With Chernobyl among those hit by Petya and the US breach, concerns are rising about the potential effect of weaponised exploits being used against nuclear energy infrastructure

From the Petya outbreak and Gmail’s promise to stop scanning to Snapchat sharing your location, and more!

A start-up is challenging LinkedIn on access to users’ public profiles – how do you feel about your public data being used in this way?

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Jim Hall is celebrating the 23rd birthday of the FreeDOS Project, calling it “a major milestone for any free software or open-source software project,” and remembering how it all started. An anonymous reader quotes Linux Journal: If you remember Windows…

prisoninmate quotes Softpedia: After seven weeks of announcing release candidate versions, Linus Torvalds today informs the Linux community through a mailing list announcement about the general availability of the Linux 4.12 kernel series. Development on the Linux 4.12 kernel kicked…

ITWire reports: A flaw in systemd, the init system used on many Linux systems, can be exploited using a malicious DNS query to either crash a system or to run code remotely. The vulnerability resides in the daemon systemd-resolved and…

Electric car maker Tesla says its keenly awaited Model 3 car for the masses will go on sale on Friday. From a AP report: CEO Elon Musk made the announcement Monday on Twitter. The car is to start around $35,000…

“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: First, their…

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,…