Posts tagged "tech"

FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more

I Really Want to Love This Markdown Editor, But One Thing Holds It Back

It gives an IDE feel with lots of features that fits the workflow of developers working on technical documentation of their projects.

It's Time for ConnectRPC to Adopt HTTP QUERY

📝 2026-07-28 09:16: Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note...

Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT! (Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me) Thanks for reading this pos...

The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more

Collabora Online 26.04 adds optional AI assistant and smarter document comparison & review

Collabora Online 26.04 marks the office suite’s tenth anniversary with a major release, introducing features shaped by user demand. Integrated AI assistance is now available in Writer, Calc, and Im...

OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations

They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.

De-Aging Human Tissue Using Special Enzyme to Remove AGEs

With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolution …r...

A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more

Game Reviews: Firewatch, Hitman Go and Leisure Suit Larry 6

I haven’t been playing a whole lot of games lately. Over the past year I finished two titles on my PlayStation 4. The first was the narrative walking adventure Firewatch, and the second was the rel...

Microsoft introduces its first cybersecurity AI model at half the cost of competing models

Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first AI model built specifically for cybersecurity. Designed to identify complex vulnerabilities in large codebases, the model works with GPT 5.4 in...

Re-Testing an Apollo Guidance Computer Module that Failed Certification Testing

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as …read more

Rollenspielszenen: Vanillekipferl

Die Rettungsmission hat sich etwas verzögert. Wir mussten noch Vanillekipferl backen.

Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support

One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all...

Daily News Stuff 27 July 2026

Oh President Madagascar Edition Top Story Whenever you copy this weird white text on a white background, a little white light lights up white to let you know you've done it. (Futurism) If only it w...

Regain Some Trust in Unknown USB Drives

For how useful USB thumb drives are for quickly toting around and copying files from one computer to another, they can be a bit of a security headache. Programs can …read more

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old ideas. He shows that the best businesses escape competition by solving unique proble...

Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few

Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica S...

📝 2026-07-27 17:54: The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so...

The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hop...

M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck for all your Portable Computing needs

There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist] shows us a M.A.S.K. lunchbox cyberdeck faithful to the 80s show. To know why …...