Collaborate Disseminate
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”
While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly u… Continue reading Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter’s “computer brain,” including “its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party softwar… Continue reading F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister
Mega Man is a popular video game character who is perhaps most notable for having a sort of lasery-type blaster for an arm. A real hand cannon, if you will. …read more Continue reading Recreating Mega Man’s Mega Buster
Maggie Miller, Dana Nickel and Antoaneta Roussi report: NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hosp… Continue reading Top NATO allies believe cyberattacks on hospitals are an act of war. They’re still struggling to fight back.
The hospitality sector has long been a target of hackers, and it’s a global problem. Here are three recent attacks in the news this week: In the U.S.: Choice Hotels International disclosed a breach affecting franchisees and applicants. Its notifi… Continue reading The hospitality sector continues to be lucrative targets
That Error 0xC000026F in Excel Power Query is a major roadblock. It typically crashes Excel completely when you try to open the Query Editor or refresh data, and it’s especially common on newer laptops with Snapdragon X processors (like the lates… Continue reading Excel Power Query keeps crashing with Error 0xC000026F
Cybersecurity researchers at Veracode reveal a typosquatting attack that disguises Pulsar RAT as images to bypass Windows security and antivirus programs. Continue reading Hackers Hide Pulsar RAT Inside PNG Images in New NPM Supply Chain Attack
Recently [ElecrArc240] got his paws on an Intel-branded 3 kW power supply that apparently had been designed as a reference PSU for servers. At 3 kW in such a compact …read more Continue reading Inside a Compact Intel 3000 W Water-Cooled Power Supply
Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled “The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun,” arguing that Anthropic’s Claude Code… Continue reading Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Security at AI speed: The new CISO reality The CISO role has changed significantly over the past decade, but according to John White, EMEA Field CISO, Tor… Continue reading Week in review: Firmware-level Android backdoor found on tablets, Dell zero-day exploited since 2024