Collaborate Disseminate
“If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake,” reports Bloomberg. “Not so in a robotaxi…”
Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi’s speakers as he rode… Continue reading Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services
We’ll start this week off by giving our congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace of India for successfully launching the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket yesterday. The company’s Vikram-1 booster stands …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 19, 2026
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:
A federal judge has halted California’s groundbreaking “Truth in Recycling” law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to t… Continue reading California’s ‘Truth in Recycling’ Law Blocked by Judge
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (main… Continue reading Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
One of the most crucial aspects of FDM 3D printing is ensuring sufficient material is extruded. Determining the right flow rate can be done manually, but some printers these days …read more Continue reading Automated Pressure Advance Using a Bed-Leveling Sensor
“Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves,” reports Space.com:
The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves
“A humanoid robot lost its head,” reports Newsweek, “during the world’s first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots.”
The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with lo… Continue reading Robot ‘Decapitated’ in World’s First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight
Building a PC used to be a fun adventure — what’s the latest, what’s the greatest, what can I afford? Well, that last question seems to have taken over and …read more Continue reading Recycling Laptops and iMacs Makes PC Building Fun and Affordable Again
Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset-tracking service Lansweeper. That’s more than one in six, The Register points out.
A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, fa… Continue reading Windows 10 Still Being Used, Often Unpatched and Insecure
My knee is fine, my psoriasis has disappeared, and my blood sugar is doing great. What a difference a few weeks can make.
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