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OpenMouse Sets DPI and Polling Rate on Gaming Mice From Logitech, Razer, Corsair and Dozens More in a Browser Tab
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Arnaud Aubry Built Marelleo, an Open-Source ESP32 Story Box for Kids That Plays Whatever File You Tie to an NFC Figurine, With No Store and No Subscription
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DFRobot's $2,599 LattePanda Sigma 2 Puts an Intel Core Ultra X7, 64GB of RAM and a Preloaded Qwen Model on a 146mm Board
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A Factory IT Manager's Admin Password Was a Leet-Speak Insult for Hackers, and an Unpatched Windows 7 Server Handed It to Red Teamer Dahvid Schloss
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iQOO's Neo 12 Puts a Cooling Fan Inside an IP68 and IP69 Phone, With a 9,000mAh Battery, for China
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pixelfx Is a Free Library of 244 Pixel Art Game Effects Written as Code, Not Sprite Sheets, From Fire and Ice to Whole Attack Moves
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Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905
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Email Addresses Use @ Because Ray Tomlinson's 1971 Terminals Had About a Dozen Punctuation Marks, and Only @ Meant 'At'
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Darkbloom Paid Mac Owners to Run AI Inference. Now Most Earn a Few Cents to a Few Dollars a Day
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Undo Is Z Because Cut-and-Paste Pioneer Larry Tesler Picked It for the Apple Lisa, and Its Zigzag Reads as Do, Undo, Redo
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Commodore's 1600 VICmodem Was the First Modem Under $100, and You Dialed by Hand, Then Plugged In the Handset Cord
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BrickStation Turns Lego's PlayStation Set Into a Working PS1 Emulator, Hidden in One Side Tray
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Brian Eno Made the Windows 95 Startup Sound on a Mac, to a Brief That Ended "It Must Be Three and a Quarter Seconds Long"
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Bluetooth Was Only a Codename: the Industry Voted 4-1 for "PAN" Until a Web Search Turned Up Tens of Thousands of Hits
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Ben Krasnow 3D-Printed a See-Through Einstein Refrigerator That Gets Cold From an Alcohol Flame
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ASCII Has a Backslash Because a 1961 Committee Wanted to Type AND and OR as /\ and \/
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Steve Ballmer Wrote the Words on Windows 3.1's Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen, and They Shipped Almost Word for Word
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Matthew Garrett Turned On Google Cast in His US Samsung Q800A Soundbar by Rooting It and Telling It It Was Australian
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LinuxRunner Puts Debian, Arch and Alpine Desktops on an iPhone With No Jailbreak, Running Firefox and Blender Through Its Own ARM64 Interpreter
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Excel Still Counts February 29, 1900, a Day That Never Happened, Because Lotus 1-2-3 Did, and Microsoft Says Fixing It Would Shift Almost Every Date
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