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02/08/2026

Your Car Is a Smartphone With Wheels, and the App Store Is Rigged

If you want the future where cars last longer, repairs stay local, and ownership means more than a login, vehicle data access is a key fight to follow.

02/08/2026

Proprietary fasteners are not unique to BMW. Your phones and other devices have them. But this is becoming increasingly worse. Routine tasks like replacing a battery have become increasingly expensive and challenging to do.

BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.

02/08/2026

Learn Edge AI on Unihiker K10 (Edge Impulse Beginner Tutorial)

Learn Edge AI on Unihiker K10 (Edge Impulse Beginner Tutorial): Edge AI is becoming increasingly important as more applications demand real-time intelligence directly on embedded devices. With this in mind, the UNIHIKER K10 stands out as a powerful new single-board computer designed for education, p...

02/08/2026

Custom Hybrid Go Kart Build!

Custom Hybrid Go Kart Build!: There are quite a few go-kart Instructables out there, and before the two of us (high school students) started this build we spent a lot of time going through them. This project documents the design, fabrication and integration of a hybrid go-kart p…

02/07/2026

More memory-driven price rises

Memory-driven price rises for Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, and Compute Module 4 and 5, products; 1GB variants, and Raspberry Pi 400, are unaffected.

01/15/2026

Schneier on Security
Crypto-Gram
January 15, 2026

In this issue: Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI Chinese Surveillance and AI Deliberate Internet Shutdowns Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport AI Advertising Company Hacked Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting...

01/14/2026

You may need this.

Mail Password Decryptor is a handy piece of software to instantly recover Mail Account passwords from popular email clients and other desktop applications. You can recover your lost password for email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or Windows Live Mail from email applications such as Micro...

01/14/2026

What Happens When You Block Google Ads and When AI Breaks the Law

From Chrome ad settings to Grok’s legal trouble, here’s what every internet user should know.

01/10/2026

VLC Media Player's best hidden feature just got an update

01/10/2026

How to Fix Windows 11 December Update Bugs (File Explorer Flashes, WSL + VPN Issues)

Source: Windows Forum Windows 11 KB5072033, Microsoft’s final update on Tuesday in December 2025, brought a combination of improvements and stability, along with a few bugs witnessed by many users. [...]

01/08/2026

What’s Coming in Tech in 2026

Every September, Spectrum’s editors seek out promising projects that could solve seemingly intractable problems or transform entire industries. Often these projects fly under the radar of the popular press, which these days seems more interested in the personalities driving Big Tech companies than...

12/29/2025

5 big announcements to look out for at CES 2026

Here are our five picks for some of the new announcements and unveilings expected at CES 2026.