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Rust on an ATtiny85: A Rube Goldberg LED Graduation Cap
A Purdue graduate built a microcontroller-driven LED graduation cap programmed in Rust, triggered by a reed switch and magnet that detects the ceremonial tassel
Scrcpy 4.0 migrates to SDL3, adds flex displays and camera controls
Genymobile's Android screen-mirroring tool scrcpy has shipped version 4.0, headlined by a migration from SDL2 to SDL3. The switch brings active upstream mainten
Six CVEs hit dnsmasq as AI-driven bug hunting overwhelms maintainer
CERT disclosed six serious, long-standing vulnerabilities in dnsmasq on May 11, 2026, affecting essentially all non-ancient versions of the widely deployed DNS/
Six Typographic Tricks That Instantly Make Text Look Like the Future
A tongue-in-cheek breakdown of the visual conventions sci-fi movies rely on to signal that text belongs to the future. Starting from plain Eurostile Bold, the p
SpaceX Unveils Starship V3 With Major Design Overhaul
SpaceX has published an update on Starship V3, the next major iteration of its fully reusable super-heavy launch system. The page positions V3 as a substantial
uBlock Origin fork swaps hidden ads for 'They Live' OBEY tiles
A new hobby fork of uBlock Origin Lite, called they_live_adblocker, replaces cosmetically-filtered ads with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 19
Why senior devs lose the AI debate: they argue complexity, not uncertainty
Senior developers and the rest of a business operate on different loops. Marketing, sales, product, and executives run a discovery loop where the enemy is uncer
8th Circuit kills FCC broadband anti-discrimination rule on disparate-impact grounds
The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit unanimously vacated the FCC's 2023 broadband anti-discrimination rule, ruling the agency overstepped its statutory a
AI Agents Outpace Identity Governance, Creating 'Dark Matter' Inside Enterprises
Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than their identity and access management systems can govern them, according to Gartner's inaugural Market Guide for
AI Lets Novices Impersonate Experts — And Workplaces Reward the Illusion
The author describes a pattern emerging in knowledge work: generative AI lets people produce artifacts that look expert without being expert. Two distinct failu
AitM phishing kit hijacks ManageWP accounts via Google ads, 200+ victims confirmed
A phishing operation is buying Google sponsored results for the 'managewp' query to outrank GoDaddy's legitimate login page for its WordPress fleet-management p
Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 supercomputer to lift Claude Code limits
Anthropic struck a deal at its Code with Claude conference to consume the full compute capacity of SpaceX's Memphis data center, gaining access to more than 300