Collaborate Disseminate
In college I had an exceptional piano teacher that was entirely blind. One day he noticed I had brought in my new-ish laptop, and his unexpected request — “can I …read more Continue reading Microsoft Wants You (To Help With Assistive Tech)
According to researchers at GTSC, there’s an unpatched 0-day being used in-the-wild to exploit fully patched Microsoft Exchange servers. When they found one compromised server, they made the report to …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Exchange 0-day, Doppelgangers, And Python Gets Bit in the TAR
A hashquine is a fun way to show off your crypto-tricks — It’s a file that contains its own hash. In some file types it’s trivial, you just pick the …read more Continue reading The 1337 PNG Hashquine
Quiz time, what was the first commercially available microcomputer? The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1, …read more Continue reading The First Microcomputer: The Q1
Visitors at the Garden D’Lights in Bellevue, Washington had a problem. While touring the holiday lights show, they kept straying off the path. The event organizers tried some simple LED …read more Continue reading Animated LED Arrows Point the Way
I got a rude awakening Wednesday morning this week. HaD writers don’t necessarily keep normal hours — don’t judge. A local client called, complaining that Google Maps was blocking on …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Malwarebytes Goes Nuts, Uber
While we have a definite sweet spot in our hearts for analog radio, there are times that just call for a digital upgrade. One of the downsides that can come …read more Continue reading Simple Internet Radio Transplant
Storage technologies are a bit of an alphabet soup, with NAS, SAN, and DAS systems being offered. That’s Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Network, and Direct Attached Storage. The DAS …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Upcycles Computer Case To DAS
Automated Tank Gauges (ATGs) are nifty bits of tech, sitting unseen in just about every gas station. They keep track of fuel levels, temperature, and other bits of information, and …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: 11,000 Gas Stations, TrustZone Hacks Kernel, and Unexpected Fuzzing Finds
The iPod Nano was one of Apple’s masterworks, but it’s really tied down by its dependence on wired headphones. At least, that’s what [Tucker Osman] must have thought, as he …read more Continue reading ESP32 Adds Bluetooth to an iPod Nano