It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices, which is why many opt to forego ‘genuine’ manufacturer cartridges and get third-party ones instead. Many of these third-party ones are so-called re-manufactured ones, where a third-party refills an empty OEM cartridge. This is increasingly being done due to digital rights management (DRM) reasons, with tracking chips added to each cartridge. These chip prohibit e.g. the manual refilling of empty cartridges with a syringe, but with the right tweak or attack can be bypassed, with [Jay Summet] showing off an interesting HP cartridge DRM bypass using a physical man-in-the-middle-attack.

This bypass takes the form of a flex PCB with contacts on both sides which align with those on the cartridge and those of the printer. What looks like a single IC in a QFN package is located on the cartridge side, with space for it created inside an apparently milled indentation in the cartridge’s plastic. This allows is to fit flush between the cartridge and HP inkjet printer, intercepting traffic and presumably telling the printer some sweet lies so that you can go on with that print job rather than dash out to the store to get some more overpriced Genuine HP-approved cartridges.

Not that HP isn’t aware or not ticked off about this, mind. Recently they threatened to brick HP printers that use third-party cartridges if detected, amidst vague handwaving about ‘hackers’ and ‘viruses’ and ‘protecting the users’ with their Dynamic Security DRM system. As the many lawsuits regarding this DRM system trickle their way through the legal system, it might be worth it to keep a monochrome laser printer standing by just in case the (HP) inkjet throws another vague error when all you want is to just print a text document.

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The Bigscreen Beyond is a small and lightweight VR headset that in part achieves its small size and weight by requiring custom fitting based on a facial scan. [Val’s Virtuals] managed to improve fitment even more by redesigning a facial interface and using a 3D scan of one’s own head to fine-tune the result even further. The new designs distribute weight more evenly while also providing an optional flip-up connection.

It may be true that only a minority of people own a Bigscreen Beyond headset, and even fewer of them are willing to DIY their own custom facial interface. But [Val]’s workflow and directions for using Blender to combine a 3D scan of one’s face with his redesigned parts to create a custom-fitted, foam-lined facial interface is good reading, and worth keeping in mind for anyone who designs wearables that could benefit from custom fitting. It’s all spelled out in the project’s documentation — look for the .txt file among the 3D models.

We’ve seen a variety of DIY approaches to VR hardware, from nearly scratch-built headsets to lens experiments, and one thing that’s clear is that better comfort is always an improvement. With newer iPhones able to do 3D scanning and 1:1 scale scanning in general becoming more accessible, we have a feeling we’re going to see more of this DIY approach to ultra-customization.

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Il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti ha accusato tre hacker iraniani presumibilmente coinvolti in un attacco informatico alla campagna dell’ex presidente Donald Trump.

Secondo i funzionari Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, Yasar Balaghi e Masoud Jalili agivano per conto del Corpo delle Guardie della Rivoluzione Islamica (IRGC), una delle strutture chiave dell’Iran nota per le sue attività di spionaggio informatico. Le accuse coprono il periodo dal 2020 al settembre 2024.Gli hacker hanno hackerato e rubato documenti della campagna di Trump e hanno preso di mira funzionari e rappresentanti dei media statunitensi. Le loro azioni, secondo l’FBI, miravano a minare i processi democratici nel paese.

Inoltre, hanno tentato di trasmettere le informazioni rubate al team di Biden e ai rappresentanti dei media, ma i loro tentativi non hanno avuto successo poiché nessuno dei destinatari ha risposto ai loro messaggi.Gli inquirenti sostengono che gli attacchi informatici mirassero anche alla “vendetta per la morte” del generale Qassem Soleimani, ucciso nel gennaio 2020 durante un’operazione militare statunitense.

Jalili, che secondo l’accusa è un membro del gruppo paramilitare Basij, e altri due hacker sono stati coinvolti in una serie di attacchi nel corso di diversi anni che hanno colpito sia agenzie governative statunitensi che organizzazioni internazionali.Parallelamente alle accuse, le autorità statunitensi e britanniche hanno emesso un avvertimento congiunto sulle tattiche utilizzate dai gruppi informatici iraniani e hanno imposto sanzioni a sette funzionari iraniani legati all’IRGC.

In particolare, queste sanzioni riguardano gli attacchi hacker volti a interrompere il processo elettorale negli Stati Uniti nel 2020 e nel 2024.L’indagine è in corso e le autorità non hanno escluso ulteriori accuse contro coloro che sono coinvolti in attacchi volti a minare la fiducia nelle elezioni americane.

L'articolo Hacker iraniani nel mirino dell’FBI: Attacco alla campagna di Donald Trump! proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

A couple weeks ago, we had a kerfuffle here on Hackaday: A writer put out a piece with AI-generated headline art. It was, honestly, pretty good, but it was also subject to all of the usual horrors that get generated along the way. If you have played around with any of the image generators you know the AI-art uncanny style, where it looks good enough at first glance, but then you notice limbs in the wrong place if you look hard enough. We replaced it shortly after an editor noticed.

The story is that the writer couldn’t find any nice visuals to go with the blog post, with was about encoding data in QR codes and printing them out for storage. This is a problem we have frequently here, actually. When people write up a code hack, for instance, there’s usually just no good image to go along with it. Our writers have to get creative. In this case, he tossed it off to Stable Diffusion.

Some commenters were afraid that this meant that we were outsourcing work from our fantastic, and very human, art director Joe Kim, whose trademark style you’ve seen on many of our longer-form original articles. Of course we’re not! He’s a genius, and when we tell him we need some art about topics ranging from refining cobalt to Wimshurst machines to generate static electricity, he comes through. I think that all of us probably have wanted to make a poster out of one or more of his headline art pieces. Joe is a treasure.

But for our daily blog posts, which cover your works, we usually just use a picture of the project. We can’t ask Joe to make ten pieces of art per day, and we never have. At least as far as Hackaday is concerned, AI-generated art is just as good as finding some cleared-for-use clip art out there, right?

Except it’s not. There is a lot of uncertainty about the data that the algorithms are trained on, whether the copyright of the original artists was respected or needed to be, ethically or legally. Some people even worry that the whole thing is going to bring about the end of Art. (They worried about this at the introduction of the camera as well.) But then there’s also the extra limbs, and AI-generated art’s cliche styles, which we fear will get old and boring after we’re all saturated with them.

So we’re not using AI-generated art as a policy for now, but that’s not to say that we don’t see both the benefits and the risks. We’re not Luddites, after all, but we are also in favor of artists getting paid for their work, and of respect for the commons when people copyleft license their images. We’re very interested to see how this all plays out in the future, but for now, we’re sitting on the sidelines. Sorry if that means more headlines with colorful code!

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#AlexandraPetrova #AntonioFrancescoPerozzi #città #dialoghi #GildaPolicastro #GuidoMazzoni #LauraPugno #MariaTeresaCarbone #PiazzaVittorio #ValerioMattioli

26-27-28 settembre, roma: “piazza vittorio. in una qualunque parte del pianeta _ dialoghi”

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la parola ambientáli può legittimamente vedersi anticipato l’accento: ambièntali, autoesortazione del registrante affinché centri/colga cronotopicamente i cittadini, o i concittadini. (dove non altrimenti specificato, s’intenda dunque: Roma).

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#ambientali #audio #podcast

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la parola ambientáli può legittimamente vedersi anticipato l’accento: ambièntali, autoesortazione del registrante affinché centri/colga cronotopicamente i cittadini, o i concittadini. (dove n…

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(sempre che i fascisti al governo non la proibiscano/ostacolino)

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#antisionismo #Cisgiordania #ffffff #Gaza #genocidio #manifestazione #manifestazioneNazionale #Palestina #PalestinaLibera #WestBank

5 ottobre, roma: manifestazione nazionale per la palestina

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#art #arte #JeanMichelBasquiat

Casalta on Instagram: "Jean-Michel Basquiat, To Repel Ghosts (1986). - #jeanmichelbasquiat"

12 likes, 0 comments - casalta.nyc on September 23, 2024: "Jean-Michel Basquiat, To Repel Ghosts (1986). - #jeanmichelbasquiat".

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#Balestrini #BeniaminoDellaGala #CeciliaBello #CeciliaBelloMinciacchi #LibreriaLibraccio #NanniBalestrini #presentazione #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #StefanoColangelo #VociLontaneVociSorelle

video della presentazione di “come agisce nanni balestrini”, di cecilia bello minciacchi (firenze, 10 sett. 2024)

Visita l'articolo per saperne di più.

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A few days ago the source code for the popular Winamp music player was released into the world, with as we reported at the time, a licence that left a lot to be desired. Since then it seems some of the criticism has caught up with the company, for not only have they modified their terms to allow forking, they’ve reacted to a bunch of claimed GPL violations by removing offending files. Perhaps How-To-Geek are right in describing it all as an absolute mess.

The forking amendment means that with luck we’ll start seeing a few modified players descending from the Winamp code, and it seems that the GPL violations are more embarrassing technicalities than show-stoppers, but we have to wornder whether or not this makes for something with any more than historical interest. Perhaps its value stands in a lesson for corporate entities in how not to release their source, which sadly we expect will be taken by other organisations as an excuse not to do so.

If you’re following the Winamp source code saga you can read our coverage from when it came out. It will be interesting to see where this story goes.

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Prima o poi scoppierà la bolla dei grossi concerti primaverili-estivi organizzati e gestiti all’italiana maniera (con la chicca dei settori con “visibilità limitata”, fino ad arrivare ai tragicomici biglietti classisti “Vip package” che, per la modica cifra di 500 euro, “regalano”, a chi l’acquista, il posto migliore per fare i selfies e i video del palco, per farlo/a sentire privilegiato/a rispetto alla plebaglia che si deve accontentare del “posto in piedi”, e inoltre vi fanno accedere a una “area relax” ..... @Musica Agorà

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CHEATER SLICKS - I AM LOW / ROCK 'N' ROLL 7"

CHEATER SLICKS - I AM LOW / ROCK 'N' ROLL 7" - Meglio spendere centinaia di euro per questa bolgia infernale, o tornare a frequentare i circoli musicali, i localacci scalcagnati e i piccoli club, spendendo pochi soldi e condividendo il piacere di rit…

^{Reverend Shit-Man (In Your Eyes ezine)}

Un ripasso della politica americana, per chi avesse la memoria corta.
Video di 9 anni fa.
Attenzione alla risposta alla domanda al minuto 53:20 circa...
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(Per i più pigri allego il link ad un post su X dove si trova la risposta cui mi riferisco: https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1633892107466477569/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1633892107466477569&currentTweetUser=Kanthan2030)