Slashdot reader Tekla Perry writes: IEEE USA says H-1B visas are a tool used to avoid paying U.S. wages. “For every visa used by Google to hire a talented non-American for $126,000, ten Americans are replaced by outsourcing companies paying…
Report: Up To 15% Of Twitter Accounts Are Bots
A team of researchers claim they can identify Twitter account activity that’s posted by bots through their new web portal — “Bot or Not?” — leveraging “more than a thousand features extracted from public data and meta-data.” And it turns…
Police warn on keeping kids safe as Justin Bieber impersonator charged
As police charge a prolific alleged predator, we offer advice on how to keep your family safe online
Endangered animals at growing risk from GPS ‘cyber-poachers’
Technologies designed to protect animals are being turned against them, warn scientists
News in brief: NASA finds lost spaceships; data stored on an atom; Viber adds self-destruct chats
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
How online gamers use malware to cheat
As the sophistication of attacks to allow cheating have grown, so too have the defenses of the games industry
Wikileaks says CIA does CYA, reinvents the ‘Boss’ key from 1992
Want to be a CIA field agent? It’s important to keep up appearances, just as you would at a fine dining restaurant.
NASA Finds Lunar Spacecraft That Vanished 8 Years Ago
An anonymous reader shares a CNN report: It made history as India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Then it vanished. Nearly a decade later, NASA has located two unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, including India’s Chandrayaan-1, which went quiet in 2009….
U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month
Two anonymous reader share a Bloomberg report: U.S. employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing while wage growth picked up, as the labor market continued its steady improvement in…
How Many Snapchat Clones Does It Take For Facebook To Lose Its Self-Respect?
Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: Over the past year, Facebook has shown an almost monomaniacal dedication to taking on Snapchat by importing its defining features wholesale into the company’s own apps. Facebook Live has “masks” now (think Snapchat’s Lenses)….