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Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems.


In a controlled test, the team demonstrated that a commercially available humanoid robot could be hijacked with nothing more than spoken commands, exposing how voice-based interaction can serve as an attack vector rather than a safeguard, reports Yicaiglobal... Using short-range wireless communication, the hijacked machine transmitted the exploit to another robot that was not connected to the network. Within minutes, this second robot was also taken over, demonstrating how a single breach could cascade through a group of machines. To underline the real-world implications, the researchers issued a hostile command during the demonstration. The robot advanced toward a mannequin on stage and struck it, illustrating the potential for physical harm.

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Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..."


Modern Standby is a low-power mode on Windows 11 for letting systems remain connected to the network and appear "sleeping" but will allow for instant wake-up for notifications, music playback, and other functionality. The display is off, the network remains online, and background tasks can wake-up the system if needed with Microsoft Modern Standby...

"This series introduces a new runtime standby ABI to allow firing Modern Standby firmware notifications that modify hardware appearance from userspace without suspending the kernel," [according to the email about the proposed patch series]. "This allows userspace to set the inactivity state of the device so that it looks like it is asleep (e.g., flashing the power button) while still being able to perform basic computations..."


Those interested can see the RFC patch series for the work in its current form, in particular the documentation patch outlines the proposed /sys/power/standby interface.

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Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called "zone-effect" weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems.

Analysts who haven't seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable chaos in space for companies and countries, including Russia and its ally China, that rely on thousands of orbiting satellites for communications, defense and other vital needs. Such repercussions, including risks to its own space systems, could steer Moscow away from deploying or using such a weapon, analysts said. "I don't buy it. Like, I really don't," said Victoria Samson, a space-security specialist at the Secure World Foundation who leads the Colorado-based nongovernmental organization's annual study of anti-satellite systems. "I would be very surprised, frankly, if they were to do something like that." [Later they suggested the research might just be experimental.]

But the commander of the Canadian military's Space Division, Brig. Gen. Christopher Horner, said such Russian work cannot be ruled out in light of previous U.S. allegations that Russia also has been pursuing an indiscriminate nuclear, space-based weapon. "I can't say I've been briefed on that type of system. But it's not implausible," he said... The French military's Space Command said in a statement to the AP that it could not comment on the findings but said, "We can inform you that Russia has, in recent years, been multiplying irresponsible, dangerous, and even hostile actions in space."

The article also points out that this month Russia "said it has fielded a new ground-based missile system, the S-500, which is capable of hitting low-orbit targets..."

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NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed."


"What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a prime example.?"



On these systems, updating the OS with a Pascal, Maxwell or similarly unsupported GPU will result in the new driver failing to load and thus the user getting kicked back to the CLI to try and sort things back out there. This issue is summarized by [Brodie Robertson] in a recent video.



"Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support," explains an announcement on the Arch Linux mailing list. But Hackaday points out that using the legacy option "breaks Steam as it relies on official NVIDIA dependencies, which requires an additional series of hacks to hopefully restore this functionality.

"Fortunately the Arch Wiki provides a starting point on what to do."

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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Een seniorenflat aan het Kramatplantsoen in de Indische Buurt in Amsterdam is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag ontruimd vanwege brand. Dat meldt de Veiligheidsregio Amsterdam-Amstelland op X.

De brand ontstond op de derde verdieping van seniorenflat Flevopoort en was snel geblust. Maar er was veel rook door het gebouw verspreid. De seniorenflat is daarom deels ontruimd. De bewoners worden opgevangen in het Flevohuis, dat aan de overkant ligt.

Meerdere personen ademden rook in en werden nagekeken door ambulancepersoneel.

Word on the street, Matthew Ludak

Josh Johnson die de Epstein files nog moet verwerken, ik ook trouwens en ik bedenk me nog iets anders. Als ik aan Nederlandse beroemdheden denk, bij wie zou ik niet verrast zijn als ze ook op een foto zouden op duiken.

Gidi Markuszower, en Dion Graus zou daar ook geen goed figuur slaan letterlijk.., nou eigenlijk dat hele PVV blok. Joost Eerdmans, eindelijk heeft die dan een keer seks. Marco Borsato, die komt toch overal mee weg. Duk Wierd en dan boos weglopen omdat Ronit Palache hem daarmee confronteert, mèt foto’s ook. Bontebal want het zijn vaak die gasten die hun muil vol hebben over fatsoen.. Johan Derksen met een weekendtas vol met kaarsen, en dan gewoon weer verder gaan op tv niks aan de hand hoor mensen. Matthijs van Nieuwskerk, Ali B, Danny de Munk, Jeroen Rietbergen,  en dat zijn dan namen die ik in 1 seconde optik.

Ben ik iemand vergeten ?

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