Collaborate Disseminate
Washington is interested in the weapons but worries they’ll end up in the ‘valley of death’ if the Pentagon isn’t careful. Continue reading The Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion a Year on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’
We’ve all tangled with unwelcome plant life at one point or another. Whether crabgrass infested your lawn, or you were put on weeding duty in your grandfather’s rose patch, you’ll …read more Continue reading Smoke Some Weeds: Lasers Could Make Herbicide Obsolete
[Jeshua Lacock] from 3DTOPO owns a large-format CNC (4’x8′, or 1.2×2.4 m), that he strongly feels is lacking laser-cutting capabilities. The frame is there, and a 150 W CO2 laser …read more Continue reading Giant CNC Partners With Powerful Laser Diode
A Bayer array, or Bayer filter, is what lets a digital camera take color photos. It’s an array of tiny color filters that sit on top of a camera’s CCD. …read more Continue reading Using a Laser to Blast Away a Bayer Array
What do potato chips and lost car keys have in common? On the surface, it would seem not much, unless you somehow managed to lose your keys in a bag of chips, which would be embarrassing enough that you’d likely never speak of it. But there is a surprising link …read more
Continue reading Fear of Potato Chips: Samy Kamkar’s Side-Channel Attack Roundup
“The best-kept secret in quantum computing.” That’s what Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) CEO Ilyas Khan called Honeywell‘s efforts in building the world’s most powerful quantum computer. In a race where most of the major players are vying for attention, Honeywell has quietly worked on its efforts for the last few years (and under strict NDA’s, […] Continue reading Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
One of the bigger trends in enterprise software has been the emergence of startups building tools to make the benefits of artificial intelligence technology more accessible to non-tech companies. Today, one that has built a platform to apply power of machine learning and natural language processing to massive documents of unstructured data has closed a […] Continue reading Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 94 for November 11th 2019: Facebook’s Group API data leak and 7,000 pages of leaked Fac… Continue reading Facebook Data Leaks, Smart Speaker Laser Attack, BlueKeep in the Wild
A US-Japanese team published a research paper which confirms an interesting and under-estimated possibility – these devices will also accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light over distances of a hundred metres or more… Continue reading Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers
In one of the cooler hacks we’ve seen recently, a bunch of hacking academics at the University of Michigan researched the ability to flicker a laser at audible sound frequencies to see if they could remotely operate microphones simply by shining a light on them. The results are outstanding.
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Continue reading Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems