Sep 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ProcessWire brings experimental SQLite and PostgreSQL support ProcessWire 3.0.274 on the dev branch adds experimental support for installing and running sites on SQLite or PostgreSQL, alongside MySQL. Its database layer translates existing MySQL-style queries...
Sep 28, 2026 from GadgeteerZA First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain and planned to come down with the cable car. But many hours later by the time we r...
Sep 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PeaZip 11.3 lands with improved ZPAQ support, new test function for PEA archives, and more The popular open-source file archiver PeaZip has released version 11.3, an update its developer says users should not skip. “Due to multiple security fixes and improvements it is recommended to upd...
Sep 28, 2026 from Hackaday An IR Blaster Project, in a Nutshell The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a …read more
Sep 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft rethinks Excel after four decades: single cells can now hold multiple values After 40 years of operation, Microsoft is fundamentally changing how Excel handles data at the cell level. The company has announced the introduction of lists and arrays in cells, allowing users to...
Sep 28, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W38 Semantic Search Without Embeddings — The insight that reframed this for me is that embeddings nail representation and similarity but are weak at the third piece, deciding what’s actually in or out....
Sep 28, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026 It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our …read more
Sep 28, 2026 from Hackaday Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation ...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse...
Sep 27, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #378 Today in Weekly Robotics, some very creative robotics projects: a tethered aerial robot, a drone working as a periscope, a Cartesian robot manipulator, a robotic ball, and more!
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Defeating Satellite Spoofing with Galileo’s Encryption Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jammi...
Sep 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 27 September 2026 Prisoner Of RSA Edition Top Story There's a new way to break RSA security that only requires you to (checks notes) occupy the entire infrastructure of Cloudflare for a day to break a single Privacy...
Sep 27, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ich frag' für 'nen Freund Wir möchten herausfinden, wo man in der Stadt Krankheiten geheilt kriegt ohne dass die Annahme entsteht, dass wir eine Seuche in die Stadt bringen.
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Ways To Empirically Identify a Magnet’s Polarity Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity …read more
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Enormous Fluid Simulation on Flip Dots is also Enormous Amount of Work Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mixela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on display at EMF 2026. As glorious as the result is, …read more
Sep 27, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog NixCon 2026 These notes are a little raw, I'll come back to clean things up after the conference. On this page As I mentioned in my post on swap, zram, zswap and hibernate, I went to NixCon2026 at Jagiellonian...
Sep 27, 2026 from Galaxy Garden New House Keys as Mid-Autumn Festival Present It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and received mooncakes, but also received a different, special present: the keys to our new...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse Engineering Apple’s Mikey Chip On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs …read more
Sep 27, 2026 from Remote Synthesis Wired's Women in Tech Survey Tech is a tough place to work right now, but especially for women.
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After …re...
