“The Ask.com search engine went through some sort of technical issue late Friday night, as…

Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes'
An anonymous reader writes: Open source guru Eric S. Raymond has announced public brainstorming on…

Tunnelled IPv6 Attacks Bypass Network Intrusion Detection Systems
“The transition to internet protocol version 6 has opened up a whole new range of…

Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA
Slashdot reader drunkdrone tipped us off to some big aviation news: After several years of…

McAfee: Big Spike In Mac OS Malware In 2016, Mostly From Adware Bunding
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: Security firm McAfee released a report this week that showed…

IRS Warns Tax Info Leaked By US Financial Aid Site
“Hackers accessed the data of up to 100,000 people through a tool that helps students…

Hacker Group Leaks 'NSA's Top Secret Arsenal of Digital Weapons'
Hacker group ‘The Shadow Brokers’, which last year allegedly released top-secret tools that the National…

Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala?
“Scala is one of the JVM languages that manages to maintain a hip and professional…

Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track
An anonymous reader writes: Thursday Hyperloop One executives announced that they’ve finished constructing their 1,640-foot-long…

Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs
Are there any Slashdot readers who are doing their work in co-working spaces? An anonymous…