Aiper IrriSense 2 Smart Irrigation System Review: Clever Yet Uneven
This hose-attached smart sprinkler maps your yard, rotates on command, and measures water use. Despite these clever features, the results are a little uneven.
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The Rapper, The Canadian Academics, And The Secret Behind The Earworm
There are many events so far in 2026 that could reasonably have been predicted, but perhaps one which couldn’t is a Hackaday scribe in Europe unexpectedly...
Read moreEnermax Revolution III S 1000W power supply review: Platinum efficiency, limited thermal capability
The Enermax Revolution III S 1000W features certified Platinum efficiency, good power quality, and an absurdly confident 13-year warranty, though its small cooling fan and peculiar...
Read moreMicrosoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older Windows 11 OS versions — ‘intelligent’ update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready
Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends.
Read more“I was chomping at the bit to crack the code”: How procedural maps became XCOM 2’s biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn’t manage it in Enemy Unknown
Garth DeAngelis remembers being in the room when Firaxis chose to ditch XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s procedurally generated maps. Despite being a feature of the original 1994...
Read more3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are...
Read more‘Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,’ says Windows veteran reminiscing about company’s past focus on speed — asserts that ‘everything’ was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s
A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.
Read moreHackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing...
Read more2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features
In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is...
Read moreEnthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive, OS from 1992 running on 2025 hardware — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat
A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.
Read moreKDE’s KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series…
Read moreNew ‘GeForge’ and ‘GDDRHammer’ attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia’s GPU memory — Rowhammer attacks in GPUs force bit flips in protected VRAM regions to gain read/write access
Two new Rowhammer attacks for GPUs have been discovered that can cause bit flips in VRAM to gain arbitrary read/write access over it. These attacks target...
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