RemyBR writes “Softpedia points to a Nvidia Developer Zone forum post revealing that the company has removed a specific Linux feature as of the v310 drivers due to the Windows platform. A BaseMosaic user on Ubuntu 12.04 noticed a change in the number of displays that can be used simultaneously after upgrading from the v295…

In the second of our series covering risk factors in Twitter’s S1 filing we look at people and how Twitter’s users and staff could impact its ability to grow advertising and impact our experience after IPO…….

Antony Ingram on cars that’ll do all the work for you…….

On Monday the US Department of Justice rejected the formal request of Google, Facebook and other Internet giants to share government user data requests with the public with some unsettlingly non-ironic arguments against data transparency…….

cold fjord writes with this excerpt from the Weekly Standard: “A portion of the website of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was apparently hacked as long as two months ago. SAMHSA is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS also runs the new Obamacare insurance marketplace,…

Is ‘Timid Tim’ an ‘unmitigated disaster’? Only for crap Map app flap chap, Apple-haters……

An anonymous reader writes “Today, the latest victim of the U.S. government shutdown, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory shut its doors and essentially mothballed all three of its radio telescope facilities: the Very Large Array or VLA (think Jodie Foster, Contact); the Green Bank Telescope, and the Very Long Baseline Array or VLBA. While the…

Unfancied entries take time trial as Cambridge crashes……

Dawn Kawamoto writes “Lockheed employees are the latest casualty in the government shutdown, with the defense contractor announcing Friday it plans to furlough 3,000 workers on Monday. But what they didn’t mention is they are laying off workers too, says a Lockheed source on the hush-hush. Lockheed, of course, isn’t the only defense contractor taking…

16 mph pseudo-feline moves in leaps and bounds……