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OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but [Andrew]’s Virtual OS museum has a good claim to being …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/28/virtual-museum-hosts-every-os-you-havent-heard-of/)
Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/28/linux-fu-fake-webcams-have-many-uses/)
It’s become a familiar theme over the last couple of decades — hardware is rendered useless when its manufacturer pulls the cloud service on which it depends. This is particularly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/28/bring-back-your-bose-with-an-esp32/)
The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great example …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/28/an-atic-atac-minimap-for-the-zx-spectrum/)
As anyone who takes medicines regularly will attest to, the days have a tendency to blur together, making it hard to remember if you did something like take that day’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/medication-reminder-uses-only-one-button/)
When is an Apple Laptop Not a Macbook? When it’s an Apple II
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/when-is-an-apple-laptop-not-a-macbook-when-its-an-apple/
Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/when-is-an-apple-laptop-not-a-macbook-when-its-an-apple/)
This Week in Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, and FreeBSD Joins the Club you Don’t Want to Join
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/this-week-in-security-ubiquiti-fixes-and-freebsd-joins-the-club-you-dont-want-to-join/
Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/this-week-in-security-ubiquiti-fixes-and-freebsd-joins-the-club-you-dont-want-to-join/)