Hacker sent email with 1,200 partial social security numbers to school staff
databreaches.net - Related Posts:Update on Lewisburg Area School District breachNY: Hudson City School District employees hit by…MI: Bloomfield Hills Schools...
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Tesla Batteries Retain Over 90 Percent Charging Power After 160,000 Miles, Survey Finds - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - According to a survey of over 350 Tesla owners, Tesla batteries retain over 90 percent of their charging power after 160,000 miles. The EVs dropped only 5 percent of their capacity after 50,000 miles, but lose it at a much slower rate after that. Most Tesla vehicles will have over 90 percent of t...
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Pornhub Hasn't Been Actively Enforcing Its Deepfake Ban - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Pornhub said in February that it was banning AI-generated deepfake videos, but BuzzFeed News found that it's not doing a very good job at enforcing that policy. The media company found more than 70 deepfake videos -- depicting graphic fake sex scenes with Emma Watson, Scarlett Johanson, and other...
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Google's AR Microscope Quickly Highlights Cancer Cells - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: Google Research this week revealed an AR microscope (ARM) capable of detecting cancerous cells in real-time with the help of machine learning. Locating cancer with a standard microscope is a difficult and time-consuming process, with a raft of in...
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Dutch Study Finds Some Video Game Loot Boxes Broke the Law - Slashdot
games.slashdot.org - The Netherlands Gaming Authority has published a study it conducted of 10 video games that reward players with loot boxes, packages players can sometimes buy with real money that contain random-in game rewards, and found that 4 of the 10 games it studied violated the Dutch Gaming Act. "It determi...
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Apple Open Sources FoundationDB - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Apple's FoundationDB company announced on Thursday that the FoundationDB core has been open sourced with the goal of building an open community with all major development done in the open. The database company was purchased by Apple back in 2015. As described in the announcement, FoundationDB is ...
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White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: According to reports from Bloomberg and E&E News, the Trump Administration has been exploring another way to help coal and nuclear generators: the Defense Production Act of 1950. The Act was passed under President Truman. Motivated by the...
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SmugMug Buys Flickr, Vows To Revitalize the Photo Service - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - On Friday, Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug announced it had acquired Flickr, the photo-sharing site created in 2004 by Ludicorp and acquired in 2005 by Yahoo. SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill told USA TODAY he's committed to revitalizing the faded social networking site, which h...
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Intel Is Giving Up On Its Smart Glasses - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - Intel is planning to shut down the New Devices Group (NDG), and cease development on the Vaunt smart glasses project that was revealed earlier this year. The glasses are unique in that they use retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball. "There is no camera to creep people out, no button...
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Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: Companies across the nation are now using some rudimentary artificial intelligence, or AI, systems to screen out applicants before interviews commence and for the interviews themselves. As a Guardian article from March explained, many of...
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Silicon Valley Investors Wants to Fund a 'Good For Society' Facebook Replacement - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Silicon Valley angel investor Jason Calacanis just announced the "Openbook Challenge," a competition to create a replacement for Facebook. "Over the next three months, 20 finalists will compete for seven $100,000 incubator grants," explains long-time Slashdot reader reifman. "Their goal is to ...
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Google Play has a number of malicious cryptocurrency apps
ehackingnews.com - Google Play Store is flooded with a malicious cryptocurrency app posing as a legitimate crypto wallet and it seems that they are not able to control the influx. These apps steal keys from the users and then drain their accounts. In 2018 alone, the company has removed three instances of malign v...
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Facebook mechanism to rein in risky users
ehackingnews.com - Caught in a barrage of criticism, Facebook has deployed a huge force to scan and remove the offensive contents that left the men at the helm of the global social networking site red-faced. In yet another drastic step to regulate the groups with an ulterior motive, Facebook has struck off around...
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Unscrupulous crooks behind the RansSIRIA Ransomware try to exploit attentions on Syrian refugee crisis
securityaffairs.co - Researchers at MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware called RansSIRIA that encrypts victim's files and then states it will donate the ransom to Syrian refugees.
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Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Universal Basic Incomes aren't really the issue, argues Fast Company staff writer Ben Schiller. "It's how you find $2 trillion to pay for it." One answer may come in the form of "universal basic assets" (UBA). UBA can mean a fund of publicly-owned infrastructure or revenue streams -- like Alas...
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NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times: Riots and lynchings around the world have been linked to misinformation and hate speech on Facebook, which pushes whatever content keeps users on the site longest -- a potentially damaging practice in countries with weak institutions and histories of...
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Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Many of Amazon's warehouse workers have to buy their groceries with food stamps through America's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, reports the Intercept. In Arizona, new data suggests that one in three of the company's own employees depend on SNAP to put food on the table. In Pennsylvan...
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What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - There's a new trend starting: restaurants that won't accept cash. USA Today reports: Restaurant owners say ordering is faster from customers who slap down plastic instead of dollars, cutting a few seconds out of the process. But most of the benefits appear to accrue to the restaurants: less tim...
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Former Reddit Executive Sees 'No Hope' For Reddit - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes former Reddit product head Dan McComas: I think, ultimately, the problem that Reddit has is the same as Twitter and Discord. By focusing on growth and growth only and ignoring the problems, they amassed a large set of cultural norms on their platforms. Their cultural no...
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Eventbrite Claims The Right To Film Your Events -- And Keep the Copyright - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Eventbrite lets you sell tickets online for your events. An anonymous reader reports on Eventbrite's newly-updated merchant agreement. The merchant agreement specifies that you "grant permission to Eventbrite and its agents to enter onto and remain on the premises (including real property, fixtu...
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GitHub Launches Bot-Powered Learning Lab for New Developers - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: GitHub is launching a new bot-powered learning lab to help budding developers get up to speed on all things GitHub... The GitHub Learning Lab, which officially launched Thursday, builds on GitHub's prior history of training people, except this time GitHub i...
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Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader williamyf writes: You may think of it as the end of an era, or as the final nail in the coffin. Today Lycos, one of the pioneering web portals of the '90s, notified all it's users that "On May 15th, 2018, we will no longer be offering free Lycos Mail accounts." They ha...
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Spear Phishing Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018 - The Financial Analyst
news.google.com - <b>Spear <b>Phishing</b> Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018</b> <b>The Financial Analyst</b> The Spear <b>Phishing</b> market provide points that are discussed within the report are the major market players that are involved in the market...
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Spear Phishing Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018 - The Financial Analyst
news.google.com - <b>Spear <b>Phishing</b> Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018</b> <b>The Financial Analyst</b> The Spear <b>Phishing</b> market provide points that are discussed within the report are the major market players that are involved in the market...
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Spear Phishing Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018 - The Financial Analyst
news.google.com - <b>Spear <b>Phishing</b> Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018</b> <b>The Financial Analyst</b> The Spear <b>Phishing</b> market provide points that are discussed within the report are the major market players that are involved in the market...
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Spear Phishing Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018 - The Financial Analyst
news.google.com - <b>Spear <b>Phishing</b> Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018</b> <b>The Financial Analyst</b> The Spear <b>Phishing</b> market provide points that are discussed within the report are the major market players that are involved in the market...
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Spear Phishing Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018 - The Financial Analyst
news.google.com - <b>Spear <b>Phishing</b> Market Trends And Opportunities By Product Types And Application In Grooming Regions, By 2018</b> <b>The Financial Analyst</b> The Spear <b>Phishing</b> market provide points that are discussed within the report are the major market players that are involved in the market...
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Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader Applehu Akbar writes: Imbruvica, a compound that treats white blood cell cancers, has until now been a bargain at $148,000 per year. Until now, doctors have been able to optimize dosage for each patient by prescribing up to four small-dose pills of it per day. But after results fr...
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Lyft Announces It Will Make All Rides Carbon Neutral - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Lyft announced it will spend millions of dollars to make all its rides carbon neutral. An anonymous reader quotes CNN Money: The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it will pay for a range of environmentally beneficial projects to compensate for the emissions from th...
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Can Tesla's Batteries Power Puerto Rico? - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes Electrek: Almost 1 million ratepayers of the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority on the island of Puerto Rico were reportedly without power Wednesday during an island-wide blackout. But a few hundred locations with Tesla Energy storage systems were able to keep the li...
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Wells Fargo Agrees to $1 Billion Fine Over Home and Auto Loan Abuses - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Wells Fargo got hit with a $1 billion fine Friday -- the largest ever issued by America's consumer protection agency. An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: Taken together, the mortgage and auto programs ensnared more than 600,000 customers and will require nearly $300 million in refunds, the bank h...
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RSA Fails To Assess Vendor, Leaks Attendee Details
arstechnica.com - Enlarge / Screenshots of the RSA Conference application from the Google Play Store. The app's Web interface leaked attendee data when supplied with a token obtained by registering the app.Google Play Store A mobile application built by a third party for the RSA security conference in San Francis...
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Ex-Employee Sun Trust Helps Compromise 1.5 Million Bank Clients
scmagazine.com - Sun Trust Bank today confirmed it was hit with an insider attack when a former employee, working with a third party, stole company contact lists possibly exposing the personal information of up to 1.5 million customers.
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Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil made a startling prediction at the 2018 TED conference. Hacker Noon reports: "In the early 2030s, we'll have universal basic income in the developed world, and worldwide by the end of the 2030s. You'll be able to live very well on that. The primary co...
