Collaborate Disseminate
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the indictment of 54 individuals in connection with a multi-million dollar ATM jackpotting scheme.
The large-scale conspiracy involved deploying malware named Ploutus to hack into automated telle… Continue reading U.S. DOJ Charges 54 in ATM Jackpotting Scheme Using Ploutus Malware
Flux is one of those things that you cannot really use too much of during soldering, as it is essential for cleaning the surface and keeping oxygen out, but as …read more Continue reading Testing 8 Solder Flux Pastes After Flux Killed a GeForce2 GTS
echo123 shares a report from PBS: The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one of the largest sources of climate al… Continue reading Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado
Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. …read more Continue reading Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Space.com: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a … Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st ‘Runaway’ Supermassive Black Hole
Building out an IoT environment is a little like the old Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. All the stuff on the top is only any good if all the stuff on the bottom is good, starting with power. This week, I couldn’t even get that right, but
Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This began …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegatio… Continue reading Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data
Want to visualize radioactive particles? You don’t need a boatload of lab equipment. Just a cloud chamber. And [Curious Scientist] is showing off an improved miniature cloud chamber that is easy …read more Continue reading Improving the Cloud Chamber
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws l… Continue reading Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns