Jun 17, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-06-17 07:04: We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen... We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen that was caught by the fox layed. Expect regular updates. 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and s...
Jun 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Threads hits 500M users, launches private feed controls, expands Communities & Live Chats Threads has reached 500 million monthly active users, nearly three years after launching as Meta’s answer to Twitter/X. Alongside the milestone, Meta is rolling out new features focused on feed per...
Jun 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SpaceX to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion to rebuild xAI SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, less than two months after an initial agreement gave it the option to either invest $10 billion or pursue a full buyo...
Jun 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Windows 11 adds File Explorer improvements, unified Windows Update, and core app updates Windows is rolling out a new batch of Windows 11 updates in build 26300.8687 for Insiders with improvements across File Explorer, Search, the taskbar, Windows Update, input, setup, reliability, and...
Jun 17, 2026 from Hackaday Security Camera Gets Several Defensive Upgrades Ever since the early web, people have been streaming video with inexpensive webcams, and since the advent of the Raspberry Pi and its dedicated camera slot we’ve really seen how …read more
Jun 17, 2026 from Hackaday The Problem of Making a Good Metal-To-Glass Seal If you’ve ever taken a close look at a vacuum tube, you’ll have seen the seals around the pins that keep everything air-tight while providing the the device’s electrical contacts. …read more
Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as …read more
Jun 16, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Firefox’s free VPN lifts data limit, offers 28 server locations “You can now use1 Firefox’s free built-in VPN without a monthly data limit – but only until August 31, 2026. Mozilla is also temporarily expanding the list of VPN server locations available to prox...
Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday How Did They Make View-Master Slides? The basics of producing a stereophotograph of real life places were well-established by the time the View-Master arrived, but producing images of imaginary scenes was a bit more involved. [View …re...
Jun 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 June 2026 Out Like Flynn Edition Top Story The Flynn Effect is a long-observed but unexplained finding in psychology that mean IQ even in developed nations has been rising by around 3 points per decade. That...
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Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Glow Engine is like an Open Air Slow Scan CRT Slow-scan CRTs were never exactly common compared to their faster cousins, but given the popularity of Slow Scan TV (SSTV) amongst hams and NASA broadcasts, many of you are probably …read more
Jun 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses This eye-controlled smart glass is a San Francisco-based startup's bet on ambient computing.
Jun 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KDE Plasma 6.7 adds per-screen virtual desktops, Union theming system, and Wayland updates KDE Plasma 6.7 introduces major enhancements for Unix-based platform users, including per-screen virtual desktops and a quick toggle for immediate switching between light and dark global themes. Al...
Jun 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-16-26 Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June 15, 2026.) Say what on...
Jun 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft now lets you deeply customize Visual Studio 2026 with new options & color tokens Visual Studio 2026 now features a built-in configuration page for theme customization, letting users adjust hex color codes for accent colors and hover states directly within the application. These...
Jun 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood More than 1,500 AUR packages got hit, and new waves kept coming.
Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday The Adder at the Heart of Intel’s 8087 FPU As simple as the concept of adding two numbers appears at first glance, doing it in the 1970s in Intel’s 8087 FPU with its 69-bit adder was still a tall …read more
Jun 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net FreeBSD 15.1 released with updated Wi-Fi drivers, improved C23 support, and Unicode 17.0 FreeBSD 15.1 has been released as the latest version of this free and open-source Unix-like operating system. The update includes several notable advancements aimed at developers and system adminis...
Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again) If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more
