Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept ...

For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next ...

The Texas Instruments TP4056 is the default charge-controller chip for any maker or hacker working with lithium batteries. And why not? You can get perfectly-functional knockoffs on handy breakout ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the dirty laundry into the machine, fill up the detergent, and let the ...

If the term ‘NLWeb’ first brought to mind an image of a Dutch internet service provider, you’re probably not alone. What it actually is – or tries to become – is ...

Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point.

OpenAI have just released gpt-oss, an AI large language model (LLM) available for local download and offline use licensed ...