On September 5th, 2016 with 39 comments
Forum of porn website Brazzers has been hacked, exposing the data of as many as 800,000 users, reports Motherboard. Though the data originated from the...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 189 comments
As America celebrates a national holiday honoring organized labor, long-time Slashdot reader itwbennett shares this story about the modern workplace:
Three...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 171 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
Promising "intelligent food management" to help with shopping and meal planning, Microsoft is collaborating with household...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 79 comments
"Tor hasn't changed, it's the world that's changed," says Aaron Johnson, the lead researcher on a 2013 paper which reported that 80% of Tor users could be...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 97 comments
The New York Times continues their coverage of the commercial spytech industry, noting its services "are in higher demand now that companies like Apple,...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 235 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
TSA checkpoints caused 6,800 American Airlines passengers to miss their flights in just one week this spring, and the...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 528 comments
Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income -- one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 78 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from TechHive:
On Friday, HDMI Licensing announced a new cable standard that connects USB-C and HDMI devices... ...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 85 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 102 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes a report from Bloomberg: John McAfee, the creator of the eponymous antivirus computer software system, sued Intel...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 443 comments
If scientists could send Zika-carrying mosquitoes into extinction, should they do it? Several science and business journals are now exploring the question,...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 79 comments
"The promotion has ended," a bank spokesperson said. After more than a year of preparation, Amazon's partnership with Wells Fargo to sell student loans barely...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 62 comments
Slashdot reader chicksdaddy quotes an article from Security Ledger:
The Federal Trade Commission is warning consumers to beware of new 'connected car' features...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 80 comments
NASA will land a new probe on Mars on November 26, 2018, "paving the way toward an ambitious journey to send humans to the Red Planet," according to one NASA...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 55 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes BetaNews about new legal documents filed Friday:
Microsoft is fighting the US Justice Department in an attempt to quash a...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 40 comments
"Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the first to have fabricated carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) that outperform the current-density of...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 155 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader mspohr writes:
The Guardian has an opinion piece by Richard Stallman which argues that we should be able to pay for news anonymously....
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On September 4th, 2016 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Softpedia: Anthony Di Iorio, founder of Jaxx, a crypto-currency wallet, claims that an Apple representative revealed to him the six...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 37 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader JRiddell writes: A unique coming together of open source communities is happening in Berlin over the next week. QtCon brings...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 142 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: Remember the screaming and welcoming of our Dyson-Sphere-Dwelling 1500 LY distant Overlords that accompanied the...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 287 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from the San Jose Mercury News:
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company plans to bring back billions of dollars in...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 88 comments
Dozens of aircraft fires have been caused by lithium batteries, and after 2013 Tesla even strengthened their battery shields after several of their cars caught...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 31 comments
"Europe and South America are the biggest hotspots for open-source use in government," reports Network World, while Bulgaria requires all software written for...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 110 comments
After analyzing 1.4 million scores on HackerRank's tests for coding accuracy and speed, Chinese programmers "outscored all other countries in mathematics,...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 25 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader collinl writes: Nmap was released 19 years ago on September 1... Seems like it has been around for ever. Was there a port scanner...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 53 comments
prisoninmate writes: What's Kali Linux 2016.2? Well, it's an updated Live ISO image of the popular GNU/Linux distribution designed for ethical hackers and...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 157 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the BBC:
The US and China -- together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions -- have both formally joined the...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 49 comments
the_newsbeagle writes: You can now buy gadgets online that send electric current through your scalp to stimulate your brain. Why would you want to do that?...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 58 comments
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: Joe Sutter, Boeing's lead designer for the design and construction of the 747, has passed away at 95. This documentary of the...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a report via IEEE Spectrum, Facebook's VP of Engineering Jay Parikh described the company's "Project Storm" -- regular...
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