Slashdot reader turkeydance tipped us off to news that America hasn’t had a single tornado in November, even though last year it experienced 99, and averages 58 every November. CNN reports: Drought is overwhelming Southeastern states this fall, and temperatures…
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback
Long-time Slashdot reader jrincayc shares news from Red Hat’s Fedora Engineering Manager, Tom Callaway. On the Fedora-legal mailing list, Callaway announced: Red Hat has determined that it is now acceptable for Fedora to include MP3 decoding functionality (not specific to…
Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites
“Almost every account password was cracked, thanks to the company’s poor security practices,” reports ZDNet — even for “deleted” accounts. An anonymous reader quotes their article: The hack includes 339 million accounts from AdultFriendFinder.com, which the company describes as the…
Are Tesla Crashes Balanced Out By The Lives That They Save?
Friday EE Times shared the story of a Tesla crash that occurred during a test drive. “The salesperson suggested that my friend not brake, letting the system do the work. It didn’t…” One Oregon news site even argues autopiloted Tesla’s…
More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden
After Saturday’s story about the code samples in the new movie Arrival, an anonymous reader reminded us of this classic essay at Nmap.org: For reasons unknown, Hollywood has decided that Nmap is the tool to show whenever hacking scenes are…
Scammers Bite Chrome Users With Forgotten 2014 Bug
“Tech support scammers have started exploiting a two-year-old bug in Google Chrome to trick victims into believing their PC is infected with malware,” reports security researcher Sophos. It begins by freezing the browser, BrianFagioli reports, sharing an article from Beta…
'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison
Slashdot reader whoever57 writes; Navinder Sarao, the British trader who was accused of causing the “flash crash” in 2010 and was extradited to the U.S. this week has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of…
'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming
InfoWorld has identified “seven of the gnarliest corners of the programming world,” which Slashdot reader snydeq describes as “worthy of large markers reading, ‘Here be dragons.’” Some examples: Multithreading. “It sounded like a good idea,” according to the article, but…
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released
Need a new set of generic attack detection rules for your web application firewall? Try the new OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set version 3.0.0! Long-time Slashdot reader dune73 writes: The OWASP CRS is a widely-used Open Source set of generic…
Ethernet Consortia Wants To Unlock a More Time-Sensitive Network
Does Ethernet need new features like “stream reservation” and time synchronization to make sure time-sensitive data isn’t delayed on the network? coondoggie quotes Network World: The demand from Internet of Things, automotive networking and video applications are driving changes to…