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Monday March 24, 2025. 10:48 AM
When getting a new smartphone most people focus on features and pricing, while security tends to be overlooked. But as we access the internet more using mobile devices, protecting users' personal information, transactions, and digital identities is vital. We talked to Tom...
Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when 'but it's both' is the default. Apply it to...
Just as you can get versions of Android that are free from Google, including LineageOS and /e/OS, so there are also alternative Windows operating systems not developed by Microsoft. One of the most best examples of this is ReactOS, an open-source project that aims to provide ...
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not orbit a star.
In open source, forks often struggle to break free from the shadow of their progenitors. But OpenTofu, the community-driven Terraform fork born from HashiCorp’s licensing upheaval, is writing a different story. Since January 2024, OpenTofu has transformed from a hopeful...
Prompt engineering is the process of structuring or creating an instruction to produce the best possible output from a generative AI model. Industries such as healthcare, banking, financial services, insurance, and retail all have use cases for prompt engineering, says the...
The experimental phase of generative AI is over. Enterprises now face mounting pressure — from boardrooms to the front lines — to move AI into production to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation. Yet, as AI deployments grow, so do its...
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: A recent paper on ArXiv reports a novel idea about the central regions of 'our' galaxy. Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an 'image' of our central black hole — or rather, an image ...
And got away with it when someone else broke it even more comprehensively Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, and therefore to another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s reader-contributed Monday column that shares stories of your worst moments at work, and ...
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights...
Long-time Slashdot reader invisik reminds us that the 'fish doorbell' is still going strong, according to the Associated Press. 'Now in its fifth year, the site has attracted millions of viewers from around the world with its quirky mix of slow TV and ecological activism.'...
Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Google has admitted it lost some customer data, possibly forever.…
NPR reports on research 'into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.' So far, the findings offer some reassurance. Antibodies and other players in the immune system may buffer the worst consequences of bird flu, at ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Bazzite 41 News: Debian Project Leader election underway, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating custom images for the Raspberry Pi Questions...
PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security has outlawed the use of facial recognition without...
Sunday March 23, 2025. 11:34 PM
Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule...
For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now 'Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative,' according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht...
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…
AOC joined Bernie on his 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour and drew a record-breaking crowd together. An estimated 34,000 people gathered in Denver's Civic Center Park to hear US Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) advocate...
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