#hardware
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The Slurptop: a home-built luggable powered by cordless-tool batteries
A hobbyist built a full x86 laptop in a 3D-printed case, running it off swappable 24-volt Kobalt power-tool batteries.
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Ledger confirms spy-chip implant behind crypto wallet thefts
Some Ledger devices sold through Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis carried a hidden spy chip that captured the seed phrase and drained their owners' crypto.
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Meta shows off Muse Charm, a standalone gadget for its AI agent
At the close of Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg briefly unveiled the Muse Charm — a compact, phone-free device built around Meta's Muse AI agent, promised to ship by December.
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Meet the first five Googlebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo
Google and its partners have unveiled the first laptops under the Googlebook banner. Five models are up for preorder now and reach stores on October 4th, priced from $899 to $1,299.
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The Circuit Board Was Designed by AI: An Experiment with Fable 5 and KiCad
The author of the blog A6M-Zero decided to order a real printed circuit board designed entirely by a neural network — without a single manual edit. The result was a working device, though not without its mishaps.
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Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO: A “Product Builder” Takes the Helm
On his last working day as chief executive, Tim Cook sent Apple employees a farewell letter and explained why he believes in his successor, John Ternus.
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How an Engineer Implanted Contactless Payment into the Legendary CASIO F-91W
Cybersecurity specialist Matteo Pisani took apart a bank card and implanted its chip into the iconic digital watch, teaching it to pay at a terminal with a simple tap.
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MAGIC: malicious “aging” of chips as an attack vector
The ACM Digital Library has published a paper with a telling name — MAGIC, or Malicious Aging in Circuits/Cores — devoted to the deliberate accelerated wear of computing circuits and cores.
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AMD Buys Startup Taalas to “Etch” AI Models into Silicon
AMD has acquired Taalas — a company promising to speed up inference by baking neural network models directly into the fabric of a chip.
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The Memory Shortage Reaches the MacBook Air
The global shortage of memory chips, driven by the appetites of AI companies, has hit Apple's most popular computer. The next MacBook Air shipments are being pushed back to the end of August.
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Linux on a Calculator: How the HP Prime G2 Was Taught to Run X11 and Doom
Engineer Remy van Elst has updated the Linux port for the HP Prime G2 graphing calculator — complete with a working keyboard, touchscreen, an X server and, of course, Doom.
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The ThinkPad T480 as a Mobile Phone: Calls, SMS and Mobile Internet
An enthusiast turned a ThinkPad T480 laptop into a full-fledged cell phone with support for voice calls, SMS and mobile data — using Libreboot and a Quectel EG25-G modem.
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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal: How Rekursiv Was Forty Years Ahead of Its Time
The story of a late-1980s Scottish processor that guessed almost everything about the future of computing right — except the decade in which it should have been built.
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RTX Spark: A Machine You Talk To, Not Command
NVIDIA and Microsoft have unveiled RTX Spark — a “superchip” for Windows PCs conceived for personal AI agents: up to 128 GB of shared memory, a petaflop of compute, and the promise of keeping a large model right there on your desk without a backward glance at the cloud.