Day: October 14, 2021

Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’

A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic. Neighbors say their Richmond District dead end street has suddenly become crowded with Waymo vehicles. From a report: “I noticed it while I was sleeping,” says Jennifer King. “I awoke to a strange hum and I thought there was a…


Open Source Security Foundation Raises $10M

Industry leaders from technology, financial services, telecom, and cybersecurity sectors respond to Biden’s executive order and commit to a more secure future for software. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Google will let you keep scrolling (and scrolling) search results on mobile – CNET

In case you want to dive deep into search results. …read more Source:: CNet


Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters Ubuntu 21.10 comes out today, an interim release with nine months of support, and the first to use GNOME 40 for the desktop.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Human Element Is the Weakest Link

While the recent Facebook outage was a major inconvenience, the impact of leaked business operations documents is a much bigger issue than being down for a few hours. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Boeing Finds New Defect in Ongoing Struggle To Produce Dreamliner 787

Boeing and U.S. regulators said Thursday that some titanium 787 Dreamliner parts were improperly manufactured over the past three years, the latest in a series of problems to plague the wide-body aircraft. From a report: The quality issue does not affect the immediate safety of flights, the company and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said….


3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure

So says Have I Been Pwned’s maintainer Thingiverse, a site that hosts free-to-use 3D printer designs, has suffered a data breach – and at least 228,000 unlucky users’ email addresses have been circulating on black-hat crime forums.… …read more Source:: Register


Neighbor Wins Privacy Row Over Smart Doorbell and Cameras

New submitter apcyberax writes: A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire “unjustifiably invaded” the privacy of a neighbour, in a case that could have implications for home surveillance devices. Dr Mary Fairhurst claimed that the devices installed on the house of neighbour Jon Woodard broke…


Art Project Fast And Fouriously Transforms Audio Into Eye Candy

Fast Fourier Transforms. Spectrum Analyzers. Waterfall displays. Not long ago, such terms were reserved for high end test gear. But oh, how things have changed! It’s no surprise to many Hackaday readers that modern microcontrollers have transformed the scene as they become more powerful and as a result are endowed with more and more powerful…


Vladimir Putin Says He Accepts Crypto as a Legitimate Currency For Making Payments

Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled tolerance of cryptocurrencies, which are drawing increasing scrutiny from regulators around the world amid fears they can be used for money laundering and criminal activity. From a report: Cryptocurrency “has the right to exist and can be used as a means of payment,” Putin said in an interview with CNBC…