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Brain Cancer Claims Horror Maestro Wes Craven At 76

New submitter JamesA writes: Wes Craven, the famed writer-director of horror films known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movies, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76. Though he’s far less known as a novelist than for his various horror film jobs (writer, director, producer, actor …), Craven also […]

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F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test

An anonymous reader writes: Lara Seligman from Defense News reports that the capabilities of the Joint Strike Fighter are to be evaluated for close-air support (CAS) missions. She writes, “To gauge the joint strike fighter’s ability to perform in a close-air support role, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester has declared the sleek new fighter jet […]

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CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband

New submitter club77er writes with a link to a DSL Reports article outlining some hefty subsidies (about $3 billion, all told) that CenturyLink has signed up to receive, in exchange for expanding its coverage to areas considered underserved: According to the CenturyLink announcement, the telco will take $500 million a year for six years from […]

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NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS

theodp writes: Microsoft has $92 billion in cash parked offshore, so it’s kind of surprising to see a $722K National Science Foundation award is going towards validating the efficacy of Microsoft TEALS, the pet program of CEO Satya Nadella that sends volunteer software engineers with no teaching experience into high schools to teach kids and […]

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Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in ‘Round-the-Clock Vigil’

The Daily Mail reports that Julian Assange seems to have yet another foe (or at least friend of a foe) watching persistently while he stays put in the Ecuadorean embassy in London: Harrod’s Department Store. The Metro Police, according to Assange, have developed a relationship with the store, and are using that relationship to facilitate […]

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Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82

Physician, writer and humanist Oliver Sacks has died of cancer at age 82. Sacks was famous for “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” and other books, including his account in “Awakenings” (later made into a well-recieved film) of administering treatment which resulted in several patients emerging from their comas. The Guardian reports: […]

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Linux Kernel 4.2 Released

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.2 kernel is now available. This kernel is one of the biggest kernel releases in recent times and introduces rewrites of some of the kernel’s Intel Assembly x86 code, new ARM board support, Jitter RNG improvements, queue spinlocks, the new AMDGPU kernel driver, NCQ TRIM handling, F2FS per-file encryption, […]

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"Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs

Ars Technica writes that “At SourceFoundry.org this week, programmer Chris Simpkins debuted the 2.0 version of Hack, an open-source typeface designed specifically for use in source code.” The revamped font is “characterized by a large x-height, wide aperture, and low contrast design in order to be ‘highly legible’ at common coding text sizes,” and the […]

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Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest?

An anonymous reader writes: I’m a huge fan of primitive survival reality TV. I am also self-employed in web troubleshooting and hosting services. I have to be available 24/7, but a lot of my work is just being online for a few minutes at a time. I often think about taking my business ‘outdoors’, camping, […]

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AMD’s R9 Fury On Open-Source: Prepare for Disappointment, For Now

An anonymous reader writes: With Linux 4.3 AMD is adding the initial open-source driver for the R9 Fury graphics cards. Unfortunate for Linux gamers, the R9 Fury isn’t yet in good shape on the open-source driver and it’s not good with the Catalyst Linux driver either as previously discussed. With the initial code going into […]

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