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  1. Cloud based e-mail on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Cloud-based e-mail: All government having its eggs in the same basket. What can possibily go wrong?

  2. AI vs controversial information on Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how this AI will answer to questions such as:

    • Were there Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq?
    • Had Putin rigged the elections to get Trump elected?
    • Who where the Maidan shooters?
  3. Go back to porn newspapers on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Go back to porn newspapers, for environment sake! Paper is a carbon sink, all you have under your bed is not in the atmosphere.

  4. Public decision upon lies and propaganda. Nothing changed much since the story of Irak's weapons of mass destruction. Except of course that this order will not cause a country to be invaded.

  5. Case for text mailer on How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Security experts should now recomand using text mailers such as mutt, pine or ELM. Or at least GUI-based mailer that do not support HTML.

    Unfortunately, I suspect I will not see that coming.

  6. TFA will not tell anything more precise than that it improves security of supply chain. You can skip that read or directly jump to the NIST document.

  7. Solar energy on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder why they did not put solar panels on it. That may not provide all required energy, but it would reduce the frequency of battery recharge.

  8. the bottleneck here is education

    Indeed it is, and it will remain, since tech giants hired university staff that could teach AI

  9. Upoming craash on The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Will they convert to something less volatile before bitcoin value crash?

  10. International waters on Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Theses are international waters. What prevents a ship from a non signatory nation to come and fish there?

  11. One may think singularity is there: now we can let machine build human-outperforming machines.

    But that does not take into account that there are still many tasks where computers are not on par with humans.

  12. Moderate confidence on Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Is "Moderate confidence" the synonym for "Someone told us it would be possible, but we have no evidence"?

  13. Sample track for 7 USD on Two Technologists Create Black Metal Album Using An AI (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    The linked sample track is sold for 7 USD. I am not sure I would accept to listen to it again if I was given that money.

  14. How much qubits do they need to break RSA?

  15. Security breach boilerplate on Apple To Review Software Practices After Patching Serious Mac Bug (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We greatly regret this error and we apologize

    Of course they do. What company would not copy/paste the security breach boilerplate in such a situation? It could even be automated: if +"security flow" +apple yields something in the news, send the press release.

  16. Fiscally smart way on Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We are not only creating a world-class work environment to help retain and attract the best and brightest global talent, but also building a campus that our neighbors can enjoy, and that we can build in a fiscally smart way with low environmental impact,

    In other words, it is paid by fiscal optimization? Obviously, a new campus for Microsoft was in the general interest, and all citizen had to help the effort.

  17. What about Trump's phone? on White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually that kind of good idea is impossible to enforce on leaders. I wonder if the ban will be enforced for Trump himself.

  18. Re:Security is the cost of "hitting the window" on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    I wad referring to the post WWII war (1945-1971) era.

  19. Usual biometry defect on Should Brokers Use 'Voice Prints' For Stock Transactions? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As any biometric system, this uses non revocable public data as authentication credentials.

    Once someone manages to fool the system, there is no password change, the whole system must be replaced.

  20. Re:Pull requests on More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You don't have to fork it on github unless you want to use github's internal mechanisms. You can submit patches using any of the other mechanisms too, like a PR to an external repo, or a git-send email and so on and so forth.

    I must be unlucky, but every time I did that, I was answered to send a pull request.

  21. Pull requests on More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No surprise here, this is how this stupid thing works: in order to submit a one-line bugfix, one have to fork the repository, patch, commit, pull request.

  22. Odd product for Apple on Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how a self driving car could fit in Apple line of products.

  23. Re:Security is the cost of "hitting the window" on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    So the Pointy Haired Bosses tell the workers to get the product to market and THEN worry about fixing the security holes.

    Unfortunately, even products that are well established and protected by a network effect (e.g.: Adobe Flash) still ship will many security holes.

  24. Re:Security is the cost of "hitting the window" on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    Many western countries, including US, have been regulating markets with a heavy visible government hand during the post WWII war. They did not turn into tyrannies.

  25. Nobody cares on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Companies do not care about security, because they see no value in it. They rush their own developers to release software, and never ask them to focus on security.

    Developers do not care about security. They never face the consequence of their negligence on it

    Consumers do not care about security. They shop for the cheaper or the most hyped product, not for the one that was correctly engineered. How could they know it really was, anyway?