Google’s first “Suncatcher” datacenter satellite has made it into space, but the company has cast doubt on whether its orbital ambitions can scale. As The Register reported last week, Project Suncatcher aims to test whether...
[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you remember your old chemistry classes, will combust...
A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators
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AI agents hacked the hackers – the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) – via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the flaws to hijack sessions, run code remotely as the local...
[Michael H Thiesen] had a couple of Elgato Key Lights in his home streaming setup. The only problem was that they would stop responding regularly, requiring a power cycle to get them going again. He never quite pinned down where...
St. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for...
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Images are generated with OpenAI’s latest model and you can save clothes you like for...
You can’t make this stuff up.
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