Searching for “beautiful waste” on social media, smartwatches consistently rank high. They are expensive, and aside from their superficial “beauty,” they lack practical value, yet they provide significant emotional value, serving as a “digital treat” for contemporary youth. At first glance, “beautiful waste” seems like a derogatory term. However, upon closer inspection, it can be … Read more
2.1 million and 18 million, these two numbers represent the sales figures of the Apple iPhone and Apple Watch in 2017, respectively. Even looking at the entire wearable device market, last year’s total sales were only 115 million units. The disparity in scale proves that, despite years of investment from both Apple and Google in … Read more
Source: Lei Technology AI Hardware Group | Editor: Tianxing | Layout: LA In 2024, Meizu announced an “All In AI” strategy, halting traditional smartphone projects. One of the products Meizu aims to develop is AI hardware that combines the advantages of the Rabbit R1 and AI Pin, two new AI hardware species. Lei Technology has … Read more
In order to protect sovereignty in the cyber world and to build a European Digital Single Market (DSM), the European Union is determined to implement the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by 2024, despite numerous challenges. Violating the DMA regulations could result in fines of up to 10% of annual revenue, making it a “tightening noose” … Read more
Click the blue text for more exciting information Once again, someone asked me about the safety of ladder diagrams, I really can’t believe it. Every time something goes wrong, they come to me only after the crisis has hit, if they had contacted me earlier, the workshop wouldn’t have had to stop production for three … Read more
On the afternoon of March 26, 2025, the 2025 Annual Academic Committee Meeting of the Key Laboratory for Safety and Reliability Assessment of Industrial Control Systems (hereinafter referred to as “Key Laboratory”) was grandly held in Beijing. The meeting was jointly organized by the China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute and China Huadian Corporation. … Read more
Click the little blue text to follow! Yesterday, a friend working in industrial motor control complained that their production line frequently experiences inexplicable shutdown issues. Sometimes the motor suddenly reverses, and sometimes the safety door closes abnormally. After investigation, it was found that the problem lay in the state machine programming logic, where some boundary … Read more
Recently, Siemens announced that its industrial equipment, commonly used in petrochemical plants and large renewable energy power plants, has 54 security vulnerabilities. Among these, the most severe vulnerabilities can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or remote code execution on arbitrary servers, putting power plants at risk of failure and halting electricity generation. More alarmingly, … Read more
With the rapid development of information technology, industrial control systems are increasingly exposed to the internet environment, facing unprecedented security challenges. To enhance awareness of industrial information security risk prevention, in 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the ‘Guidelines for Cybersecurity Protection of Industrial Control Systems’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Protection … Read more
Hello engineers and security experts! Today, let’s discuss the “ever-relevant” topic of industrial control system security, especially regarding PLCs, the “brain” of industrial control systems. If hackers target them, it could lead to significant trouble! Imagine a PLC as the “conductor” of a factory, controlling every aspect of the production line. If hackers gain control … Read more