An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum: [W]hat’s so compelling about RISC-V isn’t the technology — it’s the economics. The instruction set is open source. Anyone can download it and design a chip based on the architecture without paying a fee. If you wanted to do that with ARM, you’d have to pay its developer, Arm…

Tom Cruise goes full bore in another ridiculously entertaining — and entertainingly ridiculous — superspy stuntfest. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Massachusetts plans to protect net neutrality by naming and shaming internet service providers that don’t adhere to open internet principles. Lawmakers in the state Senate have proposed a bill (S2160) that would create an “internet service provider registry” to track whether broadband and wireless providers adhere to policies that keep…

In the very late 1990s, something amazing was invented. White LEDs. These magical pieces of semiconductors first became commercially available in 1996, and by the early 2000s, you could buy a single 5mm white LED for less than a dollar in quantity one. A year or two later, an astonishing product showed up on infomercials…

“It’s been a year since Equifax doxed the nation of America through carelessness, deception and greed, lying about it and stalling while the problem got worse and worse,” writes Cory Doctorow. Equifax’s new CSO says they’ve spent over $200 million on security upgrades, in work being overseen by auditor from eight different states. An anonymous…

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to spend $3 billion to pump back the water that’s flowing through Hoover Dam — so it can flow through again later, during periods of peak energy demand. This generates a net profit for the dam’s operators — the pumping stations are powered by cheap solar…

Will Danny Rand adopt the whole superhero outfit in season 2? …read more Source:: CNet

A Parliament report set for release Sunday says Facebook has been less than candid in addressing questions about disinformation on its platform, according to The New York Times. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Opera, an underdog in a browser market dominated by Google’s Chrome, raised $115 million in an initial public offering Friday. The company sold 9.6 million American depositary shares at $12 each, the high end of the $10-to-$12 range it expected for the IPO. When the stock started trading more broadly…

We’re all familiar with the wide variety of Arduino development boards available these days, and we see project after project wired up on a Nano or an Uno. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but there comes a point where some hobbyists want to move beyond plugging wires into header sockets and…