Massive Increases in Trojans and Backdoor Attacks More Than Double, Spelling Trouble for Organizations
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What Can We Learn From The Retraction of the Mediterranean Diet Study? - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - Remember that landmark 2013 study that found that people on a Mediterranean diet had a 30% lower chance of heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular disease than people on low-fat diets? An anonymous reader quotes Vox: Last June, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine pulled th...
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Misleading Results From Widely-Used Machine-Learning Data Analysis Techniques - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - Long-time Slashdot reader kbahey writes: The increased reliance on machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyze data, is producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong, according to the BBC. Dr. Genevera Allen from Rice University in Houston said tha...
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Report That Tesla Autopilot Cuts Crashes By 40% Called 'Bogus' - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - Remember when America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported Tesla's Autopilot reduced crashes by 40%? Two years later the small research and consulting firm Quality Control Systems (QCS) finally obtained the underlying data -- and found flaws in the methodology "serious eno...
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Coming soon in Maharashtra: Online platform where you can file phishing, vishing plaints
hindustantimes.com - The Maharashtra Cyber Police said it will launch a portal in two months, to enable citizens from across the state to lodge complaints pertaining to phishing, vishing, spam emails and suspicious short message services (SMSes) online. The cyber police assured that after the complaint is lodged, t...
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Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code For Discrete GPUs - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - fstack writes: Intel is still a year out from releasing their first discrete graphics processors, but the company has begun publishing their open-source Linux GPU driver code. This week they began by publishing patches on top of their existing Intel Linux driver for supporting device local memory...
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Bomb hoax suspect arrested in US
ehackingnews.com - Multiple charges have been laid thanks to the efforts of multiple departments spanning two countries, stemming from 10 bomb threats, including one in a school, late last week. The man at the centre of recent bomb threats in Taber, Alta, has made his first appearance in a U.S. courtroom. It's not...
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Hoaxer Behind 2,400 Fake Bomb Threats Caught After Gaming Site Breach - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - 20-year-old Timothy Dalton Vaughn from Winston-Salem, N.C now faces 80 years in federal prison, reports KrebsOnSecurity.com: Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests o...
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Free Software Foundation: Dating Is a Free Software Issue - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - "I've been making the argument that everything is a free software issue for a few months now," writes the campaigns manager for the Free Software Foundation, in a new essay sharing thoughts on "the issues proprietary technology poses in dating and maintaining romantic relationships": Many dating ...
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