Ever since he was a young hacker [Mark Gibson] has messed with the silver ball. From Soho down to Denver he must have fixed them all. But we ain’t seen anything like this in any amusement hall. That darn devious hacker sure hacks a mean pinball. He hacks it like an expert, Becomes part of…

“The GNOME Foundation is pleased to be able to offer paid employment to exceptional people who have the drive to help us complete our mission,” reads a new announcement. Gnome.org explains: Today, July 6th 2018, the GNOME Foundation has announced a number of positions it is recruiting for to help drive the GNOME project and…

The LP fan base may make a lot of noise, but digital will eventually kill analog once and for all. Someday. …read more Source:: CNet

Why do companies deploy open office layouts? A major justification is the idea that removing spatial boundaries between colleagues will generate increased collaboration and smarter collective intelligence. Cal Newport: As I learned in a fascinating new study, published earlier this week in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, there was good reason to believe…

Slashdot reader yeokm1 recently installed Linux on a 1993 PC. But in a new blog post he lists every keyboard he’s owned over the last 12 years — to explain why he’s now typing on a 5.3-pound Model M keyboard from 1987 that’s older than he is, “with its legendary buckling-spring switch.” It’ll probably last…

We live in a world in which nearly any kind of gadget or tool you can imagine is just a few clicks away. In many respects, this has helped fuel the maker culture over the last decade or so; now that people aren’t limited to the hardware that’s available locally, they’re able to create bigger…

Your two-minute guide to the week’s infosec bits Roundup The week surrounding America’s “Huzzah, we kicked out the Brits, and will now spell color any way we like” Day, on July 4, is traditionally one of the slowest periods in the annual business tech news cycle.… …read more Source:: Register

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Earlier this week, an algorithm made an absurd choice. Google AdSense, Google’s advertising program that makes up the bulk of the tech giant’s advertising revenue, decided that a web page about a decades-old bill about sexual abuse was “adult content,” and wasn’t allowed to display ads anymore….

Good things often come in small-ish packages. …read more Source:: CNet

Can the camera on the cheaper OnePlus 6 beat out the iPhone X’s? …read more Source:: CNet