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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

TechCrunch

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019. Image Credits: AllSpice.

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

TechCrunch

Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. This allows product developers to review and discuss 3D models in more than 30 file formats in real time. Perhaps that day is edging closer.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

TechCrunch

New York-based Latch sells “LatchOS,” a hardware and software system that works in buildings where access and amenities matter. Latch’s hardware works with doors, sensors and internet connectivity. from 2019 to 2020. So, today, the company is certainly more hardware-heavy than I first thought.

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‘If you compromise the bootloader, you pwn the whole phone’

The Parallax

TOKYO—In the deepest, darkest recesses of all computer-powered devices, from your phone to your laptop to your smart thermostat to even your car, lies one of their most important software components: the bootloader. . READ MORE FROM PACSEC 2019. ”—Andrea Barisani, head of hardware security, F-Secure. .”—Andrea

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‘Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets

The Parallax

VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. “ [Memsad] is literally everywhere. If we can’t get it right, what hope is there for mere mortals?”—Ilja

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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reMarkable, maker of a focus-friendly e-paper tablet, says it closed funding at a $1B+ valuation after selling 1M devices

TechCrunch

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. Spark, which led a $15 million investment into the company in 2019 (when it had sold a mere 100,000 devices), remains a shareholder in the company, Wanberg added. reMarkable is one of them.

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