I thought this credit card alert was real — ChatGPT told me it was a scam in seconds Norton’s AI scam detector is now available right from within ChatGPT and it flagged suspicious messages I al...

#AI #Online #Security #Computing #Peripherals #Internet

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Firefox launches its built-in VPN – but it has some limitations Firefox 149 brings a free built-in VPN to desktop users in the US, UK, Germany, and France, with 50 GB monthly data and no extra so...

#VPNs #Computing #Peripherals #Internet

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4 Useful Apps Designed To Help Improve Your Health And Wellness Calorie counters and heart rate monitors are a dime a dozen. Wellness goes deeper to address unique needs in effective and user-frien...

#Wearables #Accessories #and #Peripherals #iPhone #Android

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pixel art of Keyboard with hand cream, scalp brush, earphone case, and tissues.

I had nothing in mind to draw, so I just drew the scene in front of me.
#PixelArt #doodledot #lofiArt #kawaii-sketchbook
#peripherals
#todayspost #Pixel_Dailies

Reading The World’s Smallest Hard Drive You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an interface board. In many of our portable, mobile, and desktop computers, we’re used to solid-state storage. It’s fast and low power, and current supply-chain price hikes notwithstanding, affordable in the grand scheme of things. It wasn’t always this way though, a couple of decades ago a large flash drive was prohibitively expensive. Hard drive manufacturers did their best to fill the gap with tiny spinning-rust storage devices which led to the smallest of them all: the Toshiba MK4001MTD. It crammed 4 GB onto a 0.85″ platter, and could be found in a few devices such as high-end Nokia phones. Breaking out the Nokia’s hard drive interface. The drive’s connector is a pattern of pads on a flexible PCB, one he couldn’t help noticing had a striking resemblance to an obscure SD card variant. Hooking it up to an SD reader didn’t work unfortunately, so a battered Nokia was called into service. It was found to be using something electrically similar to the SD cards, but with the ATA protocol familiar from the world of full-size hard drives. The interface uses the PIO capability of the RP2040, and the board makes a tidy peripheral in itself. We’re guessing not many of you have one of these drives, but perhaps if you do, those early 2000s phone pics aren’t lost for good after all. These drives are rare enough that this is the first time we’ve featured one here at Hackaday, but we’ve certainly ventured into hard drive technology before.

Reading the World’s Smallest Hard Drive You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an in...

#Peripherals #Hacks #hdd #miniature #HDD #MK4001MTD

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Reading The World’s Smallest Hard Drive You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an interface board. In many of our portable, mobile, and desktop computers, we’re used to solid-state storage. It’s fast and low power, and current supply-chain price hikes notwithstanding, affordable in the grand scheme of things. It wasn’t always this way though, a couple of decades ago a large flash drive was prohibitively expensive. Hard drive manufacturers did their best to fill the gap with tiny spinning-rust storage devices which led to the smallest of them all: the Toshiba MK4001MTD. It crammed 4 GB onto a 0.85″ platter, and could be found in a few devices such as high-end Nokia phones. Breaking out the Nokia’s hard drive interface. The drive’s connector is a pattern of pads on a flexible PCB, one he couldn’t help noticing had a striking resemblance to an obscure SD card variant. Hooking it up to an SD reader didn’t work unfortunately, so a battered Nokia was called into service. It was found to be using something electrically similar to the SD cards, but with the ATA protocol familiar from the world of full-size hard drives. The interface uses the PIO capability of the RP2040, and the board makes a tidy peripheral in itself. We’re guessing not many of you have one of these drives, but perhaps if you do, those early 2000s phone pics aren’t lost for good after all. These drives are rare enough that this is the first time we’ve featured one here at Hackaday, but we’ve certainly ventured into hard drive technology before.

Reading the World’s Smallest Hard Drive You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an in...

#Peripherals #Hacks #hdd #miniature #HDD #MK4001MTD

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This Android bug makes VPNs 'unusable' – and Proton VPN is blaming Google An Android 16 update has broken countless VPN apps. Seven months after initial reports, there's still no fix ...

#VPNs #Computing #Peripherals #Internet

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#TechRadar I admire Logitech’s attempt to revolutionize the gaming mouse — but I’m not quite sold on its haptics just yet https://techrad.ar/PBP9 #Peripherals&Accessories #Computing #Mice

#TechRadar 'Plenty of speed and pinpoint accuracy' — I still rate the Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed, and now its on sale at Amazon https://techrad.ar/9Qj9 #Peripherals&Accessories #SeasonalSales #Computing #Mice

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Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—...

#Nintendo #Hacks #Peripherals #Hacks #famicom #family #basic […]

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Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—...

#Nintendo #Hacks #Peripherals #Hacks #famicom #family #basic […]

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#TechRadar PC hardware prices continue to skyrocket due to the RAM crisis — but not for OLED gaming monitors, and now's the best time to buy one https://techrad.ar/sbFW #Peripherals&Accessories #Computing #Monitors