Tom’s Hardware: Mad lad stores and loads Doom from within DNS — TXT record type abused to store game data. “Network administrators in the audience are advised to grab their unsee juice from the shelf, as today’s home project is quite the double-whammy. First, it involves everyone’s favorite problem child, DNS. Second, a madlad named Adam Rice has managed to put Doom in it. That’s a paragraph […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/toms-hardware-mad-lad-stores-and-loads-doom-from-within-dns-txt-record-type-abused-to-store-game-data/

TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/13/techspot-youtuber-built-a-car-powered-by-500-discarded-vapes-and-drove-it-18-miles/

Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/gizmodo-a-dish-of-neurons-playing-doom-is-the-wildest-thing-ive-seen-in-ages/

TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/28/techspot-someone-built-an-x86-cpu-emulator-using-pure-css-for-science/

Tom’s Hardware: Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms. “Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/27/toms-hardware-ambitious-developer-showcases-slick-triple-level-quake-like-game-stored-in-tiny-64kb-executable-every-game-asset-tucked-inside-what-could-be-a-rounding-error/

Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/20/hackaday-taking-photos-with-scotch-tape-instead-of-a-lens/

TechSpot: Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps. “Australia-based developer Arin Sarkisian recently unveiled DoomBuds, a project designed to run Doom on a pair of earbuds. Even more impressively – or alarmingly, if you’re not a fan of extreme tech demos – he connected the earbuds to the internet, allowing players to join and play the game remotely.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/techspot-doom-has-officially-been-ported-to-earbuds-streaming-at-18-fps/

Tom’s Hardware: Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh. “A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware. Documented in a teardown and reverse-engineering video, the YouTuber shows the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/14/toms-hardware-doom-conquers-the-kitchen-through-an-electric-cooking-pot-classic-shooter-runs-seamlessly-after-a-full-device-firmware-refresh/

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/13/the-register-danish-dev-delights-kid-by-turning-floppy-drive-into-easy-tv-remote/

Hackaday: Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic. “The ‘Marauder’s Map’ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/21/hackaday-hardware-store-marauders-map-is-clarkian-magic/