owl writes:https://www.os2museum.com/wp/first-dual-channel-ide/The OS/2 Museum recently came into possession of what may be the first adapter with support for two IDE channels... sort of:The adapter was made by Plus Development Corporation, a subsidiary of the disk maker Quantum. This particular specimen was manufactured in 1989, though its BIOS has a 1988 copyright.The adapter is quite obscure for something made by a well known company. I could not find any information about it whatsoever. The only public reference to its existence is its FCC ID, EU95T8IMPULSE80-2 (note that Plus Impulse was a brand name under which some Quantum drives were sold). The FCC application is from March 17, 1989, and it mentions a "hard disk controller card for internal & external hard disk drives".Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Rich writes:The holiday season has brought us major releases of three lighthouse projects of the Free Software world:Krita has reached version 5.0 on the 23rd: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/Blender already got to version 3.0 on the 3rd: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/and KiCAD hit 6.0 on the 25th: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/The upgrades are significant, and these three applications already rule their domains at the entry level. How much further will they go?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
fliptop writes:Lasers have been demonstrated to be capable of all kinds of attacks, from breaking into a smart home to non-line-of-sight imaging. Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the Technical University of Berlin demonstrated that physically isolated (air-gapped) computer systems can be hacked using a directed laser:
fliptop writes:MIT engineers have produced the world's longest flexible fiber battery. The rechargeable battery can be woven and washed, and could provide power for fiber-based electronic devices and sensors:
upstart writes:How do our organs know when to stop growing? A multidisciplinary team led by researchers from UNIGE and MPIPKS has solved with a mathematical equation the mystery of how an organ changes its size depending on the size of the animal.