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+ Computer Weekly: US Treasury sets up quantum readiness unit—The US Treasury has established a quantum readiness taskforce to help financial services institutions through the transition to post-quantum cryptogra...
+ Hack a Day: Hackaday Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot—Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a stable, robust fashion, ...
+ Hack a Day: Claude Plays DOOM—Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual content. However, if youre creative...
+ Hack a Day: New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive—As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and levers would do something li...
+ Hack a Day: Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone!—A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think o...
+ Hack a Day: Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient is Fraud—[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps un...
+ Hack a Day: Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid—Fluid simulations are one of the killer apps of high-performance computing, but if you cant afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long ...
+ Hack a Day: Native SMB3 Client Brings Modern NAS Access To 20-Year-Old PowerPC Macs—As software updates cease for operating systems, they eventually begin to lose access to parts of the LAN and internet due to out of date encryption f...
+ Hack a Day: AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?—One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with...
+ Hack a Day: Artificial Intelligence as It Once Was—One day, people will look back at what we call Artificial Intelligence and laugh. We do the same thing today, as chat bots totally outstrip what the c...
+ Hack a Day: Anatomy of an SLA Resin Printing Disaster—When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that Id inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills. T...
+ Hack a Day: Quest VR Headset Becomes Unlocked Hardware—The Quest virtual reality headset gets a fully unlocked bootloader thanks to the QuestStack tool, which automates a complex process of privilege escal...
+ Hack a Day: The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered—When the analog TV signals were turned off in most places around fifteen years ago, their replacement took the form of a set of digital multiplexes. A...
+ Hack a Day: Straight Talk on 3D Printing Footwear At Home—Printed footwear is an intriguing idea, but as far as projects go it is somewhat more complex than it first appears. This guide to 3D printing your ow...
+ Hack a Day: 3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch—Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds u...
+ Hack a Day: A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code—The AM29000 series of processors were AMDs entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was st...
+ Hack a Day: An Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes—Its likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects...
+ Hack a Day: At Last, A Gameboy Advance With Decent Audio—Many pieces of consumer electronics are build down to a price, and the corners cut show up in their performance. The Gameboy Advance from Nintendo is ...
+ Hack a Day: Tech in Plain Sight: Vacuum Blood Collection—If youre blessed enough that you havent had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle...
+ Tech Dirt: Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Forced To Rehire Columnist Fired For Quoting Deceased Bigot Charlie Kirk—Jeff Bezos Washington Post simply isnt what it used to be. During the Trump era Bezos and his lackeys have fired all of the paper’s black columnists, ...
+ Tech Dirt: Pentagon Fires Chief Editor Of ‘Stars & Stripes’ For Promising To Do Independent Journalism—To say that Donald Trump has been waging an ideological war against the American free press would be an understatement in the extreme. Even attempting...
+ Tech Dirt: Patent Troll SLAPPs Lawyer For Saying His Shell Companies Never Pay Up, Loses, Now Owes Her Money—With everything else going on in the world, its been a while since weve dug into a good old-fashioned patent troll story or a bogus defamation SLAPP. ...
+ Tech Dirt: ClownAss DOJ Reduced To Quoting James Comey’s Novel As Evidence In ‘8647’ Case—The first attempted revenge prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has gone nowhere. Whatever the DOJ didnt botch directly was undone by Trump...
+ Tech Dirt: Trump Told Asylum Seekers To Do It “The Legal Way.” Now He’s Revoking 200,000 Of Their Visas.—Many Trump supporters keep insisting that his immigration purges are justified because the people swept up in them came here illegally, so who cares i...
+ Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: Headway Premium—Unlock a world of knowledge with a Headway Premium subscription. This exclusive deal gives you unlimited access to Headways massive library of 1500+ b...
+ UPI Science: Meta reaches $16.7 billion settlement in social media addiction case—Meta will pay $16.7 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general over the mental health risks posed to children by its platforms.
+ UPI Science: 3 Secret Service employees put on leave during misconduct probe—Three Secret Service employees have been put on administrative leave during an investigation into "potential misconduct," the agency confirmed.
+ UPI Science: Annual core inflation climbed by 3.3% in July—Core personal consumption expenditures, a key measure of inflation for the Federal Reserve, increased by 3.3% on an annual basis in July.
+ UPI Science: DOJ says Kennedy Center should be demolished if renovations blocked—The Trump administration threatened in a court filing Monday to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it can't renovate it.
+ UPI Science: SpaceX to build $100M launch facility in Louisiana—Elon Musk and SpaceX will build a $100 million launch facility on the coast of Louisiana, the company and the state announced Wednesday.
+ UPI Science: Cities putting off projects as high gas prices pinch budgets—Rising gas prices are not only putting pressure on consumers at the pump; they are forcing local governments to make tough choices with their budgets.
+ UPI Science: CIA chief John Ratcliffe in secret mission to Moscow amid 'crisis' ties—The director of the CIA made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Russian officials, but both capitals remained tight-lipped on purpose of the tr...
+ UPI Science: Elon Musk awarded Order of Freedom for helping keep Ukraine online—U.S. tech titan Elon Musk received a top honor as Ukraine tries to convince him to allow SpaceX's Starlink system to be used in strikes inside Russia.
+ UPI Science: DOJ says Kennedy Center should be demolished if rennovations blocked—The Trump administration threatened in a court filing Monday to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it can't renovate it.
+ UPI Science: At least 14 newborn babies killed in blaze at hospital in Pakistan—More than a dozen newborn babies were killed after fire swept through the maternity department of one of the largest public hospitals in Islamabad.
+ UPI Science: Kim Jong Un focuses on economy, silent on Trump overtures—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over a key party meeting, state-run media reported Wednesday, but made no mention of diplomatic outreach by P...
+ UPI Science: District court judge rules Texas' drag show ban unconstitutional—A U.S. district court has blocked Texas from banning drag performances as unconstitutional, ruling that is a First Amendment violation.
+ UPI Science: On This Day, Aug. 26: Live TV shooting kills journalists in Virginia—On Aug. 26, 2015, a former employee of WDBJ-TV in Virginia opened fire on his former colleagues on live television, killing news reporter Alison Parke...
+ UPI Science: 7th inmate at Rikers Island dies this year—New York City officials said an inmate of Rikers Island has died, marking the seventh inmate death this year at the detention facility this year.
+ UPI Science: South Carolina voters make final choice between Graham, Norman—Republican voters in South Carolina late Tuesday nominated Sen. Darline Graham for a full Senate term in November on Tuesday night.
+ UPI Science: U.S. kills 4 in strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean, 2nd in days—U.S. Southern Command forces killed four people Tuesday in its latest strike targeting an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean.