Oct 08, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Best Rolling Release Linux Distros for Every Kind of User “Every Ubuntu or Fedora user eventually hits the same wall. The six-month update cycle stops feeling exciting and starts feeling like a chore, or worse, a two-year LTS jump breaks half your configu...
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday Lead a Discord Exodus with a Matrix Server The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the nature of algorithms or the people themselves to always be …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net MusicBrainz Picard 3.0 brings new plugin system, Apple Silicon support and UI enhancements MetaBrainz has officially announced the release of MusicBrainz Picard 3.0, the latest major version of the popular open-source music tagger that syncs local files with data from the MusicBrainz dat...
Oct 08, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative “The Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 cloud migration in favour of services hosted on infrastructure it controls, alongside European open source al...
Oct 08, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Voicebox can clone your voice from a few seconds of audio on your own PC “Voicebox is an open-source and free-to-use voice studio created by Jamie Pine, who is the founder of Spacedrive Technology Inc. It is distributed under the MIT license, pitched as a local replacem...
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday The World’s Smallest TV Console Plays DOOM We’ve seen plenty of game console projects here, many of them that seek to produce a miniature game console. But this one from [RayTriangle] may break a new barrier entirely …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Next.js 16.4 boosts performance with Turbopack optimizations and React 19.3 integration Next.js has released version 16.4, delivering significant performance improvements through enhanced Turbopack optimizations and full integration with React 19.3. The update introduces shorter CSS M...
Oct 08, 2026 from It's FOSS Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Claude now integrates with Google Workspace to edit your Google Docs, Sheets & Slides docs Anthropic has announced that its AI assistant Claude is now available directly within Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, marking a significant expansion of the company's enterprise offerings. The new...
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper Retrocomputing is more than just hardware. It’s also a feel, a vibe, and [valkyrie0528]’s Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper has it in spades. Here’s how it happened. The gorgeous device …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday Solve Your TTL Video Woes With An RP2350 Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32 As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Eichhörnchenangriff Mr. Nutterbutter ist eine Fernkampfwaffe.
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday Repairing a Couple of Very Expensive Registered DDR5 RAM Sticks It’s definitely a sign of the times when repair shops get handed sticks of registered ECC DDR5 RAM by businesses to try and fix, rather than just tossing the defective …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily Tech News 7 October 2026 Girl With The Gat Edition Top Story French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC) At 1 trillion parameters i...
Oct 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 7 October 2026 Girl With The Gat Edition Top Story French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC) At 1 trillion parameters i...
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ubuntu 26.10 delivers security updates with TPM-backed encryption, OpenSSL 4.0 & Linux 7.3 Canonical recently announced the beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray”, featuring one of its most extensive security upgrades to date, anchored by a migration to Linux kernel 7.3 and Ope...
Oct 07, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by Berkeley residents in the 1980s. Since residents posted messages through publicly...
