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After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric farm is back …read more Continue reading Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Windows that are already being exploited in active attacks. There are also important security patches available for macOS and Adobe users, and for the Chrome Web browser, which just patched its own zero-day flaw. Continue reading Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition
Adobe raises an alarm for new in-the-wild zero-day attacks hitting users of its widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader product.
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You have to be of a certain vintage to remember doing research on microfilm and microfiche. Before the age of mass digitization of public records, periodicals, and other obscure bits of history, dead-tree records were optically condensed onto fine-grain film, either in roll form or as flat sheets, which were …read more
Continue reading This Expedient Microfiche Reader Illuminates Retro Datasheets
Not every build needs to be immediately useful or revolutionary. Plenty of builds are just for fun, for education, or even purposefully useless but still challenging. This clock, for example, might fit into all three categories. It’s a clock that displays time through a QR code, making it completely inscrutable …read more
You might be wondering why anyone would build device to dump Sega Genesis and Mega Drive cartridges. Perhaps they want to play their well-worn copy of The Lost Vikings on their phone, or they want to keep their QVC Limited Edition Maximum Carnage box set in near mint condition. Maybe. …read more
Continue reading An Open Hardware Sega Genesis Cartridge Dumper
Adobe has released another security patch outside of its usual routine, to deal with a bug that allows attackers to delete victims’ files. Continue reading Adobe issues emergency fix for file-munching bug
Most e-book readers don’t have physical page turn buttons. Why? They just don’t. Virtual page turns are accomplished with a tap at a screen edge. Determined to reduce the awkwardness of one-handed use, [Sagar Vaze] modified a Kobo e-reader with two physical page turn buttons as a weekend project.
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Continue reading E-Book Reader Gets Page Turn Buttons, Is None The Wiser
The update includes a raft of critical code-execution problems. Continue reading Adobe December 2018 Security Update Fixes Reader, Acrobat
Adobe has released important patches for almost its entire array of offerings, including the Technical Communications Suite, Experience Manager, Digital Editions, Acrobat and Reader, as well as the notoriously buggy Flash Player. The Technical Communic… Continue reading Adobe patches critical flaws in many of its software offerings