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A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings (Omer Benjakob/Haaretz)

Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings  —  Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies

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Build a customer-facing app like a SaaS company

What’s the difference between a non-technology company building a customer-facing app and a tech company building and supporting a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product? One might suggest differences in the target number of customer segments, audience size, scale, business model, or other usage factors. But many businesses deploy large-scale customer-facing apps with e-commerce and subscription revenue models

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The fundamentals of Kubernetes cost management

AWS recently began offering Kubecost—a third-party Kubernetes cost monitoring and management tool—to help customers rein in Enterprise Kubernetes Service (EKS) spending. It’s an unusual step for AWS that underscores the complexity of Kubernetes cost management for today’s devops teams. Kubecost allows you to track the costs of your Kubernetes resources by namespace, deployment, service, cluster,

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A look at Elon Musk’s tightening finances as TSLA dropped 65% in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power, and his fortune fell from an estimated $340B high to $140B (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: A look at Elon Musk’s tightening finances as TSLA dropped 65% in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power, and his fortune fell from an estimated $340B high to $140B  —  Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline  —  Elon Musk’s Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories

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Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions  —  China’s leading handset maker has suffered Covid disruption at home and regulatory woes abroad  —  Three top executives …

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Self-Hosted Gaming With Friends

One of the best parts of gaming is gaming with friends, but often this requires everyone involved to have the same expensive piece of hardware. Almost everyone has a computer with a browser already, though, so if you’d like to play online with friends who don’t have the same gaming machine as you, they can

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Laser Cut Clips Save A Lamp From The Trash

Ikea have been known for years as a purveyor of inexpensive  yet stylish homewares, but it’s fair to say that sometimes their affordability is reflected in their insubstantial construction. Such is the case with the Sjöpenna lamp, whose construction relies on rubber bands. On [Tony]’s lamp these bands degraded with age, causing it to fall

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Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don’t while making them believe their code has no safety issues (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don’t while making them believe their code has no safety issues  —  At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound

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Hackaday Links: December 25, 2022

Looks like it’s lights out on Mars for the InSight lander. The solar-powered lander’s last selfie, sent back in April, showed a thick layer of dust covering everything, including the large circular solar panels needed to power the craft. At the time, NASA warned that InSight would probably give up the ghost sometime before the

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Not Can It Run DOOM, But Can DOOM Run It?

It’s the standard test for a hardware hack, half serious half in jest, “Can it run DOOM?”. The iconic early-90s shooter from id software has made an appearance on everything from toothbrushes to LEGO bricks, but nobody has yet posed the opposite question: Can DOOM run it?“. It’s one answered by [Danny Spencer], who has

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A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)

Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more  —  Don’t be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more.

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