Sep 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net TikTok introduces voice comments, polls, and new photo formats in comment system update TikTok is expanding its comment system with four new formats: Voice Comments, Comment Polls, Photo Carousel Comments, and Live Photo Comments, with two available globally now and the other two roll...
Sep 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic skills and tighter cyber safeguards OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra, its new frontier model released less than two months after GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, calling it its most capable and aligned model to date, with OpenAI's pres...
Sep 05, 2026 from Hackaday Parchment Paper Paired With 3D-Printed Grid Gives a Nice Glow This custom enclosure for a 64×64 RGB LED matrix by [Davisan1001] not only provides a mount point for a Raspberry Pi, but presents a clean and smooth face with square …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing an Expensive Seagate LaCie Hard Drive Array After the [Slow Mo Guys] acquired a 168 TB Seagate LaCie Thunderbolt 3-based RAID storage system back in 2019 to store their video footage, they were obviously slightly miffed when …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Pole Balance Itself With Propellers A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 September 2026 Tigana Edition Top Story Bernie Sanders (Stalinist-Vt.) is calling for a ban on AI superintelligence, having spent his life erasing the regular kind. (The Hill) Fortunately AI doesn't yet reach the...
Sep 04, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 36/2026 It’s been a good week and a busy one too. I have started contributing to Pucar as a technologist. I will blog more once I settle down. It’s been a busy week, and it looks like September is going to...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk New Design for Sept 2026 I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (brutalist and using a monospace font) yet different. I abandoned the yellow accent...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printed Cubes Provide Passive Cooling Passive evaporative cooling has been used for centuries to reduce temperatures. Heat is drawn off as water evaporates, which in turn reduces temperature. The more efficiently this process happens t...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net MiniMax H3 unifies 2K video, stereo audio and multimodal input MiniMax has recently launched H3, a multimodal generation model that uses text, image, video, and audio context to create and edit content. It generates video up to 15 seconds long at 2K resolution...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Obsidian 1.14.0: kanban views and iOS quick capture Obsidian 1.14.0, now in early access for Catalyst members on desktop and mobile, adds a kanban layout to Bases with ordered columns and drag-and-drop reordering. The editor now supports colored hig...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Perplexity open-sources Lily for faster local AI inference Perplexity has open-sourced Lily, a local inference engine built for hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer and specialized for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon. Unlike general-purpose MLX-LM, Lily ...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini Notebook adds flexible limits and five-hour resets Gemini Notebook is introducing flexible usage limits to give users more control over their workflows. The update also moves limit resets from daily to every five hours and adds deferred artifact ge...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Claude can work in background windows on macOS desktops Claude Cowork and Claude Code can now use computer in the background to click, type, open apps, work with files, and run development tools when connectors or browser tools are not suitable. On macO...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Baked-in Malware, Freezers Not Freezing, Zoom Snoops Clipboards, and AI Makes Things Worse, Faster The AI platform ServiceNow which offers both hosted and on-premises versions just patched a trifecta of CVSS-10 vulnerabilities. CVSS rankings are determined by the severity of a flaw, the ease …re...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Fish shell 4.9 released as a workaround-focused update for Konsole users The Fish shell project has released version 4.9 of its free and open source, Unix-like command line shell, continuing its long-standing focus on interactivity and usability. Unlike many releases th...
Sep 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mullvad shuts down its public encrypted DNS service and puts its weight behind Quad9 Swedish privacy company Mullvad has announced that it is shutting down its public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers, ending a service it has operated since 2022. The company said the move reflects the fa...
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Take Tool Photo, Generate Custom Gridfinity Bin What if the organization and storage benefits of tool shadowing could be had and improved with a modular, semi-automated process? Tracefinity attempts that by generating custom Gridfinity bins from...
