May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Virtual Museum Hosts Every OS You Haven’t Heard Of OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but [Andrew]’s Virtual OS museum has a good claim to being …read more
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Last.fm returns to independence, assures users of unchanged service, privacy, and pricing Last.fm has begun operating as an independent company again, ending its period under CBS Interactive ownership that began in 2007. While the streaming platform’s organizational structure has change...
May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Testing LFP Battery Failure Modes With Overcharging As great as batteries are, it’s essential to understand their risks and how to keep them from going spicy. Recently there has been a bit of a fuss about the …read more
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net YouTube will automatically detect and label AI-generated videos with greater visibility YouTube is introducing automatic labels for AI-generated videos while redesigning those labels to make them more visible. This update aims to help viewers better identify when content they watch in...
May 28, 2026 from Benny Powers: Web Developer Let Equals Equal Equals Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constitu...
May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Decoding the Tianwen-2 Sample Return Mission’s Telemetry Signal China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission launched on 28 May of 2025 and is scheduled to arrive at its target – near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo’oalewa – in June 2026. This gives …read more
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Meta rolls out new paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp Meta is launching a new set of paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, adding new monthly plans under its Plus branding. Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus will cost $3.99...
May 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Robinhood adds AI agent trading and AI-enabled virtual credit card controls Robinhood is rolling out Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card, allowing users to connect custom AI agents to automate trades and purchases through its MCP servers. Agentic Trading uses a sep...
May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Linux Distributions and Who is Responsible For the Software The topic of downstream and upstream is an important one in the Linux ecosystem, where from one base distribution you can go many layers of distros deep before even looking …read more
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday Autopsy of a Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging …read more
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday A Clock Inspired by Failed Cognitive Tests One simple screening tool for cognitive impairment is the clock-drawing test (CDT): the patient is provided with a printed circle and asked to draw a clock face with the hands …read more
May 27, 2026 from Darek Kay Sabbatical #15: Tasman-Marlborough A travel journal from my visit to Tasman-Marlborough, New Zealand.
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday Inside Dyson’s Over-Engineered ₤1000 Hand Dryer It seems fair to say that Dyson sits at the intersection of impressive engineering and borderline ridiculous products. The Dyson Airblade 9KJ hand dryer that [ElectrArc240] recently took to bits …r...
May 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 27 May 2026 Stardenburdenhardenbart Edition Top Story California is considering an exemption from its sweeping age verification requirements for open-source operating systems such as Linux. (Tom's Hardware) Wh...
May 27, 2026 from It's FOSS Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028 Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.
May 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-27-26 I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal six...
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday AMOC and the Planet-Wide Impact of Ocean Currents Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense amounts of water around the globe on a …read more
May 27, 2026 from It's FOSS I Tried Firefox Smart Window, and It Won Me Over a Little Mozilla's new AI browsing mode is in limited beta, and it's more capable than I expected.
May 27, 2026 from Hackaday Three Arduinos Team Up To Make 80s-Style Computer Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit …read more
