We’re just hours away from UFC 263. …read more Source:: CNet

Dartmouth’s Geisel medical school is dropping its investigation into alleged online cheating, the New York Times reports: In March, Dartmouth charged 17 students with cheating based on a review of certain online-activity data on Canvas — a popular learning-management system where professors post assignments and students submit their work — during remote exams. The school…

The company announced its next big Rainbow Six game, a new music learning title called Rocksmith Plus and an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader wildstoo writes: In a blog post on Thursday, GitHub security researcher Kevin Backhouse announced that Polkit, a Linux system service included in several modern Linux distros that provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, has been harbouring a major security bug for seven years. The bug, assigned…

This July you can choose the date of your complimentary brain freeze. …read more Source:: CNet

For anyone that’s fiddled around with a magnifying glass, it’s pretty easy to understand how optical microscopes work. And as microscopes are just an elaboration on a simple hand lens, so too are electron microscopes an elaboration on the optical kind, with electrons and magnets standing in for light and lenses. But atomic force microscopes?…

The company announced its next big Rainbow Six game, a new music learning title called Rocksmith Plus and more. …read more Source:: CNet

From today’s edition of Mike Melanson’s “This Week in Programming” column: This week, Docker announced some changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds — the primary one of interest being that autobuilds would no longer be available to free tier users — and much of the internet let out a collective groan to the tune of “this…

Blue Origin’s New Shepard is set to carry humans to the edge of space for a few minutes of microgravity and a sweet view on July 20. …read more Source:: CNet

Craving some good old-fashioned fantasy? Another version of Pinocchio hit Amazon on Friday. …read more Source:: CNet