This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 21st, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and do our darnest to help understand all this crazy stuff.

Our gosh, darndest, because today, yes, we have the SpaceX IPO and NVIDIA earnings.

But we will start with a plan for multi-tool from Flipper that lets you hack around on networks.

Because that's more fun.

I'm Tom Barrett.

I'm Jen Cutter.

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Yeah, so a lot of you might know Flipper.

They've made a lot of waves with their flippers with the Flipper Zero.

They have announced the development plan for the Flipper 1, which is another multi-tool for hacking.

The good kind of hacking.

Yeah, it could also be used for the bad kind of hacking,

but it's the kind of tool security pros need to defend systems.

If you're not familiar, the existing flippers zero can connect over multiple offline wireless

profiles.

So your Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, and such.

It can do cool things like

emulate an identity badge, things like that. The new Flipper 1 goes heavy network. So it has a 2x

gigabit Ethernet connection, a USB Ethernet connection that can go 5 gigabits per second. When I say 2x, I mean, I think there are two gigabit Ethernet connections, a USB Ethernet that can go 5 gigabits per second. Wi-Fi 6E. Also has a GPIO port and an M.2 port, which you can connect a 5G modem to, or a softwaredefined radio module or an AI accelerator or an SSD or another

Wi-Fi card, whatever you want to do. There's also a full-size HDMI port in this thing.

It will, let's get into the chips because I know some of you want to know. The rest of you just,

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