The French government’s roadmap for developing open source to make it a vector of digital sovereignty and a guarantee of “democratic confidence” was presented by Public Transformation and Civil Service Minister Amélie de Montchalin on Wednesday (10 November). EURACTIV France reports Montchalin spoke at the closing of the first edition Read more…
“If current progress continues, quantum computers will be able to crack public key cryptography,” writes CNET, “potentially creating a serious threat to the crypto world, where some currencies are valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.” If encryption is broken, attackers can impersonate the legitimate owners of cryptocurrency, NFTs or Read more…
Heavy rain and flooding in Aswan, Egypt, have driven drifts of scorpions to seek shelter in people’s homes. Three people died and more than 400 were hospitalised across the governorate to receive anti-venom treatment after being stung by the panicking arachnids, according to state-run media. However, acting Health Minister Khalid Read more…
Roblox plans to help bring educational videogames to classrooms world-wide, part of its strategy to expand its mostly teen and preteen user base and play a role in the next evolution of the internet known as the metaverse. From a report: Roblox, based in San Mateo, Calif., is expected to Read more…
The technology site Recode interviewed 12 “leading thinkers and leaders on Facebook today,” including the Senator pushing tech-industry updates for U.S. antitrust law, an early researcher on viral misinformation, and a now-critical former Facebook executive. “[M]ost believe that Facebook can be fixed, or at least that some of its issues Read more…
Long-time Slashdot reader davidwr brings news of “an exploit in the FBI’s Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal web site that would let anyone send an email to any arbitrary recipient…” Late in the evening of November 12 ET, tens of thousands of emails began flooding out from the FBI address eims@ic.fbi.gov, Read more…
“Singapore’s government has been covering the medical bills of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic,” reports NPR. “But it says unvaccinated people will soon be on their own.” Those who are “unvaccinated by choice” will have to start paying for their own COVID-19 treatment starting December 8, the Ministry of Health Read more…