Any dead link on music.apple.com now loads a playable click-wheel iPod with 1,029 songs, 15 playlists and the original iPod's Brick easter egg, 25 years to the day after Apple announced the first one.
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Fountain Interactive's Tiny Computers, out the same day as the iPhone Duo, turns Apple's first foldable into ten miniature retro machines: screen on top, a clicking keyboard on the bottom half, and a Windows that occasionally crashes.
In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.
A roughly €30 Aspire PIXO vape renders DOOM's first episode at 19.8 fps with no PC attached, using Artur Bieniek's DMC100-Doom engine, made for a FNIRSI clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM.
Sources GitHub (atc1441/Vape_DOOM_ScreenShare) · GitHub (PixoAspire_DOOM_Port) · GitHub (VapeDOOM v0.1.3) · GitHub (DMC100-Doom) · YouTube (Full DOOM on a Vape) · YouTube (Playing DOOM on a Vape)
Concat is a two-month-old, AGPL-licensed Rust video editor with local auto-captions, voice cloning and background removal, no watermark and no account, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI agent trim, caption and export a project.
Sources Concat · GitHub (jub0t/Concat) · GitHub (Concat MCP guide) · GitHub (Concat announcement) · GitHub (Concat code signing policy) · GitHub (Concat releases)
In 2010, getting a lost laptop back meant a tracking script on its hard drive and hoping the thief went online. Today a lost Mac whispers over Bluetooth to passing Apple devices, and a thief who erases it still hits your Apple Account at setup.
Sources Apple Platform Security · Apple Support (Activation Lock) · Apple Support (Erase a device) · Apple Support (Find My) · Prey (GitHub) · Microsoft Support
Any dead link on music.apple.com now loads a playable click-wheel iPod with 1,029 songs, 15 playlists and the original iPod's Brick easter egg, 25 years to the day after Apple announced the first one.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Any dead link on music.apple.com now loads a playable click-wheel iPod with 1,029 songs, 15 playlists and the original iPod's Brick easter egg, 25 years to the day after Apple announced the first one.
Any dead link on music.apple.com now loads a playable click-wheel iPod with 1,029 songs, 15 playlists and the original iPod's Brick easter egg, 25 years to the day after Apple announced the first one.
Sources Apple Music · Apple Music (iPod component) · Apple Music (iPod song data) · Apple Newsroom · Guinness World Records · MacRumors · X (@kianworld)
Fountain Interactive's Tiny Computers, out the same day as the iPhone Duo, turns Apple's first foldable into ten miniature retro machines: screen on top, a clicking keyboard on the bottom half, and a Windows that occasionally crashes.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Fountain Interactive's Tiny Computers, out the same day as the iPhone Duo, turns Apple's first foldable into ten miniature retro machines: screen on top, a clicking keyboard on the bottom half, and a Windows that occasionally crashes.
Fountain Interactive's Tiny Computers, out the same day as the iPhone Duo, turns Apple's first foldable into ten miniature retro machines: screen on top, a clicking keyboard on the bottom half, and a Windows that occasionally crashes.
Sources Tiny Computers · Tiny Computers press kit · App Store · YouTube (Fountain Interactive) · Apple Newsroom · Dan Fountain
In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.
In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.
Sources Business Wire (USB-IF release) · USB-IF · USB-IF · USB-IF
A roughly €30 Aspire PIXO vape renders DOOM's first episode at 19.8 fps with no PC attached, using Artur Bieniek's DMC100-Doom engine, made for a FNIRSI clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
A roughly €30 Aspire PIXO vape renders DOOM's first episode at 19.8 fps with no PC attached, using Artur Bieniek's DMC100-Doom engine, made for a FNIRSI clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM.
A roughly €30 Aspire PIXO vape renders DOOM's first episode at 19.8 fps with no PC attached, using Artur Bieniek's DMC100-Doom engine, made for a FNIRSI clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM.
Sources GitHub (atc1441/Vape_DOOM_ScreenShare) · GitHub (PixoAspire_DOOM_Port) · GitHub (VapeDOOM v0.1.3) · GitHub (DMC100-Doom) · YouTube (Full DOOM on a Vape) · YouTube (Playing DOOM on a Vape)
Concat is a two-month-old, AGPL-licensed Rust video editor with local auto-captions, voice cloning and background removal, no watermark and no account, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI agent trim, caption and export a project.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Concat is a two-month-old, AGPL-licensed Rust video editor with local auto-captions, voice cloning and background removal, no watermark and no account, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI agent trim, caption and export a project.
Concat is a two-month-old, AGPL-licensed Rust video editor with local auto-captions, voice cloning and background removal, no watermark and no account, and a built-in MCP server that lets an AI agent trim, caption and export a project.
Sources Concat · GitHub (jub0t/Concat) · GitHub (Concat MCP guide) · GitHub (Concat announcement) · GitHub (Concat code signing policy) · GitHub (Concat releases)
In 2010, getting a lost laptop back meant a tracking script on its hard drive and hoping the thief went online. Today a lost Mac whispers over Bluetooth to passing Apple devices, and a thief who erases it still hits your Apple Account at setup.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
In 2010, getting a lost laptop back meant a tracking script on its hard drive and hoping the thief went online. Today a lost Mac whispers over Bluetooth to passing Apple devices, and a thief who erases it still hits your Apple Account at setup.
In 2010, getting a lost laptop back meant a tracking script on its hard drive and hoping the thief went online. Today a lost Mac whispers over Bluetooth to passing Apple devices, and a thief who erases it still hits your Apple Account at setup.
Sources Apple Platform Security · Apple Support (Activation Lock) · Apple Support (Erase a device) · Apple Support (Find My) · Prey (GitHub) · Microsoft Support
Nintendo's Famicom sequel cost 6,500 yen and added a world map for the first time, so players could pick the order of stages. Mario could also turn into a tanuki or a frog.
1,000 songs, 6.5 ounces, $399. It synced over FireWire, which Apple said could move a whole CD in under 10 seconds, about 30 times faster than USB.
Apple discontinued the third-generation iPad on the same day it announced the fourth. About seven months on sale gave it the shortest lifespan of any iOS product, which early buyers did not find charming.
Its Sycamore chip finished a calculation in 200 seconds that Google estimated would take a top supercomputer 10,000 years. The chip had 54 qubits; the run used 53.
2007: The first iPhone: $499 with 4 GB. Today: $699 for an iPhone 17e with 256 GB. Sixty-four times the storage for $200 more, unlocked on apple.com.
Kevin Rose became Digg's CEO in 2010, months before its users fled to Reddit. In 2025 he and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian bought Digg back. Bots swamped the reboot, Rose returned full time, and Digg now ranks news instead of counting votes.
In 2011 the advice was to let LastPass make you a strong password. Since then, a streaming-app bug on a senior engineer's personal device led to stolen vault backups and a £1.2 million UK fine, and passkeys took over the job the strong password used to do.
In May 2010 Apple passed Microsoft at about $226 billion. Nvidia ended that year worth $8.94 billion. In October 2026 Nvidia is worth about $5.1 trillion, and the chips that got it there were built for video games.
In 2010 Shigeru Kondo's desktop computed 5 trillion digits of pi in 90 days. In 2025 StorageReview's single Dell server computed 314 trillion in about 110, on forty Micron SSDs. Here's what changed and what didn't.
Researchers asked Fable 5.1 to hide 50 messages in drawings. It mostly spelled them out in skyline heights, and a fresh session with no codebook read 39 of them back from screenshots.
Sammy Hajhamid spent about two weeks jailbreaking the Switch 2 through SmileBASIC 4, a Switch 1 coding app, with Codex agents running beside him on a rig of JetKVMs and a light-switch flicker that rebooted the console after every crash.
Ryan Sael's Flat Pack rebuilds the BILLY bookcase instructions as a browser model: each of 14 steps opens at the angle of IKEA's drawing, then lets you orbit around the part you couldn't read.
OOSEX GANG's HackiOS runs Apple's open-source XNU kernel and the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space on a Snapdragon 778G Android phone, started with fastboot boot and never flashed.
LinPad OS is a free, sideloaded iPad app that runs Alpine Linux by translating Linux system calls to iPadOS, so Linux desktop apps open as native windows in a tiling desktop on M1-or-newer iPads.
Ed Jefferson's Local Wikipedia takes a postcode, a landmark or your location and shows only the geocoded Wikipedia articles near it, with your location kept in your browser.
Daniel Murrell's free, open-source OnKey listens to a song once, pulls out the singer's melody on your Mac, and from the next play on scrolls the notes at you and grades how close you got.
Peter Cai's browser game makes you an elected mayor, not a god: the economy is real, but every project goes through hearings, objections, lawsuits and a seven-seat council before the next election.
Hirundo had Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder build the same secret-storage app hundreds of times, changing only the customer's name; 70% of the US contractor's apps could be broken into, against 59% for a Chinese one.
Amanda Smith of upstate Pennsylvania spent three nights in jail on an Arkansas computer fraud warrant over a $1,000 Facebook Marketplace scam paid to a Cash App account in her name, and Cash App won't tell her about the account.
Zero Day Initiative reports for unpatched kernel bugs, including two remote code execution flaws rated CVSS 9.0, landed on the public Linux kernel mailing list instead of the private security list, apparently by mistake.
PHP shipped PHP2Shell fixes for 8.2 through 8.5. Ondřej Surý's deb.sury.org, which he runs mostly in his free time beside a day job at ISC, had patched packages back to PHP 5.6 the same day.
The YouTube channel Witchcraft and Alchemy sputtered platinum and titanium onto glass to make flat cathodes for a five-segment gas-discharge display, lit it with welding argon, then took it apart when the sealed version wouldn't work.
TU Delft's FilaLoom is a printed add-on that lets a Bambu Lab A1 grab a parked yarn needle with its own print head, weave yarn between printed pillars, and print over it, with no added electronics.
