Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Boosts Learning of Foreign Language Sounds
August 7th, 2020Via: MedicalXpress: New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have […]
5000W Direct-Drive Tesla Coil
August 7th, 2020Via: styropyro:
YouTube Deletes The HighWire
August 7th, 2020Via: The HighWire: CORONAVIRUS: THE FRONTLINE PUSHBACK https://t.co/JQa2nTqOFY — The HighWire (@HighWireTalk) August 6, 2020
KrØØk: Wi-Fi Chips Vulnerable to Eavesdropping
August 7th, 2020Via: welivesecurity: KrØØk (formally CVE-2019-15126) is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic. Specifically, the bug has led to wireless network data being encrypted with a WPA2 pairwise session key that is all zeros instead of the proper session key that had previously been established in […]
Saudi Hit Squad Was Sent to Toronto to Try to Kill Former Intel Official, Lawsuit Alleges
August 6th, 2020Via: TheStar: The Saudi men arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on a fall day. Among them were DNA forensic experts, a senior military officer and a member of Saudi Arabia’s ministry of foreign affairs. Holding tourist visas, they approached different customs kiosks. When questioned by border officers, they said they were not together. In […]
More than 20GB of Intel Source Code and Proprietary Data Dumped Online
August 6th, 2020When it rains, it pours. Via: Ars Technica: Intel is investigating the purported leak of more than 20 gigabytes of its proprietary data and source code that a security researcher said came from a data breach earlier this year. The data—which at the time this post went live was publicly available on BitTorrent feeds—contains data […]
What’s Wrong with Intel, and How to Fix It
August 6th, 2020The disaster at Intel will definitely continue to get worse before it gets better. AMD’s Zen3 chips are only a few months away and Intel… has been busy rearranging the deck chairs. That’s the bad news for Intel. The good news might be that Zen3 will be so horrific for Intel that the situation will […]
Starship SN5 150m Hop
August 5th, 2020One for your: You Don’t See That Everyday file folder. Via: SpaceX:
Unidentified Drones Flew in Restricted Airspace Above Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
August 3rd, 2020Via: The WarZone: Less than a year ago… a bizarre and largely undisclosed incident involving a swarm of drones occurred on successive September evenings in 2019. The location? America’s most powerful nuclear plant, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station situated roughly two dozen miles west of Phoenix, near Tonopah, Arizona. … This particular story starts […]
Bill Binney: There Was No Russian Hack
August 2nd, 2020Via: Schiller Institute: Transcript
