Scientists at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa say they’ve discovered evidence of a “lost continent” beneath the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. According to EarthSky, the evidence of the “lost continent” may be leftover from the breakup…

Researchers at Sudo Security Group Inc. discovered seventy-six popular applications in Apple’s iOS App Store that had implemented encrypted communications with their back-end services in such a way that user information could be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack. According to…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Nearly 1% of carbon emissions annually can be attributed to paper production, even though we recycle much of the paper we produce. Yadong Yin has a solution. He and his colleagues at…

blottsie writes: Starting next month, the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests via email. Instead, the U.S. agency will largely require requests be made via fax machine or the U.S. Postal Service. [The FBI will…

Thomas Claburn, reporting for The Register: Intel’s Atom C2000 processor family has a fault that effectively bricks devices, costing the company a significant amount of money to correct. But the semiconductor giant won’t disclose precisely how many chips are affected…

While the recommended dosage for Nexium, Prevacid and Prilose is just two weeks, doctors often advise patients to continue taking them for years. But now Scientific American reports that “Chronic use of popular heartburn medicines may be riskier than was…

An anonymous user is “just starting a programming career,” and has several questions for Slashdot’s readers: What exactly is the role of tech conferences? I always assumed they were mostly for exhibitors to pitch me things, but then what’s in…

“Four years ago this week, Blackberry named Alicia Keys its global creative officer… Keys was really going to work for Blackberry — to participate in weekly calls addressing product development; develop ideas and content for the Keep Moving Projects, which…

Denuvo “left several private directories on its website open to the public,” TorrentFreak wrote Sunday, calling it “an embarrassing blunder” for the digital rights management company. “Members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents,” the site reports,…

An anonymous reader shares a WashingtonPost report: Silicon Valley is stepping up its confrontation with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal brief opposing the administration’s…