Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and newer will no longer be supporting AMD’s widely-used Catalyst Linux (fglrx) driver. AMD has dropped support for this proprietary AMD driver in favor of encouraging users to use the open-source AMDGPU/Rad… Continue reading Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD’s Catalyst GPU Driver
An anonymous reader writes: Nathan Blecharcyzk, one of the co-founders at home rental platform Airbnb, has detailed the company’s interest in blockchain technologies to help establish user reputation and trust. He revealed that in 2016 Airbnb would be … Continue reading What Airbnb’s Blockchain Authentication Proposal Means For Online Privacy
sciencehabit writes: The most tedious part of a chimpanzee’s life is chewing. Our primate cousins spend six hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass — all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early a… Continue reading How Sliced Meat May Have Driven Human Evolution
lightbox32 writes with this excerpt from MSN News confirming what many people suspected with the proliferation of military and law-enforcement drones would happen, already has: A report by a Pentagon inspector general, made public under a Freedom of In… Continue reading Pentagon Admits Deploying Spy Drones Over US, Claims All Were ‘Lawful’
Lucas123 writes: Several key technologies are coming to market in the next three years that will ensure data storage will not only keep up with but exceed demand. Heat-assisted magnetic recording and bit-patterned media promise to increase hard drive c… Continue reading There’s No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity
SmartAboutThings writes: We’ve just been given a glimpse of what the future of motoring could look like, with BMW showing off its latest concept car, and it’s self-driving. The Vision Next 100 was unveiled on Monday, at a ceremony celebrating BMW’s 100… Continue reading BMW Showcases Self-Driving Concept Car
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon is looking to expand its business into the realms of virtual reality (VR), according to a recent job site posting looking for someone to lead the new project. The ad, posted to Amazon’s Glassdoor page, is for a ‘Senio… Continue reading Amazon Job Posting Hints At New VR Platform
An anonymous reader writes: It appears that the KeRanger ransomware that’s been tormenting Mac users for the past days is actually based on a ransomware variant that targets Linux servers, and not on a ransomware family coming from Windows. That partic… Continue reading KeRanger Mac Ransomware Based On Linux Forebear, Not Windows
KingofGnG writes: The developers of ScummVM have announced a new version for the virtual machine preferred by graphic adventure fans: also known as “Lost with Sherlock,” ScummVM 1.8.0 is hailed as one of the heftiest releases ever prepared by the team,… Continue reading ScummVM, Update With a Bang
An anonymous reader writes: Reason.com’s Robby Soave criticizes an article published in the journal Progress in Human Geography, for being “utterly incomprehensible,” and “the least essential paper ever written.” Entitled Glaciers, Gender, and Science-… Continue reading Reason Excoriates Paper On “Glaciers, Gender, and Science”