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Malware writers are looking for the absence of documents to figure out which PCs are potential victims and which are virtual machines being used by white hats.…
Continue reading Malware figures out it’s running on VMs and refuses to execute
If you are a gamer of A Certain Age, it’s probable that you retain a soft spot for 8-bit computers and consoles of your youth. For a time when addictive gameplay came through the most minimal of graphics, and when gaming audio was the harshest of square waves rather than immersive soundscapes.
Does the previous paragraph sound familiar? Then we may just have the device for you. The Dodo is a handheld console that harks back to that era with a 6502 processor and a 128×64 pixel OLED screen. Games are loaded from plug-in EEPROM cartridges, and sounds are suitably …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Dodo 6502 Game System
Dell wants to prove that you don’t need a high-end GPU in your computer to create content for virtual reality headsets.
Instead, the company wants to move VR content creation into the cloud with new computing products it plans to release. The goal is to add more mobility and security to VR content creation.
Among the new products planned are thin clients that run applications stored in remote servers or appliances. The servers will have GPUs that power VR content creation on virtual desktops.
Virtual reality is an interesting market, and Dell will have products to talk about in the future, said Jeff McNaught, executive director of cloud client computing at Dell.
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The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America that is dedicated to “shitposting” and spreading inflammatory memes about Hillary Clinton. In 2014, Luckey’s virtual-reality company, Oculus, was … Continue reading Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine
A hacker’s attempt to sell user data he claimed was stolen from Yahoo actually led the company to uncover a far more severe breach.Yahoo confirmed Thursday a data breach, which affects at least 500 million users, but it could be unrelated to the bla… Continue reading Yahoo uncovered breach after probing a black market sale
A hacker’s attempt to sell user data he claimed was stolen from Yahoo actually led the company to uncover a far more severe breach.Yahoo confirmed Thursday a data breach, which affects at least 500 million users, but it could be unrelated to the bla… Continue reading Yahoo uncovered breach after probing a black market sale
Enterprises are almost universally open to intrusion attempts with stolen credentials, and are at increased risk from compromised smartphones thanks to a spike in device malware.…
Continue reading Valid logins to your workplace are on the net, right now
If you ever want to pique a kid’s interest in technology, it is best to bring out something simple, yet cool. There was a time that showing a kid how a crystal radio could pull in a radio station from all the way across town fit the bill. Now, that’s a yawner as the kid probably carries a high-tech cell phone with a formidable radio already. Your latest FPGA project is probably too complicated to grasp, and your Arduino capacitance meter is–no offense–too boring to meet the cool factor criterion.
There’s an old school project usually called an “electromagnetic train” …read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: Electric automaker Tesla Motors filed a lawsuit Thursday against Michigan state officials, escalating its multi-year battle to sell vehicles directly to consumers. Tesla’s action comes less than a wee… Continue reading Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban
The Belfast Telegraph reports that a teenager scheduled to appear in Norwich Youth Court on October 18 is thought to be connected to the hack of TalkTalk back in October, 2015. On Thursday he was accused of seven counts of offences against the Computer… Continue reading Teenager to appear in court over alleged hack and data theft
