Collaborate Disseminate
It all started with a gift idea: a star-field lamp in the form of a concrete sphere with lightpipes poking out where the stars are, lit up from the inside …read more Continue reading “Unnecessary” Automation of a DIY Star Lamp Build
NPR reports on research “into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.”
So far, the findings offer some reassurance. Antibodies and other players in the immune system may buffer the worst cons… Continue reading If Bird Flu Jumped to Humans, Could Past Flu Infections Offer Some Protection?
What a long, strange trip it’s been for NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Bruce Wilmore, who finally completed their eight-day jaunt to space after 289 days. The duo returned to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 23, 2025
Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:
: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distrib… Continue reading How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File
Learn the easiest way to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone device with our simple, step-by-step guide. Continue reading How to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone to Save Storage
For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now “Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative,” according to DUB (an independent news s… Continue reading Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?
“There’s no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs,” writes Slashdot reader VennStone. “So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-pow… Continue reading Developer Loads Steam On a $100 ARM Single Board Computer
Surely by now you’ve at least heard of RTL-SDR — a software project that let’s cheap TV tuner dongles work as a software-defined radios. A number of projects and tools …read more Continue reading RTL-SDR with Only a Browser
Today long-time open source advocate/journalist Doc Searls revealed that years of work by consumer privacy groups has culminated in a proposed standard “that can vastly expand our agency in the digital world” — especially in a future world where … Continue reading Doc Searls Proposes We Set Our Own Terms and Policies for Web Site Tracking
Gartner describes infrastructure as code (IaC) as a key way to unlock the potential of the cloud. However,… Continue reading Ansible vs Terraform: Which is More Secure for Infrastructure Automation?