May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ChatGPT launches Trusted Contact feature for user safety support ChatGPT has launched Trusted Contact, a safety feature allowing adult users to nominate someone who may be notified if automated systems and reviewers detect serious self-harm concerns. The notific...
May 09, 2026 from Hackaday It’s an Apple Lisa, on a FPGA Most of us will know that Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh series of computers was a machine called the Lisa. Something of a behemoth compared to those early Macs, it …read more
May 09, 2026 from It's FOSS Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You Lenovo and Dell are now funding the service that ships firmware to millions of Linux devices.
May 09, 2026 from Hackaday Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Floorp 12.14.0: Command Palette, passkeys & iCloud passwords for enhanced browsing Floorp version 12.14.0 introduces the Command Palette, letting users quickly access over 100 browser actions using keyboard shortcuts. Search and switch between tabs, and reach recently used items ...
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net xPrivo 4.0 launches independent European search index and rich results xPrivo 4.0 now features its own fully independent European search index, removing any reliance on US-based Big Tech for search results. The update adds rich, toggleable result modules such as Knowl...
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wikimedia Foundation closes all Wikinews editions after 21 years The Wikimedia Foundation placed all editions of Wikinews in read-only mode on May 4, ending the project after 21 years. The closure decision was driven by concerns about sustainability, reduced com...
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft drops $99 fee for organizations to publish apps on the Microsoft Store Microsoft has removed the $99 onboarding fee for organizations creating developer accounts on the Microsoft Store, expanding the policy it first introduced for individual developers last September....
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI API Adds GPT-Realtime-2, Live Translation and Transcription Models OpenAI has expanded its API with three new voice intelligence models for real time voice applications. The release includes GPT-Realtime-2, a conversational model designed for realistic spoken inte...
May 09, 2026 from It's FOSS Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There's No Proper Patch Yet A working exploit is already out, and systems that patched Copy Fail are still exposed.
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ghost adds saved audience segments and faster member filtering Ghost now allows users to save custom audience segments as named member views directly in the sidebar. The members list and filtering tools have been redesigned to be faster and more intuitive. Gho...
May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify DJ adds four new languages and expands to over 75 countries Spotify's DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, each with personalized DJ voices. The feature has launched for Premium users in new regions including Austria, B...
May 09, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server In any MMORPG, the average user will generally only encounter the client side of the system. This makes building a compatible open source version of the proprietary server into a …read more
May 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-08-26 I was busy this morning and forgot to write daily Pook-Emu Bee links. But since tomorrow is newsletter day and there are no Pook-Emu Bee links on newsletter day, I figured I would publish a late-ni...
May 09, 2026 from Hackaday Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot? Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more
May 09, 2026 from EmailShot Blog The Best AI Tools to Pair With Your Email Workflow A practical guide to combining ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Notion AI, and other LLM tools with your email — and how EmailShot Markdown export turns any email into AI-ready source material.
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more
May 08, 2026 from Home on A blog Building WikiVisage: Active Learning for Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has over 100 million freely licensed media files. A lot of these are photographs of people, politicians, artists, scientists, and athletes, but most of them lack structured metada...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday Easy-ish Glitch Camera? There’s a Pi 4 That Usually, when you want to make glitchy images with lots of colors and things, you have to poke around inside a camera and successfully circuit-bend the thing without bricking it. …read more
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of [Tynemouth Software] — a Commodore 64 in a PET case. One of the unique parts it had was …read more
