Hackaday Hyperlinks: February 22, 2026

We’ll begin issues off this week with some breaking information from NASA: simply days after the house company introduced the Artemis II crew was making ready to blast off in the direction of the Moon as quickly as March sixth, a brand new drawback with the House Launch System rocket has pushed the launch again indefinitely. In accordance with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, issues encountered whereas loading helium into the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) necessitate rolling the huge rocket again to the Car Meeting Constructing (VAB) for analysis and restore.

The logistics of shuffling the car 6.8 kilometers (4.2 miles) from the pad to the VAB goes to eat up a minimum of every week, and sending it again the opposite manner is of course simply as a lot of a manufacturing. Add within the time they’ll want to truly work out what’s unsuitable with the ICPS and make the mandatory repairs, and it’s simple to see why a March launch is nearly actually off the desk. It’s irritating to see the Artemis II mission get delayed this near launch, however sending people into house isn’t the type of factor you possibly can lower corners on.

Properly, you’d assume so a minimum of. This week NASA additionally launched a scathing report detailing the multitude of technical points that got here up throughout the 2024 check flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Whereas astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ultimately made it again house safely aboard a SpaceX Dragon, the house company has nonetheless categorized it as a Kind A mishap — their highest incident classification and the identical score given to the losses of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia.

With regards to corporations we like to hate, a current publish by Brian Service provider on his weblog Blood within the Machine (superior band title, referred to as it) factors out the precipitous rise in Flock assaults. That’s, people are taking issues into their very own arms and destroying the surveillance units everywhere in the US. Now Hackaday actually isn’t condoning the destruction of anybody’s property, however we positively recognize the rebellious cyberpunk vibe.

Earlier than you exit attempting to find Flocks, needless to say a minimum of one particular person has caught a cost already. Actually Jefferey Sovern picked up 13 costs, as that’s what number of Flock cameras he managed to bag earlier than the regulation caught as much as him. In accordance with studies, he additionally admitted to “holding among the wiring, batteries and photo voltaic panels taken from the cameras.” Feels like Jeff would slot in simply tremendous round these components.

In search of some new wheels? Acquired a useful supply of hydrogen? In that case, you may be in luck. In accordance with CarBuzz, the resale worth of Toyota’s Mirai has completely cratered. Once they had been sitting on the lot a brand new Mirai would have price you a bit greater than $50,000, however on the second-hand market you will get final yr’s mannequin for as little as $15,000. When you’re not too choosy, you will get one even cheaper. We did a bit looking out of our personal, and located a 2021 Mirai with lower than 40K miles for simply $9,000. That’s an insane worth for a mid-size luxurious automotive, however in fact it doesn’t actually matter how low-cost the automotive is for those who can’t discover wherever to fill the factor up.

Lastly, the oldsters at F-Droid have sounded the alarm about some regarding adjustments Google has deliberate for Android. As we first lined again in October, anybody trying to develop functions for the world’s hottest cell working system will quickly must register with Google by a course of which continues to be not totally clear. Though the search large has hinted that the system will characteristic some particular consideration for college students and hobbyists, F-Droid isn’t satisfied. Till there’s extra transparency, they’re urging builders and Android customers to push again by way of keepandroidopen.org.

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