“Developers are once again publicly highlighting instances in which Apple has failed to keep scam apps off of the app store,” reports Ars Technica:
The apps in question charge users unusual fees and siphon revenue from legitimate or higher-quality app…
Friday a CNN video offered what it calls “an exclusive look into how Space Force is defending America.” CNN’s Jim Sciutto reported:
Inside Mission Control at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, Space Force Guardians, as they’re known, fly the…
While some bitcoin mining operations are now looking to nuclear power, the Associated Press reports, Bill Spence (and his company Stronghold Digital Mining) is creating crypto-mining hubs out of waste coal power plants. (Text-only version here):
The p…
Slashdot reader Thelasko quotes the BBC: A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China’s government, according to a new study. The aim is to …
The New York Times reports on what’s apparently a new Russia-aligned disinformation campaign to “undermine the effort to immunize people” — and more. (Alternate URL here)
Both Russia and China have worked to promote their own vaccines through me…
LTTng has been called “the killer app for system-level debugging and performance tuning.” And now long-time Slashdot reader compudj writes: It’s the official release of LTTng 2.13 — Nordicité! LTTng is a kernel and user-space tracer for Linu…
“In 2017, it emerged that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel had been able to gain New Zealand citizenship six years earlier,” reports the Associated Press, “despite never having lived in the country.”
Thiel was approved after a top lawmaker decide…
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek:
Researchers have discovered three separate Chinese military affiliated advanced threat groups simultaneously targeting and compromising the same Southeast Asian telcos. The attack groups concerned are Soft…
“The moment you network IoT and hand over control to third parties, you may also give individuals the keys to a digital kingdom — and the ability to cause mischief, or worse,” writes ZDNet.
For example, at a hotel where guests control the devic…
Long-time Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: Sensitive systems and data for the U.S. Department of State could have been exposed by a third party development workstation running the eXide software, according to researchers for the hacking crew Sakura …
