Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles “made $77 million in 2017 by selling drivers’ personal information to more than 30 private companies, including marketing firms, bill collectors, insurance companies and data brokers…” according to local news site. schwit1 shared this report from WPTV: A Florida woman is blaming the state government for an…

San Diego Comic-Con is amazing, and overwhelming. Here’s a list of stuff that can ease your stress. …read more Source:: CNet

I’ve decided San Diego Comic-Con 2019 will witness my plunge into cosplay. Here’s how I tackled my Chilling Adventures of Sabrina costume. …read more Source:: CNet

This week Intel announced two new patches, according to Tom’s Hardware: The flaw in the processor diagnostic tool (CVE-2019-11133) is rated 8.2 out 10 on the CVSS 3.0 scale, making it a high-severity vulnerability. The flaw [found by security researcher Jesse Michael from Eclypsium] “may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege,…

Digital Equipment Corp.’s PDP-11 is one of the most important computers in history. It’s the home of Unix, although that’s arguable, and it’s still being used in every application, from handling nuclear control rods to selling Ed Sheeran tickets on Ticketmaster. As the timeline of PDP-11 machines progressed, the hardware did as well, and by…

Many of America’s voting machines are depending on an outdated Microsoft operating system, reports the Associated Press. “The vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes and report counts.” That’s significant because Windows 7 reaches its “end of life” on…

This week, we learned more about Lexus’ upcoming autonomous driving technologies. …read more Source:: CNet

“Starshot wants to build the world’s most powerful laser and aim it at the closest star. What could go wrong?” An anonymous reader quotes MIT’s Technology Review: In 2015, Philip Lubin, a cosmologist from the University of California, Santa Barbara, took the stage at the 100-Year Starship Symposium in Santa Clara. He outlined his plan…

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes the Register: An interior design tools startup called Mosss on Wednesday sued Google to get it to restore its data after someone at the startup accidentally deleted the firm’s G Suite account. In a pro se lawsuit [PDF] filed in US District Court in Oakland, California, Mosss, under its previous…

diegocg writes: Linux 5.2 has been released. This release includes Sound Open Firmware, a project that brings open source firmware to DSP audio devices; open firmware for many Intel products is also included. This release also improves the Pressure Stall Information resource monitoring to make it usable by Android; the mount API has been redesigned…