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Neowin ☛ UGREEN unveils HomeAgent local Hey Hi (AI) hubs with GNU/Linux and Nvidia hardware
UGREEN expands beyond smart storage with its new UGOS Pro-powered HomeAgent lineup for local smart home processing.
Unveiled at IFA 2026, the series opens pre-orders today with a 50% discount ahead of an October Kickstarter campaign.
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Hackaday ☛ Repairing Traces On A Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong
Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually to improve cooling performance, as the IHS is effectively a small heatsink between the die and the large heatsink, adding more problematic thermal interfaces. If delidding is done improperly it can cause severe damage to the substrate, as in the case of a very nice 1.3 GHz Tualatin Pentium III CPU that [Bits und Bolts] got in an eBay lot with nasty delidding damage.
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Hackaday ☛ Making A Pole Balance Itself With Propellers
A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as by exerting a force on either end to counterbalance any force that threatens to make it fall over. The approach that [Peter Ryseck] chose was to cobble together what is effectively a flying drone for on top of a standing pole, without cheating such as by simply lifting it off the ground.
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Jeff Geerling ☛ Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time.
I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off digging into the TrueTime... until now.