"I built each of these machines," the man said, noting, "if I bought them, they'd cost over a quarter-million to buy." ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

If you'd asked us a few years ago if we’d heard of Loop Earplugs, we wouldn’t have known what you meant. After all, a device which lets you control the loudness of your surroundings seems too good to ...

Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators. For a hacker, power is pretty fundamental, so it behooves us ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...