May 06, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software Revisiting Trademarks Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source ...
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google brings Multi-Token Prediction drafters to Gemma 4: 3x speedup without quality loss One month after the introduction of Gemma 4, Google is now releasing Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 model family. These drafters use a specialized speculative decoding archit...
May 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk My Inital Thoughts On Thunderbird Pro Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out. ...
May 06, 2026 from Hackaday Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps with Magnets If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Chrome silently installs 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model to user device without consent As reported by That Privacy Guy, Google Chrome has begun silently deploying a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model file, named weights.bin, onto user devices without requesting explicit consent. The file resi...
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches ChatGPT-5.5 Instant as default model with better accuracy & memory sources OpenAI has released GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for all ChatGPT users, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant in both the web interface and API. This update brings clearer, more concise, and better...
May 06, 2026 from Hackaday You’ve Seen the Chip Shortage and the Memory Shortage, Now Prepare For The PCB Shortage It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil of world events. Sometimes though, geopolitics intrude even into our …read more
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tower 16 for Mac launches with AI commit messages, redesigned “Working Copy” view and more Tower 16 for Mac is now available as the latest stable version, arriving one month after its beta release. With this update, the Git client introduces AI-powered commit message generation, respondi...
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Fish shell 4.7 refines interactivity, shell history, UI consistency, completions, and more Fish 4.7 is now available, focusing on improved interactivity and usability for Unix-like shell users. In this release, repaint events no longer reset the completion pager and other transient user ...
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Agents can now automate Cloudflare setup, domain purchase, and deployment Agents are now able to fully automate Cloudflare account creation, domain registration, and code deployment, eliminating the need for users to perform manual setup or payment steps. This is achieve...
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Home app adds animated event previews and enhanced face detection The Google Home app now offers animated, zoomed-in camera event previews and enhanced timeline navigation, including new event filtering options. Powered by Gemini 3.1, familiar face detection is i...
May 06, 2026 from Hackaday RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to …read more
May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ServiceNow expands AI Control Tower for full AI lifecycle management ServiceNow has enhanced its AI Control Tower, adding capabilities for discovery, monitoring, governance, security, and financial measurement of AI systems across public clouds and enterprise apps. ...
May 06, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Ways To Prioritize DNS Over mDNS On Macbooks With .local Domains Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.
May 06, 2026 from It's FOSS Should You Be Worried About Copy Fail Linux Exploitation? It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later.
May 06, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal C13 to NEMA 5-15P Type Power Cords Notes for reference regarding C13 connectors to NEMA 5-15P inlet on power cords.
May 06, 2026 from Hackaday Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is tryin...
May 06, 2026 from It's FOSS Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.
May 06, 2026 from Hackaday Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us Microplastics absolutely saturate the Earth’s environment, and that’s probably not a good thing unless you’re looking for a sediment marker for the Anthropocene period. On the other hand, environme...
May 05, 2026 from Hackaday Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more
