“Federal regulators are investigating a whistleblower’s claims about flaws in the assembly of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner,” NPR reported this week: Longtime Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour went public Tuesday with claims that he observed problems with how parts of the plane’s fuselage were fastened together. Salehpour warns that production “shortcuts” couldContinue Reading

Transcend has introduced a new lineup of PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs, designed to meet the requirements of various industries including AIoT, edge computing, and smart retail. The new models — MTE760T, MTE480T, and MTE380T — offer impressive speed, durability, and security. All three SSD models feature the latest 112-layer 3DContinue Reading

Popular Science reports that early last week, researchers at the U.S. Energy Department’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their new “MUSE” stellarator — “a unique fusion reactor that uses off-the-shelf and 3D-printed materials to contain its superheated plasma.” The researchers’ announcement says the technique suggests “a simple way to buildContinue Reading

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The new FFmpeg 7.0 major release brings parallel processing, MPEG-5 EVC support and more. FFmpeg, the open-source multimedia framework that enables the conversion, streaming, and playback of multimedia content, has announced the release of its latest version, FFmpeg 7.0. The new version comes after five months of development and includesContinue Reading

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Japanese electric systems manufacturer Nidec has begun production at its newly upgraded facility in Cleveland, Ohio. The expansion includes new manufacturing lines for Nidec’s DC fast EV chargers and power conversion systems for battery energy storage systems. Nidec aims to expand its battery storage installed base and EV charger deploymentsContinue Reading

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Austrian technology firm Easelink and Dutch manufacturer NXP Semiconductors have jointly developed a positioning system for automated EV charging based on ultra-wide band (UWB) technology. The system integrates UWB—a wireless technology that securely, precisely, and efficiently estimates the relative positions of two electronic devices—to help bring a vehicle into theContinue Reading

DOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week: Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a year-old data breach. The incidentContinue Reading

Zero-day vulnerabilities are frequently reported on, but remain a major challenge for organizations, especially when it comes to quantifying the real threat posed by an unpatched instance of a vulnerability. In 2023 the number of disclosed zero-days, or emerging vulnerabilities (EVs), increased from the previous year, rising from 55 inContinue Reading