Oct 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026 Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago. (MSN) PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level sin...
Oct 12, 2026 from It's FOSS Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code His eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file.
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SpeedCrunch 1.0 launches with multi-tab workspaces, advanced math functions, and more After years of incremental development, the open-source calculator application SpeedCrunch has officially reached version 1.0, marking its arrival as a fully-featured scientific computing tool. The...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday DARPA Lift Challenge Won by Helicopter America’s mad scientists all have one dream: DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push the envelope on any number …r...
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ventoy 1.1.18 brings experimental support for SteamOS recovery images & other enhancements Ventoy has released version 1.1.18 of its popular multiboot USB tool, introducing experimental support for SteamOS recovery images alongside a suite of stability improvements. The update addresses ...
Oct 12, 2026 from It's FOSS openEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI Toolchain AI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community's pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top.
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday Your Computer Memory is a Lie When you first learn to program, memory seems pretty straightforward. You have a bunch of bytes, each with an address. If you want to read or write something, you specify …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog When Build in Public Goes Back Underground - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #157 Over the past few months, the community has seen a growing number of cases where AI is used to quickly reverse-engineer commercial products or create pixel-perfect replicas of popular apps. With en...
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bevy 0.20 brings major rendering, shading, and UI enhancements to open-source game engine Bevy 0.20 has officially launched, marking a significant milestone for the Rust-based game engine with sweeping improvements across rendering, scene composition, and user interface capabilities. Th...
Oct 12, 2026 from It's FOSS Linux May Get a New Home for AI Agent Skills A proposed agents directory would hold skills and other resources for coding assistants, starting with one that finds the commit behind a bug.
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bootstrap returns with version 6 Alpha, bringing ground-up modernization of the framework After years of relative silence, the iconic front-end framework Bootstrap has returned with the release of its first alpha version 6.0. Bootstrap 6 represents a major overhaul to one of the most wi...
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PhotoFlare 1.7.5 adds ARM packages and macOS fixes PhotoFlare 1.7.5 adds ARM support for Linux .deb packages and fixes macOS crashes triggered by certain filters, while improving installer dependency bundling. The release also adds Polish translati...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday Backup Tapes Come Back to the Homelab It’s one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage. A while back [Ben Pettis] recounted his …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Calibre 9.16 adds Kokoro voices for read aloud, Camoufox integration & updated Kobo driver In its latest update, Calibre has rolled out version 9.16, introducing significant enhancements to audio accessibility and web scraping capabilities that address longstanding user demands. The head...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday A Free Cloud AI If you would like an AI “personal agent” but don’t want your data on some opaque cloud computer, there’s a new option that appears to be somewhat nicer: [rociiu] has …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Python 3.15 is here with faster JIT compiler, explicit lazy imports, and UTF-8 by default The Python Software Foundation has officially released Python 3.15, marking one of the most significant updates to the programming language in recent years. The new version introduces a suite of pe...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday DECing Out the Homelab with an AlphaServer 2100 Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is that we’re nerds who want …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from Thejesh GN 46 It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I haven’t crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life, ...
Oct 12, 2026 from Hackaday Taking A Nokia 3310 Game Jam To The N’th Degree Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, usually a weekend. [Hoani] entered one …read more
Oct 12, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog Training a Chess Reasoning Agent TLDR: I trained an LLM reasoning agent to play chess, with model sizes 0.8B, 3B and 9B. The agent calls tools which help it keep track of the board state, which enables good performance with a rela...
