RetroOct 30RFC 1097, a 1989 April Fools' Spec, Let a Telnet Server Flash Hidden Messages for Milliseconds and Planned Morse Code on the Caps Lock LED
RetroOct 30RFC 748, an April 1, 1978 Telnet Spec, Made Servers Ask Your Permission Before Randomly Losing Your Files
RetroOct 30RFC 1925, an April 1, 1996 Internet Memo Filed as Humor, Listed 'You Can Always Add Another Level of Indirection' Among Twelve Networking Truths
SecurityOct 30A Yorkshire Farm Ran a Few Hundred Cattle on One Windows XP PC With No Backups, Patched by the Farmer's 14-Year-Old Grandson
RetroOct 30The Video Game History Foundation Posts Colin Williamson's Photos of Japanese Game Culture From 1999 On, When a Working Reporter Happened to Carry a Digital Camera Through Dreamcast-Era Tokyo
SoftwareOct 30An Ochaken Fansite Online Since 2004 Now Serves Gambling Ads, So a Web Archivist Shows How to Save Sites as WARC Files
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Sylphide OS, a Hobby Operating System, Puts a Black-and-White 512x384 Windowed Desktop on Microcontroller Computers, Including a Homemade Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Board
SoftwareOct 30Stack Overflow's Own API Counts 969 Questions From September 2026, Down From 141,728 in September 2020
SecurityOct 30A Single Malformed WAP Push Text Crashes Android's Phone Service and Can Drop Calls, Including Emergency Calls, With No Tap From the Victim
SecurityOct 30Skyreader RSS Subscriptions Stored on AT Protocol PDS Records Are Public, Exposing Paywalled and Private Feed URLs
RetroOct 30A 15-Year Fan Project Translates Falcom's 1994 PC Engine CD RPG The Legend of Xanadu Into English by Recompressing the Entire Game to Fit in Memory
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Doomformer Compiles a Neural Network Into a DOOM Map Where Voodoo Dolls Do the Math, and Every Value Matches NumPy Exactly
SoftwareOct 30dontallow Auto-Clicks Don't Allow on the macOS Local Network Prompt Chromium Browsers Keep Re-Triggering From a Temp Folder
SoftwareOct 30Windows Still Refuses a File Named CON Because the MS-DOS 1.0 Assembler Tacked .LST Onto Every Filename
RetroOct 30Steve Jobs Kept Rejecting a Mac Calculator, So Chris Espinosa Built a 'Construction Set' and Let Jobs Design It Himself in About Ten Minutes
AIOct 30Openjutsu Swaps the Person in Your Video for a Character Photo on Your Own GPU, a Free ComfyUI Take on Higgsfield's Genjutsu
HardwareOct 30HMD's Nokia 2360 Flip Lets Family Set Up a Senior's Phone Remotely Over SMS, but It's 2G Only
HardwareOct 30Lenovo's $1,099 Googlebook 15 Pairs With Your Android Phone by QR Code, but Drag-and-Drop File Transfers Stop at 200MB
Hacks & BuildsOct 30Star Andrew Schmelyun's GitHub Repo and a Raspberry Pi Prints Your Profile Picture on a Receipt Printer for His Wall
HardwareOct 30Douglas Engelbart's 1970 Computer Mouse Patent Called It an 'X-Y Position Indicator' and Said You Could Move It With Your Feet
HardwareOct 30Apple's $299 HomeView Needs Your iPhone Nearby, While Amazon's $500 Echo Show 16 Runs the House Solo
GamingOct 30Wizball Enhanced Edition, a Fan Mod of Ocean's 1987 ZX Spectrum Shooter, Ships a Final Version 1.3 That Plays the Commodore 64 Music on the 128K Spectrum's Sound Chip
GamingOct 30Genesis Project's Sabre Wulf Remastered Rewrites Ultimate's 1984 Jungle Maze for the C64 as a Free D64
