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We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Clojure + Crema: a native binary that runs full JVM Clojure with fast startup.

Cream uses GraalVM's Crema (RuntimeClassLoading) to enable runtime eval, require, and library loading in a native binary. It can also run Java source files directly, as a fast alternative to JBang.

Warning: Cream is very alpha. It depends on GraalVM Crema (EA) and a custom Clojure fork. Do not use in production. Issues and ideas are welcome though: https://github.com/borkdude/cream/issues

Date | Game | Platform | Tier
March 3| Final Fantasy III | Series X|S, PC, Cloud | Ultimate, Premium, PC
March 3| Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 | Series X|S, PC, Cloud | Ultimate, Premium, PC
March 5| Planet Of Lana 2| Console, PC, Cloud | Ultimate, PC
March 26| Nova Roma| PC| Ultimate, PC

If you're tired of the modern internet, then why not dial back to the 1990s? One nostalgic developer has recreated the pinnacle of early Linux operating systems with the so-called CDE Time Capsule. Posted as an open-source project on GitHub under the GPL license, but accessible via its own website, the project has faithfully recreated the appearance of a Debian Linux installation, circa 1994.

For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller connected with a few wires to selected pins on the chips or pads on the board that masked or overrode the copy protection and region locking. This scene was brought back for us by a recent [Modern vintage gamer] video looking at the history of console hardware mods, and it’s worth a watch (see the video, below).

The story starts in 1996 with the original PlayStation, largely the source of those free pints for a nascent Hackaday scribe back in the day. Along the way, as he expands the story, we find other memories, for example, the LPC bus-based hijacks of the first XBox console, and the huge modding scenes on both that machine and Sony’s PS2. The conclusion is that this community left its mark on today’s consoles even though the easy hardware hacks may be a thing of the past on the latest hardware, and as past Hackaday articles can attest, jailbreaking older consoles still has a way to go.

The Servo project has issued their January 2026 development report that highlights all the interesting changes they made to this open-source browser layout engine last month. With Servo 0.0.5 they have landed many improvements to this engine and also continuing to enhance its ability to embed Servo inside other applications.