Day: December 16, 2018

How Not to Design a 3D Printed Belt Clamp

[Mark Rehorst] has been busy with his Ultra MegaMax Dominator (UMMD) design for a 3D printer, and one of the many things he learned in the process was how not to design a 3D printed belt clamp. In the past, we saw how the UMMD ditched the idea of a lead screw in favor of…


Delivery robot catches fire on UC Berkeley campus – CNET

KiwiBot says fire was caused by battery-replacement error. …read more Source:: CNet


Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies

An anonymous reader writes: A new variant of the Shamoon malware was discovered on the network of an Italian and UAE oil and gas company. While the damage at the UAE firm is currently unknown, the malware has been confirmed to have destroyed files on about ten percent of the Italian company’s PC fleet. Shamoon…


Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse

“Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal,” reports Reuters. “After two weeks of talks in the Polish city of Katowice, nations finally reached consensus on a more detailed framework for the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit a rise in average…


Fortnite was the most important video game of 2018, whether we like it or not – CNET

This was a huge year for video games, but none had an impact quite like Fortnite …read more Source:: CNet


Thousands of Jenkins servers will let anonymous users become admins

Two vulnerabilities discovered and patched over the summer expose Jenkins servers to mass exploitation. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges

A lawsuit filed Friday is accusing Apple of falsely advertised the screen sizes and pixel counts of the displays in its iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max devices. The two plaintiffs, who filed the suit in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, are seeking class action status. CNET reports: The suit alleges…


AI Bot Plays Castlevania So You Don’t Have to

We’re not allowed to have TV here in the Hackaday Wonder Bunker, but occasionally we’ll pool together the bandwidth credits they pay us in and gather ’round the old 3.5 inch TFT LCD to watch whatever Netflix assures us is 93% to our liking. That’s how we found out they’ve made a show based on,…


The Last Independent Mobile OS

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The year was 2010 and the future of mobile computing was looking bright. The iPhone was barely three years old, Google’s Android had yet to swallow the smartphone market whole, and half a dozen alternative mobile operating systems — many of which were devoutly open source —…


Will the iPhone XR be even cheaper? I went to phone stores to find out

Readers wondered whether Apple’s latest phone will enjoy even more incentives. I was forced to investigate. …read more Source:: ZDNet