SCARS LIVE QUESTIONS
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LIVE QUESTIONS FOR OCTOBER 24 & 25 - 2026, SUPPLIED BY K2HA
In June 2026, which historic national radio station permanently stopped broadcasting its official atomic time signals after more than a century on the air?
A: CHU – Canada
B: WWVB – U.S.A.
C: DCF77 – Germany
D: JJY – Japan
2. Cybersecurity researchers recently warned that cheap, unbranded Android smartphones are shipping with factory-embedded malware that covertly turns the devices into proxy relay nodes for a global botnet. What is the name of this threat?
A: Midnight Mimosa
B: Lemon Duck
C: Silver Sparrow
D: Cosmic Strand
3. You take a stunning, high-resolution photo on your phone and send it to a friend, only for them to ask, “Why does this look blurry?” Assuming your original camera focus was perfect, what digital distribution issue caused this drop in image quality?
A: Multipath propagation causing phase-shifted ghosting over the data link.
B: Quantization noise induced by an incorrect analog-to-digital converter clock sync.
C: Bit-stuffed packet padding truncating the image payload at the router boundary.
D: Compression artifacts from aggressive, lossy downscaling by the messaging app's servers.
4. In August 2026, a U.S. Federal Court threw out a key expert witness report in LeDoux v. Outliers, Inc. What data integrity failure caused the judge to exclude it and ultimately dismiss the case "with prejudice"?
A: It contained "hallucinated," entirely fictitious academic citations generated by AI consumer tools.
B: It used uncalibrated telemetry software that violated Federal Rule of Evidence 702 standard modelling.
C: It relied on server metadata corrupted by a documented bit-flip event.
D: It embedded proprietary source code violating active non-disclosure orders.
THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS WILL BE POSTED HERE SHORTLY AFTER THE SUNDAY RAGCHEW NET
LIVE QUESTIONS FOR OCTOBER 17 & 18 - 2026, SUPPLIED BY K2HA
1. When you trust an AI agent to buy items or book reservations for you, what specific danger are you exposed to if a hacker embeds hidden instructions on a webpage?
A: The Turing Trap
B: Phantom Billing
C: Indirect Prompt Injection
D: Session Hijacking
2. What is a primary limitation when using generative AI to write C++ firmware for a low-power microcontroller like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi Pico?
A: The unoptimized code may result in a large compiled binary that exceeds strict RAM and flash memory limits.
B: The AI struggles with specific timing loops, resulting in inconsistent Morse code (CW) speeds.
C: The AI cannot use standard open-source libraries, forcing manual pin mapping for peripherals.
D: Safety guardrails prevent the AI from generating code that interfaces with external RF power amplifiers.
3. What was the name of the first island in the Bahamas where Columbus and his crew finally made landfall on October 12, 1492?
A: Trinidad
B: San Salvador
C: Cuba
D: Jamaica
4. Startup CEO Shane Mac had been using an AI agent without issue when he received a "heads up" ping from an employee about a message in the company Slack channel. What did the snapshot show?
A: His checking and savings account balances and other details.
B: A summary of a highly confidential performance review for a senior executive.
C: A copy-pasted calendar invite exposing a private, unannounced acquisition meeting.
D: A list of internal source code repositories and API keys flagged for security vulnerabilities.