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[Microsoft is Making It Easy To Stop Windows 10 Rebooting Your PC Randomly For Updates]( From the about-time department Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft is unveiling some changes to the way Windows Updates are applied to Windows 10 PCs with the upcoming Creators Update. The software giant has long been criticized by Windows 10 users for its aggressive... [NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears]( From the how-about-that department Dustin Volz and Warren Strobel, writing for Reuters: The National Security Agency risks a brain-drain of hackers and cyber spies due to a tumultuous reorganization and worries about the acrimonious relationship between the intelligence community... [A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares]( From the agree-to-disagree department A new video published by Bloomberg shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick arguing with an Uber driver over fares. It all started when one of Kalanick's "companions" appears to say that she's heard that Uber is having a hard year. Bloomberg reports: That... [Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls]( From the taking-a-stand department Twitter is cracking down even harder against trolls, including temporarily barring accounts that are harassing other users. From a report: In a blog posted Wednesday, Twitter's vice president of engineering, Ed Ho, announced more safety measures... [Nobody Likes Uber Anymore, Recent Reviews and Ratings On App Store Suggest]( From the commotion department Alison Griswold, writing for Quartz: The public is not happy with Uber. Incensed by allegations of sexism and harassment in the company's corporate halls, people are once again #deleting Uber, while one-star ratings and withering critiques of its... [New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview]( From the how-about-that department An anonymous reader shares an Esquire article: If New Zealand is on your bucket list, it's time to fill out a job application. You see, the tech industry in Wellington, New Zealand is trying to recruit experts from around the world to their... [Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009]( From the parlor-walls department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Americans went from having an average of 2.6 TVs per household in 2009 to having 2.3 TVs in 2015, according to survey data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). The data comes from... [NVIDIA Unveils Its $700 Top of the Line GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card]( From the top-of-the-line department MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: NVIDIA just lifted the veil on its latest monster graphics card for gamers -- the long-rumored GeForce GTX 1080 Ti -- at an event this evening in San Francisco during the Game Developers Conference... [Why Your Boss Will Crush Your Innovative Ideas]( From the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses department dryriver writes: BBC Capital explores why good ideas people have in the workplace almost never reach the top decision-makers in a company. From the report: "Surely you've heard the plea from on high at your company: we want more innovation, from... [AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM]( From the sign-of-the-times department An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: AOL announced today that it is starting to cut off third-party app access to its Instant Messenger service. As first noticed by ArsTechnica, AOL began notifying users of at least one third-party... [Spotify Is Testing a Lossless Subscription Tier For $15 to $20 Per Month]( From the shape-of-things-to-come department Spotify is seemingly preparing to launch a lossless audio version of its streaming service. The offering, which is currently called Spotify Hi-Fi, will offer lossless CD-quality audio to users -- similar to what Tidal offers in its Hi-Fi service.... [3.77-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Found, Could be Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth]( From the living-things-101 department An anonymous reader shares The Guadian report: Scientists say they have found the world's oldest fossils, thought to have formed between 3.77bn and 4.28bn years ago. Comprised of tiny tubes and filaments made of an iron oxide known as haematite,... [IBM Gets a Patent On 'Out-of-Office' Email Messages -- In 2017]( From the what-year-is-it department The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued IBM a -- what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls -- "stupefyingly mundane" patent on e-mail technology. U.S. Patent No. 9,547,842, "Out-of-office electronic mail messaging system" was filed in... 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.](