Collaborate Disseminate
Trailrunner7 writes: The Federal Trade Commission has sent an order to nine of the larger companies that do PCI DSS assessments, demanding that the organizations turn over detailed information on how they conduct those audits, how often they actually d… Continue reading FTC Demands Info From PCI Auditors On Breached Companies’ Compliance
alphadogg writes to note that just a day after announcing it would be bringing SQL Server to Linux, “Microsoft has announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community for developers launched more than 10 years ago.” Microsoft,… Continue reading Open Source-happy Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation
HughPickens.com writes: The Independent reports that smartwatches that allow students to cheat on exams are being openly sold on Amazon. An advert for one such watch, called a “New 2016 Student 8GB cheating watch,” is offered on Amazon for $51.68. “Thi… Continue reading New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams
New submitter Mr. Competence writes: The U.S. Supreme court has declined to review a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court declaring that ‘the Batmobile is a character that qualifies for copyright protection.’ The case involved Mark Towle, a California man w… Continue reading Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case
An anonymous reader writes: Criminal gangs in Brazil are experimenting with the first malware families that are packaged as JAR files, capable of being deployed to Windows, Linux, Mac, and even Android from the same codebase, instead of relying on 4 di… Continue reading Brazilian Coders Are Pioneering the First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files
Lasrick writes: Ray Weiss at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography describes how countries report greenhouse gas emissions — a ‘bottom-up’ approach that can result in inventories that differ from those determined by measuring the actual increases of… Continue reading Forget “Bottom-up” Reporting of Emissions; Try an Atmospheric Monitoring System
coondoggie writes: With barely enough space to um, sit, and with high capacity usage, the commercial airline toilet perhaps is an engineering marvel but little else. Boeing however is looking to that notion with a self-cleaning aircraft bathroom — kno… Continue reading Boeing’s Self-Cleaning Aircraft Bathroom Lets You Use Loo Without Touching Anything
An anonymous reader writes: Although I’m sure we’d all love to see Half-Life in virtual reality, Valve has been focusing on its Portal universe for SteamVR. The company announced today a “compilation of new VR experiments” called ‘The Lab’, which will … Continue reading Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality
aarondubrow writes: Computer science researchers from the University of Rochester developed an app for health departments that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to identify likely food poisoning hot spots. Las Vegas health of… Continue reading Fighting Food Poisoning In Las Vegas With Machine Learning
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has shut down what appears to have been the first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your personal computer so you can … Continue reading Apple Has Shut Down the First Fully-Functional Mac OS X Ransomware