Defeating Bacteria In Hot Water Systems With A Heat Exchanger

The average hot water is a relatively simple appliance to understand. It uses gas or electricity to dump energy into water in the form of heat, keeping it at a …read more

What’s Mu Metal?

If you tear into old TVs or recording equipment, you may see shields made from some exotic-looking metal. Old timers will tell you it’s called mu metal, and its purpose …read more

This Week In Security: Android Malware, VOIP Hijack, Signal Contact Discovery, And TeamPCP Arrests

On GitHub, [AyaanB] details buying a cheap Android TV streaming device, looking for, and finding, baked-in malware. Multiple warnings have been issued by the FBI and CISA regarding malware on …read more

Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure

The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true …read more

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Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution By Wiggling

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By Maya Posch | September 2, 2026

Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms. …read more
Harvesting Namib Desert Fog With High Voltage

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By Maya Posch | September 2, 2026

As fun as mucking about with simulated environments in a laboratory is, at some point you have to do those field tests to demonstrate that your prototype actually works in …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 880: The Two Wolves

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By Jonathan Bennett | September 2, 2026

This week Jonathan chats with Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits! The conversation focuses on Patch the Planet, a new initiative to help Open Source projects deal with the fallout …read more
How A 1981 RAM Expansion Worked

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By Jenny List | September 2, 2026

Sir Clive Sinclair and his company were notorious for pushing the limits of electronic parts in search of a low price, and his ZX series 8-bit computers were fine examples …read more
“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy

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By Al Williams | September 2, 2026

If you used a scientific calculator in the 1970s or 1980s, there was a fair chance that it worked differently from almost every calculator you see today. Instead of typing: …read more
HDMI For The Color Computer 2

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By Zoe Skyforest | September 2, 2026

[Scott Baker] bought a TRS-80 Color Computer off eBay some five years ago. He’d always intended to add a CoCoVGA or CoCoDV upgrade to hook it up to a monitor, …read more
Creating The Greenest Possible Clothing With Living Fungi

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By Maya Posch | September 2, 2026

Despite the wide variety of fabrics used for our clothing, they all share the property of not being living tissues. This could be due to them never having been part …read more

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