Collaborate Disseminate
Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channels will soon be able to test how AI agents will appear on the taskbar, starting with Microsoft’s Researcher agent.
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The television industry’s brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings — a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manuf… Continue reading 2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peak at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five …read more Continue reading Decapsulating a PIC12F683 to Examine Its CMOS Implementation
A suspected Russia-aligned group has been attributed to a phishing campaign that employs device code authentication workflows to steal victims’ Microsoft 365 credentials and conduct account takeover attacks.
The activity, ongoing since September 2025, … Continue reading Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers
This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you! In the news this …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 350: Damnation for Spreadsheets, Praise for Haiku, and Admiration for the Hacks In Between
Uber is hiring more engineers rather than fewer because AI tools have made them “superhumans,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, pushing back against the industry trend of using productivity gains to justify headcount cuts. Speaking on the “On with Kara Swis… Continue reading Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
Happy Friday! And where did this month go? While we sort that one out, let’s kick off the weekend a bit early with one of the longer Ask Pauls in recent memory.
💩 The enshittification of the supply chain
Leo_W asks:
Micron Crucial is getting out of the… Continue reading Ask Paul: December 19 ⭐
iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces com… Continue reading ‘How Lina Khan Killed iRobot’
Here’s how to use Google Gemini to detect certain AI-generated videos. Continue reading Is that video AI? Gemini can now help you figure it out – but there’s a catch
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has reportedly agreed to divest its US operations to a consortium of companies that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX.
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