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After the ESP32, the LR2021 LoRa Chip Is Found to Hide an SDR Too
Only weeks after a hidden baseband mode turned the ESP32 into a software-defined radio, a similar capability has been reported in the LR2021 LoRa chip.
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AI Slop Is Real. Even When It Works.
AI Slop Is Real. Even When It Works. We were told AI would make everything better. Just trust it, bro. You’re prompting it wrong, bro. And to some extent, it did make things better. Minus the things it made much worse. This is a story about one of those things. It’s about why “trust the…
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INAV: A History of the Flight Controller That Always Knows the Way Home
Ten years, nine major versions and a few thousand pull requests later, INAV went from “Cleanflight, but with GPS” to a full autopilot that lands planes, flies VTOLs and now even runs JavaScript. Grab a coffee (or a LiPo, no judgement), we’re going through the official releases from the oldest to the newest. A bit…
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Go 1.27 Makes HTTP/1 Connection Reuse Automatic, Cutting Request Times
Starting with Go 1.27, the net/http package drains unread HTTP/1 response bodies on its own, so connections can be reused without manual workarounds. A test by the Go team shows a nearly fivefold speedup.
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Experts: Weak containment, not rogue AI, behind recent AI lab hacking incidents
Cybersecurity specialists told CSO that recent incidents of AI models accessing outside systems point to basic security lapses at AI labs, not agents acting on their own will.
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Flipflop Uses Iroh to Create Persistent Tunnels for Sharing Files Between Devic…
A new project called Flipflop, shown on Hacker News, lets users set up a trusted tunnel between devices so files can be sent from one to another at any time.
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Benewake Launches NOVA20, a Tiny Solid-State LiDAR for Robots’ Near-Field Safety
Benewake has introduced the NOVA20, a solid-state linear LiDAR meant to cover the close-range blind spot around embodied AI and mobile robots. It detects objects from 5 centimeters to 1 meter away.
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How to Install and Set Up Betaflight on Your FPV Drone
Before you start The newest stable Betaflight right now is 2026.6.2, published on GitHub on 16 September 2026. This guide shows you how to put it on your flight controller and do the basic setup so your drone is ready for its first flight. Betaflight is free, open-source software that runs on the small computer…
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Elsight Adds Cellular-Based Positioning for Drones in GPS-Denied Areas
Elsight has introduced a Positioning capability that locates drones and other uncrewed platforms using cellular network measurements when GPS is jammed, spoofed or unavailable. It is offered as part of the company’s Halo product.
