Leftovers

• Hackaday ☛ Reviewing Deluxe Paint, 40 Years On

  When Deluxe Paint came out with the original Amiga in 1985, it was the killer app for the platform. [Christopher Drum] starts his recent article on just that note, remembering the day he and his mother walked into a computer store, and walked out with a brand new Amiga… thanks entirely to Deluxe Paint. Forty years on, how well can this killer app compete?

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Studies Reveal The Best Ways to Chemically Bond With Your Cat

    They'll love you for it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Sun Is Becoming More Active And NASA Doesn't Know Why

    It should be resting.

  • Hackaday ☛ Perovskite Solar Cell Crystals See The Invisible

    A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that once shook up solar energy. Researchers at Northwestern University and Soochow University have built the first perovskite-based gamma-ray detector that actually works for nuclear medicine imaging, like SPECT scans. This hack is unusual because it takes a once-experimental lab material and shows it can replace multimillion-dollar detectors in real-world hospitals.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ How To Have A Medium Format Camera Without Breaking The Bank

    For most people, experimentation with film photography comes in the form of the 35 mm format. Its ubiquity in snapshot photography means cameras are readily available at all levels, and the film offers a decent compromise between resolution and number of shots per dollar spent.

  • Hackaday ☛ A 10″ Telescope, Because You Only Live Once

    Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again said “Yolo”— this time not as a slogan, but in reference to a little-known type of reflecting telescope.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • BIA Net ☛ Children in the age of artificial intelligence: How can they benefit from opportunities while being protected from risks?

    Media literacy is a skill set that goes beyond teaching children to question content; it also helps them become responsible individuals in their own media production.

  • Science Alert ☛ Long COVID Could Mess With Menstruation in a Horrid Feedback Loop

    They exacerbate each other.

  • Latvia ☛ Covid-19 prevalence continues to rise in Latvia

    The prevalence of Covid-19 continued to rise in Latvia last week, with five deaths in patients with confirmed Covid-19 infection, the Disease Prevention and Control Centre (SPKC) said on 16 September.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Citizen Lab ☛ Exposing Pegasus: How the State Spies on You

      In an interview with What Bitcoin Did, Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton discusses the proliferation of spyware and the repercussions of its use on victims. He explains how mass surveillance “ultimately leads to self-censorship,” with significant implications for our freedom. Watch here.

    • Citizen Lab ☛ John Scott-Railton on U.K.’s Age-Verification Laws

      A new U.K. age-verification law aimed to protect children can push people to seedier parts of the web. Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with the Washington Post about the “law of unintended consequences” faced by regulators.

    • Federal News Network ☛ House intel bill includes major OSINT reforms

      The House version of the intelligence authorization act would centralize oversight of how the intel community buys commercial data and approaches OSINT.

  • Confidentiality

    • Security Week ☛ ChatGPT’s Calendar Integration Can Be Exploited to Steal Emails

      Researchers show how a crafted calendar invite can trigger Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot to exfiltrate sensitive emails.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Dozens of trains delayed in Ukraine after Russia attacks railway system overnight — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Kyiv says explosion near Vladivostok (4,000 miles from Ukraine) was successful attack on Russian troops, while Moscow blames gas malfunction — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian city unveils monument to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to the sound of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ E.U. refuses to lift sanctions from Russian defense exec’s daughter, citing her appearance in calendar with Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘I’d rather pay taxes to NATO’: Russian IT worker reportedly quits with mass email wishing death to enlisted coworker and saying he’s moving to France — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ A small victory for ultranationalists Russia’s latest elections deliver predictable wins for Kremlin-backed candidates, and a new runner-up — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Malfunctioning missile fired from F-16 fell on Polish house during Russian drone incursion, Polish media report — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ French cyclist Sofiane Sehili likely to be imprisoned for illegal border crossing while attempting ultra-distance record — Meduza

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hackaday ☛ The Practicality Of Solar Powered Meshtastic

      A Meshtastic node has been one of the toys of the moment over the last year, and since they are popular with radio amateurs there’s a chance you’ll already live within range of at least one. They can typically run from a lithium-ion or li-po battery, so it’s probable that like us you’ve toyed with the idea of running one from a solar panel. It’s something we have in common with [saveitforparts], whose experiments with a range of different solar panels form the subject of a recent video.

• Finance

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ China tariffs could backfire on Mexican industry, chamber warns

    The Mexico-China Chamber of Commerce and Technology (MEXCHAM) is warning that if tariffs are raised on China, the country will suffer inflationary and manufacturing cost pressures.

  • Meduza ☛ Till debt do us part: How poverty is driving families in Chechnya to sham divorces — Meduza

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Canadian PM says Mexico visit aims to ‘reinforce North American prosperity’

    Mark Carney's visit to Mexico City will "elevate and broaden the bilateral relationship, with a focus on security, infrastructure, investment, energy and trade," according to a statement from the prime minister's office.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Piracy vs. Fair Use: How Hey Hi (AI) Training Intersects With Copyright Law [Ed: Conflict of interest there; Microsoft in the Board]