Aug 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 August 2026 Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition Top Story The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers in the feet. (WCCFTech) This would be an intelligent and obvious move meaning th...
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Russia charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with terrorism, issues global warrant Russia has charged Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list. If convicted, he could face life imprisonment under Russian law. ...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners! Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Peter's Path Monthly update #0435 • July 2026 Posts The following posts were written last month. Books 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham Can I Trust The Bible? by R.C. Sproul 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Ne...
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4T parameters and 1M-token context window Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, through QwenCloud. The mixture of experts model has 2.4 trillion total parameters but activates 95 billion per request to reduce infe...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Hot Tea or Iced Coffee - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147 Recently, the temperatures in my city have been breaking historical records. Since the end of July, we've been stuck in a stretch of scorching weather lasting more than ten days, with temperatures ...
Aug 03, 2026 from It's FOSS AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W30 GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going from 61 to 66, it’s how the agent got there. Under a 24 hour deadline it paid T...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Spotting Emacs in the Wild Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Shotcut 26.8 adds elements panel and new stock asset library Shotcut version 26.8 introduces the Elements panel, a compact asset library with emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, and graphics, all under royalty-free licenses. This rele...
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gitea Runner 3.0.0 supports standard artifact and cache actions Gitea Runner 3.0.0 introduces native support for standard GitHub Actions cache and artifact actions, eliminating the need for the gitea-upload-artifact fork. The release also implements container-e...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing things the traditional way. This is the challenge …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Thejesh GN Running Again I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking. Though I must say I love walking, especially with friends and family. It’s a g...
Aug 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social 2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato ...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Easy Theremin Uses ESP32 The Theremin is that classic electronic musical instrument that makes those weeee-ohhhhh noises which were so popular in mid-century science fiction movies. Mid-last-century, that is, because this ...
Aug 03, 2026 from Ploum.net Un manifeste Offpunk Un manifeste Offpunk Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et que j’ai co-signé An Offpunk Manifesto (English version) Versão em português La...
Aug 02, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026 About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were …read more
