With Russian military hardware quite literally raining down onto the ground in Ukraine, it’s little wonder that a sizeable part of PCBs and more from these end up being sold on EBay. This was thus where [msylvain] got a guidance board from a 300 mm Tornado-S 9M542 GLONASS-guided projectile from, for some exploration and reverse-engineering.
Read MoreCult of the Lamb added a “Sins of the Flesh” update, which comes on the heels of the rollicking success of Baldur’s Gate 3 as a welcome move for sex in games.
Read MoreSingapore-based frontend development platform Locofy launched a groundbreaking one-click tool called Lightning. This innovative solution converts Figma and AdobeXD prototypes into code seamlessly. Co-created by Honey Mittal and Sohaib Muhammed, the tool is built on the startup’s Large Design Models (LDMs) and draws inspiration from OpenAI’s cutting-edge work in LLMs and ChatGPT. By streamlining the
Read MoreSander Lutz / Decrypt: The Treasury and IRS say they aren’t enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report the receipt of digital assets worth $10K+ within 15 days of receiving them — The tax law would require business-related crypto transactions over $10,000 to be reported like cash, but it’s not quite ready yet.
Read MoreIs Apple obligated to notify the podcast industry that an iOS update might be changing how the number of podcast listeners are calculated?
Read MoreThe Galaxy S24 is likely launching tomorrow, and you still have time to already secure a decent bonus for pre-ordering one. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S24 series tomorrow, January 17th. If you’ve caught up on our coverage of all the rumored changes and know
Read MorePhoto: JSR_ Though Awesome Games Done Quick will go on for the rest of the week, the charity speedrunning event may have already peaked with a run performed by Peanut Butter… a Shiba Inu. Using a custom-made controller and spurred by commands and treats, Peanut Butter button-pressed his way into our hearts and the speedrunning
Read MoreThe era of AI on our phones is upon us, and it’s Samsung’s turn to show us a vision for the future. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is announcing new phones this week, and they’re going to be the most AI phones that ever AI’ed. That’s not a guess, although it
Read MoreZac Hall / 9to5Mac: FCC filings seem to indicate Apple Vision Pro will not support Ultra Wideband, Wi-Fi 6E, or Wi-Fi 7 — If you were hoping for Ultra Wideband and Wi-Fi 6E or 7 chips in Apple Vision Pro, well, those are very specific expectations. Also, Apple Vision Pro appears to lack those chips,
Read MoreJake Evans / ABC: Australia unveils a plan to mandate safeguards around the use of higher-risk AI, such as self-driving technology, potentially requiring auditing and labeling — abc.net.au/news/government-response- to-ai-safety-sets-up-risk-based- approach/103324906 — The federal government has introduced …
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple revises its US App Store rules to let devs link to outside payment methods, but will charge a commission of 27%, or 12% for small business program devs — In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple’s appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge The publishing platform’s response to Nazi content is driving away some well-known writers. Continue reading…
Read MoreJake Evans / ABC: Australia unveils a plan to mandate safeguards around the use of higher-risk AI, such as self-driving technology, potentially requiring auditing and labeling — abc.net.au/news/government-response- to-ai-safety-sets-up-risk-based- approach/103324906 — The federal government has introduced …
Read MoreHackers and makers aren’t usually too interested in basic round analog clocks. They tend to prefer building altogether more arcane and complicated contraptions to display numbers for the telling of time. [alstroemeria] did just that with this nifty kinetic clock build. The basic concept of the kinetic clock is to have a flat plate, which
Read MoreSortableJS, a JavaScript library for creating reorderable drag-and-drop lists, has been wrapped into a component for Microsoft’s Blazor web application builder and renamed Blazor Sortable. A common feature for web application development, SortableJS supports touch devices and modern browsers, CSS animation, auto-scrolling, and smooth animations. Unveiled January 12, Blazor Sortable has been made open source
Read MoreTage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Sources: African neobank Kuda raised $20M in 2023 at a $500M valuation, same as its 2021 valuation; it has 7M retail and business users, short of projections — Earlier this month, Kuda co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi told users that the Nigerian online challenger bank had reached almost ₦ …
Read MoreGoogle Chrome Canary is showing a new disclaimer for Incognito mode. The new disclaimer warns that Incognito mode won’t change how data is collected by the websites and services you use. The change comes shortly after Google settled a class-action lawsuit about its lack of transparency around how Incognito mode works. In 2020, Google was
Read MoreJason Koebler / 404 Media: Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results for a year: search is losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely helped by generative AI — “The majority of high-ranking product reviews in the result pages of commercial search engines use affiliate marketing …
Read MoreThe Vision Pro is a big deal for Apple and it’s handed the spatial computing headset to select journalists for new hands-on reports.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority A report about worldwide smartphone shipments shows the segment grew by 8% year on year in Q4 2023. The data says that Apple led the market with 24% of worldwide shipments thanks to the new iPhones. This is the first time Apple has beat Samsung in this regard. New
Read MoreEngadget: Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min — We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI forms a Collective Alignment team to design a process for collecting and using input from the public “to train and shape the behavior of our models” — OpenAI says it wants to implement ideas from the public about how to ensure its future AI models “align to the values of
Read MoreYou want to build a cluster of computers, but you need a high-speed network fabric that can connect anything to anything. Big bucks, right? [Fang-Pen] developed a 10 Gbps full-mesh network using USB4 that cost him under $50. The first part of the post is about selecting a low-power mini PC, but if you skip
Read MoreThe Emmys’ big winners, and big losers, demonstrated just how much streaming has altered TV—and the Emmys itself.
Read MoreMost people who read Hackaday have positive feelings about automation. (Notice we said most.) How many times have you been behind someone in a grocery store line waiting for them to find a coupon, or a cashier who can’t make change without reading the screen and thought: “There has to be a better way.” The
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