The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/theres-more-to-global-positioning-than-just-gps/)

An LLM From “Scratch”
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/an-llm-from-scratch/

Reading a book about bowling is not the same as actually bowling. If that resonates with you and you want to learn more about large language models, check out the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/an-llm-from-scratch/)

The Montgomery Ward Gasoline-Powered Clothes Iron
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/the-montgomery-ward-gasoline-powered-clothes-iron/

Before the advent of electricity in the home made electrically-heated clothes irons a possibility, ironing was a cumbersome process, with self-heated irons being an arguable improvement over solid (so-called sad) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/the-montgomery-ward-gasoline-powered-clothes-iron/)

An Improved Robot Dog for Senior Design
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/an-improved-robot-dog-for-senior-design/

[Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/an-improved-robot-dog-for-senior-design/)

The ESP8266 Gets An OS, and it’s familiar
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/the-esp8266-gets-an-os-and-its-familiar/

A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/the-esp8266-gets-an-os-and-its-familiar/)

This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/)

Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network to Help Geoclue Find You
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/broadcasting-gps-on-the-local-network-to-help-geoclue-find-you/

Rather than having users go through the inconvenience of having to punch in their current location, an increasing number of applications and websites use location services that can pin-point the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/broadcasting-gps-on-the-local-network-to-help-geoclue-find-you/)