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The leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the sky

The world's timekeepers have decided to stop adding leap seconds: Resolution 5 of the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures says "continuous UTC will become effective on 20 May 2027," and it lets the gap between atomic time and the Earth's actual spin grow to as much as one hour.

#time 2 min read

Softwaresimedw.comOct 22

Someone trained a tiny AI to pretend it is a terminal

Simon Edwardsson built a terminal with nothing behind it.

#ai 2 min read

Infrastructurenytimes.comOct 22

AI data centers now need their own special gray paint

The AI boom has reached the paint aisle.

#ai 2 min read

Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 22

Someone built a Linux desktop where windows are paper on a walnut desk and the dock is a drawer

A developer who goes by fyzugx on GitHub released DEsk, a Wayland desktop for Linux where the desktop is an actual desk.

#linux 2 min read

Infrastructurearstechnica.comOct 22

A startup drilled into an underwater volcano for electricity

Seattle startup Endurance Energy parked a generator on the seafloor next to an active underwater volcano, about 5,000 feet down, and got it to make more electricity than it used for about 8.7 seconds.

#energy 2 min read

Tools & Gearpcmag.comOct 21

Apple ran a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to cool it

Apple's first foldable has the heat problem every foldable has: it's thin when it's open, and its thickness doubles when you close it.

#apple 2 min read

Hacks & Buildspagetable.comOct 21

Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table

Michael Steil has turned Super Mario 64 into a living diorama for Apple Vision Pro.

#gaming 2 min read

Infrastructurehpe.comOct 21

HPE wants to send a fanless computer to the Moon

HPE plans to send a computer with no fan to the Moon's south pole, and to benchmark it once it gets there.

#space 2 min read

Retrodorchester3d.comOct 21

He wanted a Spectrum laptop, so he built one

"I wanted a Spectrum Next laptop.

#retro 2 min read

Softwareaboard.comOct 21

Tiny Little Office puts the document inside its own link

Paul Ford's company Aboard just put out Tiny Little Office, ten free office apps where the web address is the file.

#web 2 min read

Retromacrumors.comOct 21

Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser

Apple cancelled Copland in August 1996, and you can now boot it in a browser tab.

#retro 2 min read

Developer Taleskennedn.comOct 20

A maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years ago

The blogger behind Kennedn's Blog bought a Matrix CoolRunner in 2017, a modchip built to hit an Xbox 360 with a pulse of about 100 nanoseconds, and shelved the project when it didn't work out.

#retro 2 min read

Retrohackaday.ioOct 20

Two Commodore 64 sound chips get a USB connection to modern computers

A maker who goes by LouD built a board that plugs real Commodore 64 sound chips into a modern computer.

#retro 2 min read

Retro0x3.jawncon.orgOct 20

JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus

JawnCon, Philadelphia's hacker conference, built this year's schedule as a HyperCard stack and runs it "in a Macintosh Plus, in a 68k emulator in your browser," according to the event's schedule page, though a plain web version is there too for anyone in a hurry.

#retro 2 min read

Softwaregithub.comOct 20

Penmentor puts AI math hints beside your handwriting

Penmentor describes an AI math helper that marks handwritten work in Xournal++ with colored pens.

#ai 2 min read

Retrogithub.comOct 20

Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board

Duke Nukem 3D now runs on a microcontroller.

#retro 2 min read

Weird Techflatwaterfreepress.orgOct 20

Nebraska's first hot dog cannon couldn't outthrow the vendor

Nebraska had a vendor who could throw hot dogs farther than its first hot dog launcher could shoot them.

#sports 2 min read

Weird Techk.sosnierz.meOct 20

Moby-Dick takes over 19 hours to scroll through this tiny GIF

Kamil Sosnierz put Moby-Dick into an animated GIF measuring 88 by 31 pixels.

#retro 2 min read

Retrohackaday.comOct 20

A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing

The Wii U's weak spot is its internal storage, and a tool called Wafel Installer can now test it from the console's own web browser.

#retro 2 min read

Hacks & Buildslukaswerner.comOct 20

Lukas Werner's VGA project makes room for the pixels you never see

Lukas Werner's VGA tutorial describes counting beyond a 640-by-480 picture to account for the time outside the visible image.

#retro 2 min read

Hacks & Buildshackaday.comOct 19

A maker turned discarded drink bottles into printer filament

It took 17 plastic bottles to make one kilogram of 3D printer filament.

#3d-printing 2 min read

Developer Talespurplesyringa.moeOct 16

Intel documented a CPU instruction its own chip refuses to run, then dropped it from the manual

Intel's own manual described a processor instruction called VFMADDRND231PD, and when a programmer ran it on an Intel chip that should support it, the chip refused.

#intel 2 min read

Securityladepeche.frOct 16

Hackers took over supermarket fridges across Europe

Overnight into Monday, October 12, someone broke into the refrigeration controls of French supermarkets and set the fridges to heat.

#security 2 min read

Retrogithub.comOct 14

You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code

PlayStation 2 games are running in a web browser, no emulator attached.

#retro 2 min read