Day: March 11, 2019

Learning Through Play Hack Chat with Greg Zumwalt

Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Learning Through Play Hack Chat! You may think you’ve never heard of Greg Zumwalt, but if you’ve spent any time on Instructables or Thingiverse, chances are pretty good you’ve seen some of his work. After a long career that ranged from avionics design and programming to…


Hapless engineers leave UK cable landing station gate open, couple of journos waltz right in

Infosec skills are useful. But so are locked doors Journalists were able to bimble into a UK cable landing station almost completely unchallenged after security gates were left open and unlocked.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Apple’s augmented reality end run: Can it hold back Hololens?

A convergence of technologies is paving the way for Apple to take AR out of the phone and put it in front of your eyes. While that would curtail HoloLens reach, Microsoft won’t be shedding many tears. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Intel beats Samsung in Q4 2018 semiconductor revenue, claims report

While Samsung has led when it comes to semiconductor revenues for the previous five quarters, a report claims that Intel grabbed the top spot in Q4 2018 …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft Launches AI Business School

Microsoft today introduced the AI Business School, a series of case studies and free instructional videos made to help business executives design and successfully implement an AI strategy within their organization. From a report: The Microsoft AI Business School is born out of three years of conversations with customers and follows the launch of an…


Quadcopter Uses Bare Metal STM32

[Tim Schumacher] got a Crazepony Mini quadcopter and has been reprogramming it “bare metal” — that is to say he’s programming the STM32 without using an operating system or do-it-all environment. His post on the subject is a good reference for working with the STM32 and the quadcopter, too. If you haven’t seen the quadcopter,…


Georgia’s Jackson County Pays $400K to Ransomware Attackers

The ransomware campaign started March 1 and shut down most of Jackson County’s IT systems. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Facebook Alleges Two Ukrainians Scraped Data From 63K Profiles

Facebook is suing two Ukrainian men who were able to scrape data from 63,000 users’ profiles by enticing users to download a malicious browser extension. …read more Source:: Threatpost


US Government Will Be Scanning Your Face At 20 Top Airports, Documents Show

An anonymous reader shares a report: In March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing its borders. That mandate stipulates facial recognition identification for “100 percent of all international passengers,” including American citizens, in the top 20 US airports by 2021. Now,…


US Seeks To Allay Fears Over Killer Robots

…read more Source:: PacketStorm