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MacBook Neo
Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.
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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
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Flipper One – we need your help
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.
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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
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Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
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Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…
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Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
I shouldn't have to be doing any of this, but at least it's fun.
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MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.
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The coolest use for the Vision Pro
One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools. After years of apartment life my girlfriend and I have recently begun the…
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Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
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Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw : I just dug to the…
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Wonder why chromax.black fans take longer to launch? Black colouring additives alter how advanced polymers mould, meaning they require entirely new toolings and months of testing.
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There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
So, I'm walking through a park when I see this thing lying on the ground: It's a disposable vape that someone has discarded because it's emp...
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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine…
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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Modern TVs are very poorly suited for kids. They require using complicated remotes or mobile phones, and navigating apps that continually try to lure you into watching something else than you intended to. The usual scenario ends up with the kid feeling disempowered and asking an adult to put something on. That…
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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE.
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Electric motors with no rare earths
As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.
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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
See how Cerebras powers GPT-5.6 Sol in OpenAI's Ultrafast mode at up to 750 output tokens per second for time-sensitive AI and agent workflows.
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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
I compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen 3.5 4B's weights, using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython inside the forward passes, and Qwen uses it for exact arithmetic.
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I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Today we're announcing Bonsai 27B, our multimodal flagship: ternary at 5.9GB for laptops, 1-bit at 3.9GB for an iPhone 17 Pro, with a 262K-token context.
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Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
Abusing an unauthenticated Bluetooth protocol to turn a PC speaker into a Rubber Ducky.
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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
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Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
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My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird