BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load...
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What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event
It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company...
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Making for Others
One of the nicest things about the Hackaday community, and the open-source hardware community at large, is the incredible generosity of one hacker to another. But...
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Building an agentic software factory? Start with the sensor.
A gap has long existed between the shipping velocity of the best engineering teams and the rest of the bell The post Building an agentic software...
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Alexa Python Development: Build and Deploy an Alexa Skill
Become an Alexa Python developer by building and deploying your own Alexa skill, a joke bot that responds to voice commands on Amazon Alexa devices.
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Three Ways of Storing and Accessing Lots of Images in Python
Compare three ways of storing images in Python, as PNG files on disk, in LMDB, and in HDF5, with timings for reading and writing lots of...
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A Guide to Modern Python String Formatting Tools
Explore Python's modern string formatting tools, and learn to harness f-strings and the .format() method for interpolation and formatting.
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Python String Formatting: Available Tools and Their Features
Learn how Python string formatting works with f-strings, the .format() method, and the modulo operator, plus the strengths of each tool.
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Mass Effect 3 ending discourse ignored the RPG’s scale, ambition, and exuberance, including that of its oddly great co-op
Ah, come on, it was fine. Better than fine. We can argue for another fourteen years about whether BioWare should have redone the ending or not,...
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I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop
It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX...
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Award-winning sci-fi author NK Jemisin joins BioWare’s mourners and scorns a broken industry for killing geese that ‘laid the golden eggs’
"The [Mass Effect] and [Dragon Age] games were a literal inspiration."
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Save up to $800 on Acer’s ultra-slim RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop — pay $2225 for the 16GB RAM model or upgrade to 32GB for $2400
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI combines a 240 Hz QHD+ OLED display with Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 processor and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti...
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