Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net arXiv limits researchers' submissions at two papers per month amid AI-powered paper flood Starting October 1st, 2026, the world's largest scientific preprint repository arXiv has imposed its strictest submission limits to date, capping each submitter at two papers per calendar month wit...
Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there …read more
Oct 05, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Swift Server Has Another Google - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #156 Last week, Google Cloud introduced a Swift SDK for server-side development. It covers more than a hundred Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage, IAM, Secret Manager, and AI, while providin...
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Thunderbird breaks ground on long-awaited native iPhone & iPad email application After years of community anticipation, Thunderbird has officially begun development of a native iPhone email application, marking a significant expansion of the open-source email client's reach. Un...
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Kagi ends development of Orion for Linux and Windows, open sources code to community In a strategic shift that underscores the challenges of independent browser development, Kagi has announced it will end official development of Orion for Linux and Windows, redirecting resources to...
Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday Porting Video Games to VHS Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences. For example, …read more
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Phosh 0.58 adds configurable caffeine and screenshot actions Phosh 0.58.0 adds configuration options for the caffeine quick setting, letting users choose which features it inhibits. Screenshot notifications can now open the captured image or its containing f...
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ubuntu 26.10 beta arrives with current 7.3 rc kernel Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Beta is now available for Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud, alongside official flavor images including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu. The beta updates core packages ...
Oct 05, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W39 Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — The idea I keep turning over is that contentment with a small life is actually subversive, a quiet refusal of the American reflex to keep climbin...
Oct 05, 2026 from It's FOSS Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement The Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.19 brings vertical text support in GDIPlus, Unicode 18.0 & caching for DNS queries The Wine development team has announced the release of Wine version 11.19, bringing several technical enhancements and stability improvements to the Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like operat...
Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday Conveyor Belt GBoard Brings the Keys to You It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt. This time it’s on GitHub with firmware, STLs, …read more
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Pi 1.0 brings native MCP support & Pi Durable for long-running, crash-resistant AI agents Earendil has announced the general availability of Pi 1.0, a hardened minimal agent harness that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of weekly users worldwide. Alongside the stable release,...
Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday It’s GW-BASIC, Jim, But Not as We Know It Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after it stopped living in ROM, IBM-Compatibles shipped with GW-BASIC, and …read more
Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday Upgrading a Benchtop Laser for Megawatt Power One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that. …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026 If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #379 Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30 days, evaluating LiDAR performance, Figure robots going out in flames, and more!
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Tearing Down a Heavy Oscilloscope When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” …r...
Oct 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026 Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday AVR Laptop Pushes the Limits of 8-Bit If you saw a device that had a laptop form factor playing sound and video, alt-tabbing over to play a game or take some notes, then back to the video …read more
