Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday DIY Steam Controller Puck Offers Xbox, Switch, PlayStation Emulation Modes Valve recently released a new version of the Steam Controller, which features a wired USB puck that serves both as charger and dedicated, low-latency wireless receiver. The downside is they …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling “In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-pr...
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult “Barely a month goes by without an AI laboratory declaring its latest model the smartest ever built. For anyone simply trying to keep up, or trying to pick a tool that drafts a decent e-mail, fixes...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.13 boosts input pointer support, X11 keyboard scancode mapping & FFmpeg on ARM64EC Wine 11.13 is now available, offering an updated compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. This release delivers expanded support for input po...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Newton’s Cradle Isn’t Really Perpetual If any astute Hackaday reader saw [dongvua90]’s Newton’s cradle go on without human intervention all day long, they’d probably suspect the truth: there’s a battery and a magnet involved. But …read ...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Debian 13.6 update delivers key security fixes and Secure Boot changes Debian 13.6, the latest point release for Debian 13, focuses on security patches and critical bug fixes. This update includes a 'fwupd' upgrade with new Secure Boot CA, KEK, and DBX support in resp...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Photoflare v1.7.2 fixes critical bugs and updates translations Photoflare v1.7.2 is now available, addressing several significant bugs related to clipboard paste, cropping, and application packaging. This release also includes updated translations, such as a f...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Brave Search now supports search bangs in suggestions and address bar Brave Search now shows search bang shortcuts within its suggestions, making it easier to find and use site-specific searches. These !bang shortcuts work both directly on Brave Search and in the add...
Jul 13, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-07-13 08:12: Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in... Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, a...
Jul 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.
Jul 13, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W27 Ten years of ClickHouse in open source — The detail that stuck is the monthly drill where they deliberately shut down a datacenter to force the system to survive it. Most teams write high availabil...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday CGI Motion Capture with only a Camera Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to ble...
Jul 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Favorite Summer Songs Laura Cameron at The Well-Apportioned Desk is wrote a post titled Journal Prompt July. She decided to tackle July journal prompts compiled at the BaronFig blog in 2024. While I do not have a journa...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Musing on AI from 1964 [Irving John Good] was at Trinity College, Oxford back in 1964. His paper, “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” could have been a topic for today, as we deal with …read more
Jul 12, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: July 12, 2026 Although we’d rather bring you news of clever modifications and repairs down on the farm, more often than not, the name “John Deere” has appeared on the pages of Hackaday …read more
Jul 12, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #368 Weekly Robotics 368: an agile robot hand, building an over-engineered tiny rover, a clay 3D printer, a free course on VLAs that you can run on your PC, and more!
Jul 12, 2026 from Hackaday Porting the Nvidia GPU Driver to Haiku for 3D Acceleration As good as a desktop OS may be, at some point it has to feature accelerated 3D graphics. This has been a bit of a sticking point for Haiku OS, …read more
Jul 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Sinking of Victory Chimes In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park and was in the process of being converted into a restaurant boat. My article ...
Jul 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 July 2026 The Court Of King Galacticus Edition Top Story SK Hynix says that 2027 will be the "worst year" for memory, predicting that the crunch will last until 2030. (Tom's Hardware) I panicked and bought h...
Jul 12, 2026 from Hackaday Building a Better CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter Cutting foam with a hot wire is a common technique to shape foam in a wide variety of shapes. If you want to cut something detailed and precise, like an …read more
