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 a…
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, …
“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:
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“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 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…
“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 r…
“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…
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 Matri…
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…
“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 cybersec…
