A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometimes they also incorporate some circuitry. [Clovis Fritzen] has given us an ingenious example, in the form of a PCB ruler with a built-in thermometer.

This maybe doesn’t have the fancy seven segment or OLED display you were expecting though, instead it’s an ATtiny85 with a lithium cell, the minimum of components, a thermistor for measurement, and a couple of LEDs that serve as the display. These parts are interesting, because they convey the numbers by flashing. One LED is for the tens and the other the units, so count the flashes and you have it.

We like this display for its simplicity, we can see the same idea could be used in many other places.On a PCB ruler, it certainly stands apart from the usual. It has got plenty of competition though.

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Influenza, Influenza, Influenza… Bloccare l’influenza è la parola d’ordine negli Stati Uniti D’America, con qualsiasi mezzo. Con le sanzioni e ora con una proposta di reclusione e una maxi multa che equipara chi scarica DeepSeek al terrorismo.

Negli Stati Uniti, una nuova proposta di legge potrebbe comportare sanzioni severe, inclusi milioni di dollari di multe e pene detentive, per gli utenti dell’applicazione di intelligenza artificiale cinese DeepSeek. Il disegno di legge, presentato dal senatore repubblicano Josh Hawley, mira a “proibire alle persone negli Stati Uniti di promuovere le capacità dell’intelligenza artificiale all’interno della Repubblica Popolare Cinese“.

La legislazione proposta vieterebbe l’importazione di “tecnologia o proprietà intellettuale” sviluppata in Cina, con pene che includono fino a 20 anni di reclusione per i trasgressori. Le sanzioni pecuniarie previste ammontano fino a 1 milione di dollari per gli individui e fino a 100 milioni di dollari per le aziende coinvolte.

Sebbene il disegno di legge non menzioni esplicitamente DeepSeek, la proposta arriva poco dopo che il chatbot cinese è diventato l’app di intelligenza artificiale più popolare negli Stati Uniti, causando un calo nelle azioni delle aziende tecnologiche statunitensi. La rapida diffusione di DeepSeek ha sollevato preoccupazioni riguardo alla sicurezza, alla privacy e all’etica, inclusa l’incapacità dell’app di rispondere a domande su argomenti sensibili per il Partito Comunista Cinese.

Il presidente degli Stati Uniti, Donald Trump, ha descritto l’app cinese come una “chiamata al risveglio” per l’industria tecnologica americana, con la Casa Bianca che sta valutando le implicazioni di DeepSeek per la sicurezza nazionale. In risposta, la Marina degli Stati Uniti ha vietato ai suoi membri l’uso di DeepSeek sia per compiti lavorativi che per uso personale, mentre la NASA ha proibito la tecnologia di intelligenza artificiale su dispositivi e reti governative.

Anche diversi stati stanno considerando un divieto su DeepSeek. Il Texas è diventato il primo a implementare un divieto sugli apparecchi governativi. Il governatore del Texas, Greg Abbott, ha dichiarato: “Il Texas non permetterà al Partito Comunista Cinese di infiltrarsi nelle infrastrutture critiche del nostro stato attraverso applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale e di raccolta dati sui social media“.

Queste misure riflettono una crescente preoccupazione negli Stati Uniti riguardo all’influenza delle tecnologie cinesi e al potenziale rischio per la sicurezza nazionale. La proposta di legge e le azioni correlate mirano a proteggere le infrastrutture critiche e a limitare la diffusione di tecnologie che potrebbero compromettere la privacy e la sicurezza degli utenti americani.

L'articolo USA: DeepSeek come il Terrorismo! 20 anni di carcere e 100M$ di multa. La Proposta Shock proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

If you’re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those things. If you’re thinking about making the leap, [Simone Giertz] recently discussed all the perils and pitfalls of the process from idea to reality.

The TLDR is that there’s a big difference between making one item and making hundreds or thousands of them, which you probably already knew, but it is nice to see what sort of issues can crop up in this seemingly simple example of the Yetch Screwdriver Ring. It turns out that the metalworking skills of tool making and jewelry making rarely overlap in the contract manufacturing world.

[Giertz] also shares some of the more mundane, yet terrifying, parts of business like finally committing to bulk orders and whether it’s wise to go with intermediaries when working with suppliers overseas. She also keys us into parts of the process where things can go wrong, like how product samples typically use a different manufacturing process than bulk for practical reasons and how you need to have very specific quality control requirements not just decide if a product is good enough based on vibes.

If you’d like some more advice on making your own products, check out [Carrie Sundra]’s Supercon talk about Manufacturing on a Shoestring Budget.

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Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for example, wasn’t as straightforward as using a rotary encoder and a microcontroller. There are a few other ways of doing this, though, and [Void Electronics] walks us through an older piece of technology called a synchro (or selsyn) which uses a motor with a special set of windings to keep track of its position and even output that position on a second motor without any digital processing or microcontrollers.

Synchros are electromagnetic devices similar to transformers, where a set of windings induces a voltage on another set, but they also have a movable rotor like an electric motor. When the rotor is energized, the output windings generate voltages corresponding to the rotor’s angle, which are then transmitted to another synchro. This second device, if mechanically free to move, will align its rotor to match the first. Both devices must be powered by the same AC source to maintain phase alignment, ensuring their magnetic fields remain synchronized and their rotors stay in step.

While largely obsolete now, there are a few places where these machines are still in use. One is in places where high reliability or ruggedness is needed, such as instrumentation for airplanes or control systems or for the electric grid and its associated control infrastructure. For more information on how they work, [Al Williams] wrote a detailed article about them a few years ago.

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Mick Jagger famously said that you cain’t always get what you want. But this is Hackaday, and we make what we want or can’t get. Case in point: [Andrew Tudoroi] is drawn to retro LEDs and wanted one of Pimoroni’s micro-LED boards pretty badly, but couldn’t get his hands on one. You know how this ends — with [Andrew] designing his first PCB.

The Pitanga hat is equally inspired by additional fruit that [Andrew] had lying around in the form of an 8devices Rambutan board. (Trust us, it’s a fruit.) With some research, he discovered the HT16K33 LED driver, which checked all the boxen.

The first version worked, but needed what looks like a couple of bodge wires. No shame in that! For the next revision, [Andrew] added buttons and decided to make it into a Raspberry Pi HAT.

This HAT is essentially a simple display with a basic input device, and a beauty at that. You can see all the various cool displays that [Andrew] tried both here and in the project log. Although he included pads for an ARM M0 microcontroller, he never did populate it. Maybe in the future.

Of course, this project was not without its challenges. For one thing, there was power compatibility to wrestle with. The Pi can sometimes work with I²C devices at 5 V, but this isn’t ideal long-term. So [Andrew] put the LED driver on the 3.3 V I²C bus. Despite the data sheet calling for 4.5 to 5.5 V, the setup worked fine. But for better reliability, [Andrew] threw a dedicated I²C logic level converter chip into the mix.

Don’t forget, you can run a noble amassment of HATs with the PiSquare.

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This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize? And why the cryptocurrency angle? Listen to find out!

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Esperti di intelligenza artificiale e testi antichi hanno unito le forze per decifrare i rotoli carbonizzati dall’eruzione del Vesuvio del 79 d.C. Questi reperti unici furono rinvenuti nel 1750 tra le rovine di una lussuosa villa a Ercolano, un’antica città romana distrutta insieme a Pompei.

I rotoli della cosiddetta Villa dei Papiri potrebbero offrire all’umanità nuove conoscenze sulle opere filosofiche e letterarie del mondo antico. Tuttavia, la loro conservazione si rivelò al tempo stesso una benedizione e una maledizione: ricoperti di cenere vulcanica e carbonizzati dalle alte temperature, sopravvissero ma divennero fragili e quasi illeggibili. Ogni tentativo di dispiegarli manualmente si traduceva in distruzione.

Per oltre 250 anni, gli studiosi hanno cercato di trovare il modo di leggere questi testi. Nel 2023, diverse aziende tecnologiche hanno lanciato un concorso Sfida del Vesuvio, offrendo ricompense in denaro per i tentativi riusciti di decifrare i rotoli utilizzando tecnologie di apprendimento automatico, visione artificiale e ricostruzione 3D.

Questa settimana gli organizzatori hanno annunciato una svolta: i ricercatori sono riusciti a ottenere le prime immagini dell’interno di uno dei tre rotoli conservati nella Biblioteca Bodleiana dell’Università di Oxford. Secondo Brent Seals, uno dei fondatori del concorso, l’immagine contiene più testo recuperabile di quanto sia mai stato ottenuto tramite la scansione dei rotoli di Ercolano.

Per la scansione è stata utilizzata una potente sorgente di raggi X. Sorgente luminosa a diamante, con sede presso l’acceleratore di particelle di Harwell (vicino a Oxford). Poi l’intelligenza artificiale ha aiutato i ricercatori a rilevare i segni di inchiostro, a migliorarne la visibilità e a srotolare virtualmente il rotolo utilizzando la tecnologia di segmentazione.

Tuttavia, l’intelligenza artificiale è ancora lontana dall’essere ideale: è riuscita solo a distinguere singole parole dal testo. Una delle prime parole ad essere riconosciuta fu quella dell’antica parola greca che significa “disgusto“. I partecipanti al progetto sono fiduciosi che un ulteriore miglioramento dei metodi consentirà di decifrare un numero maggiore di frammenti.

Gli scienziati chiedono ai ricercatori di testi antichi di unirsi al lavoro per accelerare il processo di interpretazione del testo. Peter Toth, curatore della collezione greca della Bodleian Library, ha affermato che la ricerca è appena agli inizi. “Abbiamo bisogno di immagini migliori, ma il team è fiducioso che potremo migliorare ulteriormente la chiarezza e la leggibilità del testo“.

Uno degli obiettivi del progetto è quello di rendere la tecnologia disponibile ad altri istituti, in modo che i due rotoli rimanenti non debbano essere trasportati al centro di ricerca. Inoltre, la Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli conserva circa un migliaio di altri rotoli simili, che potrebbero contenere anche opere sconosciute del mondo antico.

L'articolo L’IA decifra un rotolo carbonizzato dal Vesuvio: la storia riemerge dopo 2000 anni! proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and that the longer we go without it, the worse we feel. Chronic sleep-deprivation is known to be even fatal. Yet exactly why do we need sleep? To rest our bodies, and our brains? To sort through a day’s worth of memories? To cleanse our brain of waste products that collect as neurons and supporting cells busily do their thing?

Within the kingdom of Animalia one constant is that its brain-enabled species need to give these brains a regular break and have a good sleep. Although what ‘sleep’ entails here can differ significantly between species, generally it means a period of physical inactivity where the animal’s brain patterns change significantly with slower brainwaves. The occurrence of so-called rapid eye movement (REM) phases is also common, with dreaming quite possibly also being a feature among many animals, though obviously hard to ascertain.

Most recently strong evidence has arisen for sleep being essential to remove waste products, in the form of so-called glymphatic clearance. This is akin to lymphatic waste removal in other tissues, while our brains curiously enough lack a lymphatic system. So is sleeping just to a way to scrub our brains clean of waste?

Defining Sleep

Drosophila melanogaster.
For us mammals, sleep is literally something that we grow up with, with newborn mammals spending most of their time sleeping. Yet sleep is a universal phenomenon, not just among animals, but also among unicellular organisms who display pronounced circadian rhythms. This suggests that there is a definite physical cause for these regular periods of rest, further supported by the fact that in animals which posses a brain there is not a single species which does not require sleep.

This is a pattern which can be seen by small animals like insects, with Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) requiring about 2.5 hours of sleep each day, according to a number of studies. These studies also showed that D. melanogaster will suffer the effects of sleep deprivation if forced to stay awake. Afterwards they will sleep for significantly longer, and if kept from sleeping for extended periods of time, these little flies will die from lack of sleep. All of which is very similar to us big-brained humans, albeit that we require more like 7-9 hours of sleep each circadian cycle.

With sleep clearly being an essential part of survival, animals have developed a wide range of ways to be able to do so safely. From everyone’s favorite avian theropod dinosaurs grasping firmly onto a tree branch or similar while asleep, to wasps using their mandibles to do much the same and various animals opting to only sleep one half of their brains at a time with unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, something observed with avian, aquatic and terrestrial species.

Waking Up From Mysticism

Throughout history, sleep was most commonly seen as something mystical, related to dreams and visions, with purportedly gods and other mystical sources sending dreams as auguries. Equally it was regarded as something very similar to death, with poets like John Keats postulating the question “Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream”. This is a cultural phenomenon which is still easy to recognize in today’s plentiful dream interpretation books, along with euphemistic phrases for death that make it seem akin to a very long sleep.

Since we began to be able to examine the sleeping brain in more detail, it’s become much easier to regard the brain as an organic computer with the observable activity from ‘brain waves’ providing a clear indication of what it is currently doing. This is also where we discovered the importance of slow-wave sleep (SWS), characterized by relatively slow delta waves. It’s the third stage in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, characterized by the least amount of activity in the brain. It is also associated with healing and restoration of the brain’s tissues and energy supplies.

Interestingly, although we have evidence of NREM being an essential part of the brain’s functioning, in particular memory consolidation, its role in memory retention has been put into question. It was originally thought that REM sleep was essential for consolidating memories into long-term storage, but studies have shown this assumption to be incorrect. More interestingly, staying awake while not sleep-deprived does not appear to negatively impact this learning process, with e.g. a 2004 review article in Cell by Robert P. Vertes suggesting that sleep may not be important at all for memory consolidation.

Theoretically this should mean that we animals would have no reason to carve out hours each Sun cycle for a long nap each day, barring the physical needs of the brain tissues that so gently slosh about in our craniums.

Mind’s Gutter

While our body’s cells are busy doing their thing, their metabolic wastes keep piling up and have to be removed. In vertebrates, this is handled by the lymphatic system. This is an extensive network of branching vessels, lymph nodes, lymphatic tissues, etc. which in many respects mirrors the body’s circulatory system and is in fact an extension of it. Through the lymphatic system a significant part of blood plasma is returned to circulation after it and its nutrients have reached tissues via capillary action, allowing for efficient drainage of metabolic wastes at the same time.
Norepinephrine-mediated metabolic waste clearance in the brain. (Credit: Natalie L. Hauglund et al., Cell, 2025)
Although the brain does not possess a lymphatic system of its own, in 2012 a ‘glymphatic system’ was proposed for the brain, recognizing the importance of the glial cells to achieve a similar function as the lymphatic system. This system would enhance the function of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that envelops the central nervous system (CNS), as simple diffusion won’t suffice. Subsequent studies have revealed more details of how this system works, with a very recent January 2025 study in Cell by Natalie L. Hauglund et al. uncovering the role of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) release during NREM sleep.

Released by the locus coeruleus in the brainstem, noradrenaline causes arteries to contract, which is a process that tends to fluctuate fairly randomly throughout the day as the animal is active. During NREM sleep, however, the release of noradrenaline in the mice-under-test was seen to oscillate in a very deterministic manner. This results predictably in the countless arteries that in the brain alternatingly contracting and relaxing, creating a pulsing motion that serves to pump CSF. Along with this motion metabolic waste products and anything else that’s not supposed to be there is effectively flushed from the brain into the surrounding CSF from where the waste products can be filtered out.

Perhaps one of the most fascinating findings here are the effects of sleeping aids, like the tested zolpidem. Crucial in this study was that the mice were allowed to fall asleep naturally rather than being put under artificially. This allowed for a direct comparison between natural and zolpidem-induced sleep. Somewhat disturbingly, the zolpidem mice showed half the level of noradrenaline waves and more than a 30% reduction in fluid transport. This strongly suggests that the use of such sleeping aids may hamper the brain’s glymphatic system, with potentially harmful consequences over time.

Other implications here are the potential effects of glymphatic system disorders, whether aging-related or not. As already suggested in the earlier referenced 2012 study by Jeffrey J Iliff et al., conditions such as Alzheimer’s and similar may be induced or worsened by a failing glymphatic system, as evidenced by the collecting of protein plaques amidst dying neurons.

Although this most recent study involved mice and not humans, there are very good reasons to assume that the same principle of noradrenaline-induced pulsations is something that persists within the brains of many if not most animals. Even a tiny fruit fly may have to take a break for this exact reason, sleeping for a few hours. Possibly dreaming fruitfully as its brain readies itself for another busy day.

Featured image: “Sleeping arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)” by Rama

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Nel cuore di Milano, La Dogana del Buongusto è un ristorante e vineria che celebra la cucina meneghina con un perfetto equilibrio tra tradizione e innovazione.

Un’esperienza gastronomica che conquista con piatti iconici come l’ossobuco con risotto alla milanese e la cotoletta tradizionale, accompagnati da una selezione di oltre 400 etichette di vino.

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In the process of making everything ‘smart’, it would seem that rings have become the next target, and they keep getting new features. The ring that [Aaron Christophel] got his mittens on is the SR08, which appears to have been cloned by many manufacturers at this point. It’s got an OLED display, 1 MB Flash and a Renesas DA14585 powering it from a positively adorable 16 mAh LiPo battery.

The small scale makes it an absolute chore to reverse-engineer and develop with, which is why [Aaron] got the €35 DA14585 development kit from Renesas. Since this dev kit only comes with a 256 kB SPI Flash chip, he had to replace it with a 1 MB one. The reference PDFs, pinouts and custom demo firmware are provided on his GitHub account, all of which is also explained in the video.

Rather than hack the ring and destroy it like his first attempts, [Aaron] switched to using the Renesas Software Update OTA app to flash custom firmware instead. A CRC error is shown, but this can be safely ignored. The ring uses about 18 µA idle and 3 mA while driving the display, which is covered in the provided custom firmware for anyone who wants to try doing something interesting with these rings.

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There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space environment is entirely hostile to human existence. Precision-engineered craft are the bare minimum just to ensure human survival. Even still, between the vacuum, radiation, micrometeorites, and equipment failures, there are plenty of ways for things to go catastrophically wrong beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

Despite the hazards, most spacefaring humans have completed their missions without injury. However, as we look to return to the Moon, tread on Mars, and beyond, it’s increasingly likely that future astronauts could pass away during longer missions. When that inevitably happens, the question is simple—how do you deal with death in space?

Unlikely, But Possible

For the Apollo 11 mission, there was no hope of rescue in the event something went wrong. A speech was prepared for President Nixon to cover off this dreaded eventuality. Credit: National Archives
Death almost never occurs during space missions. That’s a testament to the hard work and engineering prowess of space agencies around the world. As of early 2024, 644 people have reached space by the FAI definition—crossing the Kármán line at 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.

Of all of those people, just 18 have died during a mission. In each case, the mission ended with the deaths of the entire crew, and usually the destruction of the spacecraft itself. Notably, only once incident occurred above the Kármán line—during the Soyuz 11 mission, when the crew capsule underwent decompression in space.

In a total mission loss, where a vehicle has crashed or life support has failed, it has been left up to support crews to recover the remains of those involved. They are then handled with the usual deference and respect as per the cultures of those involved. The procedure is ultimately no different from any other sort of traumatic emergency event involving loss of life.

Often, practical rescue or recovery has been impossible for the most ambitious space missions, making it a moot point. Failure was often total. President Nixon famously had a speech on hand if the Apollo 11 mission didn’t go to plan and the astronauts got stuck on the Moon. Sombre words were all that was on offer; there was no more that could be done in the event of calamity.

Practical Realities

Longer missions increase the chance that an astronaut could die, even of natural causes, at some point along the way.
Future space missions, however, could see more difficult situations arise. When a whole crew or entire spacecraft is lost, it’s a tragedy, and there is little to do but pick up the pieces and mourn those lost. The problem becomes multifaceted when there is only a partial loss, such as one member of a larger crew—and their body or remains must be dealt with.

Imagine a mission to Mars. With our primitive technology, it would involve months of travel there, and many months back—not counting any time spent on the surface. Outside of accidents or equipment failure, the sheer length of the mission provides plenty of time for old-fashioned human fallibility to claim the lives of one or more crew members. A heart attack, a burst appendix, or even just choking on food could see an astronaut die, while the rest of the crew are left to deal with the loss of their fellow crew member.

On Earth, these problems are easily dealt with. If you die on land, you’re sent to a mortuary, and later interred, cremated, or dealt with in whatever way your next of kin or culture sees fit. If you pass on a plane, there are simple routines for dealing with your body until it can be delivered to the relevant authorities. On a ship, it’s much the same, and there’s also the tradition of burial at sea which is both well-established and particularly expeditious.

The logistics of space travel don’t present such convenient options. The body of a dead crew member presents multiple issues. Beyond the problem of decomposition and biohazard, there’s also the psychological ramifications for the other astronauts having to share a cramped craft with their deceased colleague. Simple solutions are out, too. UN regulations effectively forbid simply releasing bodies into space, particularly in orbits around Earth; even just the space junk problems make that a non-starter. Even if we were to make it to the Moon, or Mars, it’s not as simple as burying a body, either. At our early stage of exploration, it would be considered incredibly poor form to contaminate another planet or moon in this way. It could destroy a great deal of scientific value, and flies in the face of proper quarantine rules.
A body bag (referred to as the Body Back) was NASA and Promessa’s proposed solution to dealing with bodies during space flight. Credit: Promessa
NASA did develop one solution, at least to the back-of-the-envelope level. It worked with a green burial company called Promessa on a tidy and compact solution for dealing with astronaut deaths in space itself. The concept involved placing the deceased inside a GoreTex bodybag, and then placing the bag outside the craft, using the cold vacuum of space to freeze the body to incredibly low temperatures. The body would then be vibrated to the point it shattered and decomposed into something approximating a powder. Imagine smashing a flower frozen with liquid nitrogen, and you’re getting the right idea.

From there, the remains would be dehydrated until the bag contained just 25 kilograms or so of non-descript human remains. This solution was lightweight, which is critical for spaceflight, and solved the problem of decomposition and biohazard. It also saved space on the craft and avoided astronauts needing to bunk next to a decaying corpse of a fellow crew member. Beyond the study, NASA never developed this to a working viable capability.
The cold of space would freeze the body, which could then be vibrated into dust with a robot arm and then dehydrated for easy storage. Credit: Promessa
Realistically, deaths in space will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. In more recent years, NASA has spent some time refining its position on the topic, and astronaut Chris Hadfield noted that practice exercises referred to as ‘death sims’ are carried out, so crews don’t go in entirely unprepared. But ultimately, the specifics of any given situation will guide the response. An astronaut that dies during an extravehicular activity might be left in their spacesuit, as the airtight garment might ease conditions during their transport back to Earth, for example. Forensic examinations may take place, too, and basic funeral rites or similar may be undertaken. In extreme cases on longer missions, burial on planetary surface or airlock jettison may be considered to maintain viable conditions for the rest of the crew, even if regulations officially don’t allow it.
In extreme conditions, crews may have no option for bringing a deceased crewmember back to Earth. Credit: NASA
Death is never easy to deal with. Space travel just adds a whole lot of complications that make it a practical and logistical headache, beyond the usual grief and psychological trauma. It’s unlikely to get any easier, and space agencies will be hoping their prepared procedures will remain untested as long as possible as we continue to reach for the stars.

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I software NDR sono strumenti avanzati di cybersecurity che monitorano il traffico di rete, rilevano attività sospette e rispondono in tempo reale alle minacce. Offrono visibilità completa sulla rete, integrazione con altri strumenti di sicurezza e risposte automatizzate per ridurre il tempo di reazione agli incidenti.

L'articolo Software NDR: le soluzioni Network Detection and Response da considerare proviene da Cyber Security 360.

Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are currently working with Customs and Border Protection to “implement an efficient collection mechanism for the new China tariffs.’

Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would suspend acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts, effective immediately.

The Alert calls it a temporary suspension, but gives no timeline on when service will be restored. While details are still coming together, it seems likely that this suspension is part of the Trump administration’s Chinese tariff package, which went into effect at midnight.

Specifically, the administration looks to close the “de minimis” exemption — a loophole which allowed packages valued under $800 USD to pass through customs without having to pay any duties or fees. Those packages will now not only be subject to the overall 10% tax imposed by the new tariff package, but will now have to be formally processed through customs, potentially tacking on even more taxes and fees.

The end result is that not only will your next order of parts from AliExpress be more expensive, but it’s likely to take even longer to arrive at your door. Of course, this should come as no surprise. At the end of the day, this is precisely what the administration aims to accomplish with the new tariffs — if purchasing goods from overseas is suddenly a less attractive option than it was previously, it will be a boon to domestic suppliers. That said, some components will be imported from China regardless of who you order them from, so those prices are still going to increase.

Other carriers such as FedEx and UPS will also have to follow these new rules, but at the time of this writing, neither service had released a statement about how they intend to comply.

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L'intelligenza artificiale sta trasformando la cybersecurity, rendendo più efficiente il rilevamento e la risposta alle minacce informatiche. Grazie all'analisi predittiva e al machine learning, l'AI consente di individuare anomalie, automatizzare processi di sicurezza e migliorare la threat intelligence.

L'articolo Come l’AI sta migliorando la cybersecurity per le aziende e quali soluzioni la utilizzano proviene da Cyber Security 360.

Le policy di sicurezza sempre più restrittive e i controlli implementati da Google e Apple sui loro store ufficiali non bastano più. Come mitigare il rischio di app infette che, attraverso tecniche sempre più sofisticate come l'uso di payload malevoli e Optical character recognition (OCR), permettono ai cyber criminali di eludere i sistemi di verifica

L'articolo App infette negli store Apple e Google: come eludono i sistemi di sicurezza e come proteggersi proviene da Cyber Security 360.