The S8 data line locator is a GSM listening and location device hidden inside the plug of a standard USB data/charging cable. A SMS message log could look like this:

Calling the S8 data line locator for 10 seconds establishes a call and allows you to listen to the microphone feed from the device. The DP and DM pads are instead routed to the MT6261MA processor as illustrated here:

Next, a USB cable must be soldered to these connectors as follows:

The device will then be recognized as an MediaTek phone USB endpoint with the following data:

This is often called the “MTK boot repair”, “MTK DM DP flash”, etc.

Samuel Groß, a security researcher with Google Project Zero security team, and the Coinbase Security team were credited with discovering the Firefox zero-day — tracked as CVE-2019-11707. Outside of the short description posted on the Mozilla site, there are no other details about this security flaw or the ongoing attacks. The last time the Mozilla team patched a Firefox zero-day was in December 2016, when they fixed a security flaw that was being abused at the time to expose and de-anonymize users of the privacy-first Tor Browser.

Actually, the exact case in the post “July 31st – December 31st” did actually give the correct result of “5 months” on my machine. But testing around a bit I found that on my machine “July 31st – December 30th” actually causes the bug. I put fix in quotes because it then results in the following result:

Which I guess is technically correct if you concede that “July 31st + 4 Months = November 30th”.

If you often tinker with your Wi-Fi network settings, no doubt you’ve seen the xfinitywifi network popping up as an available option. The xfinitywifi network is a huge Wi-Fi network created by Comcast using their own customer-rented routers as nodes on this network. Unfortunately, your device will keep trying to connect until you:

This can be a problem because the xfinitywifi network is not going to be as fast as your regular home network and because it’s isolated from your home network you won’t be able to access other devices such as printers.

(CNN) The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing. The British public voted in droves in 2016 to name the country’s state-of-the-art new ship “RRS Boaty McBoatface,” with the user-suggested name gathering 124,109 votes. “This study is a great example of how exciting new technology such as the unmanned submarine ‘Boaty McBoatface’ can be used along with ship-based measurements and cutting-edge ocean models to discover and explain previously unknown processes affecting heat transport within the ocean,” added Povl Abrahamsen of the British Antarctic Survey.

Joyce, now at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and Jonathan Sczepanski, a postdoctoral researcher, created an RNA enzyme — a substance that copies RNA — that can function in a soup of left- and right-handed building blocks, providing a potential mechanism for how some of the first biological molecules might have evolved in a symmetrical world. Around the same time, scientists were trying to figure out how the building blocks of life — amino acids and nucleic acids — could have spontaneously formed into more complex molecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA. In the decades since Joyce’s 1984 experiment, scientists have proposed myriad ways around the problem, from physical and chemical theories to RNA precursors that lack chirality.

Clojerl is an experimental implementation of Clojure on the Erlang VM. Its goal is to leverage the features and abstractions of Clojure that we love (macros, collections, seq, protocols, multimethods, metadata, etc.), with the robustness the Erlang VM provides for building (distributed) systems. The idea in Clojerl is to encourage the Erlang/OTP concurrency model, but support as many Clojure constructs as possible and as far as they make sense in the Erlang VM.

New York lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan that calls for the state to all but eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, envisioning an era when gas-guzzling cars, oil-burning heaters and furnaces would be phased out, and all of the state’s electricity would come from carbon-free sources. Under an agreement reached this week between legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act would require the state to slash its planet-warming pollution 85 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and offset the remaining 15 percent, possibly through measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Many Democratic-led states have passed laws designed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, in response to the Trump administration’s sustained efforts to loosen or abandon environmental regulations on power plants and vehicles.

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Watch Dogs was an early subject of YouTube videos that juxtaposed demo footage with finished games to suggest a graphical downgrade had taken place, and that players had therefore been shortchanged. And in the case of Watch Dogs, making that notorious E3 demo forced the team to lock down the look and feel of the game. “A lot of developers don’t like to do E3 demos, because they take a lot of time and production,” animation director Colin Graham once told me for a PCGamesN interview.