Collaborate Disseminate
True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves interview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… Continue reading Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them
“Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough,” writes the blog How-to-Geek, noting Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “raises the baseline memory to 6GB, alongside a 2GHz dual-core processor, and 25GB of storage…”
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) set the floor… Continue reading Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11?
It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an …read more Continue reading Turning a Bluetooth Caliper into a FreeCAD Input Device
It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an …read more Continue reading Turning a Bluetooth Caliper into a FreeCAD Input Device
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Financial groups lay out a plan to fight AI identity attacks Generative AI tools have brought the cost of deepfake production low enough that criminals an… Continue reading Week in review: Axios npm supply chain compromise, critical FortiClient EMS bugs exploited
Now that early PCs have moved firmly from the realm of e-waste into being collector’s items, it’s worth putting in some effort to restore them if you find one. [Epictronics] …read more Continue reading Cleaning an IBM 5150, And The Perfect Period PCB Soldermask
Apple’s 50th anniversary got celebrated in weird and wild ways. CEO Tim Cook posted a special 30-second video rewinding backwards through the years of Apple’s products until it reaches the Apple I. Podcaster Lex Fridman noticed if you play the sound in… Continue reading Apple’s First 50 Years Celebrated – Including How Steve Jobs Finally Accepted an ‘Open’ App Store
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, a… Continue reading 36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants
Many of us are guilty of toeing the line between having a ready supply of components at hand and simply hoarding for fear of throwing anything out. In a first …read more Continue reading Tracking Parts Box Usage With Stickers
Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-aut… Continue reading Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS