A little more than a week ago, Uber fired Anthony Levandowski, the former head of its self-driving car project who is accused of stealing some 14,000 documents from Google’s Waymo and using that information as the technological basis for Uber’s…

Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression?
An anonymous reader writes: A Dutch electronics engineer named Jan Sloot spent 20 years of his life trying to compress broadcast quality video down to kilobytes — not megabytes or gigabytes (the link in this story contains an 11 minute…

Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM
According to an iFixit teardown, Apple’s new 4K 21.5-inch iMac has both removable RAM and a Kaby Lake processor that’s not soldered onto the logic board. Whereas the previous models had soldered memory modules, the new iMac’s memory sit in…

Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has lost her overall majority in Parliament on Thursday, plunging Britain into a period of renewed political chaos less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European…

Authentication Bypass, Potential Backdoors Plague Old WiMAX Routers
WiMAX routers manufactured by several companies, including Huawei and ZyXEL, are vulnerable to an authentication bypass and potential backdoors.

Cisco Patches Critical Flaws in Prime Data Center Network Manager
Cisco patched two critical flaws in its Prime Data Center Network Manager, including one that could be exploited remotely and allow an attacker root access.

VMware Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in vSphere Data Protection
VMware fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its vSphere Data Protection solution this week that could have allowed an attacker to execute commands on the appliance, among other outcomes.

Motorola Moto G4, G5 Vulnerable to Local Root Shell Attacks
Moto G4 and Moto G5 model Motorola phones are vulnerable to kernel command line injection vulnerabilities.

Apple’s Safari is going to use AI to track who’s tracking you
Safari will use machine learning to decide which third-party cookies to block, with the aim of reducing how much your footsteps around the web are followed by advertisers

Supreme Court to rule on warrants for cellphone location data
Should you be surprised if location data is used as evidence against you? Should police need a warrant for it? It’s time for some overdue clarity