Day: October 20, 2018

As PHP Group Patches High-Risk Bugs, 62% of Sites Still Use PHP 5

America’s Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center is operated in collaboration with its Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications — and they’ve got some bad news. MS-ISAC released an advisory warning government agencies, businesses, and home users of multiple high-risk security issues in PHP that can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code….


Bloodhound’s 1,000 MPH Car Project Needs Money

AmiMoJo quotes the Guardian: Plans to build a British jet-powered car to speed at more than 1,000mph through the desert have hit quicksand, after the company behind the Bloodhound project entered administration. The dream of an ultra-fast car to break the land speed record led to the creation of Bloodhound Programme Ltd in 2007, with…


Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator?

Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days, but the truth is that it’s never been easier to lay down a beat. Just press the buttons on a pocket-sized computer….


Researchers Secretly Deployed A Bot That Submitted Bug-Fixing Pull Requests

An anonymous reader quotes Martin Monperrus, a professor of software at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Repairnator is a bot. It constantly monitors software bugs discovered during continuous integration of open-source software and tries to fix them automatically. If it succeeds to synthesize a valid patch, Repairnator proposes the patch to the human developers,…


NASA Has Explored Manned Missions To Venus

NASA recently developed a program for manned missions to explore Venus — even though the planet’s surface is 860 degrees, which NASA explains is “hot enough to melt lead.” Long-time Slashdot reader Zorro shares this week’s article from Newsweek: As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location…


Watch What Happens When A Drone Slams Into An Airplane Wing

Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed writes: Researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute [Impact Physics Lab] have shown in a video what can happen when a high-mass, consumer-level drone strikes the wing of an aircraft. They provide visual evidence of the damage a 2.1-pound DJI Phantom 2 videography quadcopter would have upon the wing…


Two Critical RCE Bugs Patched in Drupal 7 and 8

Drupal’s advisory also included three patches for “moderately critical” bugs. …read more Source:: Threatpost


The Crystal (Testing) Method

It used to be any good electronics experimenter had a bag full of crystals because you never knew what frequency you might need. These days, you are likely to have far fewer because you usually just need one reference frequency and derive all the other frequencies from it. But how can you test a crystal?…


Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving

Car enthusiast McKeel Hagerty — also the CEO America’s largest insurer of classic cars — recently told a Detroit newspaper about his “Save Driving” campaign to preserve human driving for future generations. Hagerty said he wants people-driven cars to share the roads, not surrender them, with robot cars. “Driving and the car culture are meaningful…


GitHub Launches ‘Actions’ — Code That Can Be Run (and Maybe Monetized)

An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch: For the longest time, GitHub was all about storing source code and sharing it either with the rest of the world or your colleagues. Today, the company, which is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, is taking a step in a different but related direction by launching GitHub…