“Even as the White House began cracking down on U.S. work visas, major Silicon Valley technology firms last year dramatically ramped up hiring of workers under the controversial H-1B visa program,” reports the Mercury News. Menlo Park-based Facebook in 2017 received 720 H-1B approvals, a 53 percent increase over 2016, according to the National Foundation…

The flagship Sennheiser HD 800S isn’t going away, but now with the HD 820 there’s a closed-back version. I gave it a listen. …read more Source:: CNet

The systems and database administrator for a Fortune 500 company notes that while NFS is “decades old and predating Linux…the most obvious feature missing from NFSv4 is native, standalone encryption.” emil (Slashdot reader #695) summarizes this article from Linux Journal: NFS is the most popular remote file system in the Linux, UNIX, and greater POSIX…

Certification, endpoint security, 2FA, phishing, and PII were among the themes and puns offered by readers in our latest cartoon caption competition. And the winners are … …read more Source:: DarkReading

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: The European Parliament accepted a resolution to lengthen consumer goods and software’s longevity, a counter to the alleged planned obsolescence process built into a lot of products. The European Parliament now wants the European Commission to create a clear definition of the term “planned obsolescence” and to develop a system…

We’re not sure why we’ve got a thing for DIN-rail mounted projects, but we do. Perhaps it’s because we’ve seen so many cool industrial control cabinets, or maybe the forced neatness of DIN-mounted components resonates on some deep level. Whatever it is, if it’s DIN-rail mounted, chances are good that we’ll like it. Take this…

Fall TV is finally back! …read more Source:: CNet

Viewers of HBO’s Southern gothic mystery who haven’t read the book have some weird, dark ideas about who the killer might be. Spoiler-free up to Episode 6. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reports from earlier this month claimed Google was working on products for the Chinese market, detailing plans for a search engine and news app that complied with the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance demands. The news was a surprise to many Googlers, and yesterday an article…

95 percent of the 2.46 million affected vehicles had been fixed by June, so it’s not a widespread issue. …read more Source:: CNet