California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/

Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. With the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/)

Ebike Charges At Car Charging Stations
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/ebike-charges-at-car-charging-stations/

Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, and with them comes along a whole slew of charging infrastructure. The fastest of these are high-power machines that can deliver enough energy to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/ebike-charges-at-car-charging-stations/)

Building a Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/building-a-heading-sensor-resistant-to-magnetic-disturbances/

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap off-the-shelf …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/building-a-heading-sensor-resistant-to-magnetic-disturbances/)

Linux Hotplug Events Explained
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/linux-hotplug-events-explained/

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/linux-hotplug-events-explained/)

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/this-week-in-security-getting-back-up-to-speed/

Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/this-week-in-security-getting-back-up-to-speed/)

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/reverse-engineering-the-prom-for-the-sgi-o2/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SGI_O2-IMG_7208.jpg
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SGI_O2-IMG_7208.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SGI_O2-IMG_7208.jpg?w=800">The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/reverse-engineering-the-prom-for-the-sgi-o2/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/hackaday-podcast-episode-360-cool-rubber-bands-science-y-stuff-and-the-whys-of-office-supplies/

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/hackaday-podcast-episode-360-cool-rubber-bands-science-y-stuff-and-the-whys-of-office-supplies/)