Posts tagged "tech"

Compact Calendar Display Reduces Phone Dependency

Phones can be distracting objects if you’re not an enlightened master of the mental arts. Even just reading an email or glancing at your calendar can get you caught up …read more

ElevenLabs launches ElevenMusic, a new AI music generation platform

ElevenLabs has just introduced ElevenMusic, its new AI music platform for streaming, creating, remixing, and sharing AI-generated songs. Some may remember that the company announced a similarly nam...

This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privi...

Mistral Medium 3.5 launches with dense 128B model and remote coding agents in Vibe

Mistral has introduced Medium 3.5, its new flagship dense AI model that consolidates chat, reasoning, coding, and agentic functions within a single system. Unlike its previous approach of deploying...

Weekly Notes 18/2026

It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. I spent a bit of ...

Running Linux on the PS5 with a Hypervisor Exploit

Since Sony’s PlayStation 5 console is quite literally an AMD-based gaming PC with a custom mainboard, the only thing that really keeps anyone from just installing another operating system on …read ...

CPanel Vulnerability

I discovered this last night by accident. I was looking into an old DNS server because the hosting provider needed to reboot a switch and things went offline for a few minutes, but I didn't know th...

My Fear of Flying

I was recently reading The Long Ride Home by Nathan Millward and at one point in the book he talks about having to get on a plane, and his fear of flying: This was something I would have loved to h...

Is it a Pet? No, it’s a Teacher’s Pet!

Here at Hackaday we cover the world of retrocomputing, which means that we see all manner of older computers in our everyday work. We might even claim that we’ve seen …read more

You Don't Need A New Computer

AT&T’s Unix PC — We Hardly Knew You

Before Linux, there was Unix. It was great, but it was and has been plagued by problems with licensing and proprietary competition. [Vintage Appartus] recalls, for example, the AT&T Unix …read more

Electronics Near Zero

Normally, when you design an electronic gadget, you worry about how hot it will get. Automotive-grade components, for example, often have higher allowable temperatures than commercial parts. Howeve...

USB-C Charger Juices Up 100 Devices At Once

Back when phones used to ship with chargers in the box, you’d get a plugpack that could charge one device. Aftermarket manufacturers eventually started making chargers with four or five …read more

My System Setup

I talk about my time on Linux and the programs at the heart of my setup

HTTP 3

Mein Blog ist jetzt auch mit HTTP 3 ansprechbar.

Five Different Styles of Cardboard Hinges

One doesn’t generally associate cardboard with structural components like hinges, but [Itoshige Studio] assures us that you can absolutely create hinges out of this ubiquitous material. In total th...

Banned Trees and Plants in New Jersey

I read an April 18, 2026 report in the New York Post titled After holding its nose for decades, NJ finally bans stinky Bradford pear tree: Under a new law, the Bradford pear tree and 29 other non-n...

Daily Tech News 30 April 2026

Red Vs Blue Edition Top Story OpenAI has largely abandoned its plan to spend half a trillion dollars of other people's money on its Stargate project, leaving it to other people to spend half a tril...

Making the Osmo Pocket 4 a More Serious Camera

The Osmo Pocket 4 is a handheld gimballed camera that’s perfect for shooting running content on the go. However, it’s got a weird sort of form factor and is limited …read more

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-30-26

Work did not allow for timely Pook-Emu Bee links, but today I return with nine new links from around the web. 1 Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years (Bill Toulas for Ble...