There’s just something delightful about scaled items. Big things shrunk down, like LEGO’s teeny tiny terminal brick? Delightful. Taking that terminal brick and scaling it back to a full-sized computer? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/lego-space-computer-made-full-size-47-years-on/)

Prevent your Denon Receiver Turning on From Rogue Nvidia Shield CEC Requests
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/prevent-your-denon-receiver-turning-on-from-rogue-nvidia-shield-cec-requests/

In theory HDMI’s CEC feature is great, as it gives HDMI devices the ability to do useful things such as turning on multiple HDMI devices with a single remote control. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/prevent-your-denon-receiver-turning-on-from-rogue-nvidia-shield-cec-requests/)

California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/

Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. With the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/)

Ebike Charges At Car Charging Stations
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/ebike-charges-at-car-charging-stations/

Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, and with them comes along a whole slew of charging infrastructure. The fastest of these are high-power machines that can deliver enough energy to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/ebike-charges-at-car-charging-stations/)

Building a Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/building-a-heading-sensor-resistant-to-magnetic-disturbances/

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap off-the-shelf …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/building-a-heading-sensor-resistant-to-magnetic-disturbances/)

Linux Hotplug Events Explained
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/linux-hotplug-events-explained/

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/linux-hotplug-events-explained/)

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/this-week-in-security-getting-back-up-to-speed/

Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/this-week-in-security-getting-back-up-to-speed/)