Move shows the importance of international co-operation to take down cybercrime at its roots
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Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
FCC: net neutrality is ‘politically motivated government overreach’
FCC chief signals assault on rules from the days of Ma Bell used by Obama to guarantee net neutrality
Sports fans protest at plans to scan their faces as they head for the match
Police to use facial recognition to match Champions League fans to ‘persons of interest’ as they arrive for the UEFA Cup final
Lawmaker calls on ISPs to stop customers being hit by viruses
Australian minister says government is considering moving towards ‘active defence … blocking or diverting malicious traffic’
Backdoor Could Allow Company To Shut Down 70% of All Bitcoin Mining Operations
An anonymous reader writes: “An anonymous security researcher has published details on a vulnerability named “Antbleed,” which the author claims is a remote backdoor affecting Bitcoin mining equipment sold by Bitmain, the largest vendor of crypto-currency mining hardware on the…
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Favorite Books On Entrepreneurship?
An anonymous reader writes: There are excellent well-known books like Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, but I find some of the lesser-known books about tech entrepreneurship very interesting, like A Triumph of Genius about…
University of California IT Workers Replaced By Offshore Outsourcing Firm To File Discrimination Lawsuit
The IT workers from the University of California’s San Francisco campus who were replaced by an offshore outsourcing firm late last year intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal. “It will allege that the tech workers at the university’s…
AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G
AT&T announced plans to deliver what it’s calling the “5G Evolution” network to more than 20 markets by the end of the year. While the company is “using some wordsmithing to deliver to you faster internet speeds,” it’s important to…
DNA-Based Test Can Spot Cancer Recurrence a Year Before Conventional Scans
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A revolutionary blood test has been shown to diagnose the recurrence of cancer up to a year in advance of conventional scans in a major lung cancer trial. The test, known…