Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home?; Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays

[Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs]( | [Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced']( [Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home?]( [Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs]( [Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays]( [Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced']( [Slashdot Asks: Are Remote Software Teams More Productive?]( [Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again)]( [Used Cars Can Still Be Controlled By Their Previous Owners' Apps]( [A Source Code Typo Allowed An Attacker To Steal $592,000 In Cryptocurrency]( [Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email]( [Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash]( [Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary]( [Alaska Gets 'Artificial Aurora' As HAARP Antenna Array Listens Again]( [Fans Choose A New Football Team's Plays With Their Smartphones]( [New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil']( [Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home?]( From the call-me-later department Long-time Slashdot reader Toe, The sums up what he learned from freeCodeCamp's Quincy Larson: "Before you travel internationally, wipe your phone or bring/rent/buy a clean one." Larson's article is titled "I'll never bring my phone on an... [Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs]( From the electronic-wastelands department An anonymous reader writes: "In many cases, your old TV isn't recycled at all and is instead abandoned in a warehouse somewhere, left for society to deal with sometime in the future," reports Motherboard, describing the problem of old cathode-ray... [Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays]( From the it-came-from-outer-space department The Los Alamos National Lab wrote in 2012 that "For over 20 years the military, the commercial aerospace industry, and the computer industry have known that high-energy neutrons streaming through our atmosphere can cause computer errors." Now an... [Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced']( From the consequences department An anonymous reader quotes KrebsOnSecurity: On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges.... [Slashdot Asks: Are Remote Software Teams More Productive?]( From the teams-that-telecommute department A recruiter with 20 years of experience recently reported on the research into whether remote software teams perform better. One study of 10,000 coding sessions concluded it takes 10-15 minutes for a programmer to resume work after an... [Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again)]( From the presents-from-Project-Zero department An anonymous reader writes: "For the second time in three months, Google engineers have disclosed a bug in the Windows OS without Microsoft having released a fix before Google's announcement," reports BleepingComputer. "The bug in question affects... [Used Cars Can Still Be Controlled By Their Previous Owners' Apps]( From the tooting-your-own-horn department An IBM security researcher recently discovered something interesting about smart cars. An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Charles Henderson sold his car several years ago, but he still knows exactly where it is, and can control it from his phone...... [A Source Code Typo Allowed An Attacker To Steal $592,000 In Cryptocurrency]( From the big-bug-bounties department An anonymous reader writes: "A typo in the Zerocoin source code allowed an attacker to steal 370,000 Zerocoin, which is about $592,000 at today's price," reports BleepingComputer. According to the Zcoin team, one extra character left inside... [Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email]( From the talent-for-lawsuits department Three months ago Shiva Ayyadurai won a $750,000 settlement from Gawker (after they'd already gone bankrupt). He'd argued Gawker defamed him by mocking Ayyadurai's claim he'd invented email, and now he's also suing Techdirt founder Michael Masnick... [Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash]( From the self-crashing-cars department An anonymous reader writes:On a professional track in Buenos Aires, fans watched the first Formula E auto race with self-driving electric cars. "Roborace's two test vehicles battled it out on the circuit at a reasonably quick 115MPH," reports... [Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary]( From the ALL-CAPS-DIALOGUE department It's one of the longest-running comics on the internet. (Slashdot is approaching its 20th anniversary, and in its first year ran two stories about Pokey.) Open source developer Steve Havelka of Portland, Oregon created the truly bizarre strip... [Alaska Gets 'Artificial Aurora' As HAARP Antenna Array Listens Again]( From the Alaskan-antennas department Freshly Exhumed quotes Hackaday: The famous HAARP antenna array is to be brought back into service for experiments by the University of Alaska. Built in the 1990s for the US Air Force's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, the array is... [Fans Choose A New Football Team's Plays With Their Smartphones]( From the quarterback-apps department A new arena-league football team plays on a 50-yard field and uses a mobile app that allows fans to vote on the team's next play. An anonymous reader writes: Slate describes a receiver tackled for a short gain after the audience instructed the... [New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil']( From the software-in-South-America department An anonymous reader writes: Andy Oram, who's been an editor at O'Reilly since 1992, has written a new free report about how open source software is everywhere in Brazil. The country's IT industry is booming in Brazil -- still Latin America's most... Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [Submit a Story to Slashdot!]( You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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