Day: July 15, 2021

Hennessey wants to build a Ford Bronco VelociRaptor with 405 hp – Roadshow

The company best known for making things stupid fast plans for more Bronco tuning — should it be able to crack Ford’s cybersecurity systems and ECU. …read more Source:: CNet


US Cracks Down On ‘Fulfilled By Amazon,’ Citing Sale of 400K Hazardous Items

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) yesterday filed a complaint against Amazon over the sale of hundreds of thousands of hazardous products, including carbon monoxide detectors that fail to detect carbon monoxide, hair dryers without required protection from shock and electrocution, and flammable sleepwear meant…


Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike

Buckle up, the great switchover starts today Good news, Hubble fans – NASA reckons it may have worked out what has upset the orbiting observatory: an iffy Power Control Unit (PCU).… …read more Source:: TheRegister


FTC Chair Lina Khan has Facebook and Amazon rattled – CNET

The newly appointed antitrust regulator has Silicon Valley in her sights. …read more Source:: CNet


Zero-Day Attacks on Critical WooCommerce Bug Threaten Databases

The popular e-commerce platform for WordPress has started deploying emergency patches. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back

Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley. But tech can’t seem to quit its gravitational center. New York Times: The pandemic was supposed to lead to a great tech diaspora. Freed of their offices and after-work klatches, the Bay Area’s tech workers were said to…


Mars Perseverance rover investigates ‘garden pavers’ in ancient lakebed – CNET

NASA’s Perseverance is going in for a close look at the rocks. …read more Source:: CNet


Your 100,000-mile clunker could be worth serious cash due to chip shortage – Roadshow

Even high-mileage car values aren’t immune to increases as the chip shortage continues to squeeze inventories. …read more Source:: CNet


Today’s arms race is all about AI and it’s China vs America, says US defense secretary

Machines will function more as colleagues than tools, and we’re spending $1.5bn to get there The world is entering a new stage of AI and the race to get there is between China and the United States, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has said.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Soldiers Angrily Speak Out about Being Blocked from Repairing Equipment by Contractors

Matt Stoller: Louis Rossmann is an important YouTube personality who talks about, among other things, the fact that big firms block their customers from repairing equipment so they can extract after-market profits with replacement parts. And he’s very much noticed the Biden executive order, which calls for agencies to curtail this practice (as well as…