“New Android malware can root infected devices to take complete control and silently tweak system settings, as well as evade detection using code abstraction and anti-emulation checks,” reports BleepingComputer. Cybersecurity company Lookout said on its blog that they’d spotted the malware on Google Play “and prominent third-party stores such as the Amazon Appstore and the…

[Geyes30]’s Raspberry Pi project does one thing: it finds arbitrary text in the camera’s view and reads it out loud. Does it do so flawlessly? Not really. Was it at least effortless to put together? Also no, but it does wonderfully illustrate the process of gluing together different bits of functionality to make something new….

There are four iPhone 13 models, and we’ll explain how they compare spec by spec. …read more Source:: CNet

The Oracle JDK “is available free of charge for production use again,” reports InfoQ, under a new “Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions” license. The move, announced in mid-September, “reverses a 2018 decision to charge for Oracle JDK production use and does not affect Oracle’s OpenJDK distribution,” they write, noting that the new license “applies to…

Week 8 of the NFL season has arrived. …read more Source:: CNet

From the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the United States Postal Service. It’s a largely forgotten part of American banking (and postal) history that the USPS ran the Postal Savings System…

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have arrived, but there’s also the Pixel 4A, Pixel 5A and more. …read more Source:: CNet

“According to his bio on Harvard.edu, Mikao John was an erudite scholar: a medical student at the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who’d studied statistics and biochemistry at Yale and published research in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine,” reports Futurism: John was also a prolific author of blog posts on Harvard’s…

[Zach Armstrong] presents for your viewing pleasure a simple guide to building a solid-state Tesla coil. The design is based around a self-resonant setup using the UCC2742x gate driver IC, which is used in a transformer-coupled full-wave configuration for delivering maximum power from the line input. The self-resonant bit is implemented by using a small…

Don’t sit on the ground while trying to get stuff done in the garage, grab one of these versatile workbenches and increase your productivity. …read more Source:: CNet