Sep 27, 2026 from Galaxy Garden New House Keys as Mid-Autumn Festival Present It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and received mooncakes, but also received a different, special present: the keys to our new...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse Engineering Apple’s Mikey Chip On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs …read more
Sep 27, 2026 from Remote Synthesis Wired's Women in Tech Survey Tech is a tough place to work right now, but especially for women.
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After …re...
Sep 27, 2026 from It's FOSS AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.
Sep 27, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Are LLMs 'Other Minds'? On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Although they can certainly make mistakes and hallucinate, they are useful. Regardless ...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Basically, Galvanizing Metal Without Acid As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways to prevent it, from quickly slapping …read more
Sep 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft redesigns its Copilot desktop app with new Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs In an effort to regain market share lost to rivals like ChatGPT and Claude, Microsoft has announced what it calls the biggest redesign yet of the Copilot app, built around three tabs: Home, Code, a...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday A Modular Macro Keypad The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before. One of the arenas it revolutionized was …rea...
Sep 27, 2026 from Julia Evans Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge t...
Sep 27, 2026 from MacBorn My Mac menu bar was getting crowded As more apps added icons to my menu bar, I tried Thaw to hide the ones I do not need to see all the time.
Sep 27, 2026 from Isaac Clayton Half an Umbrella A nor’easter storm is rolling over Boston this weekend, and I sit indoors, lit by warm yellow lamps, as sheets of rain rattle against my window. The smell of rain is in the air; trees bend, branche...
Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive …read more
Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday Self-Repairing Conductive Material from Liquid Metal PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material that makes Terminator circuits could also be used for smart …read more
Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that you’ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch of dead fish. Perhaps that’s …read more
Sep 26, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 26 September 2026 The Prisoner Of ZFS Edition Top Story In the most depraved display of shameless self-serving bullshit since the Paris Olympics, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have gone to the UN to beg them to squish t...
Sep 26, 2026 from Kev Quirk The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantasy, Sci-fiReleased: 2021Rating: ★★☆☆☆Welcome to the Gun Show! The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The dif...
Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday The Least Annoying of All Evils If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips …read more
Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday You Can Make a Microprocessor That’s All Your Own For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of Tiny Tapeout we’ve seen impressive strides made. But they’re not the …read...
Sep 26, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog Paper Summary: The Matthew Effect in RL Learning to Solve Hard Problems in RL for LLMs by Never Giving Up discusses an approach for countering what the authors call the Matthew Effect, the tendency for the LLM to improve much more on eas...
