Wear OS, body analysis, snore tracking, Bixby, rotating bezels and lots of nice watch faces — here are some observations on living with Samsung’s newest watches so far. …read more Source:: CNet

Slashdot reader lightbox32 shared this report from Motherboard: T-Mobile says it is investigating a forum post claiming to be selling a mountain of personal data. The forum post itself doesn’t mention T-Mobile, but the seller told Motherboard they have obtained data related to over 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile servers….

TorrentFreak reports: A new paper published by Microsoft’s research department proposes to tackle piracy with a blockchain-based bounty system titled “Argus.” The system allows volunteers to report piracy in exchange for a reward. It uses the Ethereum blockchain and is transparent, practical, and secure, while limiting abusive reports and errors… Pirated content is traced back…

They say once you start using twin monitors on the desktop, you’ll never want to go back. It’s even worse when you upgrade to three or more. However, it can be difficult to take such a set up on the road. Desiring better productivity on the go is what spurred [Brian Whitsett] to develop the…

The Wall Street Journal reports: A long-running dispute between Huawei Technologies Co. and a small U.S.-based contractor has escalated to U.S. federal court, with the contractor alleging Huawei stole its technology and pressured it to build a “back door” into a sensitive law-enforcement project in Pakistan. The contractor, Buena Park, Calif.-based Business Efficiency Solutions LLC,…

More than 100 million people are reportedly affected. …read more Source:: CNet

A new article in Time magazine argues it’s time to “follow the science” on working from home. “The solution for the future is a structured hybrid model, acknowledging that working from home doesn’t work long-term for most jobs, while still giving workers flexibility.” (Alternate URL here.) One way to do that would be to allocate…

But “we shouldn’t be worried about it very much.” …read more Source:: CNet

“One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!” âwrites Slashdot reader Washuu2. Phoronix reports it took “just over two years in development.” Debian 11 brings many new features as outlined this morning with the big upgrade to Linux 5.10 LTS, exFAT file-system support, control groups v2, yescrypt for password hashing,…

If you need to replace your Google Pixel smartphone now, choosing the right one may be a challenge. …read more Source:: CNet