Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Uber adds live video streaming for teen rides, letting parents monitor trips in real time Uber has rolled out a new live video streaming feature designed for parents and guardians to monitor their teenagers during rides in real time. The feature uses the driver’s selfie camera, which mu...
Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp adds multiple passkeys per account and replaces two-step PINs with full passwords WhatsApp has introduced several account security updates, including support for multiple passkeys on a single account, making it easier to use passkeys across both Android and iOS devices to verify...
Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PowerToys introduces Window Hopper, a new tool for switching windows within the same app PowerToys 0.101 has been released, introducing Window Hopper, a new window-switching utility as one of the update’s biggest additions. The new tool works like Alt + Tab but only for windows from th...
Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Antigravity 2.0 adds built-in Git VCS, branch tracking, and embedded terminal With the launch of Antigravity 2.0, Google has integrated Git version control directly into the right side panel, reducing the need to switch between the editor, terminal, and external Git tools. T...
Aug 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ardour 9.8 adds keys, scales, improved session recovery, and advanced MIDI editing Ardour 9.8 introduces initial support for musical keys and scales, allowing MIDI tracks to identify and manage notes outside a selected scale. Sessions have a default key, while individual tracks c...
Aug 26, 2026 from Hackaday Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone! A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of …read more
Aug 26, 2026 from Hackaday Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient is Fraud [Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens …read...
Aug 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Cassette Types I read an article by Mark Tyson for Tom’s Hardware titled Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives. I have many VCR memories,...
Aug 25, 2026 from Hackaday Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more
Aug 25, 2026 from Hackaday Native SMB3 Client Brings Modern NAS Access To 20-Year-Old PowerPC Macs As software updates cease for operating systems, they eventually begin to lose access to parts of the LAN and internet due to out of date encryption features, as well as …read more
Aug 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26 I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate facing six years in prison after listing dive bar as home address (Marina Peña for...
Aug 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA I tested out the new Elecrow ThinkNode M9 with MeshCore Decentralised Radio Network For those who don’t know, MeshCore (similar to Meshtastic and same hardware LoRa radios) is a decentralised radio network that runs in the license free bands. It’s a great way of being in contact w...
Aug 25, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 25 August 2026 Infinite Indexes Edition Top Story Why Aliexpress is muting your music. (The Register) Because they're taking your fingerprints using inaudible sonar. Really. Tech News OpenAI is building agents fo...
Aug 25, 2026 from Hackaday AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book? One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Ads integrates Gemini Omni for video creation and editing Google Ads now integrates Gemini Omni, allowing users to create and edit horizontal and vertical video assets directly within Asset Studio. Marketers can refine scenes in real time using natural la...
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google AI Studio Build enables GitHub sync for streamlined workflows Google AI Studio Build now supports syncing with GitHub repositories, allowing users to start from an existing repo, pull changes into Build, and push updates back. This enables seamless code manag...
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Anthropic launches Claude Academy with free online AI courses Anthropic has launched Claude Academy, a free online platform providing tutorials and courses to help users learn to use AI safely and effectively. The curriculum emphasizes intentional AI adoption...
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Antigravity releases new IDE extensions for top code editors Antigravity has released new IDE extensions for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Jetbrains, and Zed Editor. Developers can now access conversations, customizations, and multi-agent orchestration ...
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Stremio returns to LG TV store for 2020–2026 models worldwide Stremio has been relisted in the LG TV app store for 2020 and newer models, including support through to 2026 devices. The relisting covers a wide range of regions across Asia, Europe, Americas, an...
Aug 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Contour 0.7.0: GUI tabs, split panes, daemon mode & improved accessibility Contour 0.7.0 introduces first-class GUI tabs, split panes, saved layouts, and a new terminal-styled interface, all aimed at improving workspace management. This release adds an experimental daemon...
