Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone; Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games

[Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes]( | [German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll]( [Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone]( [Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes]( [Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games]( [German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll]( [SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules]( [GM Plans To Build, Test Thousands of Self-Driving Bolts In 2018]( [Software Goes Through Beta Testing. Should Online College Courses?]( [Juno Jupiter Probe Won't Move Into Shorter Orbit After All]( [Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life]( [RSA Conference Attendees Get Hacked]( [MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary]( [SpaceX's Next Launch Carries Colonies Of A Drug-Resistant Superbug]( [Mozilla Thunderbird Finally Makes Its Way Back Into Debian's Repos]( [Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say]( [New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm]( [Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone]( From the safety-first department An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: President Donald Trump regularly makes news because of his tweets. Now a congressman is making news because of the device the president reportedly uses to tweet. On Friday, Congressman Ted Lieu, a... [Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes]( From the life-isn't-fair department In a recent interview with Quartz, Bill Gates said he believes that governments should tax companies that use robots who are taking human jobs, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.... [Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games]( From the missing-mail department A developer's quest to preserve (and validate) every game ROM for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System has hit a glitch -- thanks to the U.S. postal service. Byuu, the creator of the Higan SNES emulator, had been expecting a package with 100... [German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll]( From the creepy-toys department It's illegal in Germany now to sell a talking doll named "My Friend Cayla," according to a story shared by Slashdot reader Bruce66423. And that's just the beginning. The Verge reports: A German government watchdog has ordered parents to... [SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules]( From the database-dollars department SAP's licensing fees "apply even to related applications that only offer users indirect visibility of SAP data," according to a Thursday ruling by a U.K. judge. Slashdot reader ahbond quotes Network World: The consequences could be far-reaching... [GM Plans To Build, Test Thousands of Self-Driving Bolts In 2018]( From the sooner-than-expected department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018, two sources familiar with the... [Software Goes Through Beta Testing. Should Online College Courses?]( From the debugging-your-degree department "Testing online courses is not standard practice at traditional colleges," points out a new article at EdSurge -- though beta-testing is part of the process for other online learning sites. jyosim summarizes their report: Coursera has recruited a... [Juno Jupiter Probe Won't Move Into Shorter Orbit After All]( From the close-to-home department NASA announced today that their Juno spacecraft will not move into a closer orbit around Jupiter as originally planned. "Juno slipped into a highly elliptical, 53-Earth-day-long orbit around Jupiter when it arrived at the giant planet on July 4,... [Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life]( From the embracing-avatars department "For many disabled residents, who may spend 12 hours a day or more in Second Life, the most important moments and relationships of their lives happen inside the virtual world," reports Backchanel. "For them, the fevered fantasies of a decade ago... [RSA Conference Attendees Get Hacked]( From the but-at-least-there-were-no-booth-babes department The RSA Conference "is perhaps the world's largest security event, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily a secure event," reports eSecurityPlanet. Scanning the conference floor revealed rogue access points posing as known and trusted... [MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary]( From the old-emulator-for-old-games department After years of work, a fan has finally completed a MAME version of Atari's unreleased game Primal Rage II this week, one more example of the emulator preserving digital history. Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes MAME.net: Way back in 1997,... [SpaceX's Next Launch Carries Colonies Of A Drug-Resistant Superbug]( From the research-rockets department An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider: SpaceX is preparing to launch a lethal, antibiotic-resistant superbug into orbit...to live its days in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station. The idea is not to weaponize space... [Mozilla Thunderbird Finally Makes Its Way Back Into Debian's Repos]( From the back-from-the-dead department prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: A year ago, we told you that, after ten long years, the Debian Project finally found a way to switch their rebranded Iceweasel web browser back to Mozilla Firefox, both the ESR (Extended Support... [Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say]( From the which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg department In an effort to preserve rare varieties of chicken breeds and diversify the chicken gene pool, scientists at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute have come up with a plan to breed genetically-modified chickens designed to act as... [New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm]( From the building-with-boards department An anonymous reader writes: A new kit turns your Raspberry Pi into a robotic arm. It's controlled by an on-board joystick, or even a web browser, and "because it's connected to the Pi you can program it through any of the various programming... Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [Submit a Story to Slashdot!]( You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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