Leftovers

• Standards/Consortia

  • Rich Trouton ☛ FireWire support removed from macOS Tahoe

    As part of the release of macOS Tahoe 26.0, Apple has removed built-in support for FireWire devices from macOS. This removal of support can be verified by looking in System Profiler.

• Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • Purism ☛ Blanket App Now Available

    It can also help you to fall asleep in a noisy environment.

  • Purism ☛ META Found Guilty of Mishandling Women’s Health Information

    This landmark ruling signals a turning point for digital privacy enforcement, especially around health data and ad-tech practices

• Science

  • Hackaday ☛ See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ Debut

    It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and Saturn, while its twin Voyager 2 took a slightly different route to ogle other planets. This primary mission for both spacecraft completed in early 1990, with NASA holding a press conference on this momentous achievement.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Microtronic Phoenix Computer System

    A team of hackers, [Jason T. Jacques], [Decle], and [Michael A. Wessel], have collaborated to deliver the Microtronic Phoenix Computer System.

  • Science Alert ☛ Sound of a Black Hole 'Kicked' Through Space Heard in a Stunning First

    *yeet*

  • Science Alert ☛ Hysterectomy Significantly Raises Risk of Stroke, New Evidence Suggests

    We need to know more.

  • Science Alert ☛ Mini Placentas 3D-Printed in a Lab in Amazing World First

    A new way to study life's first moments.

  • Science Alert ☛ Oldest Human Mummies Discovered, And They're Not What We Expected

    It's still happening today.

  • Science Alert ☛ Something Really Cool Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient

    We've been eating bananas wrong.

  • Science Alert ☛ Meet Bumpy: The Unexpectedly Cute Creature Discovered in The Abyss

    And it's pink!

  • Science Alert ☛ New Ultrasound Helmet Reaches Deep Inside The Brain Without Surgery

    Unrivaled precision.

  • Science Alert ☛ 12,000-Year-Old Bones Could Be One of Earliest Known Murder Victims

    A tale as old as time.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Flashlight Repair Brings Entire Workshop To Bear

    The modern hacker and maker has an incredible array of tools at their disposal — even a modestly appointed workbench these days would have seemed like science-fiction a couple decades ago. Desktop 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills, lathes, the list goes on and on. But what good is all that fancy gear if you don’t put it to work once and awhile?

  • Hackaday ☛ A Closer Look Inside A Robot’s Typewriter-Inspired Mouth

    [Ancient] has a video showing off a fascinating piece of work: a lip-syncing robot whose animated electro-mechanical mouth works like an IBM Selectric typewriter. The mouth rapidly flips between different phonetic positions, creating the appearance of moving lips and mouth. This rapid and high-precision movement is the product of a carefully-planned and executed build, showcased from start to finish in a new video.

  • Hackaday ☛ Jointly Is A Typeface Designed For CNC Joinery

    If you have a CNC router, you know you can engrave just about any text with the right tool, but Jointly is a typeface that isn’t meant to be engraved. That would be too easy for [CobyUnger]. His typeface “Jointly” is the first we’ve seen that’s meant to be used as joinery.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Federal News Network ☛ Shutdown talk heats up as Democrats insist on stopping health care cuts [Ed: federalnewsnetwork began reposting AP]

• Security

  • Security Week ☛ West Virginia Credit Union Notifying 187,000 People Impacted by 2023 Data Breach

    Two years after the fact, Fairmont Federal Credit Union tells customers their personal, financial, and medical information was compromised.

  • Security Week ☛ FBI Shares IoCs for Recent Salesfarce Intrusion Campaigns

    The cybercrime groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395 have been extorting organizations after stealing data from their Salesfarce instances.

  • Security Week ☛ 689,000 Affected by Insider Breach at FinWise Bank

    A former FinWise employee gained access to American First Finance customer information.

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• Defence/Aggression

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Kremlin says NATO ‘at war’ with Moscow, days after Russian drone incursions into Poland and Romania — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russia is in an age of sweeping book censorship. Meanwhile at Meduza: time to publish books the Kremlin hates. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Only Rus, only victory!’ Russian rapper Misha Mavashi was once known for corny tracks about healthy living. Now his right-wing nationalist movement is gaining steam. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Kadyrov calls Russian pop icon Alla Pugacheva an ‘enemy of the people’ for praising Chechen separatist leader — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Assortment of products offered in Russian grocery stores declines — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Belarusian opposition politician Nikolai Statkevich sent back to prison after refusing to leave country following release — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Poland ‘neutralizes’ drone flying over key government sites in Warsaw, arrests two Belarusians — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Ukrainian intelligence claims responsibility for two explosions on Russian railway tracks — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Crawl of duty: Russian soldiers once again move through gas pipeline to launch offensive, Ukrainian OSINT project reports — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘I should never have just hoped for the best’ A Russian airstrike killed 25 Ukrainian civilians, mostly seniors waiting to collect their pensions. Journalists spoke to a resident and two local evacuation volunteers. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia kills one, injures more than a dozen — Meduza