Day: October 12, 2018

In Facebook’s massive breach, the hackers’ friends were the first victims – CNET

Keep your friends close and your breach victims closer. …read more Source:: CNet


iPhone XS specs vs. XS Max, XR, X: What’s new and different – CNET

See how Apple’s new 2018 iPhones compare spec-by-spec with last year’s iPhone X. …read more Source:: CNet


Heaven help us, Teslaquila might be real – Roadshow

Tesla’s April Fools’ Day joke is now an actual trademark application. …read more Source:: CNet


An Open Source Toy Synth

If you thought the future of electronic musical instruments was massive Emerson-class modular synths, giant MPCs with pads the size of Dance Dance Revolution machines, or hilariously expensive polysynths, you couldn’t be more wrong. The future is, effectively, toys. Those tiny little Korgs you can stuff in your pocket are selling like hot cakes, and…


Facebook: Phone numbers, emails and other personal information accessed during breach – CNET

The social media company says fewer people were affected than it originally thought. …read more Source:: CNet


Snail 99 million years old stunningly preserved in amber – CNET

A snail trapped in time with its squishy parts amazingly intact offers a surprising peek into ancient history. …read more Source:: CNet


The FBI Is Now Investigating Facebook’s Security Breach Where Attackers Accessed 30 Million Users’ Personal Information

An online attack that forced Facebook to log out 90 million users last month directly affected 29 million people on the social network [alternative source], the company said Friday as it released new details about the scope of an incident that has regulators and law enforcement on high alert. The company said the FBI is…


Apple Watch: We put all of its fitness claims to the test – CNET

Six-hour activity tracking, a larger screen and automatic workout detection — we closed a lot of rings to test all the fitness features on the Apple Watch Series 4. …read more Source:: CNet


Larry Page-backed ‘flying car’ startup should hit the market next year – Roadshow

Just don’t expect them to be legal in areas where they’d be useful, at least to start. …read more Source:: CNet


Logic Analyzers for FPGAs: A Verilog Odyssey

Sometimes you start something simple and then it just leads to a chain reaction of things. I wanted to write a post about doing state machines in Verilog and target the Lattice iCEstick board that we often use for quick FPGA projects. That led to a small problem: how do you show what’s going on…