An anonymous reader writes: Ever since I started coding, I have always loved object-oriented design patterns. I built an HTML preprocessor that adds inheritance, polymorphism, and public methods to this venerable language. It offers more freedom than a templating engine…
Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset
Images of Tinder users “were swept up in a massive grab of some 40,000 photos from the dating app by a dataset collector who plans to use the selfies in artificial intelligence training,” writes Slashdot reader Frosty Piss, sharing this…
Hacker Leaks 'Orange Is the New Black' Episodes After Failing To Extort Netflix
An anonymous reader writes: “A hacker (or hacker group) known as The Dark Overlord (TDO) has leaked the first ten episodes of season 5 of the “Orange Is The New Black” show after two failed blackmail attempts, against Larson Studios…
Neowin: Microsoft's Windows Phone Business 'Is Dead'
An anonymous reader quote Neowin: If you’ve been expecting Microsoft to issue a press release formally announcing the end of its Windows phone business, you’re probably hoping for a bit too much. But make no mistake: its phone hardware business…
VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC: Robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade, according to Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a top voice on tech in China. Artificial intelligence…
Microsoft's Surface Revenue Drops By $285M (26%)
An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld: Revenue generated by Microsoft’s Surface hardware during the March quarter was down 26% from the same period the year before, the company said yesterday as it briefed Wall Street. For the quarter, Surface produced $831…
NASA Launches Super Balloon To Detect Cosmic Particles From Near Space
“After seven unsuccessful attempts NASA has launched a stadium-sized balloon in Wanaka,” reports the New Zealand Herald, adding that the super-pressure balloon will collect data from “near space” over the next 100 days. Reuters reports: The balloon, designed by NASA…
Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic
Long-time Slashdot reader MarcoPon writes: I created a thing: SeqBox. It’s an archive/container format (and corresponding suite of tools) with some interesting and unique features. Basically an SBX file is composed of a series of sector-sized blocks with a small…
Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network?
An anonymous reader wants to start a grassroots effort to build a self-organizing global radio mesh network where every device can communicate with every other device — and without any central authority. There is nothing in the rules of mathematics…
Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI'
Wired’s founding executive editor Kevin Kelly wrote a 5,000-word takedown on “the myth of a superhuman AI,” challenging dire warnings from Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk about the potential extinction of humanity at the hands of a superintelligent…