“Sales of Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers hit 640,000 in March, the second-biggest month for sales since they started selling,” reports TechRepublic, “as consumers flocked to inexpensive ways to work and learn from home.”
But that’s not all, Eben Upton tells them:
With the pandemic having highlighted shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), 3D-printing manufacturers and hobbyists have been building face shields printed on…
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Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open To Eavesdropping
Billions of devices — many of them already patched — are affected by a Wi-Fi vulnerability that allows nearby attackers to decrypt sensitive data sent over the air, researchers said on Wednesday at the RSA security conference. From a report: The vulnerability exists in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom, the latter a chipmaker Cypress acquired in 2016. The…
ZX Spectrum Next, An Advanced Version of the Original 8-Bit Home Computer, Has Been Released
hackertourist shares an update on the status of the “ZX Spectrum Next” Kickstarter campaign: In 2017, a Kickstarter campaign was started to design and build “an updated and enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum totally compatible with the original, featuring the major hardware developments of the past many years packed inside a simple (and beautiful) design by the original designer, Rick…
How Should Students Respond To Their School’s Surveillance Systems?
Hundreds of thousands of American students are being tracked by their colleges to monitor attendance, analyze behavior and assess their mental health, the Washington Post reported this week. That article has now provoked some responses… Jay Balan, chief security researcher at Bitdefender, told Gizmodo that the makers of the student-tracking apps should at least offer bug bounties and disclose their source…
Raspberry Pi Foundation Sells Its 30,000,000th Raspberry Pi
McGruber writes: In a reply to a Twitter post, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO Eben Upton announced that they have sold their thirty-millionth Raspberry Pi. “We don’t get sales returns from our licensees until month end,” Upton acknowledged in a later tweet, but “at the end of November, we were at 29.8Mu, with a monthly run rate of 500-600ku…”
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Building Your Own Open Source, Privacy-Protecting Voice Assistant With A Raspberry Pi
PC Magazine’s “tech nerd” Whitson Gordon writes that “Once you start using a smart speaker to set reminders, play the news, or turn the lights on, it’s hard to go back.” But if you want the convenience of voice control without the data-collecting tech giant behind the scenes, an open-source project called Mycroft is a great alternative. And you can run…
Bringing community astronomy to rural Africa
Ideas discussed at last month’s IAU symposium in Tokyo last month included projects using smartphones and low-cost battery-powered equipment. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/iau-symposium-diversity-inclusion-astronomy…
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Eoan Ermine with GNOME 3.34, Light Theme, and Raspberry Pi 4 Support
Following the beta period, one of the best and most popular Linux-based desktop operating systems reaches a major milestone — you can now download Ubuntu 19.10! Code-named “Eoan Ermine”, the distro is better and faster then ever. From a report: By default, Ubuntu 19.10 comes with one of the greatest desktop environments — GNOME 3.34. In addition, users will be delighted…
You Can Now Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4 For Some Nice Performance Gains
MojoKid writes: The Raspberry Pi 4 is one of the cheapest single-board computers around. The new 4th generation is a solid performance lift over its predecessor and good bang for the buck if you’re interested in learning Linux, working with embedded computing, or just want to kick back and play some retro games on an emulator. In addition, the latest version…
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control?
This week Stack Overflow’s CEO/founder Joel Spolsky spoke to Clive Thompson, the tech journalist who just published the new book Coders: the Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World . “It’s a sort of ethnographic history of this particular tribe,” explains a blog post at Stack Overflow, “examining how software developers fit into the world of business…