Sep 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 5 September 2026 Tongue Like An Electric Eel Edition Top Story Bob is back. (IBM) This time as an AI-assisted coding tool from IBM, rather than... Bob. Tech News I hope there's a certain amount of sibling rivalry b...
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Voicebox FX is a Blueprint for CircuitPython I2S Audio [Adafruit]’s Voicebox FX gadget is a fun, well-documented project that serves another useful purpose: being a fantastic reference design for audio on CircuitPython, with I2S audio components. Be su...
Sep 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google introduces AI voice features to Gmail, Docs and Keep powered by Gemini Audio models Google is bringing voice-powered AI to its core productivity apps with a suite of conversational features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep built on its Gemini Audio models. First previewed at the company'...
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday If at First You Don’t Succeed… … at least document what failed and give the failure analysis a good effort. And then later on, you can “try, try again” or let someone else carry on with …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Running Generative AI on an RP2350 Driven by a desire for privacy, customization, and lower costs, there’s growing interest in AI models which can be run on local hardware. Few of them go as far as …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from It's FOSS I Tried This Rust Tool, and It Immediately Made Bash Modern A Rust-powered Readline replacement that brings intelligent suggestions, fuzzy search, syntax highlighting and modern completion to Bash.
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Free Your Rotary Telephone From Its Wire It’s said that a teenager given a rotary telephone in 2026 would be mystified by its operation, yet there are enough surviving instruments for them to be an attractive target …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from Thejesh GN Loading Indian Maps on a Garmin Forerunner 965 The primary reason I bought this watch was the ability to display and navigate using proper offline maps. Garmin doesn’t have maps for India. But the OpenStreetMaps community has maps that can be l...
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday COSMAC Elf Turns 50 If you were interested in computers in the early 1970s, you struggled to get time on real computers since owning your own was all but impossible. In the middle of …read more
Sep 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net TikTok introduces voice comments, polls, and new photo formats in comment system update TikTok is expanding its comment system with four new formats: Voice Comments, Comment Polls, Photo Carousel Comments, and Live Photo Comments, with two available globally now and the other two roll...
Sep 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic skills and tighter cyber safeguards OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra, its new frontier model released less than two months after GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, calling it its most capable and aligned model to date, with OpenAI's pres...
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Parchment Paper Paired With 3D-Printed Grid Gives a Nice Glow This custom enclosure for a 64×64 RGB LED matrix by [Davisan1001] not only provides a mount point for a Raspberry Pi, but presents a clean and smooth face with square …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing an Expensive Seagate LaCie Hard Drive Array After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Pole Balance Itself With Propellers A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 September 2026 Tigana Edition Top Story Bernie Sanders (Stalinist-Vt.) is calling for a ban on AI superintelligence, having spent his life erasing the regular kind. (The Hill) Fortunately AI doesn't yet reach the...
Sep 04, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 36/2026 It’s been a good week and a busy one too. I have started contributing to Pucar as a technologist. I will blog more once I settle down. It’s been a busy week, and it looks like September is going to...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk New Design for Sept 2026 I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (brutalist and using a monospace font) yet different. I abandoned the yellow accent...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling Passive evaporative cooling has been used for centuries to reduce temperatures. Heat is drawn off as water evaporates, which in turn reduces temperature. The more efficiently this process happens t...
