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A researcher says crypto mixer Tornado Cash was taken over by hackers on Saturday through a malicious governance proposal that gave them a majority of votes (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: A researcher says crypto mixer Tornado Cash was taken over by hackers on Saturday through a malicious governance proposal that gave them a majority of votes — Tornado Cash, a service that allows users to mask cryptocurrency transactions, suffered a hostile takeover by hackers through a malicious governance proposal.

Analysts expect a Q2 sales decline at seven out of the nine top chip equipment makers, including Applied Materials and Lam Research, amid a memory demand slump (Kentaro Tsutsumi/Nikkei Asia)

Kentaro Tsutsumi / Nikkei Asia: Analysts expect a Q2 sales decline at seven out of the nine top chip equipment makers, including Applied Materials and Lam Research, amid a memory demand slump — Stock prices on rise as investors factor in anticipated recovery, demand from AI — Demand for wafer fabrication equipment has been lackluster.

We’ve Got A Saxaboom At Home Son

Most parents have heard a familiar story. Their lovely child comes up, having seen a celebrity rocking out with a funny $20 toy from the 80s, and asks for it. Of course, you reply, it’s just 20 dollars. However, a quick scan through eBay reveals that everyone else’s kid has also been asking for this

Wistron is selling its iPhone assembly unit near Bengaluru to Tata Group and exiting India due to an inability to get deeper into Apple’s supply chain and more (Subhrojit Mallick/The Economic Times)

Subhrojit Mallick / The Economic Times: Wistron is selling its iPhone assembly unit near Bengaluru to Tata Group and exiting India due to an inability to get deeper into Apple’s supply chain and more — The contract maker’s inability to get deeper into Apple’s supply chain, sale of China factory and challenges posed by local

Berlin-based Patient21, which provides software for managing patients and clinics, raised a €100M Series C in equity and debt led by Pitango (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Patient21, which provides software for managing patients and clinics, raised a €100M Series C in equity and debt led by Pitango — Patient21, a four-year-old German startup that combines a digital healthcare platform with real-world brick-and-mortar clinics …

China hits back, bans chips from US company

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority China has banned US memory chip company Micron from selling chips in the country. Micron produces a wide variety of chips such as RAM, DRAM, and storage. The Chinese tech sector has been subjected to US trade sanctions in recent years, with the US barring the sale of various

Service robots like Moxi, which delivers medicines in hospitals, and Jesper, which serves food in restaurants, are in high demand despite job loss concerns (Peter Funt/Wall Street Journal)

Peter Funt / Wall Street Journal: Service robots like Moxi, which delivers medicines in hospitals, and Jesper, which serves food in restaurants, are in high demand despite job loss concerns — The pandemic may be over, but the demand for nonhuman workers in health care, food service and other fields is here to stay

Hackaday Links: May 21, 2023

The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from the infotainment systems in their latest offerings, which doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense given the reach of AM radio and its importance

Researchers reveal many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands, sold in the US and owned by millions, come with malware preinstalled (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers reveal many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands, sold in the US and owned by millions, come with malware preinstalled — The bane of low-cost Android devices is showing no signs of going away. — Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security.

Instagram was down, but now it’s working again

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For a couple of hours on Sunday evening, Instagram was down. The app’s feed was frozen, tossing users errors saying it couldn’t refresh, while the website only gave a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM

A rise in memecoins and NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Ordinals protocol, has spurred record transactions and an ensuing fee windfall for miners (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A rise in memecoins and NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Ordinals protocol, has spurred record transactions and an ensuing fee windfall for miners — An eruption of memecoins and nonfungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain has reshaped the revenue profile of miners …

Watch a Web Page Fetch Itself Over TLS, Complete With Commentary

TLS, byte by byte performs an unusual and interesting function: it fetches itself over HTTPS, and provides a complete annotation of what’s going on in the process, one byte at a time. Visit the site and give the button a click to watch it happen, it’s neat! Transport Layer Security (TLS) is what’s responsible for

Researchers reveal many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands, sold in the US and owned by millions, come with malware preinstalled (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Service robots like Moxi, which delivers medicines in hospitals, and Jesper, which serves food in restaurants, are in high demand despite job loss concerns (Peter Funt/Wall Street Journal)

Hands-on with Google’s Duet AI writing aid: a stiff style, inaccurate information, inconsistent Docs and Gmail behavior, great at drafting complaints, and more (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Hands-on with Google’s Duet AI writing aid: a stiff style, inaccurate information, inconsistent Docs and Gmail behavior, great at drafting complaints, and more — I used Duet AI to send emails and plan my wedding. Its writing can be stuffy and stereotyping—but it’s a glimpse of the future of productivity apps.

Pill Dispenser To Keep You On Track

When forgetting to take medication on time can lead to a bad day or night, having a helper to keep you on track can greatly improve your life. [M. Bindhammer] faces this scenario every day, so he built his own robotic pill dispenser. The core of the project is a 3D printed dispensing drum with

Ted Lasso merch could be coming to the Apple Online Store soon

Apple will start selling Ted Lasso merchandise on the Apple Online Store soon, in partnership with Nike, according to a new report.

Midjourney vs Stable Diffusion: Which AI image generator should you use?

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority We’ve witnessed a sudden explosion of generative AI tools over the past few months. And nowhere is that more true than in the image generator arena. Between free and paid, open-source and proprietary, there are many options out there to choose from. But if you’ve paid some attention to

Midjourney vs Stable Diffusion: Which AI image generator should you use?

Robotic Coffee Comes to Brooklyn, But Will It Stay?

Robots are cool. Everyone knows it, and [Eater NY] highlights a coffee shop with a robotic server opening in Brooklyn. While robots able to prepare and serve drinks or food is not new, it isn’t every day a brick-and-mortar café with a robot behind the counter opens up. But expensive automation isn’t the only puzzle

Best Beginner Drones of 2023

Featured Products Ruko F11MINI Drone UNTEI EC100 Drone SANROCK U52 Drone Holy Stone HS440 Foldable FPV Drone Potensic ATOM SE GPS Drone DEERC D20 Mini Drone DJI Mini 2 SE TizzyToy Drone Holy Stone Mini Drone Heygelo S90 Drone Here Are the Best Beginner Drones As the popularity of drones continues to soar, more and

Best Beginner Drones of 2023

China says Micron’s products caused “significant security risks to our critical information infrastructure supply chain” and warns operators against buying them (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: China says Micron’s products caused “significant security risks to our critical information infrastructure supply chain” and warns operators against buying them — China delivered the latest salvo in an escalating semiconductor war with the US, announcing that Micron Technology Inc. products …

An overview of the executive team behind Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: An overview of the executive team behind Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset — Apple is just a few weeks away from debuting its mixed-reality headset. This past week, I gave an in-depth look at the device’s development and features. Now, here’s a list of the key people involved in the project.

Life Story of Cody Rhodes

Cody Garrett Runnels, better known by his ring name Cody Rhodes, was born on June 30, 1985, in Marietta, Georgia. He is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes and the half-brother of fellow professional wrestler Goldust. Cody grew up around professional wrestling and developed a passion for it from a young age.

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