MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows

As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface …read more

What Happens If Russia Shuts The Door On Their Leaky ISS Module?

There was a particularly tense moment aboard the International Space Station earlier this month, with NASA directing their astronauts to secure themselves in the Dragon capsule and prepare for a …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened To The Hero Nerd?

Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least …read more

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more

Picking A CRC

You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, …read more

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Status Display Keeps Eye On Your Prusa Fleet

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By Tom Nardi | June 23, 2026

Whether you’ve been dragging an old MK2 or MK3 kicking and screaming into the present through the available upgrade paths, or recently picked up a CORE One, pretty much any …read more
Long-Theorized GPS Weakness Exploited On Large Scale

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 23, 2026

GPS has become fairly common in our everyday lives, not only able to pinpoint our locations on Earth but also as an incredibly accurate timekeeping method. But since these satellites …read more
Rickrolling The World Cup

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By Navarre Bartz | June 22, 2026

Sometimes, hacking requires a certain amount of restraint, especially when you find a system woefully unsecured. It would be so easy to play some pranks, but [bobdahacker] chose not to …read more
Dynamic RAM From First Principles

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 22, 2026

Before the past year, many of us took computer memory for granted. It was one of the lower-cost parts of a PC build and was usually available in whatever quantity …read more
LightComposer – Reach Out And Touch Your Lighting

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By Matt Varian | June 22, 2026

While there is a time and place for wirelessly controlled devices, sometimes you want something you can just reach out and touch to interact with, no apps to install or …read more
Investigating Annealing As Fix For Poor CF Adhesion In 3D Prints

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By Maya Posch | June 22, 2026

After recently publishing a few videos covering research into the poor adhesion between chopped carbon fiber (CCF) and the thermoplastic filaments as used with FDM 3D printing, some of the …read more
Breaking Into A Prison Tablet

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By Maya Posch | June 22, 2026

Usually the term ‘jailbreaking’ isn’t meant to be taken quite that literally, but in the case of the US prison tablet that [Hugh Jeffreys] got sent, it’s really quite apt. …read more

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