Open source guru Eric Raymond turns 60 this year, prompting this question from an anonymous reader: Eric Raymond’s newest writing project is “Things Every Hacker Once Knew,” inspired by the day he learned that not every programmer today’s knows the…
34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia
Researchers used machine learning to analyze every single comment left on Wikipedia in 2015. An anonymous reader shares their results: 34 “highly toxic users” were responsible for 9% of all the personal attacks in the comments on Wikipedia, according to…
Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses
Barb Darrow, writing for Fortune: Corporate IT pros face the unenviable task of trying to protect valuable data from threats that change all the time. One vector of attack is clearly smartphones and tablets that employees use both for work…
Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated
An anonymous reader shares a MercuryNews report: Job growth in the tech industry used to zoom like a race car, but these days, hiring by this principal driver of the Bay Area’s economy chugs along more like a family SUV….
Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again)
Building on anti-harassment tools announced in November, Twitter is now “trying to shake its reputation as a haven for online harassment” with still more new internal algorithms and features, reports CNN. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The changes include…
Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Finland’s basic income experiment is unworkable, uneconomical and ultimately useless. Plus, it will only encourage some people to work less. That’s not the view of a hard core Thatcherite, but of the country’s biggest trade…
Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked
Mickeycaskill quotes Silicon: Just to illustrate that you can never be too careful, cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro has confirmed that one of the blogs it uses to communicate with customers was itself the victim of a content spoofing attack. The…
CS Professor Argues Silicon Valley Is Exploiting Both H-1B Visas And Workers
schwit1 quotes Norm Matloff, a CS professor at the University of California at Davis, on H-1B visa programs: The Trump administration has drafted a new executive order that could actually mean higher wages for both foreign workers and Americans working…
Magic Leap CEO Defends His AR Company After Leaked Photo
Saturday Business Insider claimed that augmented reality company Magic Leap was “scrambling to finish a working prototype before an important board meeting next week,” publishing a photo described by their source as an early January prototype. An anonymous reader quotes…
Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot
“A remotely-controlled robot sent to inspect and clean a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant had to be pulled early when its onboard camera went dark, the result of excess radiation,” reports Gizmodo. “The abbreviated mission suggests that radiation…