"We would like to thank Kimberly [Bryant] for her contributions as the founder and CEO," Black Girls Code said in a late Friday afternoon tweet announcing an organizational change at the top of the learn-to-code nonprofit. "Ms. Bryant will move on from CEO & board member of B … | Continue reading
I made the program with Adam D'Angelo, which you can verify on the team page.I want to offer the following information about the project. The majority of development effort went into building the Brain. The Synapse player is just something we threw together to get the most from … | Continue reading
paulraps writes "A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been given a scorching 40 Gbps internet connection — the fastest residential connection anywhere in the world. Sigbritt Löthberg is the mother of Swedish internet guru Peter Löthberg, who is … | Continue reading
Austria-based crypto trading platform Bitpanda is slashing its headcount to ensure sustainability, the company said in a Friday blog post. CoinDesk reports: Bitpanda's founders said the firm needs to let employees go as it scales down due to market conditions. The company said i … | Continue reading
Backed by the likes of Microsoft, Cognizant, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Infosys, and Apple, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) describes itself as "the largest community of K-12 computer science teachers in the U.S." and "committed to equity in our community and for … | Continue reading
Ethereum, the most successful blockchain in terms of ecosystem, is preparing to fundamentally change the principles under which it operates both in terms of security and in terms of speed. This article posits that an attempt to improve ethereum on both of these counts using an ap … | Continue reading
The America Competes Act of 2022, Congress.gov explains, "includes initiatives related to elementary and secondary education, including those to increase computer science education." As such, it's no surprise to see that the Bill enjoys support from Amazon and Microsoft (letter t … | Continue reading
The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by .78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Wo … | Continue reading
The AssangeDAO, an organization that has raised $40 million dollars to form a DAO, which would attempt to win an auction of a NFT collaboration between Assange and artist PAK, Have announced that they would open a second round of fundraising for their $JUSTICE token. This lead to … | Continue reading
At least six people were killed Friday night when an Amazon warehouse was struck by a tornado, causing part of the building to collapse. Bloomberg reports that the incident "amplified concerns" about a warehouse policy that Amazon has been re-implementing for its workers: banni … | Continue reading
For their fifteenth International Day Against DRM this Friday, the Free Software Foundation's "Defective by Design" campaign is "calling on you to help us send a message to purveyors of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)". And this year they're targeting Disney+The ongoing pan … | Continue reading
The procedure, which was carried out at NYU Langone Health in New York, involved the use of a pig whose genes had been altered so its tissues didn't contain a molecule known to trigger a rejection. | Continue reading
We Watch Wall Inc., a new company looking to innovate in the web technology space recently open-sourced a new unit-test generation library called Fast-Fuzz. The new tool, released last week on NPM, uses white-box coverage analysis and a progressive random input generation techniq … | Continue reading
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. | Continue reading
Kape Technologies Plc agreed to buy ExpressVPN in a $936 million deal that will more than double the cybersecurity company's customer base and expand its tools for private web surfing. Bloomberg reports: Kape will pay $354 million in cash when the deal closes and the equivalent … | Continue reading
Beijing plans to break up Ant Group's Alipay and create a separate app for the fintech giant's loans business, according to a Financial Times report on Monday. CNBC reports: Regulators previously ordered Ant to split the businesses of AliPay from lending businesses Huabei and Ji … | Continue reading
More owners of the first-generation Nest Hub are receiving the update to Google's Fuchsia operating system as it expands beyond the Preview program. 9to5Google reports: Back in May, Google formally released Fuchsia, its effort to develop a "not Linux" operating system from scrat … | Continue reading
An anonymous reader quotes a report from AppleInsider: The new WebExtensions Community Group will try to forge a common architecture for future web extensions, and is inviting developers to join the effort. The new group, shortened WECG, consists of members from each of the major … | Continue reading
"In Microsoft's ongoing endeavor to convert people to its rebooted Edge web browser, it's launching a new Kids Mode that makes it easy for parents to control how their children surf the web," reports Gizmodo:Parents have the choice between two versions, one for ages five to eight … | Continue reading
New submitter mikeatTB writes: "For software development, no significant developer activity is predictable or repetitive; if it were, the developers would have automated it already," writes Steven A. Lowe, Principal Consultant Developer at ThoughtWorks, via TechBeacon. "In additi … | Continue reading
Sébastien Jodogne, the Orthanc of the Orthanc vendor-neutral DICOM archive, has released version 1.0 of the Stone of Orthanc Web Viewer, a Libre teleradiology solution.Written in C++, the Stone Web Viewer uses WebAssembly to provide near-native execution speeds, ans relies … | Continue reading
Crypto assets worth more than $4.2 billion have been seized by Chinese police during the massive PlusToken Ponzi scheme crackdown, according to a new court ruling. From a report: In a November 19 judgment made public on Thursday, the Jiangsu Yancheng Intermediate People's Court h … | Continue reading
CNET reports on Twitter's rocky rollout of "fleets" which disappear after 24 hours:In a blog post, Twitter said global tests of the feature indicated the tool helped people feel more comfortable joining public conversations on the service. "Those new to Twitter found Fleets to be … | Continue reading
"EFF is launching How to Fix the Internet, a new podcast mini-series to examine potential solutions to six ills facing the modern digital landscape," announces EFF.org:Over the course of 6 episodes, we'll consider how current tech policy isn't working well for users and invite ex … | Continue reading
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes Bloomberg: Fake reviews on Amazon.com Inc. during the pandemic have reached levels typically seen during the holiday shopping season. About 42% of 720 million Amazon reviews assessed by the monitoring service Fakespot Inc. from March throu … | Continue reading
Ransomware gangs that steal a company's data and then get paid a ransom fee to delete it don't always follow through on their promise. From a report: The number of cases where something like this has happened has increased, according to a report published by Coveware this week an … | Continue reading
Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy children's rhyme recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most-watched video ever on YouTube. The BBC reports: The song has now been played 7.04 billion times, overtaking the previous record holder Despacito, the Latin pop sma … | Continue reading
"We believe that youtube-dl has substantial non-infringing uses," argues the non-profit Software Freedom Conservancy. But while that software faces a DMCA takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), GitHub's owner Microsoft is also a paying member … | Continue reading
When an Amazon Prime Video user buys content on the platform, what they're really paying for is a limited license for "on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time" and they're warned of that in the company's terms of use. That's the company's argument for why a lawsuit ov … | Continue reading
The founder and manager of Iran's main video-sharing platform, referred to by some as Iran's YouTube, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of "encouraging corruption" over a video posted by a user. Radio Free Europe reports: In the video posted on Apara … | Continue reading
On Wednesday Nature published Array programming with NumPy. NumPy, the primary array programming library for Python, has an essential role in research analysis pipelines in fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology, psychology, materials science, eng … | Continue reading
i was taught at university - interestingly not by the professors but by a lab assistant - that if you cannot see the purpose of a function clearly written on one terminal, then fundamentally there is something wrong with the code. that if you have gone beyond the indentation lev … | Continue reading
Today we can see numerous devices in many locations measuring body temperature to determine if a person is a potential threat. According to FDA forehead scanners are inaccurate in many cases (mainly due to failure to follow the manufacturer's instructions for use). You can also … | Continue reading
While management consulting firm Bain and Company reports notions that Agile teams needed to be face-to-face to work effectively have been proven misguided by Covid-19, it warns that Agile teams shouldn't get too comfortable working from home: "Are widespread distributed teams so … | Continue reading
A small group of protesters "rallied outside Tesla's Fremont manufacturing plant Saturday, calling for CEO Elon Musk to be arrested and jailed," reports a local Bay Area news site:Carlos Gabriel is an employee, and has refused to return to work. "I'm worried for my health," said … | Continue reading
The LA Times reports that controversies over grading are roiling universities and colleges, as the coronavirus outbreak prompted them to shift to online learning and send most students home to disparate circumstances. Some students and faculty believe that normal grading practice … | Continue reading
"He was working on a TV show, Homemade Astronauts, when his craft crashed in the California desert," reports NBC. Four different Slashdot readers shared the news. NBC News reports:Daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes died Saturday when a homemade rocket he was attached to launched but qu … | Continue reading
Ask Google to "define student" and the first returned result is "a person who is studying at a school or college." The U.S. Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) begs to differ. Last Friday, DHS argued in a Court filing that any such definitions of 'student' should be disregarded as it … | Continue reading
CNET reports from CES that Ivanka Trump has tasked her American Workforce Policy Advisory Board with developing an interoperable learning record (ILR). "We need to harness technology and data to enable people to have their information in their iPhone," she said, listing high scho … | Continue reading
Dismissing questions of whether Ivanka Trump's Tuesday CES keynote appearance on The Path to the Future of Work should have gone to somebody else who's had more to do with tech in the administration, CES Chief Gary Shapiro informed the BBC: "Ivanka Trump actually co-chairs the Am … | Continue reading
The discounts and freebies many tech startups have used to lure customers-- free lunch delivery, $3 beauty products and bargain taxi rides -- have fallen out of favor with investors who are losing patience with the failure of these companies to turn a profit. From a report: The p … | Continue reading
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday afternoon released his favorite books from 2019. Heading the list was The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power , written by Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor who cal … | Continue reading
Clint Eastwood's new movie Richard Jewell recounts the incredible tale of the security guard who, after being initially hailed by the media for saving many from injury or death by discovering a backpack containing three pipe bombs in Atlanta's Centennial Park during the 1996 Su … | Continue reading
The Hour of Code home page captured by the Internet Archive on Dec. 17th boasted that 835,581,513 students had been 'served' an Hour of Code. Three days later, however, the numbers had jumped to 910,905,104 served, presumably due to counter updates that were deferred during this … | Continue reading
There are a lot of myths and wrong assumptions about cryptography and security which people blindly follow. So, let's clear things up a bit... | Continue reading
In what has become a holiday tradition of sorts, Google is again rewarding teachers who steer kids to Google Hour of Code lessons with $100 gift codes. "When teachers in grades 2-8 complete the Google CS First activity 'Code Your Hero' with at least 20 of their students and fill … | Continue reading
With its Regional Partner Program, tech-bankrolled Code.org explains, it is selecting U.S.-based organizations as partners to help spread K-12 computer science, including the training of 100,000+ new "CS teachers" ("Our training isn’t to teach you how to become a computer s … | Continue reading