This Pocket Multitool Weighs less than a Penny
A multitool that weighs less than a penny? Yes, it exists. This video by [ToolTechGeek] shows his titanium flat-cut design tipping the scales at only 1.9 grams—lighter than the 2.5-gram copper penny jingling in your pocket. His reasoning: where most everyday carry (EDC) tools are bulky, overpriced, or simply too much, this hack flips the equation: reduce it to the absolute minimum, yet keep it useful.
You might have seen this before. This second attempt is done by laser-cutting titanium instead of stainless steel. Thinner, tougher, and rust-proof, titanium slashes the weight dramatically, while still keeping edges functional without sharpening. Despite the size, this tool manages to pack in a Phillips and flathead screwdriver, a makeshift saw, a paint-lid opener, a wire bender (yes, tested on a paperclip), and even a 1/4″ wrench doubling as a bit driver. High-torque screwdriving by using the long edges is a clever exploit, and yes—it scrapes wood, snaps zip ties, and even forces a bottle cap open, albeit a bit roughly.
It’s not about replacing your Leatherman; it’s about carrying something instead of nothing. Ultra-minimalist, featherlight, pocket-slip friendly—bet you can’t find a reason not to just have it in your pocket.
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Using the 74HC595 Shift Register to Drive 7-Segment Displays
In a recent video our hacker [Electronic Wizard] introduces the 74HC595 shift register and explains how to use it to drive 7-segment displays.
[Electronic Wizard] explains that understanding how to apply the 74HC595 can increase the quality of your projects and also help keep the demands on the number of pins from your microcontroller to manageable levels. If you’re interested in the gory details you can find a PDF datasheet for the 74HC595 such as this one from Texas Instruments.
[Electronic Wizard] explains further that a shift register is like a small one byte memory where its data is directly available on its eight output pins, no input address required. When you pulse the clock pin (CLK) each bit in the eight bit memory shifts right one bit, making room for a new bit on the left. The bits that fall off the right hand side can daisy chain into another 74HC595 going out on pin 9 and coming in on pin 14.
[Electronic Wizard] goes on to extol the virtues of pin 13, the active-low Output Enable, which can be used to make sure junk doesn’t appear on your 7-segment displays during initialization. Also the 74HC595 can provide current itself which lessens the power demands on your micro.
[Electronic Wizard] covers how to use multiplexing to drive multiple 7-segment displays but notes the drawbacks of this method including large pin counts and high frequency flashing which, while invisible to the human eye, can become visible on some cameras and recording equipment making the 74HC595 a superior solution to multiplexing.
The bottom line is that using only three pins from the microcontroller you can drive one or more 7-segment displays. To learn more, including how to use the other pins and features of the 74HC595, be sure to click through to watch the video. If you’re interested in the 74HC595 you might like to read about how the Bus Pirate 5 used two of them to get an extra 16 pins on the board.
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How Intel’s 386 Protects Itself From ESD, Latch-up and Metastability
To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections have to be made. Although this may seem straightforward, these I/O pads form a major risk to the chip’s functioning and integrity, in the form of electrostatic discharge (ESD), a type of short-circuit called a latch-up and metastability through factors like noise. Shielding the delicate ASIC from the cruel outside world is the task of the I/O circuitry, with [Ken Shirriff] recently taking an in-depth look at this circuity in Intel’s 386 CPU.
The 386 has a total of 141 of these I/O pads, each connected to a pin on the packaging with a delicate golden bond wire. ESD is on the top of the list of potential risks, as a surge of high voltage can literally blow a hole in the circuitry. The protective circuit for this can be seen in the above die shot, with its clamping diodes, current-limiting resistor and a third diode.
Latch-up is the second major issue, caused by the inadvertent creation of parasitic structures underneath the P- and NMOS transistors. These parasitic transistors are normally inactive, but if activated they can cause latch-up which best case causes a momentary failure, but worst case melts a part of the chip due to high currents.
To prevent I/O pads from triggering latch-up, the 386 implements ‘guard rings’ that should block unwanted current flow. Finally there is metastability, which as the name suggests isn’t necessarily harmful, but can seriously mess with the operation of the chip which expects clean binary signals. On the 386 two flip-flops per I/O pad are used to mostly resolve this.
Although the 386’s 1985-era circuitry was very chonky by today’s standards, it was still no match for these external influences, making it clear just how important these protective measures are for today’s ASICs with much smaller feature sizes.
In addition to Planet Nine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon, according to a new preprint study.#TheAbstract
A ‘Warp’ In Our Solar System Might Be an Undiscovered World: Planet Y
Scientists have discovered possible hints of an undiscovered world in the solar system—nicknamed “Planet Y”—orbiting about 100 to 200 times farther from the Sun than Earth, according to a new study.The newly proposed planet, assuming it exists, is predicted to be somewhere between Mercury and Earth in scale, which would likely make it detectable within the next few years. It is distinct from Planet Nine or Planet X, another hypothetical planet that is predicted to be much larger and more distant than Planet Y.
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Scientists speculated about the potential existence of Planet Y after discovering a strange “warp” in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, reports the study, which was posted on the preprint server arXiv on Wednesday.“We still are skeptical because it's not a ‘grand slam’ signal by any means,” said Amir Siraj, a graduate student in astrophysics at Princeton University who led the study, in a call with 404 Media. “At the most, it's a hint—or it’s suggestive of—an unseen planet.” The paper has been accepted for publication in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Siraj said.
Siraj and his co-authors made the discovery while laying the groundwork for an upcoming search for Planet Nine. For more than a decade, scientists have debated whether this hypothetical world—roughly five to ten times as massive as Earth, making it a “super-Earth” or “mini-Neptune”—is orbiting at a distance of at least 400 astronomical units (AU), where one AU is the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Scientists came up with the Planet Nine hypothesis after observing small celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which appear to be gravitationally influenced by some hidden phenomenon. Planet Nine could be the culprit.
It’s an exciting time for Planet Nine watchers, as the next-generation Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile achieved first light in June. Rubin is expected to begin running its signature project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), by the end of 2025, and will spend a decade scanning the southern sky to produce a time-lapsed map that could expose Planet Nine, if it exists.
For this reason, scientists are gearing up for a worldwide race to be the first to spot the planet in the incoming LSST data. To prepare for the observational onslaught, Siraj and his colleagues have been developing new techniques to learn all they can about the murky Kuiper belt.
“This is something I've been focusing on for the past couple of years, particularly because we are going to be flooded very soon—knock on wood—with thousands of new TNOs from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s LSST,” said Siraj. “So, my philosophy for the past couple of years has been, well, let me make sure I know everything that I can know from all the efforts so far.”
To that end, the team developed an improved technique for measuring the mean motions of objects in the distant Kuiper belt and comparing them to the plane of the solar system. Ideally, the mean plane of the objects’ orbits should fall in line with the solar system’s plane, but deviations could point to more evidence for Planet Nine.
Instead, the team’s novel approach found that the Kuiper belt’s mean plane was tilted by about 15 degrees relative to the solar system plane at ranges of 80 to 400 AU. This “warp” could be caused by many factors, such as orbital resonances with known solar system planets. But it could also hint at the presence of a small rocky world, lurking anywhere from three-to-five times as far as the orbit of Pluto.
“It was certainly a big surprise,” Siraj said. “If this warp holds up, the best explanation we can come up with is an undiscovered and relatively small inclined planet, roughly 100 to 200 AU from the Sun. The other thing that was exciting to us is that, whether the warp is real or not, it will be very quickly confirmed or refuted within the first few years of LSST’s operation.”
If there truly is an undiscovered Mercury-ish world beyond Pluto, it is probably a homegrown member of the solar system that was ejected by the turbulent environment in the early solar system. Planet Nine, in contrast, could have either formed in the solar system, or it could have been a wandering exoplanet that was gravitationally captured by the solar system.
“The solar system probably formed with a lot of planetary embryos,” Siraj said. “There were probably a lot of bodies that were roughly Mercury-mass and most of them likely were just scattered out of the solar system like balls in a pinball machine during the violent stages of solar system formation.”
“That would definitely be the most likely and possible formation scenario for such an object,” he added. “I think it would be very unlikely for an orbit like this to be produced from a capture event.”
Time will tell whether or not the warp represents a lost world that was kicked out of our local neighborhood more than four billion years ago. But the intense focus on the outer solar system and its many mysteries, spurred by LSST, is sure to bring a flood of new discoveries regardless. Indeed, the hypothetical existence of Planet Y does not rule out the existence of Planet Nine (and vice versa) so there may well be multiple mysterious worlds waiting to be added to our solar family.
“It is really remarkably hard to see objects in the outer solar system,” Siraj said. “These kinds of measurements were not even remotely possible 20 years ago, so this speaks to the technological progress that's been made. It is potentially putting us into an era in astronomy that's unfamiliar these days, but was much more familiar in, say, the 1700s or 1800s—the idea of adding another planet to our own solar system.”
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
Planet Nine's existence was discovered by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown through mathematical modeling and computer simulations.California Institute of Technology
Linux Fu: Windows Virtualization the Hard(ware) Way
As much as I love Linux, there are always one or two apps that I simply have to run under Windows for whatever reason. Sure, you can use wine, Crossover Office, or run Windows in a virtual machine, but it’s clunky, and I’m always fiddling with it to get it working right. But I recently came across something that — when used improperly — makes life pretty easy. Instead of virtualizing Windows or emulating it, I threw hardware at it, and it works surprisingly well.
Once Upon a Time
First, a story. Someone gave me a Surface Laptop 2 that was apparently dead. It wouldn’t charge, and you can’t remove the keyboard without power. Actually, you can with a paper clip, and I suggested pulling it to see if the screen would charge by itself. They said they had already bought a new computer, so they didn’t care.
Unsurprisingly, once I popped the keyboard off, the computer charged and was fine. You just have to replace the keyboard or use another one. Or use it as a tablet, which it is set up for anyway. But I have plenty of laptops and computers of every description. What was I going to do with this nice but keyboardless computer?
Coincidence
About this same time, I’d been moving my VirtualBox Windows installs over to KVM. That’s a pain if you’ve ever done it, but it performs well and works well. Then I found WinApps. This is a simple script setup that runs Windows in your choice of virtual machine and can pull a single application into an RDP client on your desktop. The effect is that you can have, for example, Microsoft Word just sitting on your desktop like any other program. It also wires up the application so you can, say, open a PowerPoint directly using a real copy of PowerPoint running in the virtual machine.
It works great, except for one thing. When Windows is running, your disk thrashes like crazy. That’s probably not very surprising since the Windows VM image is in a file, so everything goes through the Windows file system and then the Linux file system. Between my SSD cache and my RAID array, there’s a lot going on there. The performance wasn’t bad, but the disk going wild was annoying, and it would freeze up here and there while the drive was overwhelmed.
Virtually Reality, for Real
But what about WinApps? It points to a virtual machine in KVM or Docker. Why not let it point to a real piece of hardware on the network? I could put the Surface out of the way and then run my choice of Windows software right on my desktop with hardware speeds only limited by the network.
Rather than keep you in suspense, it worked. The program allows you to set your virtualization type and one of them is “manual.” Presumably, you’d usually start a VM yourself, but in this case, just the IP address of the remote Windows box is all you need.
Is it that Easy?
Well, almost. There were two small issues. For one thing, you need to run an install script on the Windows box. You can do that before you set up, while you enable Remote Desktop. Here’s what the directions say:
Next, you will need to make some registry changes to enable RDP Applications to run on the system. Start by downloading the RDPApps.reg file, right-clicking on the Raw button, and clicking on Save target as. Repeat the same thing for the install.bat and the NetProfileCleanup.ps1. Do not download the Container.reg.
The other issue is that I have two monitors that are separated, with one at the bottom left and one at the top right of a large rectangle, and lots of blank wall between them. The xfreerdp program hates that. I had to fiddle with the settings quite a bit, and you may have different results.
One thing I did to be safe was to go get the latest version of xfreerdp and install it. You can point to it in the WinApps configuration file. Sometimes, the programs in your distro’s repositories can be pretty old. I wanted to make sure I had the latest RDP client.
For normal operations, these options worked:
RDP_FLAGS="/cert:tofu /sound /microphone +home-drive /span /multimon:force /mouse-relative /dynamic-resolution"
I also had to edit ~/.local/bin/winapps to change the options for the “windows” run (which starts a full-screen windows session) to:
# Open Windows RDP session.
dprint"WINDOWS"
$FREERDP_COMMAND \
/d:"$RDP_DOMAIN"\
/u:"$RDP_USER"\
/p:"$RDP_PASS"\
/scale:"$RDP_SCALE"\
+auto-reconnect\
/monitors:0\
/wm-class:"Microsoft Windows"\
/t:"Windows RDP Session [$RDP_IP]"\
/v:"$RDP_IP"&>/dev/null &
Bugs!
While I was in there, I also fixed a bug. The script (and the installation script) can’t figure out that my user is in the right group to run virtual machines, so if you plan on using real virtualization, you might have to fix it or, do what I did, and comment that test out of the main program and the installer. However, if you are using manual mode, that shouldn’t be a problem. The installer also tells me that ~/.local/bin isn’t on my path, but it is. That’s safe to ignore.
There seem to be some other issues. For example, while the installer sets up the ~/local/bin directory, it didn’t add any links to my start menu. I think it was supposed to. Of course, it is trivial to just add your own menu items, which you’ll need to do for non-standard programs, anyway.
Proof in the Pudding
Does it work? Well, there’s Microsoft Word running on my KDE desktop. You might have to rearrange or resize a Window when you first launch it. If that bothers you, write a rule to fix the window position. Most of the time, it works well enough. You can also go full screen and back (Control+Alt+Enter). Anything you can normally do in a RDP session, you can do here.
Is it perfect? Nope. You can, in theory, redirect USB devices, but it will be kludgy and probably slow. I still use KVM for things that have to talk to a USB device. Of course, you can also hang the USB device off the Windows machine. The default setup maps your home directory to Windows, but you can fix it to map other places, too (and make sure the config file knows where your removable media mounts, too). The system autodetects many apps, but there is a manual mode that can, in theory, run anything. Or, you can pull up Windows Explorer and run any application you want.
This would be a perfect thing to use an old computer sitting around or a junk store small form factor PC that you can pick up for nearly nothing. You won’t be gaming on it or anything, but it is perfectly usable for that strange Word document or EPROM programmer software.
Honestly, it’s gotten to the point where having WSL on Windows means I barely notice which OS I’m on 99% of the time. Most of the apps I use will run on either system, but I still prefer the control I have on Linux and find it easier to fix issues there. At least dual booting is mostly a thing of the past.
Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok#News #AISlop
Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok
TikTok is full of AI slop videos about the National Guard’s deployment in Washington, D.C., some of which use Google’s new VEO AI video generator. Unlike previous efforts to flood the zone with AI slop in the aftermath of a disaster or major news event, some of the videos blend real footage with AI footage, making it harder than ever to tell what’s real and what’s not, which has the effect of distorting people’s understanding of the military occupation of DC.At the start of last week, the Trump administration announced that all homeless people should immediately move out of Washington DC. This was followed by an order to Federal agents to occupy the city and remove tents where homeless people had been living. These events were reported on by many news outlets, for example, this footage from NBC shows the reality of at least one part of the exercise. On TikTok, though, this is just another popular trending topic, where slop creators and influencers can work together to create and propagate misinformation.
404 Media has previously covered how perceptions of real-life events can be quickly manipulated with AI images and footage; this is more of the same; with the release of new, better AI video creation tools like Google’s VEO, the footage is more convincing than ever.
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Some of the slop is obvious fantasy-driven engagement farming and gives itself away aesthetically or through content. This video and this very similar one show tents being pulled from a vast field into the back of a moving garbage truck, with the Capitol building in the background, on the Washington Mall. They’re not tagged as AI, but at least a few people in the comments are able to identify them as such; both videos still have over 100,000 views. This somehow more harrowing one feat. Hunger Games song has 41,000.@biggiesmellscoach Washington DC cleanup organized by Trump. Homeless are now given secure shelters, rehab, therapy, and help. #washingtondc #fyp #satire #trending #viral ♬ origineel geluid - nina.editssWith something like this video, made with VEO, the slop begins to feel more like a traditional news report. It has 146,000 views and it’s made of several short clips with news-anchorish voiceover. I had to scroll down past a lot of “Thank you president Trump” and “good job officers” comments to find any that pointed out that it was fake, even though the watermark for Google’s VEO generator is in the corner.
The voiceover also “reports” semi-accurately on what happened in DC, but without any specifics: “Police moved in today, to clear out a homeless camp in the city. City crews tore down tents, packed up belongings, and swept the park clean. Some protested, some begged for more time. But the cleanup went on. What was once a community is now just an empty field.” I found the same video posted to X, with commenters on both platforms taking offence at the use of the term “community.”
Comments on the original and X postings of this video which is clearly made with VEO
I also found several examples of shorter slop clips like this one, which has almost 1 million views, and this one, with almost half a million, which both exaggerate the scale and disarray of the encampments. In one of the videos, the entirety of an area that looks like the National Mall (but isn’t) has been taken over by tents. Quickly scrolling these videos gives the viewer an incorrect understanding of what the DC “camps” and “cleanup” looked like.
These shorter clips have almost 1.5 million views between them
The account that posted these videos was called Hush Documentary when I first encountered it, but had changed its name to viralsayings by Monday evening. The profile also has a five-second AI-generated footage of ATF officers patrolling a neighborhood; marked as AI, with 89,000 views.
What’s happening also is that real footage and fake footage are being mixed together in a popular greenscreen TikTok format where a person gives commentary (basically, reporting or commenting on the news) while footage plays in the background. That is happening in this clip, which features that same AI footage of ATF officers.
The viralsayings version of the footage is marked as AI. The remixed version, combined with real footage, is not.
I ended up finding a ton of instances where accounts mixed slop clips of the camp clearings, with seemingly real footage—notably many of them included this viral original footage of police clearing a homeless encampment in Georgetown. But a lot of them are ripping each other off. For example, many accounts have ripped off the voiceover of this viral clip from @Alfredito_mx (which features real footage) and have put it over top of AI footage. This clone from omivzfrru2 has nearly 200,000 and features both real and AI clips; I found at least thirty other copies, all with between ~2000 and 5000 views.
The scraping-and-recreating robot went extra hard with this one - the editing is super glitchy, the videos overlay each other, the host flickers around the screen, and random legs walk by in the background.
@mgxrdtsi 75 homeless camps in DC cleared by US Park Police since Trump's 'Safe and Beautiful' executive order #alfredomx #washington #homeless #safeandbeautiful #trump ♬ original sound - mgxrdtsiSo, one viral video from a popular creator has spawned thousands of mirrors in the hope of chipping off a small amount of the engagement of the original; those copies need footage, go looking for content in the tags, encounter the slop, and can’t tell / don’t care if it’s real. Then more thousands of people see the slop copies and end up getting a totally incorrect view of an actual unfolding news situation.
In these videos, it’s only totally clear to me that the content is fake because I found the original sources. Lots of this footage is obviously fake if you’re familiar with the actual situation in DC or familiar with the geography and streets in DC. But most people are not. If you told me “some of these shots are AI,” I don’t think I could identify all of those shots confidently. Is the flicker or blurring onscreen from the footage, from a bad camera, from a time-lapse or being sped up, from endless replication online, or from the bad green screen of a “host”? Now, scrolling social media means encountering a mix of real and fake video, and the AI fakes are getting good enough that deciphering what’s actually happening requires a level of attention to detail that most people don’t have the knowledge or time for.
People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real
AI generated slop is tricking people into thinking an already devastating series of wildfires in Los Angeles are even worse than they are — and using it to score political points.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Mozilla risolve una pericolosa RCE su Firefox 142
Diversi bug di sicurezza di alta gravità sono stati risolti da Mozilla con il rilascio di Firefox 142, impedendo a malintenzionati di eseguire in remoto codice a loro scelta sui sistemi coinvolti. L’avviso di sicurezza, pubblicato il 19 agosto 2025, rivela nove vulnerabilità distinte che vanno dalle escape sandbox ai bug di sicurezza della memoria, con diverse classificate come minacce ad alto impatto in grado di consentire l’esecuzione di codice remoto (RCE).
Questa falla consente la corruzione della memoria all’interno del processo GMP fortemente sandboxato responsabile della gestione dei contenuti multimediali crittografati, consentendo potenzialmente agli aggressori di aumentare i privilegi oltre le restrizioni standard del processo dei contenuto.
Un’ampia gamma di vulnerabilità è stata rilevata, tra cui il CVE-2025-9180, un aggiramento della politica di origine comune che interessa il componente Graphics Canvas2D.
Il team di sicurezza di Mozilla, composto dai ricercatori Andy Leiserson, Maurice Dauer, Sebastian Hengst e dal Mozilla Fuzzing Team, ha identificato questi bug di danneggiamento della memoria che dimostrano chiaramente la possibilità di sfruttarli per l’esecuzione di codice arbitrario .
Questa falla di sicurezza compromette il modello fondamentale di sicurezza web che impedisce l’accesso alle risorse multiorigine, consentendo potenzialmente a siti web dannosi di accedere a dati sensibili da altri domini.
Sono tre le vulnerabilità di sicurezza che presentano rischi significativi per l’RCE. La vulnerabilità CVE-2025-9187 riguarda Firefox 141 e Thunderbird 141, mentre la vulnerabilità CVE-2025-9184 riguarda Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird ESR 140.1, Firefox 141 e Thunderbird 141.
Il problema più diffuso, il CVE-2025-9185, riguarda diverse versioni di Extended Support Release (ESR), tra cui Firefox ESR 115.26, 128.13 e 140.1, oltre alle loro controparti Thunderbird.
Tra le vulnerabilità aggiuntive figurano CVE-2025-9181, un problema di memoria non inizializzata nel componente JavaScript Engine segnalato da Irvan Kurniawan e diversi problemi di minore gravità che interessano lo spoofing della barra degli indirizzi e le condizioni di negazione del servizio nel componente grafico WebRender.
L'articolo Mozilla risolve una pericolosa RCE su Firefox 142 proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
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16 countries burned Poland’s bridges on the CSA Regulation: What now?
Poland’s surprising compromise to ease the deadlock on the CSA Regulation – which has been stuck in the Council of EU Member States for the past three years – met with failure. This blog recaps the Polish compromise, the positions of the Member States on the proposal, and it could mean for the future of one of the most criticised EU laws of all time.
The post 16 countries burned Poland’s bridges on the CSA Regulation: What now? appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Cosa ci fanno tre navi da guerra americane in rotta per il Venezuela? Trump mette alla prova Maduro
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Nelle ultime ore la Casa Bianca ha confermato che tre cacciatorpediniere di classe Arleigh-Burke della US Navy fanno attualmente rotta per le acque internazionali al largo del Venezuela. Nel frattempo, sarebbero in
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Usa-Ue, raggiunto un primo accordo per gli acquisti militari. Tutti i dettagli
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Il futuro dei rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Stati Uniti inizia a prendere forma, anche sul piano del procurement militare. Washington e Bruxelles avrebbero raggiunto una prima intesa su un accordo-quadro che ridisegnerà gli equilibri degli scambi tra le due
Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.
Wikipediax27;s founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.#Wikipedia
“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.#Features
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
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Do you know anything else about people using the Flipper Zero to break into cars? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.These tools are primarily sold for a fee, keeping their distribution somewhat limited to those willing to pay. But, there is the looming threat that this software may soon reach a wider audience of thieves. Straight Arrow News (SAN) previously covered the same tech in July, and the outlet said it successfully tested the tool on a vehicle. Now people are cracking the software, meaning it can be used for free. Discord servers with hundreds of members are seeing more people join, with current members trolling the newbies with fake patches and download links. If the tech gets out, it threatens to supercharge car thefts across the country, especially those part of the social media phenomenon known as Kia Boys in which young men, often in Milwaukee, steal and joyride Kia and Hyundai cars specifically because of the vehicles’ notoriously poor security. Apply that brazeness to all of the other car models the Flipper Zero patches can target, and members of the car hacking community expect thieves to start using the easy to source gadget.
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Il titolo dell’edizione di quest’anno è “Nei luoghi deserti costruiremo con mattoni nuovi”.
Ministero dell'Istruzione
📌 Dal 22 al 27 agosto il #MIM parteciperà al Meeting di Rimini! Il titolo dell’edizione di quest’anno è “Nei luoghi deserti costruiremo con mattoni nuovi”.Telegram
Ho appena saputo che Teva è un'azienda farmaceutica israeliana.
Le statine che prendo sono di Teva Italia e quella attuale sarà evidentemente la mia ultima confezione di questa marca.
Condivido questa informazione nel caso qualcun altro usasse prodotti Teva senza conoscerne l'origine.
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Garanzie di sicurezza per l’Ucraina, cosa può insegnare il caso maltese. L’analisi di Caffio
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
La proposta italiana di un gruppo di Paesi amici dell’Ucraina che si impegnino ad intervenire a difesa di Kyiv in caso di aggressione, è un contributo realistico alla soluzione della crisi che è conforme al sistema di sicurezza internazionale delle Nazioni Unite. L’uso della forza è
“Mia moglie”, l’osceno gruppo Facebook di cui parlano tutti ma nessuno chiude
È partito il tam tam delle segnalazioni a Meta e alla Postale, ma i 30mila iscritti continuano a condividere indisturbati foto rubate e commenti misoginiNadia Ferrigo (La Stampa)
cuore e caffè
cuore e caffè
Portami il caffè a letto se vuoi ma non donarmi il tuo cuore dammi retta, so bene che puoi ma tienilo che ti potrà servire se non altro...ordinariafollia
Trump attacca i giudici dell’Aja: sanzioni per fermare le inchieste su Gaza
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Colpiti magistrati impegnati nelle indagini sui crimini di guerra, mentre Washington e Tel Aviv cercano di bloccare i mandati di arresto internazionali
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EDRi Annual Report 2024: Reinforcing digital rights and justice in uncertain times
Read about EDRi’s work in 2024 to build an inclusive and equitable digital world. Last year, we witnessed massive changes in the political realm after the European elections in June, and resisted growing attacks on important digital rights legislation while staying rooted in our long-term vision for digital futures.
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Neutrino da record del 2023, ora sappiamo che non era un'illusione
Un nuovo studio conferma che Km3-230213A, il neutrino con più energia mai rilevato, non era un errore statistico. Ma rimane il mistero sulla sua origineJorge Garay (Wired Italia)
The Department of Defense asks its civilian workers to apply for a "volunteer force" to support ICE that may involve working under "austere conditions.#Immigration
Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE
The Department of Defense sent an email to civilian employees Wednesday asking them to sign up for a “volunteer force” that will help both Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection with Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A job application page says the Department of Defense's civilian employees would be deployed to ICE and CBP sites and that they may be expected to work under “austere conditions.”“The Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities,” the email, seen by 404 Media, says. “Selected Department employees will have a chance to offer critical support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they fulfill the President’s intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.”
The Department of Defense has roughly 950,000 civilian employees.
The email suggests that DHS is trying to recruit from within the Department of Defense for CBP and ICE, which has a vastly expanded budget and has been trying to hire new agents at a huge scale. The email, which was addressed to “DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES,” asks current civilian Department of Defense employees to apply for the force on the USA Jobs website. The application page says the employees would be working largely in support roles at “facilities along the U.S. border or ICE and CBP facilities throughout the interior of the United States … Locations will extend to other geographic areas according to the need. Conditions at some locations could be austere. Deployment locations are based on need and are not negotiable.”
“At the discretion of ICE and CBP, Detailees will be assigned to perform some or all of the following duties at the several ICE and CBP facilities throughout the interior of the United States:
- Data Entry: Enter and maintain data elements in relevant information systems;
- Operational Planning Support: Assist ICE and CBP in developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border (SWB);
- Processing and Throughput Logistics: Assist ICE and CBP in managing the physical flow of detained illegal aliens from arrest to deportation, as well as manage associated data;
- Logistical Support: Assist ICE and CBP in managing the logistical planning to move law enforcement personnel, operational capabilities, and support equipment across the United States to improve efficiencies and the effectiveness of operations.”
In recent weeks, the Trump administration deployed the Marines to Los Angeles and deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington D.C. The Los Angeles deployments were in response to widespread protests against ICE raids in the city, but the military itself was not conducting immigration enforcement.
The email references a June memo sent by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to "senior Pentagon leadership" that reads "In support of the President' s priority of securing our borders, I am authorizing the detail of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support its operations at the United States southern border and with internal immigration enforcement."
Volunteer Force (DOD Detail)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Volunteer Force (VF) provides Department of Defense civilian employees an opportunity to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in their commitment to ensuri…USAJOBS
Le emozioni devono essere regolate nella mente. Aql (dall'arabo= intelletto) significa legare.
L'amore non è un'emozione, è uno stato del cuore. Anelo a raggiungere questo stato, a non identificare più l'amore nella mente.
Guarda sempre te stessa. Nei confronti degli altri sai che devi comportarti giustamente, e ti basta questo. Guarda sempre te stesso e valuta, giudica dove sta il bene e orientati sempre nella sua direzione.
Tu guarda te stessa perchè la vita è un dono di Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala per essere temporaneamente giudici e fautori di noi stessi, facilitati dalla guida e dalla saggezza dell'Amorevole. Siamo vicari su questa terra.
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CSA Regulation Document Pool
This document pool contains updates and resources on the EU's proposed 'Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse' (CSA Regulation)
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Rights groups oppose U.S. attorney's retaliation against press
Any serious journalist would tell you that it’d be journalistic malpractice for a local journalist not to report that a prominent public official listed a boarded-up house as his official residence in order to claim eligibility for his position. But that’s not how John Sarcone III, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, sees it.
He was reportedly “incensed” by reporting from the Times Union of Albany and ordered his subordinates to remove it from his office’s media list. In response, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), Demand Progress Education Fund, and Reinvent Albany have filed a complaint against Sarcone with New York’s Attorney Grievance Committee.
As the complaint explains, “Sarcone is the chief legal officer charged with enforcing federal law in a district that covers over 30,000 square miles and is home to 3.4 million people. And yet he either does not know or does not care about the ‘practically universal agreement that a major purpose of [the First] Amendment was to protect the free discussion of governmental affairs.’”
The complaint requests that the Committee open an investigation to determine whether Sarcone's conduct violates New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct, and exercise its power to impose sanctions, which can include disbarment.
FPF’s Director of Advocacy Seth Stern said: “All licensed attorneys — but especially top prosecutors entrusted to protect the public, not just their clients — should know better than to retaliate against newspapers for basic public-interest journalism. Sarcone has repeatedly abused his office in his brief tenure. The committee should ensure he can no longer undermine the Constitution and embarrass the legal profession.”
Demand Progress Education Fund Special Advisor Kate Oh stated: “A prosecutor who so flagrantly disregards his ethical and professional obligations and tramples over the First Amendment rights of the press should not be empowered to enforce the laws of our nation. Sarcone’s professional history is littered with red flags and must be investigated. No less than the public’s faith in the rule of law is at stake.”
Reinvent Albany Executive Director John Kaehny said: “With great power comes great responsibility, and U.S. Attorneys like John Sarcone are among the most powerful people in America. Unfortunately, Mr. Sarcone has grossly abused his authority and betrayed the public trust. Mr. Sarcone's flagrant misuse of his authority to retaliate against the Albany Times-Union and his repeated, well-documented dishonesty are completely unacceptable, unethical, and violate basic democratic norms and rules of professional conduct. The Times Union is one of the most respected newspapers and civic institutions in New York, and it's chilling to see it attacked by an unethical U.S. Attorney with a personal grievance.”
You can read the complaint here or below. If you’d like further comment, please contact media@freedom.press or eric@demandprogress.org ,or info@reinventalbany.org.
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Roba da matti 😂😂😂
Mentre i leader discutono, la Nato fa il punto sulla situazione sul campo in Ucraina. I dettagli
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Si è riunito oggi in videoconferenza il Comitato militare della Nato, l’organismo che riunisce i capi di Stato maggiore delle Forze armate dei 32 Paesi alleati. La sessione, presieduta dall’ammiraglio Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, ha
a must read:
8 Things Some A$$#ole Says in Every Debate About Sexism
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#feminism #antifeminism #patriarchy #sexism #sexualinequality
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Il Flamingo rappresenta una svolta per Kyiv. Ecco perché
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L’arsenale di Kyiv continua ad ampliarsi. L’ultima arma delle forze armate ucraine è un missile da crociera denominato “Flamingo”, le cui caratteristiche (e le implicazioni strategiche di queste) hanno attirato l’attenzione della comunità internazionale. Secondo i dati circolati il Flamingo, prodotto dalla
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Bernie Leadon, il polistrumentista membro fondatore degli Eagles, sta per pubblicare il suo primo album solista dopo 22 anni. Intitolato Too Late To Be Cool, il disco uscirà il 10 ottobre 2025 per la Straight Wire Records. Si tratta del terzo lavoro solista nella carriera di Leadon e il primo dopo Mirror
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Bernie Leadon, il polistrumentista membro fondatore degli Eagles, sta per pubblicare il suo primo album solista dopo 22 anni. Intitolato Too Late To Be Cool, il disco uscirà il 10 ottobre 2025 per la Straight Wire Records. Si tratta del terzo lavoro solista nella carriera di Leadon e il primo dopo Mirror
2x BROTECT Screen/Display Protector Smartphone Panzerfolien Notch (Vielleicht iPhone 13/14) - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 6,66 €
Breite: 66,5 mm
Höhe: 151,5 mm
Notchbreite: 8 mm
Die Folien sind neu, unbenutzt und original verpackt.
Leider weiß ich nicht für welches Smartphone, da sie vom Händler falsch ausgezeichnet waren. Mein Smartphone hat jedenfalls keine Notch 😀
Daher oben die genauen Maße.
Copilot vermutet: iPhone 13/14
Versand natürlich möglich.
Danfoss Thermostatkopf RAW 5010 RA-Click Fühlerelement 013G5010 DIN EN 215 - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 13,37 €
Mit Schnappbefestigung
Eingebauter Fühler
Frostschutzeinstellung (keine Nullabsperrung)
SAP-P11 S22767-B111-A100 Siemens Centronix-Parallel Schnittstelle - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 42 €
Originalverpackt.
Habe aber keine Ahnung, was das ist.
Aber es ist sehr selten! Möglicherweise Alien-Technologie! Und natürlich augenscheinlich neuwertig.
2x BROTECT Screen/Display Protector Smartphone Panzerfolien Notch (Vielleicht iPhone 13/14) - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 6,66 €
Breite: 66,5 mm
Höhe: 151,5 mm
Notchbreite: 8 mm
Die Folien sind neu, unbenutzt und original verpackt.
Leider weiß ich nicht für welches Smartphone, da sie vom Händler falsch ausgezeichnet waren. Mein Smartphone hat jedenfalls keine Notch 😀
Daher oben die genauen Maße.
Copilot vermutet: iPhone 13/14
Versand natürlich möglich.
⍼ Cassandra Seldon
in reply to Sandro Santilli (friendica) • • •Sei la prima persona che ha scritto qualcosa in merito, escludendo altri social.
Sandro Santilli (friendica)
in reply to ⍼ Cassandra Seldon • •@⍼ Cassandra Seldon così sappiamo che gli hashtag possono servire a qualcosa
Strike One !