Nov 09, 2026 from Hackaday Determining Location by Listening for Airplanes Beyond what people deliberately disclose, there’s a surprising amount of information hidden in everyday messages, especially photos and videos. Even when people try to hide the location or time at ...
Nov 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mullvad Browser 16.0 brings generic window titles, Quad9 DNS, and Linux on ARM support Mullvad has released version 16.0 of its privacy-focused web browser, marking the first build based on Firefox ESR 153 and Tor Browser 16.0. As with every annual ESR transition, the update rolls in...
Nov 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second clips and lower pricing Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available through the Gemini API and Google Cloud, increasing the maximum duration of a single video generation from 10 to 15 seconds. Its predecesso...
Nov 09, 2026 from Hackaday A Smart Alarm Clock That Doesn’t Sell Your Soul Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos in addition to telling you what time …read more
Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Open Source Tools Behind ECS Neil Brown is an English lawyer who runs his firm on free software. He recently shared the software that follows his law practice (see blog post). This humble website is also (mostly) powered by fr... Bookmark
Nov 09, 2026 from Hackaday Saving a Vintage High-Voltage Power Supply From the Scrap Heap [Mr Carlson’s Lab] saves a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap, and demonstrates carefully troubleshooting the vintage device to track the cause of the bad output …read more
Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Random Endpoint Coming in WordPress 7.2 WordPress 7.2 will come with a “random” endpoint (see WordPress post). The feature, which will be enabled by default, will create random redirects for individual posts (it can also be limited by ca...
Nov 09, 2026 from Hackaday Space Invaders on a VFD When most people think of vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs), they probably imagine the clock on a microwave or the equalizer on a piece of stereo equipment. But there was a …read more
Nov 08, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog On sovereign AI Although AI has become a very mainstream topic in the last three years, the concept of sovereign AI has not reached the mainstream yet. The problem isn’t only its low profile, but also that it is o...
Nov 08, 2026 from Hackaday Lillith Tells Your Future Maybe you are old enough to remember Zoltar in an arcade, or perhaps you’re just a fan of the movie Big. Either way, maybe you’d like to build an animated fortune …read more
Nov 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 8 November 2026 Sixth Edition Top Story AMD's Zen 6 cores aren't quite here yet but benchmarks of engineering samples are leaking out and it looks like what we hoped to see with Zen 5. (WCCFTech) Compared with a 1...
Nov 08, 2026 from Hackaday Custom Game Boy Cart Speeds Up Development These days, it is easy enough to get a flash cart for your Game Boy that makes it easy to run code — yours or otherwise — on it, but …read more
Nov 08, 2026 from Hackaday An FPGA Version of the AT&T UNIX PC for MiSTer We all have our childhood heroes, which in the case of [Hrvoje Cavrak] was the 1985 AT&T UNIX PC. This 18 kg behemoth of a workstation computer boasted a 10 MHz …read more
Nov 08, 2026 from It's FOSS Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code Every Asahi Linux repository is moving to GPL v2 or later, after bad actors lifted unreleased code and ran it through LLMs to hide where it came from.
Nov 08, 2026 from Kev Quirk Does Money Buy Happiness? Does Money Buy Happiness?by Tuesdays ChildTuesdays Child talks about how they think money = happiness. It's an interesting debate with people on both sides of the fence.Read post ➡ I found this pos...
Nov 08, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Irreführende Werbung für Emojis Das Igel-Emoji wird als Gürteltier-Emoji beworben.
Nov 08, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Dog Car Wash Without (very) Fancy Tools [Stuff Made Here] got fed up with the hassle of washing their dog, and in traditional engineer fashion, decided that automating the process would solve the problem. However, as science …read more
Nov 08, 2026 from It's FOSS Hate Chromium? Well, There’s a Linux Desktop Based on it Now Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option.
Nov 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social RSS Used in a Non-tech Quip On March 5, 2026, City Journal published an entertaining and thoughtful essay by Ilya Shapiro titled Two Decades in the Swamp. I recommend the essay as a general matter, but here we will focus on j...
Nov 08, 2026 from Hackaday Artemis II Rocket Was Powerful Enough to Disrupt GPS Rockets certainly have a substantial impact if you ever see a launch in person. The noise, shock waves, and even heat can be awe-inspiring. What is less obvious are the …read more
