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Removing the BIOS Administrator Password on a ThinkPad Takes Timing ( hackaday.com )

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/bios_unlocking_thinkpad_gotcha_onionboots_youtube.jpg?w=800 This would be a bad time to slip. (Credit: onionboots, YouTube) (https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/bios_unlocking_thinkpad_onionboots_youtube.jpg?w=400) ...

[Article] Storing Image Data As Analog Audio ( hackaday.com )

Ham radio operators may be familiar with slow-scan television (SSTV) where an image is sent out over the airwaves to be received, decoded, and displayed on a computer monitor by other radio operators. It’s a niche mode that isn’t as popular as modern digital modes like FT8, but it still has its proponents. SSTV isn’t only ...

Practice Makes Perfect: The Wet Dress Rehearsal ( hackaday.com )

If you’ve been even casually following NASA’s return to the Moon, you’re likely aware of the recent Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Artemis II mission. You probably also heard that things didn’t go quite to plan: although the test was ultimately completed and the towering Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was fully ...

PROFS: The Office Suite Of The 1980s ( hackaday.com )

Today, we take office software suites for granted. But in the 1970s, you were lucky to have a typewriter and access to a photocopier. But in the early 1980s, IBM rolled out PROFS — the Professional Office System — to try to revolutionize the office. It was an offshoot of an earlier internal system. The system would hardly ...

Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? ( hackaday.com )

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the real world things look a lot less dire. At least if you’re worried about quantum computers (QCs) breaking every single conventional encryption algorithm in use today, because at ...