Hacker breaks into on-campus smart washing machines — management eventually disables devices, leaving thousands of students with no reliable laundry service

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An unknown hacker has broken into smart washing machines that accept digital payments, leaving over a thousand students without laundry service in Amsterdam. According to Dutch publication Folia , the hacker(s) disabled the payment system on the appliances, so students based in the Spinozacampus housing complex could get their clothes cleaned for free. However, this did not last long, as Duwo, the management company behind the service, didn’t want to get stuck sorting the stains of the unpaid laundry bills.

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Acer Predator Connect T7 mesh router review: Expensive and outclassed

Tom's Hardware Verdict

Overpriced and outmatched in performance and features, the Predator Connect T7 is a hard sell.

Pros

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    2.4 GHz performance is competitive

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    Sleek design

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    Can be configured/managed with an app or WebGUI

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    Only two 1 Gbps LAN ports

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    Overpriced

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    Not available in discounted multi-packs

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    The process for a satellite is tedious

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    Some software bugginess

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TSM-Bee? TSMC gets into the honey business after working with local beekeepers to establish hives around its fabs

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TSMC has worked with local beekeepers in Taiwan to produce ‘Ji Mi’ – TSMC branded honey. The production of this golden, viscous, and culinary important liquid has become possible around the world’s largest contract chipmaker fabs in Taiwan thanks to extensive environmental and sustainability efforts by the company. Sources: Liberty Times and Mirror Daily (machine translated).

On Friday, TSMC presented at the ‘2025 Asia Pacific Sustainability Expo - Co-Prosperity x Growth Forum.’ At

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Enthusiast builds entire PC setup with Lego-style bricks — Includes desktop terminal-style OLED monitor & keyboard, with an iPhone 6-powered desk clock

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We all start somewhere in our PC building journey, but seldom does an opportunity present itself to make our first system as unique as u/OkDebate6649 . That's exactly what happened with the aforementioned Reddit user who built his computer literally brick-by-brick using Lego. Known as "Choi," our resident enthusiast took Lego-style bricks and made not only a full PC case, but also a monitor featuring an

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Compromised Google Calendar invites can hijack ChatGPT’s Gmail connector and leak emails

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A security researcher has demonstrated how a malicious Google Calendar invite can prompt-inject ChatGPT and coax it into leaking private emails once Google connectors are enabled. In a post onX, on September 12, Eito Miyamura outlines a simple scenario: An attacker sends a calendar invitation seeded with instructions and waits for the target to engage with ChatGPT and ask it to perform an action. ChatGPT then reads the booby-trapped event and follows orders to search Gmail and follow sensitive details. “All you

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Nintendo revives Virtual Boy after 30 years for the Switch and Switch 2 — lets you play 3D Nintendo Classics titles to bring back the nostalgia

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Nintendo announced the Virtual Boy adapter — an accessory that accepts both the Switch and Switch 2 — during the Nintendo Direct 2025 presentation. According to the company’s press release , this will work hand in hand with the upcoming release of Virtual Boy titles in the Nintendo Classics library, allowing Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers to relive the ‘90s.

This add-on is available in two flavors: one is made from plastic and resembles the original 3D

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Spacious 24TB hard drive is available for a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB is back on sale for $249

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If you're short on storage space, you might want to consider investing in a high-quality HDD. Unlike SSDs, HDDs are an excellent option for expanding storage when capacity is more important than performance. Right now at Newegg, you can find the Seagate BarraCuda 24TB hard drive for $249—one of its best prices to date and a fantastic deal for a hard drive this size.

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China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

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Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system.

The files appear to originate from Geedge Networks, a company that has long been linked to Fang Binxing — widely described as the “father” of the Great

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AI-driven search engine running inside a laundry room aims to rival Google, and you can try it yourself — programmer harnesses old server parts and AI to deliver quality results

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A programmer wants to take on Google Search, starting with two PCs that sit in his laundry room. Ryan Pearce, who worked in both enterprise software and game development roles, was curious about what it takes to build a search engine. According to Fast Company , Pearce built two search engines: Searcha Page and its incognito variant, Seek Ninja . These two engines both have a database with over 2 billion entries. Although it’s less than half a percent of Google’s 4

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DNA ‘cassette tape’ research hints at petabyte-scale cartridges and multi-century lifespan on paper — petabytes-per-meter density possible, but today it writes at kilobytes per hour

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Researchers from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a DNA cassette tape drive that functions exactly as one might expect. The experimental setup, published in Science Advances on September 12, is the first working prototype to combine DNA storage with a physical tape-based medium and a compact seekable drive — a clever attempt to merge the longevity of DNA with the scalability of old-school tape libraries.

Data is encoded into synthetic

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