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Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History 
Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History - Slashdot
PetaPixel: Leica Camera announced that its 2023/2024 fiscal year saw it achieve the highest revenue in the entire history of the company. It saw 14...
Plex's Upcoming App Redesign is a Big Swing at Going Legit 
Plex
An anonymous reader shares a report: Plex is beginning to test its "newly reimagined Plex experience," which will be available first on mob...
How the World's Vital Undersea Data Cables Are Being Targeted 
How the World
Damage to two undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea this month points to growing vulnerability of critical submarine infrastructure, with G...
Hackers Have Found an Entirely New Way To Backdoor Into Microsoft Windows 
Hackers Have Found an Entirely New Way To Backdoor Into Microsoft Windows - Slashdot
A university in Taiwan was breached with "a previously unseen backdoor (Backdoor.Msupedge) utilizing an infrequently seen technique," Syman...
Google Threatened Tech Influencers Unless They 'Preferred' the Pixel 
Google Threatened Tech Influencers Unless They
An anonymous reader shares a report: The tech review world has been full of murky deals between companies and influencers for years, but it appears...
Will Electronic Price Labels Tempt Stores to Try 'Dynamic Pricing'?
Will Electronic Price Labels Tempt Stores to Try
"Electronic shelf labels are already common in Europe," reports the Los Angeles Times, "and will become wider spread in the U.S., with ...
Excess Memes and 'Reply All' Emails Are Bad For Climate, Researcher Warns 
Excess Memes and
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: When "I can has cheezburger?" became one of the first internet memes to blow our min...
Yelp's Lack of Transparency Around API Charges Angers Developers 
Yelp
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On July 19, Yelp informed select indie developers that they would have to switch to paid accou...
15-Year-Old Webmaster Nicknamed 'God's Influencer' Will Be Catholic Church's First Millennial Saint 
15-Year-Old Webmaster Nicknamed
An anonymous reader shared this report from NPR:
A teenage computer whiz who used the early-aughts internet to spread awareness of the Catholic f...
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers - Slashdot
PayPal hopes to boost its growth by starting an ad network [non-paywalled link] juiced with something it already owns: data on its millions of user...
Environment Agency Chief Admits Regulator Buries Freedom of Information Requests 
Environment Agency Chief Admits Regulator Buries Freedom of Information Requests - Slashdot
The head of the UK Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests have been buried by the regulator because the truth about t...
Signal Slams Telegram's Security 
Signal Slams Telegram
Messaging app Signal
Australia Takes Singtel-owned Optus To Court Over 2022 Cyber Attack 
Australia Takes Singtel-owned Optus To Court Over 2022 Cyber Attack - Slashdot
Australia
California Advances Bill For Porn Site Age Verification 
California Advances Bill For Porn Site Age Verification - Slashdot
California is another state lining up to pass a law requiring adult sites to verify the ages of porn watchers. From a report: The California State ...
Courtroom Recording Software Compromised With Backdoor Installer 
Courtroom Recording Software Compromised With Backdoor Installer - Slashdot
Hackers have compromised a popular courtroom recording software, JAVS, gaining full control through a backdoored update. Louisville, Kentucky-based...
Crows Can 'Count' Out Loud, Study Shows 
Crows Can
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: A team of scientists has shown that crows can
Euclid Telescope Spies Rogue Planets Floating Free In Milky Way 
Euclid Telescope Spies Rogue Planets Floating Free In Milky Way - Slashdot
Using the Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered dozens of rogue planets drifting without stars in the Orion nebula. The Guardian repo...