Japan Tries To Revitalize Its Research

Alarmed by the declining stature of its universities, Japan is planning to shower up to $2.3 billion a year on a handful of schools in hopes...

Australian Watchdog Sues Mastercard for Allegedly Misusing Card Payment Market Power

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Mastercard Asia Pacific...

California Fails to Pass Right to Repair Bill

It was "the furthest any Right to Repair bill for consumer electronics has come to becoming law" in America, reports the nonprofit...

'Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit'

Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on ...

Should IT Professionals Be Liable for Ransomware Attacks?

Denmark-based Poul-Henning Kamp describes himself as the "author of a lot of FreeBSD, most of Varnish and tons of other Open Source Sof...

For $500, you can buy the Third Sister’s 6.5-foot double-bladed lightsaber

It measures 6.5 feet in length with both blades attached. | Image: Hasbro Hasbro has designed a lifelike lightsaber just in time for the...

Instagram Moderators Say Iran Offered Them Bribes to Remove Accounts

The BBC reports: A Persian-language content moderator for Instagram and a former content moderator have said Iranian intelligence officials ...