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Scientists Discover Evidence of a 'Lost Continent' Under the Indian Ocean
Scientists at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa say they’ve discovered evidence of a “lost continent” beneath the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. According to EarthSky, the evidence of the “lost continent” may be leftover from the breakup…
Dozens of Popular iOS Apps Vulnerable To Intercept of TLS-Protected Data
Researchers at Sudo Security Group Inc. discovered seventy-six popular applications in Apple’s iOS App Store that had implemented encrypted communications with their back-end services in such a way that user information could be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack. According to…
Scientists Have Invented Paper That You Can Print With Light, Erase With Heat, and Reuse 80 Times
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Nearly 1% of carbon emissions annually can be attributed to paper production, even though we recycle much of the paper we produce. Yadong Yin has a solution. He and his colleagues at…
FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests
blottsie writes: Starting next month, the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests via email. Instead, the U.S. agency will largely require requests be made via fax machine or the U.S. Postal Service. [The FBI will…
Intel's Atom C2000 Chips Are Bricking Products — And It's Not Just Cisco Hit
Thomas Claburn, reporting for The Register: Intel’s Atom C2000 processor family has a fault that effectively bricks devices, costing the company a significant amount of money to correct. But the semiconductor giant won’t disclose precisely how many chips are affected…
Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs To Alzheimer's Disease and Kidney Problems
While the recommended dosage for Nexium, Prevacid and Prilose is just two weeks, doctors often advise patients to continue taking them for years. But now Scientific American reports that “Chronic use of popular heartburn medicines may be riskier than was…
Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Care About Tech Conferences?
An anonymous user is “just starting a programming career,” and has several questions for Slashdot’s readers: What exactly is the role of tech conferences? I always assumed they were mostly for exhibitors to pitch me things, but then what’s in…
The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am
“Four years ago this week, Blackberry named Alicia Keys its global creative officer… Keys was really going to work for Blackberry — to participate in weekly calls addressing product development; develop ideas and content for the Keep Moving Projects, which…