Volkswagen recently won a court case that stopped computer scientists from publishing an academic paper revealing the secret codes used to start luxury cars including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis.
The victory, however, will make carmakers more vulnerable to hackers because company engineers will have less information available to help them design more secure in-car systems.
We have seen images and even a brief video clip showing the plastic case of the still-unannounced iPhone 5C in the last few weeks, but today even more images have been posted on the Internet that are by far the best in terms of image quality.
After test-offering their Replicator 2 printer in Microsoft stores on the West Coast, MakerBot will begin stocking Microsoft stores across the country with 3D printers. The company will also offer demos that allow people to see 3D printing firsthand.
On top of the original stores in San Francisco, Seattle and Palo Alto, 15 more locations will be added. The full list is available on the MakerBot website.
Starting on August 16, Apple will offer users of third-party iPhone, iPad, and iPod power adapters the chance to trade their old chargers in and pick up a genuine model at a discount. The USB Power Adapter Takeback Program will allow you to bring your third-party adapter in to an Apple Store or Apple authorized service provider and get an Apple-branded adapter for $10 ("or the approximate equivalent in local currency"), just over half of the standard price of $19. The program is being offered in response to "safety issues" related to "counterfeit and third-party adapters."
Photocopiers exist to produce close enough replicas of original documents. Traditionally, they just spit out the result onto paper. Most copiers these days can operate as (generally rather large) scanners, generating PDFs, TIFFs, or other electronic representations. But some Xerox copiers have recently been found to produce scans that, well, aren't that close to the originals at all. The copiers are producing documents that look superficially similar to the originals but switch around numbers apparently at random.
A Canadian tinkerer who previously claimed to have created the world's first 3D-printed rifle, only to see the barrel crack upon its first videotaped test firing, has now created an updated version of the gun that was able to fire 14 rounds before suffering damage.
Just over a month ago, slides leaked showing what Intel would be releasing next year - the massively powerful Haswell-E chip - but now a Chinese site has obtained a leaked image showing that Intel will in fact release three additional Ivy Bridge-E range of CPU's in September, ahead of Haswell-E.
The leaked image shows three new Ivy Bridge-E processors, the Core i7-4960X, Core i7-4930K and Core i7-4820K. And if you can get past the hilarious translation and server errors, according to their sources, the CPUs will launch on September 10.
Three Georgia Tech hackers have revealed how to hack iPhones and iPads with malware imitating ordinary apps in under sixty seconds using a "malicious charger."
Today at a Black Hat USA 2013 press conference, the researchers revealed for the first time exactly how the USB charger they built can compromise iOS devices in less than a minute.
You should be already aware of the data theft risks that USB flash drives pose to your company – even a seemingly lowly 2GB drive can hold a lot of precious data – but a new threat has emerged which makes them even more dangerous.
Writing on the Webroot blog, security expert Dancho Danchev highlights the dangers facing corporations, both small and large, from low-cost USB flash drives that are capable of bypassing Microsoft's AutoRun protection measures present on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
NASA clearly loves 3D printing as much as we do—to the extent that it's decided to take an entire 3D printer into space as early as next year.
The space agency has co-designed a custom shoe-box sized 3D printer, made specifically to work in micro-gravitational conditions. The hope is that it will make it aboard the International Space Station sometime in 2014.
