Next year is the 800th anniversary of sealing the Magna Carta, and to prepare for the milestone, British Library conservationists used multispectral imaging to save parts of the text thought to be lost. Read more…
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Multispectral Imaging Found Magna Carta Passages Lost for 250 Years
An anonymous reader writes: ISPs around the country are being kept busy today answering calls from frustrated customers with Belkin routers. Overnight, a firmware issue left many of the Belkin devices with no access to the customer’s broadband connection. Initial speculation was that a faulty firmware upgrade caused the devices to lose connectivity, but even users with automatic updates disabled are running into trouble. The problem seems to be that the routers “occasionally ping heartbeat.belkin.com to detect network connectivity, ” but are suddenly unable to get a response. Belkin has acknowledged the issue and posted a workaround while they work on a fix. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages
We’ve kept a close eye on the 27th ACM Symposium on INTER Software and Technology , going on in Honolulu this week, given that it’s already produced dozens of fascinating prototypes —but this award-winning paper is perhaps the coolest we’ve seen. Read more…
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How to Print a Super-Thin Touchscreen Display on Just About Anything
An anonymous reader writes: Kaspersky Lab performed a forensic investigation into cybercriminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, researchers discovered the Tyupkin malware used to infect ATMs and allow attackers to remove money via direct manipulation, stealing millions of dollars. The criminals work in two stages. First, they gain physical access to the ATMs and insert a bootable CD to install the Tyupkin malware. After they reboot the system, the infected ATM is now under their control and the malware runs in an infinite loop waiting for a command. To make the scam harder to spot, the Tyupkin malware only accepts commands at specific times on Sunday and Monday nights. During those hours, the attackers are able to steal money from the infected machine. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards
cartechboy writes Most luxury automakers have a Certified Previously Owned (CPO) program. Tesla isn’t like a normal luxury automakers, in fact, it’s not really like any automaker out there. It doesn’t have franchises and it sells its own vehicles through its network of galleries. Now, it plans to create its own CPO program. There are a great deal of Model S sedans out there currently under lease contracts. When those cars are ready to come back, Tesla has guaranteed that it will purchase them for a figure that falls somewhere between 43 and 50 percent of the original purchase price. This is exactly how Tesla’s going to create its CPO fleet. Tesla seems to do everything in an unconventional manner, so we’ll have to see if its CPO program behaves like every other automaker’s, or if it’s different somehow as well. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Tesla Is Starting a Certified Preowned Program
Remember Coin, the card that promised to put all your credit cards on one handy chunk of plastic , and then suffered from substantial setbacks that may make it useless by the time it comes out ? Well now it has a competitor. This is Plastc , another upcoming supercard with some seriously big promises that will be even harder to keep. Read more…
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This Supercard Wants to Replace All of Your Credit Cards and Then Some
It’s the Star Trek -inspired future we were promised—walls that glow and change color, perhaps with just a gentle voice command. And it’s finally (almost) possible thanks to a series of advances in OLED sheets. This new lighting solution also uses half as much energy than existing fluorescent lights. It is, however, pretty expensive. Read more…
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OLED Wallpaper Could Be the Future of Lighting
An anonymous reader writes The Linux 3.17 kernel was officially released today. Linux 3.17 presents a number of new features that include working open-source AMD Hawaii GPU support, an Xbox One controller driver, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, numerous ARM updates, and other changes. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support
Microsoft unveiled its newest version of Windows last week. While the company was more than happy to tell us about a bunch of new features , naturally they left a few out. Here are some of the best things we found while poking around with the new OS. Read more…
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The Coolest Windows 10 Features Microsoft Didn’t Announce
The geniuses at Slaperoo Percussion hacked together this prototype for an electric instrument made from a spring doorstop. Finally, somebody is harnessing the wonderful household tone we’ve been ignoring for years. Read more…
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Spring Doorstop Hacked to Make a Wonderful Electric Instrument