Firmware and software are both just code, right? How different could the code that runs Internet-scale distributed web stuff be from the code that runs a tiny microcontroller brain inside a personal hydroponics device? Night and day! Ruth Grace Wong works in the former world, but moonlights as a manufacturing engineer with some friends. Their…

Asteroid bits collected. Next step, to hadouken a crater Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe has successfully collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Ryugu following a careful descent last night.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A blog post from developer turned writer Marty Jacobs caught my attention earlier this morning. In the post, Jacobs has listed some of the programming books he says he had discovered and read much sooner. He writes, “There are so many programming books out there, sometimes it’s hard to know what books are best. Programming…

VPNs are critical for information security. But simply having these cozy security tunnels in the toolkit isn’t enough to keep an organization’s data safe. …read more Source:: DarkReading

From password manager vulnerabilities to 19-year-old flaws, the Threatpost team broke down this week’s biggest news stories. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look at all that’s happening in hackerdom. This week we dive deep into super-accurate clock chips, SPI and microcontroller trickery, a new (and cheap) part on the microcontroller block, touch-sensitive cloth, and taking a home X-ray to the third dimension. We’re saying our goodbyes to the magnificent A380, looking with…

Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reports: The social-media giant collects intensely personal information from many popular smartphone apps just seconds after users enter it, even if the user has…

Speak up and you might recover some of that £513k People who paid for one of the infamous ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld game consoles are being urged to register themselves as creditors of the company before a liquidator is appointed.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The solo champion will walk away with $3 million. …read more Source:: CNet

Enterprise+: One toolkit to deliver them all DevOps darling JFrog has snapped up cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) outfit Shippable.… …read more Source:: TheRegister