2021-09-04T22:34:00Z	**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 complex, climbing west over the Pacific. But about two and a half minutes after launch, Firefly's rocket began flipping end over end and exploded in the air.

The Vandenberg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2Qsmsvm9_EI/first-rocket-of-space-company-firefly-exploded-during-its-launch)
2021-09-04T21:49:00Z	**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 reservations about the potential of quantum computing" in a new FAQ titled Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography.
"NSA does not know whe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JPa_DA8ncGQ/americas-nsa-isnt-sure-quantum-computers-will-ever-break-public-key-encryption)
2021-09-04T20:39:00Z	**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 everything from smartphones to cloud computing."

They add that Linus Torvalds "poked fun at that lack of recognition in his usual Sunday release note for a new stable ver ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DUJavyKqBLc/linus-torvalds-jokes-about-celebrations-for-linuxs-30th-anniversary)
2021-09-04T19:39:00Z	**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 and other natural disasters.

"The device is a cell site situated on a drone engineered to beam wireless LTE coverage across an area of up to 40 square miles."

The weather-resistant ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cBWIjcauRbs/how-atts-tethered-drones-can-become-temporary-cellular-towers)
2021-09-04T18:34:00Z	**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 even harder to fund basic services."

That downward spiral now threatens low-income communities in the path this week of Hurricane Ida and those hit by the recent flooding in Tennessee — hamlets reg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xzQW4jjhwSY/climate-change-is-bankrupting-americas-small-towns)
2021-09-04T17:34:00Z	**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 CBS Moneywatch (citing an article Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal).

The machine's manufacturer insists that the product's warranty is void if purchasers ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/V_DsECAu1i8/is-americas-ftc-investigating-mcdonalds-right-to-repair-mcflurry-machines)
2021-09-04T16:34:00Z	**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 learn by processing massive amounts of data through hidden layers of interconnected nodes, referred to as deep neural networks. As their name suggests, deep neural networks were inspired by the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LRW8fMyDJ3E/just-how-computationally-complex-is-a-single-brain-neuron)
2021-09-04T15:34:00Z	**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 episodes arriving every Friday afterward, leading to the Season 1 finale on December 24.

The Wheel of Time is based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Robert Jordan, which sold  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1_rwTZ_yFY8/amazon-prime-releases-first-trailer-for-wheel-of-time-series)
2021-09-04T14:34:00Z	**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 mimemagic. That's why GitHub's designed its DMCA process to follow the law in requiring takedown requests to identify specific content. We want developers on our platform and elsew ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_z4B15e3Qng/github-files-court-brief-criticizing-vague-infringement-allegations)
2021-09-04T13:00:00Z	**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-hailing company, according to people familiar with the matter. Under the preliminary proposal, Shouqi Group -- part of the influential Beijing Tourism Group -- and other firms based in the ca ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aW3fx6rRHz8/city-of-beijing-said-to-seek-taking-didi-under-state-control)
2021-09-04T10:00:00Z	**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 other hand, is the "hatred of movement." Last week, Todd Handy, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and his colleagues published the first study to focus solely o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/26Xb-Q0dJn8/if-you-cant-stand-people-fidgeting-you-may-have-misokinesia)
2021-09-04T07:00:00Z	**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 device effectively repeats a speaker's own voice back at them, and only them, while they attempt to talk. It was developed, and patented back in 2019 but has only recently been discovered, according to a report by th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hKbuXQaKtbM/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking)
2021-09-04T03:30:00Z	**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 announce what they believe is a major step forward for CRISPR: An efficient, multi-purpose, mini CRISPR system. Whereas the commonly used CRISPR systems -- with names like Cas9  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h-emcLZ6geg/researchers-develop-an-engineered-mini-crispr-genome-editing-system)
2021-09-04T02:02:00Z	**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. This increased efficiency is due to an innovative design that reinvents the way wind farms look and perform. Fast Company reports: Unlike tra ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HzrcgUVNmXQ/wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors)
2021-09-04T01:25:00Z	**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 generation of Qualcomm's proprietary audio format. From a report: Taking a "systems level approach," was the key, the company says, as it's "optimized a number of core wir ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yPkGGtnsY2o/qualcomm-debuts-lossless-bluetooth-audio-streaming-with-aptx-lossless)
2021-09-05T00:04:00Z	**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 the mission is called) launches on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 15, their capsule will carry a huge glass dome in place of a docking port to o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wjzqJVvN-Ho/passengers-on-spacexs-all-civilian-spaceflight-will-get-a-huge-dome-window)
2021-09-05T01:34:00Z	**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 a girl, who appear to be of high school age, are walking into Panda Express when a third teenager with blond hair stops them in the doorway. He brings with him the energy of the hustler or the man ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KWd-rNeG4fM/how-far-can-you-go-to-resist-filmers-of-a-viral-video)
2021-09-05T03:44:00Z	**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 Boeing and said it expects to resume flying the jet again by January," reports the Seattle Times:
The financial terms of the settlement were not di ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XheTVGAkomk/ethiopian-airlines-settles-with-boeing-expects-resumed-737-max-flights-in-january)
2021-09-05T07:34:00Z	**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 Bank of America enthused about the new law's ability to reduce the cost of cross-border transactions (remittances account for 20% of El Sal ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/y4CqOQUS3S4/skepticism-grows-over-el-salvadors-pioneering-plan-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender)
2021-09-05T11:34:00Z	**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, crystalline rocks are 1.7 billion years old, whereas the oldest in the sandstone layer were formed 550 million years ago. This means there's more than a billion-year-gap in the geological record. To this ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TEKtxE0s9Ws/why-is-the-earth-missing-a-billion-years-of-rocks)
2021-09-05T14:35:00Z	**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 the recommended maximum. The Guardian reports:

Several schools reported levels of lead at 50 micrograms per litre — five times the maximum allowed. Even lo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A0s-wiwsLis/school-science-projects-reveal-very-high-lead-levels-in-the-schools-water)
2021-09-05T15:34:00Z	**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 running at a base 5GHz. Two processors are combined in a package similar to AMD's chiplet design. A drawer in each mainframe can hold 4 packages (sockets),  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RLyR9tE_sdo/ibms-new-mainframe-7nm-cpu-telum-16-cores-at-5ghz-virtual-l3-and-l4-cache)
2021-09-05T16:34:00Z	**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 to take on much of the responsibility. Since 2012, the company has hired at least 10 consulting and staffing firms globally to sift through  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VS9hnVhmvuE/facebook-is-subcontracting-its-content-moderation-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars)
2021-09-05T17:34:00Z	**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 a phishing campaign and thus bypass corporate security defenses like whitelisting. The researchers, from email security service provider Perception Point, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/koRqECHcWFk/in-novel-attack-technique-salesforce-email-service-used-for-phishing-campaign)
2021-09-05T18:34:00Z	**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 the internet is almost entirely overrun by artificial intelligence:

Like lots of other online conspiracy theories, the audience for this one is growing  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hWNUNBVAlgI/the-dead-internet-theory-posits-forums-are-now-almost-entirely-overrun-by-ai)
2021-09-05T19:34:00Z	**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 the National Poison Data System, which collects information from the nation's 55 poison control centers, there was a 245% jump  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h583xhKmdMg/high-ivermectin-overdosages-caused-1143-calls-to-americas-poison-control-centers-this-year)
2021-09-05T20:34:00Z	**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 week by a Russian security researcher named ValdikSS, push-button phones such as DEXP SD2810, Itel it2160, Irbis SF63, and F+ Flip 3 were caught subscribing use ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gs1TcjJbckM/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classic-push-button-phones-sold-in-russia)
2021-09-05T21:34:00Z	**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 not supposed to — and they're taking their fears to the courts." (Alternate URLs here and here.)

On Thursday, a judge ruled that Apple will hav ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jMUctYYy_dA/lawsuits-accuse-siri-alexa-and-google-of-listening-when-theyre-not-supposed-to)
2021-09-05T23:52:00Z	**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 biological reprogramming technology, a way to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some scientists think could be extended to revitalize entire animal bodies, ultima ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jrPj80hLfto/new-company-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-anti-aging-research)
2021-09-06T01:44:00Z	**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 capture a live photo of David and his workmates via their company laptop webcams. The ever-changing headshots were splayed across the wall of a digital conference waiting room that everyone  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2XRHudve79c/is-remote-working-leading-to-a-boom-in-worker-surveillance)
2021-09-06T03:44:00Z	**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 the line cooks," reports the Associated Press.

They're arguing that the pandemic "didn't just threaten Americans' health when it slammed the U.S. in 2020 — it may also have posed a long-term threat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LbanBFzJKsw/automation-is-now-taking-service-jobs-once-thought-safe)
2021-09-06T07:34:00Z	**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 transforming two central aspects of the modern world: culture and regulation. There will be no turning back...

Plenty of trading already takes place in games — involving currencies, markets, prices and contracts. Game creator ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2tvP7DGIxis/will-gaming-change-humanity-as-we-know-it)
2021-09-06T11:34:00Z	**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, it would have the third-biggest carbon footprint after the U.S. and China...

Food waste fell sharply last year during lockdown as people stuck at home began to use leftovers, plan meals and free ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i9IqoZjK6yU/a-surprise-contributor-to-climate-change-food-waste)
2021-09-06T14:04:00Z	**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 the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks -- i.e., "digital content." In New York, Potash met with two clients: the New York Public Library a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y3V15vat_Lc/the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books)
2021-09-06T14:40:00Z	**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, financing and founding this servant economy is something much less tangible but substantial: what kind of an economy do you want to produce with your decisions? How far do you want to push the division of labour between (elite) educat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/x7GajuT7Qvg/vcs-are-financing-an-economy-of-servants)
2021-09-06T15:21:00Z	**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 education sector. From a report: Local governments should establish benchmark fees and floating ranges, and include them in pricing catalogs, according to a notice from the National Development and ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BUiq6453sYs/china-says-government-to-set-prices-for-after-school-classes)
2021-09-06T16:08:00Z	**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 efficiency. From a report: Tesla has been a catalyst for this change. The U.S. automaker became the first of its peers to use silicon carbide chips in a mass-produced car, incorporating them into ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iMinB_AEpXI/led-by-tesla-evs-drive-chip-industrys-shift-beyond-silicon)
2021-09-06T16:46:00Z	**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, but is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable candidates, say the study's authors. It's contributing to the problem of "hidden workers" -- indi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eL_IBmf27uk/automated-hiring-software-is-mistakenly-rejecting-millions-of-viable-job-candidates)
2021-09-06T17:20:00Z	**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 of a French activist who was using the online service. From a report: The company has communicated widely about the incident, stating that it doesn't ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ul4ql5QArfg/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities)
2021-09-06T18:00:00Z	**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, but is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable candidates, say the study's authors. It's contributing to the problem of "hidden workers" -- indi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eL_IBmf27uk/automated-hiring-software-is-mistakenly-rejecting-millions-of-viable-job-candidates)
2021-09-06T19:00:00Z	**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 of a French activist who was using the online service. From a report: The company has communicated widely about the incident, stating that it doesn't ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ul4ql5QArfg/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities)
2021-09-06T23:32:00Z	**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 legislative chamber in May, and the upper chamber is expected to vote on it next week. If passed, the bill would place new transparency requirements on automated quota syste ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DyZtUR1pcTk/california-bill-takes-aim-at-amazons-productivity-tracking-algorithms)
2021-09-07T00:59:00Z	**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 deterring bad behaviour [the link may be paywalled]. From a report: Every year it publishes a list of dates, spaced at six-day intervals, on which it will require state and local agencies to pro ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LBlXlmtVzDU/poorly-devised-regulation-lets-firms-pollute-with-abandon)
2021-09-07T02:15:00Z	**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: Facebook told BBC News it "was clearly an unacceptable error", disabled the system and launched an investigation. "We apologise to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations." I ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K2Hr6ueTCVg/facebook-apologizes-after-its-ai-labeled-black-men-primates)
2021-09-07T05:54:00Z	**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 Monday, President Nayib Bukele revealed that the country had purchased a total of 400 bitcoin, the first step in a larger pu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tP9SXt3MtII/el-salvador-bought-21-million-of-bitcoin-as-it-becomes-first-country-to-make-it-a-legal-currency)
2021-09-07T08:28:00Z	**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. From a report: The world's largest automaker by volume, which pioneered hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles with the popular Prius, is now moving rapidly to deliver  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5FSw_Hbkxa8/toyota-to-spend-135-billion-to-develop-ev-battery-tech-and-supply-by-2030)
2021-09-07T11:03:00Z	**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 make parts called substrates, which connect chips to the circuit boards that hold them in personal computers and other devices. The components are relatively simple but as vital to ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cXGB2okXfFc/the-chip-shortage-has-made-a-star-of-this-little-known-component)
2021-09-07T12:00:00Z	**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 microcomputer. McCracken, who is also a regular Slashdot reader, recently went back to have a look at his first game, Arctic Adventure, which he wro ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HXKvxZT8Ueo/developer-returns-to-game-after-four-decades-discovers-and-fixes-typo-so-it-works)
2021-09-07T14:00:00Z	**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 badly. Regulators in Europe and the US have issued stark ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1jqljf4-jOU/sometimes-dismissed-as-a-fad-in-advanced-economies-crypto-holds-more-appeal-in-countries-with-a-history-of-financial-instability)
2021-09-07T14:49:00Z	**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 polarized audience. Erik Finman, a 22-year-old who called himself the world's youngest Bitcoin millionaire, posted a video on Twitter for a new kind of smartphone that he said would liberate Americans from their "Big Tech overlords." His s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7TmddSnUXxE/the-strange-tale-of-the-freedom-phone)
2021-09-07T15:32:00Z	**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: Published by Vietnamese security researcher Nguyen The Duc, the proof-of-concept code is available on GitHub and was confirmed to work by several of today's leading security researchers. Released back in 1988, Gh ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ONjVA5m65mM/ghostscript-zero-day-allows-full-server-compromises)
2021-09-07T16:07:00Z	**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 that exists today and to Microsoft News. Microsoft is rebranding these into Microsoft Start and integrating the feed into the Windows 11 widg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8JWhv6241A0/microsoft-start-is-a-personalized-news-feed-designed-for-windows-11-mobile-and-more)
2021-09-07T16:43:00Z	**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 confirmed Tuesday. The event, like all previous ones over the last year and a half, will be held entirely online amid continued concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Fr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ItcxQ02KWFQ/apples-iphone-13-new-apple-watch-on-tap-for-virtual-launch-next-tuesday)
2021-09-07T17:11:00Z	**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 Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X2PBiYKFwuk/slashdot-alum-samzenpuss-fractured-veil-hits-kickstarter)
2021-09-07T18:09:00Z	**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, and Zuul, the Ansible-based continuous integration (CI) system} has hovered between what Gartner calls the Trough of Disillusionment and Slope of Enlightenment. Now with Microsoft joining the Open Infrastructure Foundat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NHKhkzEqHvQ/microsoft-joins-open-infrastructure-foundation)
2021-09-07T18:48:00Z	**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 scientists found. This includes getting larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temperature. When animals overheat, birds use their beaks and mammals use their e ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WdrCupWBpbo/animals-shapeshifting-in-response-to-climate-crisis-research-finds)
2021-09-07T19:30:00Z	**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't been in production within the last five years, and using the player on a current smart TV requires an expensive customized setup of several devices. Looking for a recent film on VHS format? It's likely you ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XS7oaUJoMNU/forget-netflix-some-movie-fans-rewind-to-vhs-tapes)
2021-09-07T20:08:00Z	**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 report: Intel Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger Tuesday said the company was planning two chip factories at a new site in Europe and could potentially expan ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6ezYra3z4Zc/intel-to-invest-up-to-95-billion-in-european-chip-making-amid-us-expansion)
2021-09-07T20:45:00Z	**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 potent," Crotty wrote in commentary in Science back in June. From a report: No matter what you call it, this type of immunity offers much-needed good ne ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BhwgtVHDYRo/new-studies-find-evidence-of-superhuman-immunity-to-covid-19-in-some-individuals)
2021-09-07T21:25:00Z	**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 statement from the prominent HBCU. The school said that on September 3, members of their technology team noticed "unusual activity" on the university's networ ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IbK1YZM4IY8/howard-university-announces-ransomware-attack-shuts-down-classes-on-tuesday)
2021-09-07T22:02:00Z	**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: Facebook needs to convince regulators skeptical of its power that it's a good idea. "If there's one thing we need, it's the benefit of the doubt," Facebook's David Marcus said ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IAuzVk-r_tc/facebook-admits-trust-deficit-as-it-looks-to-launch-digital-wallet)
2021-09-07T22:40:00Z	**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 reports: The protesters burned a tire and set off fireworks in front of the Supreme Court building around noon local time, as the government deployed heavily militarized police to the site of ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/a1Jq92McEKc/salvador-street-protest-breaks-out-against-bitcoin-adoption)
2021-09-07T23:20:00Z	**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 Field is coming aboard as chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer, Ford said in a statement. Field also previously worked as a top engineer at Tesla between two stints at Apple -- most rec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vJ2g7LIPxU4/ford-hires-away-executive-leading-apples-car-project)
2021-09-08T00:02:00Z	**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 was prepped for release this week and had been announced years beforehand, with 2,000+ hours of effort of a single individual behind it. The effort had been noticed b ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kgCmFtikW_E/jagex-nixes-community-built-runescape-hd-client-massive-backlash-follows)
2021-09-08T00:45:00Z	**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 something that some other open source game engines already use. On ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YydxaSdqnFw/unity-patents-methods-and-apparatuses-to-improve-the-performance-of-a-video-game-engine-using-an-entity-component-system)
2021-09-08T01:25:00Z	**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 moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that's been flagged by its machine learning system. "They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate speech, potential terrorist threats, chil ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kwCsia6rR8I/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages)
2021-09-08T02:00:00Z	**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 due to COVID-19, McDonald's UK launched their popular Monopoly VIP game on August 25th, where customers can enter codes found on purchase food items for a chance to win a prize. These pr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jj4LdR44n_M/mcdonalds-leaks-password-for-monopoly-vip-database-to-winners)
2021-09-08T03:30:00Z	**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 rules and regulations and (most of all) taxes, with an economy run on cryptocurrency. The ship was even named "Satoshi," after the pseudonym of the nearly-my ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OL7jLCjJvcA/the-disastrous-voyage-of-satoshi-the-worlds-first-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship)
2021-09-08T07:00:00Z	**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 that if you've got microbial life on another planet, you're bound to have -- if it's going to be sustainable and sustained -- the full complexity and robustness that will go with being able  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i3bA2KO-_vU/viruses-may-exist-elsewhere-in-the-universe-warns-scientist)
2021-09-08T10:00:00Z	**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.com reports: The cute floating sphere with a cartoon-like face has been stored at the space station since the departure of the European Space Agency's (ESA) astronaut L ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xDYzaSTtuCE/astronauts-in-space-will-soon-resurrect-an-ai-robot-friend-called-cimon)
2021-09-08T13:00:00Z	**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 to allow Internet users to set "lasting" cookie preferences -- suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites in the region. European  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ya4HriNERoY/uks-ico-calls-for-browser-level-controls-to-fix-cookie-fatigue)
2021-09-08T14:06:00Z	**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 assets, Coinbase said on Wednesday. From a report: The SEC has issued Coinbase with a Wells notice, an official way it tells a company that it intends to sue the company in court, Paul Grewal,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XRQXadpofUc/sec-threatens-to-sue-coinbase-over-crypto-lending-programme)
2021-09-08T14:40:00Z	**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: Today's announcement is a bit of a milestone, however. Although there is still the smattering of small and coming-soon updates, the bigger change is that Gmail is  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rcNBv1FAMNA/the-gmail-app-takes-calls-now-too-because-google-wants-it-to-do-everything)
2021-09-08T15:28:00Z	**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 its business in Japan. From a report: The transaction completion including the regulatory approval is expected in the fourth quarter of 2021 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DmXdlA0Agwc/paypal-acquires-japans-paidy-for-27b-to-crack-the-buy-now-pay-later-market-in-asia)
2021-09-08T16:18:00Z	**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 the second will be in Sherman Oaks, California. When they're open, customers will have the option of paying at a traditional self-checkout or customer service booth, or having the new technol ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LHkwg28qpTg/amazons-cashierless-tech-is-coming-to-whole-foods-next-year)
2021-09-08T16:58:00Z	**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, beginning in 2015 with a widely read series of articles by former Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, who revealed that Theranos' technology was far less effective than advertised. The debacle w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cqL0nK3OCIo/other-blood-companies-are-still-pissed-about-theranos)
2021-09-08T17:24:00Z	**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 prolific cyber gangs to hold data for ransom. The group operates from Russia, according to cybersecurity firms and the U.S. government, and is accused of leading a flurry of attacks this year against ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4d-sl2tSN4k/notorious-russian-ransomware-group-revil-has-reappeared)
2021-09-08T18:01:00Z	**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 report: In coordinated statements, the two agencies announced that the observatory is now targeting a launch on Dec. 18, more than six weeks after its previously set liftoff date. The highl ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9eK7rPqrPiw/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-launch-delayed-to-december)
2021-09-08T18:53:00Z	**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 the pandemic, the world had been making strides against these illnesses. Overall, deaths from those diseases have dropped by about half since 2004. "The advent of a fourth pandemic, i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WKGgEI-sMNg/the-pandemic-has-set-back-the-fight-against-hiv-tb-and-malaria)
2021-09-08T19:25:00Z	**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 crime, according to records shared with the Guardian. From a report: Copies of the "field interview cards" that police complete when they question civilians re ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eXZ3_S-cZBg/lapd-officers-told-to-collect-social-media-data-on-every-civilian-they-stop)
2021-09-08T20:00:00Z	**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 expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others," is a security, and generally can't be sold to the public without registering it with the Securities and Exchange Commission, delivering a prospectus with audited financial statement ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VFC5rWcJBfQ/is-lending-your-bitcoins-a-security)
2021-09-08T20:40:00Z	**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, though, it was an outrage. How bad was the video? It has its own knowyourmeme page, that's how bad. The guide was full of glaring omissions and bizarre tips, from a strange obsession with power usage to the most liberal use of t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xOvp53Y4p0s/the-verges-infamous-pc-build-gets-fixed)
2021-09-08T21:20:00Z	**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 strangers who post defamatory comments on their posts. The ruling upholds a June 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court of New South Wal ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Vrc80hz-byM/facebook-users-liable-for-all-comments-under-their-posts-according-to-australia-high-court)
2021-09-08T22:00:00Z	**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: Prominent in details briefed to the news media this week (including The Register) were accusations that Facebook harbours paedophiles, terrorists, and mobsters and that British police forces would effective ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zRUQPviVJ-M/ukgov-is-launching-an-anti-facebook-encryption-push)
2021-09-08T22:40:00Z	**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-dead gorgeous 14-inch OLED screen. Besides the infinite contrast an OLED provides, Lenovo will use a fast 90Hz, 2880x1800 panel with an aspect ratio of 16:10 on the Slim 7 Carbon. That's just over 5 megapixels with a  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HRjSMJlNBMw/lenovos-first-windows-11-laptops-run-on-ryzen)
2021-09-08T23:20:00Z	**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 in addressing the climate crisis. The Orca, a direct air capture plant constructed by Swiss carbon capture company Climeworks AG, with support from Microsoft, started running Wednesday arou ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/36qQ3z23M-g/worlds-largest-direct-air-carbon-capture-system-goes-online)
2021-09-09T00:01:00Z	**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 of solar energy installed every year over the next four years and then double it again by 2030. From a report: The expansion of solar energy is part of President Biden's effort to fight climate change, but there  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QSuTztz0C8c/biden-offers-ambitious-blueprint-for-solar-energy)
2021-09-09T00:45:00Z	**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 AppleInsider. The news comes less than a month after the Digital Agenda committee chairman of Germany's federal parliament, Manual Hoferlin, declared Apple to be on a "dangerous ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aVbKSpX_YjQ/after-chiding-apple-on-privacy-germany-says-it-uses-pegasus-spyware)
2021-09-09T01:25:00Z	**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-founded and led the Italian chapter of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) from 2001 to 2007. He also worked for the FreedomBox Foundation. Thi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9Tj-PP_PXAw/the-open-source-initiative-names-stefano-maffulli-as-its-first-executive-director)
2021-09-09T02:02:00Z	**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 electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greates ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MyWmrjQdYaU/mit-designed-project-achieves-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy)
2021-09-09T03:30:00Z	**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 across the globe. The Allen Coral Atlas, named after late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will act as a reference for reef conservation, marine planning and coral science as researchers try to  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NSroB4Xaehc/researchers-complete-first-ever-detailed-map-of-global-coral)
2021-09-09T07:00:00Z	**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. According to a new paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and posted on the preprint server arXiv, the energy source is extremely fin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y3DftaTciLw/strange-repeating-radio-signal-near-center-of-milky-way-has-scientists-stumped)
2021-09-09T10:00:00Z	**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 three miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Motherboard reports: In recent days, images of the shiny, new warehouse complex emblazoned with a giant blue Amazon logo -- and its i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D7q6slFbTUM/amazon-to-open-21-million-state-of-the-art-warehouse-in-tijuana-slum)
2021-09-09T13:00:00Z	**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 government offices, costing the county thousands of dollars in electricity. Prosecutors said that Christopher Naples, 42, of Mattituck, L.I., had hidden 46 specialized devices used to ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5n1kTtOdGpc/county-it-supervisor-mined-bitcoin-at-the-office-prosecutors-say)
2021-09-09T14:01:00Z	**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 giant is rolling out the first-ever Amazon-built TVs: the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series ($410 and up), which provides hands-free Alexa voice navigation, and the value-priced 4-Series smart TV line ($370 and up). They're set to ship in October.

In addition, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/THTXSlZVrks/amazon-launches-a-tv-line)
2021-09-09T15:03:00Z	**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 "chasing arrows" recycling symbol is everywhere: On disposable cups. On shower curtains. On children's toys. What a lot of shoppers might not know is that any product can ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KVW2zl98IeU/california-aims-to-ban-recycling-symbols-on-things-that-arent-recyclable)
2021-09-09T16:05:00Z	**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: The svelte frames are some of the most low-profile yet available to consumers and will allow users to snap photos and videos with the two onboard 5 MP cameras, listen to music with in-frame speakers and  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w2mUXhoLygM/facebook-debuts-its-ray-ban-stories-smart-sunglasses)
2021-09-09T17:05:00Z	**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 announcement on Thursday. The amount offered for the acquisition remains undisclosed. From a report: "With the rapid growth of the digital asset ecosystem comes the nee ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j2ULBOH7u8c/mastercard-acquires-ciphertrace-to-boost-crypto-security-and-compliance)
2021-09-09T18:05:00Z	**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 dangling perks like education benefits or more pay to woo workers in a tight job market. Starting in January 2022, Amazon said it will cover the cost of college tuition, fees and text ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XyIgeLlT0n8/amazon-to-cover-100-of-college-tuition-for-us-hourly-employees)
2021-09-09T19:11:00Z	**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-19 and the spike in cases has forced the company to delay its back to the office push. Microsoft isn't providing a new date to employees, though.

[![](https://a.fsdn.com ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gtkr-CCGBJQ/microsoft-gives-up-predicting-when-its-us-offices-will-fully-reopen)
2021-09-09T20:18:00Z	**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 sold for $1.8 million. From a report: That puts the ape sale among the biggest in the NFT space. A bundle of nine CryptoPunks -- one of the earliest NFT projects -- sold for $16.9 million in May. And Beeple sold a coll ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BHjW-CSkYWI/a-bunch-of-ape-nfts-just-sold-for-244-million)
2021-09-09T21:15:00Z	**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 the addition of Berners-Lee to the company's advisory board was aligned with its goal to "create an internet where people are in control of their information at all times. Our vision is to ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-08pE7ZJRnk/web-creator-tim-berners-lee-joins-protonmails-advisory-board)
2021-09-09T22:10:00Z	**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 company said on Thursday. The DDoS attack, in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it when it can no longer cope with t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1hKbpTBGDEs/russias-yandex-says-it-repelled-biggest-ddos-attack-in-history)
2021-09-09T23:05:00Z	**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 continue their CS journeys in and beyond your class." Besides live, virtual field trips to Amazon's Fulfillment Centers, kids aged 5-and-up will also participate  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5qdlLeedjhY/codeorg-tech-giants-enlist-teachers-to-sell-kids-and-parents-on-cs-journeys)
2021-09-10T01:00:00Z	**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 properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DlpnSNqXbwU/groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-on-silicon-subatomic-particles-and-possible-fifth-force)
2021-09-10T04:00:00Z	**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. From a report: Dubbed the "Hacktivist's Advocate" by The Atlantic in 2012, Leiderman gained national attention for his pro-bono work for clients accused of crashing corporate and government websites, including members of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IhpMoY8__Ps/hacker-lawyer-jay-leiderman-is-dead-at-50)
2021-09-10T07:00:00Z	**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 who joined Apple in 2013 to run the software group for the company's smartwatch and health efforts, replaced Doug Field as the manager in charge of the car work, according to people w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/54uWBbQR0ow/apples-watch-software-chief-takes-over-self-driving-car-project)
2021-09-10T10:30:00Z	**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 some of the most common terms in climate science are confusing to the general public. From a report: The study tested words that are frequently used in international climate reports, and it concluded that t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZdB14M4YwAQ/scientists-aim-for-clearer-messages-on-global-warming)
2021-09-10T14:00:00Z	**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 report: The three food-delivery companies filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York late on Thursday. The companies are seeking an injunction th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JljGRPn9G44/uber-eats-doordash-grubhub-sue-new-york-city-over-legislation-on-commission-caps)
2021-09-10T15:01:00Z	**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 quantum is best at -- dense optimization problems at scale -- the future cannot arrive fast enough. More specifically, the golden grail for quantum computing -- the "traveling salesman" problem -- could revol ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XU9P4UyBzoc/why-amazon-might-become-the-largest-quantum-consumer)
2021-09-10T15:37:00Z	**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 anticompetitive. From a report: The case may determine whether Apple is allowed to retain control over what apps appear on its iPhones and whether it is allowed to charge commissions to developers. The Ve ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xHoMLqZFxkE/judge-in-epic-suit-says-apple-restrictions-anti-competitive)
2021-09-10T17:00:00Z	**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 been focused largely on women. Think of Marisa Tomei stomping on the floorboards of a front porch to emulate her biological clock ticking in "My Cousin Vinny." More employers cover the cost of c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QzXryem3jDU/with-fertility-needs-in-flux-men-eye-freezing-their-sperm)
2021-09-10T18:22:00Z	**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, your PC, and maybe even the world. Okay, I made that last bit up, but the big M is sticking to its guns and has released an ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nwTg6SRGgLo/microsoft-suggests-those-divisive-windows-11-system-specs-deliver-a-998-crash-free-experience)
2021-09-10T19:11:00Z	**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 between individuals on the app can be compromised. From a report: The Facebook-owned service has end-to-end encrypted chats between users for more than a decade. But  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2Ao81YWO6AE/whatsapp-will-finally-let-users-encrypt-their-chat-backups-in-the-cloud)
2021-09-10T20:05:00Z	**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 group of Google managers responsible for overseeing thousands of its temporary staff members discovered the company had been underpaying some of those workers for years. The gap in so- ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2sVljwzJA3k/google-could-be-violating-labor-laws-with-pay-for-temp-workers)
2021-09-10T21:00:00Z	**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 expose them to liability, Reuters reported Friday, citing six people familiar with the inquiry. From the report: The SEC is asking companies to turn over records into "any other" data breach ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4QXum8SNCr4/wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-in-corporate-america)
2021-09-10T22:00:00Z	**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 five years now has invited hackers to break into its services and its iconic phones and laptops, offering up to $1 million to le ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8TaFSmVzSJA/apple-pays-hackers-six-figures-to-find-bugs-in-its-software-then-it-sits-on-their-findings)
2021-09-10T23:00:00Z	**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, with the Defense Department this week retaking control of 175 million IP addresses. New submitter echo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tJPE2bX4uX0/a-secretive-pentagon-program-that-started-on-trumps-last-day-in-office-just-ended-the-mystery-has-not)
2021-09-10T23:53:00Z	**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 which was reportedly a major risk."
In a blog post, Mozilla shared that Cure53, a Berlin-based cybersecurity firm, had identified and fixed the security vulnerabilities in its ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IBM-_ziyxU4/security-weaknesses-in-mozilla-vpn-found-and-addressed-by-audit)
2021-09-11T01:00:00Z	**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 to the size of a chair, has applied in fields from astrobiology to economics. Now, it seems it may even govern our free time. Researchers have found that while levels of subjective wellbeing i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BkfUG02hyeI/study-links-too-much-free-time-to-lower-sense-of-wellbeing)
2021-09-11T03:30:00Z	**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 Gene Munster, a longtime Apple watcher, put the range at $1 billion to $4 billion, depending on how many developers take advantage of the new policy. Apple depicted the ruling as a victory, si ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qQsg-_6HIUk/apple-risks-losing-billions-of-dollars-annually-from-ruling)
2021-09-11T05:45:00Z	**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 Intelijen Negara (BIN). From a report: The intrusion, discovered by Insikt Group, the threat research division of Recorded Future, has been linked to Mustang Panda, a Chinese threat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z6wstgqshLA/indonesian-intelligence-agency-compromised-in-suspected-chinese-hack)
2021-09-11T08:00:00Z	**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. The suspension was revealed at a meeting with game company Tencent.

The ban was reportedly revealed during a meeting between Chinese gaming companies Tencent and the authorities. Neither company has commented on the suspension, which has not yet  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HbUr6pMbiDw/china-bans-all-new-video-games)
2021-09-11T11:00:00Z	**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 every product will be seeing a large jump in price, as some products like the Sonos Roam are seeing increases of just $10. Other products receiving only small price increases include the Sonos One and Sonos One SL ($2 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Jb7J41pIWVA/sonos-announces-10-price-hikes-on-most-speakers)
2021-09-11T14:34:00Z	**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, Twitter and others of censoring conservative views... The social networks have all denied stifling conservati ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JxnQHFI14Zk/new-texas-law-tries-making-it-illegal-for-social-media-sites-to-ban-users-over-political-viewpoints)
2021-09-11T15:34:00Z	**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 protection firm Qrator Labs, Krebs writes that "The assault came from 'Meris,' the same new botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8ZiWiOYOGbM/krebs-also-hit-by-massive-ddos-apparently-caused-by-compromised-routers)
2021-09-11T16:34:00Z	**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 Codex (the OpenAI software underlying GitHub Copilot):

As soon as Tom Smith got his hands on Codex — a new artificial intelligence technology that writes its own computer programs — he gave it a job interview. H ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7O5Ox0sXpmw/can-a-code-writing-ai-be-good-news-for-humans)
2021-09-11T17:34:00Z	**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 which was reportedly a major risk."
In a blog post, Mozilla shared that Cure53, a Berlin-based cybersecurity firm, had identified and fixed the security vulnerabilities in its ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IBM-_ziyxU4/security-weaknesses-in-mozilla-vpn-found-and-addressed-by-audit)
2021-09-11T18:34:00Z	**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 each tower, 18 minutes apart," CmdrTaco posted on Slashdot. "Nobody really knows who did it, but the planes were big ones.

"Normally I wouldn't consider posting this on Slashdot,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N_8eRZ7JP7s/20-years-after-the-world-trade-center-attack-a-nation-remembers)
2021-09-11T19:11:00Z	**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..."

From Fast Company's report:

After the 9/11 attacks, one big concern was connecting the dots. Failing to do so was why we missed the warning signs of the attacks and how we would prevent t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yzH2Ln03Uw8/senator-wyden-reflects-on-911s-legacy-mass-surveillance)
2021-09-11T19:34:00Z	**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 Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares their report:

First envisioned by Russian physicist Lev Landau in the 1950s, a triangle singularity refer ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Jxz1zCufD5s/first-evidence-of-elusive-triangle-singularity-shows-particles-swapping-identities)
2021-09-11T20:44:00Z	**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 help store electricity on the power grid, lending a hand to efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels..."
And a longer-life battery from Sila finally made it into a consumer product — the Whoop fitness tracker, which ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UikPAV2VCXE/new-battery-technologies-are-making-progress)
2021-09-11T21:34:00Z	**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 in response,' according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and experts at Google."

The operation, which initially at ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8IT5ZSX22AY/pro-china-misinformation-operation-attempting-to-exploit-us-covid-divisions-report-says)
2021-09-11T22:34:00Z	**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 software program that becomes obsolete?
Adobe ending support for Flash — its once ubiquitous multimedia content player — last year meant that some of the news coverage of the September 11th attacks and  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1Hh8GzhoFdM/some-911-news-coverage-is-lost-blame-adobe-flash)
2021-09-12T01:34:00Z	**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 trailer for the soon-to-be-released sequel The Matrix Resurrections suggest Keanu Reeves' "Neo" character has been wiped from existence?

In his place ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lJQfdz1rHyY/fans-ask-questions-after-first-trailer-released-for-the-matrix-resurrections)
2021-09-12T03:39:00Z	**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 long-term innovation," reports GeekWire:

That's one of the key findings in a peer-reviewed study of more than 61,000 Micr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zlCYuwMEzOE/study-of-61000-microsoft-employees-finds-remote-work-threatened-productivity-and-innovation)
2021-09-12T07:34:00Z	**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 company acknowledged Friday."

The company used a regular monthly call on Friday with roughly three dozen researchers affiliated with Social Science One, a consortium founded in 20 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HQr1K4VjcV8/facebook-admits-it-sent-misinformation-researchers-flawed-data)
2021-09-12T11:34:00Z	**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, adding that the driver "will make working with Windows' NTFS drives in Linux an ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j8coaeyh_t4/torvalds-merges-support-for-microsofts-ntfs-file-system-complains-github-creates-absolutely-useless-garbage-merges)
2021-09-12T13:04:00Z	**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 this succinct summary:

\- The Asahi Linux team has Linux (Debian, in this case) booting and usable with network support.

\- They now have (very early) display drivers which "take full advantage  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-aMGmjpTe8s/linux-for-apple-silicon-macs-gets-closer-to-reality)
2021-09-12T14:34:00Z	**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 Amazon's ongoing battle over open source licensing:

The name change was necessary because AWS and Elasticsearch BV fell out over the licensing of the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/O5F5v7GEuY0/amazon-renames-its-open-source-fork-of-elasticsearch-amazon-opensearch-service)
2021-09-12T15:34:00Z	**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 create hundreds of thousands of jobs building trails, restoring streams and helping prevent catastrophic wildfires. Building on Biden's oft-repeated comme ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d9jMD0LQLkA/can-the-us-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-with-a-civilian-climate-corps)
2021-09-12T16:34:00Z	**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 of schoolchildren.

The ongoing wave of ransomware attacks has cost companies and institutions billions of dollars and exposed personal i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tnk0H5MLjWI/personal-data-about-millions-of-children-stolen-from-schools-leaked-onto-the-darkweb)
2021-09-12T18:04:00Z	**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 to this rant, because it arrogantly refuses to listen to its users."

Slashdot reader BAReFO0t countered that that can't be the reason, "because Google does that too." (They blame Chrome's "feature" addition treadmill, where ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/n88AIIa73Sw/ask-slashdot-why-is-firefox-losing-users)
2021-09-12T19:04:00Z	**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. judge has ruled. Morgan Zurn said the first crash was a "red flag" about a key safety system on the aircraft "that the board should have heeded but  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-uKc3MyQomo/boeings-directors-are-now-facing-an-investor-lawsuit-over-fatal-737-max-crashes)
2021-09-12T20:04:00Z	**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 were produced by Germany's failed nuclear program during World War II. The answer could lead to more questions, such as whether the Nazis might have had enough uran ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uzJyHaWnBho/scientists-probe-whether-uranium-cubes-in-us-lab-were-produced-by-nazis)
2021-09-12T21:17:00Z	**'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 — 'well-known crime figures who wield significant power and influence over other criminal associates', according to a US indictment — within criminal s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vRGKACkiUIA/every-message-was-copied-to-the-police-the-daring-sting-behind-the-an0m-phone)
2021-09-12T22:16:00Z	**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 high amplitude vibrations, "specifically those generated by high-power motorcycle engines" transmitted through handlebars, can damage its phones' cameras.

As the publication not ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1dSDxsvJFzo/apple-says-motorcycle-vibrations-can-damage-iphone-cameras)
2021-09-12T23:22:00Z	**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 — speaks of systemic problems with start-up culture."
In Silicon Valley, hyping up your product — over-promising — isn't unusual, and Ms Holmes was clearly v ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DC70eGwECXA/was-theranos-a-sign-of-larger-problems-in-silicon-valleys-startup-culture)
2021-09-13T01:35:00Z	**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 reader Joe\_Dragon shared their report:
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college studen ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mn8fGx1ZxZQ/as-more-us-men-abandon-higher-education-are-admissions-officers-discriminating-against-women)
2021-09-13T02:37:00Z	**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 to YouTube about a company called Privateer.
"Together we'll go far," says the narrator, later offering these thoughts on the people of our planet. "We are explorers. We are dreamers, risk-tak ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eyleS9TCcwg/steve-wozniak-shares-a-video-about-his-new-space-startup)
2021-09-13T04:34:00Z	**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 a big deal that the water was there a long time."

The Perseverance science team already knew a lake once filled the crater; for how long has bee ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9qNqASrp6zM/perseverances-new-rock-samples-reveal-water-was-present-on-mars-for-a-long-time)
2021-09-13T06:34:00Z	**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 be deploying two robots named "Xavier" that the agency says use cameras with a 360-degree field of vision and analytics software t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IDjEDyRxdrk/singapore-police-deploy-snitch-bots-to-test-searching-for-undesirable-social-behaviors)
2021-09-13T10:34:00Z	**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 the Salvadoran government's bitcoin digital wallet Chivo, a setback that could discourage residents from signing up to the app promoted by President Nayi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QvK_U5ZgYrw/el-salvadors-bitcoin-rollout-marred-by-technical-glitches-in-digital-wallets)
2021-09-13T14:05:00Z	**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 finance company Credit Karma showed. From a report: The study, conducted by software firm Qualtrics, surveyed 1,044 adult consumers in the United States last month to me ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z5TxngFqpIU/as-buy-now-pay-later-surges-a-third-of-us-users-fall-behind-on-payments)
2021-09-13T14:39:00Z	**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 its gains. Bitcoin, the largest digital asset, was down 2.9% as of 10:24 a.m. in New York after earlier having advance roughly 4% on the news. Other digital asse ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kUE5gxcDfxE/walmart-says-report-that-it-will-be-accepting-litecoin-as-payment-is-false)
2021-09-13T15:27:00Z	**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 simple one-click process to switch to Edge. This one-click process isn't officially available for anyone other than Microsoft, and Mozilla appears to have grown tired of t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3LPWdx7HVwk/mozilla-has-defeated-microsofts-default-browser-protections-in-windows)
2021-09-13T16:10:00Z	**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, rejecting Epic's claims that the iPhone maker is a monopoly. She also didn't rule that Apple needs to restore Fortnite, Epic's hit game at the center of the lawsuit, to the App Store or Epic's Apple devel ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5KdDINQlJSo/epic-files-appeal-after-loss-to-apple-in-app-store-case)
2021-09-13T16:51:00Z	**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 report: Bedoya, founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown, will bring a bevy of experience on privacy issues to the FTC's work on tech. If confirmed, Bedoya will solidify the Democratic majority at the FTC wit ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/88PWEbPlhp4/biden-to-tap-privacy-hawk-for-ftc-post)
2021-09-13T17:33:00Z	**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 detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working with the highest priority to resolve this issue. As part of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yoX8T2Bl5ec/technology-giant-olympus-hit-by-blackmatter-ransomware)
2021-09-13T18:05:00Z	**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 -- and that Twitter is doing very little to stop it. Highlights of the investigation include: Disinformation campaigns are a lucrative business. One interviewee revealed that disinformation in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1Q4p_9ewOiU/inside-the-shadowy-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-in-kenya)
2021-09-13T18:45:00Z	**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 is rigged -- one of the most significant steps by a democratically elected leader to control what can be said on the internet. From a report: The new social media rules, issued this w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OICt4wS18Yc/brazils-president-bans-social-networks-from-removing-some-posts)
2021-09-13T19:25:00Z	**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 prospect of recreating mammoths and returning them to the wild has been discussed -- seriously at times -- for more than a decade, but on Monday researchers announced fresh funding  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DmbffkuH4ps/firm-raises-15-million-to-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-from-extinction)
2021-09-13T20:00:00Z	**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 with the find, urges users to immediately update their devices. From a report: The technology giant said iOS 14.8 for iPhones and iPads, as well as new updates for Apple Watch and macOS, will fix at ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5zcPq0MOpJQ/apple-patches-a-nso-zero-day-flaw-affecting-all-devices)
2021-09-13T20:45:00Z	**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 platform services, network, security, digital workplace, IT automation, and storage and database, respondents cited a lack of qualified candidates as a leading factor impeding tech deployment at their companies. "The ongoing push toward remote w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HzkcGE9D38w/the-it-talent-gap-is-still-growing)
2021-09-13T21:25:00Z	**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 improves Android app size by 20% over the default Zip compression used by Android. The post gives an overview of the compression ideas. The basis of these ideas is called out to be a key insight in K ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ln0DVu3czeM/facebook-unveils-superpack-a-new-compression-technique)
2021-09-13T22:03:00Z	**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, expected to close by the second quarter of fiscal 2022, will be financed through cash on hand and new debt of about $4.5 billion to $5.0 billion, Intuit said. The deal for Atlanta-based Mailchimp, which operates ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uP8H9rZaat8/intuit-confirms-12-billion-deal-to-buy-mailchimp)
2021-09-13T22:42:00Z	**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 post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report. The XCheck or "CrossCheck" system steers reviews of posts by well-known users such as celebri ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-XIYM1NoDLg/facebook-some-high-profile-users-allowed-to-break-platforms-rules)
2021-09-13T23:20:00Z	**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 button, four AI-generated faces allow you to test the service. Above it, the tag line boldly proclaims the purpose: turn anyone into a porn star by using deepfake technology to sw ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yLlmWRN-NQc/a-horrifying-new-ai-app-swaps-women-into-porn-videos-with-a-click)
2021-09-14T00:02:00Z	**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 console are also available on the previous generation of consoles. The next major PlayStation 5 exclusive game, for instance, is also headed to the PlayStation ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X5y3E68BI_s/sony-is-nickel-and-diming-ps5-owners-on-upgrades-for-games-they-already-own)
2021-09-14T00:20:00Z	**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 reports: Kape will pay $354 million in cash when the deal closes and the equivalent of $237 million in shares, which can be sold after a 24-month lockup, the company said in a statement on Monday.  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VfpWlc7md2g/kape-technologies-agrees-to-buy-expressvpn-for-936-million)
2021-09-14T00:45:00Z	**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 a setback to the U.S. company's European business model. It was another court victory for unions fighting for better pay and benefits for those employed in the gig economy and followed a s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IiYAU8cog_g/uber-drivers-are-employees-not-contractors-says-dutch-court)
2021-09-14T01:25:00Z	**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 for studying lung, colorectal, and other cancers, including how potential cancer drugs affect tumors and their environment. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Materi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aaQrNjkzMDQ/engineers-grow-pancreatic-organoids-that-mimic-the-real-thing)
2021-09-14T02:02:00Z	**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 Assembly and signed by Governor Kathy Hochul last week. Under the new law, 100% of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks will have zero emissions by 2035. That me ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FZOh6JV8tnM/new-york-to-ban-sale-of-all-gas-powered-vehicles-in-the-state-by-2035)
2021-09-14T03:30:00Z	**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 latrines made of turf, the team of experts in animal behavior and agricultural science stopped the natural production of nitrous oxide from th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zrRjKktbMWw/researchers-toilet-trained-cows-in-hopes-of-reducing-their-greenhouse-gas-emissions)
2021-09-14T07:00:00Z	**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 via Steam. Developer Ighor July has published the list to GitHub. The Verge reports: Here's a screenshot of what that looks like in the GeForce Now client, according to the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0bEnWXcvWCE/nvidia-leak-may-reveal-unannounced-games-including-god-of-war-for-pc)
2021-09-14T10:00:00Z	**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 ordered Ant to split the businesses of AliPay from lending businesses Huabei and Jiebei. They now want the credit businesses to be split into an indepe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qdl49yUCy9M/china-will-reportedly-break-up-ant-groups-alipay-force-creation-of-new-loans-app)
2021-09-14T13:00:00Z	**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 causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new study has found. The entire system of food production, such as the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XuQCwoJzKWw/meat-accounts-for-nearly-60-of-all-greenhouse-gases-from-food-production-study-finds)
2021-09-14T14:05:00Z	**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 rise of well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels, preferably capping warming at 1.5 degrees. While the Paris Agreement doesn't spell out how the undersigned are expected to achieve this go ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AtmEaKcM4h8/ai-can-estimate-corporate-greenhouse-gas-emissions)
2021-09-14T14:46:00Z	**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. From a report: While some reports point toward a relative normalization on AMD's CPU supply, AMD has two distinct disadvantages when compared to Intel: It has fewer reve ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G2-fF9khUmQ/intel-is-reducing-server-chip-pricing-in-attempt-to-stem-the-amd-tide)
2021-09-14T15:38:00Z	**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 space to stifle competition. From a report: Google's Android operating system currently holds the lion's share of the smar ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/B_44WXTMdH4/south-koreas-antitrust-regulator-fines-google-177-million-for-abusing-mobile-market-dominance)
2021-09-14T16:05:00Z	**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 that amounts to over $1 billion each year. From a report: The project to link India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore's PayNow is targeted for operationalization by July 2022, both nation's centra ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Duc3ew_ggb4/india-and-singapore-to-link-their-payments-systems)
2021-09-14T16:47:00Z	**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 by the authorities. From a report: The app was launched in March by the public security ministry's National Anti-Fraud Center and blocks suspicious phone calls  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vbtA66rWa7M/china-uses-anti-fraud-app-to-track-access-to-overseas-financial-news-sites)
2021-09-14T17:25:00Z	**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 Commission, said on Tuesday it opened two "own volition" investigations into ByteDance's TikTok amid worries about the way it handles its users' data. The Irish regulator became TikTok's ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HW3MnE30C7s/tiktok-faces-eu-data-probes-into-childrens-safety-china-link)
2021-09-14T18:28:00Z	**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 a 120Hz ProMotion high refresh rate display that can go as bright as 1,000 nits. The iPhone 13 Pro will start at $999, while the iPhone 13 Pro Max will start at $ ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BOzbfbSiOoo/iphone-13-pro-and-pro-max-announced-with-high-refresh-rate-120hz-displays)
2021-09-14T18:45:00Z	**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 display (up from its predecessor's 7.9-inch panel), making the device even more viable as a driver for multitasking or schoolwork. Apple says the screen can reach 500 nits ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Mvnp_AncXEY/all-new-ipad-mini-announced-with-5g-usb-c-and-larger-83-inch-display)
2021-09-14T19:25:00Z	**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 rocking an all-AMD gaming desktop. Yes, your GPU software can speed up your CPU now, too -- and it can do it all with a single click. [...] The addition of Ryzen auto-overclocking in Radeon Softwar ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C3VQsWwvS3Y/amd-radeon-software-can-overclock-your-ryzen-cpu-now-too)
2021-09-14T20:02:00Z	**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 durable screens. There's also a variety of new colors to choose from. Engadget reports: The update takes advantage of the bigger displays, with more information and new watch faces like  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wyihJgCMfuQ/apple-watch-series-7-delivers-larger-screens-and-more-durability)
2021-09-14T20:45:00Z	**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 Ryan Carson didn't answer emailed questions about the cutbacks, but said in a brief reply Tuesday that "we are going to continue to serve our students and customers." Carson, who moved to Connecticu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QcU8oPCDQwI/online-coding-school-treehouse-lays-off-most-of-its-staff)
2021-09-14T21:25:00Z	**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: The advantages are pretty clear: firstly, you can never be brought to a stop by a puncture or blowout -- Michelin says about 200 million tires every year hit scrapyards early t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9gfyNKbF8cs/michelins-airless-passenger-car-tires-get-their-first-public-outing)
2021-09-14T22:02:00Z	**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 Street Journal on Tuesday. CNET reports: Research presented in 2019 reportedly found that Instagram makes body image issue worse for one in three teen girls. Teens also sai ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jGM9krveoSo/facebooks-own-research-shows-instagram-is-harmful-to-teens-report-says)
2021-09-14T22:40:00Z	**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 which have forced it to shut down verifications more than once. The most recent of these pauses was announced on August 13, when the company said it need to make improvemen ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-ZBPyNROdzY/twitter-reopens-its-account-verification-process-after-another-pause)
2021-09-14T23:20:00Z	**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 report: Vision impairment can be one of the first signs of the disease, which is predicted to affect more than 130 million people worldwide by 2050. Previous research h ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IK4moCFMe4A/millions-with-eye-conditions-at-higher-risk-of-dementia-shows-research)
2021-09-15T00:01:00Z	**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 internet and Big Tech. From a report: The Tagansky district court said Facebook had been handed five fines totalling 21 million roubles ($287,850). Twitter received two fines of a total 5 mill ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bZQowsEz0nE/russia-fines-facebook-twitter-for-not-deleting-banned-content)
2021-09-15T00:40:00Z	**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" and misrepresenting the origins of its data. From a report: App Annie will pay a $10 million settlement, according to the announcement, although the company has not admitted  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jswKIM5vzcY/sec-charges-app-annie-with-securities-fraud-in-10-million-settlement)
2021-09-15T01:25:00Z	**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 Tuesday. From the report: A number of clues left online suggests that a launch is imminent. XClass TVs run a version of Comcast's X1 operating system, which also powers the company's  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/56sO07XlJv8/comcast-will-soon-launch-smart-tvs-under-its-new-xclass-tv-brand)
2021-09-15T02:02:00Z	**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-art approaches and uses one-fifth the resources," reports Phys.Org. From the report: The study, published September 14 in the journal Cell Systems,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HHtBhp6ygIA/scientists-can-now-assemble-entire-genomes-on-their-personal-computers-in-minutes)
2021-09-15T03:30:00Z	**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 featuring a simple mathematical law shows that urban travel patterns worldwide are, in fact, remarkably predictable regardless of location -- an insight that could enhance models  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CYtxQ-Sx6vg/simple-mathematical-law-predicts-movement-in-cities-around-the-world)
2021-09-15T07:00:00Z	**'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 landed in Bude on Tuesday. Once operational, it would have the capacity to handle "17.5 million people streaming 4K video concurrently," Google bosses said. The cable has been laid between New York in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/V1xtinaOLoA/massive-transatlantic-data-cable-landed-on-beach-in-bude)
2021-09-15T10:00:00Z	**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 a researcher at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM) who helped devise the new design. She and her colleague, Jayu Kalambe, understand how po ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wV8rciwkg8Y/indian-researchers-create-a-raspberry-pi-based-device-to-monitor-health)
2021-09-15T13:00:00Z	**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 fixes" variety. But the most recent operating system update (version 5.13.7) is rolling out now, and it refreshes the device's user interface for the first time since 2016 or so. Amazon say ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Yj63pRjvpik/amazon-gives-kindle-e-readers-a-rare-user-interface-overhaul)
2021-09-15T14:00:00Z	**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 did not specify the reason for Rathnam's departure but Business Insider reported earlier that he had been increasingly at odds with chief product officer Sundeep Jain. Rathnam, who joined Uber about a year ago, plans to leave  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sn2g9z_ELNY/ubers-chief-technical-officer-to-step-down)
2021-09-15T14:45:00Z	**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 passwordless, and today I am excited to announce the next step in that vision," Microsoft corporate vice president Vasu Jakkal writes in the announcement post. "Beginning today, you can now completely remove the password from your Microsoft a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Du-rMsHkcbA/microsoft-account-goes-passwordless)
2021-09-15T15:20:00Z	**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 accused Nate Chastain, head of product at OpenSea, of using secret Ethereum wallets to snap up the platform's front-page NFT drops before general release. Citing transactional data on ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oqGN17pkSwI/opensea-confirms-executive-used-insider-knowledge-when-buying-nfts)
2021-09-15T16:00:00Z	**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 about its clients and their domains. Epik is controversial, having been known to host a variety of rightwing clients, including ones that previous web hosting providers, like GoDaddy, have dropped for various reasons. Its users have included conse ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZvhsKFKdE5g/anonymous-hacks-epik-web-hosting)
2021-09-15T16:40:00Z	**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 a report: It's not uncommon for startups to lose money in their early years, and it's not entirely unusual for the fastest burn rate to happen right before thin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oj2WZUv-VBY/theranos-burned-through-2m-a-week-as-investors-were-given-rosy-projections)
2021-09-15T17:42:00Z	**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 Daniel Gericke, 40, broke US export control laws that require companies and individuals to obtain a special license from the State Department's Directorate of Defe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_xITN9rdIyQ/us-fines-former-nsa-employees-who-provided-hacker-for-hire-services-to-uae)
2021-09-15T18:05:00Z	**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, who long reported to former Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy and oversaw the engineering teams working on AWS's main software services, will become an executive vice president reporti ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3qQCRlrTQo0/amazon-loss-of-executive-to-microsoft-sets-up-potential-clash)
2021-09-15T18:47:00Z	**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 civilians, who have spent the past few months on an astronaut training course, are due to launch on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8.02pm local ti ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oh-QpqPft7g/spacex-rocket-to-take-worlds-first-all-civilian-crew-into-orbit)
2021-09-15T19:34:00Z	**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%. Despite the progress of renewables, detractors note the problems arise when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Until reliable battery storage for renewable energy is developed, these sources can  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LLbXXuPAHrU/when-the-wind-stops-blowing-an-energy-storm-brews)
2021-09-15T20:10:00Z	**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: The report found that more than three-quarters of the world's planned plants have been scrapped since the climate deal was signed, meaning 44 countries no longer have any future coal po ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Uq88DSne-Tw/most-plans-for-new-coal-plants-scrapped-since-paris-agreement)
2021-09-15T20:50:00Z	**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 complexes, condos, and developments. While the FCC passed rules in 2008 attempting to prevent such deals, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have exploited massive loopholes in the restrictions for more th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/27NDH4Qsarg/fcc-wants-landlords-to-stop-screwing-up-your-internet)
2021-09-15T21:30:00Z	**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: Researchers raised the alarm Monday about a big one: The Israeli spyware company NSO Group, which sells programs for governments to remotely take over people's smartphones and computers, had figured out a new way into practica ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ovfNE53dy7M/emergency-software-patches-are-on-the-rise)
2021-09-15T22:10:00Z	**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 aware of the harm Instagram can cause to teenage girls. The Verge reports: Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced their investigation into Facebook in a statemen ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/k-dMK4JTkaM/congress-will-investigate-claims-that-instagram-harms-teens)
2021-09-15T22:50:00Z	**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 cyberbullying. Reuters reports: The draft law, which had passed its first reading in the lower house of parliament, focuses on protecting children's rights but includes provisions regarding social medi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9JHZU01bXX4/kazakhstan-moves-to-restrict-foreign-social-media-usage)
2021-09-16T18:05:00Z	**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 broadcast networks a big victory in their copyright case against Locast, a nonprofit organization that provided online access to broadcast TV stations. Locas ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nFnSN2PoW7A/locasts-free-tv-service-ordered-to-shut-down-permanently-after-copyright-loss)
2021-09-16T17:25:00Z	**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 with new road user fees -- known as "vehicle mileage taxes" or VMTs -- that reflect changing mobility trends. From a report: By charging drivers for the miles they drive -- instead of taxing the gas they use -- states c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xySK7XxBxzw/new-tolling-systems-are-poised-to-hit-highways)
2021-09-16T16:45:00Z	**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's remarks came during last week's Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, building on comments from AMD CEO Lisa Su earlier in the year that underscored the company's willingness to create custom silicon solutions for its customers, be the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0EP9TdtZ7F0/amd-we-stand-ready-to-make-arm-chips)
2021-09-16T16:05:00Z	**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 involving one of the most cutting-edge investments: non-fungible tokens. From a report: The lawsuit is among a flurry involving NFTs as U.S. courts begin to grapple with the novel legal i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jS9v7fBrJaU/jay-zs-nft-feud-spotlights-legal-peril-in-hot-investment-trend)
2021-09-16T15:25:00Z	**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 of records as a pop singer and built a large following on social media, amassing 86 million fans on Weibo, China's Twitter -like microblogging site. She ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IS6vbnTOE6g/chinas-biggest-movie-star-was-erased-from-the-internet-and-the-mystery-is-why)
2021-09-16T14:48:00Z	**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 a report: The new policy statement agreed to by the FTC was intended to clarify the agency's 2009 Health Breach Notification Rule, which requires vendors handling health recor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FmnfrNRAlAM/ftc-warns-health-apps-to-notify-consumers-impacted-by-data-breaches)
2021-09-16T14:05:00Z	**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 (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017). However, some technology developed as a part of the Loon project remained in development, specifically th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-2_K311HatU/alphabets-project-taara-laser-tech-beamed-700tb-of-data-across-nearly-5km)
2021-09-16T13:00:00Z	**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 deployments. Argo AI, the AV startup heavily backed by Ford, Volkswagen, and others, is one of those companies. On Wednesday, Argo, Ford, and Walmart revealed that they will be working togethe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eGsX-Db3aBU/walmart-to-begin-driverless-deliveries-with-ford-and-argo-ai)
2021-09-16T10:00:00Z	**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 internally and to the public. As a consequence of the attack, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said that child maintenance payments are now on h ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zLF6VJaIr8s/ransomware-encrypts-south-africas-entire-department-of-justice-network)
2021-09-16T07:00:00Z	**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 reports the findings in a post: Some volcanoes can produce eruptions so powerful they release oceans of dust and toxic gases into the air, blocking out sunlight and changing  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GCEZsSnglxA/nasa-confirms-thousands-of-massive-ancient-volcanic-eruptions-on-mars)
2021-09-16T03:30:00Z	**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 you run a build, Travis CI clones your GitHub repository into a brand-new virtual environment and carries out a series of tasks to build and test your code. If one or more of  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Fuu-kZD1m-Y/travis-ci-flaw-exposed-secrets-of-thousands-of-open-source-projects)
2021-09-16T02:10:00Z	**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 of water and milk mixing uniformly into coffee. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland wanted to disrupt this sort of state to see what happens -- and whether they can control the outcome. In their work, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YJedDeertxM/physicists-make-square-droplets-and-liquid-lattices)
2021-09-16T01:30:00Z	**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 -- until now. iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro feature dual eSIM support for the first time. From a report: The new capability was confirmed by Apple on the iPhone 13 specs webpage. There, Apple says that iPhone  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f9oLdPGnUDc/iphone-13-and-iphone-13-pro-feature-dual-esim-support)
2021-09-16T01:05:00Z	**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 unfairly. Reuters reports: It was filed in federal court in Manhattan six days after DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats sued the United States' most populous city over a separate law capping fees that delivery companies charge restauran ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YGJcn5wEstk/doordash-sues-nyc-over-customer-data-law)
2021-09-16T00:40:00Z	**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 Space Center just after 8 p.m. ET. The crew includes 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, who personally financed the trip; Hayley Arceneux, 29, a childhood cancer survivor and current St. Jude physician assis ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fsfMePx2zSM/spacex-launches-first-all-tourist-crew-into-orbit)
2021-09-16T18:48:00Z	**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: @opensea." From a report: OpenSea has not publicly named the employee involved in the incident, but CEO Devin Finzer says the NFT trading platform asked for and received their re ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/v_pnsv7UYvY/openseas-product-chief-is-out-after-insider-nft-flipping-accusations)
2021-09-16T19:25:00Z	**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 the Wall Street Journal based on leaked internal Facebook documents. In the interview with host Peter Kafka, Mosseri attempted to defend the negative effects his platfor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MYpNGtsUeGI/instagram-boss-says-social-media-is-like-cars-people-are-going-to-die)
2021-09-16T20:05:00Z	**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 threaten the targets' privacy or well-being. The foundation's response has been to ban seven users in mainland China, cancel sysop privileges for anothe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J97fPixPs0I/wikipedia-bans-seven-chinese-users-amid-concerns-of-infiltration-physical-harm)
2021-09-16T20:45:00Z	**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: Microsoft previously emphasized that while its main focus remains in its subscription offering, Microsoft 365, it will relea ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Msv0QOC_Y-g/new-microsoft-office-arrives-early-next-month-and-wont-require-you-to-pay-for-a-subscription)
2021-09-16T21:25:00Z	**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 September 15 after battling a long illness. His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness.

Sinclair invented the pocket calculator but was best known for  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Zqs9_QCaqW0/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81)
2021-09-16T22:00:00Z	**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, according to a Federal Trade Commission study (PDF). The data on acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Alphabet's Google, and Microsoft show that antitrust enforcers must be more aggressive in ma ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8F2GL95rMtE/tech-giants-used-loopholes-to-duck-merger-reviews-ftc-says)
2021-09-16T22:40:00Z	**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 to also accept Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. In a tweet, Aron said: "Cryptocurrency enthusiasts: you likely know @AMCTheatres has announced we will accept Bitcoin for online ticket ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/p4e4JLqf5CM/amc-theaters-will-accept-cryptocurrencies-other-than-bitcoin)
2021-09-16T23:20:00Z	**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 said "we've built this in a private way." He claims that the company won't log your location or the businesses you're searching for. If you live in Sao Paulo, you'll be able to search for local shops using WhatsApp Business through the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IhMjJZ8TIM4/whatsapp-reinvents-the-yellow-pages)
2021-09-17T00:02:00Z	**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 facilities to stay in business, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Inspections intensified this month in several Chinese provinces, targeting illegal mining activities in colleges,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7uLpa_zs8Dw/china-intensifies-hunt-for-cryptocurrency-miners-in-hiding)
2021-09-17T00:45:00Z	**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: The 520-mile range estimate is specific to the Air Dream Edition Range with 19-inch wheels. Buyers should know the optional 21-inch wheels drop the range to an estimated 481 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5m06jxfnxKA/lucid-air-electric-sedan-zips-by-tesla-with-epa-rated-520-mile-range)
2021-09-17T01:25:00Z	**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 REvil master decryptor was created by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender in collaboration with a trusted law enforcement partner. While Bitdefender could not share details about how the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mipY6RMzkMs/free-revil-ransomware-master-decrypter-released-for-past-victims)
2021-09-17T02:02:00Z	**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 months in prison for his actions. Tom's Hardware reports: Qin's funds were called Virgil Sigma and VQR. Both were supposed to offer investors a way to profit off  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SbgquOAwMQY/us-judge-sentences-crypto-hedge-fund-scammer-to-over-seven-years-in-prison)
2021-09-17T03:30:00Z	**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 Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) said Thursday that the ozone hole, which appears every year during the Southern Hemisphere spring, has grown considerably in the past week following an ave ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Wk3pmE5ThyY/ozone-hole-over-antarctica-larger-than-usual-scientists-say)
2021-09-17T07:00:00Z	**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 bodies are flying around in the (inner) solar system, and improves our estimates of how likely we are to get another hit in a year, a decade, or a century. Sky and Telescope has been pulling  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/75fCT6ylPJ0/amateur-astronomer-spots-possible-new-impact-flash-at-jupiter)
2021-09-17T10:00:00Z	**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 and Huntsman V2 Tenkeyless (which omits the numpad, volume wheel, and media controls for a more compact board) both have a polling rate of 8,000Hz, meaning they can theor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BvqivpnBmC0/razer-says-its-new-mechanical-keyboards-have-near-zero-input-latency)
2021-09-17T13:00:00Z	**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 turned their focus on renewables to generate fuel. One of those companies is Synhelion from Switzerland. The company harnesses the energy of the heat of the sun and converts ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lo-5UpukiGs/solar-power-could-become-a-catalyst-for-a-major-synthetic-fuel-upgrade)
2021-09-17T14:01:00Z	**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 a report: An investigation by cyber intelligence group Cyberint, together with the Financial Times, found a ballooning network of hackers sharing data leaks on the popular messaging platform, sometimes in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SVuBCS_TdTk/telegram-emerges-as-new-dark-web-for-cyber-criminals)
2021-09-17T14:41:00Z	**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 platforms run by the country's online giants. From a report: From Friday, users who upgrade to the latest version of the messaging service can access external services such as Alibaba's Taobao online ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZLN7GXD4xoY/tencent-opens-wechat-to-rivals-links-as-app-walls-crumble)
2021-09-17T15:21:00Z	**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 reader writes: To continue operating, exchanges must register with the Financial Intelligence Unit by Sept. 24, providing a security certificate from the internet sec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8FEguUHyTt8/over-60-south-korean-crypto-exchanges-set-to-suspend-services-next-week)
2021-09-17T16:06:00Z	**US To Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions**
The Biden administration is preparing an array of actions, including sanctions, to make it harder for hackers to use digital currency to profit from ransomware attacks, WSJ reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The government hopes to choke off access to a form of payment that has supported a booming criminal industry and a rising national security threat. The Tr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BuHS29rYGqs/us-to-target-crypto-ransomware-payments-with-sanctions)
2021-09-17T16:45:00Z	**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 first 300,000 years after the Big Bang. From a report: Two separate studies -- both posted on the arXiv preprint server in the past week -- have detected a tentative first trace of this ' ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ki8VxjsUbqI/new-type-of-dark-energy-could-solve-universe-expansion-mystery)
2021-09-17T17:21:00Z	**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 million years ago. A whopping 90 percent of all marine species and around 70 percent of their terrestrial kin were killed off. Over the years, there have been numerous efforts  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IeBVPSkq84c/36000-gigatons-of-carbon-heralded-historys-biggest-mass-extinction)
2021-09-17T18:00:00Z	**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 that weren't reported to the agency. From a report: Tech's business ecosystem is built on giant companies buying up small startups, but the message from the antitrust agency this week could chill merg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/v7KshbuwYX4/ftc-releases-findings-on-how-big-tech-eats-little-tech)
2021-09-17T18:45:00Z	**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 a report: Texas filed a notice seeking a hearing to determine whether to issue a cease and desist order against the company. The action means Celsius will have to show why it shouldn't be o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y-FwNuBvsZs/states-act-against-celsius-network-for-unregistered-products)
2021-09-17T19:22:00Z	**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 for a powerful and stealthy iPhone hacking tool in 2016, the monarchy's spies -- and the American mercenary hackers they hired -- put it to immediate use. The tool exploited a flaw in Apple's iMessage app t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vkGWpeP0HKc/a-us-company-sold-iphone-hacking-tools-to-uae-spies)
2021-09-17T20:02:00Z	**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 services to far-right sites like Gab, Parler and 8chan, which found refuge in Epik after they were booted from mainstream platforms. In a statement attached t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GMyk-7LFkhc/web-host-epik-was-warned-of-a-critical-security-flaw-weeks-before-it-was-hacked)
2021-09-17T20:45:00Z	**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's Covid-19 vaccine to the general public, saying they needed more data. The panel, however, could still recommend the shots for other popu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-j9I120Aru8/fda-panel-rejects-plan-to-administer-pfizers-covid-19-booster-doses-to-general-public)
2021-09-17T21:45:00Z	**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 of Silicon Valley's limits when it comes to resisting crackdowns on dissent around the world. From a report: The decisions came after Russian authorities, which claim the app is illegal ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M6NA1t7xiv8/google-and-apple-under-pressure-from-russia-remove-voting-app)
2021-09-17T22:25:00Z	**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, the Permission Auto-Reset feature works by automatically withdrawing user permissions from an app that hasn't been opened and used for a few months. "Starting in D ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qm49IjDwWJw/google-will-extend-permission-auto-reset-feature-to-older-android-versions)
2021-09-17T23:02:00Z	**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 data on the aircraft's electrical power and propulsion system," the company announced. Engadget reports: Rolls Royce said the one-seat airplane has "the most power-dense b ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4bUL2sZOFFE/rolls-royces-all-electric-aircraft-completes-15-minute-maiden-voyage)
2021-09-17T23:40:00Z	**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," which allegedly continued even after authorities were on to the scheme. The Verge reports: According to a news release from the DOJ, in 2012, Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Paki ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P-yVdm8tutI/man-who-unlocked-nearly-2-million-att-phones-gets-12-years-in-prison)
2021-09-18T00:20:00Z	**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-Gurion University of the Negev found that software-generated makeup patterns can be used to consistently bypass state-of-the-art facial recognition software, with digitally and  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KxzbCzeRHco/researchers-defeated-advanced-facial-recognition-tech-using-makeup)
2021-09-18T01:00:00Z	**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 promises more automated driving functions. TechCrunch reports: Musk tweeted late Thursday night that the FSD Beta v10.0.1 software update, w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g6VYlJxoDEg/tesla-will-open-controversial-fsd-beta-software-to-owners-with-a-good-driving-record)
2021-09-18T01:40:00Z	**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 traditional weighing system. "A document titled 'Brexit opportunities: regulatory reforms' includes plans to permit the voluntary printing of the crown stamp on pint glasses and review the EU b ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0EYur8O3lak/united-kingdom-to-regress-to-imperial-weights-and-measures)
2021-09-18T02:20:00Z	**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 fulfilling the Paris climate agreement. The Guardian reports: Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, about 80 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxid ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aqn4TTRq_Zs/us-eu-pledge-30-cut-in-methane-emissions-to-limit-global-heating)
2021-09-18T03:30:00Z	**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 raging through national parks in California, officials said. Three wildfires, named Colony, Paradise and Windy, were ignited by lightning on Sept. 9. Since then, they hav ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NnGUgSAG8Z4/sequoias-are-being-wrapped-in-foil-blankets-to-protect-against-wildfires)
2021-09-18T07:00:00Z	**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 pandemic, its top official said on Friday. Euractiv reports: When the ITER project was launched in 2015, the schedule was to have the first plasma by the end of 2025 and full nuclear fusion b ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wDni70bDILs/iter-nuclear-fusion-reactor-hit-by-covid-delay-rising-costs)
2021-09-18T10:00:00Z	**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 reports: The Detroit automaker has recalled all of the roughly 142,000 Bolts sold since 2016 because the battery can catch on fire. GM has taken a $1.8 billion charge so far for the cost of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ceecnm9yjjg/gm-tells-bolt-owners-to-park-50-feet-away-from-other-cars)
2021-09-18T13:00:00Z	**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 to have such an alternative, says Heiko Rischer, a research team leader at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the state-owned organization developing the coffee. "Conventional coffee production is notor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mMKj0Rz0Fuc/in-finland-scientists-are-growing-coffee-in-a-lab)
2021-09-18T14:34:00Z	**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 approved a clean energy deal which includes a subsidy for Exelon to keep the Byron nuclear plant in operation, after the Hous ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/k9bAGoJaLbs/despite-economic-distress-two-us-nuclear-power-plants-saved-from-closing-through-subsidies)
2021-09-18T15:34:00Z	**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 Zuckerberg resisted proposed fixes," and that the memos "offer an unparalleled look at how much Facebook knows about the flaws in its platform and how it ofte ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cw76xC-PpiE/wsj-facebooks-2018-algorithm-change-rewarded-outrage-zuck-resisted-fixes)
2021-09-18T16:34:00Z	**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 July). After a 14-minute clip from an earlier speech, Stallman answers questions from the audience — and the first question asked Stallman for his opi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZAM1YeOuMnI/richard-stallman-shares-his-concerns-about-githubs-copilot----and-about-github)
2021-09-18T17:34:00Z	**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 greater share of greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated. When researchers at Lancaster University analyzed earlier attempts to calculate ICT's carbon footprint, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HKa1Pt_gxbU/global-computings-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-previously-estimated)
2021-09-18T18:34:00Z	**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 Excision BioTherapeutics thinks the therapy could replace standard-of-care retroviral therapy, which keeps HIV from replicating but does not remove it from the body. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JCi25GqWxTA/fda-approves-human-clinical-trials-of-a-possible-crispr-based-hiv-cure)
2021-09-18T19:34:00Z	**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 the #1 spot.
Of course, it depends on who's making the list...

Python has been snapping at the heels of Java and C for the past few years on the 20-year-old Tiobe index and rec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y8y0L2rLdEU/is-python-about-to-become-the-most-popular-programming-language)
2021-09-18T20:34:00Z	**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 Search. Mozilla and Google extended the search deal in 2020 for another three years. Google is paying Mozilla "between $400 and $450 million per year" so th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Cwlm_2mJgLI/mozilla-experiment-set-default-search-engine-to-bing-for-1-of-firefox-users)
2021-09-18T21:34:00Z	**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 help identify issues before they happen."

For example, Spot's new thermal camera and 3D lidar (courtesy of Hyundai's technology chest) can identify personnel near machinery with high tem ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3joWOSwB0Fc/boston-dynamics-spot-becomes-a-robotic-watchdog-for-hyundai)
2021-09-18T22:34:00Z	**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 Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter."
Mark Forkner, who was Boeing's 737 Max chief technical pilot during ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9agPf4XOwsY/report-boeing-official-expected-to-face-criminal-charges-over-fatal-boeing-737-max-issues)
2021-09-19T00:01:00Z	**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 in space..." reports CNBC:

"Thanks so much SpaceX, that was a heck of a ride for us and we're just getting started!" Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman said from the capsule afte ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J5XwjdF1obg/spacexs-all-tourist-crew-safely-splashes-back-down-to-earth)
2021-09-19T03:04:00Z	**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 midnight on Sept. 7. The system started failing at three a.m. Server capacity was increased, and app installations were not re-enabled until 11:30 a.m. Transactions failed thr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f_JdyjXn9Bc/what-happened-after-el-salvador-adopted-bitcoin-as-legal-currency)
2021-09-19T07:04:00Z	**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 launched 30 years ago today by one man in his spare time, it's an amazing feat.... Linux found its real niche — not as a political statement about "free software," but as a practical way to enable capable, low-cost machines for mil ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G6uwKbBFdNg/is-2021-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop)
2021-09-19T11:04:00Z	**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 Salesforce, at the top of the company's San Francisco tower. He offered up an astonishing metaphor when I asked him for his take on the impact of social media com ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eN2HQiRv3eg/bad-for-your-health-salesforce-ceo-argues-facebook-is-the-new-cigarettes)
2021-09-19T14:34:00Z	**World's White Paint Sets Guiness 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, scientists say.

"The paint has now made it into the Guinness World Records book as the whitest ever made."
Long-time Slashdot reader phalse phace s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7dXOC9Ve_vc/worlds-white-paint-sets-guiness-record-could-reduce-need-for-air-conditioning)
2021-09-19T15:34:00Z	**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 another announcement. "YouTube's notorious takedown algorithms are blocking the video of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony."

We have  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3rIkPW_zNNQ/youtube-blocks-31st-ig-nobel-awards-ceremony-citing-copyright-on-a-recording-from-1914)
2021-09-19T16:34:00Z	**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 decarbonizing the industry will be a big challenge."
TSMC alone uses almost 5% of all Taiwan's electricity, according to figures from Greenpeace, predicted to rise to 7.2% in 2022, and it used ab ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7m1zJ8CmK_s/can-the-computer-chip-industry-reduce-its-carbon-footprint)
2021-09-19T17:34:00Z	**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 as 85 years old, retired, and "proud of his association with Ivermectin."

More than 4 billion doses of ivermectin (renamed Mectizan) have been a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s10YzuBFdZ0/merck-ivermectin-researcher-proud-of-its-success---for-treating-river-blindness)
2021-09-19T18:04:00Z	**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 being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19...

"Two people were so severely ill that they had to be admitted to an intensive care unit."
 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8Oci3SxnkWo/at-least-20-americans-have-been-hospitalized-for-ivermectin-overdoses-this-year)
2021-09-19T18:59:00Z	**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 and plugging in software from tech startups to offer customers everything from banking and credit to insurance.

For established f ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/skEsxB-957Y/banks-beware-amazon-walmart-ikea-experiment-with-their-own-embedded-finance-services)
2021-09-19T20:13:00Z	**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 training plane — were both hospitalized, reports CNN:
Police were notified of the crash...around 10:53 a.m. (11:53 am ET) and on arrival found one pilot who had ejected f ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JT2GniWCpDQ/as-two-pilots-eject-us-military-plane-crashes-into-texas-neighborhood)
2021-09-19T21:19:00Z	**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."

The comments, made by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) at a news briefing, mark the latest step in Beijing's broad regulatory crackdown that has ensnared sectors fr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/R_7ig9DeXVs/china-tells-its-tech-giants-to-stop-blocking-rivals-links)
2021-09-19T22:25:00Z	**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's more air-gapped?

Tape IS great for backup — just not so much for recovery. Writing for eSecurity Planet, [CTO of Seagate Government Solutions] Henry Newman notes that not only is disk abo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w3hbaBGJxzY/whats-the-best-ransomware-backup-solution-disk-or-tape)
2021-09-20T01:34:00Z	**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 operations to a for-profit company, 2U. Exactly what that means is only now becoming clear, but many observers have noted that in the end, 2U bought a giant source of leads for students that it ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3svDAfuzg5A/after-a-for-profit-company-bought-edx----what-happens-next)
2021-09-20T03:34:00Z	**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 November "they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present" using a "souped-up, remote-controlled machine gun," according  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QX1lEhNuh0E/nyt-iran-nuclear-scientist-was-killed-by-an-ai-assisted-remote-control-killing-machine)
2021-09-20T07:34:00Z	**'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 material. Eric Eoin Marques, 36, from Dublin, operated the Freedom Hosting service between July 2008 and July 2013, when he was ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Trhn1Frff_s/freedom-hosting-web-admin-gets-27-years-in-prison-for-hosting-200-child-pornography-sites)
2021-09-20T11:34:00Z	**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 of AI. A new research facility is proposed at Stanford to study these so-called "models." Critics call these "foundations" will "mess up the discourse."

The debate centers on what W ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sSY6PnOEj8I/stanfords-proposal-over-ais-foundations-creates-controversy)
2021-09-20T14:02:00Z	**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 government officials, Indian news and analysis outlet the Morning Context reported on Monday. From a report: The company is investigating whether legal  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HKpgBWZ40Xc/amazon-is-investigating-whether-its-lawyers-bribed-government-officials-in-india)
2021-09-20T14:42:00Z	**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 out Amazon had intentionally yanked them while vaguely gesturing to the sanctity of its user reviews? Turns out they were just the tip of the iceberg. Amazon has now pe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/L0bFwI_GtBY/amazon-says-its-permanently-banned-600-chinese-brands-for-review-fraud)
2021-09-20T15:43:00Z	**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 still being investigated, was discovered on May 2, earlier this year, by a security firm, which notified the agency. While the DHSS made the incident public on May ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SyBqDH7FwZw/alaska-discloses-sophisticated-nation-state-cyberattack-on-health-service)
2021-09-20T16:01:00Z	**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 report: According to the listing, the new convertible tablet appears to ditch USB-C and USB-A ports in favor of a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports, and it also adds 11th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zZo1I20Phjg/leaked-surface-pro-8-specs-include-thunderbolt-ports-and-a-120-hz-screen)
2021-09-20T16:42:00Z	**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 around Friday, according to Allan Liska, senior threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. The ransomware gang, which goes by the name BlackMatter, is demanding a $5.9 million ran ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5Bp5HBKUOB8/blackmatter-hits-grain-cooperative-with-ransomware-attack)
2021-09-20T17:25:00Z	**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 the news to Decrypt this morning, referring us to a quietly updated recent blog post about the planned initiative, which was first announced in June but put on hold following the threat of lega ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rOn36rFCUHc/coinbase-drops-lend-product-plans-after-sec-lawsuit-threat)
2021-09-20T18:54:00Z	**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 can be downloaded at no cost. iOS 15 is available on the iPhone 6s and later while iPadOS 15 is available on the iPad Air 2 and later. The new software can be downloaded on eligible devices over-the-air by going to Settings - General - Sof ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EWKtQ06ZfOk/apple-releases-ios-15-and-ipados-15)
2021-09-20T19:26:00Z	**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 "deodorant" and you'll first see products from Secret, Dove and Native. Look a little closer, though, and you'll notice that those listings are advertisements with the "sponsored" label affixed to them. Amazon is generating hefty  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iWLf0NxE9EM/amazon-is-piling-ads-into-search-results)
2021-09-20T20:05:00Z	**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 the pandemic-induced crisis of burnout at U.S. firms -- and workers are quitting in droves. Microsoft calculated the length of the workday based on the time between Teams users' first email, message or work call and their last. So the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vVAtXKt-FAA/the-pandemic-made-our-workweeks-longer)
2021-09-20T20:45:00Z	**'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 do (only a few are still using them), and it made sense the way it always does (that's a lot of money for not much gain), but that doesn't mean the process itself isn't something that sucks. [...] R ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rtfm0AvLeYo/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord)
2021-09-20T21:25:00Z	**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 toll from the 1918 pandemic, which for a century had been the worst pandemic to hit the country. "The number of reported deaths from Covid in the US will surpass the toll of the 1918 flu pandemic this ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I4uNZ8EG_Q8/us-covid-19-death-toll-surpasses-that-of-1918-pandemic)
2021-09-20T22:02:00Z	**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 growth. CNET reports: The settlement stems from a 2016 lawsuit that alleged Twitter and its executives misled shareholders in November 2014 about user growth, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7MqHfMFcxvo/twitter-to-pay-8095-million-to-settle-2016-lawsuit-over-growth-projections)
2021-09-20T22:40:00Z	**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 to those seen in older age groups, according to the first top-line results from a Phase 2/3 clinical trial released by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech ear ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tIB9wyXp1P0/kids-5-11-appear-safely-protected-by-small-doses-of-covid-vaccine-pfizer-says)
2021-09-20T23:20:00Z	**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 Zuckerberg agreed to push "State-Sanctioned Conservatism" in return for the Trump administration steering clear of any "heavy-hand ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S0WJ6zuu65g/peter-thiel-claims-zuckerberg-agreed-to-push-state-sanctioned-conservatism-under-trump-deal)
2021-09-21T00:02:00Z	**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 Source Jobs Report. In this survey of 200 technical hiring managers and 750 open-source pros, the organizations found more demand for top open-source workers than ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WxEq0hDljhM/linux-foundation-survey-shows-companies-desperate-to-hire-open-source-talent)
2021-09-21T00:45:00Z	**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 lights up when the user is taking a video -- is an effective way of putting other people on notice that they are being recorded by the wearer. TechCrunch reports: Italy's privacy wat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-jIuQig5gwg/facebook-warned-over-very-small-indicator-led-on-smart-glasses)
2021-09-21T01:25:00Z	**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. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and signed by eight other Democratic senators, was sent to FTC Chair Lina Khan Monday, calling on the agency to "begin a rulemaking process" on privacy. Specifically, th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/L-eBy1uPCnI/senate-democrats-call-on-ftc-to-fix-data-privacy-crisis)
2021-09-21T02:02:00Z	**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 measure will apply to all Douyin users under the age of 14 who have registered for the app using their real names, Beijing-based ByteDance announced in a statement on Saturday. Do ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cFk_SFGEGW4/the-chinese-version-of-tiktok-is-limiting-kids-to-40-minutes-a-day)
2021-09-21T03:30:00Z	**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 company that produced over 15 million tons of carbon pollution last year across the entire scope of its operations, about the same as the country of Ghana. Though the a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iZ0oLk_mcnY/worlds-largest-chip-foundry-tsmc-sets-2050-deadline-to-go-carbon-neutral)
2021-09-21T07:00:00Z	**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 stations in orbit -- and expects to save more than $1 billion annually as a result. CNBC reports: NASA ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mOytxF3luj8/nasa-reviews-private-space-station-proposals-expects-to-save-over-1-billion-annually-after-iss-retires)
2021-09-21T10:00:00Z	**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 announced that it would install cameras made by the AI-tech startup Netradyne in its Amazon-branded delivery vans as an "innovation" to "keep drivers safe." As of this month,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ikOqA1MS53I/amazons-ai-cameras-are-punishing-drivers-for-mistakes-they-didnt-make)
2021-09-21T13:00:00Z	**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 understands that settlement demands run to several thousand pounds, a massive uplift on the several hundred usually requested in similar cases. Intere ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LUYlPTfcOaM/virgin-media-subscribers-told-to-pay-thousands-of-pounds-to-settle-piracy-laws)
2021-09-21T14:03:00Z	**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 leasing a 1.3 million-square-foot building in Hudson Yards, also on the West Side, which it has an option to buy. New York City is the company's second largest office location. The ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pPr252IKI3Y/google-is-buying-a-new-york-city-office-building-for-21-billion)
2021-09-21T14:44:00Z	**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) periods as Canonical pushes back their End of Life (EoL) dates. The former will now get security updates until 2024, while the latter will receive them until 2026. "This lifecycle ex ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z341yHFDCY0/ubuntu-1404-and-1604-each-get-a-decade-of-support-from-canonical)
2021-09-21T15:22:00Z	**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 companies and talk customers into buying more expensive first party repairs. From the report: "I cracked the glass on my phone and I'm compar ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AZJYQd0X-yY/leaked-apple-training-videos-show-how-the-iphone-maker-undermines-third-party-repair)
2021-09-21T16:02:00Z	**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 caving in to the Kremlin. From a report: Staff members complained over the weekend about the Google's decision in internal forums and on memegen, a messaging board that has served as a breedin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ji_B64oejf4/googlers-protest-removal-of-russian-app-as-bend-to-government)
2021-09-21T16:42:00Z	**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 that foils automated data collection of news feed posts -- a technique that groups like NYU's Ad Observatory, The Markup, and other researchers and journalis ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OvZgd9krlYY/facebook-rolls-out-news-feed-change-that-blocks-watchdogs-from-gathering-data)
2021-09-21T17:25:00Z	**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 free plan, which will be rolled out to all users in Kenya in the coming weeks, won't require them to provide any payment information during the sign-up, the company said. The new plan is available to any us ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fKI4aTS39TM/netflix-launches-free-plan-in-kenya-to-boost-growth)
2021-09-21T18:01:00Z	**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 with The Record, Jose Rodriguez said he published details about the lock screen bypass after Apple downplayed similar lock screen bypass issues he reported to the company ear ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/p3j9AYiO_JE/researcher-discloses-iphone-lock-screen-bypass-on-ios-15-launch-day)
2021-09-21T18:42:00Z	**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 better protect themselves from them. From a report: Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters that the sanctions would be imposed on Suex, a cryptocurrency transferring service tha ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gNISGZ8aGrQ/crypto-channels-targeted-in-bidens-fight-against-ransomware)
2021-09-21T19:22:00Z	**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 of that app is officially being introduced, offering a combination of financial tools including direct deposit, bill pay, a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XY8PG1q5noM/paypal-launches-its-super-app-combining-payments-savings-bill-pay-crypto-shopping-and-more)
2021-09-21T19:40:00Z	**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 regularly migrate. From a report: Sixty-three dead African penguins were found Friday at the Boulders Penguin Colony, in Simon's Town, about 25 miles south of Cape Town, in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sdfZQ2KAqgg/endangered-african-penguins-with-multiple-bee-stings-are-found-dead)
2021-09-21T20:01:00Z	**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, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. From the report: The European Union executive and EU lawmakers have been pushing for a common charg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fQUvGdt3rWE/eu-plans-to-legislate-for-common-phone-charger-despite-apple-grumbles)
2021-09-21T20:41:00Z	**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 such as mobility, sleep patterns and how people type could spot behaviors associated with those conditions, according to The Wall Street Journal. ther measurements could include facial  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P6_WVvMHkRI/apple-is-working-on-mental-health-monitoring-using-iphone-data)
2021-09-21T21:20:00Z	**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 Tuesday, Amazon HR boss Beth Galetti wrote that the company has "reinstated the employment eligibility" for former employees and applicants who were fired or deferred during  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y0qCBWouVwQ/amazon-relaxes-drug-testing-policies-will-lobby-to-legalize-marijuana)
2021-09-21T22:00:00Z	**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 and symptoms consistent with so-called Havana syndrome, according to a report by CNN. The officer received immediate medical care upon returning to the US. The case rais ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nGoQs_iyyns/cia-director-fuming-after-havana-syndrome-strikes-team-member-in-india)
2021-09-21T22:40:00Z	**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 who were strong-armed into lending are panicking now that the company cannot repay them on time. China's Evergrande Group, the embattled property developer whose towering debt has set off panic in global markets, is buckling under the weight of mor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qRYFl9DjjKE/chinas-lehman-brothers-moment)
2021-09-21T23:20:00Z	**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 week after Amazon announced that it too will be getting into the TV set business. The Verge reports: In the US, the TVs will reportedly be branded as XClass TVs. Originally manufactured by H ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HLE6-VCQPu0/comcast-and-uk-subsidiary-sky-reportedly-launching-smart-tvs)
2021-09-22T00:02:00Z	**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 major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to sever ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7U8tcs6QhBo/fbi-held-back-ransomware-decryption-key-from-businesses-to-run-operation-targeting-hackers)
2021-09-22T00:45:00Z	**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: The Apple Wallet vaccination card can be shown to businesses, venues, restaurants, and more that are requiring vaccines for entry. As outlined in an announcement to developers, veri ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qpppyKyonQE/ios-151-beta-lets-users-add-covid-vaccination-card-to-wallet-app)
2021-09-22T01:25:00Z	**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 dated Aug. 27, the Federal Communications Commission was asked to refer the case to the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Partici ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VaM3x12D8ps/us-committee-is-reviewing-zooms-147-billion-deal-for-five9-on-national-security-grounds)
2021-09-22T02:02:00Z	**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 developing nations. Axios reports: The pledge, if maintained, would mark a breakthrough in efforts to transition global power away from the most carbon-emitting fuel. Nations, including the U.S., hav ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TN5v126pcwE/china-vows-end-to-building-coal-fired-power-plants-abroad)
2021-09-22T03:30:00Z	**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 difficult information processing problems. Now, researchers have found a way to make what is called reservoir computing work between 33 and a million times faster, with significantly fewer  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7Je8qIvIE7U/scientists-develop-the-next-generation-of-reservoir-computing)
2021-09-22T07:00:00Z	**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 New York City. "I was reminded of this just this July when I went into space with Blue Origin. I'd heard that seeing the Earth from space changes one's point of view of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XmrXOP38q4c/jeff-bezos-says-traveling-to-space-changed-how-he-thinks-about-nature)
2021-09-22T10:00:00Z	**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 paywalled; alternative source), underscoring the importance of protecting investors in the market and bringing it under regulatory oversight. CoinDesk reports: Gensler also discussed stablecoins, which h ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h2_H6EYGUuw/secs-gensler-doesnt-see-cryptocurrencies-lasting-long)
2021-09-22T13:00:00Z	**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. Alarmingly, a new study reports that these blooms may be early indicators of an ongoing ecological disaster, caused by humans, that eerily parallels the worst extin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PvQUm67hwxA/a-warning-sign-of-a-mass-extinction-event-is-on-the-rise-scientists-say)
2021-09-22T14:05:00Z	**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 134,000 pensioners, mostly women, were underpaid pensions because outdated computer systems led to mistakes. Among them was 74-year-old Irene Wise, who said women like her ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Q8pTS0zeQRo/catalogue-of-errors-led-to-136-billion-of-state-pension-underpayments)
2021-09-22T14:44:00Z	**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, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify. The effort, which was hatched at an internal meeting in January, had a specific purpose: to use Facebook's News Feed, t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H9AKDfWSUm0/no-more-apologies-inside-facebooks-push-to-defend-its-image)
2021-09-22T15:25:00Z	**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 upgrade from the previous 12.3-inch display. Even better, it's one of the first non-gaming notebooks we've seen that supports a 120Hz refresh rate, wh ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A5olJIvnMcI/surface-pro-8-is-a-media-centric-13-inch-tablet-with-a-120hz-dolby-vision-display)
2021-09-22T16:08:00Z	**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 display in favor of one that pulls forward to transform from laptop into tablet (or what Microsoft calls studio mode). From a report: "Surface Laptop Studio is the most powerful Su ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RlAqjr15tEs/surface-laptop-studio-is-microsofts-new-powerful-flagship-laptop)
2021-09-22T16:45:00Z	**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-in censorship capabilities. From a report: Flagship phones sold in Europe by China's smartphone giant Xiaomi have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ORCcrToydOs/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-to-censorship-concerns)
2021-09-22T17:25:00Z	**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 Epic Tuesday saying that it "will not consider any further requests for reinstatement until the district court's judgment becomes final and nonappealable." The letter, sent to Epic's lawy ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zvwyyv0i78M/apple-bans-fortnite-until-appeals-are-exhausted-in-legal-fight)
2021-09-22T18:05:00Z	**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. From a report: Let's Encrypt, a free-to-use nonprofit, issues certificates that encrypt the connections between your devices and the wider inter ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C2DL6FXPu7g/lets-encrypts-root-certificate-is-about-to-expire-and-it-might-break-your-devices)
2021-09-22T18:45:00Z	**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 China. The so-called "National Artificial Intelligence Strategy" is designed to boost the use of AI among the nation's businesses, attract internatio ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N7SH1ai2QZI/uk-publishes-10-year-plan-to-become-ai-superpower-seeking-to-rival-us-and-china)
2021-09-22T19:47:00Z	**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 of that code has been upstreamed. Google has also been shifting to the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI) as the basis for all their produc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/90Fj0t3g-W0/google-finally-shifting-to-upstream-first-linux-kernel-approach-for-android-features)
2021-09-22T20:05:00Z	**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's experimental features page, which lists tests available for Premium subscribers. If you're opted-in and on a supported browser ("the latest versions of Chrome, Edge, or Opera," according to Google), ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2B3O-ZogWdU/youtube-tests-video-downloads-for-your-desktop-browser)
2021-09-22T20:34:00Z	**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. From a report: Another longtime Facebook executive, Andrew Bosworth, will take over as CTO, according to an internal message on Wednesday from Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. Sch ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wICcZqQfwHA/facebook-chief-technology-officer-mike-schroepfer-to-step-down)
2021-09-22T21:25:00Z	**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. The company also unveiled a successor to the Surface Book line of laptops, the Surface Laptop Studio, as well as the Surface Pro 8. From a repo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TkO-Rl1sbgs/microsoft-debuts-surface-duo-2-dual-screen-android-phone-with-larger-displays-and-5g)
2021-09-22T22:02:00Z	**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 celebrate, from our remarkable new product line-up to our values driven work around climate change, racial equity, and privacy. I ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9-VL79vyiSU/apple-ceo-tim-cook-in-leaked-memo-we-are-doing-everything-in-our-power-to-identify-leakers)
2021-09-22T22:40:00Z	**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, Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. No decision has been made on the matter yet, he added, and said the Fed does not feel pressured to do something quickl ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H4nRr6kOIik/the-fed-is-evaluating-whether-to-launch-a-digital-currency-and-in-what-form)
2021-09-22T23:20:00Z	**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 and move them off the app. If you want to take part in the test, you'll need to join a waitlist. Robinhood plans to trial the feature with a small number of users first before expanding availability t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dXwGZvef8kI/robinhood-will-start-testing-crypto-wallets-next-month)
2021-09-23T00:02:00Z	**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 as the initial step towards homegrown supercomputing hardware. EPI, launched back in 2018, aims to increase the independence of Europe's supercomputing industry from foreig ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4SBRmaTJs04/first-risc-v-computer-chip-lands-at-the-european-processor-initiative)
2021-09-23T00:48:00Z	**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 least six months after their second injection. The New York Times reports: The F.D.A. also authorized booster shots for adult Pfizer-BioNTech recipients who are at high risk of  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XMSX1HK9Jls/fda-authorizes-pfizer-booster-shots-for-older-and-at-risk-americans)
2021-09-23T01:25:00Z	**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 TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. "Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market's biggest whale," said user 'ceowatchlist.' Anoth ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lGCfS4pPhg8/tiktokers-are-trading-stocks-by-copying-what-members-of-congress-do)
2021-09-23T02:02:00Z	**'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 change that led to our abbreviated back end: an itinerant piece of DNA -- in a gene known as TBTX -- that leapt into a new chromosomal home and changed how great apes make a key developmenta ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/06EBSYcZWsc/jumping-gene-may-have-erased-tails-in-humans-and-other-apes)
2021-09-23T03:30:00Z	**'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 reader joshuark shares an excerpt from the article: Device makers are apt to drop support for old gadgets faster than the gadgets themselves wear out. Consumers have relied on the good graces of device makers to keep our gadget firmware and so ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X8UQhHY-afw/we-need-software-updates-forever)
2021-09-23T07:00:00Z	**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 agency had awarded a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX for the design and development of a lunar lander.

Although ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hTKkqwu--CI/judge-releases-redacted-lunar-lander-lawsuit-from-bezos-blue-origin-against-nasa-spacex-contract)
2021-09-23T10:00:00Z	**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, FedEx will start making deliveries in Texas using an autonomous semi. The route on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas is about 500 miles round trip, and expected to be busy as the ho ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/etT6nxMbYEs/fedex-uses-autonomous-trucks-for-first-time-on-delivery-route)
2021-09-23T13:00:00Z	**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 integration has started appearing in a small number of Discord servers today as part of what appears to be a new test of a collaboration between Discord and YouTube. The feature is called Watch Together, and as the name implies, it ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GZDzQ_Kp_dE/discord-starts-testing-youtube-integration)
2021-09-23T14:05:00Z	**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 a report: The proposal is likely to have the biggest impact on Apple, which continues to use its proprietary Lightning connector rather than the USB-C connector adopted by most of its com ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SuGCmqk5Ng4/eu-proposes-mandatory-usb-c-on-all-devices-including-iphones)
2021-09-23T14:45:00Z	**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 drafted by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, according to sources familiar with the initiative. The new regulation also contains measures to encourage the purchase of  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/04Wnbsuh4y8/spain-to-ban-sale-of-fruit-and-vegetables-in-plastic-wrapping-from-2023)
2021-09-23T15:34:00Z	**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 accessing or leaking sensitive corporate information, the company often homes in on employees who are thinking about leaving it. In the past, its security teams have flagged employees who search an internal website listing the cost of COBRA health ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/70O7woF29Lw/how-google-spies-on-its-employees)
2021-09-23T16:05:00Z	**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 systems work. The very concept of things like directories, folders, and even what a file is seem to baffle a generation that was raised on Google and smartphones, and have no conc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GZpmI0uAtp0/todays-students-dont-understand-the-basics-of-computer-operations)
2021-09-23T16:45:00Z	**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 workers have waited years for green cards that will grant them permanent legal status in the U.S. -- but because of pandemic-related processing delays, they will have to wait even longer. The U.S. makes a certain number of fami ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HfxFu8FT7FA/tech-firms-nightmare-vanishing-green-cards)
2021-09-23T17:28:00Z	**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 one of the largest cryptocurrency heists of all time. He was flooded with calls and messages in August alerting him to a breach at Poly Network, a platform where users swap tokens among popular cryptocurrencies like Ethere ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yeSivNDVDCo/tracking-stolen-crypto-is-a-booming-business)
2021-09-23T18:05:00Z	**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 authenticating users' nonfungible tokens -- digital goods ranging from high art to pictures of digital apes. Some users already showcase NFTs on their profiles, but there's no easy way to authenticate if the p ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FqYSQI_4o-Y/twitter-adds-bitcoin-tipping-pushes-further-into-nfts)
2021-09-23T18:45:00Z	**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 simply by visiting a specific URL. From a report: The news highlights the continuing lax security practices that many stalkerware companies use; not only d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/v25kcWKHqtI/a-stalkerware-firm-is-leaking-real-time-screenshots-of-peoples-phones-online)
2021-09-23T19:25:00Z	**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 separate from the rest of the world and the challenges it endures, but unpredictably empty shelves, rising prices, and long waits are just more proof of how foolish that belief has always been. The Atlantic: When I called up Dan Hearsch, a managing director at ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I9LGQQ-8gsg/why-deliveries-are-so-slow)
2021-09-23T20:02:00Z	**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 pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases. The tiny microfliers, whose development by engineers at Northwestern University was detailed in an article  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ToWAjZtA0Ik/smallest-ever-human-made-flying-structure-is-a-winged-microchip-scientists-say)
2021-09-23T20:20:00Z	**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 residents, clearing the way for the agency to give the final OK as early as this evening. CNBC reports: The agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices speci ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/v2nBHVmoYS0/cdc-panel-endorses-pfizer-covid-19-booster-shots-for-people-65-and-older)
2021-09-23T20:45:00Z	**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 the video, rocket maker Astra's 3.3 skids horizontally for hundreds of yards, then shoots some 20 miles upwards, listing off course. Ground crew terminates the flight, and the craft free falls back to Earth in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PFSPtHNiYGE/the-imaginary-rocket-driving-a-small-town-spaceport)
2021-09-23T21:25:00Z	**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 June. From a report: The collection, obtained by The Record from a source, is currently being shared in private Telegram channels in the form of a torrent file containing approximately 187 GB of archived data. The Recor ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dx5anALPR-I/hackers-leak-linkedin-700-million-data-scrape)
2021-09-23T22:02:00Z	**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 have been found in use this year, according to databases such as the 0-day tracking project -- almost double the total for 2020, and more than in any other year on record," the report says. From the rep ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NYbExgXVnCY/2021-has-broken-the-record-for-zero-day-hacking-attacks)
2021-09-23T22:42:00Z	**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 delivery services like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. From a report: The bills, which have the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, are the latest and most broad exam ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M9SGICleqoc/new-york-passes-sweeping-bills-to-improve-conditions-for-delivery-workers)
2021-09-23T23:20:00Z	**'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 really kind of has the world in its grip. And in that grip, you can see the amount of mistrust and misinformation that is happening," Benioff told CNN. From a report: "Look at how it is affecting the world. You can talk about the polit ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qmECzCURwEM/facebook-is-whats-wrong-with-america)
2021-09-24T00:02:00Z	**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 meet certain performance metrics for taking rest or meal breaks. The California Senate approved the measure earlier this month. The law allows warehouse workers to challenge performance goals that many ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/StQLA9aG2KM/california-passes-law-targeting-amazon-labor-algorithms)
2021-09-24T00:45:00Z	**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 a position to disrupt shipping operations, according to a Coast Guard analysis of the incident obtained by CNN and a public statement from a senior US  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/go0pU3vRL6w/hackers-breached-computer-network-at-key-us-port-but-did-not-disrupt-operations)
2021-09-24T01:25:00Z	**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 first be available in restaurants in the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore, with further plans for retail expansion in those markets in the coming months. It marks the Califo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vNSIVnscq9w/impossible-foods-to-launch-meatless-pork-in-us-hong-kong-and-singapore)
2021-09-24T02:02:00Z	**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 century. The Guardian reports: The breakthrough, revealed in the journal Cancer Discovery, is set to usher in an "exciting" new era where AI can be har ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4El5ViPQyps/scientists-use-ai-to-create-drug-regime-for-rare-form-of-brain-cancer-in-children)
2021-09-24T03:30:00Z	**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 published in the journal npj Science of Food. [...] The scientists purchased raw chicken breast from a local convenience store and then pureed it in a food processor to get a smooth ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gCgvqcHFDvU/engineers-figured-out-how-to-cook-3d-printed-chicken-with-lasers)
2021-09-24T07:00:00Z	**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, so daylight saving is no longer necessary," writes Mark Frauenfelder via BoingBoing. "It's time for the rest of the world to wake up and do the same." Time and Date reports: "The Ministry hereby advises that the Daylight Saving Time (DST) pol ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/p8sxMsi2280/samoa-scraps-daylight-saving-time)
2021-09-24T10:00:00Z	**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 Dr. Stephen Thaler in a case involving the country's Intellectual Property Office. In 2018, Thaler filed two patent applications in which he didn't list himself as the creator of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9PnY1gdBVFM/uk-appeals-court-rules-ai-cannot-be-listed-as-a-patent-inventor)
2021-09-24T13:00:00Z	**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 Windows 11 on unsupported hardware -- you may run into "compatibility issues," your PC "won't be entitled to receive updates," and that "damages to your PC du ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yJsxyKEwFik/windows-11-setup-warns-that-you-arent-entitled-to-updates-on-unsupported-pcs)
2021-09-24T14:01:00Z	**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 assets." From a report: The world's most populated nation also said that foreign exchanges are banned from providing services to users in the country ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SkU5rTnXusE/china-says-all-cryptocurrency-related-transactions-are-illegal-and-must-be-banned)
2021-09-24T15:06:00Z	**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 interrupting a speaker, the uninvited guest, Prime Minister Hun Sen, chimed in to warn virtual attendees that their communications were being monitored. "I have been listening, and have entered ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QUMmuwx9W4Q/cambodias-prime-minister-is-zoombombing-opposition-meetings)
2021-09-24T15:20:00Z	**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. From a report: Going by the pseudonym of Illusion of Chaos, the researcher has published their findings on Russian blogging platform Habr and has relea ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H_eiUiamBzw/researcher-dumps-three-ios-zero-days-after-apple-failed-to-fix-issues-for-months)
2021-09-24T16:04:00Z	**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 issues before the Home Office said the problem was resolved. "We're aware of a systems failure impacting the e-gates, which are staffed & operated by Border Force," Heathrow said in a tweet. "T ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GSpkNpV4_FU/uk-airports-briefly-snarled-by-border-force-software-outage)
2021-09-24T16:41:00Z	**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 500 represents the latest effort by the state to limit the sale of new internal combustion vehicles with an eye towards reducing greenhouse emissions. In 2020, Newsom signed  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3_y8AsVTM3g/california-makes-zero-emission-autonomous-vehicles-mandatory-by-2030)
2021-09-24T17:21:00Z	**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, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Thursday. From a report: The goal is to alleviate bottlenecks that have idled U.S. car production and caused shortages of consumer electronics and to identify possi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pz7BNcXOnMI/white-house-weighs-invoking-defense-law-to-get-chip-data)
2021-09-24T18:05:00Z	**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: Thousands of school districts, in every state plus D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, will split this first $1.2 billion distribution, and there's s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XhQZfFYdvZU/fcc-showers-schools-across-the-us-with-12-billion-from-emergency-connectivity-fund)
2021-09-24T18:44:00Z	**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, newly released data confirm what activists and advocates have long argued: Ankle monitors are onerous, and they often  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rIuHxcZObHs/other-than-prison-electronic-monitoring-is-the-most-restrictive-form-of-control-research-finds)
2021-09-24T19:25:00Z	**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 high school graduate and self-described "teen author" Sarah Frank sitting in her bedroom and smiling at the camera. "Welcome to side hustles I reco ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2XcGmaUjcGc/a-teenager-on-tiktok-disrupted-thousands-of-scientific-studies-with-a-single-video)
2021-09-24T20:05:00Z	**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 "at-home Covid test near me" on the platform has doubled in the past month, according to Google Trends, while those asking how long rapid test results take is up by 250%. In the past  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0ZBgy2PHaw0/americans-ramp-up-google-searches-for-covid-tests-amid-scarcity)
2021-09-24T20:45:00Z	**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 Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a carbon catalyst in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide into methane. Known as the "Sabatier reaction" from the late French chemist Paul Sabatier, it's a process the International Spac ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fNNYDIu-Sks/uc-reactor-makes-martian-fuel)
2021-09-24T21:22:00Z	**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 launched into space. We're told Shatner will be on board in October for the 15-minute civilian flight -- similar to the last launch. What we don't know -- BUT WHAT WOULD BE AWESOME -- is if he we ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0EZikMPiZ7w/william-shatners-going-to-space-on-jeff-bezos-blue-origin)
2021-09-24T22:02:00Z	**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 machines last week, it stunned employees at his new company, according to interviews and electronic records. What ExpressVPN said after the U.S. Justice Department's deferred prosec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bps02xlsmcg/expressvpn-employees-complain-about-ex-spys-top-role-at-company)
2021-09-24T22:40:00Z	**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 in a Brooklyn federal court. CNBC reports: A U.S. district judge accepted the deferred prosecution agreement, which will last until Dec. 1, 2022. Un ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yOWe0oS7F6I/huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-to-be-released-after-agreement-with-us-in-wire-fraud-case)
2021-09-24T23:20:00Z	**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 dance -- you'll notice something. The videos don't show up. Google is trying to fix that -- but there's no guarantee its efforts will succeed. Google executives have been quietly negotiating with th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2dC01QhgdfQ/google-seeks-search-deals-for-tiktok-and-instagram-videos)
2021-09-25T00:02:00Z	**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: The project began with fiber networks Facebook was already building to connect its data centers in Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina. With that ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1a_Z7ph3I5k/facebook-will-open-its-fiber-networks-to-expand-broadband-access-in-rural-virginia)
2021-09-25T00:45:00Z	**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 the analysis of stool," says the Duke University research professor, with all the unselfconsciousness of someone used to talking about bodily functions. "We think there is an incredible untapped opportunity  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NfQwQ0GFUG8/are-you-ready-to-share-your-analprint-with-big-tech)
2021-09-25T01:25:00Z	**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 Monday, Guardicore's Amit Serper released new research about how the issue caused the exposure of close to 100,000 unique Windows and email credentials. When users configure th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HloqAYRintU/microsoft-rushes-to-register-autodiscover-domains-leaking-credentials)
2021-09-25T02:02:00Z	**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 published in Science on Sept. 24. The new route makes it possible to produce starch, a major component of grains, by industrial manufacturing instead of traditional agricultural planting and opens up  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/B941TqYbXpU/chinese-scientists-synthesized-starch-from-carbon-dioxide)
2021-09-25T03:30:00Z	**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 electricity to power a medium size country, somewhere on the order of the Netherlands or Poland depending on the estimate. In fact, electricity has become such a significant factor that one private eq ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zMRgQIxCaE8/old-coal-plant-is-now-mining-bitcoin-for-a-utility-company)
2021-09-25T07:00:00Z	**'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 until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall departs next year. "I'm beyond excited to be back on my favourite show," said Davies, who resumes his role as the show prepares to  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZGOFpFjcoYs/doctor-who-showrunner-russell-t-davies-to-return-for-next-season)
2021-09-25T10:00:00Z	**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, the patents were filed during his work for the U.S. Navy and are so ambitious in their scope and imagination that they continue to draw interest despite any clear evidence that they are feasible. The patents include designs for ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/v27D7pymdzI/engineer-devises-ufo-patents-for-us-navy)
2021-09-25T13:00:00Z	**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 running Android 6 and above. The Verge reports: The feature was released exclusively on newer Pixel phones in June. Google hasn't provided an exact date for when the feature  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C0IhgoDsMsc/google-photos-nude-friendly-folders-coming-to-all-android-phones-soon)
2021-09-25T14:34:00Z	**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 Bros. The Guardians of the Galaxy star joins a star-studded cast in the movie, which includes Charlie Day as his brother Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy [from The Queen's Gambit] as Prin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5XcqX9kOrxo/chris-pratt-cast-as-voice-of-mario-for-new-super-mario-bros-movie)
2021-09-25T15:34:00Z	**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 devices. This software poses an enormous danger to privacy and security. Apple has heard the message, and announced that it would delay the system while consulting with various groups about its impact. But in order to ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cx97rhfMX8s/why-eff-flew-a-plane-over-apples-headquarters)
2021-09-25T16:34:00Z	**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 Southeast Asia, forcing more car companies and electronics manufacturers to suspend production."

A wave of delta-variant cases in Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines is causing production delays at factories that cut a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hIj14AQwfSc/the-semiconductor-shortage-is-getting-worse)
2021-09-25T17:34:00Z	**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 — for leaking the results of that investigation to the press:
"We cooperated fully and maintained confidentiality throughout the investigative  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3y-Kuunn5BI/google-sues-indias-competition-commission---for-sharing-its-findings-about-google)
2021-09-25T18:34:00Z	**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 publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of people in private about the upload," Torvalds remembered on the Linux kernel mailing list. He no longer has copies of those announcement em ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ttmNWrRVTeI/linus-torvalds-recognizes-linuxs-true-30th-anniversary-date)
2021-09-25T19:34:00Z	**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 laws against online hate speech. It requires Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove illegal comments, pictures or videos within 24 hours of being notified about them or risk fines of ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Q1mUgQLSq4M/what-happened-when-germany-tried-to-fight-online-hate-speech)
2021-09-25T20:34:00Z	**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]. Estimates of the threat ranged from 100 megadeaths (from tsunami impacts on the coasts of about a dozen countries bordering the Atlantic — including the eastern seaboard of Ame ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7bbu9zYXKZs/6000-evacuated-after-volcanic-lava-flow-spreads-on-spanish-island)
2021-09-25T21:34:00Z	**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 those near a neutron star."
This setup, at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research laboratory in Germany, involves two high-intensity laser beams that can generate a jet of antimatter, as outlined in a paper published earlier ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RWDIyKm84Ko/can-antimatter-be-generated-in-a-lab)
2021-09-25T22:34:00Z	**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 name and personal details "were found on invoices suggesting he had once paid for websites with names such as racisminc.com, whitese ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2Hm8imkeEmc/110000-affected-by-epik-breach---including-those-who-trusted-epik-to-hide-their-identity)
2021-09-26T01:34:00Z	**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 attack has been disruptive enough to be covered by major media outlets, including Hacker News, ZDNet, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, CTV News, and The Toronto Star.

They have so far refused  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aYLu-92MgVQ/voipms-battles-week-long-sustained-ddos-for-ransom-attack)
2021-09-26T03:34:00Z	**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 end of the year, reports the Boston Globe.

Right now each machine is selling "an average of about $40,000 in cryptocurrency each month."

There's  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/36pnLATFA1c/26000-and-counting-america-is-installing-hundreds-more-bitcoin-atms-each-week)
2021-09-26T07:34:00Z	**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 drivers forced the closure of stations across the country. The haulage industry said there was a shortfall of some 100,000 drivers, and that coul ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dK7gTRv56Mg/facing-post-brexit-petrol-shortage-uk-issues-emergency-visas-for-eu-truck-drivers)
2021-09-26T11:34:00Z	**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 construction began on the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Northeast Alabama, the Tennessee Valley Authority is giving up its c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PIBAIIbrbRw/after-47-years-us-power-company-abandons-still-unfinished-6-billion-nuclear-power-plant)
2021-09-26T14:34:00Z	**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 helps them hold on to water. This same hormone, ABA, sends a message to seeds that it isn't a good time to germinate, leading to lower crop yields an ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vl9G42PUFKA/scientists-find-hormone-that-allows-seeds-to-germinate-in-low-water-conditions)
2021-09-26T15:34:00Z	**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 from electronic brake systems to airbag control units tend to rely on obsolete technology often well over a decade old. These employ comparatively simple transis ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/is3LpaMReHQ/chipmakers-to-carmakers-time-to-get-out-of-the-semiconductor-stone-age)
2021-09-26T16:34:00Z	**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 Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.

 The corridors at Mammoth Cave now measure a whopping 420 miles (676 km) in length, according to the National Park Service (NPS). That's about the distance betw ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4Lp7TPSj8PM/the-worlds-longest-cave-system-just-got-even-longer)
2021-09-26T17:43:00Z	**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 administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation."

The report is based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VCkCu_SXXe8/report-in-2017-americas-cia-plotted-to-kidnap-julian-assange-from-ecuador)
2021-09-26T18:42:00Z	**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 its testing machines, in addition to allegedly providing false or flawed test results to patients," reports NPR.

But they add that in Sil ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/knqrAu_JBts/former-reddit-ceo-asks-why-is-theranos-holmes-the-only-tech-ceo-facing-prosecution)
2021-09-26T19:42:00Z	**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 hamster who works out of what is possibly the most high-tech hamster cage in existence.

It's designed so that when Mr. Goxx runs on the ha ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pR1ziEpqwIA/a-cryptocurrency-trading-hamster-beats-warren-buffetts-performance---and-the-sp-500)
2021-09-26T20:43:00Z	**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 nanoelectrode array that enters a large volumes of neurons to record both where the neurons connect and the strength of those connections. You could copy that data and 'paste ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/m_2c2t9WBlQ/samsung-engineers-propose-copying-and-pasting-the-brain-onto-ai-chips)
2021-09-26T22:52:00Z	**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:

The department began a 45-day comment period on Friday with the release of a draft environmental impact study evaluating alternativ ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cnS-ORq1BNg/us-military-seeks-comments-on-its-plan-to-build-a-small-transportable-nuclear-reactor)
2021-09-27T00:11:00Z	**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 have introduced HTTPS-only modes." "After the end of this year, the extension will be in 'maintenance mode' for 2022," said A ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5Vq-_HVqe7M/with-https-everywhere-eff-begins-plans-to-eventually-deprecate-https-everywhere-extension)
2021-09-27T01:42:00Z	**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 ZDNet:
Microsoft has become a strategic member of the foundation and Audrey Lee, senior director of energy strategy at Microsoft, was elected to serve on the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/arDpdPg-gvY/microsoft-joins-a-linux-foundation-nonprofits-effort-to-decarbonize-the-grid)
2021-09-27T03:42:00Z	**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 pointed out this weekend.

It's becoming surprisingly common in the U.S. "And if investigators obtain a gag order, the records must be handed over without the per ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1TqMOgc87zg/when-the-fbi-seizes-your-messages-from-big-tech-you-may-not-know-for-years)
2021-09-27T07:34:00Z	**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 will house the experiment, but the architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west."
They're already predicting the first residents c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ewl1v5f-dc4/should-billionaires-try-constructing-cities-of-the-future-in-the-desert)
2021-09-27T11:34:00Z	**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 Journal:

The matchups have the potential to solve key issues facing each industry, executives and analysts say: Electricity-hungry bitcoin miners want stable and carbon-free po ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GcmUuV_sook/as-environmental-criticism-mounts-bitcoin-miners-eye-nuclear-power)
2021-09-27T14:00:00Z	**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: Propelled by IBM's AI software, the autonomous ship set out in June for a month-long excursion through rough waters with no humans aboard. However, three d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P4zbnXbBbNE/after-ibm-failed-to-sail-an-autonomous-boat-across-the-atlantic-its-trying-again)
2021-09-27T14:43:00Z	**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 classic web foe: email. From a report: On Monday, Cloudflare is announcing a pair of email safety and security offerings that it views as a first step toward catching more targeted phishing attacks, reducing the effectiv ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GKICaQjl3hA/cloudflare-is-taking-a-shot-at-email-security)
2021-09-27T15:21:00Z	**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 improvements. From a report: The awards were granted by the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), a program manage ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FI-D9VniDTU/us-space-force-awards-875-million-to-rocket-lab-spacex-blue-origin-ula-for-next-gen-rocket-testing)
2021-09-27T16:08:00Z	**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 regularly watching short-form videos of dancing, dangerous "milk crate challenges" and even actual educational content. For context, Facebook said that in June it had 2.9 billion monthly active users, up 7% year over y ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/85OrXe2OZQI/tiktok-reaches-1-billion-monthly-active-users)
2021-09-27T16:49:00Z	**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-sharing service has on teen girls. From a report: "While we stand by the need to develop this experience, we've decided to pause this project," Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, wrote in a blog post publish ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j8AVvlHX_Mg/facebook-is-hitting-the-brakes-on-instagram-for-kids)
2021-09-27T17:27:00Z	**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 Chinese executive in December 2018 on suspicion of violating US sanctions, and she has remained there on house arrest ever since, fighting US attempts at extradition. Hearings in her extradition case en ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YO54pmrqFmY/us-agrees-not-to-pursue-fraud-charges-against-huawei-cfo)
2021-09-27T18:27:00Z	**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 says it'll be invested into "programs and external research" over the course of two years. Facebook has previously funded academic research into the social impact of AR wearable ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rUDUbmjLGwg/facebook-is-spending-50-million-to-responsibly-build-the-metaverse)
2021-09-27T19:00:00Z	**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 becoming an accredited operator, Eftpos connectID can now facilitate online transactions requiring a digital identity from Australians. Eftpos sent connectID liv ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FUV3pLLS9Q0/eftpos-granted-government-accreditation-as-first-private-id-exchange-operator)
2021-09-27T19:42:00Z	**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 expand its consumer services so that you use the platform for different use cases with more financial services. From a report: First, the company will soon la ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OM3hQDcUmbQ/coinbase-to-let-you-deposit-part-of-your-paycheck-into-your-coinbase-account)
2021-09-27T20:20:00Z	**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, money laundering and embezzlement -- charges that could land them alongside drug cartel kingpins in one of the country's most notorious lockups. From a report: A jud ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OEt2oGRg794/prosecutors-in-mexico-seeking-arrest-warrants-for-more-than-30-scientists)
2021-09-27T21:00:00Z	**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) fine related to its Android operating system. From a report: Far from holding back rivals and harming users, Android has been a massive success story of competiti ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y7mTwhjLtzw/google-in-fight-against-record-eu-fine-slams-regulators-for-ignoring-apple)
2021-09-27T21:44:00Z	**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 the post: We've been acquired by MediaLab! MediaLab, based in Santa Monica, CA, is a company that owns great internet brands like Whisper, Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino, Genius and others. They're a team of technologists, product managers, designers, and community ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vMIFOTu1w_8/medialab-acquires-imgur)
2021-09-27T22:20:00Z	**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 from Bloomberg: The SEC accused Suyun Gu and Yong Lee of improperly pocketing more than $1 million of rebates from stock exchanges from February through April, after placing thousands of op ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sxU7095sooU/robinhood-ceo-unwittingly-inspired-1-million-meme-stock-fraud)
2021-09-27T23:00:00Z	**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 need a file, they just search for it. PCGamer summarizes the findings: "I tend to think an item lives in a particular folder. It lives in one place, and I have to go to that folder to fi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JVDF9pF2lWc/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say)
2021-09-27T23:40:00Z	**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 excerpt from his report, with the caption: "Portions of the 'metaverse' have leaked into 2021 from the future." Tomlinson writes: I float in space, surrounded on all sides by a grand view of the Milky Way G ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g-h1POSo2Xw/what-its-like-to-spend-40-50-hours-in-vr-every-week)
2021-09-28T00:20:00Z	**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 for removing network equipment made by Chinese companies deemed national security threats like Huawei and ZTE. The program, which was finalized in July, will open Oct. 29 for applications  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8KLZZpgqgXg/us-to-open-program-to-replace-huawei-equipment-in-us-networks)
2021-09-28T01:00:00Z	**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 in 2017, the 150-megawatt battery supplies 189 megawatt-hours of storage and was designed to support the grid when it becomes overloaded. Now operated by French ren ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XRPYoWREeDU/a-tesla-big-battery-is-getting-sued-over-power-grid-failures-in-australia)
2021-09-28T01:40:00Z	**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. From a report: "We certainly do see for a lot of really tough issues that YouTube can be a really valuable resource," Wojcicki said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "So body positivity, mental health, we se ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OX2ZWa0Q1BE/youtube-valuable-for-teens-mental-health-says-ceo)
2021-09-28T02:20:00Z	**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 for the same problem just a year ago. Electrek reports: The automaker just issued two recalls in Canada, and one of them is specifically about the risk of the glass roof coming off: "O ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aCAZrcqr0rg/ford-recalls-mustang-mach-es-over-risk-of-glass-roof-flying-off)
2021-09-28T03:30:00Z	**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 absent from Apple's argument, though, is the fact that cutting out a Lightning port on an iPhone wouldn't just create more e-waste (if you buy Apple's logic) or inconvenience its customers. It also means that Apple would lose out on ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VxP3vS8FLzI/why-does-the-iphone-still-use-lightning)
2021-09-28T07:00:00Z	**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, much like GPS does. It is the first time the Starlink system has been harnessed by researchers outside SpaceX for navigation. The researchers used signals from six Starlink  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/du04F8K-Geg/spacex-satellite-signals-used-like-gps-to-pinpoint-location-on-earth)
2021-09-28T10:00:00Z	**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 country amid shortages, for many electric vehicle (EV) dealers the fuel crisis has led to an unexpected surge in inquiries and sales. EVA England, a non-profit representing new and prospective EV d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eTXjV20zWko/uk-electric-car-inquiries-soar-during-fuel-supply-crisis)
2021-09-28T13:00:00Z	**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 best VPN for torrenting" that would also let you "unblock ISP banned streams," otherwise restricted due to copyright takedown requests. Furthermore, LiquidVPN customers were really in for a treat with "Hi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/p8aGoZMlHrs/film-studios-sue-no-logs-vpn-provider-for-10-million)
2021-09-28T14:06:00Z	**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 showing that the most common search query on Bing is by far Google," Alfonso Lamadrid, a lawyer for the Alphabet unit, said at the EU's General Court in Luxembourg. The tech giant has as ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EJ3JsZWDpv8/google-tells-judges-its-so-popular-its-bings-top-search-term)
2021-09-28T14:49:00Z	**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 Journal investigation found that judges have improperly failed to disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010.  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pQ1wAtf55Hs/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest)
2021-09-28T15:25:00Z	**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 more strain on global supply chains. Companies in the country's industrial heartlands have been told to limit their energy consumption in order to reduce demand for power, sta ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rzdvIOPZAIc/chinas-growing-power-crunch-threatens-more-global-supply-chain-chaos)
2021-09-28T16:05:00Z	**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 bring its masked email feature to the password manager, giving all users the option of hiding their email addresses from apps and services. "Your email address is your online identity," explains Bron Gondwana, CEO of Fa ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XIAMOwAshwQ/1password-adds-its-own-hide-my-email-feature)
2021-09-28T16:45:00Z	**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 Epic Games Store discoverable in the Microsoft Store in the coming months. From a report: "Just like any other app, third-party storefront apps will have a product detail page -- which  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KMCrdQaGXyQ/microsoft-opens-its-windows-store-up-to-third-party-app-stores)
2021-09-28T17:29:00Z	**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 conducted by a pair of the Bank of Russia's own researchers came to the perhaps less-than-shocking conclusion that figuring out central bank statements takes a degree in economics. "All ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fBlkzI_9_So/bank-of-russias-computer-says-officials-must-speak-more-simply)
2021-09-28T18:12:00Z	**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 can and can't do and why Amazon decided to build a home robot. Astro seems like a strange gadget for Amazon to launch. The company is best known as an online store. And most of its operating profit comes from its AWS cloud busine ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uwIQGosLrDU/amazon-just-revealed-its-first-home-robot)
2021-09-28T18:45:00Z	**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 protect the environmental treasure. From a report: Researchers working on the so-called Cloud Brightening project said they use a turbine to spray microscopic sea particles to thicken  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wFP3rcfs8b4/little-fluffy-clouds-may-help-save-australias-great-barrier-reef)
2021-09-28T19:25:00Z	**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 the results of multiple scientific studies, is the first to calculate the total global burden of outdoor and indoor air pollution combined. Indoor pollution, m ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xjk1_e791EE/air-pollution-likely-cause-of-up-to-6-million-premature-births-study-finds)
2021-09-28T20:05:00Z	**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 lucrative video game business has eluded the tech giant. On Tuesday, Amazon gave producing its own video games another try. From a report: After more than a year of delays, it rele ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_vLfXkWfahU/for-flagging-amazon-games-unit-new-world-has-to-be-our-breakthrough)
2021-09-28T20:45:00Z	**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. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three. From a report: As if that were not intriguing enough, GW Ori's disk is split in two, almost like Saturn's rings if they had a mas ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ljOLNnoWOCA/this-may-be-the-first-planet-found-orbiting-3-stars-at-once)
2021-09-28T21:25:00Z	**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 allow employees remote access to internal networks. From a report: The NSA said it put together the nine-page guide [PDF] after "multiple nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors" weaponized vulnerabilitie ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mspLTEZKRck/nsa-cisa-publish-guide-for-securing-vpn-servers)
2021-09-28T22:02:00Z	**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 partnership between crypto payment processor BitPay and Verifone, one of the world's largest providers of those little machines you use to pay via a credit card or Venmo at a checkout line. Later this  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EG1JKIXeys0/paying-for-taco-bell-with-dogecoin-may-be-soon-be-a-reality)
2021-09-28T22:40:00Z	**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 this, Microsoft's advice continues to be that customers should communicate only with servers they trust. On August 10, 2016, Marco van Beek, managing director at UK-based IT consultancy Supporti ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EGs8supseJw/microsoft-knew-of-exchange-autodiscover-flaw-five-years-ago)
2021-09-28T23:20:00Z	**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 algorithm was found to have a positive predictive value of 0.84 for the identification of atrial fibrillation (AFib). MyHealthyApple reports: The Apple Heart Study investigated a smar ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CLPcaEwwOw0/apple-watch-can-detect-arrhythmias-other-than-afib-study-shows)
2021-09-29T00:02:00Z	**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. Inside the company, teams of employees have for years been laying plans to attract preteens that go beyond what is publicly known, spurred by fear that Fac ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jJgaYsIIo2E/facebooks-effort-to-attract-preteens-goes-beyond-instagram-kids-documents-show)
2021-09-29T00:45:00Z	**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 leaked internal development documents and video recordings of Astro software development meetings obtained by Motherboard. The system's person recognition system is heav ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WW-FuEsre7k/leaked-documents-show-how-amazons-astro-robot-tracks-everything-you-do)
2021-09-29T01:25:00Z	**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 writing your code from scratch, just head over to the Stack Overflow forums and copy the way another programmer already solved your problem. The meme is such a fixture  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qWxxeQxXR5U/april-fools-copy-paste-button-for-lazy-programmers-now-actually-for-sale)
2021-09-29T02:02:00Z	**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 that no one else has -- one that becomes fixed in their cells early in development and stays with them into adulthood. This signature doesn't seem to influence a twin's health, but it could of ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I6W7PzugtKI/identical-twins-carry-genetic-modifications-no-one-else-has)
2021-09-29T03:30:00Z	**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 of Secure Boot. Even better, the script also works on virtual machines, allowing you to upgrade to the latest Windows Insider build. This new script was released as part of the extreme ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dlmc5I2htnk/new-windows-11-install-script-bypasses-tpm-system-requirements)
2021-09-29T07:00:00Z	**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 Testament story in which the warrior Samson is betrayed by his lover Delilah. When London's National Gallery bought the masterpiece in 1980, it became the third most expensiv ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1PnoP2jd_O8/ai-study-suggests-a-london-gallerys-been-exhibiting-a-fake-for-years)
2021-09-29T10:00:00Z	**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 to work with Eero was not one foisted down from upon high by Amazon. Instead, Harris said that both companies saw the opportunity to work together to help leverage their individual skills in tande ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EDuMeG-7D-A/ring-puts-an-eero-router-inside-its-new-home-alarm-system)
2021-09-29T13:00:00Z	**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 revealed some US stealth technology testing going on and posted it to the Chinese government-affiliated platform. The stealthy object -possibly a component of a new drone or plane- was filmed on a tractor-trailer ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z7ZHs03o6DM/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-exposed-on-tiktok)
2021-09-29T14:02:00Z	**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 could impose significant new obligations on businesses across the economy related to how they handle consumer data, people familiar with the matter said. The early talks are the latest indication of the five-member commission's more aggre ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GjALxNgtHxs/ftc-weighs-new-online-privacy-rules)
2021-09-29T14:44:00Z	**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 report from Russia's TASS news outlet. Russia went so far as to call the suspensions "information warfare." From a report: The YouTube accounts, RT Germany and Der Fehlende  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Q0x3f5pQGh8/russia-threatens-retaliation-after-youtube-deletes-rt-germany-account)
2021-09-29T15:25:00Z	**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 division of Alphabet's Google announced Wednesday that it will extend its policy against misinformation to cover all vaccines that health authorities consider effective. The ban will inclu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0It-aP4X3WE/youtube-will-remove-videos-with-misinformation-about-any-vaccine)
2021-09-29T16:29:00Z	**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 Valve itself: data-mining discoveries and patent applications are adding up to something that looks like a brand-new Valve VR system with some form of built-in wireless function ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AKzDzcuoyEw/a-new-standalone-valve-vr-headset-teased-by-deep-steamvr-file-drive)
2021-09-29T16:45:00Z	**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 a report: Details about Sachkov's detention remain unclear but it was reported by Russian media as authorities searched the company's offices, reports ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YSE2YUussQg/russian-authorities-arrest-cybersecurity-giant-group-ibs-ceo-on-treason-charges)
2021-09-29T17:26:00Z	**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 allow the creation of new breeds of animals resistant to disease, heat and drought, they argue. From a report: The government is expected to propose easing gene-editing restrictions in the near  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NzavZRnhEV8/gene-editing-would-allow-us-to-create-hardier-farm-breeds)
2021-09-29T18:05:00Z	**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 report: By leveraging its new Multitask Unified Model (MUM) machine learning technology in small ways, the company hopes to kick off a virtuous cycle: it will provide more detail and context-rich answers, and in return it hopes us ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7zoV4yL5nuw/google-searchs-next-phase-context-is-king)
2021-09-29T18:45:00Z	**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 deadline that passed this week. From a report: "Beginning today, if a voice service provider's certification and other required information does not appear  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RDuWbN-bx6A/phone-companies-must-now-block-carriers-that-didnt-meet-fcc-robocall-deadline)
2021-09-29T19:25:00Z	**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: "Yes, I am back in school. Yea, it's very annoying," said one US high school student named Dillon, who regularly buys video game consoles and graphics cards with automated bots. "I am sitting in math class and drawing  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GT6kYONJhfM/school-reopenings-stymie-teens-reseller-gigs)
2021-09-29T20:06:00Z	**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 obtained by The Verge. From a report: NASA, cash-strapped with a tight budget from Congress, declined to negotiate and turned down Blue Origin's lunar lander  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-BBPxK1iPdQ/blue-origin-gambled-with-its-moon-lander-pricing-nasa-says-in-legal-documents)
2021-09-29T20:45:00Z	**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 learning. From a report: According to the findings, demand for Chromebooks slid by over 50 percent during one month since July. And notebook shipments for the remainder of the year are expected to be affected  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/heJaBxKMW-s/chromebook-demand-is-plummeting-as-the-pandemic-eases)
2021-09-29T21:24:00Z	**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 Wednesday. From the report: The spokesperson did not provide further details on what kind of examination the agency was carrying out. Lithanua's state cybersecurity body said last week that Xiaomi phon ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uGHjBfdhLlg/german-it-security-watchdog-examines-xiaomi-mobile-phone)
2021-09-29T22:02:00Z	**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 a mobile phone and discover its owner's phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good Samaritan to an iCloud phishing page  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ua7Gv0sP4us/apple-airtag-bug-enables-good-samaritan-attack)
2021-09-29T22:40:00Z	**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 properties. "America is most effective when we work with our allies," Raimondo told CNBC's Kayla Tausche in an exclusive interview. "If we really want to slow down China's rate of innovation, we need to work with Europe. They're ri ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/23T2V56lrak/us-attempts-to-slow-chinas-innovation-rate)
2021-09-29T23:20:00Z	**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 2023. The BMW brand plans to start testing the vehicle soon, according to Reuters. Rolls-Royce teased the EV in some images, but it literally kept the Spectre's design under wraps. Rolls-Royce CE ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_qQLwCsXfMM/rolls-royce-plans-to-stop-making-gas-powered-cars-by-2030)
2021-09-30T00:02:00Z	**The First Reviews of Rivian's R1T Electric Pickup**
Rivian held a three-day press event in Colorado last week where a number of journalists, including TechCrunch's Kirsten Korosec, were able to take the R1T electric truck for a spin. Today, the embargo lifted and we're able to hear about their experience." An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from Korosec's report: On its first try, Rivian produced the Goldilocks of pickup trucks. The Rivian R1T electric truc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/85H2Yj_AuMw/the-first-reviews-of-rivians-r1t-electric-pickup)
2021-09-30T00:45:00Z	**New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones**
Security researchers have found a massive malware operation that has infected more than 10 million Android smartphones across more than 70 countries since at least November 2020 and is making millions of dollars for its operators on a monthly basis. The Record reports: Discovered by mobile security firm Zimperium, the new GriftHorse malware has been distributed via benign-lo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/msGS_qpYf1Y/new-grifthorse-malware-infects-more-than-10-million-android-phones)
2021-09-30T01:25:00Z	**AI Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony**
Ahmed Elgammal, Professor and Director of the Art & AI Lab at Rutgers University, writes via The Conversation: When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his Tenth Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn't able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musica ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sKCkOTTMhMI/ai-completed-beethovens-unfinished-tenth-symphony)
2021-09-30T02:02:00Z	**Google Maps Tracks Global Warming With New 'Fire' Layer, Tree Canopy Tool**
Google Maps is getting a few new features to help people better understand our burning planet. Ars Technica reports: The first is a new "fire" layer in the main map view, which will let you view the exact boundaries of a wildfire just as easily as you can look up the current traffic patterns. Google has done fire information before as part of the "crisis response" ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nKWxaKPcRdU/google-maps-tracks-global-warming-with-new-fire-layer-tree-canopy-tool)
2021-09-30T03:30:00Z	**CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly Restores Vision In Legally Blind Patients**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. But that's changed as a result of volunteering for a landmark medical experiment. Her vision has improved enough for her to make out doorways, navigate hallways, spot objects and even ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hClOohbtBIY/crispr-gene-editing-experiment-partly-restores-vision-in-legally-blind-patients)
2021-09-30T07:00:00Z	**FAA Clears Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo For Flight After Probe Into July Incident**
Virgin Galactic is cleared to resume flights of its SpaceShipTwo space plane, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Wednesday, after capping a safety investigation into issues that came up during the company's July flight carrying its founder Richard Branson. During that mission, SpaceShipTwo strayed from its designated airspace on i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wbV2QYpcjrM/faa-clears-virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-for-flight-after-probe-into-july-incident)
2021-09-30T10:00:00Z	**iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted**
A serious bug in the iOS 15 Messages app can cause some saved photos to be deleted, according to multiple complaints reported by MacRumors readers and Twitter users. From the report: If you save a photo from a Messages thread and then go on to delete that thread, the next time an iCloud Backup is performed, the photo will disappear. Even though the image is saved to your personal iCloud Photo Library ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g54oxgBO5gQ/ios-15-messages-bug-causes-saved-photos-to-be-deleted)
2021-09-30T13:00:00Z	**US Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials. So is the Bachman's warbler, a yellow-breasted songbird that once migrated between the Southeastern United States and Cuba. The song of the Kauai O'o, a Hawaiian forest bird, exists only on recordings. And there is no longe ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/e-bteUZTKiM/us-officials-report-more-than-20-extinctions)
2021-09-30T14:13:00Z	**Alphabet Gives Some Loon Patents To SoftBank, Open Sources Flight Data and Makes Patent Non-assertion Pledge**
TechCrunch reports: Alphabet's Loon was a stratospheric moonshot that saw the company fly high-altitude balloons to provide cellular network coverage to target areas. The project broke a lot of new ground, including developing technology that enabled balloons to navigate autonomously and stay  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4xLn6rtGLvw/alphabet-gives-some-loon-patents-to-softbank-open-sources-flight-data-and-makes-patent-non-assertion-pledge)
2021-09-30T14:45:00Z	**Xbox Boss Says Console Supply Issues Will Continue Into 2022**
The head of Microsoft's games business told The Wrap that a shortage of chips wasn't the only thing stopping the company getting as many Xbox Series X/S consoles onto store shelves as it would like. From a report: "I think it's probably too isolated to talk about it as just a chip problem," he said. "When I think about, what does it mean to get the parts necessary to build a console tod ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nEtgZ79zSVI/xbox-boss-says-console-supply-issues-will-continue-into-2022)
2021-09-30T15:25:00Z	**YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for 'Violence'**
An anonymous reader shares a report: You probably don't know Paul Weedon by name, but you've probably seen him get punched in the face. He is the man behind the "I can't believe you've done this" meme, an old, viral video in which he talks to the camera for a few seconds before someone off camera sucker-punches him mid-sentence. It's a canonical internet video that has spread  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xj_oSd8CUG4/youtube-removes-legendary-meme-video-after-14-years-for-violence)
2021-09-30T16:07:00Z	**Google Urges EU Judges To Cut or Cancel a 'Staggering' $5 Billion Fine**
Google called on European Union judges to cut or cancel a "staggering" 4.3 billion euro ($5 billion) antitrust fine because the search giant never intended to harm rivals. From a report: The company "could not have known its conduct was an abuse" when it struck contracts with Android mobile phone makers that required them to take its search and web-browser apps, Google  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vWReo3QIOeA/google-urges-eu-judges-to-cut-or-cancel-a-staggering-5-billion-fine)
2021-09-30T16:51:00Z	**Rick Scott Probes LinkedIn, Microsoft on Censoring US Journalists in China**
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Microsoft and LinkedIn leadership on Thursday questioning why LinkedIn censored the profiles of U.S. journalists from the company's China-based platform this week, according to a letter obtained by Axios. From a report: LinkedIn -- which is owned by Microsoft -- notified several U.S. journalists this week, including Ax ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wg-87kMQIr8/rick-scott-probes-linkedin-microsoft-on-censoring-us-journalists-in-china)
2021-09-30T17:30:00Z	**Natural-gas Prices Are Spiking Around the World**
Across the world, a natural-gas shortage is starting to bite. Prices of power in Germany and France have soared by around 40% in the past two weeks. In many countries, including Britain and Spain, governments are rushing through emergency measures to protect consumers. Economist: Factories are being temporarily switched off, from aluminium smelters in Mexico to fertiliser plants in Britain. Markets are frantic.  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s2koVwqreyQ/natural-gas-prices-are-spiking-around-the-world)
2021-09-30T18:00:00Z	**Anonymous: We've Leaked Disk Images Stolen From Web Host Epik**
slack\_justyb writes: As previously reported the web host Epik was hacked by a group identifying themselves with the group Anonymous. However, in the most recent leaks from this group the scale of data that was stolen is becoming apparent, and signs point to a wholesale theft of data with no stone left unturned. We're told the dump is a 70GB archive of files and "several bootable disk i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MGAu1CHGuGU/anonymous-weve-leaked-disk-images-stolen-from-web-host-epik)
2021-09-30T18:47:00Z	**Chinese Espionage Group Deploys New Rootkit Compatible With Windows 10 Systems**
At the SAS 2021 security conference today, analysts from security firm Kaspersky Lab published details about a new Chinese cyber-espionage group that has been targeting high-profile entities across South East Asia since at least July 2020. From a report: Named GhostEmperor, Kaspersky said the group uses highly sophisticated tools and is often focused  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZY9-bNmg93M/chinese-espionage-group-deploys-new-rootkit-compatible-with-windows-10-systems)
2021-09-30T19:25:00Z	**Oracle Loses Appeal Against $3 Billion Payment To HPE Over Withdrawal of Itanium Support**
The Supreme Court of California has thrown out Oracle's appeal against a decision to award $3 billion damages to HPE in a case which dates back a decade and relates to Big Red's commitment to develop on Itanium hardware. From a report:On Wednesday, the court denied a review of Oracle's appeal against a summary judgement, apparently  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VFd0D3l9Dww/oracle-loses-appeal-against-3-billion-payment-to-hpe-over-withdrawal-of-itanium-support)
2021-09-30T20:01:00Z	**Cloudflare To Enter Infrastructure Services Market With New R2 Storage Product**
Cloudflare, which has a network of data centers in 250 locations around the world, announced its first dalliance with infrastructure services today, an upcoming cloud storage offering called R2. From a report: Company co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince says that the idea for moving into storage as a service came from the same place as other ideas the c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/u-__nHD7PZg/cloudflare-to-enter-infrastructure-services-market-with-new-r2-storage-product)
2021-09-30T20:42:00Z	**New USB-C Logos Make Picking USB Cables, Chargers Less Confusing**
Choosing the correct USB-C charger and cable for you laptop is about as fun as visiting the dentist, but new logos released today should go a long way toward making easier. PCWorld: The USB Implementers Forum group that oversees the USB standard has released logos that easily indicate whether a cable or charger can hit the new 240 watt rating. Previous USB-C chargers and cables w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rJc3OAfDQjw/new-usb-c-logos-make-picking-usb-cables-chargers-less-confusing)
2021-09-30T21:25:00Z	**Blue Origin Has a Toxic Culture, Former and Current Employees Say**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A former communications executive at Blue Origin and 20 other current and former employees have written a blistering essay about the company's culture, citing safety concerns, sexist attitudes, and a lack of commitment to the planet's future. "In our experience, Blue Origin's culture sits on a foundation that ignores the pl ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oKVb13i4EoM/blue-origin-has-a-toxic-culture-former-and-current-employees-say)
2021-09-30T22:02:00Z	**Telegram Bots Are Trying To Steal Your One-time Passwords**
Telegram-powered bots are being utilized to steal the one-time passwords required in two-factor authentication (2FA) security. From a report: The ransomware threat is growing: What needs to happen to stop attacks getting worse? On Wednesday, researchers from Intel 471 said that they have seen an "uptick" in the number of these services provided in the web's underground, and over the past few  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/c5Ms2Rcl318/telegram-bots-are-trying-to-steal-your-one-time-passwords)
2021-09-30T22:40:00Z	**TikTok Launches First Creator-Led NFT Collection**
TikTok, the world's most downloaded app with over 1 billion monthly active users, has lined up its own NFT drop. The company's first-ever NFT collection "leverages content from some of its top creators, including Lil Nas X, Grimes, Bella Poarch, Rudy Willingham and Gary Vaynerchuk," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The release of one-of-one and limited edition NFTs seems to be focused on generating buzz am ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tMAALu9inos/tiktok-launches-first-creator-led-nft-collection)
2021-09-30T23:12:00Z	**Zoom and Five9 Abandon $14.7 Billion Acquisition**
Cloud contact center software company Five9 and video calling software maker Zoom said Thursday they will not go forward with Zoom's plan to acquire Five9 for $14.7 billion. From a report: Five9 shares fell 2% in extended trading following the statement from the companies, which said the acquisition didn't receive enough votes from Five9 shareholders. A branch of the U.S. Department of Justice was reviewing the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kiNfLlKjtSQ/zoom-and-five9-abandon-147-billion-acquisition)
2021-10-01T00:02:00Z	**Developers Are Quitting To Escape From Your Bad Code**
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a ZDNet article, written by Liam Tung: [A] survey has come up with another reason why your engineers might want to quit -- their fellow developers' terrible code. Software engineers have long struggled with 'technical debt' created by past coding practices that might have been clever but also were undocumented and exotic. At a high level, technical debt is the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HFijhoAQse4/developers-are-quitting-to-escape-from-your-bad-code)
2021-10-01T00:45:00Z	**Fairphone's Latest Sustainable Smartphone Comes With a Five-Year Warranty**
New submitter thegreatnick writes: The next generation of Fairphone -- an attempt to make an ethical smartphone -- has been announced with the Fairphone 4. The base specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage (upgradeable to 8GB and 256GB). On the front, you'll get a 6.3-inch, 2340x1080 LCD display with slimmer bezels (compared ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M-whUa_ZeJg/fairphones-latest-sustainable-smartphone-comes-with-a-five-year-warranty)
2021-10-01T01:25:00Z	**Chip Shortage Leads Carmaker Opel To Shut German Plant Until 2022**
Carmaker Opel, which is part of the Stellantis group, said on Thursday it will close one of its plants in Germany until at least the end of the year due to chip shortages. Reuters reports: Production at the Eisenach plant, which makes internal combustion engine and hybrid electric cars, should start again in 2022, although an Opel spokesperson could not specify a date. Some 1, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7_jN5uixuww/chip-shortage-leads-carmaker-opel-to-shut-german-plant-until-2022)
2021-10-01T02:02:00Z	**Apple Pay With Visa Hacked To Make Payments Via Unlocked iPhones**
Researchers have demonstrated that someone could use a stolen, unlocked iPhone to pay for thousands of dollars of goods or services, no authentication needed. Threatpost reports: An attacker who steals a locked iPhone can use a stored Visa card to make contactless payments worth up to thousands of dollars without unlocking the phone, researchers are warning. The problem is due t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IImWRtkxn4Y/apple-pay-with-visa-hacked-to-make-payments-via-unlocked-iphones)
2021-10-01T03:30:00Z	**A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause 'Havana Syndrome'**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets -- not microwave weapons -- according to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News. The State Department report was written b ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/daYx4ze70Bs/a-declassified-state-department-report-says-microwaves-didnt-cause-havana-syndrome)
2021-10-01T05:10:00Z	**Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users' and Models' Personal Information**
samleecole shares a report from Motherboard: Some former OnlyFans support staff employees still had access to users' data -- including sensitive financial and personal information -- even after they stopped working for the company used by sex workers to sell nudes and porn videos. According to a former OnlyFans employee who asked to remain anonymous bec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Rpi3J_jXvP0/former-onlyfans-employees-could-access-users-and-models-personal-information)
2021-10-01T07:00:00Z	**AI Can Predict If It Will Rain In Two Hours' Time**
Artificial intelligence can tell whether it is going to rain in the next two hours, research suggests. The BBC reports: Scientists at Google-owned London AI lab DeepMind and the University of Exeter partnered with the Met Office to build the so-called nowcasting system. Traditional methods use complex equations and often forecast for only between six hours and two weeks' time. The AI system can make more accu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SFEd8wRhPAM/ai-can-predict-if-it-will-rain-in-two-hours-time)
2021-10-01T10:00:00Z	**Recent Siri Changes Remove Features Used By Low Vision and Blind Users**
With the recent release of iOS 15, Apple appears to have made some changes to Siri functionality that have removed features relied on by low vision and blind iPhone users. MacRumors reports: Several Siri commands that provide details on phone calls, voicemails, and sending emails no longer appear to be working. The following commands used to be functional, but have r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w6KrNc0GLyU/recent-siri-changes-remove-features-used-by-low-vision-and-blind-users)
2021-10-01T13:00:00Z	**Low Oxygen Levels Along PNW Coast a 'Silent' Climate Change Crisis**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Oregon Live: Nearly two decades ago, fishers discovered an odd occurrence off the coast of Oregon. They were pulling up pots of dead or lethargic crabs. At first they suspected a chemical spill or a red tide. But instead, they learned, dangerously low levels of dissolved oxygen in the ocean water were to blame. The crabs had suffocated. ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A8wyfk2tr68/low-oxygen-levels-along-pnw-coast-a-silent-climate-change-crisis)
2021-10-01T14:04:00Z	**Nintendo Denies Rumors of New Switch Pro Model**
A Bloomberg report claiming 11 game developers have access to Nintendo Switch 4K development kits is sparking confusion about the existence of the rumored Nintendo Switch Pro. Axios: Bloomberg published a story yesterday in which it says that employees at the game companies, including Zynga, claim to have the dev kits. That system wouldn't be out until at least late next year, Bloomberg reports. Nintendo has disav ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oDaifWQzsXU/nintendo-denies-rumors-of-new-switch-pro-model)
2021-10-01T14:42:00Z	**Utilities Took Public Money, Gave CEOs Millions, and Then Turned People's Lights Off During the Pandemic**
A new report finds that some of the country's most powerful utilities raked in millions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds last year -- while continuing to shut off service for households across the U.S. during the pandemic. Gizmodo: The report, released Thursday from the Center for Biological Diversi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wbsV1tsfTjs/utilities-took-public-money-gave-ceos-millions-and-then-turned-peoples-lights-off-during-the-pandemic)
2021-10-01T15:22:00Z	**South Korea Broadband Firm Sues Netflix After Traffic Surge from 'Squid Game'**
South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the U.S. firm's content, an SK spokesperson said on Friday. From a report: The move comes after a Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet se ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gwLy0qVmC0Y/south-korea-broadband-firm-sues-netflix-after-traffic-surge-from-squid-game)
2021-10-01T16:00:00Z	**Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney Among Companies Backing Groups Against Climate Bill**
mspohr writes: Some of America's most prominent companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation, despite their own promises to combat the climate crisis, a new analysis has found. A clutch of corporate lobby groups and organizations have mobilized to  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ze6vvmxhr2M/apple-amazon-microsoft-and-disney-among-companies-backing-groups-against-climate-bill)
2021-10-01T16:40:00Z	**DeFi Bug Accidentally Gives $90 Million To Users**
phalse phace writes: Robert Leshner, the founder of Compound Labs, just sent out a tweet pleading its users to return the $90.1 million in COMP tokens it accidentally deposited to user accounts.

 Users of the popular DeFi staking protocol received the platform's crypto tokens after a system upgrade went epically wrong. As an incentive, Leshner told users to "keep 10% as a white-hat. Otherwise, it's being r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ec9cmQOLey4/defi-bug-accidentally-gives-90-million-to-users)
2021-10-01T17:23:00Z	**Microsoft Announces Office 2021 Features and Pricing**
Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company is finally detailing the features and pricing today. From a report: Office 2021 will be the next standalone version of Microsoft's Office suite, designed for businesses and consumers who want to avoid the subscription version of Office. Office Home and Student 2021 will be priced at $149.99 and include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FXyUSJbOKD4/microsoft-announces-office-2021-features-and-pricing)
2021-10-01T18:00:00Z	**Google Is Scrapping Its Plan To Offer Bank Accounts To Users**
Google is abandoning plans to pitch bank accounts to its users, marking a retreat from an effort to make the tech giant a bigger name in finance. The Wall Street Journal: The Alphabet unit announced almost two years ago that users of its Google Pay digital wallet would be able to sign up for enhanced checking accounts and debit cards at a handful of financial institutions large and smal ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CfP1miIV-cw/google-is-scrapping-its-plan-to-offer-bank-accounts-to-users)
2021-10-01T18:41:00Z	**Tech Giants Brace For Impact in India as New Payments Rule Goes Into Effect**
Apple, Google, Sony, Zoom, PayPal and several other tech companies as well as scores of banks have cautioned customers and partners in India to expect a surge in declined transactions as the world's second-largest internet market's central bank enforces a new directive for the way recurring payments are processed in the country. From a report: The Reserve B ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bhP65nIhe1g/tech-giants-brace-for-impact-in-india-as-new-payments-rule-goes-into-effect)
2021-10-01T19:30:00Z	**Biden Administration To Convene 30 Countries To Crack Down on Ransomware Threat**
The White House will convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the threat of ransomware to economic and national security, President Joe Biden said in a statement shared exclusively with CNN. From a report: "Cyber threats affect the lives and livelihoods of American families and businesses," national securit ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0braTXDFl0A/biden-administration-to-convene-30-countries-to-crack-down-on-ransomware-threat)
2021-10-01T21:01:00Z	**Hackers Bypass Coinbase 2FA To Steal Customer Funds**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: More than 6,000 Coinbase users had funds stolen from their accounts after hackers used a vulnerability in Coinbase's SMS-based two-factor authentication system to breach accounts. The intrusions took place earlier this year, between March and May, the exchange said in a data breach notification letter it has filed with US state attorney general offices ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kSel6yjJ9Zw/hackers-bypass-coinbase-2fa-to-steal-customer-funds)
2021-10-01T21:40:00Z	**Samsung Removes Ads From Its One UI Android Apps**
After years of Samsung filling up its stock apps with ads, the company is finally stopping that practice. As of today, Samsung Pay, Weather, and Health have officially stopped serving ads. 9to5Google reports: Users in the Samsung Community Forums found that ads had suddenly disappeared from the Samsung Pay app, and an investigation from the folks over at TizenHelp unearthed a comment from a Samsung employee th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OXXAOn3_B7w/samsung-removes-ads-from-its-one-ui-android-apps)
2021-10-01T22:20:00Z	**Disney, Scarlett Johansson Resolve 'Black Widow' Lawsuit**
In a statement released Thursday, Scarlett Johansson said she has resolved her legal dispute with Disney. "I am happy to have resolved our differences with Disney," said Johansson. "I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done together over the years and have greatly enjoyed my creative relationship with the team. I look forward to continuing our collaboration in years to come." The movie star file ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kQUOKFzhz1E/disney-scarlett-johansson-resolve-black-widow-lawsuit)
2021-10-01T23:00:00Z	**California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students**
skam240 writes: California has just become the first state to add Covid-19 vaccination to its list of required vaccines for in-school attendance. "The requirement will go into effect at the start of the term that follows the FDA's full approval for that grade group -- either January 1 or July 1," reports CNN, citing a release from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iXO5lPEOwuA/california-becomes-first-state-to-require-covid-19-vaccination-for-students)
2021-10-01T23:40:00Z	**Grocery Store Opens 'Chat Registers' For Lonely Customers**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A Dutch supermarket chain says it will introduce 200 "chat registers" in its stores for customers who aren't in a hurry and want to have a chat during checkout. The initiative, announced by the popular supermarket chain Jumbo on Monday, is meant to combat loneliness -- especially in the country's elderly population. According to Statistics N ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2a3ouUdCYa4/grocery-store-opens-chat-registers-for-lonely-customers)
2021-10-02T00:20:00Z	**California DMV Gives Cruise and Waymo OK To Charge For Rides**
On Thursday, the California DMV issued autonomous deployment permits to Cruise and Waymo, "which is a necessary step if the robotaxis are to charge passengers for their rides," reports The Verge. From the report: San Franciscans might have to be night owls to catch a Cruise; the DMV's authorization gives Cruise permission to operate on surface streets within a geofenced area of San Fran ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dhZud82DouA/california-dmv-gives-cruise-and-waymo-ok-to-charge-for-rides)
2021-10-02T01:00:00Z	**Who Censored Marie Antoinette's Letters? X-Rays Reveal a Surprise**
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In late 1791 and early 1792, on the eve of the French Revolutionary Wars, Queen Marie Antoinette engaged in a secret correspondence with her confidant and rumored lover, Swedish Count Axel von Fersen. Nearly 50 letters from that exchange survive at the French National Archives. But certain passages in 15 of the letters were unreadab ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/30tCwCcB_Mc/who-censored-marie-antoinettes-letters-x-rays-reveal-a-surprise)
2021-10-02T03:30:00Z	**Meet Molnupiravir, Merck's Pill That Cuts COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death By About Half**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An oral antiviral drug appears to cut the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 by roughly 50 percent in people newly diagnosed with the infection and at risk for severe disease, pharmaceutical company Merck announced Friday morning. The drug-maker and its partner,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vXSHFtbDVSQ/meet-molnupiravir-mercks-pill-that-cuts-covid-19-hospitalization-and-death-by-about-half)
2021-10-02T07:00:00Z	**Europe's BepiColombo Spacecraft To Attempt Its First Swing Past Mercury Tonight**
A spacecraft bound for the planet Mercury will take a first look at the target tonight, when it makes its first-ever flyby of the small rocky world during an incredibly close encounter tonight. Space.com reports: The mission, called BepiColombo, is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oX6Cdy9Ff_g/europes-bepicolombo-spacecraft-to-attempt-its-first-swing-past-mercury-tonight)
2021-10-02T10:00:00Z	**Study Finds People Enjoy Deep Conversations With Strangers**
People benefit from deep and meaningful conversations that help us forge connections with one another, but we often stick to small talk with strangers because we underestimate how much others are interested in our lives and wrongly believe that deeper conversations will be more awkward and less enjoyable than they actually are, according to research published by the American Psychological A ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YuizbC3VP_s/study-finds-people-enjoy-deep-conversations-with-strangers)
2021-10-02T13:00:00Z	**Linguists Lament Slang Ban In London School**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A London secondary school is trying to stop its pupils from using "basically" at the beginning of sentences and deploying phrases such as "oh my days" in a crackdown on "fillers" and "slang" in the classroom. Ark All Saints academy has produced lists of "banned" language which includes "he cut his eyes at me", which the Collins dictionary says originates in the Cari ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PKDn45dxV5Y/linguists-lament-slang-ban-in-london-school)
2021-10-02T14:34:00Z	**'The Big Delete:' Inside Facebook's Crackdown in Germany**
"Days before Germany's federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions," reports the Associated Press.

The crackdown, announced Sept. 16, was the first use of Facebook's new "coordinated social harm" policy aimed at stopping not ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/W7feOrYxYr8/the-big-delete-inside-facebooks-crackdown-in-germany)
2021-10-02T15:34:00Z	**Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy**
The American media company Ozy "boasted of a large audience for its general interest website, its newsletters and its videos," remembers the New York Times, calling it "a Gen X dream of what millennial media ought to be: earnest, policy-focused, inclusive, slickly sans-serif." Ozy was founded in 2013 with seed funding from Laurene Powell Jobs, follow ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QLtOMFGN8Is/bought-web-traffic-and-a-fake-youtube-executive-the-spectacular-failure-of-ozy)
2021-10-02T16:34:00Z	**Alliance Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM Vows to Protect Rights and Privacy With 'Trusted Cloud Principles'**
ZDNet reports:
Some of the world's largest tech giants — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce/Slack, Atlassian, SAP, and Cisco — have joined forces to establish the Trusted Cloud Principles in what they are claiming is their commitment to protecting the rights o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BuyfVtX5bOc/alliance-including-amazon-google-microsoft-and-ibm-vows-to-protect-rights-and-privacy-with-trusted-cloud-principles)
2021-10-02T17:34:00Z	**Netflix Reveals Its Most-Watched TV Shows and Movies of All Time**
Netflix's co-CEO revealed a list Monday showing its top shows and movies of all-time, reports NBC News. The list revealed that the 19th-century drama Bridgerton "was its most watched TV series ever, with 82 million subscribers tuning in for at least two minutes in its first 28 days on the service..."

French series "Lupin: Part 1" and season one of "The Witcher," a fantasy s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iBoMiePDStE/netflix-reveals-its-most-watched-tv-shows-and-movies-of-all-time)
2021-10-02T18:34:00Z	**More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America's Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor**
Last month U.S. President Biden issued "a mandate that all companies with more than 100 workers require vaccination or weekly testing," rememembers the New York Times, and "also moved to mandate shots for health care workers, federal contractors and a vast majority of federal workers, who could face discipli ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ia1qVJ8deMI/more-vaccinations-less-pushback-americas-vaccine-mandates-are-working-says-public-health-professor)
2021-10-02T19:34:00Z	**Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux's Longevity**
An anonymous reader writes: This week saw the annual check-in with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America, this year held in Seattle (as well as virtually). Torvalds took the stage for the event's traditional half-hour of questions from Dirk Hohndel, an early Linux contributor (now also the chief open source officer and vice president at VMware) in an afternoon keynote ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nc2LCZFixIU/linus-torvalds-on-community-rust-and-linuxs-longevity)
2021-10-02T20:34:00Z	**Chip Shortage Makes GM Scrap Its Hands-Free Highway Driving Feature**
"Like a half-filled bag of salty snacks, there simply aren't enough semiconductor chips to go around these days," writes CNET.
"At General Motors, the crisis struck one of its biggest cash cows as Cadillac confirmed too few chips led it to scrap the Super Cruise [hands-free highway driving] feature from its flagship Escalade SUV."
Slashdot reader McGruber writes:

 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8zAKHWaXhQc/chip-shortage-makes-gm-scrap-its-hands-free-highway-driving-feature)
2021-10-02T21:34:00Z	**Neiman Marcus Discloses a 2020 Data Breach That Impacted 4.6 Million Customers**
"American luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group has just disclosed a major data breach impacting approximately 4.6 million customers," reports Ars Technica.

"The breach occurred sometime in May 2020 after 'an unauthorized party' obtained the personal information of some Neiman Marcus customers from their online accounts."

Neiman Marcus is worki ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eP5pxJq5qIo/neiman-marcus-discloses-a-2020-data-breach-that-impacted-46-million-customers)
2021-10-02T22:34:00Z	**How Miami's Mayor Hopes to Build a New (and Crypto-Friendly) Silicon Valley**
Miami is a city "that unblushingly loves rule-breaking and money," according to a new article in New York magazine, wondering whether Miami could ever really replace Silicon Valley as "a more natural home — and maybe even an accelerant — for the next generation of disruption fiends."

On December 4, Delian Asparouhov, a venture capitalist in San Franci ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jnb6IVGlMzQ/how-miamis-mayor-hopes-to-build-a-new-and-crypto-friendly-silicon-valley)
2021-10-03T01:34:00Z	**Millions Experience Browser Problems After Long-Anticipated Expiration of 'Let's Encrypt' Certificate**
"The expiration of a key digital encryption service on Thursday sent major tech companies nationwide scrambling to deal with internet outages that affected millions of online users," reports the Washington Examiner.

The expiring certificate was issued by Let's Encrypt — though ZDNet notes there's been  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KX4l41M3Trc/millions-experience-browser-problems-after-long-anticipated-expiration-of-lets-encrypt-certificate)
2021-10-03T03:34:00Z	**Newly-Published Evidence Undermines China Lab-Leak Theory**
In 1999 Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik won a Pulitzer Prize. Now a business columnist for the Times, he writes that "new evidence undermines the COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it."

 A paper posted online [in September] chiefly by researchers at France's Institut Pasteur and under consideration for publication in a Nature journal...reports that three vir ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eR4SmLO6EDM/newly-published-evidence-undermines-china-lab-leak-theory)
2021-10-03T07:34:00Z	**Crypto Platform Mistakenly Gives $90M to Its Users, Asks Them To Please Give It Back**
Bleeping Computer reports on Compound, "an Ethereum-based money market protocol that enables users to earn interest or borrow assets against collateral."
"Yesterday, due to an erroneous upgrade process, the decentralized finance platform ended up spilling out Ethereum assets worth $90 million to its users..."

Compound's founder Robert ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AwdpcGScOOo/crypto-platform-mistakenly-gives-90m-to-its-users-asks-them-to-please-give-it-back)
2021-10-03T11:34:00Z	**FSF Announces 'JShelter' Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware**
This week the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the JShelter project, "an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection."
The browser add-on — supported by NLnet Foundation's Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Priva ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Krq2r6-29As/fsf-announces-jshelter-browser-privacy-extension-to-block-fingerprinting-tracking-and-malware)
2021-10-03T14:34:00Z	**Can High-Powered Lasers Unlock the Secrets of Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics?**
Phys.org reports that a newly published theoretical/computer-modeling study "suggests that the world's most powerful lasers might finally crack the elusive physics behind some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe — gamma ray bursts, pulsar magnetospheres, and more."

The study comes from an international team including research ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Rv6VagbaZE4/can-high-powered-lasers-unlock-the-secrets-of-strong-field-quantum-electrodynamics)
2021-10-03T15:34:00Z	**New 'Babylon 5' Reboot Being Developed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski**
Back in 2014 Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski answered questions from Slashdot's readers.

And now this week, long-time Slashdot reader Jaegs writes: According to many sources and the Babylon 5 creator/writer/director/producer himself, J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), the CW — partly owned by the original Babylon 5 producer and rights ho ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CiK_2F7p56w/new-babylon-5-reboot-being-developed-by-original-creator-j-michael-straczynski)
2021-10-03T16:34:00Z	**Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Hit Another Record In Q3, Beats Analysts' Estimates**
Tesla announced that it's delivered a new record number of electric cars in its third quarter, according to Reuters, "beating Wall Street estimates after Chief Executive Elon Musk asked staff to 'go super hardcore' to make a quarter-end delivery push."

Slashdot reader McGruber shared Reuters' report:

Tesla has weathered the chip crisis better than ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/q9BGG-Yyo7s/tesla-vehicle-deliveries-hit-another-record-in-q3-beats-analysts-estimates)
2021-10-03T17:34:00Z	**Ransomware Gangs are Complaining That Other Crooks are Stealing Their Ransoms**
"Cyber criminals using a ransomware-as-a-service scheme have been spotted complaining that the group they rent the malware from could be using a hidden backdoor to grab ransom payments for themselves," reports ZDNet:

REvil is one of the most notorious and most common forms of ransomware around and has been responsible for several major incidents. T ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H5tCa7cIv0M/ransomware-gangs-are-complaining-that-other-crooks-are-stealing-their-ransoms)
2021-10-03T18:34:00Z	**Is the Coronavirus Just Getting Better at Airborne Transmission?**
A New York Times science/global health reporter reminds us that "Newer variants of the coronavirus like Alpha and Delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus."
But then they add that "Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air."

Most researchers now agree that the coronavirus ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Du-R-r_Jb7I/is-the-coronavirus-just-getting-better-at-airborne-transmission)
2021-10-03T19:34:00Z	**Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: the Most Polluting Machinery Still in Legal Use**
"Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use," James Fallows writes.
"According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BJ-gjDtUQK8/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-most-polluting-machinery-still-in-legal-use)
2021-10-03T20:34:00Z	**Java's Enhancement Proposals Pursue Virtual Threads, Data Aggregate Types, and Better Communication with C Libraries**
Oracle's Java magazine takes a look at some current JDK Enhancement Proposals, "the vehicle of long standing for updating the Java language and the JVM."

Today, concurrency in Java is delivered via nonlightweight threads, which are, for all intents, wrappers around operating ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/u4CtUFMP5GY/javas-enhancement-proposals-pursue-virtual-threads-data-aggregate-types-and-better-communication-with-c-libraries)
2021-10-03T21:34:00Z	**Ancient Footprints Could Be Oldest Traces of Humans in the Americas**
Opyros writes: Fossil footprints in New Mexico have been dated to 21,000-23,000 years before present. As a result, human habitation of the Americas can be pushed back several thousand years. The footprints were found in sedimentary rock at White Sands National Park, near the location of a long-vanished lake. Since the rock contains seeds of ditchgrass, it was possible to a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hUvybhsYkO4/ancient-footprints-could-be-oldest-traces-of-humans-in-the-americas)
2021-10-03T22:34:00Z	**Why Chip-Constrained Carmakers Can't Just Transition To Newer Chips**
Car buyers are discovering that supply chain constraints "have thrusted prices upwards considerably for new and used vehicles alike," notes Jalopnik.

But while last month Fortune ran an article headlined "Chipmakers to carmakers: Time to get out of the semiconductor Stone Age," Jalopnik argues it's not that simple.
The implication here is that the auto industry is fa ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VTA8LpOSx1o/why-chip-constrained-carmakers-cant-just-transition-to-newer-chips)
2021-10-04T01:35:00Z	**Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators**
An Iowa data scientist with a computer engineering degree and a Harvard MBA has come forward as the whistleblower leaking damaging information to the Wall Street Journal — and that's just the beginning. They've now also filed at least eight complaints with America' ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/05MKHparFpI/facebook-whistleblower-speaks-shares-documents-on-deliberate-lies-and-disregard-of-misinformation-contacts-us-regulators)
2021-10-04T04:34:00Z	**New Zealand Might Launch Its Own Digital Currency**
"New Zealand's central bank is exploring the possibility of issuing a digital currency, saying the benefits it would bring include its potential use as a monetary policy tool," reports Bloomberg. The central bank cites "the declining use, acceptance and availability of cash in New Zealand, and emerging innovations in private money, namely stablecoins."

While developing a central bank digital currency wo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g3W22H7IboU/new-zealand-might-launch-its-own-digital-currency)
2021-10-04T07:34:00Z	**Call Center-Pranking 'Scambaiters' Amass Millions of Fans on Social Media**
The Guardian reports on "a new breed of scambaiters...taking over TikTok and YouTube."

And one of them has more than 1.5 million followers across both video platforms. "Three to four days a week, for one or two hours at a time, Rosie Okumura, 35, telephones thieves and messes with their minds," reports the Guardian:

For the past two years, the LA-based  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MKK55MyCJbo/call-center-pranking-scambaiters-amass-millions-of-fans-on-social-media)
2021-10-04T11:34:00Z	**Andrew Yang Suggests Power May Affects Politicians' Brain Neurons**
Today tech entrepreneur-turned-politician Andrew Yang candidly reflected on the pitfalls of power that he'd learned about during his 2020 run for president. "In national politics, it turns out, you're not as much the CEO as you are yourself the product... [E]veryone in my orbit started treating me like I might be a presidential contender. I was getting a crash course in how we  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-d33su06BlA/andrew-yang-suggests-power-may-affects-politicians-brain-neurons)
2021-10-04T14:00:00Z	**The Medicine Nobel Prize Honors the Discovery of Temperature and Touch Receptors**
The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to U.S.-based scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. From a report: They were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch. The winners were announced Monday by Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the Nobel Committee.Patrik Ernfors of the Nobel Co ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/m23YMv_nZcs/the-medicine-nobel-prize-honors-the-discovery-of-temperature-and-touch-receptors)
2021-10-04T14:40:00Z	**The Surprising Downsides To Planting Trillions of Trees**
Large tree-planting initiatives often fail -- and some have even fueled deforestation. From a report: On November 11, 2019, volunteers planted 11 million trees in Turkey as part of a government-backed initiative called Breath for the Future. In one northern city, the tree-planting campaign set the Guinness World Record for the most saplings planted in one hour in a single location: 303,150. "By p ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2IddOwiy8fo/the-surprising-downsides-to-planting-trillions-of-trees)
2021-10-04T15:22:00Z	**A Three-Day Work Week? One Startup Experiments To Draw Talent**
A shortage of technology talent has Indian companies offering sweeteners like more vacation time and gender-neutral parental leave as they compete for graduates and professionals. One Bangalore startup is trying a more dramatic solution: a three-day work week. From a report: Fintech company Slice is offering new hires a three-day week with salary at 80% of the going market rate. This i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IWz4xoA70lA/a-three-day-work-week-one-startup-experiments-to-draw-talent)
2021-10-04T16:00:00Z	**Chinese AI Gets Ethical Guidelines For the First Time, Aligning With Beijing's Goal of Reining in Big Tech**
China has revealed its first set of ethical guidelines governing artificial intelligence, placing emphasis on protecting user rights and preventing risks in ways that align with Beijing's goals of reining in Big Tech's influence and becoming the global AI leader by 2030. From a report: Humans shoul ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D7KppCEXqUI/chinese-ai-gets-ethical-guidelines-for-the-first-time-aligning-with-beijings-goal-of-reining-in-big-tech)
2021-10-04T16:40:00Z	**Clearview AI Has New Tools To Identify People in Photos**
Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to peer into our lives. Now the company's CEO wants to use artificial intelligence to make Clearview's surveillance tool even more powerful. From a report: It may make it more dangerous and error-prone as well. Clearview has collected billions of ph ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UKKZWC4q-Zg/clearview-ai-has-new-tools-to-identify-people-in-photos)
2021-10-04T17:20:00Z	**The World Wants Greenland's Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary**
The island has rare elements needed for electric cars and wind turbines. But protesters are blocking one project, signaling that mining companies must tread carefully. From a report: This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea. But increasingly Greenland is known for something else ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oK2JYm56Sk8/the-world-wants-greenlands-minerals-but-greenlanders-are-wary)
2021-10-04T18:01:00Z	**McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Opioid Makers While Also Working for the Agency**
Ian MacDougall, reporting for ProPublica: Since 2008, McKinsey & Company has regularly advised the Food and Drug Administration's drug-regulation division, according to agency records. The consulting giant has had its hand in a range of important FDA projects, from revamping drug-approval processes to implementing new t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XA97QFwna6g/mckinsey-never-told-the-fda-it-was-working-for-opioid-makers-while-also-working-for-the-agency)
2021-10-04T18:21:00Z	**Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now**
Facebook -- and all the major services that Facebook owns -- are down today. ArsTechnica: We first noticed the problem at about 11:30 am Eastern time, when some Facebook links stopped working. Investigating a bit further showed major DNS failures at Facebook: "Google anycast DNS returns SERVFAIL for Facebook  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hura8pj_NAQ/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-have-been-suffering-global-outage-for-more-than-3-hours-now)
2021-10-04T19:21:00Z	**Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Discloses It Was Hacked**
A company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several others around the world such as Vodafone and China Mobile, quietly disclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, impacting more than 200 of its clients and potentially millions of cellphone users worldwide. From a rep ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xc-_uK14MWU/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-discloses-it-was-hacked)
2021-10-04T20:01:00Z	**Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court**
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a lingering appeal by Oracle stemming from its challenge to the now-scrapped $10 billion cloud-computing contract the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft in 2019. From a report: The rejection was a formality given the Defense Department's decision in July to drop the contract and divide the work among multiple bidders, potentially between Microsoft and Ama ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5cBk6WVnwJU/oracle-appeal-over-jedi-contract-turned-away-by-supreme-court)
2021-10-04T20:35:00Z	**Microsoft Releases Windows 11 a Day Early**
Windows 11 is now officially available to download. While Microsoft is launching Windows 11-powered hardware worldwide on October 5th, the company has made the OS update available early for eligible devices in New Zealand and beyond. From a report: If you've purchased a Windows 10 machine recently, that means you should be able to upgrade to Windows 11 right now. For everyone else, the rollout of Windows 11 will be gradual. ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ipmfqgJJzfA/microsoft-releases-windows-11-a-day-early)
2021-10-04T21:20:00Z	**The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac's 'Tabs'**
John Gruber shares thoughts on the new ways tabs feel and function on Safari for Mac: From a usability perspective, every single thing about Safari 15's tabs is a regression. Everything. It's a tab design that can only please users who do not use tabs heavily; whereas the old tab design scaled gracefully from "I only open a few tabs at a time" all the way to "I have hundreds of tabs open across multiple windows." That's a disg ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/096HYgGv05Q/the-tragedy-of-safari-15-for-macs-tabs)
2021-10-04T22:00:00Z	**Researcher Refuses Telegram's Bounty Award, Discloses Auto-Delete Bug**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019. But the researcher who reported the bug isn't pleased with Telegram's months-long turnaround time -- and an offered $1,159 bounty award in exchange for his silence. In Febru ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mwD2h8xkmKE/researcher-refuses-telegrams-bounty-award-discloses-auto-delete-bug)
2021-10-04T22:20:00Z	**Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now [Update]**
Facebook -- and all the major services that Facebook owns -- are down today. ArsTechnica: We first noticed the problem at about 11:30 am Eastern time, when some Facebook links stopped working. Investigating a bit further showed major DNS failures at Facebook: "Google anycast DNS returns SERVFA ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JliBtQTc74A/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-have-been-suffering-global-outage-for-more-than-3-hours-now-update)
2021-10-04T22:40:00Z	**Zuckerberg Loses $6 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges**
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world's richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook's flagship products offline. Bloomberg reports: A selloff sent the social-media giant's stock plummeting 4.9% on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15% since mid-September. The stock s ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1GlFKqF69vQ/zuckerberg-loses-6-billion-in-hours-as-facebook-plunges)
2021-10-04T23:20:00Z	**Ukrainian Cops Cuff Two Over $150 Million Ransomware Gang Allegations, Seize $1.3 Million In Cryptocurrency**
Ukrainian police have reportedly arrested two members of a ransomware gang -- and while some have fingered REvil, no firm details have been published by cops from multiple countries. The Register reports: A round of speculation was triggered when inter-EU law enforcement body Europol declared this  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jNBuMqCJKFg/ukrainian-cops-cuff-two-over-150-million-ransomware-gang-allegations-seize-13-million-in-cryptocurrency)
2021-10-05T00:02:00Z	**Google Releases Android 12 To AOSP, But No Pixel Launch Today**
In a significant departure from previous years, Google today rolled out Android 12 to AOSP but did not launch any devices, including Pixel phones. "Today we're pushing the source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the latest version of Android," [said Dave Burke, VP of Engineering, in a blog post. "Keep an eye out for Android 12 coming to a device near y ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ekOvcW1x6ec/google-releases-android-12-to-aosp-but-no-pixel-launch-today)
2021-10-05T00:45:00Z	**UK Plans To Invest 5 Billion Pounds In Retaliatory Cyberattacks**
The United Kingdom has revealed plans to invest 5 billion pounds ($6.8 billion) in bolstering national cybersecurity that includes creating a "Cyber Force" unit to perform retaliatory attacks. BleepingComputer reports: As the UK's Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace points out in an interview with The Telegraph, Britain isn't just looking to strengthen its stance against th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dMTt7safytc/uk-plans-to-invest-5-billion-pounds-in-retaliatory-cyberattacks)
2021-10-05T01:25:00Z	**Bug Puts $162 Million Up For Grabs, Says Founder of DeFi Platform Compound**
We thought the carnage was over for popular decentralized finance, or DeFi, staking protocol Compound, but as it turns out, millions more than we thought are at risk. About $162 million is up for grabs after an upgrade gone very wrong, according to Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Labs. CNBC reports: At first, the Compound chief tweeted Friday that there was ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZzqEDPh-gcE/bug-puts-162-million-up-for-grabs-says-founder-of-defi-platform-compound)
2021-10-05T02:02:00Z	**Germany Unveils World's First Commercial Plant For Making Synthetic Kerosene**
German officials on Monday unveiled what they said is the world's first commercial plant for making synthetic kerosene, touted as a climate-friendly fuel of the future. The Associated Press reports: The facility in Werlte, near Germany's northwestern border with the Netherlands, will use water and electricity from four nearby wind farms to produce hydrogen ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/voCHBxQQ6QQ/germany-unveils-worlds-first-commercial-plant-for-making-synthetic-kerosene)
2021-10-05T03:30:00Z	**A Surgically Implanted Brain Stimulation Device Could Help Treat Severe Depression**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Sarah was the patient in a proof-of-concept trial of a new approach to treating severe, treatment-resistant depression, published today in the journal Nature Medicine. The findings open up another possible strategy for helping people with the disorder. The study only involved Sarah, and it's  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0ounS8j59dg/a-surgically-implanted-brain-stimulation-device-could-help-treat-severe-depression)
2021-10-05T07:00:00Z	**Squid Game Subtitles 'Change Meaning' of Netflix Show**
According to fluent Korean speaker Youngmi Mayer, Squid Game features "botched" subtitles that have changed the show's meaning for English-speaking viewers.

For those unaware of Squid Game, it's a Korean-language drama about an alternative world where people in debt compete in deadly games. The plot sees a group of people tempted into a survival game where they have the chance to walk away with 45 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jkh-zJldAMM/squid-game-subtitles-change-meaning-of-netflix-show)
2021-10-05T10:00:00Z	**Apple Finally Lets You Report App Store Scams**
Apple will now let you directly report a scammy app from its listing in the App Store with a new-and-improved version of its "Report a Problem" button. The Verge reports: As Richard Mazkewich and scam hunter Kosta Eleftheriou point out on Twitter, the button has not only returned to individual app listings for the first time in years, it now includes a dedicated "Report a scam or fraud" option in the drop-down menu. ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8srTkpvm2Sg/apple-finally-lets-you-report-app-store-scams)
2021-10-05T10:15:00Z	**Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To Scientists Whose Work Helps Predict Global Warming**
The Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the Nobel Prize in physics jointly to Syukuro Manabe of the United States and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany for modeling Earth's climate and predicting global warming. From a report: Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the other half of the prize for describing fluctuating physical systems on scales fr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d3LO76iuyio/nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-to-scientists-whose-work-helps-predict-global-warming)
2021-10-05T13:00:00Z	**FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission hopes to reduce the number of illegal robocalls from overseas with an expansion of rules that require phone companies to implement Caller ID authentication technology and block illegal calls. [T]he FCC is proposing new requirements on domestic gateway providers that acc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/14b_O2iNbgM/fcc-plans-to-rein-in-gateway-carriers-that-bring-foreign-robocalls-to-us)
2021-10-05T14:01:00Z	**Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To Scientists Whose Work Helps Predict Global Warming**
The Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the Nobel Prize in physics jointly to Syukuro Manabe of the United States and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany for modeling Earth's climate and predicting global warming. From a report: Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the other half of the prize for describing fluctuating physical systems on scales fr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d3LO76iuyio/nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-to-scientists-whose-work-helps-predict-global-warming)
2021-10-05T14:40:00Z	**Singapore Passes Foreign Interference Law Allowing Authorities To Block Internet Content**
Singapore's parliament has passed a law aimed at preventing foreign interference in domestic politics, which the opposition and activists have criticised as a tool to crush dissent. From an AFP report: The law, approved after a marathon session that stretched to near midnight on Monday, would allow authorities to compel internet se ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K6YISJtuxjI/singapore-passes-foreign-interference-law-allowing-authorities-to-block-internet-content)
2021-10-05T15:38:00Z	**Apache Fixes Actively Exploited Web Server Zero-day**
The Apache Software Foundation has released a security patch to address a vulnerability in its HTTP Web Server project that has been actively exploited in the wild. From a report: Tracked as CVE-2021-41773, the vulnerability affects only Apache web servers running version 2.4.49 and occurs because of a bug in how the Apache server converts between different URL path schemes (a process called path or URI  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mTZSKjf1rs0/apache-fixes-actively-exploited-web-server-zero-day)
2021-10-05T16:01:00Z	**Bitcoin Set To Become Legal Payment in Brazil**
Brazil's Federal Deputy Aureo Ribeiro has revealed that Brazilians could soon be able to buy houses, cars and even McDonald's with Bitcoin. From a report: The South American nation is preparing to vote on a cryptocurrency regulation bill which is expected to be presented to the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies within the next few days. "We want to separate the wheat from the chaff, create regulations so that you c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KZ5KqQjQYeo/bitcoin-set-to-become-legal-payment-in-brazil)
2021-10-05T16:42:00Z	**US Lawmakers Demand Facebook Probes; Whistleblower Says Children Harmed**
U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children and stokes divisions. Reuters: Coming a day after Facebook and its units including Instagram suffered a major outa ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/o7Bi5G4Ay90/us-lawmakers-demand-facebook-probes-whistleblower-says-children-harmed)
2021-10-05T17:20:00Z	**Remembering Steve Jobs, 10 Years Later**
Jony Ive: Steve was preoccupied with the nature and quality of his own thinking. He expected so much of himself and worked hard to think with a rare vitality, elegance and discipline. His rigor and tenacity set a dizzyingly high bar. When he could not think satisfactorily he would complain in the same way I would complain about my knees.

As thoughts grew into ideas, however tentative, however fragile, he recognized that this  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G6DUgPf1yyc/remembering-steve-jobs-10-years-later)
2021-10-05T18:05:00Z	**Amazon is Working on a Smart Fridge That Tracks What's Inside**
Amazon is reportedly aiming to bring some of the tech it uses at cashierless Amazon Go stores to your kitchen. According to Insider, the company has been working on a smart fridge that can monitor items and help you order replacements if you're running low on something. From a report: The team behind the Amazon Go systems is said to be heading the charge on the project, which has been  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/c31S5VlwGeA/amazon-is-working-on-a-smart-fridge-that-tracks-whats-inside)
2021-10-05T18:50:00Z	**Ransomware Bill Would Give Victims 48 Hours To Report Payments**
Victims of ransomware attacks would be required to report payments to their hackers within 48 hours under a proposal from Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Democratic Representative Deborah Ross. From a report: The Ransom Disclosure Act would give the Department of Homeland Security data on ransomware payments, including the amount of money demanded and paid, and the type of c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J2fDqdsqCr8/ransomware-bill-would-give-victims-48-hours-to-report-payments)
2021-10-05T19:30:00Z	**Russian Actress and Director To Start Making First Movie on Space Station**
The first dog in space. The first man and woman. Now Russia has clinched another spaceflight first before the United States: Beating Hollywood to orbit. From a report: A Russian actress, Yulia Sherepild, a director, Klim Shipenko, and their veteran Russian astronaut guide, Anton Shkaplerov, launched on a Russian rocket toward the International Space Station on  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_j-xKr2fxi0/russian-actress-and-director-to-start-making-first-movie-on-space-station)
2021-10-05T20:06:00Z	**Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed**
Evolved Apes is described on NFT marketplace OpenSea as "a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs trapped inside a lawless land." They are "fighting for survival, only the strongest ape will prevail," it says, referring to the project's much-hyped fighting game, which has not materialized. From a report: A week after the project launch, the anonymous developer known as Evil A ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VpGEOtVUrfo/investors-spent-millions-on-evolved-apes-nfts-then-they-got-scammed)
2021-10-05T20:42:00Z	**Microsoft Explains How It Keeps PC Makers Happy While Also Competing With Them**
The partners that license Windows haven't always supported Microsoft's moves to step on their turf with its own tablets and laptops. So how is Microsoft navigating those relationships now? From a report: The CEO of Acer told the Financial Times Microsoft should "think twice" when it first introduced its Surface tablet in 2012. And Asus reportedly felt ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C4mbA-SphsU/microsoft-explains-how-it-keeps-pc-makers-happy-while-also-competing-with-them)
2021-10-05T21:22:00Z	**NASA's 'Armageddon'-style Asteroid Deflection Mission Takes Off Next Month**
NASA has a launch date for that most Hollywood of missions, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which is basically a dry run of the movie "Armageddon." From a report: Unlike the film, this will not involve nukes, oil rigs or Aerosmith, but instead is a practical test of our ability to change the trajectory of an asteroid in a significant and predictable way. T ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3H20kPqjbEI/nasas-armageddon-style-asteroid-deflection-mission-takes-off-next-month)
2021-10-05T22:00:00Z	**Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks To Deploy During Civil Unrest**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: [O]rganizers and programmers with the Mycelium Mesh Project are [...] designing a decentralized, off-grid mesh network for text communications that could be deployed quickly during government-induced blackouts or natural disasters. Mesh networks, a form of intranet distributed across various nodes rather than a central  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/McUZHu7uJq4/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest)
2021-10-05T22:40:00Z	**Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage**
Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday's Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours. Reuters reports: Facebook blamed its outage, which kept its 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenge ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/78040AxZn-U/telegram-founder-says-over-70-million-new-users-joined-during-facebook-outage)
2021-10-05T23:20:00Z	**Microsoft's<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET Foundation Under Fire As Resigning Board Member Questions Its Role**
The role of Microsoft's .NET Foundation, set up for the governance and support of open-source .NET and related projects, has been questioned by a former board member who resigned in frustration. Here's an excerpt from The Register's report: Rodney Littles II is a software engineer at Megsoft Consulting and core maintainer of  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MlfD6Tfk5Wc/microsofts-net-foundation-under-fire-as-resigning-board-member-questions-its-role)
2021-10-06T00:02:00Z	**The Nation's Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The largest public library system in the country has become the latest to eliminate all late fees. Effective immediately, the New York Public Library system will not charge fines on overdue materials, and all library card holders have had their accounts cleared of any prior late fees or fines, including replacement fees fo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eGfeUfWaYY4/the-nations-largest-public-library-system-is-ending-late-fees-forever)
2021-10-06T00:45:00Z	**Oculus Quest Becomes a Paperweight When Facebook Goes Down**
When Facebook went down yesterday for nearly six hours, so did Oculus' services. Since Facebook owns VR headset maker Oculus, and controversially requires Oculus Quest users to log in with a Facebook account, many Quest owners reported not being able to load their Oculus libraries. "[A]nd those who just took a Quest 2 out of the box have reported that they're unable to complete the initial  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9yHcNpMNAoE/oculus-quest-becomes-a-paperweight-when-facebook-goes-down)
2021-10-06T01:25:00Z	**Google Is About To Turn On Two-Factor Authentication By Default For Millions of Users**
Google is reminding us that it will enable two-factor authentication for 150 million more accounts by the end of this year. The Verge reports: In 2018, Google said that only 10 percent of its active accounts were using two-factor authentication. It has been pushing, prodding, and encouraging people to enable the setting ever since. Anoth ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Or6ubD4-YaY/google-is-about-to-turn-on-two-factor-authentication-by-default-for-millions-of-users)
2021-10-06T02:02:00Z	**Scientists Have Successfully Recorded Data To DNA In a Few Short Minutes**
Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a new method for recording information to DNA that takes minutes rather than hours or days. Interesting Engineering reports: The researchers utilized a novel enzymatic system to synthesize DNA that records rapidly changing environmental signals straight into its sequences, and this method could revolutionize how ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1c1zfr7syxY/scientists-have-successfully-recorded-data-to-dna-in-a-few-short-minutes)
2021-10-06T03:30:00Z	**UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations' weather agency. Global water management is "fragmented and inadequate," the report published Tuesd ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y-7qgKCTiro/un-report-warns-of-global-water-crisis-amid-climate-change)
2021-10-06T07:00:00Z	**Sony Planning To Make PS3, Vita Stores Nearly Unusable**
As spotted by Kotaku, Sony has decided to discontinue credit card and PayPal payment options for both the PS3 and the PS Vita on October 27th, 2021, making it frustratingly difficult to use these stores. From the report: To actually buy video games on your video game device, you will need to go to a secondary location and purchase a physical gift card, which you can then use to purchase video games. ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RX7LAMnwOFI/sony-planning-to-make-ps3-vita-stores-nearly-unusable)
2021-10-06T10:00:00Z	**Instagram Ditches the IGTV Brand, Combines Everything But Reels Into An 'Instagram Video' Format**
On Tuesday, Instagram announced that it will now combine IGTV's long-form video and Instagram Feed videos into a new format called simply "Instagram Video." TechCrunch reports: These videos, both longer and shorter, will be found on users' profiles in a new "Video" tab. Meanwhile, when people encounter videos on Instag ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ldlgdyxNfgE/instagram-ditches-the-igtv-brand-combines-everything-but-reels-into-an-instagram-video-format)
2021-10-06T13:00:00Z	**D-Wave Announces New Hardware, Compiler, and Plans For Quantum Computing**
On Tuesday, D-Wave released its roadmap for upcoming processors and software for its quantum annealers. The company is also announcing that it's going to be developing its own gate-based hardware, which it will offer in parallel with the quantum annealer. Ars Technica's John Timmer talked with company CEO Alan Baratz to understand all the announcements. An anonymou ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hPfZqL8dxxo/d-wave-announces-new-hardware-compiler-and-plans-for-quantum-computing)
2021-10-06T14:00:00Z	**Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded To Scientists for Creating a Tool To Build Molecules**
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for their development of a new tool to build molecules, work that has spurred advances in pharmaceutical research and lessened the impact of chemistry on the environment. From a report: Their work, while unseen by consumers, is an essential pa ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/30eUrXa4XAY/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-to-scientists-for-creating-a-tool-to-build-molecules)
2021-10-06T14:40:00Z	**Apple To Face EU Antitrust Charge Over NFC Chip**
Apple will be hit with an EU antitrust charge over its NFC chip technology -- Reuters reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter -- a move that puts it at risk of a possible hefty fine and could force it to open its mobile payment system to rivals. From a report: The iPhone maker has been in European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's crosshairs since June last year when she launched an i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BzpEY5i11AY/apple-to-face-eu-antitrust-charge-over-nfc-chip)
2021-10-06T15:21:00Z	**Google To Invest $1 Billion in Africa Over Five Years**
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent's digital transformation, it said on Wednesday. From a report: The unit of U.S. tech company Alphabet made the announcement at a virtual event where it launched an Africa Investment Fund, through which it will invest $50 million in startups, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IhSchJR39BU/google-to-invest-1-billion-in-africa-over-five-years)
2021-10-06T16:00:00Z	**Russia Tells Its Space Reporters To Stop Reporting On the Space Program**
FallOutBoyTonto writes: It is safe to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a fan of independent media. In the run-up to elections last month, Putin declared almost every independent media organization operating inside the country a "foreign agent" to stifle dissent and criticism. The intent seems to be to destroy independent media in Russia.

Now, t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tDBvkRKHuKA/russia-tells-its-space-reporters-to-stop-reporting-on-the-space-program)
2021-10-06T16:45:00Z	**Historic Go-ahead for Malaria Vaccine To Protect African Children**
Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. From a report: Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. Having a vaccine -- after more than a century of trying -- is among medicine's greatest achievements. The vaccine -- called RT ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AdyqkCjHRYE/historic-go-ahead-for-malaria-vaccine-to-protect-african-children)
2021-10-06T17:24:00Z	**Twitch Source Code and Business Data Leaked**
An unknown individual has leaked the source code and business data of video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on the 4chan discussion board earlier today. From a report: The leaker said they shared the data as a response to the recent "hate raids" --coordinated bot attacks posting hateful and abusive content in Twitch chats -- that have plagued the platform's top streamers over the summer. "Their commu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qHbAqeV1gWA/twitch-source-code-and-business-data-leaked)
2021-10-06T18:11:00Z	**How Downdetector Has Become Go-To Site for Online Disruptions**
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Facebook's platforms went down early on Oct. 4, the online tracker Downdetector was among the first places users looked to find out what was happening. Downdetector, which uses crowdsourcing to track outages, recognized Facebook's problems were dramatically different than a typical outage. Its system automatically released a notification, incl ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GaiSiG59TI8/how-downdetector-has-become-go-to-site-for-online-disruptions)
2021-10-06T18:41:00Z	**Cold Case Team Says It Has Identified the Zodiac Killer**
A team of more than 40 specialists believes that they have identified the Zodiac Killer, an unnamed serial murderer who operated in the San Fransisco Bay area in the 1960s. From a report: The Case Breakers, a team consisting of former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence officers, said in a press release that they believe they have identified the Zodiac Killer as G ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5twPKwmzUac/cold-case-team-says-it-has-identified-the-zodiac-killer)
2021-10-06T19:20:00Z	**US Presses Crypto Exchanges To Block Ransomware Profits**
The Justice Department is creating a new team to investigate and prevent hackers from using cryptocurrency exchanges to remain anonymous while extorting money from victims of their attacks, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Wednesday. From a report: The main goal of the new enforcement team is to take down the infrastructure and "criminal supply chain" that allows hackers to carry out rans ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z-EqLBPxGzc/us-presses-crypto-exchanges-to-block-ransomware-profits)
2021-10-06T20:05:00Z	**Earth Is Getting Dimmer**
Earth is losing some of its glow, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters last week shows. It appears climate change and a natural climate shift have essentially scuffed up our planet. From a report: The study takes a look at earthshine, or the light reflected from the planet that casts a faint light on the surface of the Moon. It's also known as the Da Vinci Glow, because Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to formally write about it. Research h ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pJyE3UcfE3U/earth-is-getting-dimmer)
2021-10-06T20:45:00Z	**Navy Facebook Account Hacked To Stream 'Age of Empires'**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The U.S. Navy has lost control of the official Facebook page for its destroyer-class warship, the USS Kidd. Someone has hacked the page and, for the past two days, done nothing but stream Age of Empires. The first stream went on for four hours. As first reported by Task & Purpose, the USS Kidd lost control of its Facebook account at 10:26 p.m. o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aHHxkBM5JnQ/navy-facebook-account-hacked-to-stream-age-of-empires)
2021-10-06T21:25:00Z	**European Parliament Calls For a Ban On Facial Recognition**
The European Parliament today called for a ban on police use of facial recognition technology in public places, and on predictive policing, a controversial practice that involves using AI tools in hopes of profiling potential criminals before a crime is even committed. Politico reports: In a resolution adopted overwhelmingly in favor, MEPs also asked for a ban on private facial recognition da ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S_zvIDl-80c/european-parliament-calls-for-a-ban-on-facial-recognition)
2021-10-06T22:02:00Z	**Windows 11 Might Tank Ryzen CPU Performance, AMD Warns**
AMD said Windows 11 can cut game performance on Ryzen CPUs by 10 to 15 percent, and the operating system may not utilize AMD's "preferred core" technology, but a fix is in the works. PCWorld reports: A support note on AMD's web site published this week said Windows 11 may increase L3 cache latency a whopping threefold, which can cause slowdowns in latency sensitive applications. Lighter duty, cache- ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3kvp7JhNv9A/windows-11-might-tank-ryzen-cpu-performance-amd-warns)
2021-10-06T22:40:00Z	**China PCR Purchases Spiked In Months Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The Chinese province that was the initial epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak made significant purchases of equipment used to test for infectious diseases months before Beijing notified international authorities of the emergence of a new coronavirus, according to research by a cybersecurity company. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D1N_QBDay4A/china-pcr-purchases-spiked-in-months-before-first-known-covid-cases-firm-says)
2021-10-06T23:20:00Z	**Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022**
Apple says that as of January 31st, 2022, all applications will need to offer people a method of deleting their accounts. This applies to all iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps. Engadget reports: The company announced this requirement alongside other App Store guideline changes at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June as part of a push to give use ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Didsfg4QQ6A/apple-says-apps-must-offer-a-way-to-delete-your-account-starting-in-early-2022)
2021-10-07T00:01:00Z	**A Blank Wall Can Show How Many People Are in a Room and What They're Doing**
Stare at a blank wall in any room, and you are unlikely to learn much more than the paint color. But a new technology can inconspicuously scan the same surface for shadows and reflections imperceptible to the human eye, then analyze them to determine details, including how many people are in the room -- and what they are doing. From a report: This could be use ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3uZ0mm6RnNI/a-blank-wall-can-show-how-many-people-are-in-a-room-and-what-theyre-doing)
2021-10-07T00:45:00Z	**Microsoft Shares Windows 11 TPM Check Bypass For Unsupported PCs**
Microsoft has published a new support webpage where they provide an official method to bypass the TPM 2.0 and CPU checks (TPM 1.2 is still required) and have Windows 11 installed on unsupported systems. Bleeping Computer reports: [I]t looks like Microsoft couldn't ignore the fact that bypassing TPM checks is fairly simple, so to avoid having people breaking their systems by usin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YXeLOea7Lds/microsoft-shares-windows-11-tpm-check-bypass-for-unsupported-pcs)
2021-10-07T01:25:00Z	**Google Maps Can Now Show You the Most Fuel-Efficient Route**
Google has introduced a number of new "eco-friendly routing" tools to Google Maps, including the ability to view the route that's most fuel-efficient, and how much you can save on fuel with a slight detour. Here's a list of the new features rolling out for consumers, as reported by Fast Company:
1.) When you search for flights on Google, you'll see the CO2 emissions for each flight, with  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7dfb42JJbA8/google-maps-can-now-show-you-the-most-fuel-efficient-route)
2021-10-07T02:02:00Z	**GitHub Removes GTA Fan Projects re3 and reVC Following New Take-Two DMCA Notice**
After Take-Two Interactive sent a legal letter to Github referencing a copyright infringement lawsuit against the people behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects, Github has now removed the repositories for a second time. Take-Two has also demanded the removal of many project forks and wants Github to take action under its repea ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rGXtMM5cwPA/github-removes-gta-fan-projects-re3-and-revc-following-new-take-two-dmca-notice)
2021-10-07T03:30:00Z	**A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About To Become a Very Big Business**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: At Duke University's Marcus Center for Cellular Cures, parents can enroll their children into a number of clinical trials that aim to study the effects of cells derived from umbilical cord blood on treating the effects of autism and brain injuries; adults can also participate in a trial testing whether cord bloo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VzQnrNAD7OU/a-controversial-autism-treatment-is-about-to-become-a-very-big-business)
2021-10-07T07:00:00Z	**A French Company Is Using Enzymes To Recycle One of the Most Common Single-Use Plastics**
In late September, Carbios, a French startup, opened a demonstration plant in central France to test the use of enzymes to recycle PET, one of the most common single-use plastics and the material used to make most beverage bottles. MIT Technology Review reports: While we've had mechanical methods for recycling some plastics, like PET ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1sDGMFygmss/a-french-company-is-using-enzymes-to-recycle-one-of-the-most-common-single-use-plastics)
2021-10-07T10:00:00Z	**Valve Opens Up a Steam Deck To Explain Why It Thinks You Shouldn't**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve has posted an official teardown of its upcoming handheld gaming PC, the Steam Deck. Before diving into the teardown, though, the company spends about a minute to strongly caution against taking one apart unless you're sure you know what you're doing. "Even though it's your PC -- or it will be once you've received your  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fiaVUzl_IX8/valve-opens-up-a-steam-deck-to-explain-why-it-thinks-you-shouldnt)
2021-10-07T13:00:00Z	**US To Tell Critical Rail, Air Companies To Report Hacks, Name Cyber Chiefs**
The Transportation Security Administration will introduce new regulations that compel the most important U.S. railroad and airport operators to improve their cybersecurity procedures, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday. From a report: The upcoming changes will make it mandatory for "higher-risk" rail transit companies and "critical ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LIzcERZeMh0/us-to-tell-critical-rail-air-companies-to-report-hacks-name-cyber-chiefs)
2021-10-07T14:02:00Z	**Apple and Google Under Antitrust Scrutiny in Japan for Mobile OS**
Japan's Fair Trade Commission will investigate whether Apple and Google are leveraging their dominance in the smartphone operating system market to eliminate competition and severely limit options for consumers. From a report: The study will involve interviews and surveys with OS operators, app developers and smartphone users, commission Secretary-General Shuichi Sugahisa told r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1Szdb5LceiY/apple-and-google-under-antitrust-scrutiny-in-japan-for-mobile-os)
2021-10-07T14:45:00Z	**Apple App Store Payment Rules Anti-competitive, Dutch Watchdog Finds**
The Dutch antitrust authority has found that Apple's rules requiring software developers to use its in-app payment system are anti-competitive and ordered it to make changes, Reuters reported on Thursday, in the latest regulatory setback for the iPhone maker. From a report: Apple's app-store payment policies, in particular its requirement that app developers exclusively u ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uCGOCcwWxSI/apple-app-store-payment-rules-anti-competitive-dutch-watchdog-finds)
2021-10-07T15:21:00Z	**Twitch's Security Problems Started Long Before This Week's Hack**
A massive security breach at Twitch has exposed a wealth of information pertaining to the website's source code, unreleased projects, and even how much the top streamers make. As data analysts and journalists work to decipher what exactly is contained in the hundreds of gigabytes of information, others are still wondering how this happened. From a report: Such a breach seemed like i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5iwOgqy8w3E/twitchs-security-problems-started-long-before-this-weeks-hack)
2021-10-07T16:04:00Z	**Robots Take Over Italy's Vineyards as Wineries Struggle With Covid-19 Worker Shortages**
Italian winemakers have increasingly relied on migrant workers for the autumn harvest, but travel restrictions and soaring wage costs are pushing many to turn to machines. From a report: Last year's grape harvest was a harrowing scramble at Mirko Cappelli's Tuscan vineyard. With the Italian border closed because of the pandemic, the Eas ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VRYmPlJDEos/robots-take-over-italys-vineyards-as-wineries-struggle-with-covid-19-worker-shortages)
2021-10-07T16:41:00Z	**Norway To Hit 100% Electric Vehicle Sales Early Next Year**
Norway is on track to bid farewell to the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars by April 2022, according to new analysis released by the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF). From a report: According to monthly new car sales data released by Norway's Road Traffic Information Council (OVF), the last internal combustion engine vehicle is set to leave the dealership next April, almost three ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QJMLgwSw6jo/norway-to-hit-100-electric-vehicle-sales-early-next-year)
2021-10-07T17:25:00Z	**Africa Internet Riches Plundered, Contested by China Broker**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Outsiders have long profited from Africa's riches of gold, diamonds, and even people. Digital resources have proven no different. Millions of internet addresses assigned to Africa have been waylaid, some fraudulently, including through insider machinations linked to a former top employee of the nonprofit that assigns the continent's addresses. Instead o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gNs8LJ57RkM/africa-internet-riches-plundered-contested-by-china-broker)
2021-10-07T18:05:00Z	**Microsoft Makes a Mouse From Recycled Ocean Plastic**
New submitter myinnerbanjo writes: With plastics in oceans becoming more and more of a global disaster, Microsoft uses recycled ocean plastic to create a new computer mouse:"We wanted to do something that's different," said Corinne Holmes, director of environmental compliance, Windows & Devices. "I don't want the clean stuff. We wanted to push the bar. This plastic wasn't from a collection bin sitting on ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/E66kJ6davVg/microsoft-makes-a-mouse-from-recycled-ocean-plastic)
2021-10-07T18:45:00Z	**Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions**
waspleg writes: Mozilla is now showing ads in the form of sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions when U.S. users type in the URL address bar. Mozilla says the feature was introduced with Firefox 92 in September to fund development and optimization. Mozilla describes Firefox Suggest contextual suggestions as opt-in, in BleepingComputer's tests and from what users have reported, the feature ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uYDs0Nj-Qng/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions)
2021-10-07T19:25:00Z	**Microsoft: Russia Behind 58% of Detected State-backed Hacks**
Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members, the company said. From a report: The devastating effectiveness of the long-undetected SolarWinds hack -- it mainly breached information technology busin ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xa7FND85Ytg/microsoft-russia-behind-58-of-detected-state-backed-hacks)
2021-10-07T20:05:00Z	**Taiwan's TSMC, After US Request, Says It Won't Leak Sensitive Info**
Taiwan chipmaker TSMC will not leak any sensitive company information as part of a White House request for details on the ongoing semiconductor crisis that has forced cuts to U.S. auto production, the company's general counsel said. From a report: The White House made the request to automakers, chip companies and others last month. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said a volu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Toj8ITJmprk/taiwans-tsmc-after-us-request-says-it-wont-leak-sensitive-info)
2021-10-07T20:45:00Z	**Ireland Signs On To Global Deal Seeking To Curb Tax Avoidance**
Ireland, a low-tax country that is the European headquarters to some of the largest U.S. technology companies, said it would join a global agreement to set a minimum rate of 15% for taxing corporate profits, easing the way to a final agreement on an overhaul of how multinationals are taxed around the world. From a report: Ireland had been one of a small number of holdouts when the out ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GQchInPotvo/ireland-signs-on-to-global-deal-seeking-to-curb-tax-avoidance)
2021-10-07T21:25:00Z	**Mnuchin Says Crypto Stablecoins 'Shouldn't Be Like Casino Chips'**
With U.S. financial officials poised to to issue a report on stablecoins, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the cryptocurrencies designed to be pegged to other assets such as the dollar should be regulated and their underlying funds put into banks. From a report: "They shouldn't be like casino chips," Mnuchin said Thursday at the Bloomberg Invest Global virtual con ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2qPmIOdqRdo/mnuchin-says-crypto-stablecoins-shouldnt-be-like-casino-chips)
2021-10-07T22:00:00Z	**Cloudflare Doesn't Have To Cut Off Copyright-Infringing Websites, Judge Rules**
An anonymous reader writes: Cloudflare is not liable for the copyright infringement of websites that use its content-delivery and security services, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Cloudflare was sued in November 2018 by Mon Cheri Bridals and Maggie Sottero Designs, two wedding dress manufacturers and sellers that alleged Cloudflare was guilty of contrib ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lqLIag86N3U/cloudflare-doesnt-have-to-cut-off-copyright-infringing-websites-judge-rules)
2021-10-07T22:40:00Z	**Comcast's Sky Jumping Into Television Business With Sky Glass**
phalse phace shares a report from The Verge: British Satellite broadcaster Sky is moving away from the satellite dishes that have defined its TV service for decades. Sky Glass is launching today, an ambitious effort to sell television sets that stream Sky TV content over Wi-Fi directly to consumers. There's no external box, no satellite dish, and no need for a soundbar. Although announ ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jLVUAcBcCOA/comcasts-sky-jumping-into-television-business-with-sky-glass)
2021-10-07T23:20:00Z	**Steve Jobs Tried To Convince Dell To License Mac Software**
It's been 10 years since the death of Steve Jobs. Michael Dell talks about his memories of the tech icon, including when Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software to run on Intel-based PCs. CNET reports: Fast forward to 1993. Jobs, ousted from Apple after a fallout with the company's board in 1985, had started a new company, called Next, and created a beautiful (but expensive) works ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ryP7nOQ6ySc/steve-jobs-tried-to-convince-dell-to-license-mac-software)
2021-10-08T00:02:00Z	**Tesla Moves Headquarters From California To Texas**
phalse phace writes: During Tesla's shareholder meeting today, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company's headquarters will be moving from California to Texas, making good on his threat to do so after Alameda County officials blocked the full reopening of Tesla's Fremont plant. Regardless of the move, Musk reiterated that Tesla would be increasing production at its California plant: "To be clear we will be c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yXTiQ3DsMnQ/tesla-moves-headquarters-from-california-to-texas)
2021-10-08T00:45:00Z	**Zodiac Expert Calls 'Bullshit' On Possible ID of Zodiac Killer**
"Tom Voigt, a Zodiac Killer expert and author who runs ZodiacKiller.com, pulls no punches when commenting on the story picked up by FoxNews that is now being posted at various news outlets including Slashdot," writes Slashdot reader ISayWeOnlyToBePolite. Rolling Stone spoke to Voigt on Wednesday about the bombshell report and why, in his opinion, it's "bullshit." From the article: By  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HVNwPNVCvko/zodiac-expert-calls-bullshit-on-possible-id-of-zodiac-killer)
2021-10-08T01:25:00Z	**Google and YouTube Will Cut Off Ad Money For Climate Change Deniers**
Google will no longer allow advertisers, publishers, and YouTube creators to monetize content that denies the existence of climate change. The Verge reports: The company detailed the changes in a support document on Thursday. "Today, we're announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishers and YouTube creators that will prohibit ads for, and monetizati ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9PuxqtsSt34/google-and-youtube-will-cut-off-ad-money-for-climate-change-deniers)
2021-10-08T02:02:00Z	**Intel Not Considering UK Chip Factory After Brexit**
The boss of Intel says the US chipmaker is no longer considering building a factory in the UK because of Brexit. The BBC reports: Pat Gelsinger told the BBC that before the UK left the EU, the country "would have been a site that we would have considered." But he added: "Post-Brexit... we're looking at EU countries and getting support from the EU." Intel is investing up to $95 billion on opening and upgrad ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X9w5TnBYxZQ/intel-not-considering-uk-chip-factory-after-brexit)
2021-10-08T03:30:00Z	**Hackers of SolarWinds Stole Data On US Sanctions Policy, Intelligence Probes**
An anonymous reader writes: The suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies emerged with information about counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country's response to COVID-19, people involved in the investigation told Reuters. The hacks were wide ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CeGyCAegaQY/hackers-of-solarwinds-stole-data-on-us-sanctions-policy-intelligence-probes)
2021-10-08T07:00:00Z	**WSU Will Lead $125 Million Global Project To Find, Analyze Animal Viruses**
Washington State University this week launched a new $125 million program to collect and analyze animal viruses with the aim of preventing the next pandemic. GeekWire reports: The program is funded with an award from the U.S. Agency for International Development and includes researchers at the University of Washington and the Seattle-based nonprofit PATH. The pro ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QKZ91UAnbtc/wsu-will-lead-125-million-global-project-to-find-analyze-animal-viruses)
2021-10-08T10:00:00Z	**US Department of Justice Creates Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit**
The US Department of Justice has created a team to investigate cryptocurrency-related crime. The Verge reports: The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) will handle investigations of "crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and money laundering infrastructure actors," the agency said in a news release. Mixing and tumbling services ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/k1x_HxJiYeg/us-department-of-justice-creates-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit)
2021-10-08T13:00:00Z	**Car Thieves Arrested After Using $27,000 Game Boy Device**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A gang of car thieves used a handheld device disguised as a Nintendo Game Boy to steal vehicles worth $245,000. Dylan Armer, Christopher Bowes and Thomas Poulson stole five Mitsubishi Outlanders by using the gadget to bypass the cars' security systems. West Yorkshire Police said the device, worth $27,000 could unlock and start a car "in a matter o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TTp-8qWZ3qM/car-thieves-arrested-after-using-27000-game-boy-device)
2021-10-08T14:00:00Z	**Microsoft Has Committed To Right To Repair**
Microsoft just promised it's going to make it easier for its customers to repair the products it sells in the near future. As first reported by Grist, the company will study the environmental impact of right-to-repair and act on its findings by the end of the next year. From a report: The initiative is a reaction to a shareholder resolution filed in June 2021 that demanded the company seriously consider the environmental  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7S4lyjNNxU8/microsoft-has-committed-to-right-to-repair)
2021-10-08T14:41:00Z	**Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls Out Apple for Promoting Its Services in the iPhone Settings Screen**
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, whose high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Apple is now under appeal, is today calling out the iPhone maker for giving itself access to an advertising slot its competitors don't have: the iPhone's Settings screen. From a report: Some iOS 15 users noticed Apple is now advertising i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/11aKj-oI9fU/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-calls-out-apple-for-promoting-its-services-in-the-iphone-settings-screen)
2021-10-08T15:38:00Z	**Twitch Defaced With Pictures of Jeff Bezos**
Hackers have managed to deface Twitch for a few hours this morning, replacing a number of background game images with photos of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. From a report: Users reported seeing images of Bezos in the listings for GTA V, Dota 2, Smite, Minecraft, Apex Legends, and many more on the Amazon-owned service. It's not clear how the background images were changed or whether this latest incident was aided by a huge secur ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_NX-W394Zzk/twitch-defaced-with-pictures-of-jeff-bezos)
2021-10-08T16:05:00Z	**Google To Give Security Keys To 'High Risk' Users Targeted by Government Hackers**
Google has said it will provide 10,000 "high-risk" users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers. From a report: The warning, sent by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), alerted more than 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted in a state-spo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vR-mBZIMTLs/google-to-give-security-keys-to-high-risk-users-targeted-by-government-hackers)
2021-10-08T16:58:00Z	**EU Questions Microsoft Rivals Over Teams Integration in Office**
EU antitrust regulators are following up on a complaint by Slack by asking Microsoft's rivals if its Teams app integrated with its Office product gives it greater clout, in a sign that they could open an investigation. From a report: In a questionnaire sent to rivals and seen by Reuters, the European Commission is focusing on the period 2016 to 2021. Microsoft introduced Teams in ea ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CvF87ldkONQ/eu-questions-microsoft-rivals-over-teams-integration-in-office)
2021-10-08T17:25:00Z	**Facebook Bans Developer Behind Unfollow Everything Tool**
A developer who made a tool that let people automatically unfollow friends and groups on Facebook says he's been banned permanently from the social networking site. From a report: Louis Barclay was the creator of "Unfollow Everything," a browser extension that allowed Facebook users to essentially delete their News Feed by unfollowing all their connections at once. Facebook allows users to indivi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RCoXaSUe2Bg/facebook-bans-developer-behind-unfollow-everything-tool)
2021-10-08T18:04:00Z	**Google Exec Calls on Apple To Adopt Better, More Secure Text Messaging**
Google executive Hiroshi Lockheimer has called on Apple to adopt the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol that would enable improved and more secure messaging between iPhone and Android devices. From a report: RCS brings a number of modern features -- including support for audio messages, group chats, typing indicators and read receipts -- and end-to-end encrypt ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mQfQd8ZIeOQ/google-exec-calls-on-apple-to-adopt-better-more-secure-text-messaging)
2021-10-08T18:45:00Z	**The Ship That Became a Bomb**
Stranded in Yemen's war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If -- or when -- it explodes or sinks, thousands may die. From a report: Soon, a vast, decrepit oil tanker in the Red Sea will likely sink, catch fire, or explode. The vessel, the F.S.O. Safer -- pronounced "Saffer" -- is named for a patch of desert near the city of Marib, in central Yemen, where the country's first reserves of crude oil were discovered ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bYICnxdW5Vg/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb)
2021-10-08T19:25:00Z	**Anyone Seen Tether's Billions?**
A wild search for the U.S. dollars supposedly backing the stablecoin at the center of the global cryptocurrency trade --- and in the crosshairs of U.S. regulators and prosecutors. From a report: In July, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen summoned the chair of the Federal Reserve, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and six other top officials for a meeting to discuss Tether. The absurdity of the situation couldn't have been lost on t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/a5kHfgwqH2A/anyone-seen-tethers-billions)
2021-10-08T19:50:00Z	**Facebook Says Some of Its Services Are Having Issues Again**
Instagram has been experiencing issues for many of us here at The Verge, but it turns out that the problem might be broader than that, according to a statement from Facebook. From a report: "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," Facebook said in a tweet. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qxBzR8AAIK4/facebook-says-some-of-its-services-are-having-issues-again)
2021-10-08T20:40:00Z	**BrewDog Exposes Data of 200,000 Customers and Shareholders**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechRadar: BrewDog, one of the world's largest craft beer brewers, has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to more than 200,000 of its shareholders and customers, according to cybersecurity researchers. Cybersecurity consulting firm PenTest Partners discovered that a flaw in the official BrewDog app, which persisted for more th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/axkebyWFOmU/brewdog-exposes-data-of-200000-customers-and-shareholders)
2021-10-08T21:20:00Z	**Elon Musk's SpaceX Hits $100 Billion Valuation**
The valuation of Elon Musk's SpaceX crossed $100 billion following a share sale by existing investors announced this week. CNBC reports: SpaceX has an agreement with new and existing investors to sell up to $755 million in stock from insiders at $560 a share, according to multiple people familiar with the deal -- increasing the company's valuation to $100.3 billion. The company did not raise new capital at this time ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XEh-HhiV9oY/elon-musks-spacex-hits-100-billion-valuation)
2021-10-08T22:01:00Z	**Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth**
After decades of effort, mathematicians now have a complete understanding of the complicated equations that model the motion of free boundaries, like the one between ice and water.

[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png)](http://twitter.com/home?status=Mathematicians+Prove+Melting+Ice+Stays+Smooth%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3BrxjTg)[![](https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png)](http://www.facebo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bEDmcB0xl48/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth)
2021-10-08T22:41:00Z	**The Rise of the Robo-Voices**
The next time you see a movie or TV show that was dubbed from a foreign language, the voices you hear may not belong to actors who rerecorded dialogue in a sound booth. In fact, they may not belong to actors at all. From a report: Highly sophisticated digital voice manufacturing is coming, and entertainment executives say it could bring a revolution in sound as industry-changing as computer graphics were for visuals. New companies are using artificial ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/x4ZSZuSjxoE/the-rise-of-the-robo-voices)
2021-10-08T23:20:00Z	**iPhone Apps No Better For Privacy Than Android, Oxford Study Finds**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Guide: A new survey has reached a startling conclusion: iPhone apps tend to violate your privacy just as often as Android apps do. "Overall, we find that neither platform is clearly better than the other for privacy across the dimensions we studied," say the academic paper entitled "Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy?" and pre ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ORRYnC5rBx8/iphone-apps-no-better-for-privacy-than-android-oxford-study-finds)
2021-10-09T00:02:00Z	**136 Countries Agree To Minimum Corporate Tax Rate**
A group of 136 countries have agreed to a global treaty that would tax large multinationals at a minimum rate of 15% and require companies to pay taxes in the countries where they do business. CNN reports: Estonia, Hungary and -- most notably -- Ireland joined the agreement Thursday. It is now supported by all nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G20. The countries tha ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g17MNQyfkPc/136-countries-agree-to-minimum-corporate-tax-rate)
2021-10-09T00:45:00Z	**Google Warns 14,000 Gmail Users Targeted By Russian Hackers**
Google has warned about 14,000 of its users about being targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, a threat group that has been linked to Russia. BleepingComputer reports: Shane Huntley, who is at the helm of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) that responds to government-backed hacking, notes that the higher-than-usual number of alerts this month comes from "from a small ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZW0xMB7i1RY/google-warns-14000-gmail-users-targeted-by-russian-hackers)
2021-10-09T01:25:00Z	**Xbox's Cloud Streaming Upgrade Means You Might Not Need A Series X**
Speaking to The Verge, representatives for Microsoft confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming now runs entirely on Xbox Series X hardware, wrapping up a backend upgrade that quietly kicked off over the summer. Kotaku reports: So, what's that mean? For one, the Xbox Series X can output games in 4K resolution. Though cloud gaming currently streams games at 60 frames per second, the ser ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MKYl3eEDja0/xboxs-cloud-streaming-upgrade-means-you-might-not-need-a-series-x)
2021-10-09T02:02:00Z	**Neuroscientists Roll Out First Comprehensive Atlas of Brain Cells**
A slew of 17 studies reveals the first comprehensive list of all cell types in the primary motor complex, offering "a starting point for tracing cellular networks to understand how they control our body and mind and how they are disrupted in mental and physical disorders," reports ScienceDaily. From the report: The 17 studies, appearing online Oct. 6 in the journal Nature, are ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RoB7GE19q8I/neuroscientists-roll-out-first-comprehensive-atlas-of-brain-cells)
2021-10-09T03:30:00Z	**White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The Biden administration is weighing an executive order on cryptocurrencies as part of an effort to set up a government-wide approach to the white-hot asset class, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposed directive would charge federal agencies to study and offer recommendations on relevant areas of crypto -- touching on fi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LJTUNTaXx7c/white-house-weighs-wide-ranging-push-for-crypto-oversight)
2021-10-09T07:00:00Z	**Astronaut Spots Rare and Ethereal 'Transient Luminous Event' From ISS**
"Transient luminous event" sounds like a euphemism for a ghost, but it's actually a beautiful phenomenon that can sometimes be seen from the International Space Station. European Space Agency astronaut and current ISS resident Thomas Pesquet shared a view of an ethereal blue glow emerging over Europe. CNET reports: Transient luminous events are caused by upper-atmospheri ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S-0Kb_TBw2k/astronaut-spots-rare-and-ethereal-transient-luminous-event-from-iss)
2021-10-09T10:00:00Z	**PC Building Simulator Is Free On the Epic Games Store**
PC Building Simulator is currently free on the Epic Games Store until October 17th. The Verge reports: Like the majority of sim games, PCBS speaks to a very specific type of fantasy. If your idea of a good time is overclocking your computer while managing a small business, this is a game that does exactly that. My favorite feature has to be making your work computer in-game look exactly like your com ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bmfCDzLGKhA/pc-building-simulator-is-free-on-the-epic-games-store)
2021-10-09T13:00:00Z	**Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes To Mozilla**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from How-To Geek: Firefox now sends more data than you might think to Mozilla. To power Firefox Suggest, Firefox sends the keystrokes you type into your address bar, your location information, and more to Mozilla's servers. Here's exactly what Firefox is sharing and how to control it. This change was made as part of the introduction of Firefox Suggest in Fire ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_7Vbc_N9_Ks/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla)
2021-10-09T14:34:00Z	**FSF Warns Windows 11 'Deprives Users of Freedom and Digital Autonomy'**
"October 5 marks the official release of Windows 11, a new version of the operating system that doesn't do anything at all to counteract Windows' long history of depriving users of freedom and digital autonomy," writes Free Software Foundation campaigns manager Greg Farough.

"While we might have been encouraged by Microsoft's vague, aspirational slogans about commun ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7YGDlX_AwJM/fsf-warns-windows-11-deprives-users-of-freedom-and-digital-autonomy)
2021-10-09T15:34:00Z	**3 Degrees Warmer, with Twice as Many 100-Degree Days: How Climate Change Will Affect Texas**
The Texas Tribune (an Austin-based non-profit digital news site) reports that climate change "has made the Texas heat worse, with less relief as nighttime temperatures warm, a report from the state's climatologist published Thursday found."

Climate data also show that the state is experiencing extreme rainfall — especially ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s0WZVJSDwP4/3-degrees-warmer-with-twice-as-many-100-degree-days-how-climate-change-will-affect-texas)
2021-10-09T16:34:00Z	**Did Death Cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?**
"Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?" asks the New York Times:

When the iconic physicist died on March 14, 2018, data was already in hand that could confirm an ominous and far-reaching prediction he had made more than four decades before. Dr. Hawking had posited that black holes, those maws of gravitational doom, could only grow larger, never smaller — swallowing information as they went  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oroJ_47A94k/did-death-cheat-stephen-hawking-of-a-nobel-prize)
2021-10-09T17:34:00Z	**US Government Investigators Still Believe Havana Syndrome is a Directed-Energy Attack**
The U.S. government's investigation into Havana Syndrome "is turning up new evidence that the symptoms are the result of directed-energy attacks," reports Politico, citing five U.S. lawmakers and officials who've been briefed on the matter:

Behind closed doors, lawmakers are also growing increasingly confident that Russia or another ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FboHy2acRzc/us-government-investigators-still-believe-havana-syndrome-is-a-directed-energy-attack)
2021-10-09T18:34:00Z	**Former Employees Allege Most of Ozy's 26M Newsletter Subscribers Were Purchased, Borrowed, or Kept Against Their Will**
Eight days ago Ozy announced it was shutting down after reports that the news site bought traffic, overstated its cable deals, and at one point even had its Chief Operating Officer impersonate a YouTube executive during a phone call with investors.
Then four days ago, Ozy's C ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cITuEgfx55E/former-employees-allege-most-of-ozys-26m-newsletter-subscribers-were-purchased-borrowed-or-kept-against-their-will)
2021-10-09T19:34:00Z	**US Flight Traffic Controllers Complain Military Tests Interfered with GPS Signals**
IEEE Spectrum reports that air traffic controllers for America's Federal Aviation Administration "were confused and frustrated by an increase in military tests that interfered with GPS signals for civilian aircraft, public records show."

The incidents happened for controllers supervising flights over Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, according ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9CcU4uz-s_4/us-flight-traffic-controllers-complain-military-tests-interfered-with-gps-signals)
2021-10-09T20:34:00Z	**New Data: Tech Companies Expand Hiring From 'Tech Hubs' to 'All Over The Place'**
"Just two years ago the metropolitan areas that serve as the nation's technology hubs seemed to be sucking tech jobs away from other parts of the country," remembers business writer Peter Coy in the New York Times. "A Brookings Institution report in December 2019 noted that just five cities — Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and San Jose, Cali ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PlL7DWOfKv4/new-data-tech-companies-expand-hiring-from-tech-hubs-to-all-over-the-place)
2021-10-09T21:34:00Z	**Should US Tax Collectors Get Reports From Banks About All Accounts Over $600?**
An anonymous reader tipped us off to a proposed new U.S. policy which would require banks, credit unions and other financial companies to submit reports on most of their accounts to the tax-collectors at America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The reports "would break down the numbers to include physical-cash transactions per account, any transactions w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jpeRJh4Dw9o/should-us-tax-collectors-get-reports-from-banks-about-all-accounts-over-600)
2021-10-09T22:34:00Z	**Beating C and Java, Python Becomes the #1 Most Popular Programming Language, Says TIOBE**
ZDNet reports that Python "is now the most popular language, according to one popularity ranking."

"For the first time in more than 20 years we have a new leader of the pack..." the TIOBE Index announced this month. "The long-standing hegemony of Java and C is over."

When Slashdot reached out to Guido van Rossum for a comment, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zH6SRmrAJTw/beating-c-and-java-python-becomes-the-1-most-popular-programming-language-says-tiobe)
2021-10-10T00:04:00Z	**Python Core Developers Release Version 3.10 -- First Major Release Since Transition from Python 2**
ZDNet reports:

"Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations," CPython maintainers announced in a blogpost...

One of the headline features is "structural pattern matching" in Python 3.10 -- a technique for handling data t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-JRQyE0djB4/python-core-developers-release-version-310----first-major-release-since-transition-from-python-2)
2021-10-10T01:34:00Z	**Lebanon's National Electricity Grid Collapses**
"Lebanon's electricity network collapsed on Saturday," reports the Washington Post, "after the two most important power stations ran out of fuel, leaving private generators as the only source of power."

The state-owned electricity company has been providing citizens with just a few hours of power a day for months, but the total collapse of the national grid will compound the misery of those who can't afford to r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z5R1U-Vf3AQ/lebanons-national-electricity-grid-collapses)
2021-10-10T03:34:00Z	**With Fewer Chips, Automakers Are Prioritizing High-Markup Vehicles, Offering Fewer Deals**
When automakers were forced to make fewer vehicles with the chips they had available, Business Insider reports that "Naturally, they chose to prioritize those models that had the highest demand and made them the most money.

"At the same time, the reduction in the supply from all brands meant that dealers could make a sale withou ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dF6Z_Y9wiLY/with-fewer-chips-automakers-are-prioritizing-high-markup-vehicles-offering-fewer-deals)
2021-10-10T07:34:00Z	**The Best Part of Windows 11 Is Its Linux, Argues Ars Technica**
The best part of Windows 11 is Linux, argues Ars Technica:
For years now, Windows 10's Windows Subsystem for Linux has been making life easier for developers, sysadmins, and hobbyists who have one foot in the Windows world and one foot in the Linux world. But WSL, handy as it is, has been hobbled by several things it could not do. Installing WSL has never been as easy as it should be ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eFY7Wbv61VI/the-best-part-of-windows-11-is-its-linux-argues-ars-technica)
2021-10-10T11:34:00Z	**Could Bitcoin Mining Really Provide Crucial Demand For Nuclear Power?**
Gizmodo takes a hard look at a "growing sense of excitement" about collaboration between bitcoin-mining operations and nuclear power plants (which are now plagued by high operating costs compared to renewables as well as natural gas):

Of the three partnerships between bitcoin companies and nuclear energy that the Wall Street Journal mentioned, two involve bitcoin m ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qkmp-6tc4tc/could-bitcoin-mining-really-provide-crucial-demand-for-nuclear-power)
2021-10-10T14:34:00Z	**New Studies Argue Distant Cosmic Gamma-Ray Explosion Was Actually Just Russian Space Junk**
"Last year, a team of astronomers made a blockbuster claim, saying they had captured the most distant cosmic explosion ever — a gamma ray burst in a galaxy called GN-z11," reports Science magazine.

"But that flash of light — supposedly from the most distant galaxy known — has a far more prosaic explanation: It was a gl ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hLJpc1fRPt0/new-studies-argue-distant-cosmic-gamma-ray-explosion-was-actually-just-russian-space-junk)
2021-10-10T15:34:00Z	**Chrome Attempts to Resurrect RSS With a New-Tab Feature That 'Follows' Your Favorite Sites**
It's kind of like an RSS feed — and kind of not. Google now lets you "follow" your favorite web sites with Android versions of Chrome, reports Gizmodo:
The feature has a similar effect to following an account on Twitter or Instagram, except you get content updates through Chrome on the new tab page.

The ability is widely ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SyQ3jyOjfWY/chrome-attempts-to-resurrect-rss-with-a-new-tab-feature-that-follows-your-favorite-sites)
2021-10-10T16:34:00Z	**New 'FontOnLake' Malware Family Can Target Linux Systems**
Security Week reports:

A previously unknown, modular malware family that targets Linux systems has been used in targeted attacks to collect credentials and gain access to victim systems, ESET reported on Thursday. Dubbed FontOnLake, the malware family employs a rootkit to conceal its presence and uses different command and control servers for each sample, which shows how careful its operator ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yNhsq8BgQ3g/new-fontonlake-malware-family-can-target-linux-systems)
2021-10-10T17:34:00Z	**Former Facebook Staffers React to Company's Unapologetic Response to Whistleblower**
"Facebook's efforts to undermine the testimony of whistleblower Frances Haugen began before she even left the Senate Commerce Committee hearing room Tuesday," reports Protocol.com:
"Just pointing out the fact that @FrancesHaugen did not work on child safety or Instagram or research these issues and has no direct knowledge of the topic from he ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xDDd4yy_Xqw/former-facebook-staffers-react-to-companys-unapologetic-response-to-whistleblower)
2021-10-10T18:34:00Z	**California To Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and Mowers**
"California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers," reports the Associated Press, calling it "a move aimed at curbing emissions from a category of small engines on pace to produce more pollution each year than passenger vehicles."

California is the only state with the authority to regulate air quality this way, part of an exception carved out in federal law in th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WxewVGPoFqk/california-to-ban-gas-powered-leaf-blowers-and-mowers)
2021-10-10T19:54:00Z	**All Linux and Mac Computers Get Their Time Zones From the Same Database**
"All Linux and Mac-based computers pull their time zones from a massively important database — the time zone database," explains Medium's tech site OneZero. And this vastly crucial project is ultimately overseen by one man who Medium calls "The Time Zone King."

The process of defining time zones is centralized. This is actually quite a big deal in its own ri ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mSQixdoDAeY/all-linux-and-mac-computers-get-their-time-zones-from-the-same-database)
2021-10-10T20:59:00Z	**What Really Motivated the Breaches of Twitch and Epik?**
The Washington Post explores recent breaches at Twitch and Epik — and asks whether they really signal an upsurge in "hacktivism":

The perpetrators of these hacks are distancing themselves from financially driven cybercriminals and ransomware gangs by portraying their attacks as moral crusades against what they said were the companies' sins. In celebratory notes released alongside their data d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2pk7dIrCo2w/what-really-motivated-the-breaches-of-twitch-and-epik)
2021-10-10T22:11:00Z	**Facebook VP Suggests a Fix: a Prompt Urging Teen Instagram Users to 'Take a Break'**
"Facebook is trying to mend its reputation in the wake of whisleblower Frances Haugen's testimony," reports Engadget, "and that includes promises of features lessening the potential harm for teens."

 CNN and Reuters report that Facebook Global Affairs VP Nick Clegg promised Instagram would introduce a "take a break" feature that encouraged t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nM8LLwyPT54/facebook-vp-suggests-a-fix-a-prompt-urging-teen-instagram-users-to-take-a-break)
2021-10-10T23:11:00Z	**PETA Criticizes 'Far Cry 6' On Its Choice of Animal-Themed Minigame**
"The recently released Far Cry 6 video game from Ubisoft has drawn the ire of the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)," reports ComicBook.com:
While PETA has been known to issue statements on the handling of animals in video games over the years, and Far Cry 6 includes a variety of animals and instances that might have been the sub ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/t_wJgESxL7I/peta-criticizes-far-cry-6-on-its-choice-of-animal-themed-minigame)
2021-10-11T01:34:00Z	**Snapchat is Boosting Its Efforts To Root Out Drug Dealers**
Deadly counterfeit versions of prescription medications are "widely available on social media platforms," reports NBC News, and "2 in 5 of those seized and tested in the United States contain enough fentanyl to kill, according to a warning issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration last month."

So now Snapchat "said it has improved the automated systems it uses to detect the sale of i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xb3KLsfUpzQ/snapchat-is-boosting-its-efforts-to-root-out-drug-dealers)
2021-10-11T03:34:00Z	**Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN?**
"I'm done with paying for a virtual private network," writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URLs here and here.]
The reality is that web security has improved so much in the last few years that VPN services, which charge monthly subscription fees that cost as much as Netflix, offer superfluous protection for most people concerned about privacy, some security researchers said.

Many of the most po ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4PlnAGelLSo/is-it-time-to-stop-paying-for-a-vpn)
2021-10-11T07:34:00Z	**The Sad Tale of a Silicon Valley-Funded, Libertarian 'Startup City'**
RestOfWorld.org tells the story of a libertarian 'startup city' in Honduras that was "supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise."

 Co-founded by 37-year-old Venezuelan Erick Brimen, "Próspera's founders promised to enrich the local community, even supplying water to a nearby village. But relations with neighboring communities deteriorated. Then, Prósp ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vv3rcc_5-kM/the-sad-tale-of-a-silicon-valley-funded-libertarian-startup-city)
2021-10-11T11:34:00Z	**Facebook's Success Was Built on Algorithms. Can They Also Fix It?**
Experts tell CNN that Facebook's algorithms could be improved. "It will, however, require something Facebook has so far appeared reluctant to offer (despite executive talking points): more transparency and control for users."
Margaret Mitchell, who leads artificial intelligence ethics for AI model builder Hugging Face and formerly co-led Google's ethical AI team, thinks this co ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OFprLpPy-Z0/facebooks-success-was-built-on-algorithms-can-they-also-fix-it)
2021-10-11T14:08:00Z	**Ex-minister Predicts 'Huge Battleground' Over UK's Plan To Set Internet Content Rules**
The former UK minster of state for what is now the digital and culture department, DCMS, has warned of the looming battle in parliament over the exact shape of incoming online safety legislation. From a report: In an interview with TechCrunch, Ed Vaizey -- a former Conservative Party MP, now Lord Vaizey of Didcot, who was head of the cultur ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N4K7ILqeN3I/ex-minister-predicts-huge-battleground-over-uks-plan-to-set-internet-content-rules)
2021-10-11T14:42:00Z	**Epic Games May Make Fortnite Movie as Part of Entertainment Expansion**
Epic Games is considering launching an entertainment division focused on scripted video programming, The Information reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation. From the report: The maker of hit videogame Fortnite is looking to diversify amid legal battles with Apple and Google that have hurt its ability to expand in the mobile market. The division coul ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XDm1DiPCTZM/epic-games-may-make-fortnite-movie-as-part-of-entertainment-expansion)
2021-10-11T15:22:00Z	**Telkom Says Netflix No Longer Available on South Africa Provider**
Telkom SA said Netflix will no longer be available on the South African phone and internet company's set-top box from October. From a report: A deal between the parties has come to an end and will not be renewed, Content Executive Wanda Mkhize said in a statement, without giving a specific reason. Other content partnerships will be announced in due course, she said. The move com ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RUOdR4wXOvI/telkom-says-netflix-no-longer-available-on-south-africa-provider)
2021-10-11T16:03:00Z	**Facebook To Act on Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest**
Facebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site. From a report: The social media giant changed its policy following a BBC investigation into the practice. The new measures will apply only to conservation areas and not to publicly owned forest. And the move will be limited to the Amazon, not other rainforests and wildlife habitats acr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aCli6J295xE/facebook-to-act-on-illegal-sale-of-amazon-rainforest)
2021-10-11T16:45:00Z	**'We're in a Hurry.' Qualcomm New CEO Scrambles To Cope With a Global Chip Crisis.**
Cristiano Amon is the new boss of Qualcomm, a U.S. tech giant that designs semiconductors. His first task: Convince companies to make more chips for him -- and fast. From a report: Months before Cristiano Amon started as CEO of Qualcomm, he already was at work on his first crisis. To solve it, he sat in a mostly empty meeting room in Taipei and plead ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8HhRYAjLyfA/were-in-a-hurry-qualcomm-new-ceo-scrambles-to-cope-with-a-global-chip-crisis)
2021-10-11T17:33:00Z	**Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?**
Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream -- or a pipe dream -- of limitless clean energy. From a report: Let's say that you've devoted your entire adult life to developing a carbon-free way to power a household for a year on the fuel of a single glass of water, and that you've had moments, even years, when you were pretty sure you would succeed. Let's say also that you're not crazy. Th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S09A5UWY4g0/can-nuclear-fusion-put-the-brakes-on-climate-change)
2021-10-11T18:13:00Z	**Apple Decides Its Victory Against Epic Wasn't Enough -- It Wants a Total Win**
Apple wants another go in its legal battle against Epic Games. From a report: On Friday night, Apple announced it would ask for a stay on a judge's September order saying Apple would have to allow apps to direct customers to external websites. That ruling would let app businesses circumvent Apple's requirement to facilitate payments only inside of apps, wh ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xyuZS8BvPEY/apple-decides-its-victory-against-epic-wasnt-enough----it-wants-a-total-win)
2021-10-11T18:47:00Z	**Amazon Will Allow Many Employees To Work Remotely Indefinitely**
Amazon will allow many tech and corporate workers to continue working remotely indefinitely, as long as they are able to commute to the office when necessary, according to a blog posted Monday. From a report: The new policy is a change from Amazon's previous expectation that most employees would need to be in the office at least three days a week once offices reopen in January. Mond ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2xWmSB57WTE/amazon-will-allow-many-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely)
2021-10-11T19:28:00Z	**Google Pulls 'Stalkerware' Ads That Promoted Phone Spying Apps**
Google has pulled several "stalkerware" ads that violated its policies by promoting apps that encouraged prospective users to spy on their spouses' phone. From a report: These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents wishing to monitor their child's calls, messages, apps, photos and location, often under the guise of protecting against predators. But these apps, which ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RYBLNJmPEdg/google-pulls-stalkerware-ads-that-promoted-phone-spying-apps)
2021-10-11T20:09:00Z	**Microsoft Warns of New Windows 11 Problems With Apps Using Unusual Registry Keys**
Microsoft has shared details of a new known issue with Windows 11. The company has confirmed that a problem exists with apps that use certain characters in registry keys. From a report: As a result of the discovery, Microsoft has put a compatibility hold in place that means people with problematic apps installed will not be offered Windows 11 via  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LQim4j4Ds8w/microsoft-warns-of-new-windows-11-problems-with-apps-using-unusual-registry-keys)
2021-10-11T20:50:00Z	**Nintendo Throws Rare Bone To Modern EU Gamers Via N64 60 Hz Toggle**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Nintendo of Europe announced a very region-specific -- and era-specific -- tweak for its upcoming collection of N64 games on Switch: an option to switch between the video standards PAL and NTSC. While the announcement may sound ho-hum to outsiders, anyone in Europe with a vested interest in classic gaming will ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mgl3YON0wyc/nintendo-throws-rare-bone-to-modern-eu-gamers-via-n64-60-hz-toggle)
2021-10-11T21:30:00Z	**Sony To Join TSMC On New $7 Billion Chip Plant In Japan**
TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, and Sony are considering joint construction of a semiconductor factory in western Japan amid a global chip shortage, Nikkei has learned. From the report: The total investment in the project is estimated at 800 billion yen ($7 billion), with the Japanese government expected to provide up to half the amount. Japan's top auto parts maker Denso is also loo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yYn2fYblD1M/sony-to-join-tsmc-on-new-7-billion-chip-plant-in-japan)
2021-10-11T22:10:00Z	**China Has Won AI Battle With US, Pentagon's Ex-software Chief Says**
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times. From a report: China, the world's second largest economy, is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, syntheti ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bTX6nC7Kakc/china-has-won-ai-battle-with-us-pentagons-ex-software-chief-says)
2021-10-11T22:50:00Z	**LibreOffice, OpenOffice Bug Allows Hackers To Spoof Signed Docs**
LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the severity of the flaw is classified as moderate, the implications could be dire. BleepingComputer reports: The discovery of the flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2021-41832 for OpenOffice, was the w ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A1S6f-I8Y1s/libreoffice-openoffice-bug-allows-hackers-to-spoof-signed-docs)
2021-10-11T23:30:00Z	**Florida Judge Rules Section 230 Bars Defamation Claim Against the Wikimedia Foundation**
The Wikimedia Foundation wins Florida defamation case; intermediary protections effectively protect Wikipedia article. From a story: On September 15th, in a victory for the Wikimedia movement and for all user-driven projects online, a Florida judge dismissed claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, and infliction of emotional distres ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AKb8lCxJPVc/florida-judge-rules-section-230-bars-defamation-claim-against-the-wikimedia-foundation)
2021-10-12T00:10:00Z	**Credit-Card Firms Are Becoming Reluctant Regulators of the Web**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Economist: Who should police the internet? For some time now the question has tied companies, regulators and campaigners in knots. Social networks spend billions moderating content posted on their platforms, but are still criticized either for not removing enough toxic material or for stifling free speech. They are not the only ones to gr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/R2XrfcZsMhk/credit-card-firms-are-becoming-reluctant-regulators-of-the-web)
2021-10-12T00:50:00Z	**Germany Unveils First Self-Driving Train**
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and industrial group Siemens on Monday unveiled the world's first automated, driverless train in the city of Hamburg, billing it as more punctual and energy efficient than traditional trains. TechExplore reports: Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure. Other cities like ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vU2AsWyeRn0/germany-unveils-first-self-driving-train)
2021-10-12T01:30:00Z	**Google's Fuchsia Is Expanding To 'Additional Smart Devices and Other Form Factors'**
According to new job listings, Google is looking to expand the Fuchsia operating system from its current home on the Nest Hub to âoeadditional smart devices and other form factors." 9to5Google reports: The first listing, for "Staff Software Engineer, Fuchsia Devices," celebrates Fuchsia's recent milestone and points clearly to Google wanting Fuc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ObsGMfLwFlU/googles-fuchsia-is-expanding-to-additional-smart-devices-and-other-form-factors)
2021-10-12T02:10:00Z	**Is Nuclear Energy Green Energy? 10 EU Countries Call On Brussels To Add It To the List**
"A group of ten EU countries, led by France, have asked the European Commission to recognize nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that should be part of the bloc's decades-long transition towards climate neutrality," reports EuroNews. While greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear plants are "comparable" to those released by hydropo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iKHqWfSLr-c/is-nuclear-energy-green-energy-10-eu-countries-call-on-brussels-to-add-it-to-the-list)
2021-10-12T03:30:00Z	**China's Noisy 'Dancing Grannies' Silenced By Device That Disables Speakers**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Across China's public parks and squares, in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon, the grannies gather. The gangs, made up mostly of middle-aged and older women who went through the Cultural Revolution, take to a corner of a local park or sporting ground and dance in unison to Chinese music ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yAQ7Ym0Trt4/chinas-noisy-dancing-grannies-silenced-by-device-that-disables-speakers)
2021-10-12T07:00:00Z	**Star Trek's William Shatner On His Plan To Boldly Go Into Space**
In an interview with Gayle King on "CBS Mornings," Star Trek's William Shatner talks about his plan to boldly go into space, becoming the oldest person to do so. He's planning to launch to the final frontier on Wednesday, courtesy of Jeff Bezos and his rocket company Blue Origin. CBS News reports: Shatner joked that he'll be able to brag about the age record. But he said his actual ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z6SatMLwfXM/star-treks-william-shatner-on-his-plan-to-boldly-go-into-space)
2021-10-12T10:00:00Z	**Peter Norvig Leaves Google To Join Stanford AI Unit**
Artificial intelligence expert Peter Norvig is joining the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI this fall as a Distinguished Education Fellow, with the task of developing tools and materials to explain the key concepts of artificial intelligence. From a blog post: Norvig helped launch and build AI at organizations considered innovators in the field: As Google's director of research, he oversaw the te ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SD86jX1Lrbs/peter-norvig-leaves-google-to-join-stanford-ai-unit)
2021-10-12T13:00:00Z	**Neuroscientists Claim To Have Pinpointed the Brain States Unique To 'Team Flow'**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: At some point in life, you have probably enjoyed a 'flow' state -- when you're so intensely focused on a task or activity, you experience a strong sense of control, a reduced awareness of your environment and yourself, and a minimized sense of the passing of time. It's also possible to experience  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-2mPbVaATKQ/neuroscientists-claim-to-have-pinpointed-the-brain-states-unique-to-team-flow)
2021-10-12T14:06:00Z	**Google Unveils Cybersecurity Programs and Action Team**
An anonymous reader shares a report: By the end of 2021, cybercrime is expected to cost the world $6 trillion. And by 2025, this figure will climb to $10.5 trillion, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. There's been a rash of recent high-profile cyberattacks, including Colonial Pipeline, the SolarWinds breach, and JBS USA. That's perhaps why 80% of senior IT employees believe that their companies lac ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rg7UWBVVyzQ/google-unveils-cybersecurity-programs-and-action-team)
2021-10-12T15:00:00Z	**Microsoft Says It Mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack, the Largest Ever**
Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year, at the end of August, representing the largest DDoS attack recorded to date. From a report: Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager for Azure Networking, said the attack was carried out using a botnet of approximately 70,000 bots primarily located a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Wdinxk8a74E/microsoft-says-it-mitigated-a-24-tbps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever)
2021-10-12T15:29:00Z	**Spectrum Threatens Former Customers In Renewal Shakedown**
An anonymous reader writes: Spectrum has been sending former customers strange letters threatening to report them to the credit agencies unless they renew services, in attempt to win back their business. The letters say that "as a one-time courtesy," the company will cancel debt it claims they owe and stop reporting them to credit agencies -- if they agree to resume cable service. The threat co ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jyyY_HCFnzI/spectrum-threatens-former-customers-in-renewal-shakedown)
2021-10-12T16:06:00Z	**Olympus Confirms US Cyberattack, Weeks After BlackMatter Ransomware Hit EMEA Systems**
Japanese technology giant Olympus has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend that forced it to shut down its IT systems in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. From a report: In a statement on its website, Olympus said it is "investigating a potential cybersecurity incident detected October 10" and is "currently working with  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AgjPOufo2U4/olympus-confirms-us-cyberattack-weeks-after-blackmatter-ransomware-hit-emea-systems)
2021-10-12T16:44:00Z	**Apple Announces October 18 Event After Months of Mac Rumors**
Apple's next hardware event will take place on October 18th, according to invites it sent out today. From a report: The company is widely expected to use its second fall event to launch a pair of new MacBooks, a redesigned higher-end Mac Mini, and possibly a pair of third-generation AirPods. The invite video teases one word: Unleashed.

[...] There have been reports for months that Ap ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kp-4Mm0aPGE/apple-announces-october-18-event-after-months-of-mac-rumors)
2021-10-12T17:25:00Z	**Coinbase is Launching a Marketplace for NFTs**
Coinbase is getting into NFTs. The cryptocurrency exchange said Tuesday it plans to launch a marketplace that lets users mint, collect and trade NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. From a report: Users can sign up to a waitlist for early access to the feature, the company said. NFTs are one-of-a-kind digital assets designed to represent ownership of online items like rare art or collectible trading cards. They aren't fungib ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/edGAh6F_8NQ/coinbase-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-nfts)
2021-10-12T18:05:00Z	**Magic Leap Somehow Raised $500 Million To Make Another AR Headset**
Magic Leap has raised $500 million in funding and is preparing to release a new AR headset, the Magic Leap 2, next year, the company announced Monday. From a report: The headset will be generally available next year, the company said, and "select customers" are using it as part of an early access program. CEO Peggy Johnson said in a statement that with the new funding "Magic Le ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JVsyLqI58Yk/magic-leap-somehow-raised-500-million-to-make-another-ar-headset)
2021-10-12T18:40:00Z	**A Record Number of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs, Empowered by New Leverage**
The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors that include Americans sensing ample opportunity and better pay elsewhere. From a report: Some 4.3 million people quit jobs in August, according to the monthly survey -- about 2.9 percent of the workforce, according to new data released Tuesday from th ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PWPtwznwOxc/a-record-number-of-workers-are-quitting-their-jobs-empowered-by-new-leverage)
2021-10-12T19:21:00Z	**Pentagon Says Hypersonic Weapons Are Too Expensive**
The Pentagon wants defense contractors to cut the ultimate cost of hypersonic weapons, the head of research and development said on Tuesday, as the next generation of super-fast missiles being developed currently cost tens of millions per unit. From a report: "We need to figure out how to drive towards more affordable hypersonics," Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu told rep ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6_V_3p8VCOE/pentagon-says-hypersonic-weapons-are-too-expensive)
2021-10-12T20:01:00Z	**Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues To Fly**
A woman allegedly hacked into the systems of a flight training school in Florida to delete and tamper with information related to the school's airplanes. In some cases, planes that previously had maintenance issues had been "cleared" to fly, according to a police report. The hack, according to the school's CEO, could have put pilots in danger ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yN43MVJJu9c/woman-allegedly-hacked-flight-school-cleared-planes-with-maintenance-issues-to-fly)
2021-10-12T20:45:00Z	**Microsoft's Project Turing is Building AI to Rival Google and Open AI**
An anonymous reader shares a report: Since 2017, Microsoft has pursued this goal under the name Project Turing, a team that's tasked with building these large language models and figuring out how they can be used in the company's vast suite of products. Project Turing might not be a visible name outside the company, its AI can already be found generating text inside Mic ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Zsn6GcmzYeY/microsofts-project-turing-is-building-ai-to-rival-google-and-open-ai)
2021-10-12T21:25:00Z	**Microsoft Puts the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Its App Store for Faster Updating**
Microsoft has announced that new WSL features will be even easier to get in the future. From a report: The company has posted a preview version of WSL to the Microsoft Store so that Windows 11 users can download and update WSL independently of other Windows updates. Many of Windows' built-in apps have already moved to being updated through t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4WwQtMkgtBI/microsoft-puts-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-in-its-app-store-for-faster-updating)
2021-10-12T22:02:00Z	**Adobe Uses DMCA To Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure and Adware Free**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In January 2021, development and support for Adobe Flash was discontinued. That marked the end of an era but in reality, Flash wasn't quite dead. Flash Player is still available in China, something that was exploited by the Clean Flash project to continue making the software more widely and safely  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8Y6na9AlE-0/adobe-uses-dmca-to-nuke-project-that-keeps-flash-alive-secure-and-adware-free)
2021-10-12T22:42:00Z	**Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support**
Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. CoinDesk reports: The team -- described in LinkedIn posts and job listings -- will be run by Guillaume Poncin, Stripe's former head of engineering for banking and financial products. He is looking to hire at least four staffers to help plot Stripe's crypto strategy ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IMvt7cdX39k/stripe-is-hiring-a-crypto-team-3-years-after-ending-bitcoin-support)
2021-10-12T23:20:00Z	**The Intercept Reveals Facebook's Secret Blacklist of 'Dangerous Individuals and Organizations'**
Sam Biddle writes via The Intercept: To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence. The restrictions appear to trace back to 2012, when in the face of growing alarm in Congress and the United ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ys8wXd60ATk/the-intercept-reveals-facebooks-secret-blacklist-of-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations)
2021-10-13T00:02:00Z	**Best Buy's New $200/Yr Membership Locks PS5, Hot Holiday Items Behind Membership**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you're still searching for a PS5 and are a Best Buy customer, your ship may have just come in -- that is, if you're willing to spend an extra $200 a year for access. That's because the big-box electronics retailer is locking stock of in-demand holiday items like Sony's console behind membership ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lZPQI376EIM/best-buys-new-200yr-membership-locks-ps5-hot-holiday-items-behind-membership)
2021-10-13T00:45:00Z	**Robotics Engineer Adds a Working USB-C Port To An iPhone**
Ken Pillonel, a robotics engineer on YouTube, replaced an iPhone's Lightning port with a working USB-C port. AppleInsider reports: In a YouTube Short titled "World's First USB-C iPhone," Ken Pillonel claims to have installed the component into the iPhone X, replacing Lightning in the process. In the video, the iPhone is said to receive power via the connection, as well as being able to handle d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FTPESlpLnsk/robotics-engineer-adds-a-working-usb-c-port-to-an-iphone)
2021-10-13T01:25:00Z	**Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users**
A new study (PDF) by a team of university researchers in the UK has unveiled a host of privacy issues that arise from using Android smartphones. BleepingComputer reports: The researchers have focused on Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, and Huawei Android devices, and LineageOS and /e/OS, two forks of Android that aim to offer long-term support and a de-Googled experience. The conclusion of the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UlgENwv31RM/study-reveals-android-phones-constantly-snoop-on-their-users)
2021-10-13T02:02:00Z	**Google Cloud Will Now Show Its Users Their Carbon Footprint In the Cloud**
Google Cloud today announced a new (and free) feature that will provide its users with custom carbon footprint reports that detail the carbon emissions their cloud usage generates. TechCrunch reports: "Customers can leverage this data for reporting as well as internal audits and carbon reduction efforts. Build in collaboration with customers like HSBC, L'Oreal an ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oQA6k668A-0/google-cloud-will-now-show-its-users-their-carbon-footprint-in-the-cloud)
2021-10-13T03:30:00Z	**Solar Panels On Half the World's Roofs Would Power the Planet**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: Our new paper in Nature Communications presents a global assessment of how many rooftop solar panels we'd need to generate enough renewable energy for the whole world -- and where we'd need to put them. Our study is the first to provide such a detailed map of global rooftop solar potential, assessing rooftop area and sunlight c ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aigkzC0LqkU/solar-panels-on-half-the-worlds-roofs-would-power-the-planet)
2021-10-13T07:00:00Z	**Netflix Calls Squid Game Its 'Biggest Ever Series At Launch'**
Netflix's hugely popular series Squid Game has become its biggest title ever at launch, the company said Monday. The Verge reports: The company's Netflix Geeked account tweeted Monday that Hwang Dong-Hyuk's survival thriller reached 111 million global accounts in its first 17 days on the service. Additionally, Squid Game is the first Netflix series to surpass 100 million in its first 28 d ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/heaLEX01UI0/netflix-calls-squid-game-its-biggest-ever-series-at-launch)
2021-10-13T10:00:00Z	**Computer Space Launched the Video Game Industry 50 Years Ago**
In an article for The Conversation, Noah Wardrip-Fruin writes about how Computer Space marked the start of the $175 billion video game industry we have today when it debuted on Oct. 15, 1971 -- and why you probably haven't heard of it. From the report: Computer Space, made by the small company Nutting Associates, seemed to have everything going for it. Its scenario -- flying a rocket sh ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yQ4RJsuMY58/computer-space-launched-the-video-game-industry-50-years-ago)
2021-10-13T13:00:00Z	**Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch**
Apple is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units as prolonged chip shortages hit its flagship product. Bloomberg reports: The company had expected to produce 90 million new iPhone models in the last three months of the year, but it's now telling manufacturing partners that the total will be lower because Broadcom and Texas Instrum ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XwTrWk4oS1U/apple-set-to-cut-iphone-production-goals-due-to-chip-crunch)
2021-10-13T14:00:00Z	**Amazon Copied Products and Rigged Search Results To Promote Its Own Brands, Documents Show**
Amazon.com has been repeatedly accused of knocking off products it sells on its website and of exploiting its vast trove of internal data to promote its own merchandise at the expense of other sellers. The company has denied the accusations. But thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents examined by Reuters -- including ema ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7_ZY9X_UgYk/amazon-copied-products-and-rigged-search-results-to-promote-its-own-brands-documents-show)
2021-10-13T14:54:00Z	**Microsoft Agrees To Human Rights Review in Deals With Law Enforcement, Government**
Microsoft, which has faced pressure from employees and shareholders over contracts with governments and law enforcement agencies, agreed to commission an independent human rights review of some of those deals. From a report: The move came in response to a June filing of a shareholder proposal asking the company to evaluate how well it sticks to i ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Jj3Pz1v9jX0/microsoft-agrees-to-human-rights-review-in-deals-with-law-enforcement-government)
2021-10-13T15:28:00Z	**US Overtakes China as Biggest Bitcoin Mining Hub After Beijing Ban**
The US overtook China as the world's biggest source of bitcoin mining two months after Beijing banned crypto mining this year, new data have revealed. From a report: China's share of the global hashrate -- the computational power required to create bitcoin -- fell from 44 per cent to zero between May and July, showed figures published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fdcnZgLFsds/us-overtakes-china-as-biggest-bitcoin-mining-hub-after-beijing-ban)
2021-10-13T16:05:00Z	**Windows 11's First Update Makes AMD CPU Performance Even Worse**
AMD warned last week that its chips are experiencing performance issues in Windows 11, and now Microsoft's first update to its new OS has reportedly made the problems worse. From a report: TechPowerUp reports that it's seeing much higher latency, which means worse performance, after the Windows 11 update went live yesterday. AMD and Microsoft found two issues with Windows 11 on Ryzen ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9xfG0nb4s3k/windows-11s-first-update-makes-amd-cpu-performance-even-worse)
2021-10-13T16:45:00Z	**Groups Launch 'How To Stop Facebook' Effort**
A coalition of nonprofits on Wednesday debuted HowToStopFacebook.org, a fresh push to encourage greater government regulation of the social networking giant aimed at forcing the company to change its business model. From a report: The campaign hopes to take the outrage expressed by legislators over the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen and translate it into action. The campaign is pushing for two goals: A Congre ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TniLe9nyDds/groups-launch-how-to-stop-facebook-effort)
2021-10-13T17:22:00Z	**America is Choking Under an 'Everything Shortage'**
The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. The Atlantic: Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They'd been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. "We're out of those too," he said. "Try Walgreens." I drove t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Jy9rcO0HXCU/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage)
2021-10-13T18:12:00Z	**Steaks Could Soon Become Champagne-Like Luxury**
The boss of Europe's top meat processor said beef will become a luxury like champagne because of the climate impact of producing it. From a report: "Beef is not going to be super climate friendly," Danish Crown Chief Executive Officer Jais Valeur said in an interview with Danish newspaper Berlingske. "It will be a luxury product that we eat when we want to treat ourselves." Valeur said pork would be a more climate ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2pzmGrUSB0U/steaks-could-soon-become-champagne-like-luxury)
2021-10-13T18:49:00Z	**Google Says Fortnite's In-app Purchase Swap Was a Breach of Contract, Sues Epic**
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. From a report: Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases. As part of its push for more open payment systems, though (and to dodge each platform's 30 percent f ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BCV1XcqekiU/google-says-fortnites-in-app-purchase-swap-was-a-breach-of-contract-sues-epic)
2021-10-13T19:26:00Z	**FAST, the World's Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source**
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope has detected more than 1,600 fast radio bursts from a single enigmatic system. From a report: Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are one of the greatest mysteries of our universe. Coming from deep space, these outbursts can flash and fade in a matter of milliseconds, yet in each instance can release  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aCusXiW-Xh8/fast-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-zooms-in-on-a-furious-cosmic-source)
2021-10-13T20:15:00Z	**China's Solar Power Has Reached Price Parity With Coal**
Like everywhere else, China has seen the cost of solar power dive over the last decade, with a 63 percent drop between 2011 and 2018 alone. In line with that, the installation of solar has risen dramatically. From a report: Currently, a third of the entire planet's new solar capacity is being commissioned in China; the country passed the installed capacity of the US in 2013 and Germany in 2015, and  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_iG3FMB8H6A/chinas-solar-power-has-reached-price-parity-with-coal)
2021-10-13T20:49:00Z	**Activision Unveils Ricochet Anti-cheat System for Call of Duty**
Activision unveiled its Ricochet anti-cheat system for Call of Duty games as it tries to attack a longstanding cheating problem that has frustrated a lot of players. From a report: The new system will get rid of players cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone later this year and it will debut with Call of Duty: Vanguard, the new premium game coming on multiple platforms on November 5. Act ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_dhUGq27kVM/activision-unveils-ricochet-anti-cheat-system-for-call-of-duty)
2021-10-13T21:10:00Z	**Captain Kirk Safely Goes To Space and Back**
New submitter pele writes: Captain Kirk alias William Shatner has just safely completed his first trip to space and back, and in the process has become the oldest person ever to have been to space. More news and coverage at BBC and Evening Standard. Blue Origin took the 90-year-old just about 60 miles (100km) above the Earth's surface where those aboard got to experience a short period of weightlessness. The trip only las ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ibXgHoOudow/captain-kirk-safely-goes-to-space-and-back)
2021-10-13T21:30:00Z	**Cisco Wants To Climb Back the Way Microsoft Did**
The networking giant says it has turned a corner in its attempt to adapt to the cloud era. From a report: Cisco is hardly a failure. It produces billions of dollars in annual profits and is generally regarded as stable and well-run. But investors feared that its steady operations could lead to a slow-motion descent into obsolescence in an industry that can be brutal to anyone who falls a half-step behind. The be ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5pyj-0fh6Hg/cisco-wants-to-climb-back-the-way-microsoft-did)
2021-10-13T22:10:00Z	**AI Fake-Face Generators Can Be Rewound To Reveal the Real Faces They Trained On**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Load up the website This Person Does Not Exist and it'll show you a human face, near-perfect in its realism yet totally fake. Refresh and the neural network behind the site will generate another, and another, and another. The endless sequence of AI-crafted faces is produced by a generat ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hzAJF4Vu83o/ai-fake-face-generators-can-be-rewound-to-reveal-the-real-faces-they-trained-on)
2021-10-13T22:50:00Z	**Some of Verizon's Visible Cell Network Customers Say They've Been Hacked**
Verizon's Visible network has confirmed that some accounts were accessed without authorization. Visible is a cell service owned and operated by Verizon that "pitches itself as a less expensive, 'all-digital' network, meaning there aren't any physical stores like you'd get with a tradtiional carrier," notes The Verge. From the report: Starting on Monday, customers o ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wUeVI2gXjNE/some-of-verizons-visible-cell-network-customers-say-theyve-been-hacked)
2021-10-13T23:30:00Z	**20 Years Later, Xbox Creator Apologizes To AMD CEO For Last-Minute Switch To Intel**
The original Xbox was released 20 years ago next month, and to mark the upcoming anniversary, the console's designer has apologized to AMD's engineers and its CEO for Microsoft's last-minute decision to drop AMD for rival Intel. GameSpot reports: Seamus Blackley apologized on Twitter to the AMD engineers who worked with Microsoft to create the  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XLBq08V9R0Y/20-years-later-xbox-creator-apologizes-to-amd-ceo-for-last-minute-switch-to-intel)
2021-10-14T00:10:00Z	**How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from from Krebs on Security: A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting smarter about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. It also shows that phishers are attempting to sign up for new Coinbase accounts by the millions as part of an effort to identify email addresses that are already associated with active ac ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s33Kt2fIf4U/how-coinbase-phishers-steal-one-time-passwords)
2021-10-14T00:50:00Z	**Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures**
Apple said today that one of the reasons it does not allow app sideloading or the use of third-party app stores on iOS is because of privacy and security reasons, pointing to the fact that Android sees between 15 to 47 times more malware compared to its app ecosystem. The Record reports: Apple says that the reason its iOS devices are  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yqmNTBpYYlI/apple-argues-against-allowing-app-sideloading-by-pointing-out-androids-malware-figures)
2021-10-14T01:30:00Z	**Aspirin Use To Prevent 1st Heart Attack or Stroke Should Be Curtailed, US Panel Says**
Doctors should no longer routinely start most people who are at high risk of heart disease on a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin, according to new draft guidelines by a U.S. panel of experts. The New York Times reports: The proposed recommendation is based on mounting evidence that the risk of serious side effects far outweighs the benefit ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QMiIsT3o7Kg/aspirin-use-to-prevent-1st-heart-attack-or-stroke-should-be-curtailed-us-panel-says)
2021-10-14T03:30:00Z	**Biden Administration Plans For Massive Expansion of Wind Farms Off US Coasts**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The Biden administration is planning to aggressively expand offshore wind energy capacity in the United States, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025. The move was announced Wednesday by US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and first reported by The New York Times. Haaland said the ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-BMaNJBBuwk/biden-administration-plans-for-massive-expansion-of-wind-farms-off-us-coasts)
2021-10-14T07:03:00Z	**Acer Launches Bacteria-Resistant PCs**
During its next@Acer event today, the company announced three new PCs -- a laptop, a two-in-one, and a tablet -- that will be joining its antimicrobial lineup. Ars Technica reports: Something is considered antimicrobial if it's capable of "destroying or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms, and especially pathogenic microorganisms." That means it fights disease-causing things you can't see. Acer claims its Antimicrobial 360 Design ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I_z7ZeRUxLc/acer-launches-bacteria-resistant-pcs)
2021-10-14T10:00:00Z	**The Mega65: A Modernization of the Canceled Commodore 65 Computer From 1991**
Slashdot reader TommyROM writes: The Commodore 65 was a never-released computer slated to follow the fabled Commodore 64 from 1982. Developed between 1990 and 1991, it would have been the most powerful 8-bit computer on the market with 128K RAM, high-resolution graphics (up to 1280x400), and stereo sound. A few prototypes were made before Commodore canceled  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Rlp48yl3HJI/the-mega65-a-modernization-of-the-canceled-commodore-65-computer-from-1991)
2021-10-14T13:00:00Z	**Amazon, Facebook Among Companies Facing FTC Warning Over Reviews**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg Law: Companies including Amazon and Facebook could face fines over fake reviews or other misleading endorsements online, according to a warning from the Federal Trade Commission. The warning comes as social media has blurred the line between authentic content and advertising, according to the FTC's Wednesday announcement. Practic ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AA1_ej4fyQ0/amazon-facebook-among-companies-facing-ftc-warning-over-reviews)
2021-10-14T14:00:00Z	**Amazon Puts Its Own 'Brands' First**
Amazon gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don't know are connected to Amazon. From a report: It took Robert Gomez about five months to get his Kaffe coffee grinder to the big leagues in e-commerce: among the first three search results for "coffee grinder" on Amazon.com. Gomez, founder of Atlanta-based consumer goods startup 4Q Brands, said he obsessively refined his photos and description, ama ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/75Is4FpPPuI/amazon-puts-its-own-brands-first)
2021-10-14T14:40:00Z	**Microsoft Shutting Down LinkedIn In China**
phalse phace writes: Facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China, Microsoft has decided to shut down LinkedIn in the country. The announcement follows the rebuke of LinkedIn executives by China's internet regulator in March for failing to control political content and gave them 30 days to do so. In recent months, LinkedIn notified several China-focused human-rig ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ugxDntjei-o/microsoft-shutting-down-linkedin-in-china)
2021-10-14T15:22:00Z	**Vladimir Putin Says He Accepts Crypto as a Legitimate Currency For Making Payments**
Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled tolerance of cryptocurrencies, which are drawing increasing scrutiny from regulators around the world amid fears they can be used for money laundering and criminal activity. From a report: Cryptocurrency "has the right to exist and can be used as a means of payment," Putin said in an interview with CNB ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gV74Otk6HhU/vladimir-putin-says-he-accepts-crypto-as-a-legitimate-currency-for-making-payments)
2021-10-14T16:01:00Z	**Neighbor Wins Privacy Row Over Smart Doorbell and Cameras**
New submitter apcyberax writes: A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire "unjustifiably invaded" the privacy of a neighbour, in a case that could have implications for home surveillance devices. Dr Mary Fairhurst claimed that the devices installed on the house of neighbour Jon Woodard broke data laws and contributed to harassment. The jud ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/B2E3x0UBX2o/neighbor-wins-privacy-row-over-smart-doorbell-and-cameras)
2021-10-14T16:42:00Z	**Boeing Finds New Defect in Ongoing Struggle To Produce Dreamliner 787**
Boeing and U.S. regulators said Thursday that some titanium 787 Dreamliner parts were improperly manufactured over the past three years, the latest in a series of problems to plague the wide-body aircraft. From a report: The quality issue does not affect the immediate safety of flights, the company and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. Boeing said the par ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/O3kTdRGenO4/boeing-finds-new-defect-in-ongoing-struggle-to-produce-dreamliner-787)
2021-10-14T17:23:00Z	**Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes'**
A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic. Neighbors say their Richmond District dead end street has suddenly become crowded with Waymo vehicles. From a report: "I noticed it while I was sleeping," says Jennifer King. "I awoke to a strange hum and I thought there was a spacecr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BTpbCGVv0Xw/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes)
2021-10-14T18:00:00Z	**One of Facebook's Earliest Investors Says People Have Lost Trust in Company**
Facebook has lost people's trust "for good reasons" and isn't responding well to whistle-blower claims that the social-media giant prioritizes profit over user safety, according to one of its earliest investors, Reid Hoffman. Bloomberg: "I'm disappointed," Hoffman said Wednesday in an interview. Facebook should have been more proactive in response to troubli ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_AIXR8UtjNY/one-of-facebooks-earliest-investors-says-people-have-lost-trust-in-company)
2021-10-14T18:44:00Z	**Apple Joins Blender's Development Fund To Support 3D Graphics Tool**
Blender today announced that Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund to support continued development of the free open source 3D graphics tool. From a report: Alongside a contribution to the Development Fund, Apple will provide engineering expertise and additional resources to Blender and its broader development community to help support Blender artists and developers,  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FHUHtwsnA9s/apple-joins-blenders-development-fund-to-support-3d-graphics-tool)
2021-10-14T19:24:00Z	**$7 Trillion Worth of Stocks Are Exposed to Crypto Risks**
Attention institutional investors: Whether you're a bonafide and laser-eyed true believer or a skeptical holdout, the risks from cryptocurrencies could be steadily "creeping" into your portfolio, according to MSCI. From a report: At least 52 companies representing $7.1 trillion in market capitalization have some exposure to cryptocurrencies, according to an analysis by MSCI. They range from all-in ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/94Xe2JoRIC0/7-trillion-worth-of-stocks-are-exposed-to-crypto-risks)
2021-10-14T20:02:00Z	**Palm Is Trying To Make a Comeback, Again**
Palm probably wasn't a name you were expecting to hear from again, but to the surprise of many, the company recently posted some teasers on Twitter foreshadowing a new gadget coming out later this month. From a report: While Palm hasn't officially revealed detailed info about its upcoming release, the teaser pics in its tweets make it quite clear that Palm is prepping to release a new pair of wireless earbuds. And judging by t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0RUUJzPweQU/palm-is-trying-to-make-a-comeback-again)
2021-10-14T20:40:00Z	**A Newspaper Informed Missouri About a Website Flaw. The Governor Accused it of 'Hacking'**
On Thursday, Gov. Michael Parson (R) called a news conference to warn his state's citizens about a nefarious plot against a teachers' database by a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. From a report: "Through a multistep process," Parson said with great solemnity, "an individual took the records of at least three educators, deco ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/84Wek07JCR0/a-newspaper-informed-missouri-about-a-website-flaw-the-governor-accused-it-of-hacking)
2021-10-14T21:21:00Z	**Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 21.10 Impish Indri**
Following a brief beta-testing period, Ubuntu 21.10 has finally become available to download in the "final" stable form. BetaNews: Code-named "Impish Indri," this version of Ubuntu is not a Long Term Support (LTS) version, so it is only supported for nine months. Ubuntu 21.10 features Linux kernel 5.13 and a Snap variant of the Mozilla Firefox browser. "Ubuntu 21.10 brings the all-new PHP 8 and GCC 11 inclu ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0ugmHdqYgbU/canonical-releases-ubuntu-linux-2110-impish-indri)
2021-10-14T22:02:00Z	**Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Texas' energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people. Sen. Ted Cruz told a cryptocurrency conference in Austin last week that he believes the state's Bitcoin mining boom could repair its flo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rILvWFp4JQM/ted-cruz-says-bitcoin-mining-can-fix-texas-crumbling-electric-grid)
2021-10-14T22:40:00Z	**An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain**
An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud has been hitting Britain this year. "The country is the global epicenter for such attacks, according to five of the biggest British banks and more than a dozen security experts who said scammers were buying up batches of consumers' personal details on the dark net to target the record numbers shopping and banking online since the pandemic," r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EAGRM49E4UI/an-unprecedented-wave-of-online-bank-fraud-is-hitting-britain)
2021-10-14T23:20:00Z	**Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Provide Faster Internet Speeds On Airlines**
Elon Musk touted SpaceX's plan to use Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi, saying in a tweet on Thursday that the service could add "low latency ~half gigabit connectivity in the air!" CNBC reports: Starlink is the company's plan to build an interconnected internet network with thousands of satellites, known in the space industry as a constellation, designed to deliver hi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4DK26tiv1JA/elon-musk-says-starlink-will-provide-faster-internet-speeds-on-airlines)
2021-10-15T00:02:00Z	**Site Allowing You To 'Skip the Interview' Launches, Then Promptly Shuts Down**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Protocol: A company proposing job-seekers ask past coworkers to pay money and "sponsor" them for a new job launched, and rather immediately shut down, its website on Wednesday. The main idea behind the site, called "Skip the Interview," was to partner with companies who would set sponsorship amounts for job postings.  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZmwE454FBzk/site-allowing-you-to-skip-the-interview-launches-then-promptly-shuts-down)
2021-10-15T00:45:00Z	**OpenBSD 7.0 Released**
ArchieBunker writes: Everyone's favorite security-focused operating system, OpenBSD, released version 7.0 today. In addition to the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements, support for RISC-V processors has been added. The changelog and mirrors can be found at their respective links.

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2021-10-15T01:25:00Z	**Modular Framework Laptop Gets Marketplace For All Those Modules**
Framework, makers of the modular 13.5-inch Framework laptop that's designed to be easily repaired and upgraded, has launched a dedicated marketplace filled with replacement parts and upgrades for its portable computer. The Verge reports: Writing in a blog post, the company said the marketplace is currently focused on replacement parts and expansion cards, but that it hopes to add  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tGTPQS9OjkI/modular-framework-laptop-gets-marketplace-for-all-those-modules)
2021-10-15T02:02:00Z	**PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road**
Andrew Cunningham writes via Ars Technica: It has been well over a decade since PowerPC Macs roamed the earth -- so long that the Intel Macs that replaced them are themselves being replaced by something else. But to this day, there's a small community of people still developing software for PowerPC Macs and Mac OS 9. One of those projects was TenFourFox, a fork of the Firefox browser for G3, G4, and G5-based Pow ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eISHJ71CfRs/powerpc-fork-of-firefox-reaches-end-of-the-road)
2021-10-15T03:30:00Z	**Countries Are Gathering In an Effort To Stop a Biodiversity Collapse**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: As 20,000 government leaders, journalists, activists and celebrities from around the world prepare to descend on Glasgow for a crucial climate summit starting late this month, another high-level international environmental meeting got started this week. The problem it seeks to tackle: A rapid collapse of specie ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aHQBl0Zo2HI/countries-are-gathering-in-an-effort-to-stop-a-biodiversity-collapse)
2021-10-15T07:00:00Z	**Acer Confirms It Was Hacked Again As Culprits Flaunt 60GB of Stolen Customer Data**
For at least the second time in 2021, hackers have breached Acer's servers, this time plundering more than 60 gigabytes of data. HotHardware reports: Acer has confirmed that names, addresses, and phone numbers belonging to several million clients have been compromised in the breach, as well as sensitive corporate financial and audit details. If  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qe4VFOcyOW8/acer-confirms-it-was-hacked-again-as-culprits-flaunt-60gb-of-stolen-customer-data)
2021-10-15T10:00:00Z	**SEC Said To Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs As Deadline Looms**
The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to allow the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund to begin trading in a watershed moment for the cryptocurrency industry, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg reports: The regulator isn't likely to block the products from starting to trade next week, said the people, who asked not to be named while discussing the dec ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_X4TSzrmOKs/sec-said-to-allow-bitcoin-futures-etfs-as-deadline-looms)
2021-10-15T13:00:00Z	**Chemicals Used In Packaging May Play Role In 100,000 US Deaths a Year**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The group of chemicals called phthalates, also known as plasticizers, may contribute to the early deaths of 91,000 to 107,000 older adults in the US each year, according to a new study. Adults between 55 and 64 with the highest concentrations of phthalates in their urine were more likely to die of any cause, especia ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/95fLWYLT_Zw/chemicals-used-in-packaging-may-play-role-in-100000-us-deaths-a-year)
2021-10-15T14:18:00Z	**Hundreds of Banned Crypto Miners Were Siphoning Power at China's State Firms**
China's drive to root out cryptocurrencies has uncovered hundreds of miners who were using electricity at public institutions, a development that comes as the nation struggles with a power crunch. From a report: Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces recently started targeting miners who were consuming the resources of state-owned enterprises, government agencies, ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ivx48K8RCo8/hundreds-of-banned-crypto-miners-were-siphoning-power-at-chinas-state-firms)
2021-10-15T14:45:00Z	**New Zealand Council Ends Contract With Wizard After Two Decades of Service**
The official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the only state-appointed wizard in the world, has been cast from the public payroll, spelling the end to a 23-year legacy. From a report: The Wizard, whose real name is Ian Brackenbury Channell, 88, had been contracted to Christchurch city council for the past two decades to promote the city through "acts of wizardr ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1lgVnMwZLgA/new-zealand-council-ends-contract-with-wizard-after-two-decades-of-service)
2021-10-15T15:22:00Z	**US Govt Reveals Three More Ransomware Attacks on Water Treatment Plants This Year**
Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government said in a joint cybersecurity advisory published today by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the EPA. From a report: The attacks -- which had been previously unreported -- took place in March, July, and August and hit facilities in Ne ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pSnSwZCvZIU/us-govt-reveals-three-more-ransomware-attacks-on-water-treatment-plants-this-year)
2021-10-15T16:05:00Z	**Peak Oil is Coming. That Won't Save the World**
The shift to clean energy is sending the oil industry into decline. But the world needs a much more ambitious plan to save the climate and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. From a report: That's according to the International Energy Agency, which said in its global energy outlook published Wednesday that more aggressive climate action is needed as world leaders prepare for the crucial COP26 summit in Glasgow in Nove ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tF1nGpT1k8w/peak-oil-is-coming-that-wont-save-the-world)
2021-10-15T16:41:00Z	**People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs -- and Defaulting**
In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. From a report: Case in point: it's now a thing to take out a loan and offer up an NFT as collateral. Take NFTFi, a peer-to-peer lending platform described by Coindesk as a "pawn shop for ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xFckDrsZA1k/people-are-taking-out-loans-against-their-nfts----and-defaulting)
2021-10-15T17:23:00Z	**The Fight for Sneakers**
When Bodega, a streetwear shop in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, released a hyped, limited-edition New Balance 997S sneaker in 2019, the entire stock sold out online in under 10 minutes. There was one problem, though: About 60 percent of Bodega's sales went to shoppers gaming the system with bots, timesaving automation software used to speed through checkout. The bots had claimed hundreds of pairs of New Balances for a single customer; many other shoppers ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MrjW4z3uF4U/the-fight-for-sneakers)
2021-10-15T18:02:00Z	**Apple Takes Down Koran App in China**
Apple has taken down one of the world's most popular Koran apps in China, following a request from officials. From a report: Quran Majeed is available across the world on the App Store -- and has nearly 150,000 reviews. It is used by millions of Muslims. The BBC understands that the app was removed for hosting illegal religious texts. The Chinese government has not responded to the BBC's request for comment. The deletion of the app was ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jUR-ltGyOcI/apple-takes-down-koran-app-in-china)
2021-10-15T18:46:00Z	**South Korea Targets Apple Over New App Store Regulation**
Apple was on a collision course with South Korea on Friday over new requirements that it stop forcing app developers to use its payment systems, with a government official warning of a possible investigation into the iPhone maker's compliance. From a report: The development comes after South Korea amended the Telecommunication Business Act in August to try to curb the tech majors' market dominanc ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1NTgS7sxqYU/south-korea-targets-apple-over-new-app-store-regulation)
2021-10-15T19:25:00Z	**Americans Perceive a Rise in Extreme Weather, Pew Finds**
Americans are taking notice of extreme weather events, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. From a report: Two-thirds of Americans say extreme weather events in the U.S. have been occurring more frequently than in the past, while only 28% said they've been taking place about as often, and just 4% perceiving a dropoff in frequency. So far in 2021, the U.S. has seen a record 18 billion dol ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SRPPjyNA_Vs/americans-perceive-a-rise-in-extreme-weather-pew-finds)
2021-10-15T20:05:00Z	**They're Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now**
Quadrupedal robots are one of the most interesting developments in robotics in recent years. They're small, nimble, and able to traverse environments that frustrate wheeled machines. So, of course, it was only a matter of time until someone put a gun on one. From a report: The image in the linked story shows a quadrupedal robot -- a Vision 60 unit built by US firm Ghost Robotics -- that's been equipped with a custom gun by small-a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ecw6jjrYs8Q/theyre-putting-guns-on-robot-dogs-now)
2021-10-15T20:45:00Z	**Moscow Says It is First To Launch Large-scale Metro Facial ID Payment System**
Moscow's sprawling metro network on Friday launched a fare payment system using facial recognition technology at its more than 240 stations, an initiative the authorities said was the first of its kind in the world. From a report: Moscow, a city of 12.7 million, has one of the world's largest video-surveillance systems. It has used facial recognition tech ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9x4N58GADCY/moscow-says-it-is-first-to-launch-large-scale-metro-facial-id-payment-system)
2021-10-15T21:25:00Z	**Google Modernizes US Mobile Search Results With Continuous Scrolling**
Google has announced that it's changing the way search works on mobile devices, initially in the U.S. From a report: Now, when you reach the bottom of a set of search results on your phone, you won't have to tap to go to the next page. Instead, the next set of results will automatically load so you can continuously scroll down to see more information. The change will rol ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/O0noYb7NunM/google-modernizes-us-mobile-search-results-with-continuous-scrolling)
2021-10-15T22:02:00Z	**7-Eleven Breached Customer Privacy By Collecting Facial Imagery Without Consent**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: In Australia, the country's information commissioner has found that 7-Eleven breached customers' privacy by collecting their sensitive biometric information without adequate notice or consent. From June 2020 to August 2021, 7-Eleven conducted surveys that required customers to fill out information on t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VnEVLJ0KiyE/7-eleven-breached-customer-privacy-by-collecting-facial-imagery-without-consent)
2021-10-15T22:40:00Z	**Valve Bans Blockchain Games and NFTs On Steam**
Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam, according to a rule added to Valve's "What you shouldn't publish on Steam" list. The Verge reports: The change was pointed out by SpacePirate, a developer working on an NFT-based game, who said that the change was because the company doesn't allow game items that could have real-world value. But Steam could ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XCc0FM_3SyA/valve-bans-blockchain-games-and-nfts-on-steam)
2021-10-15T23:20:00Z	**Pine64 Announces Updated PinePhone Pro Linux Powered Cellphone**
Pine64 today announced its latest Linux-powered device, the PinePhone Pro, an update to the original PinePhone which sees a more powerful device running mainline Linux (Manjaro in this case) on a mobile device that works as a cellphone and a desktop computer. Tom's Hardware reports: This combination of hardware and software makes the still slightly futuristic idea of confluence betw ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sxr5Wbd5UlE/pine64-announces-updated-pinephone-pro-linux-powered-cellphone)
2021-10-16T00:02:00Z	**Tether Fined $41 Million For Lying About Fiat Currency Backing**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Tether will pay $41 million to settle allegations it lied in claiming its digital tokens were fully backed by fiat currencies, putting a major compliance headache behind the world's biggest issuer of stablecoins even as regulatory scrutiny intensifies. For years, Tether told customers and the broader cryptocurrency market that it ha ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RWxm9QuPbUs/tether-fined-41-million-for-lying-about-fiat-currency-backing)
2021-10-16T00:45:00Z	**Jack Dorsey Says Square May Build Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System**
Square CEO Jack Dorsey says the company is starting a "deep technical investigation" to create an open-source Bitcoin mining system. It comes as the price of Bitcoin passed $62,000 while threatening to pass the all-time high of $65,000. The Independent reports: Mr Dorsey said Bitcoin mining isn't currently accessible to everyone, but it should be as easy as plugging into a ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mCYQwDmdc5s/jack-dorsey-says-square-may-build-open-source-bitcoin-mining-system)
2021-10-16T01:25:00Z	**Former Boeing 737 MAX Chief Technical Pilot Indicted For Fraud**
Mark Forkner, Boeing's 737 Max chief technical pilot during the aircraft's development, has been charged with misleading aviation regulators about safety issues blamed for two fatal crashes of the 737 Max. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, "he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each count of wire fraud and 10 years in prison on each count of fraud involving  ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7wjLN2miqh8/former-boeing-737-max-chief-technical-pilot-indicted-for-fraud)
2021-10-16T02:02:00Z	**Researchers Show Facebook's Ad Tools Can Target a Single User**
A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it's possible to use Facebook's targeting tools to deliver an ad exclusively to a single individual if you know enough about the interests Facebook's platform assigns them. TechCrunch reports: The paper -- entitled "Unique on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Na ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5xYb3hD5bMc/researchers-show-facebooks-ad-tools-can-target-a-single-user)
2021-10-16T03:30:00Z	**Drones Have Now Been Used To Deliver Lungs For Medical Transplant**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ExtremeTech: The world's first drone delivery of lungs has gone down in history as a success. Unither Bioelectronique, a bioengineering firm focused on organ transportation, recently completed a "proof-of-concept" flight in which a pair of human lungs were shipped via drone to the transplant site in about six minutes. The lungs were flo ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pQv7MV4CoAM/drones-have-now-been-used-to-deliver-lungs-for-medical-transplant)
2021-10-16T07:00:00Z	**Astronomers Spot First Known Exoplanet To Survive Its Dying Star**
"In our new paper, published in Nature, we report the discovery of the first known exoplanet to survive the death of its star without having its orbit altered by other planets moving around -- circling a distance comparable to those between the Sun and the Solar System planets," writes one of the study's authors, Dimitri Veras, in an article for The Conversation. From the report ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gXDnjxwhnvE/astronomers-spot-first-known-exoplanet-to-survive-its-dying-star)
2021-10-16T10:00:00Z	**Epic Says It's 'Open' To Blockchain Games After Steam Bans Them**
Epic tells The Verge that it's "open to games that support cryptocurrency or blockchain-based assets" on its game store, unlike its competitor Valve which has banned games that feature blockchain technology or NFTs from Steam. From the report: When we asked about allowing games that featured NFTs, Epic told us there'd be some limitations, but that it's willing to work with "early dev ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sbtsFgDXRng/epic-says-its-open-to-blockchain-games-after-steam-bans-them)
2021-10-16T13:00:00Z	**Russian Spacecraft's Thrusters Tilt the International Space Station - Again**
"Unplanned thruster firings by a Russian spacecraft briefly knocked the International Space Station off-kilter Friday, the second such incident in less than three months," reports Space.com:

The spacecraft involved today was the Soyuz MS-18, which is scheduled to bring cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, film director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild back t ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pQ4VmbvDQLg/russian-spacecrafts-thrusters-tilt-the-international-space-station---again)
2021-10-16T13:45:00Z	**China Launches 6-Month Crewed Mission, Cements Position as Global Space Power**
"China launched a three-person crew into space in the early hours of Saturday," reports CNN, calling it "a major step for the country's young space program, which is rapidly becoming one of the world's most advanced..."

They will dock at China's new space station, Tiangong (which means Heavenly Palace), six and a half hours after launch. They will l ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_8e9Xe902jg/china-launches-6-month-crewed-mission-cements-position-as-global-space-power)
2021-10-16T14:34:00Z	**Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: A judge in the U.K. has ruled that a man infringed on his neighbor's privacy by using Amazon's Ring doorbell without prior consent. According to The Guardian, Jon Woodard had installed a Ring doorbell camera on the front of his home and another security camera facing the side yard to help deter burglars after ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WoE15ws8COQ/amazons-ring-doorbell-can-violate-your-neighbors-privacy-a-uk-judge-rules)
2021-10-16T15:34:00Z	**Bitcoin Tops $60,000, Rising 50% in 24 Days**
Less than a month ago Bitcoin's price was $40,683. Last night it reached $61,369 — a gain of more than 50% in just 24 days.

CNN attributes the October surge to "hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission will soon approve a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund."
Bitcoin prices, which rose to nearly $62,000 Friday, are now only about 5% below their all-time high of just under $65,000 that they hit earlier thi ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/e3XNcdfrIis/bitcoin-tops-60000-rising-50-in-24-days)
2021-10-16T16:34:00Z	**Proposed Change Could Speed Python Dramatically**
"One of Python's long-standing weaknesses, its inability to scale well in multithreaded environments, is the target of a new proposal among the core developers of the popular programming language," reports InfoWorld:
Developer Sam Gross has proposed a major change to the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL — a key component in CPython, the reference implementation of Python. If accepted, Gross's proposal would r ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3JNuTwFpHqo/proposed-change-could-speed-python-dramatically)
2021-10-16T17:34:00Z	**Study Discovers Workers Maintained the Same Productivity With Shorter Work Weeks**
Bloomberg reports:

Even as the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies around the world to reimagine the workplace, researchers in Iceland were already conducting two trials of a shorter work week that involved about 2,500 workers — more than 1% of the country's working population. They found that the experiment was an "overwhelming success" — ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jPftu9YLGl0/study-discovers-workers-maintained-the-same-productivity-with-shorter-work-weeks)
2021-10-16T18:34:00Z	**Former 'Donkey Kong' Record Holder Billy Mitchell May Now Sue Twin Galaxies**
"Billy Mitchell always has a plan," said Billy Mitchell in the 2007 documentary about Donkey Kong high scores, The King of Kong.

And he tweeted the phrase again Wednesday. GameSpot explains why. "Billy Mitchell, the professional gamer and hot sauce purveyor who rose to fame for setting several retro video game high scores, is preparing for a return to co ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9TLTSllzXiI/former-donkey-kong-record-holder-billy-mitchell-may-now-sue-twin-galaxies)
2021-10-16T19:34:00Z	**American Bumblebees Have Disappeared From 8 States and Could Face Extinction**
Long-time Slashdot reader phalse phace quotes USA Today:

The dwindling populations of the American bumblebee and their complete disappearance from eight states has led to a call for the bee to be placed under the Endangered Species Act before they face extinction.

Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Ore ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FfkxuvG828k/american-bumblebees-have-disappeared-from-8-states-and-could-face-extinction)
2021-10-16T20:34:00Z	**OpenBSD 7.0 Released**
Long-time Slashdot reader ArchieBunker writes:

Everyone's favorite security focused operating system OpenBSD released version 7.0 Thursday. In addition to the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements, support for RISC-V processors has been added.

It's 26 years old, and still chugging along. One interesting feature highlighted by Phoronix:

Improving the ARM64 platform support with improved drivers for the Apple Silicon / Apple M1 but still not cons ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NcHeOxoJ2jc/openbsd-70-released)
2021-10-16T21:34:00Z	**All-Remote GitLab Valued at $15B in NASDAQ's First-Ever Livestreamed IPO Day**
"Long before the pandemic, software business GitLab operated fully remotely, building its developer tools without any physical office..." remembers Forbes.

"The company went public on Thursday on Nasdaq under the ticker 'GTLB.' Priced at $77, shares of GitLab closed their first day of trading at $103.89, up 35%, giving GitLab a market cap of nearly $15 ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zNa_SWffV3o/all-remote-gitlab-valued-at-15b-in-nasdaqs-first-ever-livestreamed-ipo-day)
2021-10-16T22:34:00Z	**Ransomware Summit Eyes Tighter Global Scrutiny for Crypto**
Officials from 32 countries "recognize that ransomware is an escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences," according to a statement issued Thursday:

From malign operations against local health providers that endanger patient care, to those directed at businesses that limit their ability to provide fuel, groceries, or other goods to the public, ransom ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bGc6B7f55R0/ransomware-summit-eyes-tighter-global-scrutiny-for-crypto)
2021-10-17T01:34:00Z	**Is It Time for Baseball to Adopt Robot Umpires?**
The case for robot umpires in baseball got some new interest this week — especially for Silicon Valley's baseball fans. As America settled in to watch the final inning of this year's National League Division Series, the Washington Post reports that (human) viewers saw a (human) umpire "call a third strike on a checked swing by San Francisco Giants infielder Wilmer Flores...ending the night, and season, of MLB's ... ⌘ [Read more](http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oEgJRL1H_NA/is-it-time-for-baseball-to-adopt-robot-umpires)