Day: March 6, 2019

Door Springs and Neopixels Demonstrate Quantum Computing Principles

They may be out of style now, and something of a choking hazard for toddlers, but there’s no denying that spring doorstops make a great sound when they’re “plucked” by a foot as you walk by. Sure, maybe not on a 2:00 AM bathroom break when the rest of the house is sleeping, but certainly…


Microsoft blesses the clouds down in Africa in full-blown Azure-gasm

Beats the other big boys to region, Blobs go Premium, DevOps go on-prem, oh my With Premium Blobs, Azure DevOps Server and a new Africa Azure region, Microsoft has spaffed out cloudy goodness like a Roomba in reverse.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


18 Percent Of Americans Admit To Having Their Identity Stolen

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Adi Shamir Couldn’t Get US Visa To Attend RSA Conference Named For Him

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Czech Cyber Watchdog Says Its Huawei Warning Took U.S. By Surprise

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1 Trillion USD Refund! (PDF Enclosed)

Security researchers have found that it is possible to alter a digitally signed PDF without invalidating its signatures. To demonstrate it, they produced a fake document “refund order” of $1,000,000,000,000 dollars, with a valid signature from Amazon. This sparked my attention, since I was quite sure that they didn’t used some sort of quantum device…


The Mazda CX-30 will be a ‘new pillar’ for the brand – Roadshow

Mazda explains how the CX-30 stands apart from the CX-3 and CX-5. …read more Source:: CNet


NSA Releases Ghidra, a Free Software Reverse Engineering Toolkit

An anonymous reader writes: At the RSA security conference this week, the National Security Agency released Ghidra, a free software reverse engineering tool that the agency had been using internally for well over a decade. The tool is ideal for software engineers, but will be especially useful for malware analysts first and foremost, being similar…


Taylor Swift doles out sage social media advice in essay for Elle – CNET

Can you believe someone on the internet once told Taylor Swift she looked like “a weasel that got hit by a truck and stitched back together by a drunk taxidermist?” Rude. …read more Source:: CNet


So Windrush happened, and yet UK Home Office immigration data still has ‘appalling defects’

Could errors affect other applications? Dunno. When will new systems be online? Dunno The Home Office is making life-changing decisions using “incorrect data from systems that are not fit for purpose” and has not fixed the “appalling defects” identified during the Windrush scandal, MPs have said.… …read more Source:: TheRegister