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• America's FAA Shifts Gears Slightly on Certifying Future 'Flying Taxi' Pilots

  14-05-2022 23:42 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Flying cars — or even electric flying taxis — are the dream of several well-funded manufacturers building "electric vertical-takeoff and landing aircraft" (or eVTOLs).But will they face stricter government regulations than anticipated? Long-time Slashdot reader
  wired_parrot reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration has shifted gears — "revising it certification requirements for eVTOLS from small aircraft to a powered-lift category." (The original submission cites a
  
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• Should Social Networks Let You Take Your Followers to Other Services?

  14-05-2022 22:42 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  The Washington Post reports on the "My Friends My Data" coalition, a group of start-up founders "working to push tech giants to adopt a new industry-wide standard that would allow users to transfer their followings from one app to another, thereby creating more competition between platforms.""Large social media companies are intentionally holding our personal contact information hostage," said Daniel Liss, founder and CEO of Dispo, a photography-based social network. "This limits consumer choice
  
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• CentOS Successor Rocky Linux Gets $26M to Fund Push Into Enterprise Space

  14-05-2022 21:42 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  "CIQ has landed $26 million in funding to support its plans to expand the use of Rocky Linux in the enterprise space," reports ZDNet.
  Last year, Red Hat decided to stop supporting CentOS 8 and shifted focus to CentOS Stream. CentOS had some huge enterprise users, among them Disney, GoDaddy, RackSpace, Toyota, and Verizon. In response, Greg Kurtzer, one of CentOS's founders, kicked off Rocky Linux in December 2020.... Kurtzer says Rocky Linux adoption has been "massive", with monthly downloads of
  
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• Hackers Are Exploiting WordPress Tools to Hawk Scams

  14-05-2022 20:42 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "If you've visited a website in recent days and been randomly redirected to the same pages with sketchy "resources" or unwanted ads, it's likely the site in question was 1) built with WordPress tools and 2) hacked," reports Gizmodo.
  Details come from this blog post by researchers at Sucuri (a security provider owned by GoDaddy):
  As outlined in our latest hacked website report, we've been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into compromised WordPress websi
  
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• Want to Run Python Code in a Browser? Soon You Might Be Able To

  14-05-2022 19:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  ZDNet reports news from PyCon 2022 ("the first in-person meet-up for Python contributors since 2019 due to the pandemic")
  "Developers revisited the idea of running Python code in the browser...."CPython developer Christian Heimes and fellow contributor Ethan Smith detailed how they enabled the CPython main branch to compile to WebAssembly. CPython, short for Core Python, is the reference implementation that other Python distributions are derived from. CPython now cross-compiles to Wasm using Ems
  
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• After 28 Flights, Is NASA's 'Ingenuity' Mars Helicopter Nearing the End of Its Life?

  14-05-2022 18:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  After traveling 300 miles on the underbelly of the Perseverance rover, the "Ingenuity" helicopter has made 28 different flights over the surface of Mars, reports the Washington Post, staying aloft for a total of nearly one hour, flying 4.3 miles with a maximum speed of 12.3 miles per hour and a top altitude of 39 feet. "It's traversed craters, taken photos of regions that would be hard to reach on the ground, and served as a surprisingly resilient scout that has adapted to the changing Martian a
  
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• FAA Revokes Certificates of Two Pilots Involved in Plane-Swapping Attempt

  14-05-2022 17:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Whatever happened to those two pilots who attempted to swap planes in mid-air — skydiving from one to the other while the planes slowly tumbled toward the desert 65 miles southeast of Phoenix?
  One pilot successfully reached the other plane — but the other pilot didn't, parachuting safely to the ground instead. "All of our safety protocols worked," the first pilot said triumphantly in a documentary streamed on Hulu. Er, but what about that second plane, slowly tumbling toward the grou
  
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• Security Expert Nabs Expired Domain for a Popular NPM Library's Email Address

  14-05-2022 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "Security consultant Lance Vick recently acquired the expired domain used by the maintainer of a widely used NPM package," reports the Register, "to remind the JavaScript community that the NPM Registry still hasn't implemented adequate security.""I just noticed 'foreach' on NPM is controlled by a single maintainer," wrote Vick in a Twitter post on Monday. "I also noticed they let their domain expire, so I bought it before someone else did. I now control 'foreach' on npm, and the 36,826 projects
  
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• White House Joins OpenSSF, Linux Foundation In Securing Open-Source Software

  14-05-2022 15:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Securing the open-source software supply chain is a huge deal. Last year, the Biden administration issued an executive order to improve software supply chain security. This came after the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down gas and oil deliveries throughout the southeast and the SolarWinds software supply chain attack. Securing software became a top priority. In response, The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Linux Foundation
  
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• Classic Japanese Audio Brand Onkyo Files For Bankruptcy

  14-05-2022 12:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Onkyo, one of the best-known Japanese manufacturers of home theater equipment, has "filed for bankruptcy at Osaka District Court on Friday, with total liabilities of around 3.1 billion yen ($24 million)," reports Nikkei Asia. The report is sparse on details but attributes the bankruptcy to a "market shift to streaming and smartphones."In mid-2020, Onkyo USA Corporation ended a 45-year run as Onkyo's exclusive sales, marketing and distribution division for the Americas, according to Audioholics.O
  
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• House of Representatives To Give Staff Free Peloton Memberships

  14-05-2022 09:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  schwit1 shares a report: The House of Representatives [...] will provide taxpayer-funded Peloton memberships to all of its staff, costing taxpayers roughly $100,000 per month. The move comes one year after the fitness company set up a lobbying shop in Washington. Memberships to the exercise service, which offers workout classes, will be available to House staff in Washington, D.C., and in district offices, as well as to Capitol police officers, Fox Business reported. The number of people eligibl
  
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• Hackers Are Using SEO To Rank Malicious PDFs On Search Engines, Research Finds

  14-05-2022 05:30 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Today, researchers at security service edge provider, Netskope, published the Netskope Cloud and Threat Report: Global Cloud and Malware Trends, which found that phishing downloads rose 450% over the past 12 months, and highlighted that attackers are using search engine optimization (SEO) to rank malicious PDF files on search engines. The report's findings show that phishing attempts are constantly evolving, and attackers aren't just targetin
  
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• San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras

  14-05-2022 04:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  BeerFartMoron shares a report from Motherboard: For the last five years, driverless car companies have been testing their vehicles on public roads. These vehicles constantly roam neighborhoods while laden with a variety of sensors including video cameras capturing everything going on around them in order to operate safely and analyze instances where they don't. While the companies themselves, such as Alphabet's Waymo and General Motors' Cruise, tout the potential transportation benefits their se
  
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• AT&T Is About To Get Away With Its Bogus $1.99 'Administrative Fee'

  14-05-2022 03:25 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Sean Hollister writes via The Verge: Since 2013, AT&T has quietly bilked customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a bogus "administrative fee," a fee it more than doubled to $1.99 a month in 2018. For a few years there, a California class-action lawsuit made it seem like AT&T might finally get taken to task. But this week, both sides told a judge they'd settle for just $14 million -- meaning customers may get less than 10 percent of what they paid AT&T, while AT&T ge
  
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• Samsung Is Reportedly Planning To Raise Chip Prices By 20%

  14-05-2022 02:45 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Samsung is currently considering raising the cost of its semiconductor products by up to 20%, as well as those it manufactures for other companies, which would ultimately lead to consumers paying more for new devices. PC Magazine reports: As Bloomberg reports, the price hike consideration is in response to just about everything in the world getting more expensive, including the cost of raw materials and the logistics surrounding production pipelines. The final price increase is expected to be li
  
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• CISA Temporarily Removes CVE-2022-26925 from Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog

  14-05-2022 02:20 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: May 13, 2022
  CISA is temporarily removing CVE-2022-26925 from its Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog due to a risk of authentication failures when the May 10, 2022 Microsoft rollup update is applied to domain controllers. After installing May 10, 2022 rollup update on domain controllers, organizations might experience authentication failures on the server or client for services, such as Network Policy Server (NPS), Routing and Remote access Service (RRAS), Radius,
  
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• Ex-eBay Exec Pleads Guilty To Terrorizing Couple With Spiders, Funeral Wreaths

  14-05-2022 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A former eBay executive pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included the delivery of live spiders and other disturbing items to their home. David Harville, eBay's former director of global resiliency, is the final onetime eBay employee charged in the case to plead guilty. Six others have admitted to their roles in the harassment campaign targeting a Massachusetts coup
  
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• Startup Raises $17 Million To Develop Smart Gun

  14-05-2022 01:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Biofire Technologies has raised $17 million in seed funding to further develop its smart gun, which uses a fingerprint sensor to unlock the trigger. Axios reports: Biofire's guns only can be fired by authorized users, which should exclude kids or teens from using guns that their parents didn't secure. Even if you're someone who decries firearms proliferation and supports stricter gun control, this is an innovation that should be welcomed. "I see firearm ownership continuing to be part of America
  
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• Google Announces Flutter 3, Now With macOS and Linux Desktop Support

  14-05-2022 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: Google created Flutter a number of years ago, with the aim to make a cross-platform software framework. Flutter's biggest strength is that it can be used to build applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS, and even the web, and all from the same shared codebase. While building apps for Windows received stable support back in February, both macOS and Linux were still only in beta. Now that's changing, as Google has announced Flut
  
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• How Much Will It Cost To Secure Open-Source Software? OpenSSF Says $147.9 Million

  14-05-2022 00:02 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Today at the Open Source Software Security Summit II in Washington, D.C., OpenSSF announced an ambitious, multipronged plan with 10 key goals to better secure the entire open-source software ecosystem. From a report: While open-source software itself can sometimes be freely available, securing it will have a price. OpenSSF has estimated that its plan will require $147.9 million in funding over a two-year period. In a press conference held after the summit, Brian Behlendorf, general manager of Op
  
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