Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Supercon Ten Tickets on Sale Now Hackers, start your engines! We’re opening up ticket sales for our tenth, the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, to take place Nov 6-8 in Pasadena, CA. As always, because we haven’t announced …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Podman 6.1 introduces volume renaming, restart command, and robust bugfixes Podman 6.1 brings a new volume rename command and introduces a dedicated restart command for managed VMs. Automatic retries for manifest pushes and many critical bugfixes further enhance reliabilit...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Signal introduces Automatic Key Verification to detect suspicious encryption key swaps Signal is rolling out Automatic Key Verification, a new feature designed to enhance the security of end-to-end encrypted conversations. This addition automatically confirms that each user's phone n...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify to introduce AI Persona badges for artists with AI-generated identities Spotify has announced it will introduce an AI Persona badge for artist profiles that use AI-generated public identities. Starting in mid September 2026, artists can self-disclose AI personas throug...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Holograms, From Your Plotter When mass-printed holograms appeared on magazines in the 1980s they were a huge novelty, before degrading to the level of kids’ stickers in the years since. At the time they …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention There are plenty of stories about inventors who see a problem and decide they can do better. But Van Phillips had a little more motivation than most. The problem was …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.33: Mint Kernel, PDF Editing, VLC Drama, Omarchy Quattro and More Linux Stuff VLC got blamed for Microsoft's clumsiness.
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Omarchy Bets Its Future on AI Agents While the Linux World Stays Cautious While some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy's upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Hacking Fiber To The Home When we think about security threats, we generally imagine them coming from far away across the wider internet. But what if the connection between you and your ISP was the …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Smart Clock Helps With Medication Management There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes it’s easiest to just build your …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery? Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Brajeshwar 10x Is Easier Than 2x Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 expecting motivational arithmetic but got something of an argument about subtract...
Aug 13, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 20 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Aug 13, 2026 from Londogard Blog Hot Tub (Balboa) + Home Assistant + ESP32 (M5Stack) = <3 One day I asked a chatbot how easy it would be to make my Balboa hot tub smart. Apparently: quite easy. A quick search turned up an existing GitHub repository (shomanjk/esp32_balboa_spa) that contr...
Aug 13, 2026 from Londogard Blog Automate EV Charging using Home Assistant, EVCC, Easee and Sigenergy This spring my wife and I went ahead and bought a (used) EV, Skoda Enyaq iV80 2022. It’s not relevant for this blog but it’s a very nice car, and I do enjoy the EV “way”. With that said I found mys...
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Your Laptop Keyboard, On Another Device It’s likely many of us have been in the position of first set-up on a machine such as a Raspberry Pi, and had keyboard problems. Either no spare keyboard is …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 August 2026 Viverrid Browser Edition Top Story SK Hynix plans to expand its production in China by 50%. (Tom's Hardware) And it's gone. Tech News Gemini has reached a billion users. (Ars Technica) Rather in th...
