Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 42/2026 It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ubuntu 26.10 is here with Linux 7.3 kernel, GNOME 51, Rust coreutils & Myna speech-to-text Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 26.10, code-named “Stonking Stingray”, is now available for download and installation. The company framed the release as one that both consolidates earlier groun...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Braino! Takes the Cheap Yellow Display to School These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Sync-in 2.6 brings draw.io integration, a redesigned image viewer and unified search modes Sync-in has released version 2.6 of its collaborative platform, headlined by the integration of draw.io, the popular open-source diagram editor. According to the company's official announcement, th...
Oct 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 October 2026 Prewhining Edition Top Story Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about. Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028. Or later. It flies. (Business Insider) ...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Critical DNS Keys Rotated, Hacking Freezers Isn’t Cool, OpenAI Spies On Itself, and Advanced Hardware Wallet Hacks Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second …rea...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AliasVault 0.31 brings faster vault synchronization and vault sharing with family members AliasVault has released version 0.31, capping roughly four months of development with what the project describes as its “long-awaited major vault data model update”. According to the official annou...
Oct 16, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-10-16 13:51: The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing. If you... The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing. If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product? Thanks for reading t...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net You can now invite anyone to join a WhatsApp call, whether they have an account or not In a move that significantly expands accessibility, Meta has announced the launch of WhatsApp guest calling, allowing users to invite anyone to participate in WhatsApp voice and video calls regardl...
Oct 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Disposing of PLA and Why Composting is Not an Option The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Fastmail enhances its calendar with a new world clock feature for time zone coordination Fastmail has rolled out what it describes as “a big update” to its calendar, headlined by a new world clock feature aimed at users who coordinate across time zones. In a post on the company's blog,...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Running DOOM (Sort Of) on a Sonoff Smart Switch It’s often said in this community that DOOM can be made to run on anything, and as time goes on, that’s becoming more and more accurate. We’re at the point …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Epic Games introduces new vibe coded launcher and confirms Fortnite is coming to Linux Epic Games has announced a major overhaul of its anti-cheat infrastructure for Linux with the introduction of Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) Linux V2. While EAC has supported native Linux game clients since...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenCode 2.0 officially launches with background agents, Code Mode, and a rebuilt API The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode has officially launched version 2.0, about three months after its public beta began. The update introduces a shared local background service that connects i...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Another Wireless Chip has a Hidden SDR Revealed The news of the past couple of weeks has seen the ESP32 turned into an software-defined radio (SDR) thanks to a hidden baseband mode, an exciting development by anyone’s standards. …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Libreboot 26.10 adopts UEFI and adds Chromebook support Libreboot 26.10, codenamed Ominous Olive, introduces full UEFI support by making MrChromebox EDK2 the default boot payload on most supported 64-bit systems, replacing its previous reliance on GRUB ...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net YouTube Music adds Made with AI labels to generated music tracks YouTube Music is introducing a new “Made with AI” label for music tracks that were substantially altered or fully generated using generative AI. The label focuses on songs where AI played a signifi...
