In a press conference Monday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Facebook’s proposed digital currency, Libra, “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.” CNBC reports: “Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have been exploited to support billions of dollars of illicit activity like cyber crime, tax evasion, extortion, ransomware, illicit drugs and human trafficking,”…
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Developer Requests Google Remove Their Logo From Re-Designed Golang Page
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Another very minor kerfuffle has broken out in the community for the Go programming language. When its official Twitter account asked for feedback on the new look of its web site, one developer suggested that it had been a mistake to add the Google logo to the lower-right of the home page. “A lot of people associate…
Fed Chief Calls For Facebook To Halt Libra Project Until Concerns Addressed
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that Facebook’s plan to build a digital currency called Libra “cannot go forward” until serious concerns are addressed. Reuters reports: “Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability,” Powell said during his semi-annual testimony on monetary policy before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services…
Interview With PINE64 On the Upcoming Release of the PineBook Pro
intensivevocoder writes: One of the consequences of the explosive popularity of the Raspberry Pi is the flourishing of competing ecosystems of single-board computers (SBCs). Aside from the accessibility a $35 price tag offers, the foremost benefit of the Raspberry Pi is the community — the proliferation of projects and integrations that center around the Raspberry Pi, and the ease-of-use that creates,…
Microsoft Issues Warning For 800M Windows 10 Users
Consumer tech reporter Gordon Kelly describes “an important new Windows 10 warning (and the failure behind it)” for all 800 million of Microsoft’s Windows 10 users: What Microsoft confirms it did was quietly switch off Registry backups in Windows 10 eight months ago, despite giving users the impression this crucial safeguarding system was still working. As Ghacks spotted at the time,…
Performance-Enhancing Bacteria Has a Symbiotic Relationship With Athletes
Long-time Slashdot reader tomhath shares some big bacteria news from Harvard Medical School:
Researchers from Joslin Diabetes Center determined Veillonella metabolizes lactic acid produced by exercise and converts it into propionate, a short chain fatty acid. The human body then utilizes that propionate to improve exercise capacity… “It creates this positive feedback loop. The host is producing something that this particular microbe…
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Your Certificate Authority Suddenly Revokes Your Cert?
Long-time Slashdot reader rastos1 works for a mid-size software company that for many decades has been developing CAD-CAM software for the textile industry. But last weekend their code-signing certificate was revoked — and they’re looking for advice. On Monday morning we woke up to phones ringing from confused customers unable to launch our software. This has hit mostly Java applications launched…
Apple Expected To Remove 3D Touch From All 2019 iPhones in Favor of Haptic Touch
Four years after 3D Touch debuted on the iPhone 6s, the pressure-sensitive feature appears to be on the chopping block. From a report: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018. The analysts gathered this information from…
Google To Restrict Modern Ad Blocking Chrome Extensions To Enterprise Users
Earlier this year, Google proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that would break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers. Despite the overwhelming negative feedback to the move, Google appears to be standing firm on the changes, sharing that current ad blocking capabilities will be restricted to enterprise users. 9to5Google reports: Manifest V3 comprises a major change to Chrome’s extensions system,…
Q&A with Shwetabh Mittal, Head of Product and Corporate Strategy for Coursera for Business
We recently sat down with Shwetabh Mittal, the head of product and corporate strategy for Coursera for Business. Shwetabh was excited to provide a peak into how our product roadmap is developed and share some of the most exciting upcoming new features. In particular, he shares how he’s thinking about skills-based features in the wake […]
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