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Kyle Orland, writing at Ars Technica, reports that Anthropic has added a rule to Claude Code’s system prompt to keep the model from re-creating specific existing video games. The rule, spotted in a json file named…
NIST has released Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms, also known as NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50. It’s written for the “solopreneur,” anyone who is the only paid employee of their business. More than…
The great thing about the modern world is how connected we are. It’s also the worst thing about the modern world, to be honest. [Allan Binder] wanted to give his …read more
Chris, writing at chrisdevblog.com, built GUI apps for Windows 3.11 and OS/2 Warp 3 to control his microcontroller projects on real period hardware. He started with Borland Delphi 1 from 1995, the first and last Delphi…
Jason Kottke, writing at kottke.org, points to Arkivism, a search and visual discovery engine for public domain works. It pulls together millions of items that anyone can use. The collections come from the Smithsonian,…
GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is a Linux desktop environment that gives you a NeXT/OpenStep-like experience. It runs on the GNUstep framework, which is an open implementation of the OpenStep API in Objective-C, and pulls…
Dan Halbert, writing on danhalbert.org, tells how he came to write the Unix more command in 1978 as a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley. The piece first ran on comp.society.folklore in 1994 and then in The…
MIT CSAIL marked the anniversary on X: Bell Labs released the first Unix Programmer’s Manual in November 1971. The post links a free PDF of the third edition, and credits Diomidis Spinellis (@CoolSWEng) for the pointer.…
Ben Hardill wanted to read a pair of IKEA ALPSTUGA CO2 sensors from Node-RED, and wrote up what it took on his blog. The sensors are part of IKEA’s second generation of smart devices, so they use Thread radios instead…
The idea that magnetism doesn’t necessarily always have a dipolar configuration is not a new one, but it’s not an easy theory to find evidence for. Most recently a team …read more
JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat has released Disc Image Studio on GitHub, a tool that turns a picture into data that etches a visible image onto the surface of a disc. It works with CD, DVD and single layer BD-R media, using an…
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there…
Adam Ismail writes at The Drive about a low-tech fix the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is using against copper thieves: dropping 700-pound concrete blocks on top of the manhole covers that lead to…
Kale Suarez has put together a collection of hand-picked online resources for learning electronics, published as a repository on GitHub. It starts with current, voltage, power, Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws, moves…
What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for those of us immersed …read more
The Parts Bin has built a complete retro-style computer inside a $15 Sipeed Tang Nano 9K board, and posted it at the-parts-bin.github.io. The Gowin FPGA on the board has 8,640 lookup tables and 52 KB of block RAM. It…
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…
Chris Hanson, writing on the AlphaPixel blog, makes the case that he and Gary Huber shipped screen-space reflections in 1995, about sixteen years before Crytek’s 2011 talk gave the technique its name. The software was…
IBM spent millions building Deep Blue, a custom supercomputer with 480 chess co-processors, to beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. A new experiment asks whether an off-the-shelf 1996 desktop and better software would have done…
Curated by Francesco Pirrello, two international design exhibitions, Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES, converge at Espace Commines in Paris from October 23rd to 25th, 2026. The joint event pairs 32 textile pieces with 100…
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