LTTng has been called “the killer app for system-level debugging and performance tuning.” And now long-time Slashdot reader compudj writes: It’s the official release of LTTng 2.13 — Nordicité! LTTng is a kernel and user-space tracer for Linux. The most notable features of this release are: – Event-rule matches condition triggers and new actions, allowing…

“In 2017, it emerged that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel had been able to gain New Zealand citizenship six years earlier,” reports the Associated Press, “despite never having lived in the country.” Thiel was approved after a top lawmaker decided his entrepreneurial skills and philanthropy were valuable to the nation. Thiel didn’t even have to…

Whether you know them as samara seeds, maple seeds, or helicopter seeds, most of us know the seeds that spin down to the ground on one or two blades. They have been served as the inspiration for several robotic autorotating gliders, and researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) can now also…

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Researchers have discovered three separate Chinese military affiliated advanced threat groups simultaneously targeting and compromising the same Southeast Asian telcos. The attack groups concerned are Soft Cell, Naikon, and a third group, possibly Emissary Panda (also known as APT27)… Cybereason released details of a triple-pronged attack by Chinese military-affiliated…

Will the mid-credits scene tie into DCEU’s future, like the Peacemaker TV series coming to HBO Max? …read more Source:: CNet

From Starro the Conqueror to a post-credits scene, this is how the 2021 Suicide Squad reaches a climax (spoilers, obvs). …read more Source:: CNet

“The moment you network IoT and hand over control to third parties, you may also give individuals the keys to a digital kingdom — and the ability to cause mischief, or worse,” writes ZDNet. For example, at a hotel where guests control the devices in their room with an iPod Touch… Speaking at Black Hat…

You’ll find the big discounts on Apple’s latest MacBooks right now on Best Buy and Amazon. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: Sensitive systems and data for the U.S. Department of State could have been exposed by a third party development workstation running the eXide software, according to researchers for the hacking crew Sakura Samurai. According to a report in Forbes, the researchers took advantage of a new State Department Vulnerability Disclosure…

If you have ever read anything about the history of UNIX, you may remember that its early development was influenced by an older operating system. MULTICS was developed in the 1960s by MIT and General Electric as a commercial operating system, and had been the system which UNIX writers [Thompson] and [Ritchie] had used. It…