“Sydney university student Pablo Bonilla, 21, had his first academic paper published overnight and it might just change the shape of computing forever,” writes Australia’s national public broadcaster ABC: As a second-year physics student at the University of Sydney, Mr Bonilla was given some coding exercises as extra homework and what he returned with has…

Google’s Android team supports Rust for developing the Android operating system. Now they’re also helping evaluate Rust for Linux kernel development. Their hopes, among other things, are that “New code written in Rust has a reduced risk of memory safety bugs, data races and logic bugs overall,” that “abstractions that are easier to reason about,”…

Twitter Support says it’s fixing a server problem and hopes to get things running smoothly “soon.” Reports of issues have come from users in regions including Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. …read more Source:: CNet

Exotic locales from across the globe are a staple of any Bond film. Here’s where to find some amazing sights around the world as seen on screen. …read more Source:: CNet

Few things get a Hackaday staffer excited like bunches of tiny LEDs. The smaller and denser the better, any form will do as long as we can get a macro shot or a video of a buttery smooth animation. This time we turn to [Sawaiz Syed] and [Open Kolibri] to deliver the brightly lit goods…

A U.S. advocacy group called The Repair Association is urging Americans to demand protections for their right to repair from the country’s consumer protection agency. “Tell the FTC: People just want to fix their stuff!” argues a page urging concerned U.S. citizens to sign an online petition (shared by long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00K). The petition…

The new controller, which works with most recent Roku streamers and smart TVs, could be the perfect streaming upgrade. …read more Source:: CNet

DevOps 2.0? Value stream management may be the ‘next generation of DevOps,’ providing more visibility into what matters to the business. …read more Source:: ZDNet

EW reports: Felix Silla’s friend and former Buck Rogers in the 25th Century costar Gil Gerard reported on Twitter that Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Coming in at just under 4 feet tall and only 70 pounds, Silla was the perfect choice for the mumbling Cousin Itt on The Addams Family….

Plus: ‘First civil lawsuit’ against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more In brief Bystanders in New York City were stunned this week when cops left a public housing complex with a handcuffed man and a robot law enforcement dog trotting after them.… …read more Source:: TheRegister