RetroOct 31Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905
GamingOct 31pixelfx Is a Free Library of 244 Pixel Art Game Effects Written as Code, Not Sprite Sheets, From Fire and Ice to Whole Attack Moves
HardwareOct 31iQOO's Neo 12 Puts a Cooling Fan Inside an IP68 and IP69 Phone, With a 9,000mAh Battery, for China
SecurityOct 31A Factory IT Manager's Admin Password Was a Leet-Speak Insult for Hackers, and an Unpatched Windows 7 Server Handed It to Red Teamer Dahvid Schloss
HardwareOct 31DFRobot's $2,599 LattePanda Sigma 2 Puts an Intel Core Ultra X7, 64GB of RAM and a Preloaded Qwen Model on a 146mm Board
Hacks & BuildsOct 31Arnaud Aubry Built Marelleo, an Open-Source ESP32 Story Box for Kids That Plays Whatever File You Tie to an NFC Figurine, With No Store and No Subscription
SoftwareOct 31OpenMouse Sets DPI and Polling Rate on Gaming Mice From Logitech, Razer, Corsair and Dozens More in a Browser Tab
RetroOct 31The Word "Pixel" Was First Printed in 1965 by a JPL Engineer Processing Space-Probe Photos
HardwareOct 31Raspberry Pi Merged Linux Device Trees for an Unannounced Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A, Both Built on the Pi 4's BCM2711 Chip
SecurityOct 31New Windows Malware Steals Your Logins, Then Has an AI Write a Report Titled "WHAT THEY'RE WORTH"
SoftwareOct 31Windows 11's October Preview Update Adds Cloud Rebuild, a Full Reinstall That Needs No USB Stick
RetroOct 31A Windows 3.1 User Set Every Color in Control Panel to Black, Then Called Support About a Blank Screen
SoftwareOct 31Excel Still Counts February 29, 1900, a Day That Never Happened, Because Lotus 1-2-3 Did, and Microsoft Says Fixing It Would Shift Almost Every Date
SoftwareOct 31LinuxRunner Puts Debian, Arch and Alpine Desktops on an iPhone With No Jailbreak, Running Firefox and Blender Through Its Own ARM64 Interpreter
HardwareOct 31Matthew Garrett Turned On Google Cast in His US Samsung Q800A Soundbar by Rooting It and Telling It It Was Australian
RetroOct 31Steve Ballmer Wrote the Words on Windows 3.1's Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen, and They Shipped Almost Word for Word
RetroOct 31Pardo and Landau's 1970 Patent Let Spreadsheet Formulas Sort Themselves, and Its Owners Sued Lotus 1-2-3 With It
GamingOct 31Atari 2600 Adventure's Easter Egg: Warren Robinett Signed a 4K Game With 128 Bytes of RAM Because Atari Kept Its Designers Anonymous
SoftwareOct 31Capri Is a Free Cyberpunk Desktop Pet That Narrates What Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity Are Doing, and Sulks When You Open ChatGPT
SoftwareOct 31hashsync Cut an rsync Copy Over SSH From 19 Minutes to 4 by Matching Data the Receiver Already Had
AIOct 31InferSSD Runs a 763-Billion-Parameter DeepSeek Model on a 48 GB MacBook Pro by Reading Experts From the SSD
RetroOct 31Infinite Mac Now Boots BeOS, the 1990s OS Apple Almost Bought, in a Browser Tab, Even the 1996 Build Rigged to Stop Booting in 1997
