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Protezione dei minori online, il nodo che il dibattito ignora
Verifica dell’età, potere delle piattaforme e i limiti di una critica che si ferma alla sorveglianza. L'UE prova a suggerire delle soluzioni per una tutela necessaria dentro un web dominato dagli interessi delle Big Tech.
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Il dibattito contemporaneo sui sistemi digitali di verifica dell’età sconta un limite ricorrente: tende a ridursi a una contrapposizione tra “protezione dei minori” e “libertà della rete”, senza quasi mai entrare nel merito delle architetture tecnich…Redazione CRS (CRS - Centro per la Riforma dello Stato)
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LINQ Max e i tipi valore nullable in C#: il comportamento inatteso che causa eccezioni a runtime
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When Ridge Racer hit the arcades in the early 1990s, it came in a few different versions. The last variant used three large CRTs to create a wraparound display for the player. Incredibly rare, it’s believed that only a single-digit number of machines remain in existence. [beaumotplage] has secured a remaining example, and been working to preserve this historical artifact.
The first mission when it comes to this machine was to dump the ROMs, which have thus far not been preserved in any major archive. With that done, [beaumotplage] worked to hack a version of MAME that could emulate the Three Monitor Version’s unique mode of operation. As it turns out, each screen is driven by its own arcade board, with the three boards linked via C139 serial links. To emulate this, the trick was simply to write some C139 linkup code and run three versions of MAME all at once, letting them communicate with each other as the original boards would have. It’s a little janky in operation right now, but it does work!
You can download the hacked version of MAME for three-monitor operation here, though note that this does not include the ROM dumps from the machine itself. We look forward to seeing if the hardware ends up getting a full restoration back to operational standard, too.
Overall, this work goes to show that arcade preservation and archival work sometimes requires getting deep into the nitty-gritty technical stuff.
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🚀 RHC Conference 2026: non è una conferenza, è un’esperienza!
Il 18 e 19 Maggio a Roma, la RHC Conference 2026 torna con un format completamente rinnovato: più pratica, più interattiva, più immersiva. Non sarai uno spettatore, sarai protagonista!
📍Lunedì 18 Maggio spazio alla pratica
👉 Iscriviti ai workshop: rhc-conference-2026-workshop.e…
📍Sempre il 18 prende il via la Capture The Flag “2149 – BREAK THE SPHERE”
Se sei un hacker etico è ora di segnarti. 60 flag online e in fisico per 26 ore ininterrotte senza limiti.
👉 Info e regolamento: redhotcyber.com/documents/rhc-…
📍Martedì 19 Maggio arriva la conferenza: visione, innovazione e speaker di alto livello
👉 Iscriviti alla conferenza: rhc-conference-2026.eventbrite…
👉 Programma: redhotcyber.com/linksSk2L/prog…
#redhotcyber #rhcconference #conferenza #informationsecurity #ethicalhacking
Registrazione per i Workshop di Lunedì 18 Maggio 2026 presso il Teatro Italia di Roma, in Via Bari 18.Eventbrite
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Operation PowerOFF: 21 paesi coordinati smantellano 53 piattaforme DDoS-for-hire e identificano 75.000 cyberattaccanti
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Europol ha coordinato la più vasta operazione globale contro le piattaforme DDoS-for-hire: 53 domini sequestrati, 4 arresti, 25 mandati di perquisizione e 75.000 utenti allertati
Booking.com has notified customers of a data breach that exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and full reservation details.dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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Russia's APT28 (Fancy Bear) has launched a new campaign deploying the previously undocumented PRISMEX malware framework, which uses steganography, COM hijacking, and legitimate cloud services for C2.dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, of course, which is described in a detailed blog post, and, a YouTube video by [TheScienceElf] we’ve embedded below.
The UNIVAC is a seriously weird architecture by modern standards: it’s got eighteen-bit words — yeah, not even a power of two — and one’s compliment arithmatic with a weird signed zero thing going on. There’s one 36-bit and one 18-bit register, and only 40,960 words of memory. Eighteen-bit words. Yeah, it was the 1960s and they were making it up as they went along.
[Nathan] wasn’t, entirely, as this weird system is both well-documented and already had an emulator — in BASIC, of all things. [TheScienceElf] used the docs and the existing emulator to recreate his own in Rust so he could test their somewhat crazy plan without wasting cycles on real hardware. The plan? Well, there are really only two options if you want to build modern software for a niche architecture: one is to add niche support to something like GCC, and the other is to write a RISC V emulator and compile to that. We’ve seen that second one before, and that’s the route [Nathan] took.
Of course, [Nathan] is a machine learning guy, so he made the best possible use of LLMs — though it’s interesting to see that unlike Z80 Assembly, Claude Code really couldn’t wrap its virtual head around the UNIVAC’s assembly language, and [Nathan] had to bang out the RISC V emulator himself. Emulator in hand, [Nathan] and friends had code to run on the museum UNIVAC. A single frame of an NES game took 40 minutes, but hey, at least it finished before they got back from lunch.
[TheScienceElf]’s YouTube treatment teases hosting Minecraft, but it wasn’t a full server, just the login portion. That they were able to get TCP/IP over serial and set up a handshake between a 2020s laptop and a 1960s computer is still mighty impressive. Just the work the Vintage Computer Federation put in to get and keep this antique running is mighty impressive all on its own, but it’s wonderful they let people play with it.
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La nuova frontiera del cybercrime: macchine virtuali per attacchi invisibili
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/la-nuova-…
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Sophos rivela come i cybercriminali usano QEMU per nascondere attacchi, rubare dati e diffondere ransomware in modo invisibile ai sistemi di sicurezza. Attenzione alla minaccia.Bajram Zeqiri (Red Hot Cyber)
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Attackers abuse QEMU to hide malware in virtual machines, bypass detection, steal data, and deploy ransomware without leaving any trace.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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La newletter che ti dà il buongiorno #cyber insieme al caffè!
Alcuni giorni anche la buonanotte con l’edizione serale 😂
È online da pochi giorni, un breve briefing senza approfondimenti, con le news più salienti delle ultime ore
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Con SecurityBriefing si vuole tenere traccia degli argomenti cybersecurity più rilevanti durante la giornata. Il Punto Cyber appunto su ciò che accade nel mondo della sicurezza a livello globale ma spiegato in modo rapido. Un Cyber Brief Italia.Il Punto Cyber
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There is a currently ongoing debate in the neuropsychology world about how we relate to the tools that we use. The theory of “tool embodiment” says that when we use some tools frequently enough, our brain recognizes them similarly to how it recognizes our own hands, for instance. There is evidence and counter-evidence from experiments with prosthetics, trash-grabber arms, and rubber dummy arms, just to name a few. It’s fair to say the jury is still out.
All I know is that today my trackball broke, and using a normal gaming mouse to edit the podcast was torture. It would be an exaggeration to say that I felt like I’d lost a hand, but I have so much motor memory apparently built up in my use of the trackball that switching over to another tool to undertake the exact same series of hundreds of small audio edits – mostly compensating for the audio delay across continents, but also silencing coughs and background noises – took an extra hour.
Anyone who has switched from one keyboard to another, or heck even from emacs to vim, knows what I experienced. My body just knows how to flick my wrist to make the cursor on the screen move over to the beginning of that “umm”. It’s not like I don’t conceptually know how to use a mouse either, and it does exactly the same job. But the mouse wasn’t my tool for this application. And saying that out loud makes it almost sound like I’m bordering on embodying my trackball.
I probably should have taken the trackball apart and replaced the bad tact switch on the left-click – that would have taken maybe twenty minutes – but I completely underestimated how integral the tool had become to the work. Anyway, as I write this, tomorrow is Saturday and I’ll have time to fix it. But today, I learned something pretty neat about myself in the process, even if I don’t think my single datapoint is going to rock the academic psych world.
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Visual Studio Code 1.117: agenti più potenti, permessi configurabili e nuove funzioni per gli sviluppatori
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[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ controller wasn’t really doing a great job at emulating the kind of action one would get with a real turntable. The solution was both mechanical and electronic in nature!
As stock, the Hercules MIDI rig lets you scratch in a relatively simplistic way. When it detects a finger touching the rotary control, it lets you scratch back and forth with great motion tracking. However, when you let go, playback resumes at regular speed instantaneously, which creates a somewhat inorganic sound.
The fix was to make some mechanical mods to the MIDI controller. [Jeremy] tried out a variety of different methods of using a motor to spin the rotary control continuously, from geared rigs to belt-driven setups. It was then possible to scratch on the controller, and then let it return to normal rotational speed, creating much smoother auditory transitions. However, this was imperfect, as for whatever reason, the Hercules rig would stop tracking the rotary control accurately unless it detected a finger was touching it. [Jeremy] worked around this by whipping up a slip-ring-like setup to keep his body permanently in contact with the rotary control even while spinning.
The results are pretty great—they’re both mechanically janky and fantastically satisfying to listen to. We’ve featured some other great DJ controller hacks over the years, like this sweet Pioneer UI upgrade.
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Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday patches 167 vulnerabilities including an actively exploited SharePoint Server zero-day (CVE-2026-32201) and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender race condition (CVE-2026-33825).dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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CISA has added CVE-2026-34197, a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) deserialization flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after active exploitation was detected within 48 hours of disclosure.dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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A Mirai variant called Nexcorium exploits a flaw in TBK DVRs to infect devices and use them in DDoS attacks, along with outdated TP-Link routers.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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Operation Masquerade: l’FBI smantella la rete di router compromessi dall’intelligence militare russa APT28 per il furto di credenziali Microsoft 365
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Una sanzione di 96mila euro è stata irrogata dal Garante privacy a Eni spa per aver pubblicato sul proprio sito web un atto di citazione integrale con i nominativi di dodici cittadini firmatari insieme a Greenpeace Onlus e ReCommon APS, comprensivo di data e luogo di nascita, codice fiscale e indirizzo di residenza. Un trattamento di dati dichiarato illecito dall’Autorità perché effettuato in violazione dei principi di liceità, correttezza e trasparenza del Regolamento europeo e in assenza di una valida base giuridica.
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Il Dipartimento di Giustizia USA ha neutralizzato l'infrastruttura di 18.000 router compromessi dall'Unità GRU 26165
FABRICKED: il cloud su server AMD potrebbe non essere impenetrabile
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/fabricked…
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Ricercatori hanno scoperto FABRICKED, un attacco che bypassa la sicurezza AMD SEV-SNP nei server cloud. I dati dei clienti potrebbero non essere al sicuro, nonostante le promesse di protezione.Bajram Zeqiri (Red Hot Cyber)
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There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only the limited power of a rubber band, it needs a good, high-lift design without much superfluous drag to maximize flight time. There’s also something to be said for modernity though, and prolific hacker [Tom Stanton] puts them together with this supercapacitor plane.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because [Tom] did this before back in 2023. But for that first attempt he converted a commercial R/C toy rather than a plane optimized for low-power free flight. Just like with the best rubber-band machines, his goal for the new production is more flight time than winding time. Plus lots of views on YouTube, but that goes without saying.
Thus this machine is smaller and lighter than the previous iteration. Rather than balsa and tissue like the free-flight aircraft of our youths, [Tom] is using 3D printed plastic for the structure. But he’s got a neat hack built in: he’s printing the wings and control surfaces directly onto tissue paper, eliminating the bonding step. Of course that means his wings are printed flat, but a bit of heat and some bending and he has a single-surface airfoil. Single-surface airfoils are normal in this application, anyway: closed wings add too much weight for too little gain. If you want to try the technique, he’s got files on Printables.
Another interesting factoid [Tom] discovered is that the energy density of supercapacitors decreases sharply below 10 F. As you might imagine by the square-cubed law, bigger is better, but the sharp drop-off dictated he use a single 10 F cap for this build, along with a micro motor. Using the wind-up generator from his previous build, he’s able to get 45 seconds of flight out of just 4 seconds of cranking, a good ratio indeed.
[Tom] seems to like playing with different ways to power his toys; aside from supercapacitors, we’ve also seen him finessing aircraft air motors — including an attempt at a turbine for a model helicopter.
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Un backdoor nascosta nel codice in 30 plugin WordPress si è misteriosamente attivata
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/un-backdo…
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Scoperta una backdoor in plugin WordPress installati su migliaia di siti. Analisi dell’attacco supply chain e dei rischi per la sicurezza web.Carolina Vivianti (Red Hot Cyber)
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Attackers exploit three Microsoft Defender zero-days, code-named BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend, to gain elevated access.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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La Shadow AI è peggiorata. Molto Vi avevo già parlato della Shadow AI, i dipendenti che usano strumenti di Intelligenza Artificiale al lavoro senza che l'IT ne sappia niente. La situazione è peggiorata.Marco Camisani Calzolari
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Chrome Web Store o malware bazar? Spoiler: 108 estensioni e 20.000 persone colpite
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/chrome-we…
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108 estensioni Chrome malevole hanno colpito oltre 20.000 utenti, rubando credenziali Google e sessioni Telegram. Scopri come funziona l’attacco e come proteggerti subito.Bajram Zeqiri (Red Hot Cyber)
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Dopo Glasswing arriva OpenAI TAC: Tranquilli, non è un disastro! Ma in via precauzionale
📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/dopo-glas…
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OpenAI afferma che gli attuali sistemi di sicurezza mitigano i rischi informatici dell’AI, ma avverte: i modelli futuri richiederanno difese molto più avanzate.Carolina Vivianti (Red Hot Cyber)
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Il #sabato del villaggio
"Ma te ce l'hai sempre con l'Italia! Guarda che non è mica sempre tutto brutto, eh.."
No, certo.
È il paese delle meraviglie.
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@naridola come in tutti i paesi, fatti i rilievi del caso e spostato quel che si deve spostare, poi riprendono le normali operazioni.
In Svizzera non abbiamo stazioni con fuffantamila binari, ci sono stazioni con anche solo due binari. E quando succede (perché succede), il traffico viene deviato su altre vie. Perché fermare tutto il traffico significa tagliare fuori fin troppo.
La circolazione, a detta degli operatori, non è stata deviata perché al sabato c'è meno affluenza - parole di un operatore del controllo traffico, non certo mie.
Aziende fallite che vendono vecchie chat di Slack e archivi di email per addestrare l'intelligenza artificiale
Secondo un nuovo rapporto, le startup fallite starebbero cedendo le conversazioni dei loro ex dipendenti a prezzi che possono arrivare fino a 100.000 dollari.
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Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)
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A colleghe, colleghi, madri, padri, alle nostre allieve e allievi di ogni colore, genere, orientamento, provenienza.Ned Ludd (I.A. BASTA!)
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A colleghe, colleghi, madri, padri, alle nostre allieve e allievi di ogni colore, genere, orientamento, provenienza.Ned Ludd (I.A. BASTA!)
Grazie mille delle informazioni!
Sono un militante, ma non sono del settore scuola.
In qualsiasi caso seguirò sul sito.
Saluti 💪
Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser diode to ramp up its output. While this can be a necessary solution to eke out a bit more life out of a clearly dying laser diode, this can actually massively shorten the lifespan of a good diode that’s just held back by bad capacitors. This is demonstrated by [Skawo] with a fix on a GameCube that stopped reading discs.
While it’s absolutely true that laser diodes have a limited lifespan, so do the capacitors and other components in the system. Thus, after tearing down this Japanese GameCube, [Skawo] accesses the optical PCB for some delicate plier-based capacitor surgery. One can absolutely question such violence, as well as the replacement mix of MLCC ceramics and a stray THT electrolytic capacitor, but the results after reassembly are obvious.
Without having to adjust the laser diode’s potentiometer, the game console now happily reads the game disc while the laser diode breathes a sigh of relief. Although all GameCube consoles will face the inevitable demise of their optical drives – barring a replacement optical pickup solution appearing – with this capacitor replacement solution it’s at least possible to stave off that undesirable time for a bit longer.
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Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows us why and how to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), a new standard by the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group.
Of course, it would be silly to omit the fact that Linux received patches first. But that isn’t the interesting part; after all, Linux is often the first place to have support for this kind of thing. No, what’s interesting is [Evalyn]’s implementation, to our knowledge among — if not the first — non-Linux operating system to support it.The kernel confirming that FRED has been detected and enabled
To know why we should switch to FRED, we must first understand what it replaces. The Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) tells the CPU what code to run when certain interrupts or faults happen. The big problem that the IDT has is inconsistency, most egregiously the fact that the stack layout depends on which interrupt happened. To solve the issues with the IDT, FRED was created.
[Evalyn] shows us the process, starting at the documentation, then finding an emulator capable of it and culminating in a demo where DOOM runs in EvalynOS with FRED enabled.
Pentium II die shot. Martijn Boer, Public domain.
Al ritorno dalla Luna, gli astronauti delle missioni Apollo trovarono la polvere attaccata alle loro tute spaziali, che causava mal di gola e lacrimazione agli occhi. La polvere lunare è composta da particelle taglienti, abrasive e nocive, ma quanto è tossica per l'uomo?
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When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans?www.esa.int
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Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the laborious process required these mirrors saw use essentially only by the affluent. That said, how hard would it be to make a bronze mirror today with all of the modern technologies that even a hobbyist can acquire for their shed? Cue [Lundgren Bronze Studios] giving it a shot, starting by casting something flat-ish to start polishing.
Just getting that initial shape to start polishing is a chore, with hammering out the shape possibly being also a viable method. When casting metal it’s tricky to avoid having air bubbles and other defects forming, though using a sand mold seems to help a lot.
After you have the rough shape, polishing using power tools seems like cheating, but as you can see in the video even going from 50 to 8000 grit with a rotating disc left countless scratches. Amusingly, hand sanding did a much better job of removing the worst scratches, following which a polishing compound helped to bring out that literal mirror finish.
A quick glance at the Wikipedia entry for bronze mirrors shows that a tin-bronze alloy like speculum metal was used for thousands of years as it was much easier to polish to a good mirror finish. The metallurgy of what may seem like just a vanity item clearly goes deeper than just polishing up a metal surface.
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Le proposte del Digital Omnibus, presentate come "semplificazione", rischiano di indebolire le garanzie essenziali del GDPR, della Direttiva ePrivacy e dell'AI Act. Riducendo le tutele e posticipando gli obblighi per i sistemi ad alto rischio, introducono una logica che ricorda l'approccio "muoviti velocemente e rompi le cose" tipico dell'industria tecnologica. Nelle infrastrutture digitali basate sull'elaborazione di grandi quantità di dati e su processi decisionali automatizzati, tuttavia, gli errori non scompaiono semplicemente. Diventano parte integrante del sistema. Per questo motivo, la regolamentazione è fondamentale per tutelare i diritti delle persone.
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NEW: Nicholas Moore, who hacked the U.S. Supreme Court's document filing system and two other government agencies, was sentenced to one year of probation.
“I made a mistake,” Moore reportedly said during the sentencing hearing. “I am truly sorry. I respect laws, and I want to be a good citizen.”
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Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Cooking food with fire is arguably the technology that propelled humans to become the dominant species on Earth. It’s pretty straightforward to achieve, just requiring a fuel source, a supply of oxygen from the air, and a way to initiate the reaction; then it self-sustains. You wouldn’t think there’s much to improve, but what about cooking with plasma? [Jay] from the plasma channel is no stranger here, and he thinks that there may be something in this idea, certainly enough to actually build something.
Now, let’s be straight with you, this isn’t a new concept, and you can buy a plasma-based cooking appliance right now. But they are all AC-powered devices. What if you want to go camping? [Jay] attempts (and succeeds) in building a portable, rechargeable 600W plasma cooking device that can actually cook food, but it was not all plain sailing.
The existing off-the-shelf ZVS driver modules available were a bit weak and unreliable, and the required flyback coils were hard to find with the right specs, so he needed to get down to work building custom parts. First off, the coils. Custom formers were resin-printed and machine-wound with 4000 turns of fine wire, and then resin-sealed into the former. [Jay] takes care to explain that it is crucial to get all the air out of the windings, or else local flashover breakdown will occur and wreck the coil in a short time. We reckon the resulting coils look amazing in their own right!
We do love a nicely wound coil. Oooh!
Next, the ZVS drivers on hand had low-quality capacitors (well, not enough capacitance anyway) and cheap driver transistors, so both were upgraded. The initial plan was to have four driver/coil pairs, each driving a single pair of electrodes, with a common ground ring connecting them all. It turns out this was a terrible idea: the drivers were not synchronised, so they were pulling on each other, causing catastrophic damage to the PCBs in a very short time. The solution was more complicated wiring, to give each coil secondary output a dedicated electrode pair, so there was no direct electrical connection between neighbouring coils and no coupling between them. A clever electrode arrangement meant that a pan would sit on top of a ring of electrodes, causing plasma discharges to jump directly to the pan, thereby concentrating localised heating there. We were wondering how this new direct connection (the pan is now a common connection!) didn’t also cause backfeeding and kill the ZVS drivers again, but it didn’t seem to happen.Bang, smell, oops. The copper is supposed to be stuck to the PCB.
Anyway, [Jay] demonstrates what is possibly the world’s first rechargeable, portable plasma cooker capable of making breakfast. Which we think is very important in its own right, however, we would like a plasma-based solution to making toast next, perhaps a plasma knife that cooks the bread as you slice it?
If this plasma cooking lark rings a bell, yes, we did touch upon this way back in 2017. And whilst not strictly plasma cooking, you can make an amazing microwave plasma in this ridiculously upgraded appliance. Definitely do not try that one at home.
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Silvia Project In Gaza
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