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upstart writes:Hak5's new USB Rubber Ducky, unveiled at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, is more effective than ever, thanks to the inclusion of a new structured programming language (DuckyScript 3.0) that allows it to execute more sophisticated hacks.The beloved hacker tool can now pwn you with its own programming language:

upstart writes:Researchers said there are three main clusters of foods that share similar genetic components:

DannyB writes:The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently

owl writes:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994

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upstart writes:How I Hacked my Car:

hubie writes:Farmland values in the Midwest increase when no-till farming becomes more prevalent:

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hubie writes:Today's heat waves feel a lot hotter than heat index implies:

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upstart writes:Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Vi Bilägare.:

takyon writes:Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board

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upstart writes:Assange lawyers sue CIA for spying on them:

upstart writes:Planned Obsolescence Rears Its Ugly Head in Epson Printer Spat - ExtremeTech:

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hubie writes:New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts:

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hubie writes:Extraterrestrial cement:

upstart writes:Judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk former executive's documents:

upstart writes:Military Satellites Will Now Be Operated by the Space Force:

upstart writes:Def Con hacker shows John Deere's tractors can run Doom:

canopic jug writes:Developer Poul-Henning Kamp (PHK) has written a brief post in the July issue of Communications of the ACM about the cost of surveillance having become negligible. Furthermore, in many cases that surveillance is actually required either by large governments or by large corporations, thus making it cheaper to go with the flow and track people and their online activities very closely as it becomes more and more expensive for programmers and developers to even try to avoid tracking people and their online activities.

upstart writes:We haven't had official Xbox One sales figures for 7 years:

upstart writes:A startup wants to democratize the tech behind DALL-E 2, consequences be damned – TechCrunch:

hubie writes:Employees are motivated by rewards that are perceived as distinct from salary:

upstart writes:Uber to sunset free loyalty program in favor of subscription membership – TechCrunch:

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upstart writes:Irish researchers develop new model to help treat heart failure:

upstart writes:Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory made its 1 millionth car:

upstart writes:The tech aiming to prevent lost airline luggage:

An Anonymous Coward writes:What killed tons of fish in European river? Mystery deepens:

Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first timeAtominator and upstart write:A 2021 experiment achieved the landmark milestone of nuclear fusion ignition, which data analysis has now confirmed – but attempts to recreate it over the last year haven't been able to reach ignition again.https://www.newscientist.com/article/2333346-ignition-confirmed-in-a-nuclear-fusion-experiment-for-the-first-time/Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Energy: Ignition Confirmed in Record 1.3 Megajoule Shotupstart writes:The research has been published one year after the breakthrough was achieved. Will scientists be able to recreate it?:

upstart writes in with two stories on a Zoom exploit affecting macOS users:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS:

upstart writes:Inaccurate maps are delaying the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's broadband funding:

upstart writes:To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up:

canopic jug writes:A while back, retired journalist and octogenarian, Chris Biddle, had an excellent interview with author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow about digital restrictions. They speak in particular about digital restrictions technologies which have been spread within agricultural equipment through the equipment's firmware. Their conversation starts out with mention of the use of network-connected firmware to brick the tractors which were looted from dealership sales lots in Ukraine by the invading Russian army. Cory gives a detailed overview of the issues hidden away by the mainstream press under the feel-good stories about the incident.

upstart writes:Rampant Data Broker Sale Of Pregnancy Data Gets Fresh Scrutiny Post Roe:

upstart writes:What Are the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and Fourteen Eyes?:

upstart writes:US unmasks alleged Conti ransomware operative, offers $10M for intel – TechCrunch:

upstart writes:VLC Media Player has been banned in India, but this happened back in February:

upstart writes:Potential hack for some Boeing planes fixed:

hubie writes:Average healthy adult doesn't really get much benefit, Med School professor says:

takyon writes:BITBLAZE Titan BM15 Arm Linux laptop features Baikal-M1 processor

mrpg writes:https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/new-unesco-flagship-report-calls-reinventing-education

takyon writes:Loongson Adds LoongArch Support To LibreOffice

upstart writes:Crypto and the US Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown: