HP Inc tries to brick my wife’s printer. CEO approves and calls people like me “bad customers” on CNBC.

Last October, HP Inc issued an over-the-air firmware update to its printers that contained a Trojan Horse of the company’s own making. The update conned printer owners into accepting the update by saying that it was an anti-virus update. Instead, the update reconfigured the printers’ cartridge-reading routines so that they would brick the printer if they detected a non-HP ink cartridge. This Trojan slumbered silently in … Read More → "HP Inc tries to brick my wife’s printer. CEO approves and calls people like me “bad customers” on CNBC."

New Avenues for Open Standards: Expanding VITA into Broader Markets

What do wafer-thin nano membranes made from synthetic diamonds and open standards for next generation electronic systems have in common? Yep, you guessed it! This here podcast! This week David Jedynak (Curtiss-Wright) and I chat all about the past, present, and future of VITA standards. We also explore how VITA standards could be expanded into broader markets like critical infrastructure and medical applications and where David sees VITA headed … Read More → "New Avenues for Open Standards: Expanding VITA into Broader Markets"

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If you use low-cost – er – cost-effective FPGAs, there’s great news. You’ll have more choices sometime next year. AMD has just provided more details on its Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family, based on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process. These FPGAs will directly compete with Altera’s Agilex 3 FPGAs, when they appear.  When it declared its independence from Intel on February 29, Altera reiterated a commitment to extend the … Read More → "AMD announces I/O-heavy Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA subfamily for low-cost designs"

CEO Pat Gelsinger splits Intel’s baby into Intel Products and Intel Foundry

Last month, Intel chucked a year’s worth of announcements into an event called “Intel Foundry Direct Connect.” Early in the event’s first two hours, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the splitting of the company into Intel Products and Intel Foundry and introduced an advisory committee for Intel Foundry consisting of four high-powered luminaries:

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This week I am delighted to welcome Animals Around The Globe co-founder Christopher Weber to Fish Fry! Christopher and I explore the intersection of wildlife and technology including the importance of wildlife tracking, the trends Christopher is seeing in this arena and new technologies being used today to track wildlife around the world. Also this week, I check out how new bionic jellyfish could be used to gather climate … Read More → "Lions, Tigers, and Jellyfish! Cutting-Edge Technologies for Wildlife Tracking"

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Posted on Mar 19 at 1:09am by Ansi_Kenabi17
One word answer - EPSON. New inkjets are great, same with PrecisionCore head tech. Refillable cartridges are ultracheap and they work great. OEM ink is cheap. I have the same printer for 5 years now, still running on the same refillable cartridges set, except one or two. I think I replaced ...
Posted on Mar 15 at 4:49pm by Ansi_Kenabi17
"And when geometries shrink and you can cause a rowhammer induced failure with only 1000 consecutive writes…" Failure isn't induced, it IS INHERENT. IOW, we are being sold DEFECTIVE products. And rowhammer stuff is just one example. There are plenty of cases where memory is just tested not across all legal ...
Posted on Mar 15 at 4:46pm by welsasser
Designing semiconductors, including DRAM, is a careful balancing act between size, cost, power, performance and more. New generations of semiconductors leverage smaller process technologies, introducing effects that compound these challenges. In DRAM, smaller geometries result in physical challenges such as reduced cell-to-cell spacing and increased electromagnetic interactions between cells. Subsequently, ...
Posted on Mar 15 at 12:01pm by Max Maxfield
"AFAIK they can detect aggressive row hammering and they simply refresh adjacent ones" But it's the refreshing of the adjacent rows than can constitute another attack in its own right. And when geometries shrink and you can cause a rowhammer induced failure with only 1000 consecutive writes... On the other hand, ...
Posted on Mar 15 at 11:59am by KevinZeS
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Posted on Mar 15 at 11:57am by Max Maxfield
That is a very interesting story -- thanks for sharing
Posted on Mar 15 at 11:54am by Max Maxfield
It's a shame we even have to think about shooting things out of the sky when you think how long it took us to lean to put them up there in the first place -- but such is the world :-(
Posted on Mar 14 at 12:17pm by Steven Leibson
Hunting for whales is not a particularly good strategy, in my opinion. First, that practice contributed to the demise of both IBM Microelectronics and AT&T Microelectronics as ASIC vendors. "Show me your checkbook first," the usual whale-hunting method, is definitely off-putting to customers. Second, whales are not all that ...
Posted on Mar 14 at 8:45am by Ansi_Kenabi17
ROwhammer is bullshit. Criminally crappy HW implementation is being sold as solid design and then they portray particula design access patterns as somehow inherently nefarious.🙄 DRAM cells SHOULD endure any possible access pattern fo the cells in its vicinity no matter what. If there is any signal degradation, it should ...
Posted on Mar 14 at 8:24am by Ansi_Kenabi17
A story about a magic switch comes to mind:🙄 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232
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