Month: April 2023

Mandiant says the North Korea-linked hack of VoIP company 3CX’s customers is the first confirmed incident of one software-supply-chain attack enabling another (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant says the North Korea-linked hack of VoIP company 3CX’s customers is the first confirmed incident of one software-supply-chain attack enabling another  —  The mass compromise of the VoIP firm’s customers is the first confirmed incident where one software supply chain attack enabled another, researchers say.

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Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required  —  Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …

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Best Cloud Deployment Models and its Definition

What is Cloud Deployment Model? In simple terms, “Cloud” indicates the internet, and ‘computing’ includes the systems and infrastructure that allow computers to run, build, deploy, or interact with the information. Instead of hosting systems, infrastructure, applications on your hard drive, or a site server, you can host on virtual or online servers that connect

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Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left without any customer data after being informed of company’s no-logging policy (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag: Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left without any customer data after being informed of company’s no-logging policy  —  However, Swedish law enforcement left with nothing after learning Mullvad VPN has a strict no-logging policy when it comes to customer information.

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A High Precision ADC That You Can Understand!

In a world where an analogue to digital converter is all too often an integrated peripheral buried inside a microcontroller, it’s easy to forget how simple these devices can be when built from first principles. An entry in our Op-Amp Challenge from [NNNI] demonstrates this perfectly, it’s a high resolution multi-slope ADC for instrumentation purposes,

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Redbox wants to save Netflix’s DVD business

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Redbox wants to give Netflix’s DVD business a second chance at life, but Netflix isn’t budging. That’s according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter (via NextTV), which says that Redbox’s parent company has already expressed interest in acquiring Netflix’s DVD business, only to get turned down by the streamer

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Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran (Dara Kerr/NPR)

Dara Kerr / NPR: Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …

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The best tech gifts for under $50

The Original Tamagotchi is one of many budget-friendly gifts you can buy for kids and adults alike. | Image: Tamagotchi If “budget-friendly” and “high-quality” sound like oxymorons to you, you’re in for a surprise. As it turns out, you can buy a number of great gifts without completely draining your savings account, which makes it

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Building a Motorized Pan Tilt Rig For Filming

Today, anyone can shoot video because cameras are cheap and readily available. But if you want to do fancy Hollywood-style moving shots, you’ll need somebody to point the thing — or a machine to do it for you. [Giovanni Aggiustatutto] went the latter route with this mechanized pan-tilt build. The build relies on stepper motors

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