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Sunday July 14, 2024. 11:53 PM
'Researchers are proposing a new way to battle the effects of climate change...' writes Science magazine: slowing the rising of sea levels with 'glacial geoengineering'. (That is, 'building flexible barriers around them or drilling deep into them to slow their slippage into...
As the number of autism diagnoses rises in America, a number of large employers 'are taking steps to make workplaces more accessible and welcoming for neurodivergent employees,' reports the New York Times — including Microsoft, Dell and Ford. [Alternate URL here.] The...
AT&T paid more than $300,000 to a member of the team that stole call records for tens of millions of customers, reports Wired — 'to delete the data and provide a video demonstrating proof of deletion.' The hacker, who is part of the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group that h...
Thunderbird's annual Extended Support Release was revealed Friday, promising 'significant' improvements to the overall user experience and 'the speed at which we can deliver new features to you,' according to the Thunderbird blog: We've devoted significant development time...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from non-profit libertarian law firm, the Institute for Justice: U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has permanently enjoined the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services from enforcing its private-investigator...
At the end of June, Apple's App Store rejected the Windows/retro PC emulator 'UTM SE'. But in a reversal Apple approved the app Saturday, reports the Verge. 'We are happy to announce that UTM SE is available (for free) on iOS and visionOS App Store,' the developer posted on...
An anonymous reader shared this report from ScienceAlert: NASA's Parker Solar Probe, tasked with taking a close-up look at the Sun's outer corona, has just equalled the record for the fastest-moving human-made object ever. The previous record holder? The Parker Solar Probe,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld: Rust has leaped to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity, scaling to the 13th spot this month, with placement in the top 10 anticipated in an upcoming edition. Previously, Rust has...
'A leading South Korean producer of electric vehicle batteries has declared itself in crisis,' reports the Financial Times, 'as its customers struggle with disappointing EV sales in Europe and the US.' SK On, the world's fourth-largest EV battery maker behind Chinese giants...
'In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit,' reports the Guardian, 'and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.' South...
ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: Friday the hardware review site Gamers Nexus filed a YouTube video report alleging some serious claims: that PC component manufacturer MSI left their internal warranty and RMA processing web site accessible to the open Internet, with no ...
Saturday July 13, 2024. 11:55 PM
'Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security,' reports BleepingComputer — by changing the way it stores plain text encryption keys for the SQLite database where users' messages are stored: When BleepingComputer contacted Signal about the flaw in 2018, we never ...
clovis (Slashdot reader #4,684) writes: Joe Engle received his astronaut wings in a ceremony on July 15, 1965, for his flight in the hypersonic aircraft, reaching an altitude of 50 miles above the Earth. At 32, he was the youngest man to become an astronaut. Later, he...
Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from BetaNews: Check Point Research has identified a critical zero-day spoofing attack exploiting Microsoft Internet Explorer on modern Windows 10/11 systems, despite the browser's retirement. Identified as CVE-2024-38112, this...
TechSpot writes: Users of the Linksys Velop Pro 6E and 7 mesh routers should change their passwords and Wi-Fi network names through an external web browser. The two models transmit critical information to outside servers in an insecure manner upon initial installation. New...
MuckRock is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit collaborative news site to 'request, analyze and share government documents,' according to its web site. And long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared their report about a lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper: In a vault at the...
Slashdot reader Kirschey writes: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection determined that the redesigned Apple Watch models do not violate AliveCor's electrocardiogram patents, allowing them to be imported. This decision comes before a consolidated hearing at the Federal...
A report from TechSpot: For home videographers and data hoarders who still rely on optical discs for archiving, some bad news just dropped: Sony is winding down production of recordable Blu-ray media... In an interview Sony gave to AV Watch recently, the company admitted...
'Intel's problems with unstable 13th-gen and 14th-gen high-end CPUs appear to run deeper than we thought,' writes TechRadar, 'and a new YouTube video diving into these gremlins will do little to calm any fears that buyers of Raptor Lake Core i9 processors (and its subsequent ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from DefenseScoop: A group of NATO countries are set to begin implementing a new project aimed at improving the alliance's ability to quickly share intelligence gathered by space-based assets operated by both member nations and the...
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