Collaborate Disseminate
Flight time remains the Achilles’ heel of electric multi-rotor drones, with even high-end commercial units struggling to stay airborne for an hour. Enter Modovolo, a startup that’s shattered this limitation …read more Continue reading Modular Multi-Rotor Flies Up To Two Hours
As mentioned in diary entry “Increase In Phishing SVG Attachments“, I have a phishing SVG sample with heavily obfuscated JavaScript.
Continue reading Quick & Dirty Obfuscated JavaScript Analysis, (Sun, Nov 24th)
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices compromised in latest attacks Attackers have compromised around 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls by leveraging the two … Continue reading Week in review: 0-days exploited in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, two unknown Linux backdoors identified
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this report from the Guardian:
Staff have resigned at Starling Bank after its new chief executive demanded thousands of workers attend its offices more frequently, despite lacking enough space to host them.
[My Ham Radio Journey] wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you look at the video below, the …read more Continue reading $40 Ham Antenna Works Six Bands
NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct “may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found.”
“Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxi… Continue reading ‘Potentially Toxic’ Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water
[Dale Cook] has cats, and as he readily admits, cats are jerks. We’d use stronger language than that, but either way it became a significant impediment to making progress with …read more Continue reading RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat
The Rust community has “recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly),” according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services.
So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are “crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library,” according to an arti… Continue reading Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’
[Japhy Riddle] was tired of creating pixel art. He went to subpixel art. The idea is that since each color pixel is composed of three subpixels, your display is actually …read more Continue reading Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels
Microsoft-owned GitHub published a blog post asking “Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says.”
Its first paragraph includes statistics from past studies — that GitHub Copilot has helped developers code up to 55% fast… Continue reading Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality?