Collaborate Disseminate
The Miami Herald reports:
Cuba’s electrical grid shut down again early Saturday, leaving the island without electricity after authorities tried but failed to restore power following an earlier nationwide blackout on Friday. The island’s Electric Union … Continue reading After Second Power Outage, 10 Million Cubans Endure Saturday Afternoon Blackout
Unfortunately it’s a little bit more involved than downloading an app. Continue reading You can turn your old Android phone into a ham radio – here’s how
An anonymous readed shared this report from CNN:
[U.S. army boats] are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new government oversight report said this week. The Government Accountability Off… Continue reading US Army Faces ‘Wide-Ranging’ Issues with Its Boats, Considers Replacing Them with Autonomous Vessels
“The foundation behind the Gnome desktop environment is having to go through some serious belt-tightening…” writes Linux Magazine.
From an October 7th announcement by The Gnome Foundation:
Our plan for the previous financial year was to operate a … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Cuts Budget, Seeks More Volunteers and Donations
[Christina Ernst] executed a fantastic idea just in time for Halloween: her very own Remy the rat (from the 2007 film Ratatouille). Just like in the film Remy perches on …read more Continue reading Make Your Own Remy the Rat This Halloween
MIT engineers have built a solar-powered desalination system that “ramps up its desalting process and automatically adjusts to any sudden variation in sunlight, for example by dialing down in response to a passing cloud or revving up as the skies clear… Continue reading MIT Researchers Build Solar-Powered Low-Cost Drinking Water Desalination System
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:
Recent headlines have proclaimed that Chinese scientists have hacked “military-grade encryption” using quantum computers, sparking concern and speculation about the future of cybersecurity. The clai… Continue reading Debunking Hype: China Hasn’t Broken Military Encryption with Quantum
A review of controls and associated risks identified a use case for DNS deprovisioning procedures. Specifically, an A record was not cleaned up and the domain has embedded the organization’s name.
Upon review, there are security concerns t… Continue reading Security Risks of Unprovisioned DNS Records
“Getting sick feels bad in the moment,” reports the Washington Post, “and may affect your brain in the longer term.”
A new study published in Nature Aging adds to growing evidence that severe infections, including flu, herpes and respiratory tract inf… Continue reading Serious Infections Linked to Dementia Risk, Study Shows
Hackers impersonate ESET in phishing attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Malicious emails, claiming to be from ESET, deliver wiper… Continue reading Hackers Use Fake ESET Emails to Target Israeli Firms with Wiper Malware