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Tom's Hardware FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share Hackaday Running DOOM on a Cheap 104-in-One Handheld Tom's Hardware Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring Tom's Hardware DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong — 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power Hackaday The Code The British Government Doesn’t Want You To See (Any More) Hackaday A Keyboard with No Keys Hackaday The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps Hackaday Building a bicycle dropper seat post Hackster This “Infinite Range” RC Car Explores the World Tom's Hardware Xbox PC and Game Pass titles are coming to Linux through 'Xodus' — Heroic Launcher devs embark on new open-source reverse-engineering project TechCrunch Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises Hackaday Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer Hackster This Distraction-Free E Ink Journal Is Built for Focused Writing Ars Technica Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware Tom's Hardware Rogue AI agent tasked with booking a gym class hacks system, removes other participant — says 'sorry about that' after trying to bump user up the waitlist Hackster The ThinkNode M9 Keeps You Connected Off-Grid Hackaday Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World Hackster Ben Eater's Digital Clock Uses AC Power for Timing Hackaday The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool Hackster This $6 RISC-V Dev Board Fits Entirely Inside Your USB Port Raspberry Pi Curiously minty Raspberry Pi Zero cyberdeck Tom's Hardware GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions Tom's Hardware Steam hardware distributor hit by cyberattack, 'expect fake messages,' Valve warns — Europe vendor has personal information and hardware purchase details stolen Tom's Hardware HoverAir unveils the Versa modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone — Modular camera transforms into an auto-tracking drone by magnetically snapping together for instant palm launch and AI tracking Hackaday Triggering Lightning with a Rocket Tom's Hardware UK's Royal Navy sea drones contain component that secretly sent data to China, report claims — government cuts camera connectivity and insists data wasn’t sensitive, only ‘heartbeat communications’ Tom's Hardware Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM just to tell the forecast — memory-sucking web wrapper filled with ads masquerades as an actual application Tom's Hardware Chinese farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice — farmer trusted pesticide recipe after months of successful advice Tom's Hardware Europe expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves into implementation — €15.6 billion network will boost EU government capacity by 60%, with launches starting in 2029 New Atlas Practical USB dock doubles as a companion display for your computer Hackaday Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons Hackaday Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet Hackster Water Cooling a GPU Without a Cold Plate Hackaday The Stages of Grief in Repairing a Trinitron Found in the Trash Hackster Learn How to Transmit Analog Video on a Laser Beam Hackaday The Chinese Smart Glasses Proving that Smart Glasses can be Repairable Tom's Hardware Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases Tom's Hardware Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks Hackaday Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams Tom's Hardware Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint Tom's Hardware x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 Tom's Hardware Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests Tom's Hardware FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows Tom's Hardware Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data oskrim.github.io Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 Hackaday Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes with Compressed Air Hackaday Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story Hackaday Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera Hackaday High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels Hackaday Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic seg6.space My server is a phone now Hackaday Grading Tomatoes with an ESP32 and ML Hackster LILYGO Packs LoRa, GPS, and Solar Into a $58 Credit Card-Sized Device Hackaday Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge Hackster A Wearable Ultrasound Patch That Supercharges REM Sleep New Atlas Pocket gimbal camera goes from hand to hover in seconds Tom's Hardware Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler — $458 combo features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, B850 motherboard, and a 240mm liquid AIO Hackaday Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics Tom's Hardware Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window Tom's Hardware Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition Review: Extra cool Tom's Hardware China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix Tom's Hardware Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew Tom's Hardware We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles — we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a faster NVMe SSD would have an impact The Verge Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true? Tom's Hardware Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit Tom's Hardware Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute Hackaday Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines Tom's Hardware AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails Tom's Hardware NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points Tom's Hardware Modder turns Steam Controller trackpad haptics into stereo speakers with custom HID tool — Wired connection transmits 16-bit audio that sounds surprisingly full Hackaday Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell! Hackaday The BBC Tetris Companion Hackaday Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip Hackaday This Filesystem is Born to Fail Hackster Stop Whining! Hackaday Hacking a $6000 Cotton Candy Machine to Fully Control It Hackaday Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell IEEE Spectrum Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader Tom's Hardware Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs Tom's Hardware Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] Hackaday Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server Tom's Hardware Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police Hackaday This Week in Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, and NPM Compromised Again Tom's Hardware This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech Tom's Hardware Grab an entire RTX 5090 PC for just $380 more than the standalone graphics card — save $1,550 off Alienware's Area-51 gaming rig Hackster This Stealthy USB Drive Hides Encrypted Data in Plain Sight Tom's Hardware Introducing Bench 2.0 — a revamped benchmark analyzer, exclusively for Tom's Hardware Premium subscribers IEEE Spectrum Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem Hackster Cale Loveridge's MiniPin Pinball Machines Are Printable on Almost Any 3D Printer — With One Spool Tom's Hardware Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction Hackster Looking to Boost Your Software's Performance? Crack an egg, Researchers Say Hackaday FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated Tom's Hardware Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment Hackster Flapping-Wing Drones Get a Stability Boost Thanks to Careful Monitoring and a "Disturbance Observer" Hackster MartyPC Creator Daniel Balsom Turns Emojis Into Working Executable Files for MS-DOS Systems Tom's Hardware Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error Hackaday Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk As Gloriously Ergonomic Macropad Hackaday A 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox Hackaday NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang Hackster Weather Balloons Are Getting a Second Life at Sea The Verge Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker Hackster The Mini Fridge That Runs Away From You Hackster This Is a DIY Power Supply… and Signal Generator… and Logic Probe… and... Ars Technica Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude Hackaday Phantomdrive Keeps Your Secrets Out of Sight Hackster Gemma Translator Brings Completely Offline AI Translation to Raspberry Pi 5 Hackster This Real-Life Bouncing DVD Screensaver Is 3D-Printable Hackaday CNC’d, CNC-inspired Adjustable Wrench Won’t Round Your Bolts Engadget Why smartphone makers stopped using removable batteries, and why they're making a comeback Tom's Hardware Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price provenmetal.com Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks Hackaday Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3 electronicmaterialsoffice.com Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard Hackaday FitzRoy’s Glass: Victorian Weather Marvel or Glorified Thermometer? Tom's Hardware PC gamer vibe-codes a safeguard against RTX 5090 power connector failures — monitors per-pin power draw, shuts down system if it exceeds 9.5A for more than 15 seconds Hackster Antmicro Adds to Its Open Hardware Portfolio, Releases KiCad Sources for a Thunderbolt 10GbE NIC Tom's Hardware Beelink SER10 Max Mini PC review: Gorgon Point comes ready to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Hackaday Amiga and Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of) Tom's Hardware Rogue OpenAI models behind 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected CDM The PlayStation Vita just got a new sampling groovebox and synth Hackaday Only the Hottest Tunes Play on This Fire Organ Hackaday Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo linuxgizmos.com Comu Fits a 144MHz CH32V203 RISC-V Board Inside a USB-A Port Engadget The $299 Viture Pro 2 are the company's lightest and most comfortable smartglasses yet Hackaday 3D Printing A Usable Airless Tire Hackaday Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD Hackaday Addressable LEDs Make Giant 16×2 Character Display Hackster Why Practice When You Can Build a Motorized Badminton Racket? Engadget Corsair just introduced new gaming keyboards with a control dial and a mouse with great battery life Hackaday Reading a Thermocouple with Mercury and a Potentiometer Tom's Hardware Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon Hackster CtrlVibe Takes on Codex Micro Hackaday Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System Hackster Klingon Meets TinyML Hackster eSun Aims to Make Your Next FFF 3D Print Smell Delicious, Using Its New PLA-Coffee Filament Hackster Creality's Pika Puts a Dual-Mode Laser/NIR 3D Scanner in Your Pocket — With Gaussian Splatting Soon Tom's Hardware Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year Hackster ShiftLens Turns 3D-Printed Objects Into Smart Displays — No Electronics Required Hackaday Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C? The Register Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia Tom's Hardware Crazed modder turns NAS into a gaming PC with RTX 5060 hanging from the side, boosts frame rate by 828% — Frankenstein rig hides dedicated PSU in drive bay, breaks Time Spy world record for the onboard CPU Hackaday A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST Hackaday Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help Hackaday Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics The Register Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller Hackster This ESP32-Based PCIe Card Powers on a PC Remotely Hackaday Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis Hackster TinyTouch Gives Mac Users Touch ID Without the Apple Markup Hackster This 7:1 Scale 16x2 Character LCD Is a Thing of Beauty New Atlas Archer Aviation debuts Halo autonomous VTOL, Thunder's commercial twin Engadget Don't use your car's USB ports to charge your laptop — Do this instead Hackaday BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp Tom's Hardware Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium Raspberry Pi How our tiny computers learnt to count sheep (and spot hi-vis jackets) Hackster MIT Moves Beyond Silicon with Molecular Chips Hackaday Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1) Hackster An Entire Retro Gaming System Inside an NES Gamepad Hackaday Road Trains Roam The Backroads of Australia Tom's Hardware Chinese chipmaking tool roadmaps examined — Beijing's nascent lithography tools target DUV production at five machines a year, and an EUV prototype with no chips Hackster This DIY Robot Will Haul Your Beach Gear For You github.com Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU Tom's Hardware Three major PC makers now using Chinese memory to fight 'unprecedented memory shortage,' report claims — HP, Asus, and Acer using 'small amounts' of CXMT chips in limited number of notebooks for non-US market Hackaday Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser Hackaday A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator Hackster Wait, Stewart Platforms Can Walk Now?! Hackaday Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604 Hackster Workbench Upgrade Automates Testing Routines to Improve Lab Efficiency Hackaday Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI Hackaday Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID IEEE Spectrum The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records Hackster The Terrifying New Robot Built to Save Lives Hackaday Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners! Tom's Hardware Drone flyover reveals rapid progress at Elon Musk’s new ATCF chip fab — Texas site prepares for all-in-one logic, memory, and packaging facility Hackster This Radar Sensor Monitors Muscles Through the Skin Tom's Hardware Lexar lists 32GB DDR5 memory with homegrown Chinese chips — 3,999 Yuan ($592) price undercuts hopes for cheaper CXMT-powered RAM Hackaday The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas Hackster This DIY Apollo DSKY Brings Moonshot Tech to Your Desk Tom's Hardware Gaming on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT and GTX 1650 Super in 2026 — upscaling makes low-end GPUs viable for esports and internet cafes Hackster Looking to Increase the Strength of Your 3D-Printed PLA Parts? Give Them a Shake, Researchers Say Tom's Hardware AI enthusiast unlocks and mods BIOS with Claude Code — AI defeats RSA-2048 signature checks and unlocks 55 hidden settings Hackster The DEF CON 34 Badge Packs a Surprise: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's "Mostly-Open" Baochip-x1 github.com Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone Tom's Hardware World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release Tom's Hardware Hideo Kojima unveils a Death Stranding 2-themed wireless CD player — Limited edition device costs ~$160, comes with Bluetooth 5.3 & exclusive artwork Hackster Aliensense's NXS Board Turns mikroBUS Clicks and Cameras Into Long-Distance Robot Sensor Nodes Hackaday Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch Hackaday Easy Theremin Uses ESP32 youtube.com Can you make a Wii U gamepad from a Raspberry Pi? Hackaday An Automated Water Tank Controller Hackaday Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant Tom's Hardware Errant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of sound — NASA and South Korean orbiters prepare to track 3-ton TNT impact Tom's Hardware Microsoft Paint used as a 'monitor' to run Doom at up to 35 fps, project released by firm's Azure CTO — runs actual Doom engine and loads real shareware DOOM1.WAD Tom's Hardware Iran suspected of conducting cyberattacks on US water suppliers in 45 municipalities — small towns mostly targeted, with utilities switching to manual control Tom's Hardware SpaceXAI says it will remove all 69 of its unpermitted turbine power generators, but expects process to take a year — trailer-mounted generators to be replaced by 1.2GW power plant Tom's Hardware RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance New Atlas Nomad 100 marks breakthrough in blown-wing VTOL technology Hackaday Architectural LED Install Shows How To Do It With Style Hackaday UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”? New Atlas New electronic thread revolutionizes discreet wearable medical monitoring github.com Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built Hackaday Bike Trainers as Video Game Controllers Hackaday Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors Hackaday Open Source Stream Deck Targets Flexibility Hackaday Browser-based 3D Editor Covers The Basics While Staying Local Engadget Ayaneo reveals its Game Boy Advance remake called the Konkr Pocket Advance Tom's Hardware Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun Engadget What is a silicon carbon battery and is it the answer to smartphone battery life issues? Hackster Luxonis M8 Box: Edge AI Meets Industrial Control Tom's Hardware Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant Tom's Hardware 'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix Ars Technica Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside The Register A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it Tom's Hardware Lost one-of-a-kind Nintendo DS cartridge hits eBay for $9,100 — PokePark Fishing Contest designed to delete itself after 12 hours, game so rare it was only distributed to theme park attendees in 2005 Hackaday A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone Hackaday Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000 Hackaday Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button JULY 2026
The Verge With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC Hackster These DIY Robot Legs Are Awesome, Even Without a Torso Hackster This 3D Printing Method Might Be the Easiest Way to Get a Functional PCB Hackaday Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar Hackaday NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade Ars Technica Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle Ars Technica China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 380: 3D Printing the Rainbow, IR and IP Camera Hacks, and Americium 241 on the Loose Hackaday Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support Hackster The Pocket-Sized Panel Built to Simplify Your Workbench Hackster Slow Down for These Hyper-Realistic Mini Traffic Barrels Hackster Control Any Computer at the Hardware Level with ESP-KVM Tom's Hardware Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access Tom's Hardware New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer Tom's Hardware PS5 emulation hits new milestone in record time, multiple 3D games now playable in Kyty — Performance and support steadily improving with 30 FPS gameplay possible today Hackaday Building a Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard Tom's Hardware Modder der8auer builds 110cm 3D-printed chimney to passively cool Ryzen 7 9800X3D without fans, cuts temps by 19C — radically simple PC mod uses the 'stack effect' Tom's Hardware Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company's keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated) Tom's Hardware Keyboard giant Keychron launches Nape Pro wireless trackball mouse — rectangular form factor designed to sit under spacebar gives users six customizable buttons and a control dial Tom's Hardware Ambitious gamer turns fanless Subway menu PCs into gaming rigs — passive Intel Core i3 units manage just 15 fps in GTA V and 25 fps in Minecraft Wired The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key Tom's Hardware Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain Hackster Espressif's ESP32-S31 Dual-Core Edge-Smarts Microcontroller Hits the Mainstream, Launches at $4.51 Hackaday Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures Engadget Tecno's new concept may be the first truly bezel-less smartphone Hackaday Custom Beach Robot Handles the Hard Work Hackaday Best-Ever Brainstem Map Created by Indian Scientists Hackaday Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck Hackster The New Sovol M1D Combines IDEX with Tool Changing Hackster Output Full-HD Video to a Monitor from a Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 Over USB Engadget That AI wearable you don't like just got worse TechCrunch Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag New Atlas Carbon fiber guitar's smart RGB lights teach you how to play Hackaday Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector Tom's Hardware Shanghai Aishengna named as the maker of China's first domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools — first viable domestic 7nm-capable scanner to be completed by 2038 Tom's Hardware Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics Tom's Hardware PSA: Your watch band may be messing with your laptop – magnetic clasps can cause lid sensors to lock your PC Hackster Laser Tech Powers Drones Wirelessly Hackaday Wrangling Datacenter GPUs Into a Desktop IEEE Spectrum Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard Tom's Hardware Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores Tom's Hardware Foreign-made robot vacuums caught up in FCC robot ban — covers any ground robot over 4.4 pounds with a 200 kbps connection IEEE Spectrum A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks construction-physics.com Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? Hackster A Spider-Inspired Robot Built to Save Drowning Victims Engadget DJI Osmo Pocket 4P review: The best gimbal camera money can't buy Tom's Hardware A Mac Mini server is running headless in my closet — it manages my photo library and handles my backups Tom's Hardware Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs 'Rook' cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveries Tom's Hardware $21 Nintendo Wii U upgrade lets you add TBs of storage to your console with an M.2 or SATA SSD — upgrade makes console slightly faster, but requires Homebrew and custom firmware select.supply Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates Hackaday RC Telemetry Board Lets Virtual Crewmember Help You Race Better Tom's Hardware Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code Tom's Hardware Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server Tom's Hardware Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargo Hackaday A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32 Hackaday Use Your Head While Trimming Trees Hackaday Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector Hackster Are Tubes the Future of 3D Printing? Hackster InMachines Launches Their Open Source Piccola Desktop CNC Mill New Atlas Apex Recordhunter becomes the world's fastest electric drone Hackaday Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks Hackaday Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art The Register Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake New Atlas Heone-X drone provides powerful, long-lasting campsite lighting Tom's Hardware Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028 Hackaday The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser Tom's Hardware Valve says that Steam Machine reservations won't be fulfilled until ‘the end of this year’ — company also releases CAD files for the PC console’s external shell under Creative Commons Engadget Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key Tom's Hardware An inside tour of Lenovo’s North Carolina AI server manufacturing line expansion — Chinese firm expanding US-native production to meet exploding demand Hackster This Haptic Wearable Delivers Hazard Warnings You Can’t Ignore Hackaday Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks TechCrunch ‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation Hackster Brain-Inspired Chip Cures AI’s Memory Problem Hackster A Touchpad for Your Mouth Tom's Hardware Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with pepper spray to neutralize school shooters — ‘Campus Guardian Angel’ drones can also smash windows and ram attackers Tom's Hardware Developer uses AI to bring a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS — no emulation required to play one of gaming's all-time greats on an iPhone or iPad datagubbe.se User Interfaces of the Demo Scene Hackster Open RC Spotter Logs All of Your Data. No, Like, ALL of It github.com Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library IEEE Spectrum Why NIST Researchers Spent 10 Years Measuring Gravity Hackster Scanwheel Recreates the Spirit of Mechanical Television in a Tiny Spinny Package IEEE Spectrum Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare Raspberry Pi Vivariums, drone shows, and TV kits, all powered by Raspberry Pi