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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What smart factories keep getting wrong about cybersecurity In this Help Net Security interview, Packsize CSO Troy Rydman breaks down the biggest vulnerab… Continue reading Week in review: ScreenConnect servers open to attack, exploited Microsoft SharePoint flaw
A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even when there’s no connected device drawing power from …read more Continue reading How a Belkin USB Charger Pulls off a 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage
“It is the talk of the town today — the loud boom, the flash of light in the sky experienced by a lot of folks across the Houston area this afternoon,” says a local Texas newscaster. “And then there was this — a home in northwest Harris cou… Continue reading Meteor Rumbles Over Houston, as Six-Pound Fragment Crashes Into a Texas Home
We have to admit, we didn’t know that we wanted a desktop electric jellyfish until seeing [likeablob]’s Denki-Kurage, but it’s one of those projects that just fills a need so …read more Continue reading An Electric Jellyfish For Androids
“After nearly a decade of delays and industry skepticism, Tesla’s electric big rig is finally rolling out of Nevada’s Gigafactory for mass production starting summer 2026,” writes Gadget Review. And some truckers who tested the vehicles already love th… Continue reading Tesla’s Upcoming Electric Big Rig Is Already a Hit with Truckers
Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog …read more Continue reading Analog Video From an 8-Bit Microcontroller
The iPhone 17e, Pixel 10a, and Galaxy A56 are all solid midrangers, but they excel in different areas. Continue reading iPhone 17e vs. Google Pixel 10a vs Samsung Galaxy A56: This budget phone wins it for me
“We have removed all malicious artifacts from the affected registries and channels,” Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury posted today, noting that all the latest Trivy releases “now point to a safe version.” But “On March 19, we observed that a threat actor … Continue reading Trivy Supply Chain Attack Spreads, Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages
The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a working state, at which point you can …read more Continue reading Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX
“Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper,” writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin.
“That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months.”
The Internet Archive &m… Continue reading EFF Tells Publishers: Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Historical Record