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Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most?

brown.dragon is an older programmer moving to Australia. He writes: I want to start an online solution that other programmers find helpful, and right now I’m wondering if I should go with “learning new technologies” or “getting really good at the basics”. Both are targeted towards giving a career boost to older programmers… Would you […]

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EA Blocks ‘Origin’ Access In Six Countries, Citing US Embargoes

An anonymous reader writes: “In compliance with US embargoes and sanctions laws, Origin is not available in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine (Crimea region),” a community manager from EA posted in September. Engadget calls it “a reminder of the risks you take when buying copy-protected game downloads… Even if you started […]

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WordPress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code

An anonymous reader writes: “Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting,” Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami posted on the company’s blog Saturday — responding to WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, who on Friday accused Wix of stealing their code. “The claim is that the Wix mobile apps distribute GPL code and aren’t themselves GPL, […]

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CETA Signed Off As Wallonia Folds Under Pressure

Dangerous_Minds writes: The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been signed off. The government of Wallonia appeared to be holding off on the agreement, but has since folded under the pressure. Two days after Wallonia agreed to the trade deal, countries signed off on the agreement. The agreement contains provisions surrounding a three strikes […]

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‘Armies’ of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns

An anonymous reader writes: During the first U.S. presidential debate, “automated accounts were tweeting messages with hashtags associated with the candidates. For example, #makeamericagreatagain or #draintheswamp for Trump; #imwithher for Clinton,” according to TechNewsWorld. They cite researchers at PoliticalBots.org, who “found that one-third of all tweets using pro-Trump hashtags were created by bots and one-fifth […]

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Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland’s Election

The BBC reports that Iceland’s Pirate Party “has tripled its seats in the 63-seat parliament, election results show. It is in joint second place with the Left-Greens — with 10 seats each.” An anonymous reader quotes USA Today: Iceland’s hacker-led, upstart Pirate Party failed to make the nation’s powerful Independence Party walk the plank after […]

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Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound

An anonymous reader writes: “High-frequency audio ‘beacons’ are embedded into TV commercials or browser ads,” reports New Scientist. “These sounds, which are inaudible to the human ear, can be picked up by any nearby device that has a microphone and can then activate certain functions on that device…Some shopping reward apps, such as Shopkick, already […]

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Family Sues Amazon After Counterfeit Hoverboard Catches Fire, Destroys Home

Three weeks after unboxing a hoverboard, it burst into flames. But is Amazon partly to blame? tripleevenfall quotes The Tennessean: A Nashville family whose $1 million home was destroyed earlier this year in a fire caused by a hoverboard toy is suing Amazon saying the retail giant knowingly sold a dangerous product… The lawsuit says […]

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Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying ‘Indefinitely’

The A-10 aircraft “is just too effective to get rid of,” wrote one defense blogger — especially in light of ongoing issues with the F-35. schwit1 quotes Jalopnik: Strategists have feared that the jet will be axed in favor of funding the F-35, but the U.S. Air Force recently confirmed that it plans to keep […]

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Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The ‘Default Choice’ For The Cloud

Speaking at the “All Things Open” conference, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst remembered when Linux “was just a ‘bunch of geeks’ getting together figuring it all out on an 8286 chip” 25 years ago. An anonymous reader quotes BizJournals: “It went from being kind of a hacker movement to truly what I’ll say [is] a […]

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