15-Mar-2024 – TOPS, the DIY Robot Dog, Has Great Moves

Brief Summary: “We love [Aaed Musa]’s TOPS (Traverser of Planar Surfaces) which is a robot dog with custom-made actu”

15-Mar-2024 – A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator

Brief Summary: “It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that covers up to 70 GHz”

14-Mar-2024 – Massively Popular Safe Locks Have Secret Backdoor Codes

Brief Summary: “Two of the biggest manufacturers of locks used in commercial safes have been accused of essentially “

14-Mar-2024 – The FTC and DOJ think McDonald’s ice cream machines should be legal to fix

Brief Summary: ”

Image: iFixit via YouTube

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of”

14-Mar-2024 – Roku Will Brick Your Streaming Devices If You Don’t Agree To Binding Arbitration

Brief Summary: “Ever since AT&T’s 2011 Supreme Court victory, the courts have declared it perfectly legal for a corp”

14-Mar-2024 – Why a Partial Solar Eclipse is Totally Awesome!

Brief Summary: “On April 8th, 2024, a small strip of North America will witness a total solar eclipse. Total solar e”

14-Mar-2024 – Increase in the number of phishing messages pointing to IPFS and to R2 buckets, (Thu, Mar 14th)

Brief Summary: “Credential-stealing phishing is constantly evolving, nevertheless, some aspects of it – by necessity”

13-Mar-2024 – Audi wants buyers to pay for basic car features

Brief Summary: “With the future looking to be served by all-electric vehicles that have fewer moving parts that don’”

13-Mar-2024 – How to build a solar camera for the upcoming eclipse

Brief Summary: “I’ve been following the YouTube channel DroneBot Workshop pretty much since it first started up eigh”

13-Mar-2024 – Ken Buck Resignation Is Giant F*ck You To Mike Johnson AND Lauren Boebert

Brief Summary: “Yesterday, not long before he took his turn questioning former special counsel Robert Hur, Colorado “

13-Mar-2024 – Microsoft Brings GPT-4 Turbo to Free Version of Copilot

Brief Summary: “Microsoft confirmed today that non-paying Copilot will now use the GPT-4 Turbo LLM instead of the ol”

13-Mar-2024 – Dua Lipa is looking to the positives with her just announced third album, ‘Radical Optimism’

Brief Summary: ”
Dua Lipa has announced her third album, ‘Radical Optimism’.

Released on 3rd May, a press release”

13-Mar-2024 – Demystifying a Common Cybersecurity Myth

Brief Summary: “One of the most common misconceptions in file upload cybersecurity is that certain tools are “enough”

05-Mar-2024 – The End of Microsoft’s Android Fever Dream (Premium)

Brief Summary: “In the heady early days of Windows 10, Terry Myerson’s team did what they could to reverse the decad”

05-Mar-2024 – NASA (yes, that NASA) has released its first D&D-compatible tabletop RPG adventure

Brief Summary: ” In a turn of events that makes a lot more sense than you might think at first blush, the National A”

26-Feb-2024 – Doom Is Now Playable On a Lawnmower

Brief Summary: “Landscaping tech company Husqvarna has partnered with Bethesda to bring the original 1993 Doom to it”

26-Feb-2024 – Mozilla Ceases Support for Mozilla Hubs (but the Open-Source Hubs Community Edition Continues)

Brief Summary: ”

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Today is the first of twelve successive Mondays which I am taking as re”