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Chris Lewis has announced that the game Snowboard Kids 2 is completely decompiled! All of the game’s functions have now been implemented in C and compile to assembly that matches the original game. There’s still some occasional __asm__ hackery, and plenty of code needs better names and documentation, but every function now has a matching […]

CNLohr on Youtube says “What can you do with DMA, a timer and an ADC in a $0.12 ch32v006 microcontroller? Turns out… a lot. Using the technique used by sampling scopes, we can help an ADC bat wayyyy above its pay grade.” See the video here. Code for projects based on the CH32 are on […]

Fabien Sanglard describes the steps to re-create the experience of building the win32 binaries of Quake as it happened in 1997. The purist’s corner Depending on the level of historical accuracy you want to reach, you can follow the steps with four environments. Find an Intergraph RealizM Dual P6-200MHz workstation (good luck). Find a dual […]

OpenRidingController is a horse riding game controller for the PC/Mac. The idea is to emulate basic horse riding behaviors and converts those to work a variety of video games. The controller mainly uses RP2040 Zero, TCRT5000 IR modules and 3D printed parts. Code uses CircuitPython 10 for fast prototyping, later revisions may move to Arduino C or something similar. Currently […]

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. "The police then seized several botnet servers from a hosting provider for investigation," the NCSC said. "The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes." According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russia-based company that provides residential proxy services. These services cater to people and organizations who want to obscure their locations or identities by proxying their Internet traffic through third-party devices. Proxy services are often used for illicit or unethical purposes such as performing DDoS attacks, running botnet command-and-control servers, operating phishing operations, and scraping website content. [...] It's unclear how the 17 million devices controlled by the botnet taken down by the Dutch police came to be that way.

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Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, led a roughly year-long project preserving floppy disks called “Future Nostalgia,” which concluded in January. IEEE Spectrum spoke to Talboom about her work preserving data from Cambridge’s collection […]

The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]

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Olympic host cities tell the whole travel story of the modern Olympics: Athens lit the fuse in 1896, Chamonix turned winter sports into their own showcase in 1924, and cities from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro have added their own chapter since then.

Harpies are winged creatures from Greek mythology: part woman, part bird and almost always bad news for any mortal who has angered the gods.

Sodalite is a blue mineral best known for its rich color, white veins and easygoing price point (compared with lapis lazuli). It is both a real mineral with measurable physical properties and a popular healing stone in crystal shops, where people often connect it with calm focus, communication and the third eye chakra (thought these claims are not scientifically supported).

Hanging leg raises put a simple question to your body: Can your abs lift your legs without turning the whole movement into a swing? The exercise starts from a hanging position, usually from a pull-up bar, then asks your abdominal muscles, hip flexors, grip, shoulders and torso to work together.

michelem shares: A print-in-place mini lamp with 4 foldable tabs that fold inward to close a diffuser. Sits flat for storage in a wallet, unfolds over a phone’s LED flash, and includes a hook for hanging on a backpack. Perfect for camping or bedside use download the files on: https://makerworld.com/en/models/700795-foldable-mobile-lamp-print-in-place Every Thursday is #3dthursday here […]

Fun, recent video from TED-Ed that reviews the history of children’s toys – ranging from whistles, wheels, dolls, and beyond: Archaeologists have found material, visual, and written evidence for toys across the ancient world. In 3000 BCE Anatolia, miniature toy carriages raced through the dirt. In the Indus Valley a thousand years later, a toddler […]

It’s June first which means it’s time to celebrate Pride During the month of June the Adafruit Blog will be sharing blog posts that celebrate LGBTQIA figures and stories.   NYC’s Pride theme for 2026 is “For All of Us” “For All of US” also seeks to welcome LGBTQIA+ individuals everywhere, particularly where local Pride […]

Happy Immigrant Heritage Month. Immigrant Heritage Month is an opportunity to celebrate the richness and diversity immigration brings to the United States. From NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs: In 2026, MOIA’s Immigrant Heritage Celebration Theme is “Immigrants Power New York”. Immigrant New Yorkers are central to the city’s workforce, economy, and bring our city […]

"The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC," reports Axios. Nvidia's CEO unveiled a new ARM-based "N1X processor made alongside Microsoft," reports CNBC, that "will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI." More details from Engadget: It was only a matter of time before NVIDIA released a powerful system-on-a-chip (SOC) to take on AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 chips. At Computex today, NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark, a "superchip" meant to give both laptops and small desktops fast AI and graphics performance... The company says it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power, and that it has 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and 20 Mediatek Arm CPU cores. NVIDIA claims it's similar to the RTX 5070 laptop GPU but with much lower power draw. RTX Spark also has an NPU that's fast enough to be part of Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative, which requires a 40 TOPS NPU, but NVIDIA says it's mainly touting the tensor cores as part of the chip's Blackwell GPU for AI performance. RTX Spark's GPU can directly draw on the chip's large pool of unified memory, which can span from 16GB to 128GB, and the chip itself can use anywhere from single-digit wattage up to 80W... NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang positions RTX Spark as a complete reinvention of the PC, eventually turning them more into devices meant for AI agents than manual human input... NVIDIA has been working together with Microsoft for "several years" while designing the RTX Spark, according to NVIDIA representatives... In a blog post provided to media, Microsoft head of Windows and devices, Pavan Davuluri, noted that the company optimized Windows 11's workload profile scheduling for the RTX Spark. "Whether you're checking your email or running an agent locally to debug code, the Windows scheduler on RTX Spark will ensure you get the best performance and efficiency out of your CPU," he wrote.

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Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program — for recurring purchasees — has triggered a new lawsuit, reports Oregon Live. "The lawsuit contends that after luring in customers with 'artificially low prices,' the world's biggest online retailer jacked up the prices in the months after their first shipments arrived." In some cases, the lawsuit claims that customers were paying more for the exact same items through the Subscribe & Save program than they would be if they bought the items from other sellers on the site. That was true even when the up to 15% discount that the subscription program offers was calculated into the final purchase price, according to the suit. The Seattle law firm that filed the May 15 lawsuit says that Amazon's business practices amount to "deceptive," "misleading" and "bait and switch tactics." The firm is seeking class-action status in U.S. District Court for western Washington, a move that could potentially draw tens of millions of Amazon customers from across the U.S. into the litigation... [The suit says the plaintiffs' first order of espresso coffee grounds was $16.60.] When their order auto-renewed a few months later, the price had gone up to $17.04. A few months later, it rose to $21.25. Then in October 2024, the price increased to $28.69 — about $12 more than the Hermans had paid at the beginning of their subscription, according to the lawsuit. [The discount can be as little as 5% or up to 15%, Amazon told Oregon Live in a statement, noting customers do receive an email showing "applicable savings" before the orders ship. But...] The suit says Amazon gave the Hermans little notice to cancel the order or to shop around because it notified them of the latest price increase in an email at 8:54 p.m. — the same night it processed their order and charged them. The suit says if the Hermans had been given the time to shop around for a better price, they would have found that another Amazon seller was charging $25.90 — or $2.79 less — for the identical item. Amazon's "Subscribe & Save Terms & Conditions" page tells customers that it "may change the price for a Subscribe & Save subscription at any time for any reason...." The analytical group Consumer Intelligence Research Partners says about 25% of U.S. Amazon customers are enrolled in the Subscribe & Save program. Oregon Live got Amazon's response, which suggested their program saves customers time and money "through convenient, flexible, and recurring deliveries". (So when customers saw "Subscribe and Save", they were perhaps supposed to intuit the word save referred in part to... time-saving?) The plaintiffs' lawyer argues instead that "When you sign up for something that is called 'Subscribe & Save,' you'd expect that you're saving by subscribing. But that's not actually what's happening in many cases."

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