Posts tagged "tech"

Left Behind

A short story about being left behind when everyone around you has lost their minds

A Bike-Friendly, DIY Action Cam Stereo Microphone

[DJJules] had two problems. Being an avid biker, recording audio on a bike-mounted action camera was less than ideal due to wind. In addition, the built-in microphone on action cameras …read more

Tor Project ships Arti 2.8, moving the next-gen Tor client closer to a full Rust rewrite

The Tor Project has announced the release of Arti 2.8, the latest version of its next-generation Tor client written in Rust. The November 3 release marks continued progress toward an ambitious goal...

Automate That Halloween Treating

We live a Jetsons future of ubiquitous automation, in which the most trivial of human tasks has a machine to take the work out of it. Take doling out Halloween …read more

Meta adds real-time voice chats and expressive avatars to its AI agent Muse

Meta is rolling out real-time voice conversations and expressive avatars for Muse, its personal AI agent that can perform tasks across websites and connected apps. First previewed at Connect 2026, ...

OpenAI announces GPT-6 Cyber after finding over 1,000 security issues in Linux and Firefox

OpenAI has announced GPT-6 Cyber, a new cybersecurity model designed to identify, exploit, and fix software vulnerabilities. The company revealed that the model has already helped discover and patc...

Ten Predictions For the 2026 Kyushu Basho

I made predictions leading up to the July and September grand sumo tournaments. Before July’s Nagoya Basho I made picks for wrestlers who would notch 10 wins (I did so-so). For September’s Aki Bash...

DIY Rooftop Tent Sets Up In a Jiffy

[CraftAndu] shares his DIY car rooftop tent design that looks like a pretty accessible build. It allowed him to test drive the concept to his satisfaction while spending a fraction …read more

It’s Alpine Linux, On A Kindle Paperwhite 3

As computing power becomes cheaper and microprocessors become more capable, a steady trend over recent decades has been to see more everyday devices hiding Linux under the hood somewhere. Sadly …re...

Platzt die AI-Blase?

Nach den Midterm-Wahlen in den USA, wo auch an vielen Orten gegen neue Rechenzentren gestimmt wurde, gab es eine Talfahrt von Aktienkursen.

MousePods Reverse Engineers Head Tracking Data From Stubborn AirPods

[Matteo Gaudioso] released MousePods, a Python tool which accesses the motion sensors in Apple AirPods on Linux, turning them into mouse input. No Apple host required. Doing this required reverse-e...

Using Halftone Images in QR codes Without Upsetting Scanners

Although quick-response (QR) codes are rather simple monochrome affairs, adding embellishments to them is a popular activity, if only to make QR codes not stick out like a sore thumb …read more

OpenAI unveils Images 2.6 with faster rendering times and animated GIF creation in ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, a significant upgrade to its image generation platform that promises 50% faster rendering times alongside enhanced creative control for developers and designers usin...

Claude rolls out personal finance tools for US subscribers

Claude is rolling out a Personal Finance beta in the US for Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers, letting them connect bank and card accounts to ask questions about spending, balances, bills, and transa...

Shelly 3.2.0 fixes Flatpak, AUR and AppImage issues

Shelly-ALPM 3.2.0 fixes the Flatpak regression on Arch Linux, including elevated-operation handling that preserves the invoking user's session context, and adds a command to repair Shelly directory...

Daily News Stuff 6 November 2026

Garden Party Edition Top Story Well, that's dumb: A configuration flaw in certainly flavours of Linux - most of them uncommon but the list includes OpenWRT and Alpine - allows anyone to log in usin...

Why the ULC Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64

Although the Nintendo 64 could deliver solid 3D graphics with assets loaded at a blistering speed from the game cartridge, audio-wise it was a bit more hampered. The main challenge …read more

This Week in Security: More Linux Bugs, Biggest Crypto Theft Ever, Prusa Printers, Residential Proxies

Linux kernel bugs which can be triggered remotely, without any login, are rare. Most kernel vulnerabilities need an attacker to already be running code on the machine. CVE-2026-98432 is one of thos...

Weekly Notes 45/2026

It’s been 13 years. Our favorite Taj West End was busy (I tried late), so we stayed at Windsor Manor, which is designed like a Regency manor but was built in 1980. A bungalow and estate called Baqa...

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