Oct 01, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots, its new always-on AI agents that work independently OpenAI announced more than 20 updates across its models, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, and enterprise products during DevDay 2026. The biggest model release was GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgraded version of GPT-6 So...
Oct 01, 2026 from Hackaday DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game console, that he built specifically to use …read more
Oct 01, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google to end ChromeOS support by 2034, transitioning to Googlebook OS Google has confirmed plans to wind down ChromeOS support in 2034, with updates and security patches set to continue until mid 2034 as the company shifts future devices to Googlebook OS, the company...
Oct 01, 2026 from Hackaday Will Superconducting Transistors Help Quantum Computers? Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum computers hold a candle to the sheer practicality of classical computers, especi...
Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Toys R Us Leaving Japan After 35 Years Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories (which includes a photo of my Toys ‘R Us-...
Oct 01, 2026 from Ploum.net The AI Pascal’s Wager The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside for a moment all the ethical/ecological/societal considerations about the use of...
Oct 01, 2026 from EmailShot Blog How to Set Up BIMI and Get Your Logo Into the Inbox What BIMI is, what it actually requires in 2026 — DMARC enforcement, an SVG Tiny PS logo, and possibly a VMC or CMC — plus which providers display logos today and how to generate and verify your BI...
Oct 01, 2026 from Heitor's log TIL: loading .env files into my terminal How to load .env variables into Bash, using a one-liner. Or three...
Oct 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Building Atlas How I built a website audit console that carries captured evidence into review and export.
Sep 30, 2026 from Hackaday Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a …read more
Sep 30, 2026 from Hackaday Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet …read more
Sep 30, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max Has a Shotgun Mic and a 500mm Lens Mount “The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max launches in China on September 28 with a directional “shotgun” microphone, ARRI cinema color, and a lens mount that takes a 500mm teleconverter. If you shoot video on you...
Sep 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-30-26 Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings ...
Sep 30, 2026 from Hackaday Apple Finally Made AirPods Repairable… Sort Of It’s been true for a while now that Apple’s AirPods have been effectively disposable, with [iFixit] slapping each successive generation with an abysmal 0/10 repairability score. The moment that any...
Sep 30, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual JPEG XL steht vor der Tür Firefox und Chromium unterstützen bald das neue Bildformat JPEG XL.
Sep 30, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 30 September 2026 Underfrog Edition Top Story Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed. The number now looks to be clo...
Sep 30, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog NixCon 2026 Workshop - Joining the Tangled Network The Tangled code forge has really hit its stride in development and offers a lot of interesting features like vouching and CI. Plus lots and lots of NixOS Support
Sep 30, 2026 from Hackaday Assembling and Testing a DIY Jet Turbine After many months of painstaking work, [AlfMart CNC Garage] over at YouTube has finally reached the stage where he can fully assemble his DIY jet turbine and commence testing. Even …read more
