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This suburban Dallas home is just a front for a bizarre industrial site previously owned by AT&T. Continue reading McMansion With Shocking Infrastructure Secret Can Be Yours for $989,000
AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones
Skydio only just recently announced its expansion into the enterprise and commercial market with hardware and software tools for its autonomous drone technology, and now it’s taking the lid off a brand new big partnership with one commercial partner. Skydio will work with EagleView to deploy automated residential roof inspection using Skydio drones, with service […] Continue reading Skydio partners with EagleView for autonomous residential roof inspections via drone
A makerspace is a great place to use specialty tools that may be too expensive or large to own by oneself, but there are other perks that come with participation in that particular community. For example, all of the skills you’ve gained by using all that fancy equipment may make …read more
Matt Springfield is the founder of 12Feet, Inc. an information security consulting firm based in the Dallas area. Matt has more than 23 years of information security experience spanning operations, architecture and consulting with a focus on large … Continue reading Matt Springfield, 12Feet, Inc. – Application Security Weekly #52
Dallas’ chaotic experiment in bike sharing is a case in point. Continue reading Bike Sharing Is Doomed to Fail in Most American Cities
Someone had some fun with the Dallas early warning tornado siren system on Friday, April 8th. All 156 tornado sirens were hacked to go off just before midnight until they were manually turned off individually, reports The Washington Post. Thousands of residents flooded 911 call centers asking if they were under attack, if there was a tornado or if the zombie apocalypse had begun. The sirens were blaring for at least an hour and was originally put down as a malfunction, however it was later revealed that it was a hack and the “hacker” must have had physical access to …read more
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: Dallas sirens ‘hacked’; Livejournal cracks down; Russian man arrested in Spain
Sometimes we run into real problems restoring old machines. [RedruM69] recently ran into a system with a dead Real Time Clock (RTC) module. These modules were used on computers and all sorts of other equipment, storing time, date, and 100 or so bytes of battery backed SRAM (before the days of cheap, plentiful flash memory). Often an external coin cell would supply power to the module. In some cases though, cost savings would take over, and the battery would be incorporated into the module. Such is the case with many Dallas Semiconductor models, and the benchmarq bq3287 module [RedruM69] was …read more
Inventor George Carter saw the laser battles in the 1977 film and decided to make them more real. Continue reading Watch Laser Tag’s Inventor Explain Its ‘Star Wars’ Influence
