Collaborate Disseminate
In the grand scheme of things, it really wasn’t all that long ago that a slide rule was part of an engineer’s every day equipment. Long before electronic calculators came along, a couple of sticks of wood inscribed with accurate scales was all it took to do everything from simple …read more
Continue reading Homebrew Slide Rule Gets Back to Mathematical Basics
Over the last 15 years, there’s been a paradigm shift. Long gone are the days when you built and managed your own data center, were responsible for the physical hardware and the management overhead, and endured the high capital investment of the build … Continue reading The Origin Is No More
Over the last 15 years, there’s been a paradigm shift. Long gone are the days when you built and managed your own data center, were responsible for the physical hardware and the management overhead, and endured the high capital investment of the build and maintenance. Continue reading The Origin Is No More
Voting Village security celeb Matt Blaze delves into the logistics of scaling up mail-in voting ahead of November’s election. Continue reading Black Hat 2020: Scaling Mail-In Voting Spawns Broad Challenges
What is this world coming to when you spend seven bucks on a digital scale and you have to completely rebuild it to get the functionality you need? Is nothing sacred anymore?
Such were the straits [Jan Henrik] found himself in with his AliExpress special, a portable digital scale that …read more
Continue reading Cheap Lab Balance Needs Upgrades, Gets Gutted Instead
Lessons from Facebook and Google show how to safely scale your environment for security. Continue reading Building for Billions: Addressing Security Concerns for Platforms at Scale
We often like to say that if something is worth doing, then it’s worth overdoing. This automatic cat feeder built by [krizzli] is a perfect example of the principle. It packs in far more sensors and functions than its simple and sleek outward appearance might suggest, to the point that …read more
Continue reading Automated Cat Feeder Leaves Little to Chance
A few years ago, Netsparker CEO Ferruh Mavituna gave a talk at Infosecurity Europe, a major security conference. He spoke about why organizations need to scale their web security operation and how automation can play a key role. Securing web apps manua… Continue reading Scaling-Up and Automating Web Application Security
Do you even trickle?
[Eric] does, and like everything else about reloading, trickling is serious business. Getting an exact charge of powder to add to a cartridge is not a simple task, and very tedious when done manually. This smartphone-controlled auto-trickler is intended to make the job easier, safer, and …read more
Continue reading Auto-Trickler Gently Doles Out Powder to Assist Reloading
March 14th is “Pi Day”, for reasons which should be obvious to our more mathematically inclined readers. As you are not reading this post on March 14th, that must mean we’re either fashionably late to Pi Day 2019, or exceptionally early for Pi Day 2020. But in either event, we’ve …read more