Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Nitrux debuts a new Workspace Environment framework with new modular UI components Nitrux has introduced "The Workspace Environment", a new user framework positioned between traditional window managers and desktop environments. This new interface model relies on first-party QML c...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Manjaro 26.1 'Bian-May' released via Stable update with Linux kernel 7.1 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Manjaro Linux has finalized the software stack for version 26.1 “Bian-May” with its latest Stable branch update. Existing Stable users can move to the new 26.1 package state through a regular full ...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Proxmox VE launches official Arm64 support with full feature parity and NVIDIA Grace Proxmox Server Solutions has introduced the first officially supported Arm64 edition of Proxmox Virtual Environment, expanding the platform beyond x86-64 architectures. Available since August 5, 20...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mistral launches open multimodal safety model Shieldstral with adaptable moderation Last week, French AI company Mistral introduced Shieldstral, a 3 billion parameter open weight multimodal safety classifier for content moderation, released under the Apache 2.0 license with model ...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26 I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The ...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Supercon Ten Tickets on Sale Now Hackers, start your engines! We’re opening up ticket sales for our tenth, the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, to take place Nov 6-8 in Pasadena, CA. As always, because we haven’t announced …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Podman 6.1 introduces volume renaming, restart command, and robust bugfixes Podman 6.1 brings a new volume rename command and introduces a dedicated restart command for managed VMs. Automatic retries for manifest pushes and many critical bugfixes further enhance reliabilit...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Signal introduces Automatic Key Verification to detect suspicious encryption key swaps Signal is rolling out Automatic Key Verification, a new feature designed to enhance the security of end-to-end encrypted conversations. This addition automatically confirms that each user's phone n...
Aug 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Spotify to introduce AI Persona badges for artists with AI-generated identities Spotify has announced it will introduce an AI Persona badge for artist profiles that use AI-generated public identities. Starting in mid September 2026, artists can self-disclose AI personas throug...
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Holograms, From Your Plotter When mass-printed holograms appeared on magazines in the 1980s they were a huge novelty, before degrading to the level of kids’ stickers in the years since. At the time they …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention There are plenty of stories about inventors who see a problem and decide they can do better. But Van Phillips had a little more motivation than most. The problem was …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.33: Mint Kernel, PDF Editing, VLC Drama, Omarchy Quattro and More Linux Stuff VLC got blamed for Microsoft's clumsiness.
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Omarchy Bets Its Future on AI Agents While the Linux World Stays Cautious While some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy's upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Hacking Fiber To The Home When we think about security threats, we generally imagine them coming from far away across the wider internet. But what if the connection between you and your ISP was the …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Smart Clock Helps With Medication Management There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes it’s easiest to just build your …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery? Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Brajeshwar 10x Is Easier Than 2x Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 expecting motivational arithmetic but got something of an argument about subtract...
Aug 13, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 20 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
