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And a new online petition is also calling for a pardon of WikiLeaks... ['Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming] From the desolation-of-debugging department InfoWorld has identified "seven of the gnarliest corners of the programming world," which Slashdot reader snydeq describes as "worthy of large markers reading, 'Here be dragons.'" Some examples: Multithreading. "It sounded like a good idea,"... [Earth's Plants Are Countering Some of the Effects of Climate Change] From the take-it-down-a-notch department A new study published in Nature Communications has found that Earth's plant life between 2002 and 2014 has absorbed so much carbon dioxide that the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere has slowed down, despite humans pumping out more CO2 than ever... [Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's] From the connection-lost department An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Two new articles take a look at "social media's dial-up ancestor" from back in the 20th century. First a new article in IEEE Spectrum remembers a time when tens of thousands of dial-up bulletin board systems... [Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found] From the lost-luggage department Although the U.S. government "does not believe the bomb contains active nuclear material," schwit1 shares this report from the BBC: A commercial diver may have discovered a lost decommissioned U.S. nuclear bomb off the coast of Canada. Sean... [Ethernet Consortia Wants To Unlock a More Time-Sensitive Network] From the ethernet-adapting department Does Ethernet need new features like "stream reservation" and time synchronization to make sure time-sensitive data isn't delayed on the network? coondoggie quotes Network World: The demand from Internet of Things, automotive networking and video... ['Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison] From the trading-futures department Slashdot reader whoever57 writes; Navinder Sarao, the British trader who was accused of causing the "flash crash" in 2010 and was extradited to the U.S. this week has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of spoofing. No... [Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead] From the rest-easy department On Friday afternoon, many Facebook users logged into their accounts to see that the social media site declared them to be dead. Fortune's Jeff John Roberts reports that the bug has impacted their editor Rachel King: The lethal online epidemic is... [A USB Stick Can Show HIV Test Results In Under 30 Minutes] From the turn-and-cough department Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a USB stick that can measure the presence and amount of HIV in a person's blood in under 30 minutes and with 95% accuracy. The USB stick should help make testing easier in places like... [Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second] From the don't-blink department An anonymous reader quotes a report from LiveScience: In just over half of a second (0.637 seconds), the Sub1 Reloaded robot made each side of the Rubik's Cube show a single color. This breaks the previous record of 0.887 seconds achieved by an... [A Computer Program Has Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era] From the citation-analysis department sciencehabit writes from a report via Science Magazine: A computer program has parsed the content of 2.5 million neuroscience articles, mapped all of the citations between them, and calculated a score of each author's influence on the rest to... ['Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud] From the surveying-servers department "Cloud repositories have become the hub of malicious web activities," warns one computer engineering professor. An anonymous reader quotes SC magazine: A recent study detected more than 600 cloud repositories hosting malware and other malicious... [HTC Vive Goes Wireless] From the no-strings-attached department One of the biggest cons with premium virtual-reality headsets is the fact that they need to be tethered to a powerful gaming PC or game console via annoying wires. In early September, HTC announced it was working on a method to remove the wires,... [Scammers Bite Chrome Users With Forgotten 2014 Bug] From the burning-Chrome department "Tech support scammers have started exploiting a two-year-old bug in Google Chrome to trick victims into believing their PC is infected with malware," reports security researcher Sophos. It begins by freezing the browser, BrianFagioli reports,... Follow us on [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google+] [Submit a Story to Slashdot!] You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . To [change your preferences]- receive this in html or text, visit the [Preference Center!] To unsubscribe, [click here] or send an email to: unsubscribe-47676@elabs10.com Slashdot | 1660 Logan Ave. Ste A | San Diego, CA 92113 To view our Privacy Policy click [here.]