Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday A New Blood Hack For An Old Game Even before 3D graphics and advanced shaders became common in the gaming world, there were concerns that virtual violence looked too realistic. Fighting games in the 1990s were routinely toned-down...
Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tails 7.10 launches with shutdown data-loss prevention & Celluloid as default video player Tails 7.10 has been released, continuing the project's focus on privacy protection and resistance to surveillance and censorship. This update introduces the use of the standard GNOME shutdown proce...
Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing Multi-color 3D printing is notorious for being difficult to get right. Even with modern printers, you often end up much using more filament (and tool changes) than you would for …read more
Jul 24, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Untitled Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloated desktop website. Ars Technica has a great article with a breakdown of Reddit's ...
Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3, its new multimodal model for video and audio generation German AI startup Black Forest Labs has launched Flux 3, its first multimodal model capable of generating videos up to 20 seconds long with native synchronized audio. The foundation model is traine...
Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Opera One joins the vertical tabs trend in browsers Opera One now offers an optional Vertical Tabs layout, joining a recent trend among browsers such as Chrome and Dia. The feature can be enabled through the tab context menu, Easy Setup, or browser ...
Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing …read more
Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Codeberg has decided to ban predominantly AI-generated repositories after a community vote Codeberg has introduced a policy banning repositories that mostly consist of code generated by AI tools. The change follows community concerns about “vibe-coded” projects, where AI produces most or...
Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft introduces Xbox backward compatibility on PC, starting with 4 Xbox classic games Microsoft has launched Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC, bringing classic console games to modern Windows 11 systems for the first time. The initial lineup includes four original Xbox titles: BLiN...
Jul 24, 2026 from The Fly Blog Turn And Face The Strange We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our c...
Jul 23, 2026 from Hackaday BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language We enjoyed [Beej’s] trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It appeared in a 1980 magazine that included the title …read more
Jul 23, 2026 from GadgeteerZA FokOffMense is South Africa’s spam block and POPIA toolkit Block community-flagged spam on Android, send formal POPIA opt-outs, and monitor breaches — one SA account, no ads. iOS users can use the website, but there is no iOS app yet (probably also because...
Jul 23, 2026 from Hackaday A Train Departure Board For The Home Trains are a great way to get around. You just have to make sure you’re across the schedule if you intend to get where you’re going in a timely manner. …read more
Jul 23, 2026 from Hackaday Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound Today’s phone microphones are perfectly adept at picking up sound in all sorts of conditions, and they’re backed by all kinds of processing techniques to filter out noise and capture …read more
Jul 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 23 July 2026 Proximate Causal Inviolability Edition Top Story Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate. (Science) And only 34% of it is confirmed by multiple reviewers. But it gets worse. ...
Jul 23, 2026 from Kev Quirk Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You Your RSS Reader Is Robbing Youby Antonio SantosAntonio opines that by using RSS feeds instead of visiting people's sites, we're robbing ourselves of enjoying the design many site owners have put a ...
Jul 23, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive. A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep …read...
Jul 23, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI rolls out Presence, a new enterprise platform to launch and manage AI voice agents OpenAI has unveiled Presence, a product designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents that can answer questions, resolve issues, use company systems, and escalate to humans when needed. This new of...
Jul 23, 2026 from Hackaday Running DOOM on a Custom CPU Built From Scratch Running DOOM on weird obscure hardware is a fun hacker pastime that’s been around for a long time now. It’s always enjoyable to see someone port it to an egg timer, …read more
Jul 23, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google rolls out selfie video sign-in for more account access options Google has launched selfie video as a new way to sign in to Google Accounts, allowing users to regain access if they are locked out or lack their usual devices. Users set up the feature by recordin...