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Titan sub may have imploded due to "micro-buckling"
Newsweek· 1 day agoScientists have figured out what might have caused the Titan submersible to collapse under pressure last summer. In a story that took the world by storm,...
Gold pocket watch owned by the richest man on the Titanic, who died when the ship sank, fetches...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAround 1,500 people are believed to have died as a result of the incident. The ship was built by...
Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 hours agoHuawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based ...
Open Sourcing DOS 4 - Slashdot
Slashdot· 7 days agoMicrosoft releases one of the most popular versions of MS-DOS as open source today. stikves shares a post:Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer ...
UK Becomes First Country To Ban Default Bad Passwords on IoT Devices - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoThe United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. From a report: The Product Security and Telecommunications ...
British Intelligence Moves To Protect Research Universities From Espionage - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 days agoThe head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency warned the country's leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperilling national ...
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 Million For Sharing Customer Data - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoThe Federal Communications Commission has fined the nation's largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without consent and without taking reasonable ...
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 days agoU.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it [non-paywalled link], prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial ...
Countries Consider Pact To Reduce Plastic Production By 40% in 15 Years - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoCountries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic -- to reduce it by 40% in 15 years -- in an attempt to protect human health and the environment.
Europeans 'Less Hard-Working' Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 days agoEurope is less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US, according to the boss of Norway's giant oil fund, with the gap between the two continents only getting ...