Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Physicists Discover A Possible Break In the Standard Model of Physics
Slashdot reader freddienumber13 write: A series of experiments has shown that tau particles have decayed faster than predicted by the standard model. This has been observed at both CERN and SLAC. This suggests that the standard model for particle physics…
How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'?
Companies can’t find enough qualified security personnel, and fixing it requires “a fundamental shift in how businesses recruit, hire, and keep security talent,” according to a VentureBeat article by an Intermedia security executive: The trickle of security students emerging from…
Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing
An anonymous reader quotes the Bay Area Newsgroup: With rental costs skyrocketing and homes out of reach for many, Google has hit on a solution that may help it attract workers to the crushingly expensive Bay Area. The tech giant…
A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids
An anonymous reader quotes the AP: Colorado officials have cleared the language of a proposed ballot measure that would establish the nation’s first legal limits on buying smartphones for children. Backers of the move to forbid the sale of smartphones…
Ia Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins?
Even as some comparnies are stockpiling bitcoins so they can quickly pay ransom demands, security firms that try paying those ransoms may face losing their accounts on Coinbase. Slashdot reader Mosquito Bites quotes a report from CoinDesk: Less than a…
Venezuelans Flock To Cryptocoins Amid Spiralling Inflation
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Demand for digital coins is soaring in Venezuela amid an escalating political crisis that has protesters demanding that President Nicolas Maduro step down. Inflation has spiraled to the triple digits, debasing the bolivar and depleting…
What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities?
mikeatTB shares an article from TechRepublic: Software engineers have largely failed at security. Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps, vulnerabilities continue to take off… Things have been this way for decades, but the status quo might…
Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today
The Debian Project has been liveblogging today’s release of Debian 9 (Stretch) using the Twitter hashtag #releasingstretch. Some of the announcements: The oldstable suite (wheezy) has now been renamed to oldoldstableDebian jessie now been renamed to oldstable!The Debian stretch suites…
The Right To Repair Movement Is Forcing Apple To Change
The executive director of Repair.org says Apple has “decided to be nicer to consumers in order to stop them from demanding their right to repair,” according to Motherboard. Slashdot reader Jason Koebler shared this article: It’s increasingly looking like Apple…