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  1. We need to freeze the Web Specifications. on CSS Is Now So Overpowered It Can Deanonymize Facebook Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No more adding features to HTML5/CSS/JS. They are only being used for things like tracking, spying, malware and crypto mining.

  2. Another API, another Advertising Opportunity. on Google Chrome 67 Released for Windows, Mac, and Linux (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect the sensors will be used to make forced interactions with ads and tracking. It's time a web browser gets released that says we won't add any more APIs, just a plain text browsing experience. A modern gopher basically

  3. Mining happened on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Latest and Greatest In Computer Graphics Research? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Any advance in hardware is taken up by mining, leaving research for graphics a hardware generation behind.

  4. Lot's of articles about companies' behavior today on Google Sued For 'Clandestine Tracking' of 4.4 Million UK iPhone Users' Browsing Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Talking of them being fined and split up. Google, Alphabet and the Big 5 need both.

  5. And other good hardware that they used to make, instead of becoming reliant on gimmick revenue sources. A Playstation with OtherOS too.

  6. We can solve this with a Blockchain on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Lets launch an ICO today.

  7. And it will be for crypto mining.

  8. Subscription hardware. on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Pretty much soon you will have hardware that you subscribe to for monthly replacements..

  9. The Windows Kernel on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has to support over a billion different conputers with different drivers and hardware plus support decades of backward compatbility. Android/Linux come close.

  10. Still got SystemD and Amazon Integration. on Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ubundows 10 still not for consumption by serious Linux users. Plus playing with all this "snap" nonsense instead of plain .deb files.

  11. If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Please make sure that Firefox dosen't do this.

  12. Try the various “Tux” apps. on Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? · · Score: 2

    Tux Racer, Tux Paint, Super Tux Kart etc.

  13. This will lead to videos pretending to be games... on Google Fixes Issue That Broke Millions of Web-Based Games in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    ...in order to be played.

  14. Back when it was the PSP on Sony Ends Production Of Physical Vita Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 2

    I rememeber it being my first “mobile” internet experience before the smartphone era. Sony could have innovated it so much more if they didn’t make it use proprtietary media.

  15. But I already have .com for my DOS apps. on Top-Level Domain .App Is Now Open For General Registration (googleblog.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do we need another operating system and domain?

  16. Wikipedia has too many barriers on Last Stop For Wikipedia's Feuding Editors -- Online High Court (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Wikipedia used to be an anything goes encyclopedia, where anyone could jump in and create an article. My first articles were almost 16 years ago where there were no notability rules and Ip addresses could create articles. In fact I almost became an admin but their rapidly increasingly “standards” prevented me because I wasn’t enough of an “obsessive”. I left the site after that and became a vandal. Yes I’m proud to be one of the sites “long term abuse”rs. As years went by they put increasingly tougher rules into the system.

    They made it so you needed an account to post articles (they blamed the Seigenthaler incident). then they made that you can’t have a “conflict of interest”, made that you need 500 edits to edit certain topics and finally made it that you need to wait four days before you can create an article.

    Wikipedia has thoroughly wasted my donation money over the years and I think until its core croup of obsessive editors die of old age there is little hope for the future of the project. Attempts to fork Wikipedia have been generally unsuccessful and I have seen a load of them.

  17. The cycle begins again. on Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    When we had the dot com boom we had a glut of computing students who graduated after the bust resulting in a glut of overqualified people with no jobs and buried in student debt. Anytime a university sets up a "fad degree" you know it's time to get out of the field. There is probably cloud and blockchain degrees as well.

  18. Sign of Facebook getting too big on Facebook Plans To Create Its Own Cryptocurrency: Report (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    If Facebook is getting to the point where it can print money (which is why it wants it’s own cryptocurrency). Then it’s time for an investigation from the SEC.

  19. With a name that sounds like “Sue Me” on Xiaomi Sued For Alleged Patent Infringement Ahead of Blockbuster IPO (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They should see it coming.

  20. No support from Microsoft for over four years but still over 10% market share for the security hole OS It will get even worse when Firefox drops support.. It gets to the point where it's easier to reformat every few months than to keep updating. Most viruses probably get great firewalled anyway.

  21. Better ban paper tape and punchcards on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Knowing IBM they still use these on a regular basis.

  22. Provide players with a sense of pride on EA Still Believes in Loot Boxes, Will 'Push Forward' With Their Use (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats’s what EA actually said. Full post on reddit.

  23. This will be used for mining on Microsoft Adds Support For JavaScript Functions in Excel (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the first “apps” for this will be yet another cryptocurrency miner that will be spread around an organization’s spreadsheets.

  24. Chucky Cheese to open a restraunt inside NYSE on The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    With a free tulip bulb with every kid’s meal.

  25. GDPR will fragment the internet on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Just like China has their own websites that comply with the great firewall we will have a world where large chunks of the internet will be GDPR walled. I expect most US companies will find it more profitable to block than comply.