May 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 May 2026 Booblegook Edition Top Story Google's Googlebook is the company's answer to Google's Chromebook. (Tom's Hardware) It's a laptop running Android. Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook...
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday Y-zipper: 3D Printing Flexible–Rigid Transition Mechanism for Rapid and Reversible Assembly Along with Velcro, zippers have become an integral part of every day life, being a quick and easy way to usually temporarily join fabric together. Which isn’t to say that …read more
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bartender Pro expands beyond the menu bar with notch widgets, activities & music controls Bartender Pro, the newly launched premium version of the Bartender app for macOS, introduces a set of features for users seeking expanded control. Building on the original app’s focus on keeping th...
May 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As A Super Hardened Linux Distro Fedora Hummingbird ships the entire OS as a bootable OCI image with atomic updates and rollback support.
May 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch A proposed scheduler update shows frame time improvements on aging hardware under heavy CPU load.
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday Measure the Earth’s Rotation Victorian Style You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon Foucault and shows how the Earth rotates compared to a pendulum moving …...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Krea 2 launches with advanced style transfer and creative controls for AI image generation Krea 2 debuts as the latest major update to this comprehensive creative AI suite, allowing users to generate, refine, and edit images, videos, and 3D meshes. Developed from scratch, Krea 2 represen...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Telegram brings guest bots, custom AI styles, chat automation, and expanded emoji search Telegram’s latest update delivers expanded AI integration, automation, and several usability improvements. AI assistants and other bots can now be mentioned in any chat, regardless of membership, a...
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday VTech Toy Becomes PinkPad, the DIY Linux Laptop Originally envisioned as a simple DIY laptop project, [kati]’s PinkPad V1 ended up being considerably more involved than expected. But the end result is a perfectly usable, stunningly pink, and …re...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify launches 'Your Party of the Year(s)' recap with your full listening history Spotify has introduced “Your Party of the Year(s),” a limited-time feature launched as part of the platform’s 20th anniversary celebrations, giving users a recap of their entire listening history s...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net scrcpy 4.0 brings SDL3 support, dynamic aspect ratio, enhanced camera controls, and more scrcpy 4.0 introduces a series of user-focused enhancements, starting with the migration from Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 (SDL2) to SDL3. This switch brings the benefit of ongoing maintenance and un...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google launches Android 17 with AI agents, doomscrolling controls and better creator tools Google has launched Android 17, the latest version of its mobile operating system, with updates across digital wellbeing, content creation, cross-platform sharing, Android Auto, security, and devic...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google launches Gemini Intelligence, bringing agentic AI automation to Android phones Google has announced Gemini Intelligence, a new set of AI features designed to bring full agentic automation to Android phones. The system can handle complex, multistep tasks across apps, including...
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SideNotes improves Markdown editor, note folding & pinning, and more for macOS & iOS users Apptorium has released SideNotes 1.6 for macOS, bringing a range of new features and usability improvements to this note-taking app that lives on the edge of your screen. Users can now fold notes t...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ForkLift 4.6.2 resolves macOS Sequoia icon issues and improves checksum features ForkLift 4.6.2 disables the new Preview API on macOS Sequoia to fix icon preview issues, improving stability for users on that system. The update also enhances the Checksum Window by allowing multi...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net opera-browser-cli launches for local command-line control of Opera Neon Opera has released opera-browser-cli, a command-line interface that allows local users and AI agents to control Opera Neon browsers through 38 available commands. The tool provides extensive automa...
May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tailwind CSS v4.3: scrollbar utilities, new colors, and faster webpack support Tailwind CSS v4.3 introduces new utilities for styling scrollbars, containers, tab widths, and zoom, simplifying cross-browser compatibility. Additionally, four new neutral-adjacent color palettes,...
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Truth about the Hindenberg The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster …read...
May 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …r...
