science.slashdot.org - necro81 writes: After its successful flyby of Pluto in July 2015, the New Horizons probe received a mission extension to fly past a Kuiper Belt object -- named 2014 MU69 -- in January 2019. However, we know few details about the object -- its size, shape, albedo, whether it has any companions --...
hardware.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Insurer State Farm and one of its customers, Wisconsin resident Xai Thao, allege that one of Apple's older iPhones had a defective battery that led to a fire last year. A lawsuit filed on Thursday by both State Farm and Thao claims that her iPhone 4S "failed" and ...
blog.knowbe4.com - Earlier in August, one of the worlds largest cable manufacturers Leoni AG publicly confessed that it had fallen victim to a classic CEO Fraud attack that has cost the company a whopping 44 million dollars. Following two weeks of intensive investigations, new details surfaced and the thieves turne...
linux.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes Debian.org: The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 9 (codename "stretch"). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems... Please note that the po...
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Drones will have to be registered and their users required to pass safety tests under new rules to be announced by the U.K.'s Department for Transport... Registration will be mandated for owners of drones 250 grams (8.8 ounces) or larger after research found...
entertainment.slashdot.org - intellitech quotes an article from Discover's Neuroskeptic blog: A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper...an absurd mess of factual errors, plagiarism and movie quotes. I know because I wrote it... I created a spoof manuscript about "midi-chlorians"...
bleepingcomputer.com - Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company's Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug.
bleepingcomputer.com - Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company's Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug.
mobile.slashdot.org - thegarbz writes: A Pokemon Go Fest hosted in Chicago and attended by between 15-20,000 people has ended in disaster. The event was plagued by logistical issues resulting in 3+ hour long delays getting into Chicago's Grant Park... Those people who were lucky enough to get into the paid event were ...
news.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader dcblogs writes: Enrollments in Computer Science are on a hockey stick trajectory and show no signs of slowing down. Stanford University declared computer science enrollments, for instance, went from 87 in the 2007-08 academic year to 353 in the recently completed year. It's simila...
themerkle.com - The Merkle <b>Ethereum Users can Spam Fake MyEtherWallet Sites With Random Private Keys</b> <b>The Merkle</b> Scam and <b>phishing</b> websites are slowly becoming more common for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. In most cases, criminals will create an exact copy of an existing exchange or wallet se...
science.slashdot.org - Quantum particles have a unique ability to travel in the opposite direction from their momentum. Or, as slew (Slashdot reader #2,918) puts it, "When pushed, quantum particles can fight back." slew writes: Who knew quantum particles were passive aggressive? It's subtle, but researchers "have sh...
news.slashdot.org - turkeydance shares a new report about the U.S. Army Research Lab: In the coming months, the Lab will fund new programs related to highly (but not fully) autonomous drones and robots that can withstand adversary electronic warfare operations... A second program called the Internet of Battlefield ...
bleepingcomputer.com - Intel released a new CPU model this week, the Intel Core i9 7900X, which is the latest model to feature a new cache architecture that hardware experts believe it will make exploitation of side-channel attacks a lot harder.
entertainment.slashdot.org - Slashdot reader nielo tipped us off to more SoundCloud news. Motherboard reports: Last week, a group of volunteer digital preservationists known as The Archive Team announced they would be attempting to independently archive a 123.6 million track, 900-terabyte swath of SoundCloud, the popular ...
cnet.com - Watch your back! Helen Sloan/HBO Warning: Some spoilers ahead if you haven't finished season 6 of "Game of Thrones" on HBO. No spoilers from season 7, though. Bad news for fans of "Game of Thrones'" own Dragon Queen, Daenerys Targaryen: science says the Khaleesi is the most likely of the centra...
bleepingcomputer.com - The Swedish government has exposed sensitive details on millions of citizens in one of the biggest government screw-ups ever, and the official responsible for the whole fiasco was fined only half of her's monthly salary, which is 70,000 Swedish krona — or around $8,500.
yro.slashdot.org - Kevin Poulsen writes on the Daily Beast: It turns out Microsoft has something even more formidable than Moscow's malware: Lawyers. Last year attorneys for the software maker quietly sued the hacker group known as Fancy Bear in a federal court outside Washington DC, accusing it of computer intrusi...
yro.slashdot.org - cdreimer writes, "According to a report in the New York Times, 'nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements' to hide abuses that would otherwise be made public." The Times reports: Employment lawyers say nondisparagement agreements have hel...
cnet.com - Warning: Possible spoilers for "Thor: Ragnarok" ahead. Actor Chris Hemsworth returns in a new trailer that shows the hammer-wielding god Thor and the Hulk in the Marvel buddy movie we always hoped would happen. Thor's locks may be shorter and he lost his handy hammer, but Hemsworth's Asgardian ...
developers.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum's annual report on the top programming languages: As with all attempts to rank the usage of different languages, we have to rely on various proxies for popularity. In our case, this means having data journalist Nick Diakopoulos mine and combine 12 metrics ...
ehackingnews.com - The Indian Railway Minister, Suresh Prabhu has said that ensuring cyber security of the railway's in the day to day operations is one of the most important priority. Speaking at a conference attended by senior rail officials, Mr Prabhu said that there has been an exponential increase of the te...
ask.slashdot.org - periklisv writes: I daily receive emails from adult dating sites, loan services, government agencies, online retailers etc, all of them either asking me to verify my account, or, even worse, having signed me up to their service (especially dating sites), which makes me really uncomfortable, my be...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - <b>The ISBuzz Post</b>: This Post ESET Waves Red Flag: Insight Into Hidden Malware Affecting 500,000 Users appeared first on Information Security Buzz. ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has investigated and identified a complex threat posed by a new strain of malware that has so far affec...
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes Mashable: Mozilla is building a massive repository of voice recordings for the voice apps of the future -- and it wants you to add yours to the collection. The organization behind the Firefox browser is launching Common Voice, a project to crowdsource audio samples from...
cnet.com - This "Walking Dead" walker doesn't care whether you have a Comic-Con badge, she'll want to eat you all the same. Mike Sorrentino/CNET When I go to San Diego Comic-Con, I get to try video games before they come out, see movies while they're still getting made and attend exclusive parties where th...
