Kalper (Slashdot reader #57,281) shares news from Bleeping Computer:
Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine.
Starting with Exchang…
Each player gets 15 minutes for all moves (plus a 10-second-per-move increment) at the World Rapid Chess Championship.
But players only get three minutes for all moves (plus a 2-second-per-move increment) in the World Blitz Chess Championship.
So w…
Thousands of people — included hundreds of men — were accused of witchcraft in Scotland, the Guardian reports, “from allegations of cursing the king’s ships, to shape-shifting into animals and birds, or dancing with the devil.”
Many were …
4,346 flights were cancelled worldwide by this morning, including 2,508 in the U.S. Airlines have been blaming cancellations on increasing Covid-19 infections among flightcrews creating staffing shortages, the Associated Press reports.
“More than 12,…
Reuters reports:
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay the planned January 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over avi…
“Thousands of people received a surprise gift on Christmas Day this year,” reports CNBC, “when European bank Santander accidentally deposited £130 million ($176 million) across 75,000 transactions.”
The mistake happened when payments from 2,000 b…
“With the successful extension of Webb’s second sunshield mid-boom, the observatory has passed another critical deployment milestone,” NASA announced Friday, adding that the sunshield “now resembles its full, kite-shaped form in space…”
The completi…
The Washington Post reports:
China is turning a major part of its internal Internet data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information …
Another 12 months gone by, and with it nearly 8,000 new Slashdot headlines — so which ones drew the most views?
Click here for lists of Slashdot’s top 10 most-visited and most-commented stories of the year — and also the all-time top 10 li…
This summer the Free Software Foundation campaigns manager said that while they’ll never stop aiming to be a “lighthouse” for others, “we recognize that a stance like ours can sometimes be a deterrent to people making important incremental improvements…
