diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/de/devmem2/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/de/devmem2/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index bc8a155b1cbb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/de/devmem2/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "devmem2";
-  version = "unstable-2004-08-05";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    urls = [
-      "http://lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/devmem2.c"
-      "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackndev/tools/7ed212230f8fbb1da3424a15ee88de3279bf96ec/devmem2.c"
-    ];
-    sha256 = "14f1k7v6i1yaxg4xcaaf5i4aqn0yabba857zjnbg9wiymy82qf7c";
-  };
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; # fix compile error
-
-  buildCommand = ''
-    $CC "$src" -o devmem2
-    install -D devmem2 "$out/bin/devmem2"
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Simple program to read/write from/to any location in memory";
-    mainProgram = "devmem2";
-    homepage = "http://lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ bjornfor ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 1e50ef0cadbc..aaaff7ba97f4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ mapAliases {
   deltatouch = throw "'deltatouch' has been removed as it depended on qt5 webengine which reached EOL"; # Added 2026-04-25
   desktop-postflop = throw "'desktop-postflop' has been removed as it has been unmaintained upstream since October 2023 and depended on webkitgtk 4.0"; # Added 2026-06-07
   devdocs-desktop = throw "'devdocs-desktop' has been removed as it is unmaintained upstream and vendors insecure dependencies"; # Added 2025-06-11
+  devmem2 = throw "'devmem2' has been removed due to being broken and lack of maintenance. Consider using the devmem command from 'busybox' or 'toybox'."; # Added 2026-07-24
   dfilemanager = throw "'dfilemanager' has been dropped as it was unmaintained"; # Added 2025-06-03
   discord-screenaudio = throw "discord-screenaudio has been removed because it was archived upstream. Use vesktop instead."; # added 2025-11-29
   disk-inventory-x = throw "disk-inventory-x has been removed as it only supported x86_64-darwin"; # Added 2026-07-12