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At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun ...

Do you remember Darth Vader's Star Wars quote as, “Luke, I am your father”? Or perhaps you recall The Berenstein Bears books from your childhood? If either rings true, then you’re experiencing The ...

Claude Code started as a terminal coding assistant. It now runs as a layered agentic system. Underneath, Claude Code separates memory, hooks, skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP into distinct layers.

Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Has there ever been an ...

Polymarket uses smart contract wallets internally. Every account created using the Polymarket website is a smart contract wallet. There are 2 kinds of smart contract wallets used: Polymarket Proxy: ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

When I was a teenager, I wrote some terrible code. Here's why. Written with Sean Elliott. Directed by Tomek. Graphics by Mooviemakers. Audio mix by Haerther Productions. MORE BASICS: A playlist ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...