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Occam's razor tells me that this exploit route as described in the press release sounds way too complicated and that too much luck must have been involved. Therefore I am sceptical if we will ever hear the real story.

There is an overlap with the right to repair topic. It does not make sense to have the DMCA hanging over your head when you are reverse engineering a product that is abandoned by the manufacturer - be it end of life or bankruptcy to name two reasons among many.

Not available in several European markets...

It’s from the time when she was truly annoyed by this episode.

Remember what they did to Naomi Wu (aka. SexyCyborg / https://www.youtube.com/@Naomi-Wu).

Vice's behaviour was unethical at best and Naomi - who is a wonderful tech content creator - got into significant trouble putting her business at serious risk.

Why would you do that as a "journalist"?

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...

Interesting: Apple is moving their apps to a subscription model.

„ Pricing and Availability Starting Tuesday, May 23, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad will each be available on the App Store for $4.99 (US) per month or $49 (US) per year with a one-month free trial.8 Final Cut Pro is compatible with M1 chip iPad models or later, and Logic Pro will be available on A12 Bionic chip iPad models or later. Final Cut Pro for iPad and Logic Pro for iPad require iPadOS 16.4. For more information, visit apple.com/final-cut-pro-for-ipad and apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.“

First of all: the EU definitely had good intentions when regulating the charger mess. The amount of incompatible chargers rotting in drawers and (possibly) landfills could definitely be reduced over time by agreeing on a common physical and electrical interface.

However — limiting technical progress is not a good idea and we see that with the plethor of different power modes existing within USB-C. Possibly politicians only saw the physical plug but never understood the depth behind it.

And that’s where we reach the limits. What if a company (Apple) comes up with a more efficient but also more elaborate way to quick charge their equipment? How would you handle a situation where non-compliant chargers could even harm this equipment?

USB-C already is way too complex for the average Shenzen cookie cutter factory to implement it correctly.

How would you protect your customers from such a situation?

While it may superficially look evasive I am willing to pick Apple‘s side here.

Funny discovery of the day. While doing a small walk down memory lane and reading up on Space 1999 (aka. Mondbasis Alpha 1 in Germany) I discovered that the German version of the series used a disco version of the Star Wars Theme by Mech in one of their episodes.

Playing the music on my desktop on Spotify I couldn't stop smiling when I saw that the progress indicator had turned into a light saber that was even modulating its glow when I moved the mouse over it. That's a easter egg built into Spotify obviously by someone who is a Star Wars fan. Ah - and by the way, while the disco version of the Star Wars theme is certainly a nice 70s disco dance floor piece, the "Other Galactic Funk" is less cheesy a bit more hard core funky stuff...

It's absolutely worth to go on a tangent here - Tim did a great job in explaining Elon (or showing him to the public in a probably not too filtered way).

Definitely among one of the great pieces he has produced. Highly informative and educational. He really finds the right tone and this long piece never gets boring for a second. Also from a production perspective his animated engine charts are top and visualise the point he is making. BTW his interviews with Elon Musk at Starbase are also a must see (some clips included in this video as well). You really start to see and understand how Musk works - and it's not as bad as media is trying to make him. His engineering principles are really interesting and can be applied to many scenarios. It's this level of abstraction that makes the difference and gives him a competitive edge.

Find the dot!

Over here in Germany we had a 9 Euro per month all you can eat ticket four local public transport during Covid. This now indefinitely extended at 49 Euro per month.

I have several IKEA Vindriktning air quality sensors (measuring PM2.5 but not CO, CO2 or VOC) equipped with an ESP32 with Tasmota on it. The level of soldering is trivial and the hardware looks really nice. It feeds a Grafana dashboard via MQTT, Node RED and InfluxDB. All is well documented and easy to do - you will find lots of resources online. And the Tasmota toolchain can be used for many other sensors as well.

https://www.hackster.io/news/ikea-vindriktning-air-quality-s...

I keep being impressed by the range of topics appearing on HN page one..

The messengerfor German armed forces is based on matrix

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundeswehr-setzt-kue...

Let‘s hope that Python in itself does not become a Kerr singularity. I don’t want to become an observer of this. And thinking of the image of a snake that eats its tail (forming a ring) makes me even fearful that there is some hidden message in this part of the release notes…

In addition the CCC is a regular contributor to parliamentary hearings - be it investigatory committees or in the context of new or revised legislation. They are an active part of society and their voice is being heard.

Hamburg afaik

Over the years I have probably tried (and used) every feature that was added to Excel.

With growing wisdom I came to the conclusion that I will only use the most basic features (i.e. simple formulas using adding, subtraction, multiplication, division) when I need to share a sheet with third parties. Nearly all users are not proficient in the more advanced features - making collaboration an error prone hell.

To make things worse: Excel by nature is not made to be audited. That’s why I tend to add a generous amount of checksums or similar (visual) flags to my worksheets in order to catch errors early.

Excel is dangerous!

And the came the ESP32-C5 RISC-V IoT MCU which supports dual-band (!!) WiFi 6 (!), Bluetooth 5.0 LE…

As much as I like the Pico, it seems that Espressif is (finally) upping its game.

Dual band is highly relevant especially in hight density areas with crowded 2.4 GHz bands.

Our team was building a telco operator in the U.S. We already did that in several European markets and in Australia - so we assumed that we were mildly proficient in taxation issues. And then came the U.S. - a complete nightmare of overlapping rules that sometimes are not properly published. In essence you cannot do this on your own - you definitely need a tax service provider (like Avalara). Funny thing is though that you still are pretty safe to be noncompliant sometimes somewhere and the provider will not take on the liability if their data / computation was wrong. In short: a mind-blowing disaster. And you had to PRINT your tax forms and SNAIL-MAIL them to every jurisdiction that you were doing business in. I mean: hundreds or even more. Every. Single. Month. And don't get me started on the banking system stuck in Stone Age. I definitely would think twice to set up a business in the U.S.

Massive Streisand effect ahead in 3 - 2 - 1...

You have many different options.

(1) SSH into you box for shell and use the command line interface (2) Use the comprehensive web interface (3) use the shell tool in the web interface (4) use wine to run the client

Great piece of software - even if the user interface can be overwhelming and some features take time to figure out. But as a matter of fact I am able to continue using my old and trusty scanners even if software support by their vendors has stopped for many years. It was money well spent.

According to this German n-tv report, Russian soldiers are using cheap Baofeng shortwave radios to communicate among each other. https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Ukraine-Krieg-Weinende-Soldaten...

Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.

A massive thanks for the work you put in - I am sure it will pay off manifold. Assuming your models are robust over time this will clearly help the development pipeline of BioNTech / Pfizer to come up with adjusted vaccines should the need arise (i.e. an especially nasty mutant showing up). Shortening the detection from weeks (months?) to days is an order of magnitude gain in lead time. From a commercial point of view this agility will give BioNTech / Pfizer a lead over its competitors (assuming this is not public / shared information?)

This - again - lowers my confidence in the CVE mechanism...

Thanks though for your background information what is / was going on!

Why is Apple referencing CVE-2021-30938 and CVE-2021-30987 in their listing of security updates when they are not searchable in the National Vulnerability Database? Their status there is listed as "* REJECT * DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by the CVE program. Notes: none.". Can anyone give more clarity what is going on?

I remember visiting a stall at the ITU Telecom trade fair in 1995 where I saw such a system demoed. It also had a 3D mouse. It was truly amazing at the time. I think they used it to demo the latest and greatest 155 (?) Mbps ATM lines… I had an interesting chat with the guy demoing it about upcoming VRML. Hah - history!