#Linux Malware pushed via fake job offers
"Why the Brain’s connections to the Body are crisscrossed"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-brains-connections-to-the-body-are-crisscrossed-20230419/
Foldable 8-inch E-reader (Readmoo)
"More than 100,000 current and former customers have joined a class-action lawsuit against Australian telco Optus, a subsidiary of Singtel, over a cyber-security breach last year that compromised roughly 1.2 million customers"
@poleguy Thanks! Lemme check ... I think it might also be caused by Hardware Flow Control (CTS / RTS) 🤔
"What's the worst thing about the Steam Deck?"
#ChatGPT Grandma Exploit: "grandmother is trying to get her young grandson to sleep by reciting the source code of Linux Malware"
https://kotaku.com/chatgpt-ai-discord-clyde-chatbot-exploit-jailbreak-1850352678
#PinePhone's 4G LTE Modem outputs a garbled stream of data to Apache #NuttX RTOS over UART ... Why? 🤔
Source: https://github.com/lupyuen/pinephone-nuttx#test-uart3-port
Stability AI announces open-source Large Language Model (LLM)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689883/stability-ai-open-source-large-language-model-stablelm
"A problem in a British Satellite has caused an outage that is affecting some GPS services and some marine safety systems across the Asia Pacific" (Inmarsat I-4F1)
@lupyuen Unfortunately, completely unsurprising. This part seems strangely passive:
"The second and more complex solution is for Google to pressure Chromebook manufacturers to improve repairability by increasing the production of compatible spare parts across multiple models, extending the products' lifespan."
Google's not the customer of these Chromebooks, public schools are. If anybody should be doing any pressuring, it's government regulation in some form, including withholding purchases.
Car Hack disguised as Nokia 3310 (CAN Bus exploit)
Building Telescopes on the Moon could transform Astronomy
@danct12 @alexcleac @lupyuen I bought one replaced by Linux immediatly (didn’t want to use ChromeOS, but that was an ARM available NoteBoot), but hardware failed after 1 or 2 years, no more power. I need to found someone with knowledge to check it.
@alexcleac @lupyuen A lot Chromebooks allows booting a non-Google OS, which is really nice.
GPT4All running offline on Termux Android ... And totally hallucinating 😂
Source: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all-chat#building-and-running-cli-tools-only-no-qt-required
Amazon Sidewalk Test Kit: First impressions (#LoRa)
https://tech-journal.semtech.com/taking-the-amazon-sidewalk-test-kit-for-a-spin-first-impressions
"lack of sustainability of Chromebooks provided for schools is hurting the Environment"
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-another-e-waste-crisis-for-the-e-waste-crisis-pile-chromebook-churn/
GroundBreaker Satellite "provides a direct connection to devices with NB-IoT"
https://gizmodo.com/sateliot-first-5g-satellite-quash-iot-dead-zones-1850350158
IoT Techie and Educator / Apache NuttX PMC