Nov 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple unveils Siri AI developer preview, opening the platform to third-party apps Apple has announced that it is opening Siri AI to outside developers, launching a developer preview alongside the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas. According to the announ...
Nov 05, 2026 from kmcd.dev The Physical Internet: From Copper to Glass Adding a visual history of global communications at map.kmcd.dev/learn/, backfilling decommissioned telegraph and coaxial cables, mapping intercontinental radio trunks, and adding terrestrial backb...
Nov 05, 2026 from Kev Quirk BAITED BAITEDAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: ThrillerReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆Find Ollie Perkins. There’s just one problem. Mike isn’t allowed to ask anyone about him. He can’t say his name. He doesn’t know wh...
Nov 05, 2026 from Hackaday Porting a “Crappy” Flash Game to the IBM 5150 and Beyond Flash is obsolete and the IBM 5150 is obsolete. Therefore, by the transitive property of algebra, you should be able to run flash games on IBM’s original PC, right? Okay, …read more
Nov 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Affinity has announced that a Linux version is in development, but there's no ETA just yet In what longtime users have been calling a watershed moment, Affinity has officially confirmed that a Linux version of its popular design suite is currently in active development. The announcement ...
Nov 05, 2026 from Hackaday PiPedal Grants Guitar Effects, Amp Emulation, and More Back in the day, if one wanted a particular guitar effect one would purchase an effects pedal or “stomp box”, and even a modest collection of them could be an …read more
Nov 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social All 47 Japanese Prefectures Have Produced a Sanyaku Sumo Wrestler On October 28, 2026, I published Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku. I cited to a news report in Mainichi as my source. While I discussed now-Komusubi Churanoumi a...
Nov 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Revival of The Nihon Review From late 2008 until 2017, I followed an anime review website called The Nihon Review. It died in 2017, but survived in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I discussed the site, and offered a b...
Nov 05, 2026 from Hackaday The First Business Computer Hits 75! Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities, and then on into the wider world. Most of the …read more
Nov 05, 2026 from Hackaday Beautiful Laser Harp Hides Some Neat Tricks Laser harps aren’t quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it’s likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time or another. We’re lucky …read more
Nov 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Netflix introduces AI Discover, a new place for content recommendations based on your mood Netflix is rolling out AI Discover, a new navigation tab on its TV application that uses artificial intelligence to help subscribers find their next favorite show or movie. The feature is initially...
Nov 04, 2026 from Hackaday It’s DOOM Dirt cheap toy cameras have long been a target for the curious camera hacker, and we’ve seen plenty of lens swaps and other hardware hacks. Until now their internals have …read more
Nov 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Neue APOD API Die API für das Astronomical Picture of the Day der NASA hat sich geändert.
Nov 04, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Wax Motor for Micrometer-Level Control Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes and the resulting volumetric expansion or reduction to create …read more
Nov 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 November 2026 Call Me Fishmeal Edition Top Story Microsoft has made Windows 11 suck 20% less if you are running with just 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware) It is at least a step in the right direction. Albeit after a...
Nov 04, 2026 from Hackaday From Germanium to Diamond: the Many Shapes of Semiconductors It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history. Practically overnight it turned human technology from being large, cumbersome an...
Nov 04, 2026 from Hackaday Using a Cheap DC Motor to Make a Go-Kart Go Where Archimedes said that he could move the Earth given a large enough lever and a suitable fulcrum, [Current Concept] decided that he could give his own spin on this …read more
Nov 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Safari 27.3 beta introduces vertical tabs, adaptive dark mode, and Siri AI custom actions Apple has released the first developer betas of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3, bringing significant updates to the Safari web browser. The most prominent addition is the supp...
Nov 04, 2026 from It's FOSS Schools That Say No to Google’s AI Will Be Saying Goodbye to its Search Too Meanwhile, schools in six German states can choose an open source cloud solution.
Nov 04, 2026 from Hackaday Yesterday Has Never Looked This Good: Feast Your Eyes On The 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge Winners! If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning everything from relay-based machines that fill a wall through to modern …r...
