Collaborate Disseminate
MIT engineers have built a solar-powered desalination system that “ramps up its desalting process and automatically adjusts to any sudden variation in sunlight, for example by dialing down in response to a passing cloud or revving up as the skies clear… Continue reading MIT Researchers Build Solar-Powered Low-Cost Drinking Water Desalination System
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:
Recent headlines have proclaimed that Chinese scientists have hacked “military-grade encryption” using quantum computers, sparking concern and speculation about the future of cybersecurity. The clai… Continue reading Debunking Hype: China Hasn’t Broken Military Encryption with Quantum
A review of controls and associated risks identified a use case for DNS deprovisioning procedures. Specifically, an A record was not cleaned up and the domain has embedded the organization’s name.
Upon review, there are security concerns t… Continue reading Security Risks of Unprovisioned DNS Records
“Getting sick feels bad in the moment,” reports the Washington Post, “and may affect your brain in the longer term.”
A new study published in Nature Aging adds to growing evidence that severe infections, including flu, herpes and respiratory tract inf… Continue reading Serious Infections Linked to Dementia Risk, Study Shows
Hackers impersonate ESET in phishing attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Malicious emails, claiming to be from ESET, deliver wiper… Continue reading Hackers Use Fake ESET Emails to Target Israeli Firms with Wiper Malware
The Xbox 360 was a difficult console to jailbreak. Microsoft didn’t want anyone running unsigned code, and darn if they didn’t make it difficult to do so. However, some nifty …read more Continue reading A Robust Guide To The Xbox 360 Glitch Hack
“Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to fall short,” writes the Register:
Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi of Swiss University ETH Zurich on Friday published deta… Continue reading Spectre Flaws Still Haunt Intel, AMD as Researchers Found Fresh Attack Method
I’m curious about Widevine, and I’ve done some research on it, and I’ve heard that it’s protected by repeated frame-by-frame encryption and compounding, so if the video only has one frame (or that frame is repeated), does it not work?(i.e…. Continue reading If the video only has one frame, then Widevine won’t work?
“The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed,” announced the Internet Archive Thursday, “as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications. Our team is working around the clock across time zones t… Continue reading Internet Archive Services Resume as They Promise Stronger, More Secure Return
“Biden forgives more student loans,” read Thursday’s headline at CNBC.
While this time it was $4.5 billion in student debt for over 60,000 public service workers, “The Biden-Harris Administration has approved $175 billion in student debt relief for n… Continue reading New US Student Loan Forgiveness Brings Total to $175 Billion for 5 Million People