Long-time Slashdot reader cstacy noticed Saturday that Julian Assange hadn’t made any communications or public appearances in six weeks. But today an anonymous reader writes: Julian Assange is still not dead, reports The Inquisitr, noting “the WikiLeaks founder made his…
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps: At some point yesterday, Donald Trump’s Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for “Trump Tower” revealed a pin for…
Open-Source Hardware Makers Unite To Start Certifying Products
An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld on the new certifications from the Open Source Hardware Association: The goal of certification is to clearly identify open-source hardware separate from the mish-mash of other hardware products. The certification allows hardware designs to be…
Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases
Friday humanity set a new record for the most money ever spent online in a single day — and the most ever purchased on mobile devices. An anonymous reader writes: Online sales reached $3.34 billion yesterday, up 11.3% from the…
Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are two investors in Bridge International Academies. But in Uganda, the group’s 63 schools have been “ordered to shut down in a matter of weeks, leaving the lives of thousands of pupils in limbo.” An…
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller
“Did you ever think it would be great if hardware was open to the transistor level, not just the chip level?” writes hamster_nz, pointing to a new Crowd Supply campaign for the OnChip Open-V microcontroller, “a completely free (as in…
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump
Lawrence Lessig’s new op-ed in the Washington Post argues against the idea “that the person who lost the popular vote this year must nonetheless become our president.” (Paywalled version here, free version here.) Lessig points out that the electoral college…
Guest post: Cybersecurity school to open at Bletchley Park, home of the wartime codebreakers
Dr Sue Black, author of ‘Saving Bletchley Park’, welcomes the new cybersecurity school being set up at Bletchley Park, the iconic wartime codebreaking centre
Windows 10 still needs EMET exploit protection, US CERT tells Microsoft
Doubts raised over Microsoft’s plans to discontinue threat mitigation tool in 2018
cURL security audit learns the lessons of Heartbleed
You may not have heard of cURL but you probably use it all the time