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Use a Software-as-a-Service solution to replace aging SIEM and security technologies with IBM QRadar. [Learn More!] [Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps] From the modern-day-hot-wiring department New submitter altnuc writes: Two thieves in Houston stole more than 30 Jeeps by using a laptop and a stolen database. The thieves simply looked up the vehicles' VIN numbers in a stolen database, reprogramed a generic key fob, started the cars, and... [BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users] From the creepy-and-worrying department product_bucket writes: The BBC has been given permission to use a new technology to detect users of the iPlayer who do not hold a TV license. Researchers at University College London have apparently developed a method to identify specially crafted... [Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law] From the lawyers-vs-law-breakers department "A federal appellate court has ruled that government employees, such as Snowden, who signed privacy agreements can't profit from disclosing information without first obtaining agency approval," writes the conservative advocacy site Judicial Watch.... [Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds] From the generation-gaps department "Don't let the millennial buzz fool you. Older workers handle and adapt to new systems better than younger people," writes CIO magazine. Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: A survey by London-based market research firm Ipsos Mori, sponsored by... [Microsoft To Release Two Major Windows 10 Updates Next Year] From the mark-your-calendar department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, aka Windows 10 version 1607, released earlier this week, it's time to look forward to what's next. Windows 10 has multiple release tracks to address the... [Florida District Considers Releasing GMO Mosquitos After Cayman Islands Experiment] From the latest-buzz department It's already underway just 364 miles south of Florida, according to the Associated Press. "The first wave of genetically modified mosquitoes were released Wednesday in the Cayman Islands as part of a new effort to control the insect that spreads... [The World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online] From the 1991-called department An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Twenty-five years ago, the first public website went live. It was a helpful guide to this new thing called the World Wide Web. The minimalist design featured black text with blue links on a white... [Luxury Liner SS United States Cannot Be Put Back In Service] From the insurmountable-challenges department tomhath writes: Once the fastest ocean liner ever built, the SS United States has been mothballed for almost 50 years. An ambitious project to refurbish the SS United States as a luxury liner has been abandoned due to insurmountable technical and... [Yahoo's New Anti-Abuse AI Outperforms Previous AI] From the hunting-for-haters department 16.4% of the comments on Yahoo News are "abusive," according to human screeners. Now Yahoo has devised an abuse-detecting algorithm "that can accurately identify whether online comments contain hate speech or not," reports Wired UK: In 90 per... [Waze's New Safety Feature Reminds Drivers Not To Forget Their Child In the Car] From the bad-parenting department An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: The navigation app Waze has released a new safety feature that reminds users not to forget their child, pet or other loved ones in the car before getting out. The feature, called "Child reminder,"... [CERN Confirms Hints of Hypothetical Particle Have Disappeared] From the dude,-where's-my-car? department John Timmer, writing for Ars Technica: Toward the end of last year, the people behind the Large Hadron Collider announced that they might have found signs of a new particle. Their evidence came from an analysis of the first high-energy data... [Mysterious, Ice-Buried Cold War Military Base May Be Unearthed By Climate Change] From the Greenland-vs-greenhouse-gases department Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: a secret military operation hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. But that's exactly what transpired at Camp Century during the Cold War.... [The Dark Side of Certificate Transparency] From the extra-credentials department Slashdot reader UnderAttack writes: Certificate Transparency is a system promoted by companies like Google that requires certificate authorities to publish a log of all certificates issued. With certificate transparency, you can search these logs... [Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft?] From the two-factor-impersonation department Slashdot reader DERoss writes: Effective 1 August, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) requires users who want to access their SSA accounts to use two-factor authentication. This involves receiving a "security" code via a cell phone text... [NASA Celebrates Curiosity's Fourth Year On Mars With a Game] From the happy-anniversary department An anonymous reader writes from a report via Engadget: In honor of Curiosity's fourth year on Mars, NASA has released a game. Engadget reports: "The glitch that shut down Curiosity in July was thankfully a temporary issue, else NASA would have... Follow us on [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google+] [Submit a Story to Slashdot!] You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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