“Hackers accessed the data of up to 100,000 people through a tool that helps students get financial aid,” writes CNN. An anonymous reader quotes their report: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday that a breach…
Hacker Group Leaks 'NSA's Top Secret Arsenal of Digital Weapons'
Hacker group ‘The Shadow Brokers’, which last year allegedly released top-secret tools that the National Security Agency had used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets, today said it is disappointed with President Donald Trump,…
Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala?
“Scala is one of the JVM languages that manages to maintain a hip and professional vibe at the same time,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino — building up to a big question: One reason for this probably being that Scala…
Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track
An anonymous reader writes: Thursday Hyperloop One executives announced that they’ve finished constructing their 1,640-foot-long “DevLoop” test track in the desert outside Las Vegas. But they also revealed possible U.S. routes for their high-speed transportation solution “to initiate a nationwide…
Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs
Are there any Slashdot readers who are doing their work in co-working spaces? An anonymous reader writes: Staples office-supply stores is aggressively repositioning its brand to entice new customers like tech entrepreneurs and small businesses, reports The New York Times….
Why isn’t US military email protected by standard encryption tech?
STARTTLS, which is used to secure the email handled by many organizations, isn’t perfect, but it can be useful
Mastodon: new beast to challenge Big Social, or another white elephant?
Another big social network – this time, Twitter – has another new challenger, with some interesting features. But the history of the web is littered with the corpses of failed social media challengers
News in brief: Twitter sues US government; Google launches Fact Check; cybersecurity apprenticeship launched
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
That ‘iPhone Wi-Fi bug’ isn’t just for Apple users – here’s a rundown
A bug in Broadcom Wi-Fi firmware that has been patched on recent iPhones and some Google devices could affect many other devices too.