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A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals.
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States and abroad, and that he personally controlled more than $26 million stolen from victims.
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows it is remarkably similar to a program published in January 2025 by Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE employee who has worked at a number of Musk's companies.
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB whistleblower said the unusual large data outflows coincided with multiple blocked login attempts from an Internet address in Russia that tried to use valid credentials for a newly-created DOGE user account.
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Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview Mode Introduction Less than a week after finishing my TDS 684B analog memory blog post, a TDS 684C landed on my lab bench with a very dim CRT. If you follow the lives the 3-digit TDS oscilloscope series, you probably know that this is normally a bit of death sentence of the CRT: after years of use, the cathode ray loses its strength and there’s nothing you can do about it other than replace the CRT with an LCD screen. I was totally ready to go that route, and if I ever need to do it, here are 3 possible LCD upgrade options that I list for later reference: The most common one is to buy a $350 Newscope-T1 LCD display kit by SimmConn Labs. A cheaper hobbyist alternative is to hack something together with a VGA to LVDS interface board and some generic LCD panel, as described in this build report. He uses a VGA LCD Controller Board KYV-N2 V2 with a 7” A070SN02 LCD panel. As I write this, the cost is $75, but I assume this used to be a lot cheaper before tariffs were in place. If you really want to go hard-core, you could make your own interface board with an FPGA that snoops the RAMDAC digital signals and converts them to LVDS, just like the Newscope-T1. There is a whole thread about this the EEVblog forum. But this blog post is not about installing an LCD panel! Before going that route, you should try to increase the brightness of the CRT by turning a potentiometer on the display board. It sounds like an obvious thing to try, but didn’t a lot of reference to online. And in my case, it just worked. Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers In the Display Assembly Adjustment section of chapter 5 of the TDS 500D, TDS 600C, TDS 700D and TDS 714L Service Manual, page 5-23, you’ll find the instructions on how to change rotation, brightness and contrast. It says to remove the cabinet and then turn some potentiometer, but I just couldn’t find them! They’re supposed to be next to the fan. Somewhere around there: Well, I couldn’t see any. It’s only the next day, when I was ready to take the whole thing apart that I noticed these dust covered holes: A few minutes and a vaccum cleaning operation later reveals 5 glorious potentiometers: From left to right: horizontal position rotation vertical position brightness contrast Rotate the last 2 at will and if you’re lucky, your dim CRT will look brand new again. It did for me! The Result The weird colors in the picture above is a photography artifact that’s caused by Tektronix NuColor display technology: it uses a monochrome CRT with an R/G/B shutter in front of it. You can read more about it in this Hackaday article. In real life, the image looks perfectly fine! Hardcopy Preview Mode If dialing up the brightness doesn’t work and you don’t want to spend money on an LCD upgrade, there is the option of switching the display to Hardcopy mode, like this: [Display] -> [Settings <Color>] -> [Palette] -> [Hardcopy preview] Instead of a black, you will now get a white background. It made the scope usable before I made the brightness adjustment.
