Collaborate Disseminate
The bacterium behind the Black Death and Justinian’s Plague comes back to life. Continue reading Scientists Recreated One of Our Deadliest Plagues to Understand Its Evolution
Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey wants to give other artists a chance to go into business. Continue reading A Silicon Valley-Like Startup Accelerator, But For Artists
Fresh from targeting banks in Poland, the banking Trojan GozNym has begun taking aim at banks in Germany.
Continue reading GozNym Banking Trojan Targeting German Banks
After a rough road from Syria to Germany, Mohammed Khattab wants to make it easier for refugees to find a safe home. Continue reading Young Syrian Refugees Developed an App to Cut Through German Bureaucracy
Researchers have trained neural networks to identify obscured faces with disturbingly high accuracy. Continue reading ‘Faceless Recognition System’ Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
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Brief: Munich shooter Ali David Sonboly killed 10 people and injured
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Munich Shooter Invited People to McDonald’s using hacked Facebook account
Continue reading Munich Shooter Invited People to McDonald’s using hacked Facebook account
Sometimes you have to start out with big goals. Ninth-graders [Finja Schneider] and [Myrijam Stoetzer] are aiming to make a magnetic field scanner that would be helpful in finding large underground metallic objects, like unexploded WWII bombs that pose a real threat whenever a new parking garage is excavated in Germany. But even big goals have to start out somewhere, so they’re gaining experience with the sensors and the math necessary to recreate 3D magnetic flux vector fields on household objects like sawblades and magnetized screwdrivers.
For their science-fair project, [Finja] and [Myrijam] took a mid-80s fischertechnik “toy” 2D scanner …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Measuring 3D Magnetic Fields [Needs Prize Footer]
Forty cases have been brought over posting xenophobic, anti-Semitic or other extremist right-wing content to a private Facebook group. Continue reading Police raid homes over Facebook hate speech
Fan film took seven years to create, with over half a year spent in filming alone. Continue reading Someone Spent Seven Years Making a Stop-Motion ‘Star Trek’ Film
Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, has been spotted targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as Pawn Storm is known for targeting political targets such as the Polish government, NATO members, the US State Department, ministries of foreign affairs of a number of countries, but also Russian dissidents, media, artists, as well as … More → Continue reading Pawn Storm APT targets members of Angela Merkel’s party