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Amazon plans to check up on your price checks
Thinking of shopping in one of Amazon’s new physical stores? Think twice about using their free Wi-Fi to do a price comparison while you’re there as a patent suggests they’ll be snooping on your browsing
Why gathering genetic data could mean a whole world of pain
With access to a huge database of eager would-be participants, 23andMe is hoping to learn more about the genetics of pain. But just how useful will this data be – and what are the potential problems with this kind of…
EU throws a spanner in London’s encryption backdoor works
A wave of terrorist attacks has led to the UK government calling ever more noisily for ways to access the content of terrorists’ messages – but new rules from Brussels make that demand much more difficult
News in brief: Girl Scouts get cybersecurity badges; 1m hit by university data theft; India criticised
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Physicists Discover A Possible Break In the Standard Model of Physics
Slashdot reader freddienumber13 write: A series of experiments has shown that tau particles have decayed faster than predicted by the standard model. This has been observed at both CERN and SLAC. This suggests that the standard model for particle physics…
How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'?
Companies can’t find enough qualified security personnel, and fixing it requires “a fundamental shift in how businesses recruit, hire, and keep security talent,” according to a VentureBeat article by an Intermedia security executive: The trickle of security students emerging from…
Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing
An anonymous reader quotes the Bay Area Newsgroup: With rental costs skyrocketing and homes out of reach for many, Google has hit on a solution that may help it attract workers to the crushingly expensive Bay Area. The tech giant…
A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids
An anonymous reader quotes the AP: Colorado officials have cleared the language of a proposed ballot measure that would establish the nation’s first legal limits on buying smartphones for children. Backers of the move to forbid the sale of smartphones…
Ia Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins?
Even as some comparnies are stockpiling bitcoins so they can quickly pay ransom demands, security firms that try paying those ransoms may face losing their accounts on Coinbase. Slashdot reader Mosquito Bites quotes a report from CoinDesk: Less than a…