ZDNet reports: Facebook has awarded a $100,000 prize to a team of academics from Germany for developing a new code isolation technique that can be used to safeguard sensitive data while it’s being processed inside a computer. The award is named the Internet Defense Prize, and is a $100,000 cash reward that Facebook has been…

Spider-Man, Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen are headed to Disney Jr. …read more Source:: CNet

The reassembly is handled with super glue and acrylic to diffuse the light. There’s an easy way to signal to your friends and family that you’re a successful, urbane member of society – by decorating your home with tasteful references to popular culture. A classy oil painting of Yoda or a framed Tarantino movie poster…

With all the buzz about the 2020 iPhone, what exactly are we going to see this year? …read more Source:: CNet

Yesterday, we got news about The Mandalorian and a handful of new Marvel shows for Disney Plus. Today Kit Harrington? (Fingers crossed) …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader William Robinson writes: An unmanned spacecraft, Chandrayaan 2, India launched last month has begun orbiting the moon before it lands on the far side to search for water. The spacecraft is in orbit of 114 km x 18072 km and will continue circling the moon in a tighter orbit until reaching a…

AmiMoJo quote the Verge: At least three smart June Ovens have turned on in the middle of the night and heated up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. The ovens’ owners aren’t sure why this happened, and June tells The Verge that user error is at fault… The June Oven debuted in 2015 as a…

This writer had success reducing his reflux symptoms on a low-acid diet. Here’s how it works. …read more Source:: CNet

“A rash of supply chain attacks hitting open source software over the past year shows few signs of abating, following the discovery this week of two separate backdoors slipped into a dozen libraries downloaded by hundreds of thousands of server administrators,” reports Ars Technica: The compromises of Webmin and the RubyGems libraries are only the…

FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.… …read more Source:: TheRegister