An anonymous reader writes: Ever since I started coding, I have always loved object-oriented design patterns. I built an HTML preprocessor that adds inheritance, polymorphism, and public methods to this venerable language. It offers more freedom than a templating engine…
Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset
Images of Tinder users “were swept up in a massive grab of some 40,000 photos from the dating app by a dataset collector who plans to use the selfies in artificial intelligence training,” writes Slashdot reader Frosty Piss, sharing this…
Hacker Leaks 'Orange Is the New Black' Episodes After Failing To Extort Netflix
An anonymous reader writes: “A hacker (or hacker group) known as The Dark Overlord (TDO) has leaked the first ten episodes of season 5 of the “Orange Is The New Black” show after two failed blackmail attempts, against Larson Studios…
Neowin: Microsoft's Windows Phone Business 'Is Dead'
An anonymous reader quote Neowin: If you’ve been expecting Microsoft to issue a press release formally announcing the end of its Windows phone business, you’re probably hoping for a bit too much. But make no mistake: its phone hardware business…
VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC: Robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade, according to Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a top voice on tech in China. Artificial intelligence…