Are Projects Really Useless?
MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine Sponsored by Mouser Electronics
Four cash prizes!
First Place: $1000
Second Place: $500
Third Place: $250
MacroFab Podcast Favorite: $1000 and a Useless Trophy
Contest runs 8 AM CST June 1st, 2019 through 8 AM CST August 10, 2019
How to Enter your Useless Project
Build an electronic project that is useless
Document it as a new project on Hackaday.io
Tag it with “MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine”
More rules and information on the blog
R.F.O.
Arm gives up control of IP to China
Softbank, sold the 51% share of Arm China to the Chinese
Major Google Services Outage
Nest was down. No A/C and Doors couldn’t be unlocked
Services rendered YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat
Google Cloud on the backend
Squirrels and Security — It’s a Thing!
They’re cute, they’re fuzzy, and they pose a major threat to our cyber-infrastructure.
“Frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels”
This map lists all unclassified Cyber Squirrel Operations that have been released to the public that we have been able to confirm.
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