Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches Astra for Law with 230M source search and legal tool integrations OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a legal focused version of GPT-6 Astra for research, analysis and drafting. It combines the model with a dedicated legal search index covering more than 230 milli...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Building a DIY Centrifuge For Blood Processing If you want to do certain types of lab work with blood, you’ll need a centrifuge. It’s often possible to find serviceable units on the used market, but they may …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from It's FOSS Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI Mistral Small 4 is the latest in Smart Window's model lineup, available for users in France, Canada, and the US.
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Surveillance Camera Security? It’s Completely Flocked! Surveillance cameras from Flock Safety have become a controversial privacy battleground, as the communities in which they are installed wake up to their sinister potential, and stories roll in of …...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cap launches v0.6 with a rebuilt video editor, 3D scenes and a native desktop app Cap v0.6 is Cap’s largest release to date, expanding the app beyond screen recording with a rebuilt editor and more complete video editing tools. The release introduces a redesigned timeline, crop ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Ethan Hawksley's Blog I don't like passkeys The underlying technology is good, but the implementation isn't there yet
Sep 17, 2026 from Hackaday Your CYD Is Now A Telly The Cheap Yellow Display is an all-in-one ESP32 board with a touchscreen, that’s as the name suggests, cheap. It’s appeared in a great many projects since it emerged from the …read more
Sep 17, 2026 from Hackaday Keep Your Back Cool While Others Melt With an El Niño event in full swing those of us in the northern hemisphere have just had a roasting hot summer, and those in the southern are about to …read more
Sep 17, 2026 from Hackaday Why Wave Energy is the Final Frontier of Renewable Energy With the Earth’s atmosphere being effectively just a less dense fluid than the oceans around us, it’s reasonable to ask why we got wind turbines and wind mills quite literally …read more
Sep 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 September 2026 Cold And Dead Edition Top Story We narrowed down where Salesforce has been spending on the order of $400 million per year on AI: Either somewhere other than their login server, or on their login se...
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Pale Moon 35 targets modern site compatibility with shims Pale Moon 35.0.0 adds default compatibility shims and polyfills for modern web APIs, alongside CSS :has(), adoptedStyleSheets, CSSStyleSheet.replaceSync, and revert-layer support. It also updates F...
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Brave for Android v1.95 adds dynamic color support Brave for Android v1.95 adds optional dynamic colors, allowing the browser theme to match the device's color palette. The setting is available under Settings, Appearance, then Dynamic colors. The r...
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net NumeRe 1.1.8 RC adds bit functions and TLS validation NumeRe 1.1.8.2609, the Chamberlain release candidate, adds bit-level functions including bitand(), bitor(), bitxor(), bitnot(), bitshift(), bitmask(), and bitcast(). The url and mail functions now ...
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ente Locker brings in-app paper scanning with encrypted PDFs Ente Locker now lets users scan paper documents in the app, review multi-page captures, and save them as a single PDF in a selected collection. The scanner detects page edges and captures pages aut...
Sep 17, 2026 from Hackaday Eye-D Badge Catches Your Attention Head out to your next corporate conference, and you’ll probably be handed a little paper badge in a plastic holder so people can learn what to call you (or whether …read more
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Java 27 brings major post-quantum security leap, G1 garbage collector by default, and more Oracle has released Java 27, marking a significant milestone in the programming language's security infrastructure with enhanced post-quantum cryptography (PQC) capabilities. The latest version int...
Sep 17, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog From pbxproj to xcproj: Xcode Project Configuration Gets a JSON Format Apple has released the 27.2 beta. Although the iPhone Duo simulator is still missing, the new `project.xcproj` is quite eye-catching. It replaces the `project.pbxproj` build graph inside the `.xcod...
Sep 17, 2026 from Hackaday FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by …read...
Sep 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Notion rolls out v3.7 with team-wide AI agent skills, nested agent calls & Agents iOS app Notion has released version 3.7, introducing a suite of AI-focused updates headlined by a new agent skills' feature designed to let teams capture and share their AI know-how. Skills are reusable in...
Sep 17, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for Linux and More Latest assortment of Linux news and tips. Stay updated with FOSS Weekly.
