German Fireball’s 15 Minutes Of Fame

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One …read more

The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

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Running A PC Off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance

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By Maya Posch | March 13, 2026

After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, [ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all …read more
This Week In Security: Plenty Of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, And Phrack Calls For Papers

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By Mike Kershaw | March 13, 2026

When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we’re surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now …read more
OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update

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By Jenny List | March 13, 2026

ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just …read more
Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl

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By Tyler August | March 13, 2026

Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more
Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade

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By Lewin Day | March 12, 2026

America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do …read more
Replicating A Nuclear Event Detector For Fun And Probably Not Profit

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By Tyler August | March 12, 2026

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce …read more
Building A Robot Partner To Play Air Hockey With

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By Maya Posch | March 12, 2026

Air hockey is one of those sports that’s both incredibly fun, but also incredibly frustrating as playing it by yourself is a rather lonely and unfulfilling experience. This is where …read more

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