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• Should Employers Cut Your Salary If You Change Cities?

  19-09-2020 23:41 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  CNN reports:Stripe is paying employees $20,000 if they relocate from expensive cities such as San Francisco, Seattle and New York, where the company has offices. But workers who make the move will have to take a 10% pay cut.
  "Twitter Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. have all considered similar measures," reports Bloomberg. And Forbes notes that other companies are also grappling with similar policies:According to Bloomberg, "employees who worked at VMware's Palo Alto, California, headquarters and go to
  
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• Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches to Make Linux Run as Root Partition on Hyper-V

  19-09-2020 22:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  "Microsoft has submitted a series of patches to Linux kernel developers," reports ZDNet, "requesting that Linux run as the root partition on the Hyper-V, its hypervisor software for running Windows and non-Windows instances on hardware."Microsoft "wants to create a complete virtualization stack with Linux and Microsoft Hypervisor", according to Microsoft principle software engineer Wei Liu. Liu has proposed an RFC or request for comment that for now merely implements what are only the "absolutel
  
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• European Spacecraft Flying Past Venus Will Now Look for Signs of Life

  19-09-2020 21:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  "Earlier this week, scientists announced the discovery of phosphine on Venus, a potential signature of life. Now, in an amazing coincidence, a European and Japanese spacecraft is about to fly past the planet — and could confirm the discovery," writes Forbes. Slashdot reader Iwastheone shares their report:BepiColombo, launched in 2018, is on its way to enter orbit around Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System. But to achieve that it plans to use two flybys of Venus to slow itself
  
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• Where's the Yelp For Open-source Tools?

  19-09-2020 20:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  Esther Schindler (Slashdot reader #16,185), shares some thoughts from long-time tech reporter Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols:We'd like an easy way to judge open-source programs. It can be done. But easily? That's another matter... Plenty of people have created systems to collect, judge, and evaluate open-source projects, including information about a project's popularity, reliability, and activity. But each of those review sites — and their methodologies — have flaws.The article looks at
  
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• US Spy Plane Impersonates A Malaysian Aircraft

  19-09-2020 19:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  Popular Mechanics reports:
  A U.S. Air Force aircraft electronically impersonated a Malaysian plane while flying over the South China Sea this week. The RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft flew off China's Hainan island on Tuesday, coming within 55 miles of the Chinese mainland.
  The caper was outed on Twitter by a think tank operated by the Chinese government, which provided enough details for independent verification. The plane's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Mode-S nu
  
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• Thieves' Guild: a BBS Game With the Best 1990s Pixel Graphics You've Never Seen

  19-09-2020 18:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  "The sky is clear, the breeze is strong. A perfect day to make the long sea voyage to Mythyn," writes BBS history blogger Josh Renaud. "You prepare your galley, hire a crew of sailors, and cast off. But a few hours into your trip, the dreaded words appear: 'Thou seest rippling waters...'"
  He's describing the beginning of a 27-year-old game that he'd been searching for since 2013. Slashdot reader Kirkman14 why the game is so special — and so rare:Thieves' Guild is a BBS door game for the At
  
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• Russian Announces Plan to Independently Explore Venus

  19-09-2020 18:04 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  "Russia has announced an intention to independently explore Venus a day after scientists said there was a gas that could be present in the planet's clouds due to single-cell microbes," reports Euronews:The head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters that they would initiate a national project as "we believe that Venus is a Russian planet," according to the TASS news agency. In a statement, Roscosmos noted that the first missions to explore Venus were carried out
  
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• Microsoft Warns Workaround Preventing Lenovo ThinkPad BSOD Increases Risk

  19-09-2020 17:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:Microsoft has finally published a support document detailing its workaround for the August 2020 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10 version 2004 that caused blue screens of deaths (BSODs) on newer Lenovo ThinkPads and broke Windows Hello biometric login... It's the same as Lenovo's earlier workaround but comes with a stern security warning from Microsoft.
  Microsoft also explains how Lenovo Vantage violates Microsoft's security controls in Windows.
  Users might byp
  
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• At Least 10 Amazon Employees Took Bribes from Sellers, Indictment Alleges

  19-09-2020 16:34 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  CBS News reports:
  Six people allegedly conspired to bribe Amazon employees and contractors in order to gain a competitive advantage on the retailer's marketplace, federal prosecutors announced Friday.According to the U.S. Department of Justice, those charged posed as consultants and worked with third-party sellers whose products had previously been removed from Amazon Marketplace get the items back on the platform. The six then paid a total of more than $100,000 in bribes to least 10 Amazon empl
  
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• Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium

  19-09-2020 15:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple in iOS 14 added Picture in Picture to the iPhone, a feature designed to let you watch a video in a small screen on your device while you continue to do other things on the phone. The YouTube app doesn't support Picture in Picture, but up until yesterday there was a functional workaround that allowed videos from YouTube.com to be watched in Safari in Picture in Picture mode. As of today, that workaround is gone, and it's not clear if it's
  
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• DC Universe Streaming Service Will Become Universe Infinite Comics Platform

  19-09-2020 12:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  DC Universe, which started out as a streaming service for original DC superhero content, will in January become DC Universe Infinite, a supersized subscription service for DC Comics. CNET reports: The service launches on Jan. 21 for $7.99 per month, or $74.99 for a year-long subscription. DC says that subscribers will be able to read 24,000 comic book titles at launch, along with digital-first titles and access to exclusive fan events. Recently released titles featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder
  
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• NASA To Film an Estee Lauder Ad In Space As the ISS Opens For Business

  19-09-2020 09:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  NASA is preparing to oversee the largest push of business activity aboard the ISS. "Later this month, up to 10 bottles of a new Estee Lauder (EL) skincare serum will launch to the space station," reports CNN. "NASA astronauts are expected to film the items in the microgravity environment of the ISS and the company will be able to use that footage in ad campaigns or other promotional material." The details of those plans were first reported by New Scientist magazine. From the report: The Estee La
  
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• Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps, Researchers Say

  19-09-2020 05:30 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Iranian hackers, most likely employees or affiliates of the government, have been running a vast cyberespionage operation equipped with surveillance tools that can outsmart encrypted messaging systems -- a capability Iran was not previously known to possess, according to two digital security reports released Friday. The operation not only targets domestic dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities and antigovernment activists abroad,
  
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• CISA Releases Emergency Directive on Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol

  19-09-2020 03:48 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: September 18, 2020
  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released Emergency Directive (ED) 20-04 addressing a critical vulnerability— CVE-2020-1472—affecting Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller could exploit this vulnerability to compromise all Active Directory identity services.Earlier this month, exploit code for this vulnerability was publicly released. G
  
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• Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

  19-09-2020 03:20 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  Facebook is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras. Bloomberg reports: The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren't actively being used. Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was accessing iPhone cameras.In t
  
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• Bill Gates On the Difference Between Elon Musk and Steve Jobs

  19-09-2020 01:40 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates was asked whether his contemporary Elon Musk could be considered the "next Steve Jobs," due to the advancements his companies Tesla and SpaceX have made in electric cars and reusable rockets, respectively. CNBC reports: "If you know people personally, that kind of gross oversimplification seems strange," Gates told Bloomberg in the interview published Thursday. There are some key differences between the way Musk and Jobs operate, Gates said. "Elon's mor
  
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• Fortnite: Save the World For Mac Is Shutting Down Because of Epic's Battle With Apple

  19-09-2020 01:00 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  Epic Games says Fortnite: Save the World will no longer be playable on macOS beginning on September 23rd because Apple is preventing the game from receiving new updates. The Verge reports: The co-op action shooter was initially released as a paid early access title in 2017. Epic's far more popular free-to-play battle royale will still be playable on Mac, the company says. Epic says Apple is blocking new updates and patches for the macOS version of Save the World, and an upcoming update going out
  
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• Tesla Wins Lawsuit Against Whistleblower Accused of Hacks

  19-09-2020 00:20 via rss.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader writes: The US District Court of Nevada awarded Tesla a win in its lawsuit against a former employee, filed two years ago. You may recall CEO Elon Musk referred to this incident in a previously leaked email calling on employees to be "extremely vigilant." Martin Tripp, who worked at the company's Nevada Gigafactory, was accused of hacking the automaker and supplying sensitive information to unnamed third parties. Reuters reported Friday the court ruled in Tesla's favor and di
  
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