“Microsoft today announced OneDrive Personal Vault” that is absolutely guaranteed not to be stored at the NSA Utah Data Center

How does this Silex malware get onto the devices in the first place, without user action or using the default factory set password.

“Germany's auto regulator told Daimler that it would have to recall 42,000 Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles after the group discovered illegal software on the cars .. Daimler .. disputed the government regulator's determination that the software in question was illegal”

What the f^H^Hk have these people been smoking?

Gates's biggest mistake, failing to recognize the coming importance of the Internet.

Bill Gates 1995: "today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway"

Bill Gates 2004: “[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.”

“Bhatt told NPR that would have doubled the cost of the technology, requiring double the wires and circuits.”

Not really, some steering diodes on the power lines and a bi-directional databus to transfer data.

Gates statement just beggars belief. The reason Android is such a success is that Gates couldn't ‘partner’ with Google, absorb their technology and then drive them out of business. Which has been the Microsoft play-book from the beginning. Even buying Nokia and Microsoft couldn't make a success of its venture into the Mobile market. On top of that, Gates is extorting revenue from the Android hardware makers. The bald-faced audacity of this charlatan is endless.

Microsoft could have owned mobile space back in 2004 with the TRON real time operating system. Instead of which Gates partnered with the T-Engine Forum after having the OS banned in North America.

> Seems like the better advice is not connect to WiFi in the first place.

Or don't run you pacemaker on Microsoft Windows CE ..

How exactly do these viruses get onto the Samsung QLED TV in the first place?

MICROS~1 running in “the Cloud”, what could possibly go wrong :]

"To generate these garbage requests, bad guys use 'botnets' made up of computers of unsuspecting users which were infected with malware at some point in the past. This makes a DDoS similar to the zombie apocalypse: one of the whopper lemmings just might be your grandpa,"

What was the name of these 'computers' the 'botnets' run on?

“The company will connect an industrial-scale battery, the size of half a football pitch”

What's that in yards/meters?

“could release enough electricity over an hour to fully charge 806 Nissan Leaf vehicles over a total of 182,000 miles”

What's that in amp-hours?

> What has Slashdot become?

Become .. it's been known as the Microsoft slashdot for a long time :)

Because it feeds into the neocon narrative and distracts from just who is really manipulating the political system in Washington and it ain't the Ruskies.

@Anonymous: “Why is /. still pushing the thoroughly-discredited ''Russia collusion'' narrative?

What does /. have to gain from doing so?

It sure isn't helping this site's reputation, which has already been in the shitter for some time now.

Maybe it leads to lots of comments, but they're almost all junk comments, which again doesn't help.

Even if the junk comments may result in more ad impressions being delivered, I again doubt it's good for /. in the long run. Advertisers may not see profitable results from running ads here on high-traffic junk submissions, and they won't bother to run any more ads in the future.

It's becoming comical how devoted /. is to this nonsensical ''Russia'' narrative after it had so clearly been shown to be nonsensical even by the political left's own investigations into the matter!”

“VR Systems, based in Tallahassee but with customers in eight states, used what's known as remote-access software to connect for several hours to a central computer in Durham County, N.C.”

What was the name of this remote-access software and what was it even doing on the computer in the first place? and I assume the used the Internet to communicate and what was it even doing connected to the Internet?

@anonymous > 'nuff said.

blockchain, cloud, devops, agile .. errr whatever the current buzz phrase is ...