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A notorious hacker who identifies as a white supremacist has conducted a “small experiment” in which he took control of thousands of printers in order to share neo-Nazi propaganda. Andrew Auernheimer, who goes by the pseudonym Weev, commandeered Internet-connected printers around the U.S. to carry out what he referred to as the first instance of “mass printer trolling.” Auernheimer claimed responsibility in a post to Storify, saying he carried out the hack using a single line of Bash script code that compromised unprotected printers. Tech & Science Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek Tech & Science delivered to your inbox
“The sheer volume of paper one can generate with a single command is impressive,” Auernheimer said. “I thus embark upon a quest to deliver emotionally compelling content to other people’s printers. “Of course, most of the printers that are on public networks belong to universities and colleges. These are of course ‘safe spaces’ which should never be violated with terrible wrongthink. What kind of a horrid person would trigger innocent people wrapped in a safe monoculture free of political dissent?” Multiple local reports revealed flyers had been discovered at Brown University, Clark University, DePaul University, Mt Holyoke, UMass Amherst, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Northeastern University, Princeton, University of California at Berkley and Yale. Andrew Auernheimer, known by the pseudonym Weev, is seen in this police booking photograph taken by the Fayetteville, Arkansas Police Department June 15, 2010. REUTERS/Fayetteville Police The flyers stated: “White man are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy? Join us in the struggle for global white supremacy.”
The flyers referenced American neo-Nazi and white supremacist website The Daily Stormer. Weev has previously contributed to the publication, announcing his neo-Nazi views after coming out of prison in 2014. The Daily Stormer described Weev’s printer hack as “the greatest troll in history,” with publisher Andrew Anglin stating: “Weev truly is a hero.” He added: “The funniest thing is that they all called the cops! Sorry, f******, this is America! And these were open printers! First Amendment bitches!” The Daily Californian reports the FBI is working with the universities and local police to investigate the attack Tags:wireless m2m router, WiFi M2M Router, Industrial Wireless M2M Router, M2M IoT router, industrial wireless router, industrial M2M router |
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Elon Musk has revealed his vision for what a SpaceX city on Mars would look like, saying he wants people to believe setting up a colony on the Red Planet will be possible within our lifetimes. The founder of SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) has discussed the possibility of creating a human settlement on Mars for several years. The company is currently planning to send a robotic mission to Mars by 2024, and says that manned missions could begin as early as 2024—long before NASA’s projected timescale of the early 2030s. In a commentary piece published in the journal New Space, Musk outlines how he plans to build a city on the planet and what the next steps in space exploration could be. Tech & Science Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek Tech & Science delivered to your inbox Artist impression of a Mars colonist. SpaceX “By talking about the SpaceX Mars architecture, I want to make Mars seem possible—make it seem as though it is something that we can do in our lifetime,” he writes. “There really is a way that anyone could go if they wanted to.” He said there are two fundamental paths for mankind—that we stay on Earth forever, eventually succumbing to an extinction event, or to become a “space bearing-civilization and a multi-planetary species.” The latter options, Musk says, is the “right way to go,” adding that in our solar system, Mars is really the only option: “We could conceivably go to our moon, and I actually have nothing against going to the moon, but I think it is challenging to become multi-planetary on the moon because it is much smaller than a planet. It does not have any atmosphere. It is not as resource-rich as Mars. It has got a 28-day day, whereas the Mars day is 24.5 hours. In general, Mars is far better-suited ultimately to scale up to be a self-sustaining civilization.” Artist impression of a ship heading to Mars. SpaceX In the commentary, Musk discusses what life on Mars would be like: “Mars is about half as far [again] from the sun as Earth is, so it still has decent sunlight. It is a little cold, but we can warm it up. It has a very helpful atmosphere, which, being primarily CO2 with some nitrogen and argon and a few other trace elements, means that we can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere. “It would be quite fun to be on Mars because you would have gravity that is about 37 percent of that of Earth, so you would be able to lift heavy things and bound around. Furthermore, the day is remarkably close to that of Earth. We just need to change the populations because currently we have seven billion people on Earth and none on Mars.” Outlining how SpaceX will go about setting up a city on Mars, Musk said there will be many obstacles to overcome. Firstly, the cost. He said the price of a trip to Mars must come down so anyone who wants to go (if they save up) will be able to. “You cannot create a self-sustaining civilization if the ticket price is $10 billion per person,” he said. All materials sent up to the planet will need to be reusable. There would need to be a refueling station orbiting the planet so we can make more frequent, cheaper trips. On top of this, we will need to produce a propellant on the surface that would allow spaceships to make return trips: “It would be pretty absurd to try to build a city on Mars if your spaceships just stayed on Mars and did not go back to Earth. You would have a massive graveyard of ships; you have to do something with them.” Artist impression of Mars colonists arriving at the Red Planet. SpaceX On the ships that would transport people to Mars, he said the first Mars Colonial fleet would “depart en masse,” carrying with them the required cargo and the first settlers. “[The ship] needs to fit 100 people or thereabouts in the pressurized section, carry the luggage and all of the unpressurized cargo to build propellant plants, and to build everything from iron foundries to pizza joints to you name it—we need to carry a lot of cargo.” Musk believes the threshold for a self-sustaining city on Mars would be a million people. Current calculations indicate that it would take between 40 to 100 years “to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilization on Mars.” While Musk does not explain how the city would be built or what it would look like, he does share his view on where a permanent city on Mars could take us next—pretty much anywhere in the solar system. With the right technology, he believes a base on Mars would open the door to even greater space exploration. “By establishing a propellant depot, say on Enceladus or Europa, and then establishing another one on Titan, Saturn's moon, and then perhaps another one further out on Pluto or elsewhere in the solar system, this system really gives you the freedom to go anywhere you want in the greater solar system,” Musk said. |
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Background
Laser cutting machines work in a very harsh industrial environment with electromagnetic interference and unstable temperature, which requires the network onsite to be highly reliable. Meanwhile, the remote monitoring of laser cutting machines and sending failure alarms is also crucial for this project. Project requirements ● Networking of Laser’s cutting machines’ PLC, HMI, and other on-sitedevices ● Remote diagnosis and maintenance
Solution
InHand Unmanaged Industrial Ethernet Switches for Local Networking InHand ISE2008D achieves local networking of Han's laser cutting machines’ PLC and HMI.7-100Base RJ45 ports connect to PLC and HMI, the other 1-100Base RJ45 port connects to InRouter900. InRouter900 Achieve Remote Maintenance of On-site Laser Cutting Machines Through InHand cloud-based platform, Han's engineers can build a secure channel between Device Touch software and on-site InRouter900 to get access to the remote PLC and HMI.
Advantages
● InSwitch multiple fiber ports+RJ45 ports options available ● InSwitch send real-time alarms through relay output, ensuring precise monitoring ● With high EMC level, wide operating temperature, InRouter, InSwitch ideal for applications in harsh environments ● Devices remote monitoring and diagnosis via InHand Device Networks Cloud, efficiently reducing cost |
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The vast majority of Americans are opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, according to new research that significantly contrasts with traditional polling on the subject. Research by BrandsEye, an artificial intelligence data analysis firm, showed that 91 percent of Americans were critical of Trump’s recent executive order on immigration in conversations on social media. The findings highlight the limitations of current opinion polls, according to the firm’s CEO, which generally found opinion to be more evenly divided. A Reuters/Ipsos poll at the end of January found that 49 percent of people agreed with the order, while 41 percent disagreed. “Our analysis avoids the inherent question bias that comes with traditional polling,” BrandsEye CEO JP Kloppers tells Newsweek. “While people may answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on a poll, you’ll find it’s a different story when they are forced to voice their opinions and defend them in the public free speech arena of social media.” Tech & Science Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek Tech & Science delivered to your inbox Kloppers says BrandsEye uses technology to uncover organic, unsolicited opinions being shared on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The company used similar analysis techniques to accurately predict Trump’s election victory in November, as well as the U.K.’s vote on Brexit. Trump’s executive order of January 27 announced an immediate block on all refugees and also denied U.S. entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. Federal courts halted the order in early February but Trump has promised to announce new immigration measures. BrandsEye tracked online conversations between January 16 and February 7 to determine the sentiment toward the immigration order and the proposed wall separating the U.S. and Mexico. By using keywords, such as “Trump”, “immigration” and “ban”, the system logged more than 4 million mentions across social media. The company then analyzed a random sample of 10,058 mentions through a crowd-sourced network of humans to determine whether a mention was positive or negative. Companies including Uber and Adidas are already using BrandsEye’s technology to better understand how people perceive their brands, while the company now plans to turn its AI on the build up to the forthcoming elections in France, Mexico and the Netherlands. “Real people are able to understand better than an algorithm the true sentiment of a comment; for example, is someone is being sarcastic?” says Kloppers. “We ensure accuracy by sending every point of data through multiple people. An AI engine then delivers an overall sentiment measure. “The results suggest Trump’s support base has lost confidence. Why this is, I’m not sure; that’s in the realm of analysis that we don’t play in.” |
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Reuters) - Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials that can be recycled, such as silver and tungsten. The move is an attempt to address criticism that Apple's products, while sleek and seamless in design, are so tightly constructed that their components can be difficult to disassemble, refurbish and reuse. Liam, which has been under development for nearly three years, will initially focus on the iPhone 6. Apple plans to modify and expand the system to handle different devices and recover more resources, the company said. Tech & Science Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek Tech & Science delivered to your inbox The system started to operate at full capacity last month and can take apart one iPhone 6 every 11 seconds to recover aluminum, copper, tin, tungsten, cobalt, gold and silver parts, according to Apple. At that rate and working uninterrupted, Liam likely can handle no more than a few million phones per year, a small fraction of the more than 231 million phones Apple sold in 2015. Greenpeace welcomed Apple's initiative as an example of how the company is committed to keeping more products out of land fills, but the environmental group questioned how much of an impact the Liam robot would actually have on overall iPhone recycling volumes. Independent e-waste recyclers, which handle the bulk of discarded iPhones, will not have access to Liam. "If it's easy for a robot, that's great," said Gary Cook, senior IT analyst for Greenpeace. "But making it easier for a human, who will be doing most of this, is part of the solution." Greenpeace urged Apple to build more products using recycled metals, and to make its devices easier to deconstruct. Cook said Apple has been an industry leader on some environmental issues, such as asking suppliers to run on renewable energy. "A lot of the sector has followed their lead because they've helped change the supply chain," he said. Another Robot in EuropeThe world is awash in discarded electronic equipment, with the United States and China accounting for nearly a third of it. Less than a sixth of global e-waste is properly recycled or made available for reuse, according to an April 2015 United Nations University report. Apple does not disclose how many of its devices are turned in for recycling every year. Under its existing program, the company offers customers store credit for recycling certain devices and will recycle old products for free. The Liam system consists of 29 robotic modules on a single site near Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. It will focus initially on iPhone 6 phones sold in the United States, where Apple gets about 40 percent of its revenue. A second Liam is being installed in Europe, Apple said. Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, said Liam can help push the technology sector toward more recycling, by manufacturers and consumers. "We need more R&D if we are going to realize the idea of a circular economy in electronics," she said. Jackson, who was U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator from 2009 to 2013, spoke to Reuters before she unveiled Liam at Apple's spring product launch on Monday. Some environmental activists have criticized Apple for not making its products more green. In the ultra-thin MacBook Air, for instance, the chips, hard drive, battery and processors cannot easily be upgraded. The units use bespoke screws or glue to hold them together. Computers made by other companies tend to be more modular and easier to break apart. Kyle Wiens, co-founder of iFixit, an open-source repair manual for devices, said one reason iPhones, iPads and iPods are difficult to pry apart is that their batteries are glued into the devices. A large number of older iPhone models are resold to consumers in China and parts of Africa, which have more limited recycling options. Putting robots in California and Europe may not address that problem, he said. "It's notable that they (Apple) are talking about this, but unless you get one of these robots inside every recycler in the world, it's not going to have an impact," Wiens said. "On the one hand there is this really cool robot, and that's great. On the other hand there are a lot of realities on the ground that will make this not really have an impact," he added. Jackson said Apple's design approach will not change, but the company is working on better ways to disassemble its devices and recover reusable materials. WiFi M2M Router, Industrial Wireless M2M Router, M2M IoT router, industrial wireless router, industrial M2M router, industrial LTE router, Industrial VPN router, Dual SIM M2M router, M2M gateway, IoT gateway, Industrial router industrial-automation, automation, industrial-transport, inhand, inhand network, inhand networks
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