Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday EU Adds Exemptions to User-Serviceable Batteries Rules Built-in batteries put a timebomb inside devices, with especially the calendar aging feature of Li-ion chemistries setting a hard limit on when you’ll have to toss the device or figure …read more
Jul 17, 2026 from It's FOSS 15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes Don't miss! Pay tiny amount for a Git-to-Kubernetes Linux library of DRM-free eBooks, with part of the purchase going to Code for America.
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Blackmagic Camera 3.4 for Android adds 4K HDMI output with audio & Wear OS camera control Blackmagic Design has released version 3.4 of the Blackmagic Camera app for Android, delivering its digital film camera controls and proprietary image processing to mobile filmmakers. The latest up...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday Wireless LCD Streaming for the ANENG AN870 Multimeter Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful, but unless the device exposes something like SCPI on a network interface, …rea...
Jul 17, 2026 from It's FOSS X (Formerly Twitter) is Going Open Source A look at his latest announcement, plus what's actually shipped so far and what's still missing.
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net xAI has open-sourced Grok Build after backlash over secretly uploading users’ repositories xAI has released the full source code of Grok Build, its AI coding agent, after Cereblab researchers found that the tool was uploading users’ entire Git repositories to company controlled Google Cl...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Hack revealed AI music platform Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer & more Apparently, the popular AI music platform Suno was hacked in November 2025 through a supply chain attack that exposed an employee’s credentials, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker all...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Forgejo 16.0 adds SSRF protection, granular notifications, and refined review tools Forgejo v16.0 has been launched with security, workflow, and collaboration improvements for the self hosted code platform. Git mirrors now have stronger protection against server side request forge...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across …read more
Jul 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the “Around the Web” secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some “ne...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read...
Jul 17, 2026 from Julia Evans Learning a few things about running SQLite Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts ...
Jul 16, 2026 from Hackaday A USB Port by Any Other Color… [Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that …read more
Jul 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Vivaldi 8.1 launches with more customization features and more options for Android users Vivaldi has released version 8.1 of its web browser for both Android and iOS users, following last week’s desktop update. This update introduces a range of enhancements, with Android users receivin...
Jul 16, 2026 from Hackaday Bad Apple on a Karaoke Machine CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and mostly song lyrics into the otherwise empty space on a …read more
Jul 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 July 2026 Disclaimer-Free Edition Top Story The latest scandal of a fatal failure of Tesla's FSD (full self-driving) system turns out to have been another case of PTTMCDISEH-STTW. (Tech Crunch) Pedal-to-the-...
Jul 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Internetprovidervertreterscam Ein angeblicher Telekomtechniker hat heute an meiner Haustür geklingelt und unter Vorspielung falscher Tatsachen versucht, mit einen Vertrag zu verkaufen.
Jul 16, 2026 from Hackaday Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like plants in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more
Jul 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data The 0.14 beta adds many new upgrades. Stick around until the end for a quick hands-on!
Jul 16, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-07-16 17:05: Anyone using Pop!OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I... Anyone using Pop!_OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I looks like they've done a lot of dev work to it and it's improving all the time. Considering installing it again... Th...
