“Remember the story from last week about how the new Seattle minimum wage law was hurting workers?” writes Slashdot reader PopeRatzo. “Well, it turns out that there are some problems with the study’s methodology.” The Washington Post reports: Fi...

schwit1 quotes Futurity: The plane of our solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto — but much closer than Planet Nine. An unknown, unseen “planetary ...

An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld: Ruby has had a reputation as a user-friendly language for building web applications. But its slippage in this month’s RedMonk Programming Language Rankings has raised questions about where exactly the language stands among deve...

Thursday Lproven (Slashdot reader #6030) wrote: It appears that Ubuntu is using a feature it has added — intended to insert headlines of breaking tech news (security alerts and so on) into the Message of the Day displayed at login to the console — to display adve...