You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many times ...

Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing ...

Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were the pinnacle of mirror technology. Due to the ...

It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due to how rushed of ...

Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

For some reason the newly introduced MacBook Neo appears to be the subject of a lot of modding, though a recent mod by ...

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are massive vector spaces in which the ...

It’s the evening before publication, and a pair of Hackaday writers convene to record the week’s podcast. This week Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and it’s a bumper ...

Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers must carry–is almost ...

We’ve all had those times when your electrical device of choice is running low on battery. Sometimes you even plan ahead and ...

CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by a previous fix to the auth workflow. In the ...

Like many long-established broadcasters, the BBC put out a selection of their archive material for us all to enjoy online.