Yes, You Can Run WSL on Windows 95
2026 is a year filled with people doing things they can, but maybe shouldn't, and WSL9x is more proof of that. A mad scientist calling herself Hailey has successfully integrated the 6.19…
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There Is Now A Free Ransomware Decryptor For Victims of Phobos and 8base
The Japanese police have made a ransomware decryptor available, for free, that will allow victims of Phobos and 8-Base to recover any files encrypted by those ransomware attacks. It may also work…
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The ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 Features A Gyroscope To Detect Card Sag
Hackaday spotted that ASUS added a gyroscope to their ROG Astral RTX 5090, specifically a Bosch Sensortec BMI323 sensor capable of acting as one. It was added to detect card...
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I Swear This One Trick Gets Rid Of The AI Answers At The Top Of Your Google Searches
There are studies which contradict the various sayings that vulgarity is only for those of low intelligence, they aren't great studies but they do indicate a positive correlation between the...
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This PDF, It’s Full Of DOOM!
Welcome to 2025, the year DOOM was recreated inside of a PDF. DoomPDF exists thanks to the horrifying fact that Javascript can run, with its own separate standard library, inside...
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Retro Friday. Upgrading The Storage In A 386 With A MFM/RLL Hard Drive
There was a time before NVMe, SATA and even IDE, when hard drives connected using Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM), and the cool kids added Run Length Limited (RLL) controller. When you did…
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At 22 Sam Zeloof Has Hand Built A 1200 Transistor Chip In His Garage
If you haven't already heard of 22 year old Sam Zeloof, who was interviewed last Friday by Wired, he is now famous for the hand fabrication of a 1200 transistor...
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Sniffing Out Malware’s EM Emissions With A Raspberry Pi?
The idea of sniffing out infected kit by monitoring their EM emissions seems to be a bit beyond what we can achieve at this point, however it seems that this ability is…
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A 180W AMD Threadripper Laptop
Sick of your 3950X powered laptop throttling under heavy load and want one that is capable of handling the thermal load of a Threadripper? Check out this build over at Hackaday which…
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Catch The Wave; Internet Of Water Filled Tubes
Hackaday has posted a rather interesting project, detailing how the internet could work over a series of watery tubes, at least in places where they don't have a tendency to...
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The Ingenuity Involved In Flying A Helicopter On Mars
NASA has sent Ingenuity on it's way to Mars, marking the first attempt for humans to fly an autonomous helicopter on another planet. It is currently tucked into the cargo bay of…
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The ISS WiFi Learns A New Trick With An Eye To Autonomous Docking
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched the last of its H-II transfer vehicles to the International Space Station and the cargo is rather interesting. It will be delivering a...
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Augmented Reality And Assisted Vision In a Contact Lens
Mojo Vision have developed a prototype contact lens with a built in display to give your eyes that old AR treatment. They are designed to be far more unobtrusive than Google…
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We Have Winners; The 2019 Hackaday Prize Results
The winning project for this years Hackaday Prize is called FieldKit, and while it isn't quite as advanced as a tricorder it can certainly fulfill a similar purpose in even...
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Blink Twice To Zoom And Enhance
A common science fiction trick has come closer to reality, thanks to researchers from the University of California San Diego. When your eye moves or you blink, electrooculographic signals are...
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SpaceX Serious Satellite Internet
There is a benefit to living in Florida, the chance to watch SpaceX do their thing in person which is what inspired The Tech Report to take a look at SpaceX's Starlink…
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Mega Sega reboot, Analogue’s Sg FPGA
If you haven't run into it yet, the Sega Mg is a $190 FPGA powered device with can play any any region's Genesis or Mega Drive cartridges, and has a connector for…
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Now that’s truly flexible programming!
Researchers from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have shown off a very interesting bit of kit, a flexible logic gate for use in soft robotics. That type…
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