Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Putin Now Argues Russia Could've Been Framed For Election Meddling By The CIA
In a news magazine show premiering tonight, Megyn Kelly reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin “has denied Russian involvement in the hacking and interference with our U.S. presidential eletion for some time. That changed earlier this week, and the story…
Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software?
Slashdot reader jb373 is a senior software engineer whose team’s bug-tracking methodology is making it hard to track bugs. My team uses agile software methodologies, specifically scrum with a Kanban board, and adds all bugs we find to our Kanban…
Google's Top Search Result For 'Target' Was A Tech Support Scam
An anonymous reader quotes BleepingComputer: Malicious ads displayed in Google search results for Target — the US retailer — redirected users to a tech support scam. The malvertising campaign was spotted on Friday by a US user who posted his…
Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back'
Engadget reports: Representative Tom Graves, R-Ga., thinks that when anyone gets hacked — individuals or companies — they should be able to “fight back” and go “hunt for hackers outside of their own networks.” The Active Cyber Defense Certainty (“ACDC”)…
WSJ: There's An 'Inexorable' Trend Towards Working Remotely
The Wall Street Journal reports that the trend towards remote working “is inexorable” in America’s labor force, with 43% of workers now doing at least some of their work from home (up from 39% in 2012), and 20% now working…
Network Time Protocol Hardened To Protect Users From Spying, Increase Privacy
AmiMoJo quotes the Register: The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another small step in protecting everybody’s privacy… As the draft proposal explains, the RFCs that define NTP have what amounts to a convenience feature: packets going from client to…
NASA Will Create Fake Red And Green Clouds Near Virginia
An anonymous reader quotes CNET: The early morning hours on the U.S. East Coast might be unusually colorful as NASA plans to produce artificial blue-green and red clouds that may be visible from New York to North Carolina… It’s a…
Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case
Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond — and he’s also Slashdot reader #3,872. Bruce Perens writes: There’s been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancomcase, in which the court found that the GPL…
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts?
Slashdot reader dryriver writes: There appear to be two main ways to write code today. One is with text-based languages ranging from BASIC to Python to C++. The other is to use a flow-based or dataflow programming-based visual programming language…