Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK - Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66304002?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Google's Chrome Begins Supporting Post-Quantum Key Agreement to Shield Encryption Keys - "Teams across Google are working hard to prepare the web for the migration to quan... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/08/13/0315254/googles-chrome-begins-supporting-post-quantum-key-agreement-to-shield-encryption-keys?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #encryption
Opening a Curta — With Great Care - We’ve always admired Curta mechanical calculators, and would be very hesitant to d... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/opening-a-curta-with-great-care/ #mechanicalcalculator #handheldshacks #toolhacks #teardown #curta
Microsoft Spotted 15 High-Security Vulnerabilities in Industrial SDK Used by Power Plants - Ars Technica reports that Microsoft "disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/13/0253254/microsoft-spotted-15-high-security-vulnerabilities-in-industrial-sdk-used-by-power-plants?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #power
Liquid Metal Battery Goes Into Production - The news is rife with claims of the next great thing in clean energy generation, b... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/liquid-metal-battery-goes-into-production/ #batterystorage #batteryhacks #gridstorage #liquidmetal #renewables #antimony #baseload #battery #ambri #mit
Best Mini Fridge for Semi Trucks in 2023 - Many companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but co... - https://readwrite.com/best-mini-fridge-for-semi-trucks/ #productreviews
Some People Are Having Sex in San Francisco's Robotaxis - An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard:
As autono... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/13/0036240/some-people-are-having-sex-in-san-franciscos-robotaxis?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #transportation
Bench Power Supply Turned Realistic Flight Sim Panel - Flight simulator software has been available for about as long as desktop PCs have... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/bench-power-supply-turned-realistic-flight-sim-panel/ #microsoftflightsimulator #peripheralshacks #flightsimulator #xboxhacks #xbox
ChatGPT's Odds of Getting Code Questions Correct are Worse Than a Coin Flip - An anonymous reader shared this report from the Register:
ChatGPT, OpenAI's fabul... - https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/0334229/chatgpts-odds-of-getting-code-questions-correct-are-worse-than-a-coin-flip?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Amazon releases some seller funds after complaints - Amazon withheld some seller takings temporarily but is releasing them after some business... - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66486803?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
New Nanophotonic Sample-Testing Chip Could Detect Multiple Viruses or Cancers In Minutes - Science magazine reports:
Researchers have shown how to conduct thousands of rapi... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/0615211/new-nanophotonic-sample-testing-chip-could-detect-multiple-viruses-or-cancers-in-minutes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #medicine
Let's play... Turn off the power to datacenter boxen - Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities DEF CON It wo... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/def_con_datacenter_power_bugs/
Blackberry Pi Puts Desktop Linux in Your Pocket - Let’s face it — Android wasn’t what most of us had in mind when we imagined having... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/blackberry-pi-puts-desktop-linux-in-your-pocket/ #handheldcomputer #raspberrypizero #handheldshacks #raspberrypi #blackberry #linux
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass - The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software... - https://www.wired.com/story/apple-mac-background-task-management-flaw/ #security/cyberattacksandhacks #security/securitynews #nowarning #security
Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards For Infinite Free Rides, and This Time Nobody Got Sued - Long-time Slashdot reader UnCivil Liberty writes:
Following in the footsteps of t... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/1931247/teens-hacked-boston-subway-cards-for-infinite-free-rides-and-this-time-nobody-got-sued?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #transportation
For Carbon-Capture Experiment, Researchers Dye Canada's Halifax Harbor Pink - The CBC reports that "Some parts of the Halifax harbour turned a bright shade of p... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/1913211/for-carbon-capture-experiment-researchers-dye-canadas-halifax-harbor-pink?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth
US Spy Agencies Will Start Sharing More Cyber-Threat Intelligence with Private Companies - An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. spy age... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/0348222/us-spy-agencies-will-start-sharing-more-cyber-threat-intelligence-with-private-companies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #government
Inside a Cordless Soldering Station - There was a time when soldering stations were unusual in hobby labs. These days, i... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/inside-a-cordless-soldering-station/ #cordlesssolderingiron #supercapacitor #solderingiron #toolhacks #bluetooth #teardown
'Bulletproof' Web Site Hosting Ransomware Finally Seized, Founder Indicted - An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
The mastermind behind a ransomw... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/11/2345203/bulletproof-web-site-hosting-ransomware-finally-seized-founder-indicted?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #crime
iRobot’s Roomba j7 Plus, our favorite robot vacuum, has hit an all-time low - The Roomba j7 Plus offers everything you could want in a r... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/12/23827112/irobot-roomba-j7-plus-apple-watch-series-7-sony-wf-c700n-earbuds-deal-sale