The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws; Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film

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That's the conclusion from global endpoint security firm Avecto, which has... [Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film]( From the cool-films department What if you could cool buildings without using electricity? charlesj68 brings word of "the development of a plastic film by two professors at the University of Colorado in Boulder that provides a passive cooling effect." The film contains... [Apache Subversion Fails SHA-1 Collision Test, Exploit Moves Into The Wild]( From the making-a-hash-of-it department WebKit's bug-tracker now includes a comment from Friday noting "the bots all are red" on their git-svn mirror site, reporting an error message about a checksum mismatch for shattered-2.pdf. "In some cases, due to the corruption, further commits... [Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars?]( From the dominated-by-Detroit department schwit1 quotes Autoblog: Up until very recently the talk in Silicon Valley was about how the tech industry was going to broom Detroit into the dustbin of history. Companies such as Apple, Google, and Uber -- so the thinking went -- were going to... [Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61]( From the game-over-man department Bill Paxton died Saturday at the age of 61 after complications from surgery. An anonymous reader remembers Paxton's work with some YouTube clips: Bill Paxton starred in a surprising number of cult science fiction favorites. After playing both the... [How Cable Monopolies Hurt ISP Customers]( From the full-Spectrum department "New York subscribers have had to overpay month after month for services that Spectrum deliberately didn't provide," reports Backchannel -- noting these practices are significant because together Comcast and Charter (formerly Time Warner Cable)... [Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments?]( From the toxicity-reports department Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein writes: Google has announced (with considerable fanfare) public access to their new "Perspective" comment filtering system API, which uses Google's machine learning/AI system to determine which comments on a site... [Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed?]( From the hole-in-the-host department An anonymous IT geek writes: Cloudflare-hosted web sites have been leaking data as far back as September, according to Gizmodo, which reports that at least Cloudflare "acted fast" when the leak was discovered, closing the hole within 44 minutes,... [Google Discloses Yet Another New Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability In Edge/IE]( From the browser-bugs department An anonymous reader quotes BleepingComputer: Google has gone public with details of a second unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft products, this time in Edge and Internet Explorer, after last week they've published details about a bug in the... [GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides']( From the open-source-Open-Source-guides department An anonymous reader quotes InfoQ: GitHub has recently launched its Open Source Guides, a collection of resources addressing the most common scenarios and best practices for both contributors and maintainers of open source projects. The guides... [Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded]( From the dashboard-donors department An anonymous reader writes: Two geeks are crowdfunding an open source car hacking tool that will allow builders to experiment with diagnostics, telematics, security, and prototyping. "Cars have become complicated and expensive to work with," they... [The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository]( From the governments-on-GitHub department "The Pentagon is the latest government entity to join the open-source movement," writes NextGov. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The Defense Department this week launched Code.mil, a public site that will eventually showcase unclassified... [UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom]( From the do-not-pass-Go department An anonymous reader writes: "German police announced Thursday that fellow UK police officers have arrested a suspect behind a serious cyber-attack that crippled German ISP Deutsche Telekom at the end of November 2016," according to... [Slooh Observatory Is Webcasting Today's Rare 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse]( From the there-goes-the-sun department An anonymous reader quotes Space.com A solar eclipse and its spectacular "ring of fire" will be visible from the Southern Hemisphere this Sunday morning, but no matter what side of the equator you're on, you can watch the spectacular event unfold... Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [Submit a Story to Slashdot!]( You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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