Kdecherf's links
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Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware www.theregister.com/2020/07/18/samsung_bluray_mass_dieoff_explained/Sun 16 May 2021
Well, at least Samsung offered free mail-in repairs for impacted customers
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300 Nvidia GPUs Seized After High Speed Boat Chase www.extremetech.com/gaming/321647-300-nvidia-mining-gpus-seized-after-high-speed-boat-chaseSat 15 May 2021
« There’s a certain dark hilarity in imagining drug dealers across the world offering their clientele multiple ounces of weed or an RTX 3060 »
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Brave — Stealing your cookies remotely infosecwriteups.com/brave-stealing-your-cookies-remotely-1e09d1184675
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Climate emission killer: construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-biggest-liquid-air-battery-starts-construction-in-ukSat 15 May 2021
« The Highview battery will store 250MWh of energy, almost double the amount stored by the biggest chemical battery, built by Tesla in South Australia »
Interesting
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SpaceX Missed Some Urgent Emails About a Satellite Standoff www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/spacex-esa-collision-email/598120/Sat 15 May 2021
« But SpaceX, it turned out, didn’t see those emails, thanks to a computer bug in their on-call paging system »
I guess improvements must be quickly made as we are sending more satellites in LEO than ever
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Les prévisions météorologiques menacées par un brouillard d’interférences www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2021/02/08/la-meteorologie-menacee-par-un-brouillard-d-interferences_6069224_1650684.htmlSat 15 May 2021
Intéressant de voir la sensibilité, les implications financières et politiques et les impacts des usages de certaines bandes de fréquence
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Universal basic income doesn’t work. Let’s boost the public realm instead www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/universal-basic-income-public-realm-poverty-inequalitySat 15 May 2021
The idea here is mainly to improve and extend basic public services before talking about UBI