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Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Printer emulates the original to a T

It’s no secret that the Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi Pico can emulate a plethora of old school consoles. But Dr. Raphaël Boichot has taken things a step further by emulating a classic accessory to the Nintendo Game Boy line. Using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, he’s created a Game Boy Printer… Read more

MSI’s upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs to feature yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters

It seems that MSI is planning to bundle yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters with its upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, including the RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. This move aims to address issues related to power delivery and overheating, which plagued some users of previous-generation adapters. According to a report from… Read more

NATO deploys ‘sea drones’ to safeguard undersea cable infrastructure

NATO has launched Operation Baltic Sentry to protect its undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea from sabotage. According to The War Zone, the alliance will deploy uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) also referred to as “drone boats” to enhance its overall situational awareness in the area. At least 20 USVs are assigned to… Read more

Nvidia’s mid-January GPU driver update addresses several vulnerabilities and exploits

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia has released updates to its GPU display driver and VGPU software that, combined, address a total of seven security vulnerabilities. Two of these are high-severity vulnerabilities enabling information disclosure, data tampering, denial of service, and in the case of the High-Severity vGPU software issue, even code execution. On Windows, all GPU… Read more

Nvidia hints DLSS 4 Frame Generation may extend support to past GPUs, including RTX 30 Series

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Speaking in an interview with Digital Foundry at CES 2025, Nvidia VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Bryan Catanzaro hinted that Nvidia may end up bringing DLSS 4 to Nvidia GPUs as old as the RTX 30 Series, which otherwise do not support Nvidia’s own Frame Generation technologies. Instead, RTX 30… Read more

Maker turns old Roomba vacuum into a Raspberry Pi-powered AI dog-feeding robot

When it comes to revitalizing old hardware, there’s no board we enjoy seeing thrown into the mix quite like the Raspberry Pi. This tiny SBC has a lot of flexibility and it’s always fun to see what imaginative ways makers transform their experience with a bit of creativity and ingenuity. Today we have a wonderful… Read more

The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing ‘AIDS Information’

(Image credit: Shutterstock) Thirty-five years ago, as December 1989 turned into January 1990, the then-largest ever cybercrime investigation was launched in response to the world’s first known example of ransomware. This first ransomware payload was secreted on a 5.25-inch floppy disk titled “AIDS Information — Introductory Diskette 2.0” [h/t Heise.de]. The pioneering ransomware was developed… Read more

Bambu Lab Security Update will remove OrcaSlicer’s Access

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Bambu Lab recently announced a firmware security update for its printers that would introduce an official “authorization control” system for critical printer operations. The update is presented as a way to mitigate the “risk of remote hacks or printer exposure issues that have happened in the past, and also lower the… Read more

Nvidia’s Huang enjoys ‘trillion dollar banquet’ with 35 Taiwanese semiconductor industry chiefs

(Image credit: Formosa TV News) Jensen Huang invited the chairpersons and chief executives of a host of Nvidia AI chip-building partners to a lavish meal on Saturday. According to the Central New Agency (machine translated), at least 35 execs attended what is being locally referred to as Huang’s ‘trillion dollar banquet.’ Industry luminaries attending included… Read more

Doom ported to a standalone Microsoft Word document — plays well but there’s no sound

A software engineer has ported Doom to a standalone Word document. The single 6.6MB document file, available via GitHub, contains a source port of doomgeneric. Users will need a modern version of Microsoft Office/Word on an x86 computer system, and eschew security warnings, to enable the VBA macro in the document to run. Netherlands-based Wojciech… Read more

The Asus RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming has allegedly been unboxed, suggesting ready stock at retailers

The confusion regarding RDNA 4 deepens, as a retailer in Ukraine has apparently showcased the RX 9070 XT, possibly weeks ahead of launch if we go by AMD’s statement (via Videocardz). In a now-deleted Instagram reel, Artline unboxed the Asus Radeon RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming, hinting that the GPU is likely in stock at… Read more

Chinese hackers infiltrated US Treasury Secretary’s PC — attackers had access to over 400 PCs

As reported last week, Chinese hackers infiltrated the U.S. Department of Treasury and gained access to several users’ workstations. However, according to Bloomberg, the infiltration was more severe than initially reported, as hackers managed to access systems belonging to Secretary Janet Yellen and other top officials. The perpetrators reportedly accessed files belonging to Secretary Janet… Read more

New UEFI vulnerability bypasses Secure Boot — bootkits stay undetected even after OS re-install

A new UEFI vulnerability has been discovered that is spread through multiple system recovery tools. Bleeping Computer reports that the vulnerability enables attackers to bypass Secure Boot and deploy bootkits that can be invisible to the operating system. Microsoft has officially flagged the vulnerability with the codename CVE-2024-7344 Howyar Taiwan Secure Boot Bypass. The culprit… Read more

Raspberry Pi 4 brings the Raspberry Pi stream deck to life

All sorts of stream decks are available on the market today, but where’s the fun buying something you could create from scratch? At least, that seems to be the spirit of the Raspberry Pi maker community, as shown in projects like this one, which was created by maker and developer Last-Shake-9874. Using our favorite SBC,… Read more

Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony’s retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade

A fan of Sony’s classic handheld Windows slider PC designs is planning a drop-in upgrade. On Friday, Tomsek68 shared his plans on Reddit, proposing swapping out the decrepit internals of a Sony Vaio VGX-UX Micro PC (circa 2006) with a custom PCB and assembly based on an OrangePi CM5. If the above-outlined project works out,… Read more