Collaborate Disseminate
“China is considering trying to blunt greater U.S. tariffs and other trade barriers,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “by offering to curb the quantity of certain goods exported to the U.S., according to advisers to the Chinese government.”
Tokyo’s ad… Continue reading China Explores Limiting Its EVs and Battery Exports For US Tariff Negotiations
Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America’s nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they’re also crafting courses “not just with higher education at the table, but industry p… Continue reading America’s College Board Launches AP Cybersecurity Course For Non-College-Bound Students
The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore “are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions,” reports TechCrunch, “according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab.”
On Wednesda… Continue reading Six Countries Named as ‘Likely’ Purchasers of Paragon’s Cellphone Spyware
We know how [Techmoan] feels. In the 1980s we had a bewildering array of oddball gadgets and exciting new tech. But as kids we didn’t have money to buy a …read more Continue reading Card Radios Remembered
This week the “Old Vintage Computing Research” blog published a 21,000-word exploration of the DEC PDP-11, the 16-bit minicomputer sold by Digital Equipment Corporation. Slashdot reader AndrewZX calls the blog post “an excellent deep dive” into the mac… Continue reading Rebooting A Retro PDP-11 Workstation – and Its Classic ‘Venix’ UNIX
Cybercriminals are skilled at using public information to their advantage. Knowing how they gather this data can help… Continue reading How Cybercriminals Exploit Public Info for Attacks: Understanding Risks and Prevention
Was the cutting of undersea cables part of a larger pattern? Russia and its proxies are accused by western officials of “staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago,” reports the Associated … Continue reading Was Undersea Cable Sabotage Part of a Larger Pattern?
Slashdot reader Required Snark shared this article from Phys.org:
In the realm of science fiction, [sun-energy capturing] Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against … Continue reading Surprisingly, Some Dyson Spheres and Ringworlds Can Be Stable
The average Hackaday reader is likely at least familiar with acoustic levitation — a technique by which carefully arranged ultrasonic transducers can be used to suspend an object in the …read more Continue reading Acoustic Levitation Gets Insects Ready For Their Close-Up
“I intend to sue the National Archives,” said Joseph diGenova, an 80-year-old former Trump campaign lawyer (and a U.S. Attorney from 1983 to 1988). While releasing 63,000 unredacted pages about the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, the U.S. gove… Continue reading US Release of Unredacted JFK Files ‘Doxxed’ Officials, Including Social Security Numbers