Jul 18, 2026 from It's FOSS Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read...
Jul 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026 Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register) Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, b...
Jul 18, 2026 from Jordi Villar Back to coffee I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I stopped seeing out of one eye for several minutes. It was terrifying the first ...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of o...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more
Jul 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger “Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost half of U.S. adults who live with high blood pressure. The new wearable is thicke...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google's NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, with expanded code execution & cross-app sync Google has renamed its AI research and note-taking tool, NotebookLM, to Gemini Notebook. This updated identity marks a shift toward deeper integration across the Google ecosystem. Gemini Notebook r...
Jul 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026 Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware) I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona ap...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Music platform Bandcamp adds artist-follow filtering and Subsonic API support in open beta Bandcamp has rolled out two notable updates to enhance how fans engage with music on its platform. The Discover results page now includes a filter that allows users to display only items from artis...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freezer packs. But still, we persevered long enough to …read more
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online There’s an interesting thing about retrocomputing — the moment that you realize your 25-year-old machine can do almost everything your average person uses a computer for. The problem is that the …r...
Jul 17, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 29/2026 Overall, a good but hectic week. I spent time planning for the next few months. Planning is my comfort zone. When things are planned, I sleep better. It doesn’t mean I can’t do unplanned things; I ...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Eurosky launches mu, a European microblogging app with new user features Eurosky has released mu, a microblogging application built and hosted in Europe on the AT Protocol ecosystem. Mu launches with features such as a user-customizable news feed, post editing, and a ne...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Vids adds Gemini Omni for text-based editing and personal avatars Google Vids is rolling out Gemini Omni, enabling users to generate and edit videos through natural language prompts. The new personal avatars feature allows users to appear in videos as a digital r...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net GitLab 19.2 brings Duo CLI, custom AI flows, and scheduled policies GA GitLab 19.2 is now available, introducing GitLab Duo CLI for direct terminal access to project-aware AI assistance and automations. The update also brings generally available custom AI-powered flow...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net tldraw releases free offline desktop app with scripting features tldraw has launched a free offline, file-based desktop application, letting users diagram and organize locally without accounts or servers. The new desktop app supports script execution and persist...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net LM Studio Bionic launches as new AI agent for open models LM Studio has introduced Bionic, a new application now in initial preview and designed as an AI agent for agentic work with open models. Users can choose between Work Projects for tasks like resear...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Home Assistant Matter Server 9.1.0 adds support for Matter 1.6.0 Home Assistant has released Matter Server 9.1.0, now supporting Matter 1.6.0. The update introduces automatic time synchronization for supported devices and enhanced Thread network diagnostics. Use...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bolt.new open sources Bolt Slides for dynamic, AI-powered presentations Bolt.new has open sourced Bolt Slides, letting any agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Bolt generate dynamic presentations. The platform supports features like interactive whiteboards, 3D walkthro...
