The Game Boy DS Lite was one of Nintendo’s most popular handheld gaming consoles, but unbeknownst to all, it has a hidden feature that could have made it even more popular. Digging through the hardware and firmware of the DS Lite, the [Lost Nintendo History] team discovered the System-on-Chip (SoC) in the Game Boy DS…

The University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has calculated that Bitcoin’s total energy consumption is somewhere between 40 and 445 terawatt hours (TWh) a year, with a central estimate of about 130 terawatt hours, reports the BBC: The UK’s electricity consumption is a little over 300 TWh a year, while Argentina uses around the…

Everything you need to cut your own hair (or entrust your spouse with the duty), including cordless clippers, hair guards and even the requisite cape. …read more Source:: CNet

The PS5 inventory situation at most retailers is fluid and frustrating, but we’re keeping an eye on it for you. …read more Source:: CNet

chicksdaddy writes: The Security Ledger reports that a flaw in Zoom’s Keybase secure chat application left copies of images contained in secure communications on Keybase users’ computers after they were supposedly deleted, according to researchers from the security research group Sakura Samurai. The flaw in the encrypted messaging application, CVE-2021-23827 does not expose Keybase users…

Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the Internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a modernized, collaborative version of that intrusion-prevention tool. CrowdSec is free and open-source (under an MIT License), with…

Tired of laptops that won’t even let you replace their batteries, much less anything else inside? Framwork looks to remedy that issue with its forthcoming portable, which is the latest attempt to bring the modular concept to the laptop space. …read more Source:: ZDNet

It would be great if you could create your own filament. On the face of it, it seems easy to do, but as [Thomas Sanladerer] found out when he was a student, there are a lot of details that can bedevil your design. His extruder sort of works, but he wouldn’t suggest duplicating his effort….

Microsoft is adding a new element to Word for Windows — predictive text. But just look at how the company describes it. …read more Source:: ZDNet

America’s Food and Drug Administration just authorized Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to CBS News. “The vaccine is the third to be approved for use in the United States, and the first that requires only one shot…” Among people who got the vaccine in clinical trials, there were no COVID-related deaths….