Oct 31, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 31 October 2026 Ween Edition Top Story Binance was hacked by thieves who made off-ish with $6.3 billion. (Bleeping Computer) I say "ish" for two reasons: First, half the funds were immediately frozen and cannot be...
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with Fire They may not deliver the highest efficiency, but absorption refrigerators have earned a persistent place in camper vans and industrial plants thanks to a few distinct advantages: they can operate …...
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday Novelty Camera To USB Camera The Godox C100 is a cheap camera that’s best described as a toy, its party trick being a large clear viewfinder with a head-up-display light meter. It’s by no means …read more
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday VR Headset Ditches the Base Stations with DIY Tracking Those in the virtual reality scene might be interested in [Prohurtz]’s add-on for the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset. BSB-SLAM adds SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) tracking to the headset...
Oct 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Webmaster PSA: RSSingBot I encourage people to follow this site and The New Leaf Journal via feed. But while I welcome feed readers, I do not welcome bots and scrapers that fetch my feeds for the purpose of effectively re-...
Oct 31, 2026 from MacBorn Haptiker Turns Your Mac Trackpad Edges Into Controls The regular MacBook brightness controls often leave my screen too dark or too bright, so I tried adjusting it from the trackpad with Haptiker.
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday A 1982 Modem for $100 [Dave Farquhar] takes a walk down memory lane about the Commodore 1600 VICModem, perhaps the first phone modem to sell for less than $100. Commodore, of course, was famous for …read more
Oct 30, 2026 from GadgeteerZA SafeRoute SA shows crime hotspots across all of South Africa and plans driving routes that steer around them SafeRoute SA shows crime hotspots across all of South Africa as a heat map and plans driving routes that steer around them, from a trip across Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria or Gqeberha ...
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More Valves When it comes to internal combustion engines (ICEs), it’s generally accepted that each cylinder doesn’t have more valves to let in a fresh fuel mixture and to exhaust the aftermath …read more
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday A Modern Smalltalk In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, and it hasn’t spread as well as some others. But it …read more
Oct 30, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google is giving developers a platform to build and manage apps for Search and Gemini Google has announced the preview launch of its Connected Apps Platform, a unified system that lets third-party developers build a single integration and distribute it across both Google Search and ...
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 393: Epaper, Tamagotchi Hacks, and Supercon Talks Galore This week’s podcast comes from Europe, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, who wishes to apologies for the poor sound quality from her headset microphone. The news this …read more
Oct 30, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini adds in-chat file creation, preview and direct editing Gemini can now generate, preview and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, code and other files directly in chat. Users can open files in full screen for manual edits, highlight sectio...
Oct 30, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Substack lists let readers build and save creator feeds Substack has launched shareable lists for grouping writers, podcasters, and publishers. Each list includes a chronological Activity feed with the latest posts and Notes from featured creators, incl...
Oct 30, 2026 from Kev Quirk SocialSpec Seems...Pointless I've seen a few people talking about SocialSpec which claims that "the future of social media is websites". Something I strongly agree with. However, I don't see the point of this fledgling spec on...
Oct 30, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 44/2026 I might have injured myself slightly. I had a bit of a shoulder and lat muscle sprain. So I took this week slow. I did one simple P.T. and otherwise walked around. Over the week, the pain has not r...
Oct 30, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tor Browser 16.0 arrives with native support for Linux on ARM and generic window titles The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 16.0, marking a significant milestone in the privacy-focused browser's evolution. The new version builds upon Firefox ESR 153.4, incorporating critical secu...
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday How Britain Narrowly Escaped a Grid Blackout in June 2026 Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this summer. On June 23rd, the grid frequency dropped to 49.657 …read more
Oct 30, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google expands AI Mode advertising to 10 new markets amid search evolution Google has announced that it is rolling out advertisements in AI Mode across ten new countries in Google Search, marking a significant expansion of monetization within its generative search experie...
Oct 30, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping, and a DHS Directory Dump Last week brought us at least two broken embargoes: php2shell leaked onto Hacker News a day early, and a batch of Linux kernel bugs landed on the public kernel mailing …read more
