Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Lab Gloves May be Skewing Microplastics Data The topic of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) has become increasingly prevalent over the past years, as amidst dismissal and panic, researchers attempt to distinguish just how much of a problem …read...
Apr 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 6 April 2026 Break Fast And Move Things Edition Top Story Samsun has raised its contract memory prices by another 30%. (Notebook Check) That's after doubling their prices in the first quarter, and whatever they...
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where to Store Our Data? These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and project files easily zipping past a few hundred MB. At …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Apple's Rare Concession: When Critical Vulnerabilities Meet the 'Update Refusal' Wave - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #130 For iOS users, recent news about the Coruna and DarkSword vulnerabilities has become unavoidable. Both exploit chains use watering hole attacks, requiring no user interaction — simply visiting a le...
Apr 06, 2026 from It's FOSS The Linux Kernel is Finally Letting Go of i486 CPU Support The support remained in the Linux kernel all these years after every other major platform dropped it.
Apr 06, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net Actually overflowing So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes), but we are going on holidays when we need to take care of the little plan...
Apr 06, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software Killing Open Source NOTE: As usual, this blog expresses my opinions and not those of my employer I first got exposed to modern open source in the late 1990s, and I think it was via Red Hat Linux version 5, or perhaps ...
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Simulating the AVR8 for a browser-based Arduino emulator It’s always nice to simulate a project before soldering a board together. Tools like QUCS run locally and work quite well for analog circuits, but can fall short with programmable …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from It's FOSS I Found A Terminal Tool That Makes CSV Files Look Stunning This new tool called Tennis makes CSV files look clean, colorful, surprisingly beautiful and ever more useful.
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Flying Cell Towers for Lower-Latency When the inevitable Kessler Syndrome cascade sweeps Starlink and its competitors from Low Earth Orbit in what will doubtless be a spectacular meteor shower of debris, the people behind Sceye …read ...
Apr 06, 2026 from It's FOSS A New Linux Kernel Driver Wants to Catch Malicious USB Devices in the Act If adopted, this kernel module would detect when a plugged-in USB device is acting suspiciously.
Apr 06, 2026 from Thejesh GN Uma’s first proper trail walk at Bidjigal Reserve It wasn’t planned that she would walk all the way. I was ready to carry her at least three-fourths of the way. I would have been more than happy if she had walked a kilometer. But it so happened th...
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Pocket-Sized e-Ink Gets a Firmware Upgrade Not so long ago, e-ink devices were rare and fairly pricey. As they have become more common and cheaper, some cool form-factor devices have emerged that suffer from subpar software. …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog Definitions of Model There are a lot of meanings of the term “model” in machine learning and machine learning-adjacent fields. Depending on the context, “model” can mean: a general architecture/configuration for weight...
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Making the Case Against Markdown For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but also for writing entire websites and documents. In a …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social High Ad Block Usage in Indonesia I came across an article on Backlinko featuring statistics about worldwide ad blocker usage. Different surveys noted in the article have wildly different results. But the first survey discussed, co...
Apr 06, 2026 from Isaac Clayton 196 Years It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks until one day he woke up in a cell of his own creation. Am I overconstrained, overb...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Building a Vise Stand with Pen-Like Retracting Wheels Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, some of it certainly comes down to an abundance of …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #355 The other day, I sat down with Adar Hay, the CEO of Jiga, to talk about supply chains and moving projects from prototyping to production. The outcome of this chat is this article, which also restar...
