He’d sold his second online advertising company for $300 million at the age of 25. Six years later he was charged with 47 felonies. And now? “A Silicon Valley millionaire entrepreneur who avoided jail time for a domestic violence conviction in 2014 — and had his probation revoked following another domestic violence incident — was…

This week in Vancouver, Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman criticized Intel’s slow initial response to the Spectre and Meltdown bugs in a talk at the Open Source Summit North America. An anonymous reader quotes eWeek: Kroah-Hartman said that when Intel finally decided to tell Linux developers, the disclosure was siloed…. “Intel siloed SUSE, they siloed…

“Using the newly minted Linux 4.19 feature code, fresh benchmarks were carried out looking at the performance cost of Spectre/Meltdown/Foreshadow mitigations on Intel Xeon v. AMD EPYC CPUs,” writes an anonymous Slashdot reader: Workloads affected by these CPU vulnerabilities mainly deal with I/O and frequent kernel calls while CPU bound tests are still found to…

What if you could play video games perfectly? Would you be one of the greats, raking in millions of dollars simply by playing competitive Fortnite? That’s what Twitch does. Twitch plays video games for you. The irony of this name should not be lost on you. For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Peter] built a device…

Were the creators of Facebook and Twitter oblivious to how social networks could be abused? “I struggle to believe that these brilliant product CEOs, who have created social media services used by millions of people worldwide, are actually naive,” writes the former CEO of Reddit. “It’s a lot more likely that they simply don’t care.”…

An anonymous reader quotes CNET: J.R.R. Tolkien fans can get their hands on what might be the late author’s final work. The Fall of Gondolin was published August 30 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and HarperCollins in the UK. J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973, but since his death, his son Christopher, now 93,…

The bill offers the strongest protections on net neutrality yet and sends a message to the rest of the country. …read more Source:: CNet

The IRS recently ruled that under some circumstances employers can link their 401(k) matching contributions to the amount of an employee’s student loan repayments — making it easier for recent graduates to take advantage of this employer benefit. But that’s one spot of good news in a sea of bad, according to one anonymous Slashdot…

Everyone loves firing up that CNC router for the first time. But if the first thing you cut is wood, chances are good that the second thing you cut will be parts for some kind of dust shroud. Babysitting the machine and chasing the spindle around with a shop vac hose probably isn’t why you…

It happens, but it may not be the speaker’s fault — it could be the wrong kind of speaker for you. …read more Source:: CNet