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A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment.

Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this thought-provoking anecdote from Science magazine: NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the…

The Independent reports that the UK’s National Health System is experiencing a major outage “expected to last for more than three weeks” after a third-party supplying the NHS’s “CareNotes” software…

Australia’s public broadcaster interviewed a virologist who “played a key role in mapping the evolution of COVID-19” (and was also “the first person to release the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 to…

“Python seems to be unstoppable,” argues the commentary on August’s edition of the TIOBE index (which attempts to calculate programming-language popularity based on search results for courses, vendors, and “skilled…

In June Netflix launched Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet, a true-crime series. It began with an episode documenting the 2017 death of a 28-year-old Kansas man…

Google uses Linux “in almost everything,” according to the leader of Google’s “product security response” team — including Chromebooks, Android smartphones, and even Google Cloud. “Because of this, we have…

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by five to 10 years,” reports the Associated Press, “to maintain reliable…

The New York Times tried an experiment with four classic science fiction films from exactly 40 years ago: If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented…