Posts tagged "tech"

Sync-in 2.5 brings favorites, easier selection management, and unified recent activity

Sync-in, the sovereign platform for file storage, sharing, synchronization, and collaboration, has announced the release of version 2.5, an update that focuses less on headline-grabbing features an...

The Birds Outside, Drawn For You Automatically

With artificial intelligence being the bête noir of the moment, there are some projects using it which maybe don’t bring much to the table. So it’s nice to see one …read more

Audacity 4.0 audio editor launches with redesigned Qt interface and new clip-editing tools

The free and open-source audio editor Audacity has officially released version 4.0, representing the most significant architectural overhaul in the software's two-decade history. Released today by ...

Loading from tape again

A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectrum+. It is evidently a different system. Which is a funny thing to say because wh...

Epic launches cross-platform Parties with voice chat transfer

Epic Games has finally added cross platform party and voice chat through a new system called Epic Parties, connecting Fortnite, the Epic Games Launcher, and Epic mobile apps. The system works with ...

Umbrel announces umbrelOS 2.0 with Photos, new iOS app, MCP server, and wider GPU support

Umbrel has announced umbrelOS 2.0, its biggest update yet, with a full release scheduled for September 22 and a public beta rolling out now. Existing users can join by updating to version 1.7.4 and...

Raycast v2 restores external AI models and expands window tools

Raycast v2 brings back Bring Your Own Model support, letting users connect OpenAI compatible custom providers, run local models through Ollama, or add an OpenRouter API key to access its model cata...

Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance

If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the motor’s size, which raises safety issues, or you could cut …read more

Corners Lifting On 3D Prints? Guide Gives Prevention Tips

Large prints have a risk of warping, by which we mean corners can lift off the print bed as the object sort of curls inward on itself. It’s not always …read more

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How to Avoid Getting Arc Flashed

After getting called out in the field to troubleshoot a large PV solar installation, [Derek] found himself suddenly in the midst of an arc flash, causing burns all over his …read more

A Split Keyboard Designed for Human Hands

A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it …read more

Daily News Stuff 3 September 2026

Fonted Edition Top Story A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security) They advertised this with a photo of the d...

Exploring the Downsides of Cooling Roof Paint

The idea of painting a roof or wall white in order to reflect sunshine and keep the building’s insides cool is hardly a new one, and even in the loosest …read more

Vivaldi 8.2 brings address bar calculator and easier PWA installation to its web browser

Vivaldi has released version 8.2, arriving three months after the browser's major 8.0 update. The release adds address-field tools and makes progressive web app installation more visible. For calcu...

Hackaday Europe 2026: Fluid Kernels and Optimizing C++ for MCUs

Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly …read more

WooCommerce 11.1 brings native variation image galleries

WooCommerce 11.1 makes product variation image galleries a native feature for all stores, retiring the separate WooCommerce Additional Variation Images extension. It also adds an optional order wit...

Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha adds Mosaic modes and WINE support

Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha introduces extremely experimental support for running through WINE on Linux. The build also moves to .NET 11 Preview, which includes a fix for a WinForms input bug reported with...

Polars 2.0 RC makes streaming the default LazyFrame engine

The Polars 2.0 release candidate makes the streaming engine the default when collecting LazyFrame queries, with Polars estimating aggregate streaming performance could be 5x faster. The change can ...

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12 brings multiplatform publishing and Wasm

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12 adds publishing for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries, including common APIs, platform artifacts, sources, metadata, and C interop bindings. It also lets wasm-js/app modules buil...