Collaborate Disseminate
There are few things more exciting in our modern world than watching and waiting for a parcel to arrive – and by the same token, few things more frustrating than when it arrives broken or doesn’t arrive at all. To prevent that, or at least make it easi… Continue reading Smart postage box packs e-ink label, sensors, camera, speaker and mic
Yodel’s mobile parcel delivery app was leaking people’s delivery data to others using the app, a security researcher discovered. Continue reading Yodel parcel tracking app blabs about other people’s parcels
Every once in a while, you’ll find some weirdness that will send your head spinning. Most of the time you’ll chalk it up to a bad solder joint, some bad code, or just your own failings. This time it’s different. This is a story of weirdness that’s due entirely to a pin that shouldn’t be there. This is a package for an integrated circuit that has a pin zero.
The story begins with [Erich] building a few development boards for the Freescale Kinetis K20 FPGA. This is a USB-enabled microcontroller, and by all accounts, a worthwhile effort. So far, so …read more
Continue reading Fail Of The Week: When the Epoxy-Coated Chip Is Conductive
We often receive requests for Debian packages. So far, we did not package for recent Debian, as the Debian maintainer, Michael Biebl, does an excellent job. Other than us, he is a real expert on Debian policies and infrastructure.
Nevertheless, we now… Continue reading experimental debian rsyslog packages
Picture this: you’re at home and you hear a rapping on your door. At last!– your parcel has arrived. You open the door, snatch a drone out of the air, fold it up, remove your package, unfold it and set it down only for it to take off on its merry way. Hand-delivery courier drones might be just over the horizon.
Designed in the [Laboratory of Intelligent Systems] at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and funded by [NCCR Robotics], this delivery drone comes equipped with its own collapsible carbon fibre shield — it fold up small enough to fit …read more
Continue reading Delivery Drone Aims To Make Package Handoffs Safer Than Ever
You’ve no doubt by now seen Boston Dynamics latest “we’re living in the future” robotic creation, dubbed Handle. [Mike Szczys] recently covered the more-or-less-official company unveiling of Handle, the hybrid bipedal-wheeled robot that can handle smooth or rugged terrain and can even jump when it has to, all while remaining balanced and apparently handling up to 100 pounds of cargo with its arms. It’s absolutely sci-fi.
[Mike] closed his post with a quip about seeing “Handle wheeling down the street placing smile-adorned boxes on each stoop.” I’ve recently written about autonomous delivery, covering both autonomous freight as the ‘killer app’ …read more
Yesterday I updated my debian server using:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
I received message that some of the packages cannot be authenticated being in a rush I hit yes to install anyway. Now thinking back w… Continue reading Unauthenticated packages in debian
The next in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Package #DH4946376 [ random numbers ] pretending to come from DHL but actually coming as usual from random email addresses with a random … Continue reading →
Continue reading Package #DH4946376 pretending to be a DHL unable to deliver message delivers Locky
