Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the cul… Continue reading OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’
These WIRED-tested indoor air-quality monitors have been teaching us things about our air quality we can never unsee. Continue reading Our 8 Favorite Indoor Air Quality Monitors We’ve Tried (2025)
We’ve come to expect lightning-fast connectivity in every room of our homes. Here’s how to get the most out of your router without paying for an upgrade. Continue reading Home Wi-Fi struggling? 3 simple things to check first for a quick fix
Infoblox cybersecurity researchers investigating the mysterious activities of ‘Muddling Meerkat’ unexpectedly uncovered widespread use of domain spoofing in malicious spam campaigns. Continue reading Muddling Meerkat Linked to Domain Spoofing in Global Spam Scams
Wikipedia’s massive dataset helped researchers identify three styles of curiosity — “busybody,” “hunter,” and “dancer” — based on how users navigate its pages (see: wiki rabbit hole). These curiosity styles reflect broader social trends and highlight… Continue reading Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity
Doing the rounds this week is a new operating system for ESP32 microcontrollers, it’s called Tactility, and it comes from [Ken Van Hoeylandt]. It provides a basic operating system level …read more Continue reading Tactility; The ESP32 Gets Another OS
Microsoft has revealed that it’s pursuing legal action against a “foreign-based threat–actor group” for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) servi… Continue reading Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation
SysEngineer shares a report from the Associated Press: A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s … Continue reading Spacecraft Buzzes Mercury’s North Pole and Beams Back Stunning Photos
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday indicted three Russian nationals for their alleged involvement in operating the cryptocurrency mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io.
Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik were a… Continue reading DoJ Indicts Three Russians for Operating Crypto Mixers Used in Cybercrime Laundering
[Project Farm] has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal resistance, ability to deliver voltage under load, and …read more Continue reading AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money