Big Red recently listed DTrace as one of the open source projects it hosts and has also created a new mailing list for discussion of what it's called a "Linux port of the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Framework."

As DTrace afficianado Brendan Gregg told us in 2016, Linux has only recently added tracing tools to compare with Sun's progeny. The prospect of bringing all of DTrace to Linux is therefore rather tantalising.

Ultimately, the RSA paper suggests, the wealth fund would finance a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as the world of modern work is turned upside down by increased automation, new technology and an ageing population.

"Without a real change in our thinking, neither tweaks to the welfare state nor getting people into work alone, when the link between hard work and fair pay has broken, will help working people meet the challenges ahead."

After files failed to actually make it to a physical disk somewhere, you'd think (hope?) that perhaps, at least, the file would appear smaller on the disk image. This is probably the most alarming part of this bug – because the filesystem structures are stored on a section of pre-allocated space on the underlying disk, the diskimages-helper application has no trouble updating filesystem metadata. So file size, modification date, permissions, etc – all of those attributes are fine. In yet another bizarre twist, we found that many times a truncated file would even validate a checksum test.

Thursday, the hacker said he started wiping some cloud servers that belong to Retina-X Studios, a Florida-based company that sells spyware products targeted at parents and employers, but that are also used by people to spy on their partners without their consent.

In February of 2017, a Motherboard investigation based on data provided by hackers showed that tens of thousands of people—teachers, construction workers, lawyers parents, jealous lovers—use stalkerware apps.

Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email with its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.”

“AMP started as an effort to help publishers, but as its capabilities have expanded over time, it’s now one of the best ways to build rich webpages,” it writes in the blog post announcing the AMP for Gmail test.

Upon direct comparison, the cost disparities are sobering, proving that commercial development of large rockets likely represents the future of the industry.

The bottom line is that the Falcon Heavy is a more powerful rocket than the Delta IV Heavy, and by various measures the latter will probably soon cost the US government about five times as much. Put another way, the Department of Defense may have to pay half a billion dollars more for a single launch of certain military satellites on the Delta IV Heavy versus the Falcon Heavy.

"We always talk about the ease of use, and not impacting user experience, etc, but it turns out that when it comes to their financial accounts...people actually would go the extra mile and will use extra security," Kessem said.

"They understand that there's something they can do to prevent it, and they need to secure their accounts," she said.

Earlier this week the European Parliament voted 384 to 153 to review whether Daylight Saving Time is actually worth it.

The resolution asked the European Commission to review the costs and benefits of Daylight Saving Time. If the EU were to abolish Daylight Saving Time, it would need approval of the majority of EU member states and EU Parliament members.

Watson’s company, Transcription Services, has a rare specialty—transcribing historical documents that stump average readers.

Since she first started specializing in old documents, Watson has expanded beyond things written in English. She now has a stable of collaborators who can tackle manuscripts in Latin, German, Spanish, and more. She can only remember two instances that left her and her colleagues stumped. One was a Tibetan manuscript, and she couldn’t find anyone who knew the alphabet. The other was in such bad shape that she had to admit defeat.

Earlier this week, an unidentified developer, whose Go project stopped functioning as a result of the closure of the jteeuwen account, opened a new GitHub account under the abandoned name and repopulated it with a forked version of the go-bindata package as a workaround to re-enable the broken project.

"The fact that they were allowed to do this however represents a fundamental flaw in GitHub's security model," said developer Jessie Donat in a blog post.