“The University System of Maryland has awarded 21 “mini grants” to university faculty to “help them expand open education resources,” reports OpenSource.com. Recipients of the grants are also given time off to prepare courses that use open textbooks, and will…

While Uber’s bookings doubled last year, the company still showed a net lost of $2.8 billion. And now, “California regulators are recommending that Uber pay a $1.13 million fine for not investigating rider complaints that drivers were working intoxicated.” An…

Andy Hunt is one of the 17 software developers who wrote the Agile Manifesto, and he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer. Now Slashdot reader cerberusss writes: In an interview with Best Programming Books, Andy Hunt mentions he “hates languages that introduce…

An anonymous reader quotes ThreatPost: A popular version of the open source Magento ecommerce platform is vulnerable to a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, putting as many as 200,000 online retailers at risk… According Bosko Stankovic, information security engineer at…

Wisconsin congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. defended his decision to help repeal broadband privacy rules by telling a constituent, “Nobody’s got to use the Internet.” An anonymous reader quotes the 73-year-old congressman: “And the thing is that if you start…

Using LIDAR sensors, Cadillac mapped 160,000 miles of U.S. highways “within five centimeters of accuracy” to give its hands-free-on-the-highway cars the ability to better anticipate the roads ahead — and to know when a human driver should take over. An…

Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein thinks Burger King should be prosecuted for successfully running an alternate version of its advertisement to trigger Google Home devices again Wednesday: Someone — or more likely a bunch of someones — at Burger King and…

chicksdaddy quotes a report from The Security Ledger: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a letter of warning to medical device maker Abbott on Wednesday, slamming the company for what it said was a pattern of overlooking security and…

Windows Phone has less than a 1 percent market share in the mobile industry, but it is not completely dead, yet. In fact, if you own a relatively new Windows Phone, it may receive a new update that will give…

ewhac writes: Earlier this week, Burger King released a broadcast television ad that opened with an actor saying, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper?” thereby triggering any Google Home device in hearing range to respond to the injected request with…