May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net NetHack 5.0 introduces over 3100 changes and fixes to this classic roguelike video game NetHack 5.0 brings substantial changes to the roguelike’s core dungeon generation, introducing themed rooms in the Dungeons of Doom and greatly varied Gehennom levels that now include new terrain, ...
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net NewPipe drops Android 5 support in version 0.28.7 due to library changes NewPipe will discontinue support for Android 5 devices starting with version 0.28.7. This decision is due to recent AndroidX/Jetpack libraries becoming incompatible with Android 5, requiring the ap...
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Calibre 9.8 adds mobile book details view and flexible local AI support Calibre 9.8 now enables users to access book details by clicking titles or covers in the mobile content server view. The release also adds support for arbitrary local AI providers compatible with O...
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Vids Screen Recorder extension lets you capture and store videos The new Google Vids Screen Recorder Chrome extension allows users to easily initiate screen and camera recording from any browser window. Recordings can include a single tab, the entire window, or ...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely consi...
May 04, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Getting AI from Handy to Heartfelt - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #134 It's been three years since I started using AI tools in earnest. Over these three years, I've witnessed AI's remarkable leaps in capability — and grown increasingly aware of its limits. By now, AI ...
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ask.com, aka Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down after nearly 30 years online IAC has permanently discontinued Ask.com, officially closing the site as of May 1, 2026. A farewell message now appears on the Ask.com homepage, marking the end of a well-known web platform that se...
May 04, 2026 from It's FOSS A Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon Is Coming to the Netherlands on May 16 OS-SCi's Lomiri Tech Meeting includes keynotes, free books, and a new bounty program reveal.
May 04, 2026 from It's FOSS What Are Linux Mint HWE ISOs and Do You Actually Need One? These images ship with a newer kernel, and they exist for a good reason.
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KDE Plasma 6.7 will include background apps portal, sharper zoom upscaling, and much more KDE Plasma 6.7 has entered its soft feature freeze, meaning no newly-written features will be merged as developers focus on finishing features already in progress. This step clarifies the scope for...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday TagTinker Lets You Hack Electronic Shelf Labels Was there ever anything wrong with simple paper price labels? Absolutely not. And yet, the world invented the electronic price tag anyway. If you happen to come across some of …read more
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify is rolling out verified badges for artists to help distinguish real humans from AI Spotify is enhancing artist profile transparency with its new Verified by Spotify badge, which signals that an artist’s profile has been reviewed and meets the platform’s criteria for authenticity ...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday TDR For Auto Diagnostics Done On The Cheap A time domain reflectometer (TDR) is a useful tool to have for finding faults in a wiring harness. However, they don’t come cheap, putting them out of reach for many …read more
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.8 improves keyboard layout support, MSXML reimplementation, VBScript & Mono engine Wine 11.8 is now available, furthering its role as a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD. This latest release updates the built-in Mono engine to version 1...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday True-Spectrum Photography with Structural Color Although modern cameras can, with skill and good conditions, produce photographs nearly indistinguishable from the original scene, this fidelity relies on the limitations of human vision. According...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday ReactOS Gets Unified Installer Image and a New Storage Stack Although the ReactOS project is in no rush to dethrone Windows as the desktop operating system of choice, this doesn’t mean that some real changes aren’t happening. Most recently two …read more
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Anthropic launches Claude Security public beta for AI-powered code vulnerability detection Anthropic has launched Claude Security in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, bringing AI-powered vulnerability detection directly into production codebases without requiring custom toolin...
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AerynOS 2026.05 ships Linux 7.0, dual kernels, new desktop updates AerynOS 2026.05 arrives as the latest ISO snapshot of the independent Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS, moving the system to the Linux 7.0 kernel series for improved performance and ...
May 04, 2026 from Julia Evans Links to CSS colour palettes A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light...
May 03, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026 Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to …read more
