Canada Demands Meta Lift News Ban To Allow Wildfire Info Sharing

by [deleted] to /s/canada from slashdot.org

Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62

by [deleted] to /s/technology from slashdot.org

Second set of researchers report verifying a key portion of a controversial University of Illinois Chicago study's claimed discovery of a superconductor at room temperature, which was met with heavy skepticism

by SoCo to /s/Illinois from tech.slashdot.org

System76 Plans Its Own Open Hardware Laptop and a New Desktop Environment

by [deleted] to /s/technology from slashdot.org

Buzzfeed News is finally shutting down

by Godknight to /s/CultureWars from m.slashdot.org

A Researcher Tried To Buy Mental Health Data. It Was Surprisingly Easy.

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from slashdot.org

Mastercard introduces new service to mass-spy on customers, in order to sell to banks, purportedly so they can censor purchases of cryptocurrencies

by SoCo to /s/cryptocurrency from news.slashdot.org

Slashdot commenter tells you why optometrists do a lousy job correcting astigmatism, and how to get lenses that let you see correctly. Five star comment, would read again.

by Chipit to /s/Health from slashdot.org

Slashdot spins billionaire Mike Bloomberg middle-manning corporate unionization and selling unions as a subscription...as a good thing...what do you think?

by SoCo to /s/AskSaidIt from it.slashdot.org

Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres - Slashdot commenters warm the cockles of my heart by being more than a little skeptical. Check these comments!

by iamonlyoneman to /s/conspiracy from science.slashdot.org

China Targeted Fed To Build Informant Network and Access Data, Probe Finds - Slashdot Quotes the Paywall

by SoCo to /s/news from it.slashdot.org

The only sure fire powerhouse winner to global warming, Russia, will be devastated by it because of ... (vague hand waving) - Harvard Press' War Arm

by SoCo to /s/propaganda from hardware.slashdot.org

NYT particular Internet regulatory policy failure in Canada, should be adopt by the US, despite previous partisan attempts to do so failing, citing some of the same risks

by SoCo to /s/propaganda from news.slashdot.org

Google Blocks File Manager Total Commander From Allowing Users To Sideload Apps

by [deleted] to /s/Android from slashdot.org

Commenter analyzes the real reason for Ukraine war. "It has to do with ensuring that Ukraine cannot function as a staging area for invasion into Russia proper in 20 years time, when Russian demographic collapse hollows their military out to the point where their current borders become indefensible."

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from slashdot.org

Slashdot user figures out how trolls easily infest a site and manage dozens of accounts.

by Chipit to /s/SocialMedia from slashdot.org

"The problem with climate change is that even those who believe it are unwilling to make any personal sacrifices for the sake of remedying the problem. Why do you berate others for not believing in climate change when you know it exists, and you're actively making the problem worse?"

by Chipit to /s/environment from slashdot.org

Mozilla Is Hellbent On Making Their New Firefox UI Unusable

by [deleted] to /s/Browsers from slashdot.org

Slashdot commenter nails upper-class media for doing zero investigation and being fooled by "Voltswagen" April Fool's joke. "The journalists hit by this prank so they are going to show how bad and awful this joke is by writing (and complaining on Twitter of course) how unfunny or illegal it is."

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from slashdot.org

A Retired Microsoft OS Engineer's Comparison of Linux with Windows

by [deleted] to /s/Linux from slashdot.org

Cable ISP Warns 'Excessive' Uploaders, Says Network Can't Handle Heavy Usage

by [deleted] to /s/Internet from tech.slashdot.org

Slashdot doing a story on Voat shutting down

by Chipit to /s/Internet from tech.slashdot.org

Will We Someday Write Code Just By Describing It?

by [deleted] to /s/programming from slashdot.org

Briefly mentioned that this tool could help program with quantum computers

by [deleted] to /s/QuantumComputing from slashdot.org

Chrome and Edge Rise In Popularity. Firefox, Opera, and Safari Drop.

by [deleted] to /s/Browsers from slashdot.org

Facebook engineer says Facebook is "trapped by our ideology of free expression". Commenters are dropping massive truth bombs in the excellent comment thread. Recommended, please share.

by Chipit to /s/politics from tech.slashdot.org

Great comment nails it. "Woke" people appear to themselves be racist, which they know is wrong and they're battling their inner demons. This manifests in the form of them trying to aggressively stamp out anything that even appears to be racist, even when there isn't any known connection to racism."

by Chipit to /s/politics from developers.slashdot.org

From 2019 - Attorney General Barr Said Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors - Slashdot

by D0z to /s/Internet from it.slashdot.org

From 2019 - Attorney General Barr Said Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors - Slashdot

by D0z to /s/privacy from it.slashdot.org

"When NBC published their background conversation with Google yesterday the media outlet made a big legal mistake. NBC outlined the mechanics of a racketeering and antitrust violation, via Google’s power to control on-line ad revenue as a weapon to target NBC’s competition"

by Chipit to /s/news from slashdot.org

Employees Connect Nuclear Plant To the Internet So They Can Mine Cryptocurrency

by Mnemonic to /s/Internet from tech.slashdot.org

CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' With Open Source Software - Slashdot

by Mnemonic to /s/FLOSS from news.slashdot.org

Commenter nails Sweden's response to Wuhan virus. "We collectively conformed when it was expected of us and once conformity resulting in undeniable failure, we conform in denying that we ever knew why conformed". A very Swedish thing to do. Even the excuses are collective.

by Chipit to /s/Coronavirus from slashdot.org

Slashdot nails it: "This is the year we discovered that viruses apparently have political parties. It's terribly dangerous to have large numbers of people get together for some politicians and causes, but perfectly safe for large numbers of people to gather for other political parties and causes."

by Chipit to /s/politics from slashdot.org

D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener - Slashdot

by runecrossbow to /s/cybersecurity from it.slashdot.org

Woman runs IBM into the ground is replaced by a man

by BillionDollarEgg3 to /s/technology from linux.slashdot.org