Collaborate Disseminate
The UK’s science minister is announcing details of a five-year, £2.5 billion investment in nuclear fusion, reports the Times of London, “including building one of the world’s first prototype fusion power plants in Nottinghamshire and developing a… Continue reading The UK Will Invest Billions to Build a Nuclear Fusion Industry
Some days, it feels like we’re getting all the bad parts of cyberpunk and none of the cool stuff. Megacorps and cyber warfare? Check. Flying cars and holograms? Not quite …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 15, 2026
Europe’s EV sales for January and February spiked 21% from last year, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Electrek reports that just in those two months over 600,000 EVs were sold in Europe.
And figures for “rest of world” (whi… Continue reading 2026’s EV Sales Hit 1.1M – But Europe Surges While North America Slides
Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but “I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways… I’ve been on one platform for years an… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family?
Linux gaming “has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does,” according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there’s a new surprise on ProtonDB, an “unofficial” community website with crowdsourc… Continue reading CachyOS Dethrones Arch As ProtonDB’s Top Linux Gamer Desktop Distro
Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the …read more Continue reading New Aluminum-Based Catalyst Could De-Throne Platinum Group
NBC News investigates North Korea’s “wide-ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in some cases, steal sensitive information.”
And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investi… Continue reading How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea’s Massive Remote Workers Scam
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that “will focus on creating ‘gainfully employed robots’ for the food, mining and transport industries,” Bloomberg reports.
“I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken,” writes Kalanick on the new company’s… Continue reading Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick’s Newest Venture? ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’
Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over …read more Continue reading Disassembling Opcodes with a Font
He’s “the most famous anonymous man in the world,” suggests Reuters. But investigating Banksy’s artworks in a bombed Ukrainian village (and other clues in the U.K. and Manhattan) have led them to “a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago m… Continue reading Should Banksy Remain Anonymous?