May 08, 2026 from Hackaday How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of [Tynemouth Software] — a Commodore 64 in a PET case. One of the unique parts it had was …read more
May 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 8 May 2026 Friday On My Mind Edition Top Story There's a local privilege escalation bug that affects all recent versions of Linux. (Tom's Hardware) No, not that one, another one. It abuses bugs in three optio...
May 08, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net Barranco de Guayadeque Due to some road closures I moved my openstreetmaps planned journey through the mountains to more cave houses up one day, and it was definitely worth it. The view is magnificent - squint, the ocean...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 369: IR, E-Ink, and Avgas In this episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the latest reason that cheap PCB fabrication isn’t quite as cheap as it once was. …read more
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network to Help Geoclue Find You Rather than having users go through the inconvenience of having to punch in their current location, an increasing number of applications and websites use location services that can pin-point the …r...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …rea...
May 08, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 19/2026 My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am in the process of it. Most students have done well. I have done physical worksh...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday The ESP8266 Gets An OS, and it’s familiar A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly …read more
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday An Improved Robot Dog for Senior Design [Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more
May 08, 2026 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform app...
May 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ONLYOFFICE Workspace 12.8.0 adds Apple, Visio, and Hancom file support ONLYOFFICE has released Workspace 12.8.0, an update focused on broader file compatibility and stability improvements. The main change is expanded support for Apple formats, allowing users to open a...
May 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google is replacing Fitbit with Google Health, including AI Coach and multimodal logging After several months of public preview testing, Google is finally transitioning the Fitbit app into a new Google Health app, with the update starting to roll out on May 19. The Fitbit name will rem...
May 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify is launching a new feature to create AI-generated podcasts through AI agents Spotify is introducing a beta CLI tool that lets AI agents such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, and OpenAI’s Codex generate personal podcasts for individual users. The feature is aimed at people who alre...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday The Montgomery Ward Gasoline-Powered Clothes Iron Before the advent of electricity in the home made electrically-heated clothes irons a possibility, ironing was a cumbersome process, with self-heated irons being an arguable improvement over solid ...
May 08, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Minimizing and Finding Satisfaction with Less We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years. During that time, my in-laws from Viet Nam stayed with us for s...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday An LLM From “Scratch” Reading a book about bowling is not the same as actually bowling. If that resonates with you and you want to learn more about large language models, check out the …read more
May 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness I came across a blog post by Chris Glass titled Strawberries were on sale. Having not long ago published an article about once purchasing out-of-season cherries on sale. I had to open. While Mr. Gl...
May 07, 2026 from Hackaday How To Avoid Failed Screw Holes In 3D Printed Parts Screws are useful fasteners for 3D prints, but the effectiveness of a screw (not to mention the ease or hassle of insertion) depends on the hole itself. This comprehensive guide …read more
May 07, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz How do you Pew? A rambling acknowledgment of the shmup community and their door-holding nature; a list of YouTube creators that you might find enjoyable.
May 07, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net Pico de las Nieves in the cloud My first destination on Gran Canaria was the pine forest close to me. I've been to southern pine forests at other locations, but that wonderful, serene scent that a canary pine forest disperses whe...
