IT News 2 months ago

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference - A potential tragedy was narrowly averted at a Wikipedia conference in Manhattan wh... -

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference - Slashdot

A potential tragedy was narrowly averted at a Wikipedia conference in Manhattan when two volunteer editors tackled an armed man who stormed the sta...

#wikipedia

IT News 2 months ago

Common Yeast Can Survive Martian Conditions - A new study shows that common baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can survive... -

Common Yeast Can Survive Martian Conditions - Slashdot

A new study shows that common baker

#mars

IT News 2 months ago

PVC Pipe Structure Design That Skips Additional Hardware - [Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe i... -

Hackaday

PVC Pipe Structure Design That Skips Additional Hardware

[Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe in a way that requires an absolute minimum of added parts. CINTRE ...

#greenhacks #structural #salvaged #cintre #pvc

IT News 2 months ago

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 use... -

Ars Technica

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

#ageverification #security #discord #privacy #biz⁢ #id

IT News 2 months ago

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach - No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place Communica... -

Discord: Attackers accessed about 70,000 user photo IDs

: No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place

IT News 2 months ago

Survey Shows Extent of Digital Device Use Among America's Youngest - A Pew Research Center survey, released today, found that TV remains the dominant s... -

Survey Shows Extent of Digital Device Use Among America

A Pew Research Center survey, released today, found that TV remains the dominant screen for American children aged twelve and younger. 90% of paren...

#ai

IT News 2 months ago

Weaving Circuits from Electronic Threads - Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has b... -

Hackaday

Weaving Circuits From Electronic Threads

Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has been a term for about thirty years, the terminology has so far been...

#flexiblecircuitboard #flexiblecircuits #wearablehacks #e-textiles #stm32duino #e-textile #knitting #wearable #weaving #thread #fiber #stm32

IT News 2 months ago

Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Live — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more - Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Big Deals Da... - https://www.tomshardware.com/gift-guides-seasonal-sales/live/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-live-the-best-tech-and-pc-hardware-deals-on-gpus-cpus-ssds-and-more #giftguidesandseasonalsales

IT News 2 months ago

Amazon's Prime Video Rolls Back Controversial 'Stylized' James Bond Thumbnails Without Guns - "When someone searches for 'James Bond' on Prime Video now, all of the classic fil... -

Amazon

"When someone searches for

#movies

IT News 2 months ago

UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software - Officers and staff are finding creative ways to trick the s... -

Tom

UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software

It was my cat, I swear.

#cybersecurity

IT News 2 months ago

Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game - A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL ... -

Tom

Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game

But it makes the old 90s Nokia dumb phone edition feel luxuriously high-res.

#videogames

IT News 2 months ago

Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware - Google Japan’s Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a... -

Tom

Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn

Google won’t manufacture this device, but has generously made all the design resources available on GitHub.

#peripherals #keyboards

IT News 2 months ago

India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering - AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs Feature  Shubh Kumar graduate... -

India

Feature: AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs

IT News 2 months ago

Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought - Last month, federal investigators said they dismantled a China-linked plot that ai... -

Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought - Slashdot

Last month, federal investigators said they dismantled a China-linked plot that aimed to cripple New York City

#cellphones

IT News 2 months ago

Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech - Chip design startup Tenstorrent has announced it'll work wi... -

Tom

Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has

Also working with Japanese firm, Rapidus, to get swift access to the smallest process nodes possible.

IT News 2 months ago

Japan Saw Record Number Treated For Heatstroke in Hottest-Ever Summer - More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heatstroke in Japan between... -

Japan Saw Record Number Treated For Heatstroke in Hottest-Ever Summer - Slashdot

More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heatstroke in Japan between May 1 and Sunday, according to preliminary data from the Fire an...

#japan

IT News 2 months ago

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects - Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humani... -

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

Updated: Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity

IT News 2 months ago

Government issues new data demand for UK Apple users - It is the latest development in a privacy row which has pitted the UK against the tech gi... -

Government targets UK Apple users in new demand for data

It is the latest development in a privacy row which has pitted the UK against the tech giant and the Trump administration.

IT News 2 months ago

Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers - In the late 2010s, the Ender 3 printers were arguably the most popular line of 3D ... -

Hackaday

Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers

In the late 2010s, the Ender 3 printers were arguably the most popular line of 3D printers worldwide, and for good reason. They combined simplicity...

#3dprinterhacks #kinematics #3dprinter #duender #corexy #ender3

IT News 3 months ago

Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine - The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over ... -

Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine

The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over its use of children's data.