Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside.

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, ...

The Texas Instruments TP4056 is the default charge-controller chip for any maker or hacker working with lithium batteries. And why not? You can get perfectly-functional knockoffs on handy breakout ...

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, though with V5 of his “MetaMetaClock”– a clock made of ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random ...