Daily Tech News 6 August 2023

• There's nothing quite like getting woken up at 3AM because the websites your company runs are in the middle of a firehose vulnerability scan from the latest botnet.
  
  Every single attempt was failing because we don't run any of the crap they were trying to break into (or at least, not on the public internet) but the volume was so high it tied up every single thread on all the back-end servers.
  
  
  
• A second group has now replicate room-temperature magnetic levitation in LK-99. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  While another group reports that the material is really fussy to work with.
  
  It may be a room-temperature superconductor if you win the synthesis lottery. It is pretty consistently a normal high-temperature superconductor, but "high temperature" there means liquid nitrogen rather than liquid helium.
  
  Also so many researchers are playing with this stuff that the raw materials aren't available from regular suppliers right now. Out of stock globally. None of it is rare, it's just not made in bulk because nobody wanted it much.

• A new acoustic attack steals keyboard data with 95% accuracy if you live in a quiet place and use a high-quality microphone and give the hacker access to your computer to make detailed recordings of your keyboard while you are typing on it. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  So don't do that.
  
  
  
• Polish spyware company LetMeSpy has shut down after hackers broke in and stole all their stolen data. (Tech Crunch)
  
  So don't do that.
  
  
  
• The year of Linux on the desktop, for reals. (The Register)
  
  Counting Android and Chromebooks, Linux accounts for 45% of all computer use now. Not counting those, it's closer to 3%.
  
  But if Windows keeps shitting itself it will soon be 3.1%.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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