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Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm

The Mirai worm — first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants , then spreading to every developed nation on Earth (and being used to take down some of those less-developed nations ) despite being revealed as clumsy and amateurish (a situation remedied shortly after by hybridizing it with another IoT worm ) — is now bigger than ever, and you can rent time on it to punish journalists, knock countries offline, or take down chunks of the core internet. (more…)

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Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm

Guy restores a century-old letterpress to perfect condition

Jimmy DiResta kept passing by a 1911 Chandler & Price letterpress sitting out in the rain. After buying it from the neglectful owner, he spent several years lovingly restoring it , eventually learning how to print with it. (more…)

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Guy restores a century-old letterpress to perfect condition

Office Depot techs accused of faking malware infections to meet sales targets

Seattle’s KIRO TV made undercover visits to Office Depot stores in Washington state and Oregon and asked the technicians working in the store’s “PC Health Check” to evaluate a working, uninfected PC; four out of six times, Office Depot technicians diagnosed nonexistent virus activity and prescribed $200 worth of service to get rid of it. (more…)

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Metallica and The Roots play "Enter Sandman" on toy and classroom instruments

On The Tonight Show last night, Metallica, promoting their new album ” Hardwired…to Self-Destruct ,” played their old ditty “Enter Sandman” in an entirely new way. We’re off to never never land. James Hetfield – Vocals, Toy clarinet Jimmy Fallon – Vocals, Bass Drum, Casio Keyboard, Kazoo Lars Ulrich – Fisher Price Drum, Toy Cymbals Kirk Hammett – Melodica Robert Trujillo – Baby Electric Axe Questlove – Hand Clappers, Kazoo Kamal Gray – Xylophone James Poyser – Melodica Captain Kirk – Ukulele Tuba Gooding Jr. – Kazoo, Banana Shaker, Apple Shaker Mark Kelley – Kazoo Frank Knuckles – Bongos Black Thought – Tambourine, Brown Hat

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Electric cars must now emit engine-tones at low speeds

My friend Gilbert was the first Prius owner I knew; a hacker, Gilbert was accustomed to eating at a drive-through at 3AM, but the first time he took his silent car through the lane, the order-taker curtly said that they didn’t serve people on foot; when he insisted that he was in a car, she demanded to know why she couldn’t hear the engine idling? (more…)

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Electric cars must now emit engine-tones at low speeds

Statcheck: a data-fakery algorithm that flagged 50,000 articles

Michèle B. Nuijten and co’s statcheck program re-examines the datasets in peer-reviewed science and flags anomalies that are associated with fakery, from duplication of data to internal inconsistencies. (more…)

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Statcheck: a data-fakery algorithm that flagged 50,000 articles

A lightbulb worm could take over every smart light in a city in minutes

Researchers from Dalhousie University (Canada) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) have published a working paper detailing a proof-of-concept attack on smart lightbulbs that allows them to wirelessly take over the bulbs from up to 400m, write a new operating system to them, and then cause the infected bulbs to spread the attack to all the vulnerable bulbs in reach, until an entire city is infected. (more…)

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A lightbulb worm could take over every smart light in a city in minutes

e-ink keyboard changes for every purpose

I’ve been into old-fashioned mechanical keyboards lately; Sonder’s e-ink model promises to bring the fetish into the 21st century. Each key is both mechanical and a tiny e-Ink display that can change on a per-application basis. The Sonder Keyboard combines a sleek new design with a built-in rechargeable battery and enhanced key features. With an improved mechanical mechanism beneath each key for increased stability, as well as optimized key travel and a lower profile, the Sonder Keyboard provides a remarkably comfortable and precise typing experience. It pairs automatically with your Mac, so you can get to work right away. And the battery is incredibly long-lasting — it will power your keyboard for about a month or more between charges. The styling is minimal and Apple-oriented. Sonder’s keyboard uses Bluetooth, but comes with USB and a lightning port too. It’s $200, which seems reasonable for such a specialized device: compare to Art Lebedev’s Optimus Popularis color LED model, still a pricey curiosity at $1500.

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e-ink keyboard changes for every purpose