Author: encyphr

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Stanford Pupper low cost quadruped robot

An Inexpensive & Open-source Quadruped RobotStanford Pupper is a (relatively) inexpensive robot designed to help K-12 and undergraduate students get involved in exciting robotics research. Quick specs:Cost: $600-$900 depending if you already have any tools or parts such as a Raspberry Pi or PS4 controller.Actuators: 12 x JX-Servo CLS6336HVFrame material: Routed carbon fiber (you can…

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Intel to buy smart urban transit startup Moovit for $1B for its car division

Some big M&A is afoot in Israel in the world of smart transportation. According to multiple reports and sources that have contacted TechCrunch, chip giant Intel is in the final stages of a deal to acquire Moovit, a startup that applies AI and big data analytics to track traffic and provide transit recommendations to some…

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Rust in an Instant

May 02, 2020 – Reading time: 6 minutes. Tags: rustSo I tweeted: This happened in an instant. I am not even sorry. It included this snippet of Rust code: use std::os::raw::{c_int, c_void}; use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering::SeqCst}; use std::time::Instant; #[repr(C)] struct timespec { tv_sec: u64, tv_nsec: u64, } static TIME_COUNTER: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0); #[no_mangle] extern “C” fn…

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Love Bug’s creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila

The man behind the world’s first major computer virus outbreak has admitted his guilt, 20 years after his software infected millions of machines worldwide.Filipino Onel de Guzman, now 44, says he unleashed the Love Bug computer worm to steal passwords so he could access the internet without paying.He claims he never intended it to spread…

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So I reverse engineered two dating apps

In this post I show some of my findings during the reverse engineering of the apps Coffee Meets Bagel and The League. I have identified several critical vulnerabilities during the research, all of which have been reported to the affected vendors. Introduction In these unprecedented times, more and more people are escaping into the digital…

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Intel Virtualisation: How VT-X, KVM and QEMU Work Together

VT-x is name of CPU virtualisation technology by Intel. KVM is component of Linux kernel which makes use of VT-x. And QEMU is a user-space application which allows users to create virtual machines. QEMU makes use of KVM to achieve efficient virtualisation. In this article we will talk about how these three technologies work together.…

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Oil’s Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise

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Lit: A ridiculously small responsive CSS framework

a ridiculously small responsive css framework Star lit has two modules: lit and util. Both of them are designed to be as small as possible, and easy to extend. lit lit contains all of the basics for a framework, such as a responsive grid, typography, and other elements. util util has many CSS utility classes…

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The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

Our team, DeisLabs, recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet, which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes. Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and is primarily written in the Go programming language. While there have…

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