Today in 1974, the US Department of Justice filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the Bell System and A&TT. It would lead to a breaking up of MaBell, eventually leading to more competition and lower prices for telephone and other communication methods.
"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of a common bacterium to kill wild mosquitoes that transmit viruses such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika, Nature’s news team has learned."
"On 3 November, the agency told biotechnology start-up MosquitoMate that it could release the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis into the environment as a tool against the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). Lab-reared mosquitoes will deliver the bacterium to wild mosquito populations."
I am old enough to remember Flexi Disc. I didn't think much of them because they were generally junk, but they are kind of a neat technology.
From 1982, Tomorrow's World takes a look at the beginning of computer generated images.
"The Apache Software Foundation has defended its development practices in the face of a report alleging its code was responsible for the Equifax data leak.
QZ.com, an outlet run by Atlantic Media, alleged that the hack was the result of an attack on Apache Struts, which as we reported last week was found to have a flaw allowing malware to be injected into corporate networks. The outlet pointed out that the flaw may have been present in Struts for nine years."