HardwareOct 29RoboParty's RP1 humanoid robot publishes its CAD, 14 circuit boards and wiring under an open hardware license, minus the joint-motor firmware
SoftwareOct 29Sdrtop Is a Rust Terminal Monitor That Reads Software Radios, Maps Wi-Fi Airtime and Decodes Pagers With No Audio
GamingOct 29Sony's $85 See-Through PS5 Controllers Show the Insides, While the Matching $75 Console Covers Hide Them
RetroOct 29Sudo Began on a VAX at SUNY Buffalo Around 1980 and Passed Through Several Teams Before Todd Miller Took It Public in 1994
AIOct 29VoiceStudio Clones, Designs and Dubs Voices in 646 Languages on Your Own Computer as an Open-Source ElevenLabs Alternative
RetroOct 29Wi-Fi Stands for Nothing: 'Wireless Fidelity' Was a Tagline Its Own Founder Calls a Mistake, and the Name Nearly Lost to Trapeze
SoftwareOct 29Windows Drops Bluetooth Headphones to Mono Phone-Call Audio Whenever Any App Opens Their Microphone
SoftwareOct 29Windows' Built-In SleepStudy Report Shows Which Component Drains a Laptop's Battery While the Lid Is Closed
RetroOct 29Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash
SoftwareOct 29Amazon Spain applied a customer's years-old VAT number to a kitchen knife, and no support channel could remove it
HardwareOct 29Analogue's $219.99 Super Nt+ builds the wireless radio into the SNES console and lets you swap cartridges without powering down
AIOct 29anymove, an open-source mocap tool, animates a rigged 3D creature from one AI video that films it from two angles in one frame
HardwareOct 29Apple's M6 14-inch MacBook Pro adds two CPU cores and Wi-Fi 7, and now starts at $1,999 with a 1TB drive
RetroOct 29Scott Fahlman invented the :-) smiley at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, three days after a joke mercury-spill warning was taken seriously
SoftwareOct 29Executive Eightball app shuffles an executive's meeting-notes buzzword database into 270 million CEO-style sentences
SoftwareOct 29FreeBSD Co-Founder Jordan Hubbard Ports DHH's Omarchy Desktop to FreeBSD as Daemonarchy, Coding With Claude
SecurityOct 29Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops security benchmarks, but only vetted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program can use it for now
RetroOct 29Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil's 1942 torpedo patent hopped frequencies using player-piano rolls synced by clock motors
RetroOct 29HTTP's 418 "I'm a teapot" error comes from RFC 2324, a 1998 April Fools' coffee pot protocol with a WHEN command to stop the milk
HardwareOct 29Huawei's CNY 1,399 Enjoy 100 Pairs the Pro's 6,100mAh Battery With HarmonyOS 7 Fake-Voice and Scam-Call Warnings
HardwareOct 29Huawei's Enjoy 100 Pro Max adds BeiDou satellite messaging and an 8,800mAh battery for CNY 1,999, but only the 512GB model gets the full Kirin 8020
RetroOct 29NESPC Turns an Original NES Into a Desktop PC With a Start Menu, a File Manager and Minesweeper
SoftwareOct 29pngdeer, a free open-source PNG compressor, makes files 8 to 12% smaller than TinyPNG in its maker's 180-image test
RetroOct 29The QWERTY Keyboard Grew Out of Telegraph Gear Built for Morse Code Operators, Kyoto Researchers Found
