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...
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net addy.io overhauls mobile apps with system search integration, smaller app size, and more Privacy-focused email alias service addy.io has launched comprehensive updates for its mobile applications, introducing iOS v2.7 and Android v6.6 following extensive ground-up rewrites of both code...
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday ESP32 As Your Raspberri Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday ESP32 As Your Raspberry Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog AI-Friendly Frameworks: As Abstraction Moves Up, How Can Verification Keep Pace? As AI coding becomes widespread, more and more developers lean toward one view: imperative frameworks like UIKit may suit coding agents better than SwiftUI. The reasoning is intuitive. UIKit's logi...
Oct 07, 2026 from It's FOSS Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V.
Oct 07, 2026 from Kev Quirk My Hobby Is Learning I've had lots of hobbies over the years. To name a few off the top of my head, there's been fish keeping, guitar, harmonica, fountain pens, watches, motorbikes, this blog, web development, 3D print...
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Obsidian 1.14 adds external Markdown file opening, kanban view, highlight colors, and more Obsidian has officially released version 1.14, introducing several major improvements that expand how users interact with Markdown files beyond traditional vault boundaries. The headline addition a...
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday Don’t Try this At Home, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Edition Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of those things that seems too wacky to be true. Depression not responding to treatment? Let’s smack you upside the head with strong magnetic fields! …read ...
Oct 07, 2026 from It's FOSS Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Nuxt 4.6 arrives with major server-agnostic architecture shift, Vue Vapor support & CLI v4 Nuxt has officially released version 4.6, marking one of its most substantial minor releases to date with over 420 commits since v4.5.2. The update represents the framework's first significant stri...
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Polars 2.0 makes streaming and disk spilling the default Polars introduces version 2.0 that uses its streaming engine by default when collecting a LazyFrame, with spill-to-disk execution enabled for supported operations. The release expands first-class S...
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gleam 1.19 uses Erlang abstract forms for faster builds Gleam 1.19 now generates Erlang abstract forms rather than Erlang source, skipping the front end of the Erlang compiler and improving build times. The change also records runtime location metadata ...
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday The Commodore 64 Keyboard Font, For Everyone There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for …read more
Oct 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mistral unveils Mistral Large 4 “Le Chonk”, a new frontier in open-weight AI models French AI company Mistral has officially announced the public preview of its latest model, Mistral Large 4, affectionately dubbed “Le Chonk”. The new model represents a significant leap forward in ...
Oct 07, 2026 from The Autodidacts TIL how to deeplink all the things I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage. I even knew, vaguely, that you could link to page...
Oct 07, 2026 from Hackaday Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship is Supposed To Be On Fire We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more
