HardwareOct 29Origami Robotics' S1 Glove Reads 20 Finger Joints So Its Matching Robot Hand Can Copy Each One Directly
SoftwareOct 29Sheet, a Free Design App That Runs on Your Own Computer, Lets Claude, Codex and Cursor Edit the Same Canvas at Once
RetroOct 29SidecarTridge Tested All 1,831 Atari ST Hard-Disk Game Adaptations and Patched 209 to Run From a microSD Card
RetroOct 29The First Unix Pipes Used > Instead of |, and Dennis Ritchie Said a Missing > Created a File Instead of Running the Command
RetroOct 29A 1928 Punch-Card Patent Switched From Round Holes to Oblong Ones So Closely Spaced Columns Wouldn't Tear
SecurityOct 29Causal Security's AI agent Cipher found four serious bugs in EPICS, the control software behind particle accelerators and ITER's fusion project, in 3 hours 49 minutes
HardwareOct 29Apple's M6 iMac Moves to 2.5Gb Ethernet and Wi-Fi 7, and the Cheapest Model Now Starts at $1,499
RetroOct 29Apple Made Lisa Programmers Report Weekly Lines of Code, So Bill Atkinson Made QuickDraw Six Times Faster and Wrote -2000
RetroOct 29A Botched Server Patch Stopped a University's Email at About 500 Miles, and the Speed of Light Set the Limit
RetroOct 29The Coding Placeholder 'Foo' Started in a 1930s Fireman Comic Before MIT's Model Railroad Club Adopted It
SecurityOct 29Creeper, the 'First Computer Virus,' Was a Worm, and Reaper, the Program Built to Kill It, Was a Worm Too
SoftwareOct 29Filee Converts Files Offline When You Drop Them on a Donut Menu That Opens at Your Cursor
Hacks & BuildsOct 29This Halloween Skull Uses 24 GHz Radar to Track Three People Through Its Plastic Head, With No Camera
Hacks & BuildsOct 29A Homemade RISC-V CPU Runs DOOM on an FPGA, Sent to the PC at 64x32 Because the Serial Cable Was Too Slow
HardwareOct 29Honor X8e 4G phone reuses August's X7e Plus, 108MP camera and Snapdragon 685 included, with 400mAh less battery
HardwareOct 29Amazon's $79.99 Kindle Page Turn Cover Brings Back Physical Buttons, but Only on the New Signature Editions
RetroOct 29A Last-Minute Fuel-Valve Change Nobody Told the Software Team About Made Apollo 5's Guidance Computer Shut Down Its Own Moon-Lander Engine
Hacks & BuildsOct 29IEEE Spectrum's Hidden Lockbox Opens Only When You Trace a Secret Gesture With a Magnet Over an 8-by-8 Hall-Sensor Grid
SoftwareOct 29'No Space Left on Device' With 50GB Free Means You're Out of Inodes, and df -i Shows It
SoftwareOct 29Christine Peterson Coined "Open Source" in 1998, Then Let Todd Anderson Drop It Into a Meeting
RetroOct 29Printable Commodore 64 Keycaps Put PETSCII Graphics on Modern MX Keyboards, With a Font Traced From a Real C64
RetroOct 29Rob Pike Says Unix's Hidden Dot Files Came From an ls Shortcut That Skipped Every Name Starting With a Period
