IT News 10 months ago

How a Tiny Relay Became a USB Swiss Army Knife - Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evo... -

Hackaday

How A Tiny Relay Became A USB Swiss Army Knife

Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evolved into a multifunction marvel. Originally built as a sim...

#microcontrollers #swissarmyknife #computerhacks #linuxhacks #swissknife #pcbhacks #boot0 #relay #servo #stm32 #news #uart #usb

IT News 10 months ago

Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders - Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used ... -

Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders - Slashdot

Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown...

#ai

IT News 10 months ago

Scientists Warn Indonesia's Rice Megaproject Faces Failure - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious plan to create 1 million hectare... -

Scientists Warn Indonesia

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto

#science

IT News 10 months ago

95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says - Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate... -

95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says - Slashdot

Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate 95% of code within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Sco...

#ai

IT News 10 months ago

YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform 'New King of All Media' - MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-o... -

YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform

MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-owned video platform has become a major force in Hollywood...

#youtube

IT News 10 months ago

Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online - The often-explicit pictures are being stored without password protection, leaving them vu... -

Dating apps for kink and LGBT communities expose 1.5m private user images online

The often-explicit pictures are being stored without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to a hack.

IT News 10 months ago

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat - So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atla... -

Signalgate storm brews up as journalist releases transcripts

Updated: So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew?

IT News 10 months ago

Reflecting on TikTok’s Role in Society as New Ban Deadline Approaches - With a national ban unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users an... -

If TikTok Is Here to Stay, What Does That Mean for Us?

With a national ban increasingly unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users and raises mental health concerns.

#videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #mobileapplications #capcut(bytedance) #tiktok(bytedance) #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #e-commerce

IT News 10 months ago

Trump's Crypto Venture Introduces a Stabelcoin - World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family, h... -

Trump

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family, has launched a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin called USD1. The toke...

#bitcoin

IT News 10 months ago

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data - 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz Comment  It mi... -

Palantir suggests

Comment: 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz

IT News 10 months ago

VanHelsing ransomware emerges to put a stake through your Windows heart - There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomwa... -

VanHelsing ransomware emerges to put a stake through Windows

: There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh

IT News 10 months ago

AI agents swarm Microsoft Security Copilot - Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend Microsof... -

AI agents swarm Microsoft Security Copilot

: Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend

IT News 10 months ago

Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost - Cloudflare has gotten more active in its efforts to identify and block unauthorize... -

Hackaday

Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost

Cloudflare has gotten more active in its efforts to identify and block unauthorized bots and AI crawlers that don’t respect boundaries. Their...

#artificialintelligence #softwarehacks #webscraping #security

IT News 10 months ago

Solar Power, Logically - We’ve all seen the ads. Some offer “free” solar panels. Others promise nearly free... -

Hackaday

Solar Power, Logically

We’ve all seen the ads. Some offer “free” solar panels. Others promise nearly free energy if you just purchase a solar — we...

#solarhacks #solarpower

IT News 10 months ago

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average - A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions ... -

Ars Technica

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat.

#largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #internetmemes #ethanmollick #culture #aistudy #biz⁢ #gpt-4o #openai #humor #ai

IT News 10 months ago

Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power? - Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears... -

Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power? - Slashdot

Across high-income countries, humans

#science

IT News 11 months ago

AI tool tells user to learn coding instead of asking it generate the code - Cursor AI refuses to generate codes larger than 800 lines o... -

Tom

AI tool tells user to learn coding instead of asking it generate the code

#artificialintelligence #techindustry

IT News 11 months ago

SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row - It grounded flights in Orlando, Miami and Palm Beach after debris concerns from Starship'... -

SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row

It grounded flights in Orlando, Miami and Palm Beach after debris concerns from Starship's failed launch.

IT News 11 months ago

North Korean hackers cash out hundreds of millions from $1.5bn ByBit hack - Hackers from the infamous Lazarus Group are in a cat-and-mouse game to launder their stol... -

North Korean hackers cash out hundreds of millions from $1.5bn ByBit hack

Hackers from the infamous Lazarus Group are in a cat-and-mouse game to launder their stolen funds from the ByBit heist.

IT News 11 months ago

Open Source Hardware, How Open Do You Want It To Be? - In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. ... -

Hackaday

Open Source Hardware, How Open Do You Want It To Be?

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our ...

#opensourceharware #opensource #featured #hardware #interest #rants #ohl