A CH552G Devboard In Case You Missed It
Avviso contenuto: The board shown in real life, top and bottom, showing the pinout and alternate functions silkscreened. We might just never get tired of covering cool small cheap MCUs, and CH552G sure fits this description. Just so you know, here’s a Hackaday.io project y
Upgrade Your Test Probes
Avviso contenuto: One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either very expensive or unobtainable back …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/upgrade-your-test-probes/
Make 3D Scenes With a Holodeck-Like Voice Interface
Avviso contenuto: The voice interface for the holodeck in Star Trek had users create objects by saying things like “create a table” and “now make it a metal table” and so forth, …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/make-3d-scenes-with-a-holodeck-like-voice-interface
VAR Is Ruining Football, and Tech Is Ruining Sport
Avviso contenuto: Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner in extra time in …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/var-is-ruining-football-and-tech-is-ruini
Scopri LOKI: l’arma per il rilevamento di minacce informatiche
Avviso contenuto: Autore: Andrea Cavallini Oggi è sempre più importante e significativo essere efficienti nel controllo delle proprie infrastrutture; le azioni da mettere in atto per questo processo di verifica richiedono un doppio approccio, uno proattivo e l’altro post-a
Farewell MFJ
Avviso contenuto: We were sad to hear that after 52 years in operation, iconic ham radio supplier MFJ will close next month. On the one hand, it is hard not to hear …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/farewell-mfj/
DIY Passive Radar System Verifies ADS-B Transmissions
Avviso contenuto: Like most waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves tend to bounce off of various objects. This can be frustrating to anyone trying to use something like a GMRS or …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/diy-passive-radar-system-verifies-ads-
L’Intelligenza Artificiale Arruolata dalla Politica Italiana
Avviso contenuto: Uno spettro s’aggira per il mondo – lo spettro dell’AI. Le nazioni più industrializzate sono a lavoro. Alcune riunite in una sacra alleanza digitale, altre, facendo leva solo sulle proprie risorse. L’obiettivo: riuscire a sfruttare il vantaggio tecnologic
Campagna di phishing contro Zimbra. Come depotenziarla attraverso le risorse online
Avviso contenuto: Recentemente sulla nostra email whistleblower è arrivato un messaggio contenente un allegato in formato .PDF relativo ad una campagna di phishing contro Zimbra. L’utente che ci ha inviato la segnalazione – e che ovviamente ringraziamo – ha effettuato una
I Video della RHC Conference 2024: Il Panel “Cybersecurity in Italia, tra minacce informatiche ed Intelligenza Artificiale”
Avviso contenuto: La RHC Conference 2024, è un evento annuale gratuito creato dalla community di RHC per promuovere l’interesse verso le tecnologie digitali, l’innovazione e la consapevolezza dei rischi informatici. Quest’anno, l’edizione della conferenza si è svolta a Rom
I dati dell’UNICEF sono Online! 179.000 record provenienti da 11 paesi sono in vendita nelle underground
Avviso contenuto: Dalle nostre attività di monitoraggio che svolgiamo costantemente nelle underground, è emerso che il 27 aprile un messaggio misterioso è comparso su Breach Forums, un noto rifugio per traffici illegali di dati. L’utente, con una buona reputazione nel sott
AI Can Now Compress Text
Avviso contenuto: There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/ai-can-now-compress-text/
Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck
Avviso contenuto: There’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking Vault-Tec style, [Eric B] and [kc9psw]’s fallout-themed cyberdeck is no exception. The case looks like …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/hack-in-s
Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024
Avviso contenuto: Hackaday Links Column Banner Well, it’s official — AI is ruining everything. That’s not exactly news, but learning that LLMs are apparently being used to write scientific papers is a bit alarming, and Andrew …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/hac
You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer
Avviso contenuto: What do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’s …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/you-can-run-basic-on-an-old-hp-4592-protocol-analyzer/
Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs
Avviso contenuto: [Steve Mould] came across an interesting little phenomenon of blue flames zipping around a circular track. This led to diving down a bit of a rabbit hole about excitable mediums, …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/corral-some-zippy-blue-flames-in
DK8x23 - IA vs Lavoro
I soliti aedi a gettone dicono che la IA sostituirà questo lavoro e quell'altro (curiosamente, mai i loro). Davvero? Il caso dei programmatori suggerisce che le cose non siano così semplici come vengono dipinte.
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk8x23-ia-vs-lavoro--59683791
Una nuova MaaS fa capolino. E’ Brokewell: Il malware che colpisce con falsi aggiornamenti di Chrome
Avviso contenuto: I ricercatori hanno scoperto un nuovo trojan bancario Brokewell. Il malware si maschera da falsi aggiornamenti per Chrome ed è in grado di intercettare qualsiasi evento avvenga sul dispositivo, dai clic e le informazioni visualizzate sullo schermo al test
Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks
Avviso contenuto: [Nick Lombardy] took on a job almost every maker imagines themselves doing at some point. He built a giant LED wall and he did a damn fine job of it, …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/boneblocker-is-a-big-led-wall-that-rocks/
The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80!
Avviso contenuto: It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/the-z80-is-dead-long-live-the-free-z80/
Train a GPT-2 LLM, Using Only Pure C Code
Avviso contenuto: [Andrej Karpathy] recently released llm.c, a project that focuses on LLM training in pure C, once again showing that working with these tools isn’t necessarily reliant on sprawling development environments. …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/28/trai
Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator
Avviso contenuto: The Pi Pico is a capable microcontroller that can do all kinds of fun and/or useful things. In the former vein, [antirez] has ported a ZX Spectrum emulator to the Pi …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/pi-pico-gets-a-zx-spectrum-emulator/
Wine in Beverage Cans Had a Rotten Egg Problem, Until Now
Avviso contenuto: Aluminum beverage cans are used for all kinds of drinks, but when it comes to wine there are some glitches. Chief among them is the fact that canned wine occasionally …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/wine-in-beverage-cans-had-a-rotten-egg-probl
RGB LED HexaClock Doesn’t Actually Light Up the Night
Avviso contenuto: An RGB LED clock that resembles a color blindness test. Who says a clock can’t be both useful and beautiful? That seems to be the big idea behind the lovely little HexaClock from [Bulduper]. And boy, is it both. Probably …read more https://hackaday.com/2
3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway
Avviso contenuto: So often, we see 3D printers used to create some nifty little tool for a tricky little job. Maybe it’s to lock cams together for a timing belt change, or …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/3d-printed-adapter-helps-you-eat-chicken-nuggets-on-the-h
Welcome Back, Voyager
Avviso contenuto: In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/welcome-back-v
Photo Shows Real Spiders From Mars
Avviso contenuto: A cornerstone of early 1970s rock music culture was the British singer David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, along with his backing band the Spiders from Mars. You can …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/photo-shows-real-spiders-from-mars/
How Additional Aerodynamic Drag Helped Make GTA III Work on PS2
Avviso contenuto: The PlayStation 2 was a revelation when it hit the market in 2000, and yet by modern standards, it’s almost hopelessly weak. In fact, it’s so under-powered, Rockstar developers had …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/27/how-additional-aerodynamic-dra
Un Attacco Ransomware fa molto male! Un miliardo di dollari spesi dalla Change Healthcare
Avviso contenuto: Tenendo in considerazione i 22 milioni di dollari pagati agli aggressori per il riscatto, a questi si sommano 850 milioni di dollari causati dalle successive conseguenze. Ecco perché la sicurezza informatica la paghi sempre e se non la paghi prima, il pre
Nearly-Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life
Avviso contenuto: We all have our shiny, modern computers for interacting with the modern world, but at times they can seem a little monochromatic. Even the differences between something like macOS and …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/nearly-destroyed-commodore-
Australian Library Uses Chatbot To Imitate Veteran With Predictable Results
Avviso contenuto: The educational sector is usually the first to decry large language models and AI, due to worries about cheating. The State Library of Queensland, however, has embraced the technology in …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/australian-library-uses-
Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter
Avviso contenuto: With the demands of modern computing, from video editing, streaming, and gaming, many of us will turn to a monitoring system of some point to keep tabs on CPU usage, …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/keep-tabs-on-pc-use-with-custom-analog-voltme
Build Your Own Class-E Musical Tesla Coil
Avviso contenuto: We’ve all seen a million videos online with singing Tesla coils doing their thang. [Zach Armstrong] wasn’t content to just watch, though. He went out and built one himself! Even …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/build-your-own-class-e-musical-te
2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: Spray Bottle Turret Silences Barking
Avviso contenuto: Ah, dogs. They sure like to bark, don’t they? [rrustvold]’s dog likes to bark at the door when a package arrives. Or when someone walks by the house, or whenever …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/2024-home-sweet-home-automation-spray-bottle-turr
Hackaday Podcast Episode 268: RF Burns, Wireless Charging Sucks, and Barnacles Grow on Flaperons
Avviso contenuto: Elliot and Dan got together to enshrine the week’s hacks in podcast form, and to commiserate about their respective moms, each of whom recently fell victim to phishing attacks. It’s …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/hackaday-podcast-episode-268-
L’Intelligenza Artificiale rallenta la sua crescita. Occorre più elettricità in un mondo così inquinato
Avviso contenuto: Per consentire una crescita globale dell’intelligenza artificiale, occorre risolvere il problema della mancanza di elettricità. Secondo i rappresentanti delle principali aziende tecnologiche, tra cui il miliardario Elon Musk, questo problema sta già limit
This Week in Security: Cisco, Mitel, and AI False Flags
Avviso contenuto: There’s a trend recently, of big-name security appliances getting used in state-sponsored attacks. It looks like Cisco is the latest victim, based on a report by their own Talos Intelligence. …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/this-week-in-securi
Microsoft nostalgic-mode: rende open source il codice per MS-DOS 4.0
Avviso contenuto: Microsoft e IBM hanno reso open source MS-DOS 4.0, un sistema operativo a riga di comando legacy su cui le due aziende hanno lavorato insieme oltre 40 anni fa. Questa versione segue l’open source di due precedenti versioni MS-DOS, 1.25 e 2.0, rilasciate n
Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo to 4.0
Avviso contenuto: We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/microsoft-updates
How To Cast Silicone Bike Bits
Avviso contenuto: It’s a sad fact of owning older machinery, that no matter how much care is lavished upon your pride and joy, the inexorable march of time takes its toll upon …read more https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/how-to-cast-silicone-bike-bits/