The South Korean government plans to unveil a high-speed train that can travel at near-supersonic…
Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier — Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cervical cancer is 77 percent more…
China Unseats US As Global Investment Leader In Financial Technology: Report
Paul Fernhout writes: China has unseated North America as the global investment leader in financial…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires and Will Free Up Science Search Engine Meta
tomhath quotes a report from TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $45 billion philanthropy organization…
Monday review – the hot 31 stories of the week
From the sysadmin sued for wiping school’s Gmail login to the end of Patch Tuesday…
Israeli soldiers duped into installing malware via fake Facebook profiles
Hamas used one of the oldest tricks in the social engineering book to dupe IDF…
St Jude case highlights ongoing divide over ‘responsible bugs disclosure’
Disclosing bugs and vulnerabilities is ‘the free market
C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup is arguing that we can improve code by grounding generic programming…
Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP?
Here’s a bright idea from dryriver Why don’t software makers look at the average income…
'IT Issue' Grounded All United Airlines Flights In The US
For two and a half hours — no take-offs. An anonymous reader quotes NBC News:…