Very long-time Slashdot reader Andy Smith writes: Yesterday I received an email from my ISP telling me that I had illegally downloaded an animated film called Cubo and the Two Strings. I’d never heard of the film and hadn’t downloaded…

Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes the Associated Press: Dozens of police departments around the U.S. are amassing their own DNA databases to track criminals, a move critics say is a way around regulations governing state and national databases that restrict who…

Nielsen reported this week that millennials “spend about 27% less time watching traditional TV than viewers over the age of 35,” possibly threatening the dominance of cable TV. An anonymous reader quotes Axios: Streaming service subscribers (free or paid) increased…

An anonymous reader writes: Wendy’s is adding self-service ordering kiosks “to at least 1,000 restaurants, or about 15% of its stores,” reports the Los Angeles Times, while McDonald’s and Panera Bread are now planning to add kiosks to every restaurant….

An anonymous reader writes: “A vulnerability discovered by Google Project Zero security researchers and left without a patch by Microsoft received a temporary fix from third-party security vendor ACROS Security,” according to Bleeping Computer. Microsoft is set to officially patch…