Apple M3 series get Asahi Linux support, mostly working

Reverse engineering enables Linux on Apple Silicon, expanding hardware compatibility to M3 MacBooks and iMacs with a ...
XDA Developers

Your motherboard still has a header that no one has needed since 2005, but there's a reason why

USB took over, but motherboard manufacturers retained the 9-pin serial header for legacy compatibility. You may not know ...
XDA Developers

I stopped wasting my home server's USB ports on external drives, and now they actually do something useful

That said, USB devices are one category that’s often overlooked by the tinkering community, with external storage drives ...

Silicon Line®, an EverProX® brand, Launches new Ultra-Low-Power SerDes Chipset MSDL™ (MIPI Serial Data Link), Extending 20 Gbps MIPI D-PHY Connectivity to Tens of Meters

EverProX Technologies Munich GmbH, under its Silicon Line® brand—a pioneer in ultra-low-power optical and electrical interconnect technology—today announced the launch of "MSDL™ 20G" which is the ...
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How the humble parallel port outlived everything that was supposed to replace it

It ended up dying to USB—but it put up a hell of a fight.