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A VIC-20 with no VIC

[DrMattRegan] has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore VIC-20. The core of the machine is [Ben Eater’s] breadboard 6502 design. To make it a VIC-20, though, you need a “VIC chip” which, of course, is no longer readily available. Many people, of course, use FPGAs or other programmable

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A VIC-20 with no VIC

[DrMattRegan] has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore VIC-20. The core of the machine is [Ben Eater’s] breadboard 6502 design. To make it a VIC-20, though, you need a “VIC chip” which, of course, is no longer readily available. Many people, of course, use FPGAs or other programmable

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Meta ‘Supreme Court’ Expands with European Center to Handle TikTok, YouTube Cases

Meta’s Oversight Board “is spinning off a new appeals center,” reports the Washington Post, “to handle content disputes from European social media users on multiple platforms”. It will operate under Europe’s Digital Services Act, “which requires tech companies to allow users to appeal restrictions on their accounts before an independent group of experts.” “I think

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Solar Planes Are Hard

A regular comment we see on electric aircraft is to “just add solar panels to the wings.” [James] from Project Air has been working on just such a solar plane, and as he shows in the video after the break, it is not a trivial challenge. A solar RC plane has several difficult engineering challenges

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AI Disclaimers in Political Ads Backfire on Candidates, Study Finds

Many U.S. states now require candidates to disclose when political ads used generative AI, reports the Washington Post. Unfortunately, researchers at New York University’s Center on Technology Policy “found that people rated candidates ‘less trustworthy and less appealing’ when their ads featured AI disclaimers…” In the study, researchers asked more than 1,000 participants to watch

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Halcyon Announces Anti-Ransomware Protection for Enterprise Linux Environments

Formed in 2021 by cybersecurity professionals (and backed by high-powered VCs including Dell Technologies Capital), Halcyon sells an enterprise-grade anti-ransomware platform. And this month they announced they’re offering protection against ransomware attacks targeting Linux systems, according to Linux magazine: According to Cynet, Linux ransomware attacks increased by 75 percent in 2023 and are expected to

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