"When NBC published their background conversation with Google yesterday the media outlet made a big legal mistake. NBC outlined the mechanics of a racketeering and antitrust violation, via Google’s power to control on-line ad revenue as a weapon to target NBC’s competition"(slashdot.org)
Employees Connect Nuclear Plant To the Internet So They Can Mine Cryptocurrency(tech.slashdot.org)
A Retired Microsoft OS Engineer's Comparison of Linux with Windows(slashdot.org)
CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' With Open Source Software - Slashdot(news.slashdot.org)
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62(slashdot.org)
Cable ISP Warns 'Excessive' Uploaders, Says Network Can't Handle Heavy Usage(tech.slashdot.org)
System76 Plans Its Own Open Hardware Laptop and a New Desktop Environment(slashdot.org)
Chrome and Edge Rise In Popularity. Firefox, Opera, and Safari Drop.(slashdot.org)
Slashdot user figures out how trolls easily infest a site and manage dozens of accounts.(slashdot.org)
Great comment nails it. "Woke" people appear to themselves be racist, which they know is wrong and they're battling their inner demons. This manifests in the form of them trying to aggressively stamp out anything that even appears to be racist, even when there isn't any known connection to racism."(developers.slashdot.org)
Mastercard introduces new service to mass-spy on customers, in order to sell to banks, purportedly so they can censor purchases of cryptocurrencies(news.slashdot.org)
Will We Someday Write Code Just By Describing It?(slashdot.org)
Buzzfeed News is finally shutting down(m.slashdot.org)
Slashdot nails it: "This is the year we discovered that viruses apparently have political parties. It's terribly dangerous to have large numbers of people get together for some politicians and causes, but perfectly safe for large numbers of people to gather for other political parties and causes."(slashdot.org)
Slashdot spins billionaire Mike Bloomberg middle-manning corporate unionization and selling unions as a subscription...as a good thing...what do you think?(it.slashdot.org)
Canada Demands Meta Lift News Ban To Allow Wildfire Info Sharing(slashdot.org)
A Researcher Tried To Buy Mental Health Data. It Was Surprisingly Easy.(slashdot.org)
Facebook engineer says Facebook is "trapped by our ideology of free expression". Commenters are dropping massive truth bombs in the excellent comment thread. Recommended, please share.(tech.slashdot.org)
From 2019 - Attorney General Barr Said Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors - Slashdot(it.slashdot.org)
Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres - Slashdot commenters warm the cockles of my heart by being more than a little skeptical. Check these comments!(science.slashdot.org)
"The problem with climate change is that even those who believe it are unwilling to make any personal sacrifices for the sake of remedying the problem. Why do you berate others for not believing in climate change when you know it exists, and you're actively making the problem worse?"(slashdot.org)
From 2019 - Attorney General Barr Said Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors - Slashdot(it.slashdot.org)
The only sure fire powerhouse winner to global warming, Russia, will be devastated by it because of ... (vague hand waving) - Harvard Press' War Arm(hardware.slashdot.org)
NYT particular Internet regulatory policy failure in Canada, should be adopt by the US, despite previous partisan attempts to do so failing, citing some of the same risks(news.slashdot.org)
Google Blocks File Manager Total Commander From Allowing Users To Sideload Apps(slashdot.org)