Join us on Wednesday, July 31st at noon Pacific for the Quick-Turn PCB Fab Hack Chat with Mihir Shah! We’ve all become used to designing a PCB and having it magically appear at our doorstep – after a fashion. Modern PCB fabs rely on economies of scale to deliver your design cheaply, at the expense…

Time to stop working. …read more Source:: CNet

Lithium miners are bulking up for a booming future when electric cars go mainstream. But speed bumps loom, with prices tumbling on a burst of new production and demand growth slowing in China. From a report: Between mid-2015 and mid-2018, prices for lithium, the soft, silvery-white metal crucial for rechargeable batteries, almost tripled as the…

We love watching the creativity unleashed by the democratization of once-exotic technologies. The casualness by which one can order a cheap, small run of PCBs has unlocked a flood of fine pitch components and projects which look commercial quality even with a total build volume of one. Now the once mythical flex PCB has been…

Researchers have uncovered easy-to-exploit bugs that can impact physical safety, utilities, healthcare, critical infrastructure and more, setting the stage for widespread worm attacks. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Security updates are out, but patching will most likely take months, if not years. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Craig Mod: I love fast software. That is, software speedy both in function and interface. Software with minimal to no lag between wanting to activate or manipulate something and the thing happening. Lightness. Software that’s speedy usually means it’s focused. Like a good tool, it often means that it’s simple, but that’s not necessarily true….

Is the island going to experience another time warp? …read more Source:: CNet

Risks posed by Chinese bogeyman ‘manageable’ Germany’s data protection and security regulator is not too stressed about the supposed threat of using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus and ever since its formation, the USB Implementers Forum have been working hard on the “Universal” part of the equation. USB Type-C, which is commonly called USB-C, is a connector standard that signals a significant new chapter in their epic quest to unify all wired connectivity in a single…