Day: March 25, 2019

ESP32 Video Tricks Hack Chat with bitluni

Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the ESP32 Video Tricks Hack Chat! The projects that bitluni works on have made quite a few appearances on these pages over the last couple of years. Aside from what may or may not have been a street legal electric scooter, most of them have centered around…


Max Schrems schreds another ‘blockade’ to challenging Facebook data transfers in Austria

Antisocial network: They gotta go to a DPA, man. Normal ppl can’t sue us! Vienna court: I think you’ll find… Privacy activist Max Schrems has demolished another “blockade” in his long-running dispute with Facebook in the Austrian courts.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


In Google Maps, add a public event to invite everyone to your next party – CNET

The new feature is live, but not for everyone. …read more Source:: CNet


Oslo Will Build Wireless Chargers For Electric Taxis in Zero-Emissions Push

Norway is helping lead the charge toward complete electrification, and it will soon have a whole network of wireless chargers for its capital city’s fleet of taxis. From a report: The city of Oslo, in conjunction with Finnish utility company Fortum and American manufacturer Momentum Dynamics, announced last week that the three will work together…


Explore ‘Mars on Earth’ in Google Street View – CNET

You don’t have to be an astronaut to check out the closest thing to the Red Planet on the Big Blue Marble. …read more Source:: CNet


Building A Turbocharger Turbojet

Jet engines are known to be highly demanding machines, requiring the utmost attention to tolerances, material specifications, and operating regimes. If any of these parameters are ignored, failures can be catastrophic and expensive. Despite these exacting requirements, it is possible to build a jet engine in the home workshop – and using a turbocharger is…


Get trained to turn the tables on your computer adversaries at SANS Bucharest

May 2019: Two courses expose cybercriminals’ tools and techniques Promo Organisations can no longer afford to rely on prevention systems alone to protect them from increasingly numerous and determined adversaries who can find their way round most of today’s monitoring tools.… …read more Source:: Register


China Says it Cloned a Police Dog To Speed Up Training

A cloned dog, believed to be the first of the kind in China, has started training in Yunnan Province in a program to reduce the cost and time needed for training police dogs. From a report: Kunxun, a female of the Kunming wolfdog breed, was born on Dec. 19 last year in Beijing and arrived…


A Glass Ceiling? Not in Privacy

According to a new study, female professionals in the US privacy profession outnumber males 53% to 47%. …read more Source:: DarkReading


The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring

How do you bring Hadoop to the AI, hybrid, and multi cloud era, making it so easy to use and reliable that it’s boring? How do you build a sustainable business doing that, while switching to a 100-percent open source model? The new Cloudera raises more questions than it offers answers at this point …read…