AmiMoJo quotes the Register: The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another small step in protecting everybody’s privacy… As the draft proposal explains, the RFCs that define NTP have what amounts to a convenience feature: packets going from client to…
NASA Will Create Fake Red And Green Clouds Near Virginia
An anonymous reader quotes CNET: The early morning hours on the U.S. East Coast might be unusually colorful as NASA plans to produce artificial blue-green and red clouds that may be visible from New York to North Carolina… It’s a…
Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case
Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond — and he’s also Slashdot reader #3,872. Bruce Perens writes: There’s been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancomcase, in which the court found that the GPL…
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts?
Slashdot reader dryriver writes: There appear to be two main ways to write code today. One is with text-based languages ranging from BASIC to Python to C++. The other is to use a flow-based or dataflow programming-based visual programming language…
ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984
Eric S. Raymond recently documented one of the first public calls for free software, which happened immediately after AT&T’s fateful decision commercialize Unix: [I]n October 1984 I was in a crowd of people watching a presentation by a woman from…
Jaff Malware Probe Uncovers Link to Cybercrime Marketplace
Researchers have discovered a shared backend infrastructure between the Jaff ransomware and a black market carder shop.
'Instantly Rechargeable' Battery Could Change the Future of Electric Cars
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Daily: A technology developed by Purdue researchers could provide an “instantly rechargeable” method that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly for recharging electric and hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy…
Scientists Decipher the Neural Code For Faces
New submitter akakaak writes: In a new paper published in Cell, researchers Le Chang and Doris Tsao claim to have uncovered “The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain.” They develop a model representing each face as a vector…
'Our Streets Are Made For People': San Francisco Mulls Ban On Delivery Robots
Norman Yee, an American elected official in San Francisco, has recently proposed legislation that would prohibit autonomous delivery robots — which includes those with a remote human operator — on public streets in the city. In a statement provided to…
FCC Seeks To Increase ISP Competition In Apartment Buildings
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Exclusive deals between broadband providers and landlords have long been a problem for Internet users, despite rules that are supposed to prevent or at least limit such arrangements. The Federal Communications…