May 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple has started rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in iOS 26.5 in beta Apple has started rolling out end-to-end encrypted Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest vers...
May 12, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Bilder im Darkmode Bilder im Darkmode haben jetzt nur noch einen hellen Hintergrund, wenn sie ihn brauchen.
May 12, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more
May 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Venmo’s recent redesign improves payment privacy defaults and adds rewards-focused tabs Venmo is rolling out a major app redesign with a stronger focus on privacy, shopping rewards, and money management. The app now sets payment post visibility for new users to “friends” by default in...
May 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net JDownloader website hacked to serve malware via Windows and Linux installers JDownloader’s official website was breached and used to distribute malware through installer downloads for over a day before the issue was confirmed. Attackers exploited an unpatched website vulner...
May 12, 2026 from Hackaday The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday It’s a Water Clock, Jim, But Not as We Know It — It Has Digits Guess what time it is– that’s right, clock time! It’s always clock time, and when it’s clock time at Hackaday the weirder the better. So, how about a water clock …read more
May 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 May 2026 Plastic Memories Edition Top Story Valve's Steam Machine - the GabeCube - appears to be on its way. (Notebook Check) It's not going to be cheap thanks to the RAMpocalypse, but shipping manifests sh...
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday This Credit Card Computer Follows All Dimensions A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs...
May 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-11-26 I took an off-day from Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. I am busy today, but let us not let that stop us from our daily selection of links from around the web. 1, Putting the phone down: an Osmo Nano ...
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday Want Driving Simulator Feedback? Make The Robot Do It Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media. Specifically, using a humanoid robot to move a …read more
May 11, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Strengeres Clippy Ich habe mal ausprobiert, mehr Cargo-Clippy-Regeln zu aktivieren.
May 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net File archiver PeaZip 11.1 refines extraction menus, updates backends, and boosts security PeaZip 11.1 is now available, bringing a series of usability enhancements and technical updates to users of the open source file manager and archiver. Direct extraction functions within the file ma...
May 11, 2026 from It's FOSS In a Big Move to Linux Security, Debian Makes Reproducible Builds Mandatory Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch.
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s) When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …re...
May 11, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog CocoaPods Is on Its Way Out, but SwiftPM’s Story Is Just Entering Chapter Two - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #135 Google recently announced that, starting with the next Flutter stable release, version 3.44, Swift Package Manager will replace CocoaPods in the default workflow and become the default dependency m...
May 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Files 4.1 brings toolbar customization, revamped settings, easier tag editing, and more Files 4.1, the new release of the open-source file explorer for Windows, introduces several user-focused enhancements. Most notably, this version allows users to personalize the toolbar: you can no...
May 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Hyprland 0.55 adds Lua configs, user-defined layouts, improved scrolling, and ICC profiles Hyprland 0.55 marks a substantial shift for users of this dynamic Wayland compositor by moving its configuration system to Lua. While current hyprlang configuration files remain compatible for a fe...
May 11, 2026 from Hackaday Making Big Dry Ice Blocks With Low Pressure CO2 Although the term ‘dry ice’ is generally used for solid CO2, it’s much more accurate to call this ‘dry snow’, as, rather than being actual solid blocks, they are effectively …read more
