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New Pens For Old Plotters

Finding consumables is an ever-present problem facing anyone working with old computer hardware. Many of these devices ceased manufacture decades ago and what old stock remains is invariably degraded by time. [Retrohax] has encountered it with the pens for an Atari plotter, a machine that uses an ALPS mechanism that appears in more than one

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Trump’s Truth Social Is Going Public

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Former president Donald Trump’sTruth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted on Friday to merge with Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social. The vote is

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How to find any file on Windows

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge While a lot of our files are stored in the cloud, there are still many ones and zeros that get stored locally. But as the capacity of the drives used by our desktops and laptops has increased, finding files has gotten that much harder. How many photos and

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It’s About Time

I’m pretty good with time zones. After all, I live in Germany, Hackaday’s server is in Los Angeles, and our writers are scattered all over the globe. I’m always translating one time into another, and practice makes (nearly) perfect. But still, it got me. I was in the states visiting my parents, when Daylight Saving

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Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Security Update Caused Memory Leak, ‘Unscheduled’ Reboots

“Microsoft confirmed that a memory leak introduced with the March 2024 Windows Server security updates is behind a widespread issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash,” BleepingComputer reported Thursday. Friday Microsoft wrote that the issue “was resolved in the out-of-band update KB5037422,” only available via the Microsoft Update Catalog. (The update “is not available from

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