Posts tagged "tech"

GM’s Experimental EV from 1969

Electricity is the once and future drivetrain for automobiles, but until the advent of lithium batteries their capabilities were somewhat modest. One EV blip on the automotive timeline is the …read...

How openEuler Is Reinventing the OS Foundation for the AI Era with SuperPoD and UnifiedBus

openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 is the first version built for SuperPoD, and the project says its UnifiedBus interconnect can lift application performance by 30 to 50 percent.

FPGA for All — CERN Releases “colibri” VHDL Library

Since you’re reading Hackaday, we’re pretty sure CERN needs no introduction, so we’ll get right to it– they’re giving back again, this time with a VHDL library called “colibri” containing …read more

Active Search, Meet Bonsai

How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension

It’s easy, once you know you can

Robot Makes Literal Daisy Chains

[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with …read more

The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Coin-moving games with no coins Productive pro...

A 7-Segment Clock Built With No Digital Electronics

If you wanted to build a clock with a 7-segment display, there are a wide variety of ways you might go about it. You could grab some 74-series logic chips …read more

Damit ich es nicht vergesse: Linux Capabilities

Was sind Permitted, Effective, Inheritable, Bounding Set und Ambient Capabilities in Linux?

Handheld Scanner is a Radio Multi-tool

These days, it’s possible to cram a whole lot of radio functionality into a very compact device. A great example of that is the LakeShark scanner from [SAMS0N1TE]. The LakeShark …read more

Daily News Stuff 24 September 2026

Handsome Psychedelics Edition Top Story Nothing happened. Then, after a while, nothing continued to happen. Communist stooges are upset that the feds know what they are. (Ken Klippenstein) They can...

UDP Broadcasting and the Brave New World of IPv6

After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing …read more

Grav 2.2 cuts cold starts and memory use on large sites

Grav 2.2.0 changes page-cache rebuilding so it no longer writes and compiles one PHP file per page, cutting reported cold-start times by about half in tests with 1,081 and 10,321 pages. On the 10,0...

Microsoft Edge IE mode support continues through 2029

Microsoft has reminded organizations that Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge will remain supported through at least the end of 2029. Businesses that still rely on IE mode should inventory leg...

Raycast 2.5 lets extensions add AI models to AI Chat now

Raycast 2.5 lets compatible Store extensions provide AI models that can be selected in AI Chat after setup, with updated integrations including Ollama AI, AI by Vercel, Cerebras, Groq, and LM Studi...

Opera VPN now turns on automatically on public Wi-Fi networks

Opera’s free desktop VPN can now automatically activate when the browser detects a public Wi-Fi connection. Users can enable the option in Settings VPN by turning on “Always use VPN on Public WiFi....

WordPress 7.1.2 fixes critical template RCE vulnerability

WordPress 7.1.2 fixes a critical security vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to make page template resolution include a chosen readable local PHP file outside active theme d...

Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame

Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.

Standalone DJ System Runs On ESP32

There are plenty of ways to DJ with a laptop and various controller setups. However, if you find hauling around an entire computer can be a bit much, you might …read more

After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays

We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate. Since the first Viking lander touched …read more