BrianFagioli quotes Beta News: Twitch was designed as a video game streaming service, but since Amazon bought it, it seems to be evolving into something more. While it is still primarily a platform for showing off gaming, people are using…
Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux
Linus Torvalds appeared in a new “fireside chat” with VMware Head of Open Source Dirk Hohndel. An anonymous reader writes: Linus explained what still surprises him about Linux development. “Code that I thought was stable continually gets improved. There are…
Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media.
ArmoredDragon writes: German police have raided 36 homes of people accused of using illegal speech on Facebook and Twitter. Much of it was aimed at political speech. According to the article, “Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement,…
Account Registrations Enable 'Password Reset Man In The Middle' Attacks
“Attackers that have set up a malicious site can use users’ account registration process to successfully perform a password reset process on a number of popular websites and messaging mobile applications, researchers have demonstrated.” Orome1 quotes Help Net Security: The…
Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out
Long-time Slashdot reader quotes Ars Technica: The Justice Department on Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to step into an international legal thicket, one that asks whether US search warrants extend to data stored on foreign servers. The US government…
What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'?
Dan Drollette shares an article by an Oxford physics professor who’s concerned about the popularity of radical new proposals to fight global warming. The Christian Science Monitor wonders if it’s time to re-engineer our climate. MIT’s Technology Review basically thinks…
6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Yesterday The Information reported on allegations made by half a dozen women working in the tech industry who say they have faced unwanted and inappropriate advances from Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Justin…
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online
According to an exclusive report via The Register, “a massive trove of Microsoft’s internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.” From the report: The data — some 32TB of installation images and…
Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report
Jessica Conditt reports via Engadget: President Barack Obama learned of Russia’s attempts to hack U.S. election systems in early August 2016, and as intelligence mounted over the following months, the White House deployed secrecy protocols it hadn’t used since the…
FCC Grants OneWeb Approval To Launch Over 700 Satellites For 'Space Internet'
OneWeb has been granted approval from the FCC to launch a network of internet-beaming satellites into orbit. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement: “Humans have long sought inspiration from the stars, from the ancient Egyptians orienting the pyramids…