In his TechCrunch column, software engineer/journalist Jon Evans writes that last month “marked a victory for sanity and pragmatism over irrational paranoia.” I’m talking about Microsoft finally — finally! but credit to them for doing this nonetheless! — removing the password expiration policies from their Windows 10 security baseline… Many enterprise-scale organizations (including TechCrunch’s owner…

Amazon unites Tennant and Michael Sheen as it adapts Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book. …read more Source:: CNet

John Romero has finally released Sigil, his unofficial fifth episode of Doom with nine new single-player levels and nine deathmatch levels. It’s available for free on Romero’s web site (though you’ll also need the original Doom to play it). Hot Hardware reports: If you want to know what Sigil is about, Romero explains it best….

The computers we are used to working with are more likely to be at the smaller end of the computational spectrum. Sometimes they are very small indeed, such as tiny microcontrollers with only a few GPIOs. Others are single board machines such as a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, and often a desktop or laptop…

These two 5G carriers battle it out for the best speeds and coverage so far. …read more Source:: CNet

The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the “open internet”. Now the group has approved funding for the hybrid Libre RISC-V CPU/VPU/GPU, which will “pay for full-time engineering work to be carried out over the next year, and to pay for bounty-style tasks.” Long-time Slashdot reader lkcl explains why that’s significant: High…

Researchers at Allen Institute and the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington have tuned the “GPT-2” neural network to create “Grover,” a program that both creates convincing fake articles but also is able to detect those fakes, pointing to a way to combat propaganda. …read more Source:: ZDNet

harrymcc shares a Fast Company article about “the generally gnarly process once required to hook up peripherals” in the late 1990s — and one Intel engineer who saw the need for “one plug to rule them all.” In the olden days, plugging something into your computer — a mouse, a printer, a hard drive —…

Slashdot reader Lasrick tipped us off to the first installment in a new series at the New York Times called “Op-Eds From the Future.” Science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write op-eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years in the future. The challenges they predict are imaginary —…

We’ve seen backyard casting, and for the most part, we know what’s going on. You make a frame out of plywood or two by fours, get some sand, pack it down, and very carefully make a mold around a pattern. This is something else entirely. [FarmCraft101] is casting a bronze cannon. Sure, it’s scaled down…