Collaborate Disseminate
[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?
James Cox reports: A Dublin cybersecurity researcher, Aaron Costello, has found that 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked online because of improper configuration settings in Microsoft Power Pages, a software platform used by over 250 million p… Continue reading Irish researcher finds 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked
June, 2023: “Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings.”
November, 2024: “The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger.” A senior editor at the Atlantic raises the possibility of systemic dishonesty-rewarding… Continue reading More Business School Researchers Accused of Fabricated Findings
Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now Meta’s campaign “is picking up momentum” with legislators in the U.S. Congress.
Federal and state … Continue reading Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Downloaders
When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time …read more Continue reading Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note