Posts tagged "tech"

Cursor 3 launches unified multi-repo workspace for building software with AI agents

Cursor 3, the latest release of the AI-native development environment, delivers a unified workspace designed for building software with AI agents. The new multi-repo interface enables humans and ag...

Cleaning an IBM 5150, And The Perfect Period PCB Soldermask

Now that early PCs have moved firmly from the realm of e-waste into being collector’s items, it’s worth putting in some effort to restore them if you find one. [Epictronics] …read more

05 April, 2026

It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world isn’t it? Yes. However, it's not the device itself, and not the base functionali...

Making sense of Codebase

Tracking Parts Box Usage With Stickers

Many of us are guilty of toeing the line between having a ready supply of components at hand and simply hoarding for fear of throwing anything out. In a first …read more

Can Free VPN and AI Save Firefox From Decline?

Mozilla is betting on free VPN and AI to revive Firefox browser. Can this bold strategy bring users back or is it too late already?

U.S. Special Operations Forces Rescue Air Force Officer

We welcome Easter with the remarkable news that U.S. Special Operations forces successfully extracted the second airman (a Colonel, according to President Trump) who had been shot down over Iran on...

Inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn (NLJ Link)

We are just about one hour away (EST) from Easter Sunday (as I write this). For a pre-Easter article, I shared a photo I took of an inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront ...

The Smallest Dialup ISP is a Raspberry Pi and a Prison Phone

There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many cities would have more than one. Some of those have …read more

Research should be allowed to kill the post

Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...

Exposing a Radiation-Hardened 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Receiver to 500 Kilograys

From outer space to down here on Earth, there are many places where ionizing radiation levels are high enough that they effectively bar access for humans, but also make life …read more

Winkekatze24: Seite und Favicon

Wie schwierig kann es sein, sich auf ein Favicon zu einigen?

The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses

I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City’s ...

Scrap Vintage Camera Goes Digital with Scanner Parts

Every collector ends up with items that are worthless, usually because they are broken or incomplete. When [Graindead] found a 1920s glass-plate reflex camera for pennies with plenty of missing …re...

Turn paper hiking maps into real-time GPS guides with Matchy Maps

“Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the real world—wh...

Visual Studio Code 1.114 adds video in carousel, semantic code search, and TypeScript 6.0

Visual Studio Code 1.114 introduces video playback in the image carousel, enabling users to view and control video files from chat attachments and the Explorer context menu. The #codebase tool now ...

Tumbleweed updates: new Plasma 6.6 fixes, kernel CVE patches, and Mesa GPU improvements

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed delivered three sequential Plasma 6.6 updates with numerous bug and stability fixes across KWin, Spectacle, the system tray, and Kicker. The Linux kernel advanced from 6.19.5 to...

KaOS ISO drops systemd-boot for Limine, ships Niri/Noctalia desktop

KaOS's latest ISO removes systemd-boot and mkinitcpio, adopting Dracut for initramfs and Limine as the default bootloader, marking a substantial backend transition. The release replaces the traditi...

Daily News Stuff 4 April 2026

Plasmotoxosis Edition Top Story Half of planned US datacenter builds have been delayed or canceled. (Tom's Hardware) Unfortunately this does not represent a collapse in the AI industry - not yet, a...

Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk “Laptop”

For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a “cyberdeck”, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such — he calls it a laptop. …read more