This Week in Security: Github, Google, and Realtek

From hackaday.com 2 months ago in Blogs

GitHub Desktop may have stopped working for you yesterday, Febuary 2nd. The reason was an unauthorized access to some decidedly non-public repositories. The most serious bit of information that escaped …read more

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SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

The world of desktop computing has coalesced into what is essentially a duopoly, with Windows machines making up the bulk of the market share and Apple carving out a dedicated …read more

CNC Intaglio-Esque Engraving

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

Intaglio is an ancient carving technique for adding details to a workpiece, by manually removing material from a surface with only basic hand tools. If enough material depth is removed, …read more

Enormous Metal Sculpture Becomes an Antenna

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

Those who have worked with high voltage know well enough that anything can be a conductor at high enough voltages. Similarly, amateur radio operators will jump at any chance to …read more

Grow Your Own Brain Electrodes

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Bioelectronics has been making great strides in recent years, but interfacing rigid electrical components with biological systems that are anything but can prove tricky. Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic …read more

Ondol: Korean Underfloor Heating

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

One of the many aspects of the modern world we often take for granted is the very technology that keeps our accommodation at a habitable temperature. Examples of this include …read more

ISA over TPM to Your PC

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRasteri] is fixing this shortcoming with his …read more

A Little Chess with Your Timepiece

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. [W&M Levsha] decided to combine them both in this “Chess Club” watch …read more

PCIe For Hackers: Link Anatomy

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Last time, we looked over diffpairs, their basics, routing rules and the notorious tolerances of PCIe when it comes to diffpairs. Now, let’s take a look at the exact signals …read more

Who Needs Gasoline When You’ve Got Sodium?

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

YouTuber and serial debunker [Thunderf00t] was thinking about the use of sodium to counteract global warming. The theory is that sodium can be used as a fuel when combusted with …read more

Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing …read more