An anonymous reader quotes Space.com: The record-shattering mission of the U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane is finally over. After circling Earth for an unprecedented 718 days, the X-37B touched down Sunday at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s…
WikiLeaks Reveals A CIA LAN-Attacking Tool From 'Vault 7'
An anonymous reader quotes BetaNews: WikiLeaks continues to release revealing documents from its Vault 7 cache. This time around the organization introduces us to a CIA tool called Archimedes — previously known as Fulcrum. As before, there is little to…
Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License
Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The District Court for the Northern District of California recently issued an opinion that is being hailed as a victory for open source software. In this case, the court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit…
Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality
An anonymous reader quotes The Hill: Oracle voiced support on Friday for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s controversial plan to roll back the agency’s net neutrality rules. In a letter addressed to the FCC, the company played up its “perspective as…
Startup Offers A Chip Based On The Open Source RISC-V Architecture
angry tapir shared this news from Computerworld: An open-source chip project is out to break the dominance of proprietary chips offered by Intel, AMD, and ARM… A startup called SiFive is the first to make a business out of the…
'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack
“The French media and public have been warned not to spread details about a hacking attack on presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron,” writes Slashdot reader schwit1, with the election commission threatening criminal charges. But meanwhile, “the leaked documents have since spread…
Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio
puddingebola writes: Facebook has closed Oculus VR Studio. The studio was a maker of original VR films, but now will only assist other studios. This makes it official, as the studio had been shuttered since the departure of Palmer Luckey….
Debian 8.8 Released
prisoninmate quotes Softpedia: The Debian Project announced today Debian GNU/Linux 8.8, the most advanced stable version of the Jessie series, which brings corrections for numerous packages and various security flaws discovered and patched since the release of the Debian GNU/Linux…
Swarm AI Spectacularly Fails To Predict Kentucky Derby Winners A Second Time
Thursday TechRepublic described the big prediction: In May 2016, a relatively unknown startup called Unanimous A.I. made big headlines when its AI-based platform used collective intelligence to create a prediction for the Kentucky Derby superfecta — the top four horses,…
Researchers Disclose Intel AMT Flaw Research
Security firm Embedi releases further details on the Intel AMT flaw, revealing how it can be exploited and how potentially dangerous it can be.