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Jan 30, 2022

Blast Chips With This BBQ Lighter Fault Injection Tool

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering

Looking to get into fault injection for your reverse engineering projects, but don’t have the cash to lay out for the necessary hardware? Fear not, for the tools to glitch a chip may be as close as the nearest barbecue grill.

If you don’t know what chip glitching is, perhaps a primer is in order. Glitching, more formally known as electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI), or simply fault injection, is a technique that uses a pulse of electromagnetic energy to induce a fault in a running microcontroller or microprocessor. If the pulse occurs at just the right time, it may force the processor to skip an instruction, leaving the system in a potentially exploitable state.

EMFI tools are commercially available — we even recently featured a kit to build your own — but [rqu]’s homebrew version is decidedly simpler and cheaper than just about anything else. It consists of a piezoelectric gas grill igniter, a little bit of enameled magnet wire, and half of a small toroidal ferrite core. The core fragment gets a few turns of wire, which then gets soldered to the terminals on the igniter. Pressing the button generates a high-voltage pulse, which gets turned into an electromagnetic pulse by the coil. There’s a video of the tool in use in the Twitter thread, showing it easily glitching a PIC running a simple loop program.

Jan 30, 2022

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Spotted a Giant ‘Tree-Stump’ On The Red Planet’s Surface

Posted by in category: space

A joint probe mission of ESA and Roscosmos captured a giant tree stump from the Martian surface. One of the probes on Mars recently captured a strange image on the planet’s surface.

Jan 30, 2022

Quantifying Biological Age: Blood Test #1 in 2022 (Test #35 Since 2015)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

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Jan 30, 2022

Not rocket science: SpinLaunch hurls payloads into orbit

Posted by in categories: science, space

Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.

Jan 30, 2022

Electric knee implants could help treat pain of osteoarthritis

Posted by in category: futurism

A device that delivers electric current to the knees could help combat osteoarthritis, a painful condition caused by worn cartilage, after successful tests in rabbits.

Jan 30, 2022

The Terrifying Truth Behind Meta’s New Supercomputer

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Meta has just revealed their AI Supercomputer which is surpassing any of its competitors in terms of capabilities and performance. Meta AI Research is using data from sites such as Facebook and Instagram to train and improve its models in the hopes of controlling and influencing its users and for other future secret projects. What other dystopian things will come from this, one can only imagine.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Meta’s Secret Weapon.
01:41 The Emergence of AI Supremacy.
04:55 What are Supercomputers used for?
08:03 Is Human AI Possible?
10:34 Last Words.

#meta #supercomputer #dystopia

Jan 30, 2022

Shell says one of the largest hydrogen electrolyzers in the world is now up and running in China

Posted by in category: sustainability

Hydrogen, which has a diverse range of applications and can be deployed in a wide range of industries, can be produced in a number of ways. One method includes using electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen.

If the electricity used in this process comes from a renewable source such as wind or solar then some call it green or renewable hydrogen. The electrolyzer in Zhangjiakou will use onshore wind power, Shell said.

While there is excitement in some quarters about green hydrogen’s potential, the vast majority of hydrogen generation is currently based on fossil fuels.

Jan 30, 2022

Teen who turned down $5,000 from Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking the billionaire’s jet says he gets too much work satisfaction to settle for less than $50,000

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Sweeney responded: “Sounds doable, account and all my help. Any chance to up that to $50K?”

The 19-year-old cited college funding and told the billionaire the money could go towards buying a Tesla Model 3.

“I’ve done a lot of work on this and 5k is not enough,” Sweeney said in an interview with Insider. He added $5,000 wasn’t enough to replace “the fun I have in this, working on it.”

Jan 30, 2022

Massless particles can’t be stopped

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

If a particle has no mass, how can it exist?

Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect.

Four physicists share their journeys through academia into industry and offer words of wisdom for those considering making a similar move.

Jan 30, 2022

World’s first 3D-printed steel footbridge unveiled in Amsterdam

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Now, the world’s first 3D-printed steel structure, a ‘living laboratory’ bridge, has been unveiled by a robot in Amsterdam. This pedestrian bridge with smart sensors will replace the old bridge under external restoration for the next two years.

The 3D-printed footbridge, which is over four years in the making, is the result of a unique collaboration between MX3D, software company Autodesk, chief engineer Arup, steel giant ArcelorMittal, the City of Amsterdam, and the University of Twente, among others.

MX3D made this design possible by turning welding robots with intelligent software into industrial 3D printers. The entire bridge is made of stainless steel and weighs 6,000 kg. The footbridge will be extensively tested by Imperial College London, with the help of the University of Twente, before being installed.