Collaborate Disseminate
Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:
: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distrib… Continue reading How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File
Learn the easiest way to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone device with our simple, step-by-step guide. Continue reading How to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone to Save Storage
For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now “Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative,” according to DUB (an independent news s… Continue reading Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?
“There’s no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs,” writes Slashdot reader VennStone. “So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-pow… Continue reading Developer Loads Steam On a $100 ARM Single Board Computer
Surely by now you’ve at least heard of RTL-SDR — a software project that let’s cheap TV tuner dongles work as a software-defined radios. A number of projects and tools …read more Continue reading RTL-SDR with Only a Browser
Today long-time open source advocate/journalist Doc Searls revealed that years of work by consumer privacy groups has culminated in a proposed standard “that can vastly expand our agency in the digital world” — especially in a future world where … Continue reading Doc Searls Proposes We Set Our Own Terms and Policies for Web Site Tracking
Gartner describes infrastructure as code (IaC) as a key way to unlock the potential of the cloud. However,… Continue reading Ansible vs Terraform: Which is More Secure for Infrastructure Automation?
The latest Facebook whistleblower, a former international lawyer, “cannot grant any of the nearly 100 interview requests she has received from journalists from print and broadcast news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom,” reports the W… Continue reading Facebook Whistleblower Demands Overturn of Interview Ban – as Her Book Remains a Bestseller
In 30 minutes the Free Software Foundation holds a live auction of memorabilia to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary. “By moving out of the FSF office, we got to sort through all the fun and historically important memorabilia and selected the be… Continue reading FSF Holds Live Auction of ‘Historically Important’ Free Software Memorabilia
Doing it yourself may not get you the most precise lab equipment in the world, but it gets you a hands-on appreciation of the techniques that just can’t be beat. …read more Continue reading Building the Simplest Atomic Force Microscope