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Posted on 2026-01-05 by pappp

Source: Published articles

Article note: Majestic.
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Dell is eating humble pie and bringing back the XPS brand

Posted on 2026-01-05 by pappp

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: That went about as poorly as everyone expected.
Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops on a white tabletop.
Forget Premium, Pro, and Pro Max — Dell backtracked so hard its new laptops don’t even say Dell on top.

Nearly one year ago to the day, Dell killed off its long-standing XPS brand name in favor of milquetoast Premium, Plus, Pro, and Pro Max monikers - but it's back for CES 2026. The new XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops look to win back fans of the "Extreme Performance System" with Dell's thinnest designs to date, a row of proper function keys, improved battery life, and Intel's new Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Dell even went as far as putting the XPS brand name on the lid, and finally marking the edges of its seamless haptic trackpad with subtle glass etching lines.

The XPS 14 and 16 are launching in select configurations on January …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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PicoPCMCIA leverages the Raspberry Pi RP2350 to emulate a PCMCIA card

Posted on 2026-01-05 by pappp

Source: adafruit industries blog

Article note: Oh man, that's _delightful_ for playing with old laptops. Modern Wifi, storage emulation including CD drives, all the things that are usually a hassle.

yyzkevin is launching an open source project to make a multifunction PCMCIA (later named PC) card for vintage computers. Details:

  • This is a Type II, 5V, 16-bit PC Card designed for use in compliant PCMCIA sockets and should work in most devices.
  • Built around the RP2350 and leveraging the ISA-like nature of the PCMCIA bus, this project benefits greatly from code interchangeability with other RP-based retro projects, most notably PicoGUS and PicoMEM.
  • The card has an onboard wireless module containing the Infineon CYW43439, same as found on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. This allows the card to attach to modern Wi-Fi networks (2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n WPA2). It can then emulate an NE2000 adapter and/or a dialup modem.
  • The card has an included Texas Instruments TLV320AIC3254 which calls itself a “Very Low-Power Stereo Audio CODEC with programmable miniDSP”.
  • Emulation of intelligent mode MPU-401 is possible thanks to implementation done by PicoGUS base on SoftMPU/HardMPU.
  • Sound Blaster emulation and the worlds first PCMCIA Gravis Ultrasound
  • Emulated Panasonic MKE CD-ROM
  • Storage Emulation
  • The USB port for the RP2354 is made available on the external connector

See the video below and more in the post here.

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ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people

Posted on 2026-01-05 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Years ago, I was arguing (with some CS/EE PhDs) that democracy can't survive without anonymity because mass surveillance implies mass coercion, even without any specific action. Now that it's actively happening, the one who was most arguing against the idea has admitted they no longer go to protests because there doesn't seem to be an upshot and they're afraid of being the subject of some "Radical Leftist UK Professors Seen At Anti-Government Protest" propaganda. I looked over my glasses at them but didn't say anything.
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