft said it has hired a former Amazon cloud executive to run its cybersecurity operations, potentially setting in motion a legal battle between the two tech giants. From a report: Charlie Bell, ...
05:42 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot US Fines Former NSA Employees Who Provided Hacker-for-Hire Services To UAE
The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company. From a report: Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and Da...
04:40 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Theranos Burned Through $2M a Week as Investors Were Given Rosy Projections
Around the time that Theranos was losing nearly $2 million per week, investors in the blood-testing startup were being told that the company would soon be bringing in almost $1 billion per year. From ...
04:00 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Anonymous Hacks Epik Web Hosting
ArchieBunker writes: Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous claim to have hacked web registration company Epik, allegedly stealing 'a decade's worth of data,' including reams of information ab...
03:20 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot OpenSea Confirms Executive Used Insider Knowledge When Buying NFTs
One of the non-fungible token (NFT) space's biggest marketplaces has admitted that a senior employee has been getting the drop on its most popular drops. From a report: Twitter users last night accuse...
02:45 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Account Goes Passwordless
Anyone with a Microsoft account can now remove their password from the account entirely to enable better security. From a report: "For the past couple of years we've been saying that the future is pas...
02:00 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Uber's Chief Technical Officer To Step Down
Uber Chief Technology Officer Sukumar Rathnam is stepping down as the company's head of engineering, a spokesperson of the ride-hailing company said late on Tuesday. From a report: The spokesperson di...
01:00 pm - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's Kindle e-readers get new software updates regularly, and they're mostly of the nondescript, invisible "performance improvements and bug ...
10:00 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Indian Researchers Create a Raspberry-Pi-Based Device To Monitor Health
Two researchers in India have developed a new blood test that is simple, affordable, and easily deployed anywhere where a source of electricity is available. IEEE Spectrum reports: Sangeeta Palekar is...
07:00 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot 'Massive' Transatlantic Data Cable Landed On Beach In Bude
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: A new "massive" undersea transatlantic communications cable has been brought ashore on a beach in Cornwall. The Google data cable, called Grace Hopper, was lande...
03:30 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement In Cities Around the World
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The people who happen to be in a city center at any given moment may seem like a random collection of individuals. But new research featur...
02:02 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Can Now Assemble Entire Genomes On Their Personal Computers In Minutes
Researchers have developed a technique for reconstructing whole genomes, including the human genome, on a personal computer. "This technique is about a hundred times faster than current state-of-the-a...
01:25 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Comcast Will Soon Launch Smart TVs Under Its New XClass TV Brand
Comcast is gearing up to launch its own smart TVs: The company has struck a partnership with Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense to sell two smart TV models under the XClass TV brand, Protocol reported Tu...
12:40 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot SEC Charges App Annie With Securities Fraud in $10 Million Settlement
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that it's charging App Annie, the mobile app data provider, with securities fraud, accusing the company of "engaging in deceptive practices" an...
12:01 am - Wed, September 15, 2021
Slashdot Russia Fines Facebook, Twitter for Not Deleting Banned Content
A Russian court on Tuesday said it had fined U.S. social media companies Facebook and Twitter for failing to delete content that Moscow deems illegal, part of a wider crackdown by Russia on the intern...
11:20 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Millions With Eye Conditions at Higher Risk of Dementia, Shows Research
Millions of people with eye conditions including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetes-related eye disease have an increased risk of developing dementia, new research shows. From a ...
10:40 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Twitter Reopens Its Account Verification Process After Another Pause
Twitter has again restarted its account verification process, the company said on Monday. TechCrunch reports: Since launching the revamped verification program this spring, Twitter had hit a few snags...
10:02 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Facebook's Own Research Shows Instagram Is Harmful To Teens, Report Says
In studies conducted over the past three years, Facebook researchers have found that Instagram is "harmful for a sizable percentage" of young users, particularly teenage girls, reported The Wall Stree...
09:25 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Michelin's Airless Passenger Car Tires Get Their First Public Outing
New Atlas reports the latest development with Michelin's airless tire technology, which has been in the works for almost two decades. An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an excerpt from the report: Th...
08:45 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Online Coding School Treehouse Lays Off Most of Its Staff
Treehouse, which launched in Portland a decade ago in an ambitious effort to teach software development online, plans to lay off most of its staff by the end of the month. Oregon Live reports: CEO Rya...
08:02 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Apple Watch Series 7 Delivers Larger Screens and More Durability
Earlier today at Apple's iPhone 13 launch event, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 7 with a new, more seamless design with larger 41mm and 45mm cases that include larger, brighter and more durab...
07:25 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot AMD Radeon Software Can Overclock Your Ryzen CPU Now, Too
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: The latest version of Radeon Software adds an unusual (and welcome) new twist: The ability to automatically overclock your Ryzen processor if you're r...
06:45 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot All-new iPad Mini Announced With 5G, USB-C, and Larger 8.3-inch Display
Apple has announced its all-new iPad Mini. It features a new enclosure with narrower bezels and rounded corners. From a report: The big news is that it's larger than the iPad Mini 5 with an 8.3-inch d...
06:28 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max Announced With High Refresh Rate 120Hz Displays
Apple has officially announced the high-end part of the iPhone 13 lineup: the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. It's got a faster A15 Bionic chip, three all-new cameras, and an improved display with up to...
05:25 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot TikTok Faces EU Data Probes Into Children's Safety, China Link
TikTok faces two investigations by the Irish data watchdog following intense scrutiny for months over concerns that children's data isn't safe on the platform. From a report: Ireland's Data Protection...
04:47 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot China Uses Anti-fraud App To Track Access To Overseas Financial News Sites
Chinese police are using a new anti-fraud app installed on more than 200m mobile phones to identify and question people who have viewed overseas financial news sites, according to individuals summoned...
04:05 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot India and Singapore To Link Their Payments Systems
India and Singapore are working to link their digital payments systems to enable "instant, low-cost fund transfers," in a major push to disrupt the cross-border transactions between the two nations th...
03:38 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot South Korea's Antitrust Regulator Fines Google $177 Million for Abusing Mobile Market Dominance
South Korea's competition regulator on Tuesday announced it will fine Google 207.4 billion Korean won ($176.9 million) for allegedly using its dominant market position in the mobile operating system s...
02:46 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Intel Is Reducing Server Chip Pricing in Attempt To Stem the AMD Tide
Intel has pivoted on its server strategy in order to fight a supply-constrained AMD, reports DigiTimes. It's reportedly flooding the market with chips at discount pricing, rather than sticking to MSRP...
02:05 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot AI Can Estimate Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2015, representatives from more than 196 countries met in Le Bourget, France to sign the Paris Agreement. The legally binding treaty limits global warming to a ...
01:00 pm - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Meat Accounts For Nearly 60% of All Greenhouse Gases From Food Production, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat ...
10:00 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot China Will Reportedly Break Up Ant Group's Alipay, Force Creation of New Loans App
Beijing plans to break up Ant Group's Alipay and create a separate app for the fintech giant's loans business, according to a Financial Times report on Monday. CNBC reports: Regulators previously orde...
07:00 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Nvidia Leak May Reveal Unannounced Games, Including God of War For PC
An Nvidia GeForce Now server has leaked a confidential list of thousands of games, some of which have never been seen before, like the PlayStation exclusive God of War seemingly coming to Windows PC v...
03:30 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Researchers Toilet-Trained Cows In Hopes of Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Researchers in Germany recently demonstrated that cattle can be toilet trained to reduce some of their climate impact. By having the young cows pee in...
02:02 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot New York To Ban Sale of All Gas-Powered Vehicles In the State By 2035
New York is aiming to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035. CBS News reports: A bill amending the state's environmental conservation law was passed by the state's Senate and A...
01:25 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Engineers Grow Pancreatic 'Organoids' That Mimic the Real Thing
Researchers from MIT have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells. They believe that their "specialized gel" could also be useful ...
12:45 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says Dutch Court
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, and so entitled to greater workers' rights under local labor laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing...
12:20 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Kape Technologies Agrees to Buy ExpressVPN for $936 Million
Kape Technologies Plc agreed to buy ExpressVPN in a $936 million deal that will more than double the cybersecurity company's customer base and expand its tools for private web surfing. Bloomberg repor...
12:02 am - Tue, September 14, 2021
Slashdot Sony Is Nickel-and-Diming PS5 Owners On Upgrades For Games They Already Own
According to Insider, Sony is charging a $10 upgrade fee to bring cross-generational games from a PS4 to a PS5. From the report: When new game consoles launch nowadays, a variety of games on that new ...
11:20 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot A Horrifying New AI App Swaps Women Into Porn Videos With a Click
Karen Hao, reporting for MIT Technology Review: The website is eye-catching for its simplicity. Against a white backdrop, a giant blue button invites visitors to upload a picture of a face. Below the ...
10:42 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Facebook: Some High-Profile Users 'Allowed To Break Platform's Rules'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to ...
10:03 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Intuit Confirms $12 Billion Deal To Buy Mailchimp
It was teased earlier this month and now it's confirmed: Intuit said on Monday it would buy email marketing company Mailchimp for about $12 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Reuters reports: The deal,...
09:25 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Unveils Superpack, a New Compression Technique
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook unveiled a new compression technique they call 'Superpack compression.' In a blog post written by software engineer Sapan Bhatia, they claim that their compression...
08:45 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot The IT Talent Gap is Still Growing
IT executives see the talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, according to a new Gartner survey. From a report: Across compute infrastructure and plat...
08:00 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Apple Patches a NSO Zero-Day Flaw Affecting All Devices
Apple has released security updates for a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability that affects every iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Citizen Lab, which discovered the vulnerability and was credited...
07:25 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Firm Raises $15 Million To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth From Extinction
Ten thousand years after woolly mammoths vanished from the face of the Earth, scientists are embarking on an ambitious project to bring the beasts back to the Arctic tundra. From a report: The prospec...
06:45 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Brazil's President Bans Social Networks From Removing Some Posts
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is temporarily banning social media companies from removing certain content, including his claims that the only way he'll lose next year's elections is if the vote i...
06:05 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Inside the Shadowy World of Disinformation-for-Hire in Kenya
New research by Mozilla Fellows Odanga Madung and Brian Obilo reveals that Kenyan journalists, judges, and other members of civil society are facing coordinated disinformation campaigns on Twitter -- ...
05:33 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Technology Giant Olympus Hit by BlackMatter Ransomware
Olympus said in a brief statement that it is "currently investigating a potential cybersecurity incident" affecting its European, Middle East and Africa computer network. From a report: "Upon detectio...
04:51 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Biden To Tap Privacy Hawk For FTC Post
President Biden will nominate Georgetown University law professor Alvaro Bedoya to be a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, people familiar with the matter told Axios. From a repo...
04:10 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Epic Files Appeal After Loss To Apple in App Store Case
Epic Games filed a notice of appeal Sunday following a judge's decision in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple. From a report: U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers mostly sided with Apple, rejec...
03:27 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Mozilla Has Defeated Microsoft's Default Browser Protections in Windows
Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently. From a reporrt: While Microsoft offers a method to switch default browsers on Windows 10, it's more cumbersome than the sim...
02:39 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Walmart Says Report That It Will Be Accepting Litecoin as Payment is False
Major cryptocurrencies gave back their advances after Walmart denied having an agreement to use Litecoin for purchases. From a report: Litecoin -- which rose as much as 33% at one point -- erased all ...
02:05 pm - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot As 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Surges, a Third of US Users Fall Behind on Payments
A third of U.S. consumers who used "buy now, pay later" services have fallen behind on one or more payments, and 72% of those said their credit score declined, a new study published by personal financ...
10:34 am - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot El Salvador's Bitcoin Rollout Marred by Technical Glitches in Digital Wallets
Slashdot has been following El Salvador's pioneering adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender last week. But by Friday Reuters was reporting that "For a fourth day in a row technical glitches have beset th...
06:34 am - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Singapore Police Deploy Snitch Bots To Test Searching for 'Undesirable Social Behaviors'
"If you're wandering around Singapore anytime soon, take some time to wave hi to your friendly neighborhood snitch bot," writes Gizmodo:Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) will b...
04:34 am - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Perseverance's New Rock Samples Reveal Water Was Present on Mars For a Long Time
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected its second rock sample this week — and Friday Caltech's Ken Farley, a project scientist for the mission, announced that they've learned something. "It's ...
02:37 am - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot Steve Wozniak Shares a Video About His New Space Startup
Tonight 71-year-old Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tweeted ten words: "A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others." The tweet also included the URL for a new video just uploaded tonight...
01:35 am - Mon, September 13, 2021
Slashdot As More US Men Abandon Higher Education, Are Admissions Officers Discriminating Against Women?
The Wall Street Journal reports an interesting observation about America. "Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels." Slashdot r...
11:22 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Was Theranos a Sign of Larger Problems in Silicon Valley's Startup Culture?
Were Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos symptomatic of something larger? The BBC's North America tech reporter writes that in Silicon Valley, many believe that the story, "far from being an aberration &mda...
10:16 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Apple Says Motorcycle Vibrations Can Damage IPhone Cameras
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot quotes Engadget: Hold off on purchasing that iPhone mount for your motorbike. In a new Apple Support post first seen by MacRumors, the tech giant has warned that ...
09:17 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot 'Every Message Was Copied to the Police': the Daring Sting Behind the An0m Phone
The Guardian tells the story of "a viral sensation in the global underworld," the high-security An0m phones, which launched with "a grassroots marketing campaign, identifying so-called influencers &md...
08:04 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Probe Whether Uranium Cubes in US Lab Were Produced by Nazis
The New York Times reports:Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland are working to determine whether three uranium cubes they have in their possession wer...
07:04 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Boeing's Directors Are Now Facing an Investor Lawsuit Over Fatal 737 Max Crashes
Alain Williams (Slashdot reader #2972) brings this report from the BBC:Boeing's board of directors must face a lawsuit from shareholders over two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max plane, a U.S. judg...
06:04 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
This weekend finds some long-time Slashdot readers debating why research shows Firefox losing market share. Long-time Slashdot reader chiguy shares one theory: "Firefox keeps losing users, according t...
04:34 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Personal Data About Millions of Children Stolen from Schools, Leaked onto the Darkweb
Long-time Slashdot reader phalse phace quotes NBC News: Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions o...
03:34 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Can the US Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs With a Civilian Climate Corps?
ABC News reports:Inspired by the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing for a modern counterpart: a Civilian Climate Corps that would cre...
02:34 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Renames Its Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch 'Amazon OpenSearch Service'
"Amazon Web Services on Thursday fulfilled its commitment to rename Amazon Elasticsearch Service with its expected new identity, Amazon OpenSearch Service," reports the Register in a new update on Ama...
01:04 pm - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Linux For Apple Silicon Macs Gets Closer To Reality
"Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Macs is moving closer to reality," writes Slashdot reader TroysBucket. An Asahi developer posted a detailed status update on Twitter. Linux enthusiast Bryan Lunduke offers th...
11:34 am - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft's NTFS File System, Complains GitHub 'Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges'
"Linux creator Linus Torvalds has agreed to include Paragon Software's NTFS3 kernel driver, giving the Linux kernel 5.15 release improved support for Microsoft's NTFS file system..." reports ZDNet, ad...
07:34 am - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Admits It Sent Misinformation Researchers Flawed Data
"Facebook provided a data set to a consortium of social scientists last year that had serious errors," reports the Washington Post, "affecting the findings in an unknown number of academic papers, the...
03:39 am - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Study of 61,000 Microsoft Employees Finds Remote Work Threatened Productivity and Innovation
"A new study finds that Microsoft's companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside the company, threatening employee productivity and ...
01:34 am - Sun, September 12, 2021
Slashdot Fans Ask Questions After First Trailer Released for 'The Matrix Resurrections'
Moviegoers know that the Matrix trilogy's finale "heavily hinted that our hero will be back at some point in the distant future," writes the Guardian.. "Now he is..." But does the first three-minute t...
10:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash
CNN reports that "Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash."Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a sof...
09:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Pro-China Misinformation Operation Attempting To Exploit US Covid Divisions, Report Says
"A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19 pandemic," reports CNN, "and 'physically mobilize protestors in the US i...
08:44 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot New Battery Technologies Are Making Progress
The New York Times looks at "a wave of new battery technologies that could lead to novel designs in consumer electronics and help accelerate the electrification of cars and airplanes. They may even he...
07:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot First Evidence of Elusive 'Triangle Singularity' Shows Particles Swapping Identities
LiveScience reports that physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data "have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity." Long-time Slas...
07:11 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11's Legacy: Mass Surveillance
"After 9/11, I took the threat of terrorism seriously, still do," U.S. Senator Ron Wyden tells Fast Company. "But also I was concerned about how the new surveillance authorities might be abused..." Fr...
06:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot 20 Years After the World Trade Center Attack, a Nation Remembers
I first saw the news on the front page of Yahoo.com. But every American remembers where they were when they heard the news. "The World Trade Towers in new york were crashed into by 2 planes, one on ea...
05:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Security Weaknesses in Mozilla VPN Found and Addressed by Audit
"Recently, browsing leader Mozilla shared the result of an independent security audit on its VPN service," reports Fossbytes. "Upon inspection, a few vulnerabilities were discovered in the VPN, one of...
04:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Can a Code-Writing AI Be Good News For Humans?
"A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code," blares a headline in the New York Times, adding "That's Good News for Humans. (Alternate URL here.) The article begins with this remarkable story about Code...
03:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Krebs Also Hit By Massive DDOS, Apparently Caused by Compromised Routers
"On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack," the site reports. Citing a new blog post from DDoS protec...
02:34 pm - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot New Texas Law Tries Making it Illegal for Social Media Sites to Ban Users Over Political Viewpoints
The U.S. state of Texas "has made it illegal for social media platforms to ban users 'based on their political viewpoints'," repots the BBC:Prominent Republican politicians have accused Facebook, Twit...
11:00 am - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Sonos Announces 10% Price Hikes On Most Speakers
CIStud writes: Sonos announces price hikes for Arc, Amp, Roam, Sub, Five, One and One SL speakers citing chip shortage and supply chain. Sonos Arc's price is leaping by $100 from $799 to $899. Not eve...
08:00 am - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot China Bans All New Video Games
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Chinese authorities have banned all new video games from being released indefinitely, as the government attempts to tackle what it calls gaming addiction in the under-18s. Th...
05:45 am - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Indonesian Intelligence Agency Compromised in Suspected Chinese Hack
Chinese hackers have breached the internal networks of at least ten Indonesian government ministries and agencies, including computers from Indonesia's primary intelligence service, the Badan Intelije...
03:30 am - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Apple Risks Losing Billions of Dollars Annually From Ruling
Mark Gurman, reporting on Friday's ruling in Apple and Epic lawsuit: So how much does Apple stand to lose? That all comes down to how many developers try to bypass its payment system. Loup Venture's G...
01:00 am - Sat, September 11, 2021
Slashdot Study Links Too Much Free Time To Lower Sense of Wellbeing
Research shows there is a 'sweet spot' and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours. The Guardian: The lesson of Goldilocks, that one can have too much of a good thing, even when it comes...
11:00 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot A Secretive Pentagon Program That Started on Trump's Last Day in Office Just Ended. The Mystery Has Not.
A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the Internet to a Florida company in January -- just minutes before President Trump left office -- has ended as mysteriously as it began...
10:00 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Apple Pays Hackers Six Figures To Find Bugs in Its Software. Then It Sits On their Findings.
Lack of communication, confusion about payments and long delays have security researchers fed up with Apple's bug bounty program. The Washington Post: Hoping to discover hidden weaknesses, Apple for f...
09:00 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Wide-Ranging SolarWinds Probe Sparks Fear in Corporate America
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the SolarWinds Russian hacking operation has dozens of corporate executives fearful information unearthed in the expanding probe will expos...
08:05 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Google Could Be Violating Labor Laws With Pay for Temp Workers
The company realized months ago that it could be running afoul of pay laws in a number of countries but has been slow to fix the problem, according to internal documents. From a report: In December, a...
07:11 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot WhatsApp Will Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud
WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put a lid on one of the tricky ways private communication...
06:22 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Suggests Those Divisive Windows 11 System Specs Deliver a 99.8% Crash-free Experience
PCGamer reports: Microsoft continues to double down on its assertion that the Windows 11 system requirements are absolutely necessary, and this whole TPM 2.0 schtick is vital for the safety of you, yo...
05:00 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot With Fertility Needs in Flux, Men Eye Freezing Their Sperm
A crop of companies want to make sperm-freezing a routine procedure for young men, as employers start to offer it as a benefit. From a report: For decades, the conversation about waning fertility has ...
03:37 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Judge in Epic Suit Says Apple Restrictions Anti-Competitive
A U.S. judge on Friday issued a ruling in "Fortnite" creator Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit against Apple's App Store, labelling Apple's conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions as anticompetiti...
03:01 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer
An anonymous reader shares a report:These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. But if there are areas hungrier than ever for what qua...
02:00 pm - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub Sue New York City Over Legislation on Commission Caps
Food-delivery companies DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have sued New York City over a legislation to license food-delivery apps and to permanently cap commissions they can charge restaurants. From a ...
10:30 am - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Scientists Aim For Clearer Messages On Global Warming
Here's a sentence that's basically unintelligible to most people: Humans must mitigate global warming by pursuing an unprecedented transition to a carbon neutral economy. A recent study found that som...
07:00 am - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Apple's Watch Software Chief Takes Over Self-Driving Car Project
Apple appointed one of its top software executives, Kevin Lynch, to oversee its nascent self-driving car project after the previous leader left for Ford Motor. From a report: Lynch, an Adobe veteran w...
04:00 am - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Hacker Lawyer Jay Leiderman Is Dead at 50
Jay Leiderman, a California defense attorney known for his whistleblower advocacy and defense of political dissidents and hackers, was confirmed dead in Ventura County on Thursday. He was 50 years old...
01:00 am - Fri, September 10, 2021
Slashdot Groundbreaking Technique Yields Important New Details on Silicon, Subatomic Particles and Possible 'Fifth Force'
NIST: Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized pro...
11:05 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Code.org, Tech Giants Enlist Teachers To Sell Kids and Parents On 'CS Journeys'
theodp writes: On Monday, tech-bankrolled Code.org announced the CS Journeys program, which the nonprofit explains is designed to help teachers "excite, encourage, and empower your students to continu...
10:10 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Russia's Yandex Says It Repelled Biggest DDoS Attack in History
head_dunce writes: A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex's servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the c...
09:15 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Joins ProtonMail's Advisory Board
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has joined the advisory board of hosted email service provider ProtonMail. From a report: In a statement, ProtonMail CEO and founder Andy Yen said ...
08:18 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot A Bunch of Ape NFTs Just Sold For $24.4 Million
If you thought NFT mania was about to die off, think again: a bundle of 101 NFTs from Bored Ape Yacht Club just sold at Sotheby's for $24.4 million. A second bundle of 101 Bored Ape Kennel Club NFTs s...
07:11 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Gives Up Predicting When Its US Offices Will Fully Reopen
Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month. From a report: The software giant had planned to reopen its headquarters on October 4th, but the ongoing uncertainty of COVID...
06:05 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Amazon To Cover 100% of College Tuition for US Hourly Employees
Amazon said Thursday it will offer to pay 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 U.S. hourly employees. From a report: The e-commerce giant is following the lead of other large U.S. companies who are...
05:05 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Mastercard Acquires CipherTrace To Boost Crypto Security and Compliance
Payment services company Mastercard has acquired blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace to bolster its own cyber security tools and to better comply with crypto regulatory guidelines, according to an a...
04:05 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Debuts Its Ray-Ban Stories Smart Sunglasses
Facebook announced their long-awaited foray into the smart glasses space Thursday morning, launching the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in partnership with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. From a report...
03:03 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot California Aims To Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren't Recyclable
The well-known three-arrows symbol doesn't necessarily mean that a product is actually recyclable. A new bill would limit the products allowed to feature the mark. From a report: The triangular "chasi...
02:01 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Launches a TV Line
Amazon is officially in the TV set business. From a report: After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products, the ecommerce...
01:00 pm - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot County IT Supervisor Mined Bitcoin At the Office, Prosecutors Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A Long Island man was charged on Wednesday with using his position as an I.T. supervisor for Suffolk County to mine cryptocurrency from gov...
10:00 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Amazon To Open $21 Million State-of-the-Art Warehouse In Tijuana Slum
This month, Amazon will open a $21 million state-of-the-art warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, that abuts a housing settlement made of cardboard, tarp, and wood scraps along the Tijuana River, less than th...
07:00 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Strange, Repeating Radio Signal Near Center of Milky Way Has Scientists Stumped
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Live Science: Astronomers have detected a strange, repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way, and it's unlike any other energy signature ever studied. Ac...
03:30 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Researchers Complete First-Ever Detailed Map of Global Coral
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world's coral reefs by using more than 2 million satellite images from acros...
02:02 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot MIT-Designed Project Achieves Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy
David Chandler writes via MIT News: It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting ele...
01:25 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot The Open Source Initiative Names Stefano Maffulli As Its First Executive Director
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has finally named its first Executive Director, Stefano Maffulli. ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports: Maffulli is a long-time developer community manager. He co...
12:45 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot After Chiding Apple On Privacy, Germany Says It Uses Pegasus Spyware
"Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) purchased access to NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2019 after internal efforts to create similar iOS and Android surveillance tools failed," reports App...
12:01 am - Thu, September 9, 2021
Slashdot Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy
The Biden administration on Wednesday released a blueprint for producing almost half of the nation's electricity from the sun by 2050 -- something that would require the country to double the amount o...
11:20 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot World's Largest Direct Air Carbon Capture System Goes Online
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The largest carbon capture facility in the world is slated to come online Wednesday in Iceland, amid growing skepticism over the technology's role...
10:40 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Lenovo's First Windows 11 Laptops Run On Ryzen
Lenovo will ring in the arrival of Windows 11 with a pair of premium AMD Ryzen-based laptops. PCWorld reports: The IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon will feature a carbon lid and aluminum body to go with its drop...
10:00 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push
The British government is preparing to launch a full-scale policy assault against Facebook as the company gears up to introduce end-to-end encryption across all of its services. The Register reports: ...
09:20 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Users Liable For All Comments Under Their Posts, According To Australia High Court
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Australia's High Court, roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled that Facebook users are responsible for the content of complete st...
08:40 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot The Verge's 'Infamous' PC Build Gets Fixed
Luke Plunkett, writing at Kotaku: Back in 2018, The Verge released a guide to building a new PC that was, well, from where I was sitting it was not ideal. From where some angry PC nerds were sitting, ...
08:00 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Is Lending Your Bitcoins a Security?
Matt Levine, writing at Bloomberg: Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an "investment contract," meaning "the investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectati...
07:25 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop
The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a ...
06:53 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot The Pandemic Has Set Back the Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely set back the fight against other global scourges like H.I.V., tuberculosis and malaria, according to a sobering new report released on Tuesday. From a report: Before...
06:01 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed To December
NASA's long-awaited and high-powered James Webb Space Telescope won't begin observations this year after NASA and its counterpart the European Space Agency (ESA) announced another launch delay. From a...
05:24 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Notorious Russian Ransomware Group 'REvil' Has Reappeared
The infamous criminal ransomware group behind the JBS SA cyberattack has returned to the dark web after vanishing this summer. From a report: "REvil," short for "Ransomware-Evil," is among the most pr...
04:58 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Other Blood Companies Are Still Pissed About Theranos
What is was like competing with -- and dealing with the wreckage of -- the most infamous startup in the world. From a report: Theranos' collapse was as public as it gets for a Silicon Valley unicorn, ...
04:18 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Amazon's Cashierless Tech is Coming To Whole Foods Next Year
Amazon is bringing its cashierless "Just Walk Out" technology to two new Whole Foods locations next year, the company has announced. From a report: One of the stores will be in Washington, DC, while t...
03:28 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot PayPal Acquires Japan's Paidy for $2.7B To Crack the Buy-Now, Pay-Later Market in Asia
PayPal, the U.S. fintech company, announced an acquisition of Paidy, a Japanese buy now, pay later (BNPL) service platform, for approximately $2.7 billion (300 billion yen), mostly in cash, to enhance...
02:40 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot The Gmail App Takes Calls Now, Too, Because Google Wants It To Do Everything
Google is announcing even more Workspace features today, part of an increased cadence of changes to the company's office and communications software suite over the past year or so. From a report: Toda...
02:06 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot SEC Threatens To Sue Coinbase Over Crypto Lending Programme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to sue Coinbase if the crypto exchange goes ahead with plans to launch a programme allowing users to earn interest by lending crypto as...
01:00 pm - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In the latest quasi-throwback toward "do not track," the UK's data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting...
10:00 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Astronauts In Space Will Soon Resurrect An AI Robot Friend Called CIMON
A robot called CIMON-2 (short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) has received a software update that will enable it to perform more complex tasks with a new human crewmate later this year. Space.c...
07:00 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Viruses May Exist 'Elsewhere In the Universe,' Warns Scientist
Astrobiologist Paul Davies suggests viruses may form a vital part of ecosystems on other planets. The Guardian reports: "Viruses actually form part of the web of life," said Davies. "I would expect th...
03:30 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot The Disastrous Voyage of Satoshi, the World's First Cryptocurrency Cruise Ship
XXongo writes: The Guardian tells the story of the Satoshi, the converted cruise ship that was supposed to be the libertarian paradise, homesteading the high seas off the coast of Panama, free from ru...
02:00 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot McDonald's Leaks Password For Monopoly VIP Database To Winners
A bug in the McDonald's Monopoly VIP game in the United Kingdom caused the login names and passwords for the game's database to be sent to all winners. BleepingComputer reports: After skipping a year ...
01:25 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp's content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook's ...
12:45 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Unity Patents 'Methods and Apparatuses To Improve the Performance of a Video Game Engine Using An Entity Component System'
slack_justyb writes: Unity has filed a patent with the USPTO for "Methods and apparatuses to improve the performance of a video game engine using an Entity Component System (ECS)." ECS methods are som...
12:02 am - Wed, September 8, 2021
Slashdot Jagex Nixes Community-Built RuneScape HD Client, Massive Backlash Follows
New submitter Sauce Tin writes: In a blog post, Jagex announced the shutdown of a community-driven RuneScape HD graphics client. The announcement came at an inopportune time -- the community client wa...
11:20 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple's Car Project
Ford is hiring the head of Apple's car project away from the iPhone maker, a stunning development that brings the 118-year-old automaker an executive with Silicon Valley chops. Bloomberg reports: Doug...
10:40 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Salvador Street Protest Breaks Out Against Bitcoin Adoption
More than 1,000 people marched in El Salvador's capital on Tuesday to protest the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, amid a bumpy initial rollout of systems to support the digital currency. Reuters ...
10:02 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Admits 'Trust Deficit' As It Looks To Launch Digital Wallet
Facebook says it's finally ready to launch its most ambitious new product in years: a digital wallet called Novi. But the man leading the charge says Washington could stand in its way. From a report: ...
09:25 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Howard University Announces Ransomware Attack, Shuts Down Classes On Tuesday
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Howard University announced on Monday that it has been hit with a ransomware attack, forcing the school to shut down classes on Tuesday, according to a ...
08:45 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot New Studies Find Evidence Of 'Superhuman' Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals
Some scientists have called it "superhuman immunity" or "bulletproof." But immunologist Shane Crotty prefers "hybrid immunity." "Overall, hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2 appears to be impressively poten...
08:08 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Intel To Invest Up To $95 Billion in European Chip-Making Amid US Expansion
Intel plans to build new chip-making facilities in Europe valued at up to $95 billion, responding to a cross-border race to add manufacturing capacity at a time of a global chip-supply crunch. From a ...
07:30 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Forget Netflix, Some Movie Fans Rewind To VHS Tapes
While the pandemic supercharged streaming, a few people decided to swim against the current and go back to the familiar format of VHS. It isn't the easiest of hobbies. From a report: VCR players haven...
06:48 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Animals 'Shapeshifting' in Response To Climate Crisis, Research Finds
Animals are increasingly "shapeshifting" because of the climate crisis, researchers have said. From a report: Warm-blooded animals are changing their physiology to adapt to a hotter climate, the scien...
06:09 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Joins Open Infrastructure Foundation
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, OpenStack, the open-source, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud {and related projects such as Airship, open-source tools for cloud provisioning, an...
05:11 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus, who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dung...
04:43 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Apple's iPhone 13, New Apple Watch on Tap For Virtual Launch Next Tuesday
Apple's next event, during which it will likely unveil its next slate of devices, including the seventh-generation Apple Watch and a new iPhone, is happening Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. PT, the company confir...
04:07 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Start is a Personalized News Feed Designed for Windows 11, Mobile, and More
Microsoft is launching Microsoft Start today, a personalized news feed that integrates into Windows 11 and is accessible online and on iOS and Android. Microsoft Start is very similar to the MSN feed ...
03:32 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Ghostscript Zero-Day Allows Full Server Compromises
Proof-of-concept exploit code was published online over the weekend for an unpatched Ghostscript vulnerability that puts all servers that rely on the component at risk of attacks. From a report: Publi...
02:49 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone
A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool. From a report: It was a pitch tuned for a politically pola...
02:00 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Sometimes Dismissed as a Fad in Advanced Economies, Crypto Holds More Appeal in Countries With a History of Financial Instability
In advanced economies, cryptocurrencies are viewed by many in the financial world with suspicion -- the domain of zealous "crypto bros" and a speculative and highly volatile fad that can only end badl...
12:00 pm - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Developer Returns To Game After Four Decades, Discovers and Fixes Typo So It Works
joshuark writes: Harry McCracken is not the name of a Cold War superspy, but a man who is now the tech editor of Fast Company and, in his younger days, a developer of games for Radio Shack's TRS-80 mi...
11:03 am - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot The Chip Shortage Has Made a Star of This Little-Known Component
The global chip shortage is giving rise to a small group of little-known companies whose products are increasingly essential to the plans of semiconductor industry titans. From a report: The companies...
08:28 am - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Toyota To Spend $13.5 Billion To Develop EV Battery Tech and Supply By 2030
Toyota said on Tuesday it expects to spend more than $13.5 billion by 2030 to develop batteries and its battery supply system -- a bid to lead in the key automotive technology over the next decade. Fr...
05:54 am - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot El Salvador Bought $21 Million of Bitcoin as it Becomes First Country To Make It a Legal Currency
El Salvador bought roughly $20.9 million worth of bitcoin, one day before it formally adopts the worldâ(TM)s most popular cryptocurrency as legal tender. From a report: In a series of tweets Mond...
02:15 am - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Facebook Apologizes After Its AI Labeled Black Men 'Primates'
Facebook users who watched a newspaper video featuring black men were asked if they wanted to "keep seeing videos about primates" by an artificial-intelligence recommendation system. From a report: Fa...
12:59 am - Tue, September 7, 2021
Slashdot Poorly Devised Regulation Lets Firms Pollute With Abandon
Athletes don't get advance warning of drug tests. Police don't share schedules of planned raids. Yet America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not seem convinced of the value of surprise in...
11:32 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot California Bill Takes Aim at Amazon's Productivity-tracking Algorithms
California is poised to pass a new bill pushing back against the productivity measurement algorithms allegedly used in Amazon fulfillment centers. From a report: The bill passed California's lower leg...
07:00 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist After Order By Swiss Authorities
ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address ...
06:00 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Automated Hiring Software is Mistakenly Rejecting Millions of Viable Job Candidates
Automated resume-scanning software is contributing to a "broken" hiring system in the US, says a new report from Harvard Business School. Such software is used by employers to filter job applicants, b...
05:20 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist After Order By Swiss Authorities
ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address ...
05:00 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Led by Tesla, EVs Drive Chip Industry's Shift Beyond Silicon
Abundant, easily processed silicon has been the material of choice for decades in the semiconductor industry, but electric vehicles are helping chip away at its dominance in the pursuit of energy effi...
04:46 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Automated Hiring Software is Mistakenly Rejecting Millions of Viable Job Candidates
Automated resume-scanning software is contributing to a "broken" hiring system in the US, says a new report from Harvard Business School. Such software is used by employers to filter job applicants, b...
04:08 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Led by Tesla, EVs Drive Chip Industry's Shift Beyond Silicon
Abundant, easily processed silicon has been the material of choice for decades in the semiconductor industry, but electric vehicles are helping chip away at its dominance in the pursuit of energy effi...
04:00 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot China Says Government To Set Prices for After-School Classes
China said local governments should set the fees for after-school tutoring institutions that offer compulsory education subjects, another step in the country's efforts to overhaul the private educatio...
03:21 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot China Says Government To Set Prices for After-School Classes
China said local governments should set the fees for after-school tutoring institutions that offer compulsory education subjects, another step in the country's efforts to overhaul the private educatio...
03:00 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot VCs Are Financing an Economy of Servants
An anonymous reader shares a post: But what's at stake is not just employing people properly and/or paying them well -- what is often called the 'casualisation of work.' At the core of enabling, finan...
02:40 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot VCs Are Financing an Economy of Servants
An anonymous reader shares a post: But what's at stake is not just employing people properly and/or paying them well -- what is often called the 'casualisation of work.' At the core of enabling, finan...
02:04 pm - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. From a report:Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent ...
11:34 am - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot A Surprise Contributor to Climate Change? Food Waste
The Guardian writes:About a third of all the world's food goes to waste, and producing, transporting and letting that food rot releases 8-10% of global greenhouse gases. If food waste were a country, ...
07:34 am - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Will Gaming Change Humanity As We Know It?
"The advent of gaming, especially computer gaming, marks a fundamental break in human affairs," argues American economist Tyler Cowen (in a Bloomberg opinion column). "Gaming is profoundly transformin...
03:44 am - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Automation Is Now Taking Service Jobs Once Thought Safe
"Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby's drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to t...
01:44 am - Mon, September 6, 2021
Slashdot Is Remote Working Leading to a Boom in Worker Surveillance?
A Guardian article begins with the story of how a digital surveillance platform called Sneek ruined the first week on the job for a remote worker named David:Every minute or so, the program would capt...
11:52 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot New Company Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Anti-Aging Research
MIT's Technology Review reports on "Silicon Valley's latest wild bet on living forever," the newly-formed Altos Labs which it describes as "an ambitious new anti-aging company... "Altos is pursuing bi...
09:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Lawsuits Accuse Siri, Alexa, and Google of Listening When They're Not Supposed To
"Tech companies have long encouraged putting listening devices in homes and pockets..." reports the Washington Post. "But some are growing concerned that these devices are recording even when they're ...
08:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Malware Found Preinstalled In Classic Push-button Phones Sold In Russia
"A security researcher has discovered malicious code inside the firmware of four low-budget push-button mobile phones sold through Russian online stores," reports the Record:In a report published this...
07:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot High Ivermectin Overdosages Caused 1,143 Calls to America's Poison Control Centers This Year
America's poison control centers are getting more calls this year from people who tried self-medicating with ivermectin, NPR reports — with at least 592 calls coming since July 1:According to th...
06:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot The 'Dead Internet' Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI
Ideas from 4chan (including its paranormal section) have percolated into the "dead internet" theory, writes the Atlantic, with a seminal post on another forum by "IlluminatiPirate" now arguing that th...
05:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot In Novel Attack Technique, Salesforce Email Service Used For Phishing Campaign
Slashdot reader storagedude writes: In a novel attack technique, Israeli security researchers discovered that cybercriminals were subscribing to Salesforce in order to use its email service to launch ...
04:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Facebook is Subcontracting Its Content Moderation for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
"For years, Facebook has been under scrutiny for the violent and hateful content that flows through its site...." reports the New York Times. "But behind the scenes, Facebook has quietly paid others t...
03:34 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot IBM's New Mainframe 7nm CPU Telum: 16 Cores At 5GHz, Virtual L3 and L4 Cache
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes:Last week IBM announced their next generation mainframe CPU Telum. Manufactured by Samsung's 7nm node, each Telum processor has 8 cores with each core ru...
02:35 pm - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot School Science Projects Reveal Very High Lead Levels in the Schools' Water
650 U.K. schools received educational kits from a charity for testing the lead levels in their water. Students at more than 14 schools then discovered their drinking water had higher lead levels than ...
11:34 am - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Why is the Earth Missing a Billion Years of Rocks?
"A mystery lies deep within the Grand Canyon: one billion years' worth of rocks have disappeared," Space.com reported last week. The BBC explains:Today geologists know that the youngest of the hard, c...
07:34 am - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Skepticism Grows Over El Salvador's Pioneering Plan to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender
This week the Guardian reported that a "tumultuous few weeks" awaits El Salvador as it prepares to become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday.In August a research note by Ban...
03:44 am - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Ethiopian Airlines Settles With Boeing, Expects Resumed 737 Max Flights in January
"Two-and-a-half years after the deadly Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, with the final investigation report into the accident still pending, the airline's management has reached a settlement with Boe...
01:34 am - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot How Far Can You Go to Resist Filmers of a Viral Video?
The New York Times tells the story of a pervasive new nuisance: public videography with smartphones:Recently I saw eight seconds of video that capture this problem in its most extreme form. A boy and ...
12:04 am - Sun, September 5, 2021
Slashdot Passengers on SpaceX's All-Civilian Spaceflight Will Get a Huge Dome Window
"The four astronauts poised to launch on the first-ever all-civilian SpaceX mission this month will have one heck of a view once they reach orbit," reports Space.com:When the crew of Inspiration4 (as ...
10:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot First Rocket of Space Company Firefly Exploded During Its Launch
NBC News reports:Space company Firefly launched its inaugural Alpha rocket on a cloudless Thursday evening over the California coast. The Alpha rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base's SLC-2...
09:49 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot America's NSA Isn't Sure Quantum Computers Will Ever Break Public Key Encryption
America's National Security Agency "isn't really sure when or even if quantum computers will be able to crack public key cryptography," writes TechRadar. They report that the NSA "has expressed its re...
08:39 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Linus Torvalds Jokes About Celebrations for Linux's 30th Anniversary
Despite Linux reaching its 30th anniversary, "most outside the tech industry will be unaware that Linux has reached such a milestone," writes ZDNet, "even though the project has had a huge impact on e...
07:39 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot How AT&T's Tethered Drones Can Become Temporary Cellular Towers
Long-time Slashdot reader Nkwe shares an article about AT&T's "Flying COW" drones — their Cell (tower) On Wings drone technology that's helped restore cellphone service after Hurricane Ida a...
06:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Climate Change Is Bankrupting America's Small Towns
"Rather than bouncing back, places hit repeatedly by hurricanes, floods and wildfires are unraveling," reports the New York Times. "Residents and employers leave, the tax base shrinks and it becomes e...
05:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Is America's FTC Investigating McDonalds' Right to Repair McFlurry Machines?
America's consumer-protection agency has apparently launched a "preliminary investigation" into how often McDonalds franchise owners are allowed to repair their own McFlurry-making equipment, reports ...
04:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Just How Computationally Complex Is a Single Brain Neuron?
Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov quotes Quanta magazine:Today, the most powerful artificial intelligence systems employ a type of machine learning called deep learning. Their algorithms le...
03:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Prime Releases First Trailer for 'Wheel of Time' Series
Long-time Slashdot reader flogger shares Amazon Prime's first trailer for its upcoming Wheel of Time series. GameSpot reports:The first three episodes will arrive on Friday, November 19, with new epis...
02:34 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot GitHub Files Court Brief Criticizing 'Vague Infringement Allegations'
"One project going dark — due to a DMCA takedown or otherwise — can impact thousands of developers," GitHub warns in a blog post this week:We saw that firsthand with both leftpad and mimem...
01:00 pm - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot City of Beijing Said To Seek Taking Didi Under State Control
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Beijing's municipal government has proposed an investment in Didi Global Inc. that would give state-run firms control of the world's largest ride-ha...
10:00 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot If You Can't Stand People Fidgeting, You May Have Misokinesia
Misophonia is the "hatred of sound," or "sound rage," a condition in which people have intense emotional and physical reactions to trigger noises, often chewing or lip smacking. Misokinesia, on the ot...
07:00 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking
The U.S. Navy has successfully invented a special electronic device that is designed to stop people from talking. Interesting Engineering reports: A form of non-lethal weapon, the new electronic devic...
03:30 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Researchers Develop an Engineered 'Mini' CRISPR Genome Editing System
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: In a paper published Sept. 3 in Molecular Cell, [Stanley Qi, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University] and his collaborators anno...
02:02 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Wildly Reinvented Wind Turbine Generates Five Times More Energy Than Its Competitors
Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems is developing a floating, multi-turbine technology for wind farms that could generate five times the annual energy of the world's largest, single wind turbine. ...
01:25 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Qualcomm Debuts Lossless Bluetooth Audio Streaming With aptX Lossless
Qualcomm says it's figured out a way to deliver lossless audio over Bluetooth, yielding quality that should be indistinguishable from uncompressed sources. And it's calling it aptX Lossless, the next ...
12:45 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot Apple Faces Probe From US Labor Board Over Complaints of Hostile Working Conditions
The US National Labor Relations Board is looking into cases filed against the tech giant by two of the main voices accusing the company of permitting a hostile work environment. Engadget reports: The ...
12:02 am - Sat, September 4, 2021
Slashdot US Air Force Chief Software Officer Quits
The US Air Force's first ever chief software officer has quit the job after branding it "probably the most challenging and infuriating of my entire career" in a remarkably candid blog post. The Regist...
11:20 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Largest Study of Its Kind Finds Face Masks Reduce COVID-19
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Berkeley News: Wearing face masks, particularly surgical masks, is truly effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in community settings, finds a new study ...
10:40 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Reportedly Broke Windows 11 By Injecting Ads
Yesterday after releasing new Windows 11 builds in the Dev and Beta channels, Insiders reported that their Start Menu and taskbar were crashing. As it turned out, it was caused by Windows 11 deliverin...
10:02 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Banksy Was Warned About Website Flaw Before NFT Hack Scam
Artist Banksy's team was warned his website had a security weakness seven days before a hacker scammed a fan out of $336,000. The BBC reports: On Tuesday a piece of art was advertised on Banksy's offi...
09:25 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Arctic Warming Linked To Colder Winters
A new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic. From a report: The scientists found that heating in the region ultimately...
08:45 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3, ReVC
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Take-Two Interactive has sued several programmers and enthusiasts said to be behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects. The l...
08:04 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Apple Shows Interest in RISC-V Chips, a Competitor To iPhones' Arm Tech
Apple wants to hire a programmer who knows about RISC-V, a processor technology that competes with the Arm designs that power iPhones, iPads and newer Macs. The company's interest emerged in a job pos...
07:24 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Response To an Editorial About Understanding Quantum Theory and Defining the Laws of Physics
John Charap, Emeritus professor of theoretical physics, Queen Mary University of London and Norman Dombey Emeritus, professor of theoretical physics, University of Sussex, writing at The Guardian: You...
06:44 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot New Technology Delivers Power To Electronic Devices in a Test Space
What if your smartphone or laptop started charging as soon as you walked in the door? Researchers have developed a specially built room that can transmit energy to a variety of electronic devices with...
06:12 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot India's DNA COVID Vaccine is a World First -- More Are Coming
India has approved a new COVID vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the virus SARS-CoV-2. Researchers have welcomed news of the first DNA vaccine for people to ...
05:39 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Feds To Close Unit That Monitored Americans' Social Media for Census Disinformation
The US Commerce Department said Friday that it will eliminate an internal security division after an investigation found it had overstepped its authority when it launched criminal investigations into ...
05:29 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Feds To Close Unit That Monitored Americans' Social Media for Census Disinformation
The US Commerce Department said Friday that it will eliminate an internal security division after an investigation found it had overstepped its authority when it launched criminal investigations into ...
04:48 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Rejected Internal Applicants Twice as Likely To Quit
Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either hired for an internal job or had not applied for a new job at all. From a ...
04:05 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a US Patent, Judge Rules
A computer using artificial intelligence can't be listed as an inventor on patents because only a human can be an inventor under U.S. law, a federal judge ruled in the first American decision that's p...
03:44 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Chinese Hackers Behind July 2021 SolarWinds Zero-day Attacks
In mid-July this year, Texas-based software provider SolarWinds released an emergency security update to patch a zero-day in its Serv-U file transferring technology that was being exploited in the wil...
03:24 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Chinese Hackers Behind July 2021 SolarWinds Zero-day Attacks
In mid-July this year, Texas-based software provider SolarWinds released an emergency security update to patch a zero-day in its Serv-U file transferring technology that was being exploited in the wil...
02:40 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Reportedly Close To Launching Its Own TV in the US
Amazon plans to roll out a self-branded TV in the US as early as next month, Business Insider is reporting. From the report: The TVs, expected to be big-screen models in the range of 55 to 75 inches, ...
02:00 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Apple Delays Plans To Roll Out CSAM Detection in iOS 15
Apple has delayed plans to roll out its child sexual abuse (CSAM) detection technology that it chaotically announced last month, citing feedback from customers and policy groups. From a report: That f...
01:00 pm - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Pixel 3 and 3 XL Phones Are Getting Stuck In EDL Mode and Seemingly Bricked
New submitter throx shares a report from Android Police: For months users of the three-year-old Pixel 3 series have been complaining of a common and dreadful problem: seemingly random shutdowns that c...
10:00 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock On Mars
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The Perseverance rover successfully drilled into a Martian rock on Thursday, creating an intact core sample that could one day be returned to Earth. But N...
07:00 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Astronomers Create 'Treasure Map' To Find Proposed Planet Nine
Some scientists believe there is a ninth planet lurking out there in the inky blackness at the edge of the solar system. A new analysis (PDF) supports the notion that there's something out there, and ...
03:30 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Amazon To Remove More Content That Violates Rules From Cloud Service
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon.com plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promot...
01:25 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Virgin Galactic Flights Grounded After New Yorker Story On Branson Spaceflight
"The US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Virgin Galactic flights as it investigates how Sir Richard Branson's recent space flight drifted off course during its climb skyward," reports the ...
12:45 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot New Boss of US Digital Service: Mina Hsiang
Mina Hsiang will lead the U.S. Digital Service, the Office of Management and Budget told Axios Thursday, as the Biden administration beefs up its cadre of technological special forces tasked with solv...
12:02 am - Fri, September 3, 2021
Slashdot Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100K Inboxes Daily
Cybercrime and computer security reporter Brian Krebs tells the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access excep...
11:20 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: It looks like a Lightning cable, it works like a Lightning cable, and I can use it to connect my keyboard to my Mac. But it is actually a maliciou...
10:40 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot GM Suspends Production At North American Plants Amid Ongoing Chip Shortages
Starting on Monday, General Motors will temporarily halt production at all but four of its North American factories due to chip supply constraints. Engadget reports: The halt in production will affect...
10:02 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Yahoo Is Yahoo Once More After New Owners Complete Acquisition
Yahoo and AOL, formerly known as Verizon Media, have officially been acquired by their new owners and renamed as simply "Yahoo." The Verge reports: Verizon announced it was selling the properties to A...
09:25 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League. ...
08:44 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Apple Will Ask Before it Targets You With Its Ads in iOS 15
Apple will start asking for permission to enable Personalized Ads in iOS 15, the company's method of serving relevant ads in the App Store and Apple News by analyzing what you read, purchase, and sear...
08:05 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot China's Alibaba To Invest $15.5 Billion For 'Common Prosperity'
China's Alibaba Group will invest 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) by 2025 in support of "common prosperity," it said, becoming the latest corporate giant to pledge support for the initiative driven b...
07:20 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Apple's Upcoming AR/VR Headset To Require Connection To iPhone
The first AR/VR headset that Apple has been in development will need to be wirelessly tethered to an iPhone or another Apple device to unlock full functionality, reports The Information. MacRumors: It...
06:50 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot ASUS Bets on OLED for All of Its New Creator Laptops
ASUS has just four letters to sell you on its latest creator-focused notebooks: OLED. From a report: The company is bringing OLED screens to all of its new models, a move meant to differentiate them i...
06:05 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot WhatsApp Fined Over $260 Million for EU Privacy Violations
WhatsApp didn't fully explain to Europeans how it uses their data as called for by EU privacy law, Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Thursday. The regulator hit the messaging app with a fin...
05:28 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Juniper Breach Mystery Starts To Clear With New Details on Hackers and US Role
An anonymous reader shares a report: An anonymous reader Days before Christmas in 2015, Juniper Networks alerted users that it had been breached. In a brief statement, the company said it had discover...
05:05 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Apple Concedes To Let Apps Like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle Link To the Web To Sign Up
While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement into an App Store change that was barely a change at all, the company appears to be making a true, if small concessi...
04:45 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Apple Concedes To Let Apps Like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle Link To the Web To Sign Up
While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement into an App Store change that was barely a change at all, the company appears to be making a true, if small concessi...
04:01 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot TV Streaming Service Locast Suspends Service After Court Ruling
Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofi...
03:21 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot India Launches Account Aggregator To Extend Financial Services To Millions
On Thursday, eight Indian banks announced that they are rolling out -- or about to roll out -- a system called Account Aggregator to enable consumers to consolidate all their financial data in one pla...
02:41 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Top EU Court Plunges Dagger Into Controversial 'Zero Rating' Practice
Europe's top court has struck what could be a mortal blow to the practice of zero rating -- where mobile operators exempt data associated with specific services, such as Spotify or Facebook, from coun...
02:00 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot FTC Bans Spyware Maker SpyFone, and Orders It To Notify Hacked Victims
The Federal Trade Commission has unanimously voted to ban the spyware maker SpyFone and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance industry, the first order of its kind, after the agenc...
01:00 pm - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Wooden Floors Laced With Silicon Generate Electricity From Footsteps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Wooden floors infused with silicon and metal ions can generate enough electrical power from human footsteps to light LED bulbs. Researchers hope...
10:00 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation To Make Quantum Computing More Efficient
A team of researchers with AMD have filed a patent application that looks toward a more efficient and reliable quantum computing architecture, thanks to a conventional multi-SIMD (Single Instruction M...
07:00 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot The Red Warning Light On Richard Branson's Space Flight
Nicholas Schmidle writes via the New Yorker: On July 11th, nearly a minute into the rocket trip carrying Richard Branson, the British billionaire, to space, a yellow caution light appeared on the ship...
05:15 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Man Can Change His Pupil Size On Command
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: A 23-year-old student in Germany can shrink and enlarge his pupils on demand, according to a new case report -- a feat that was previously though...
03:11 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Where Did Ivermectin Come From and Why Are Americans Taking It To Try and Treat COVID-19?
Ivermectin is making the rounds again online after Joe Rogan casually mentioned he took the drug after testing positive for COVID-19. Some researchers claim it helps treat symptoms of the virus; other...
02:02 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Fired NY Credit Union Employee Nukes 21GB of Data In Revenge
Juliana Barile, the former employee of a New York credit union, pleaded guilty to accessing the financial institution's computer systems without authorization and destroying over 21 gigabytes of data ...
01:25 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Twitter For iOS Beta Lays Groundwork For Bitcoin Tips
Twitter's latest beta update introduces support for providing content creators with Bitcoin tips using the "Tip Jar" feature that Twitter introduced earlier this year. MacRumors reports: Bitcoin isn't...
12:45 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Twitch Streamers Are Taking September 1st Off In Protest of Bot Attacks
New submitter Chaldean42 shares a report from The Verge: On Wednesday, September 1st, a number of channels on Twitch will go dark as streamers participate in #ADayOffTwitch, a walkout designed to brin...
12:02 am - Thu, September 2, 2021
Slashdot Judge Rules UC-Berkeley Must Freeze Its Enrollment To Assess Ecological Impact of Its Undergrads
schwit1 shares a report from Slate: Enrolling more students at one of America's best public universities might be bad for the environment. That's the conclusion of California Superior Court Judge Brad...
11:20 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Boots Older PCs Out of Windows 11 Preview Testing
Shortly after announcing Windows 11's October 5 release date, Microsoft began booting Windows Insider preview PCs with unsupported hardware out of Windows 11 testing. PCWorld reports: [T]he day that M...
10:42 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot VanMoof Raises $128 Million To Become 'Most Funded e-Bike Company In the World'
VanMoof says it's now "the most funded e-bike company in the world," after raising a total of $182 million in the last two years. The Verge reports: The company claims to have almost 200,000 bikes on ...
10:05 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Poland's CD Projekt Working on Cyberpunk Expansion
CD Projekt is working on a first expansion of Cyberpunk 2077, Chief Executive Adam Kicinski said after the Polish video games maker reported a first-half beat on its net profit. From a report: Cyberpu...
09:42 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Reddit Bans Anti-Vax Subreddit After Site-Wide Protest
New submitter redmid17 writes: A week after allowing anti-vaccine subreddits to remain and a day after hundreds of large subreddits went silence in protest of the decision, Reddit banned the largest a...
09:25 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Amazon Asked FCC To Reject Starlink Plan Because It Can't Compete, SpaceX Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's attempt to block proposals for the next-generation Starlink system is a "delay tactic" and a continuation of Amazon's strategy of "hinde...
08:45 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations -- as well as insights into the nature of time itself. Natalie Wolchover, writing for Quanta Magazine: [...] Over th...
08:04 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Cloudflare Says Intel is Not Inside Its Next-Gen Servers
Internet-grooming company Cloudflare has revealed that it was unable to put Intel inside its new home-brew servers, because they just used too much energy. A Tuesday post by platform operations engine...
07:25 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot QR Codes Replace Service Staff as Pandemic Spurs Automation in US
American workers in manufacturing plants and distribution centres have long worried that their employers would find ways to replace them with robots and artificial intelligence, but the Covid-19 crisi...
06:42 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid To Curb Abuse
Twitter debuted a new product called Safety Mode that will automatically block users who are being aggressive or hateful toward another person in an effort to help reduce harassment. From a report: Th...
06:11 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Atari Classic 'Centipede' Returns
A new version of the classic Atari game "Centipede" will be released for consoles and PC in late September under the name "Centipede: Recharged" and sporting a more futuristic look. From a report: The...
05:21 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Amazon's Answer To Delivery Driver Shortage: Recruit Pot Smokers
Amazon.com has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers. From a report: The company is advising its delivery partners -- the mom and pops that operate t...
04:41 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Australian Powers To Spy on Cybercrime Suspects Given Green Light
A government bill to create new police powers to spy on criminal suspects online, disrupt their data and take over their accounts has been passed with the support of Labor. From a repoort: The identif...
04:08 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Apple Secures First States To Support Digital Driver's Licenses, But Privacy Questions Linger
Apple's plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets, and student IDs. Next on Apple's list to dig...
03:29 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot The Original 'Doge' Meme Sold as an NFT for $4 Million
The legendary "Doge" meme from 2010, which portrays a shiba inu dog named Kabosu and inspired the creation of cryptocurrency dogecoin, sold for $4 million as an NFT, or non-fungible token, in June. Fr...
02:49 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Previews Free Visual Studio Code for the Web
Microsoft is previewing Visual Studio Code for the Web, a code editor that runs entirely in the browser. The Register: The post introducing the new service was put up yesterday but is returning "page ...
02:04 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Amazon CEO Unveils 55,000 Tech Jobs in His First Hiring Push
Amazon.com is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters. From the report: That's equal to more than a thi...
01:00 pm - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Intuit In Talks To Buy Mailchimp For More Than $10 Billion
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks software, is in talks to buy email marketing firm Mailchimp for more than $10 billion, according to peo...
10:00 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of CSS Nesting Module
koavf shares a blog post from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Nesting Module. This module introduces the ability to nest on...
07:00 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot The US Added More New Energy Capacity From Wind Than Any Other Source Last Year
Last year, 42% of new electricity generation capacity in the U.S. came from land-based wind energy -- more than from any other source -- according to numbers in a series of reports from the Department...
03:30 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Reddit's Teach-the-Controversy Stance On COVID Vaccines Sparks Wider Protest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Jon Brodkin: Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week in protest of Reddit's refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation...
02:02 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Rugby: Head Impact Study Shows Cognitive Decline After Just One Season
Researchers from the University of South Wales found that over just one season a team of professional rugby players saw a decline in blood flow to the brain and cognitive function -- the ability to re...
01:25 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Judge In Nokia and Apple Lawsuit Owned Apple Stock During Proceedings
A federal judge was recently found to have owned Apple stock while presiding over a case brought against the tech giant by Nokia, though the discovery is unlikely to lead to further legal action. Appl...
12:45 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Fake Banksy NFT Sold Through Artist's Website For $336,000
A hacker has returned $336,000 to a British collector after he tricked him into buying a fake NFT advertised through the artist's official website. The BBC reports: A link to an online auction for the...
12:02 am - Wed, September 1, 2021
Slashdot Why the Solana Cryptocurrency Is Surging
An anonymous reader shares a report from Fast Company, written by Michael Grothaus: One of the biggest movers on the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours is Solana. As of the time of this writin...
11:20 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Apple Bans Pay Equity Slack Channel
Apple has barred employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity. The Verge reports: A member of the employee relations team, Apple's version of HR, said that while the topic was "aligne...
10:40 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Docker Desktop No Longer Free For Large Companies
Docker will restrict use of the free version of its Docker Desktop utility to individuals or small businesses, and has introduced a new more expensive subscription, as it searches for a sustainable bu...
10:00 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes On Trial As Jury Selection Begins
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Tim De Chant: Nearly a decade ago, Theranos touted a revolutionary diagnostic device that could run myriad medical tests without havin...
09:20 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Wall Street Is Looking To Reddit for Investment Advice
Wall Street professionals tell everyday investors what stocks to buy. But now they have to follow some of these amateurs for signs of where the market is headed next. From a report: Venerable institut...
08:43 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Zoom-Call Gaffes Led To Someone Getting Axed, 1 in 4 Bosses Say
Zoom-call blunders can be hazardous to your career. From a report: Nearly 1 in 4 executives have fired a staffer for slipping up during a video or audio conference, and most have levied some sort of d...
08:08 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot New York Times' Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall
The New York Times plans to put its consumer product-review site Wirecutter behind a paywall as the publisher looks to further diversify its subscription business beyond its flagship news product. Fro...
07:35 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms
A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than Manhattan -- and that's the smallest. From a report: The ocean has alwa...
07:05 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Car Owners' New Gripe: Lousy Wireless Service
The biggest frustration among new car owners is that they can't get their car and smartphone to talk to one another, a new J.D. Power study finds. From a report: Consumers want their digital lives to ...
06:05 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot LinkedIn is Shutting Down Stories
LinkedIn is telling advertisers to prepare for the end of its short-lived experiment with Stories, after the ephemeral videos failed to catch on among the professional social media set.Read more of th...
05:26 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Google Delays Mandatory Office Return To 2022 on Covid Surge
Google pushed back the date when its employees must return to the office until after Jan. 10, citing uncertainty related to the pandemic amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in various countries around...
04:49 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminate Indoor Air at Worrying Levels, Study Finds
Toxic PFAS compounds are contaminating the air inside homes, classrooms and stores at alarming levels, a new study has found. From a report: Researchers with the University of Rhode Island and Green S...
04:02 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Apple Plans To Add Satellite Features To iPhones for Emergencies
Apple's push to bring satellite capabilities to the iPhone will be focused on emergency situations, allowing users to send texts to first responders and report crashes in areas without cellular covera...
03:26 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Microsoft Will Release Windows 11 on October 5
Microsoft is announcing that Windows 11 will be released on October 5. The new operating system will be available as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs, or on new hardware that ships with Wind...
02:41 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Google, Apple Hit by First Law Threatening Dominance Over App-Store Payments
Google and Apple will have to open their app stores to alternative payment systems in South Korea [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], threatening their lucrative commission...
02:08 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Windows 11 Won't Include Android App Support at Launch
Microsoft won't ship support for Android apps on Windows 11 in time for the operating system's launch on October 5th. While Android apps running on Windows 11 is one of the big new features of the OS,...
01:00 pm - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Chrome 94 Beta Adds WebGPU API With Support For Apple's Metal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac, written by Filipe Esposito: Google this week announced the beta release of Chrome 94, the next update to Google's desktop web browser. In addition to ...
10:00 am - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot All California National Forests To Temporarily Close Due To 'Wildfire Crisis'
All of California's national forests will be closed starting late Tuesday until mid-September to help "better provide public and firefighter safety due to the ongoing California wildfire crisis," said...
07:00 am - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot One-Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Eaten Their Planets
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine, written by Adam Mann: Like the Greek god Chronos, a good number of stars devour their children. As many as one-third of them have swallowed one or m...
03:30 am - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Biden Launches US Digital Corps To Bring Young Tech Talent To Government
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company, written by Mark Sullivan: On Monday the Biden administration announced a new program, called the U.S. Digital Corps, designed to attract young te...
01:30 am - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Russian Cosmonauts Find New Cracks In ISS Module
Mr.Fork shares a report from Live Science: Russian cosmonauts discovered cracks on the Zarya module of the International Space Station (ISS) and are concerned that the fissures could spread over time,...
12:10 am - Tue, August 31, 2021
Slashdot Apple Acquires 'Primephonic' To Bolster Standalone Apple Music Classical App In 2022
Today, Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic, a service that specializes in streaming the classical genre, and will incorporate the app's functionality and playlists into Apple Music. The r...