Microsoft eased some anxiety over the latest ShadowBrokers dump of Windows zero days with news most of the vulnerabilities had already been patched.
Wave of Java-Based RATs Target Tax Filers
A rash of Java-based remote access Trojans is targeting tax filers with bogus IRS attachments.
Steve Wozniak Predicts The Future
USA Today asked Steve Wozniak to predict what the world will look like in 2075 — one hundred years after the founding of Apple. An anonymous reader writes: “He’s convinced Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075,” according…
Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi
“It turns out that the NES Classic Edition is just a little Linux-powered board inside a cute case,” writes Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica, “and it’s totally possible to build your own tiny Linux-powered computer inside a cute case without…
Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets
“Predicting magnets is a heck of a job, and their discovery is very rare,” said a mechanical engineering professor at Duke University. But after years of work synthesizing various predictions, material scientists “predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom,…
Maryland Awards 21 Grants To Prepare 'Open Source' Textbooks
“The University System of Maryland has awarded 21 “mini grants” to university faculty to “help them expand open education resources,” reports OpenSource.com. Recipients of the grants are also given time off to prepare courses that use open textbooks, and will…
Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints — And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year
While Uber’s bookings doubled last year, the company still showed a net lost of $2.8 billion. And now, “California regulators are recommending that Uber pay a $1.13 million fine for not investigating rider complaints that drivers were working intoxicated.” An…
'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript
Andy Hunt is one of the 17 software developers who wrote the Agile Manifesto, and he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer. Now Slashdot reader cerberusss writes: In an interview with Best Programming Books, Andy Hunt mentions he “hates languages that introduce…
Unpatched Magento Zero Day Leaves 200,000 Merchants Vulnerable
An anonymous reader quotes ThreatPost: A popular version of the open source Magento ecommerce platform is vulnerable to a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, putting as many as 200,000 online retailers at risk… According Bosko Stankovic, information security engineer at…
GOP Congressman Defending Privacy Vote: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet'
Wisconsin congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. defended his decision to help repeal broadband privacy rules by telling a constituent, “Nobody’s got to use the Internet.” An anonymous reader quotes the 73-year-old congressman: “And the thing is that if you start…