Every story
November 2026
- A Raspberry Pi Pico adapter reaches an Apple Silicon Mac’s hidden USB-C serial console
- Clingon turns Markdown cheatsheets into shell commands with a typed-code safety catch
- CRAYON, the 1995 personalized news site, is back and says your 1990s password still works
- Unix daemons got their name from an imaginary molecule sorter, not an acronym
- FORTRAN's 1957 compiler used random numbers to plan its use of three index registers
- HC, a free Mac app, opens original 1987 HyperCard stacks and adds color
- GestaltX edits iPhone capability flags, but its feature switches come with a restore warning
- An iPhone app controls the same iPhone through a VPN that loops back into itself
- Marc Andreessen proposed the HTML IMG tag on a mailing list on Feb. 25, 1993, and Tim Berners-Lee wasn't sold
- Margaret Hamilton's colleagues laughed at 'software engineering'; Apollo needed its overload planning
- Mister Download Manager's one-second gigabyte came from a server on the same PC
- Netscape swapped its logo for a compass on any URL with /jwz/ in it, according to 1996 mailing-list posts
- A newly archived Math Blaster floppy keeps every sector, down to its original magnetic readings
- NZXT's H7 case has a curved glass roof you can swap for mesh, from $159.99
- Sony's $599 PlayStation 3 Lost $3.3 Billion and Still Won the Blu-ray Format War
- Rystic runs fake Slack, GitHub and Stripe APIs on your machine, and the cheaper plans check in every 30 seconds
- A Synacktiv researcher got remote code execution in the GOG version of Star Wars Episode I: Racer through its multiplayer
- SteelSeries' $180 Rival Pro gaming mouse uses Ultra-Wideband radio and twist-out batteries instead of USB
- A vintage logic chip hid spare diodes so one silicon design could become three different products
- After Dark’s 1994 racing rats return in a browser, with their original music and bad habits
- A free tool makes coding agents claim files before another agent can take the same work
- Woz’s five-chip Apple II floppy controller made software do the expensive hardware’s work
- A free tool builds command-line controls for Windows apps, with Notepad as its working demo
- A free browser-makers’ tool gives coding agents modern alternatives to outdated web code
- A free engine loads your Red Alert 2 files into a browser for multiplayer skirmishes
- A free tool replaces API keys with placeholders before a coding agent reads them
- A programmer rebuilt CompuServe in Pascal, down to its GO commands and CB chat rooms
- A developer’s blood-sugar benchmark finds accurate averages can conceal missed dangerous lows
- A dad built a seven-foot driveway UFO with 1,406 LEDs and his three-year-old flight engineer
- A Harley diagnostic tool uses an ESP32 and a browser instead of a licensed scanner
- A Nintendo DS factory game fits a 4.2-million-tile world by storing only your changes
- A homeowner revived a discontinued Nest thermostat with open firmware and a new furnace cable
- A developer designed an Ethernet chip in four days and added a counter for the universe’s lifetime
- A free offline desktop authenticator imports two-factor codes by decoding QR screenshots from your clipboard
- A free disk cleaner checks dependency lockfiles before deleting idle project folders
- A free two-file C toolkit makes desktop interfaces without embedding a browser
- A camera owner squeezed missing Fujifilm printer support into 4,048 unused bytes
- A browser arcade recreates 35 Ghanaian street games, down to bottle-cap football and paper goals
- A hidden link bans disobedient crawlers; its maker reports daily traffic falling from 216GB to 25GB
- IBM launched its 1401 computer with an empty box and engineers spinning the tape reels
- IBM blasted Selectric typeballs with walnut shells because sand was too rough
- Doom runs on an IBM mainframe while your browser receives only colored terminal text
- An iPhone app calculates where every nail goes before you hang a gallery wall
- A homemade computer runs 6502 and Z80 software without either processor chip
- Konrad Zuse programmed a living-room computer with holes punched in used movie film
- An archived LEGO classroom CD-ROM pairs plastic gearboxes with real factory videos
- A $1.99 emulator puts MSX computer games and BASIC programs on an Apple Watch
- A fan port brings a delisted Pac-Man phone game to Dreamcast, using your own Android game file
- Nintendo's NES security patent made the console and cartridge solve matching calculations together
- A free homebrew store lets a network-connected Nintendo GameCube download its own apps
- A free Telegram client brings modern chats back to an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3
- A domain-price tracker catches a $2.57 address that renews for $43.77
- A free writing tool borrows aircraft-maintenance rules to untangle chatbot prose
- M5Stack’s pocket controller puts 256 LEDs across its face, with motion sensing built in
- A homemade printer turns your weekly GitHub activity into a 25-centimeter receipt
- A free browser tool measures your floor-plan PDF without uploading the house plans
- A Pico 2 W drives a 1080p display by drawing each line just before it is needed
- PlayStation 1 vs. PlayStation 2: the 8MB card holds backups, but PS1 games still need their old card
- PlayStation 3 vs. PlayStation 4: 512MB split memory became 8GB shared memory, but PS3 discs stayed behind
- A free Proxmox tool lets an AI agent patch your VMs and containers without giving it a shell
- A developer reverse-engineered Windows drivers to revive a six-chip Pulsar II sound card on Linux
- A fake CAPTCHA lets you refresh three times to escape, or scan a QR code for a rickroll
- A free browser tool shows which satellites crossed your address and finds their public photos
- A free Windows tool cuts oversized 3D prints into numbered parts and writes their assembly guide
- Sega Saturn vs. Dreamcast: eight times the main RAM, with the modem finally built in
- A free website runs Kubernetes in your browser and turns extra tabs into cluster nodes
- A parody security site reports that opening a terminal gives attackers a working shell
- A homemade Tesla charging robot grabs the car with suction cups to push its plug in
- A browser map repaints Valencia’s real buildings as a scrollable SimCity-style city
- A free terminal tool finds broken cron, launchd, and systemd jobs and gives you the fix command
- Vanderbilt computers reportedly played a spoken ransomware threat through their speakers
- A free browser tool turns Python math animations into sliders readers can play with
- A $5 game turns your ordinary webcam into a controller for a tail-whipping paper dragon
- A 48KB ZX Spectrum runs the original code from 18 Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds
- Fallout 4 turns 11 on the same day its hated Anniversary Edition turns one
- Wally Finder searches 450-plus unsecured cameras for a striped shirt
- A fan recompiles Black Ops II for Apple Silicon, with Zombies near 60 fps
- Carnegie Mellon put a Coke machine online to avoid warm soda
- Ocarina Recomp gets Zelda onto Windows, with an RTX 5090 and a lot left untested
- S2Arm rebuilds Switch games for iPhone, with one app holding the library
- Watson promises 3,100-site people search, but its public search code returns a demo
- The mouse beat a knee lever in a 1967 paper, once users had practice
- Negs Puts a Film Lab in Your Browser and Leaves Your Photograph There
- Raspberry Pi 400 vs. 500: double the RAM, same microSD habit
- Still Working On It Turns 17 Years of Side Projects Into Searchable Maker Timelines
- Someone Was Here catches the person who already knows your Mac password
- Sony Put the Walkman's Launch Presentation on the Walkmans It Handed Reporters
- Steam Deck OLED vs. Switch 2: Nintendo doubles the screen pixels while Valve starts with twice the storage
- Suzanne Vega's unaccompanied voice gave MP3's developers a difficult test track
- Windows is putting “don’t ask again” inside the Sticky Keys interruption itself
- ARPANET's 1978 sales pitch ran out of address space and invaded its own message
- AI Slop FM hides the musicians and lets listeners grade the songs
- Airgap Check finds the downloads hiding inside an offline AI app
- Camp Snap’s $149.99 mini camcorder makes you wait until the cable comes out
- FloodRoute matches tide levels to the low points in your streets
- A firewall pioneer remembers a $75,000 product and the permission problem it couldn't buy away
- A disposable vape serves a webpage in 160 milliseconds after its developer fixes buffering
- Dolphin Depot gives the real GameCube an app store and 62 homebrew picks
- EDSAC remembered with tubes of liquid mercury; the museum rebuilding it swapped in steel wire
- Enough Phone pairs a 5.3-inch Android with a battery you can replace
- Filepeek opens hundreds of file types in a browser without uploading them
- Two former Apple contractors kept sneaking in until Graphing Calculator shipped
- Flashback’s ONE75 makes a 24-hour photo reveal optional
- A whole virtual Mac fits inside a terminal, and keeps its paws off your cursor
- TimeScroll lets your Mac search the things you forgot to save
- One GPU runs 65,536 Nintendo consoles, provided they all press the same button
- Halo 2 turns 22 with original Xbox matchmaking running on a fan-built service
- HomePod mini 2 owners report a 5 GHz workaround for Mac speaker dropouts
- HTTP’s teapot joke also specified when a coffee pot should stop pouring milk
- Just a Pause blurs your Mac screen when your AirPods feel you look away
- Kiiwi cuts keyboard-sample silence so your Mac’s fake thock arrives on time
- MeowDisplay Gives Your iPhone a Separate Mac Desktop Over USB or Local Wi-Fi
- A Free Go Music Player Writes Podcast Captions on Your Own Computer While the Episode Plays
- Nintendo 2DS vs. 3DS: The Flat One Weighs 25 Grams More and Has Mono Speakers
- Null's inventor called it a billion-dollar mistake and pointed to non-null types
- RuView uses Wi-Fi reflections to sense a room, but its 82.3% figure needs its label
- Retro Song Bird turns Game Boy cartridges into a music player with four separate USB audio channels
- ScrivenSpell makes long words hurt monsters more, then replaces each monster with a tougher one
- A Virtua Fighter 2 viewer opens Sega Saturn disc data so the fighters can hold still
- Sony’s 1998 Mavica photo printer swallowed the camera’s floppy disk directly
- Usenet-Rewind makes more than a billion old newsgroup posts searchable, including the embarrassing ones
- Sem86 swaps x86 CPU rules mid-run to find the instruction that gives an emulator away
- A free Windows game recreates Zelda’s 1989 scratch-off cards, complete with hummed music
- An Apple II Phonebook Saved Your Contacts to Cassette by Saving Itself, Because BASIC Couldn't Work the Tape Deck
- Boxshelf Puts Your Emulator Library on a 3D Shelf, Then Lets You Open the Case, Take the Disc Out and Read the Manual
- BuildCores Lets You Assemble a PC from 5,000-Plus 3D Part Models in the Browser, So You Can See What Fits Before You Buy
- DOPPLERGEIST Tries to Place a Recording on a Map by Matching the Pitch of Passing Planes to Flight Records, and Its README Lists Where It Falls Short
- FELF bundles a Linux program with its own glibc into one executable that needs no FUSE, root or install
- FMHYPlay, a free Android TV app, lifts the video out of a website and plays it in a remote-friendly player
- Scott Hanselman's free terminal tool shows which program is eating your GPU memory
- Henge runs macOS on an iPhone and turns the screen into its trackpad
- IBM's 1975 “portable” computer weighed 55 pounds and ran some mainframe software
- IBM's 650 kept its memory on a drum spinning 12,500 times a minute
- Kiri, a Free Docker Desktop Alternative, Puts Its Linux VM to Sleep After 60 Idle Seconds
- Logitech's MX Master 4 Adds a Buzzing Thumb Panel and 9 Grams Over the 3S, With the Same 8,000 DPI Sensor
- Early Core Memory Wiped Each Bit It Read, So the Computer Had to Write It Right Back
- Olimex's €4.95 CH390 Board Puts a Wired Ethernet Port on a Pico or an ESP32, but ESPHome Only Drives It on the ESP32
- Rodrigo Delduca's Overdrive Mac Player Asks Last.fm What You'd Like, Then Plays Only the Songs You Already Own
- PageCarry's Chrome Extension Rebuilds a Signed-In Page as a Real PDF, With Searchable Text and Heading Bookmarks, and Says Nothing Leaves Your Machine but Image Requests
- Aleksey Smolenchuk's phoneuse Drives an Unmodified iPhone From Linux by Posing as a Bluetooth Mouse, and Installing It Turns Off Your PC's Own Bluetooth Keyboard
- PicoDiet tries several encodings per image and keeps the smallest one that still hits your quality score
- Pico 2 costs $1 more than the original Pico and doubles the flash, with a choice of Arm or RISC-V cores
- sbx launches your Windows app in a throwaway PC and keeps the screenshots after it crashes
- satmux keeps 12 connections open on the ground so airplane Wi-Fi stops paying for handshakes
- A 1963 drawing program changed every copy of a symbol the moment you edited one, and kept the wires attached when you moved it
- Sony's ELF-MN1 is a six-inch desk display that shows anime avatars in 3D without glasses, if your phone and cable cooperate
- Sony's WH-1000XM6 Outlasts the WH-1000XM5 by Two Hours on Paper, but Only Over SBC; AAC and LDAC Listeners Get a Tie
- Texas Instruments' 1978 Speak & Spell Squeezed a Whole Speech Synthesizer Onto One Chip and Kept Its Words on 128-Kilobit Memory
- A Free Browser Yahtzee Opponent Plays for the Best Average Until Round 11, Then Switches to Playing to Beat You
- Julio Merino's ZKeys Keeps Half of Your Disk Passphrase Off-Site and Locks It Once Your Home Server Stops Checking In
- AirFly View puts headphone names on a screen, but gives up battery life
- Hodos maps potholes from the bumps your Android phone already feels
- Apollo 11’s lunar ignition code was literally called “Burn, baby, burn”
- Apple’s Beatles dispute reached into a sound API and broke apps, its engineer recalls
- Apple keyboard batteries: the coin slot means AA, the port means recharge
- Betamax vs. VHS: Sony’s one-hour starting point became an expensive moving target
- Burst Super-Res turns tiny camera shifts into bigger photos without inventing the scenery
- Calibron checks whether four puzzle pieces have already ruined your chances
- CHIMERA makes browser music by letting you rearrange a throat
- A 1951 Manchester computer made music with its warning hooter, and the BBC recorded it
- Creeptids exports virtual pets as files, complete with their hunger and dirt
- The first stolen computer passwords came out of a printer
- DeskBox puts real folders on your Windows desktop without moving their files
- devvm gives each project a VM and leaves your other files outside
- Dreamcast VMU mini-games run in a browser while your memory-card file stays local
- FastVM puts an idle virtual machine to sleep and lets an incoming packet wake it
- OpenDocBot puts your own model connection inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- TextoCAD makes editable parts whose dimensions change without another model call
- Game Gear vs. Game Boy: six AAs for color, four for about 15 hours
- Gamely turns off Mac Hot Corners during a game, then puts your shortcuts back
- An IBM 1403 printer plays music by hammering the right nonsense onto paper
- iFi UP Travel Max lets an old iPod broadcast to compatible wireless headphones
- Kid Pix runs in your browser, with hidden keyboard tricks still tucked behind its tools
- Kugelblitz lets nearby Macs share the map tiles they already downloaded
- Your Samsung washer has a local route into Home Assistant
- MicLock stops a Mac microphone switch from making Bluetooth headphones sound muffled
- The Macintosh chime got a software filter. Its speaker hole got a Steve Jobs veto.
- Mago Studio restyles video on your GPU, with no account for local rendering
- Meeple Scan reads a board-game shelf from one photo and checks the player counts
- Sony MiniDisc used memory to keep your pocket mixtape playing when the disc skipped
- MomentStays moves Android motion photos into Apple Photos without recompressing their video
- Motorola Signature 27 grows its battery 35% and promises GrapheneOS support
- Music Router catches your Mac Play key before it opens Music
- He moved Need for Speed Underground 2 into a browser to race his brother again
- A free Windows terminal brings Ghostty themes and flags background tabs waiting for your input
- PSP vs. PS Vita: four times the pixels and two sticks, but your UMDs stay behind
- R-eyesy turns an old phone into cartoon eyes that react to you
- A Windows skiing game returned after its creator found the source code he thought was lost
- A free tool keeps command-line apps loaded so each call skips starting them again
- The90 Gem puts separate UVA and UVB readings on a necklace
- This free tiny game computer packs your code, pictures and music into a cartridge
- Tim Berners-Lee borrowed the URL’s double slash from an Apollo workstation
- A tiny AI trained for about ten cents imagines a playable Minecraft-like world in your browser
- A free browser music studio lets you play chords by touching neighboring shapes
- A self-hosted YouTube client keeps family subscriptions together without a Google account
- A free extension turns years of Tumblr likes into a calendar instead of endless scrolling
- Nintendo's red-screen headset looked like a five-game toy to Miyamoto, but sold as a platform
- A Python job can sleep in Postgres and wake where it stopped
- Maurice Wilkes’s two-page cache paper already worried about copying the wrong memory
- A new Nintendo 64 shooter uses 31 of its 32 megabytes for sound and music
- Zalando's broker lets you revoke one agent without disconnecting all of them
- A fake recruiter’s demo app inspired CloneGuard, a scanner that reads code before it runs
- Game Boy Advance vs. Game Boy Advance SP: screen lighting costs the built-in headphone jack
- Glocker schedules your sudo access so you cannot casually disable its blocks
- An IRC server on port zero led a hacker to 2,905 unexpected service responses
- noise’r’us serves a one-second fart in MP3, FLAC and RealAudio 1.0
- Size It Up asks you to resize silhouettes, then scores how far your eyeballs missed
- Tell the Sky sends message lanterns around a world map on NOAA wind forecasts
- Windows Guest still exists, but a visitor needs a standard account
- World Strike lets toy tanks knock down real city maps, with rubble shared by everyone
- YUMO’s brass-wire cube turns gravity into a game controller
- Apple’s early mouse prototype borrowed a deodorant ball and a butter dish
- Peter Merholz Turned Weblog Into Blog by Moving One Syllable in His Sidebar
- Checkered Chat puts a cover story and a second note in one QR code
- Chimera Linux fixed an NVIDIA hang by moving a lock’s type information
- Defrag 95 turns Windows disk cleanup into a browser toy with hard-drive chatter
- ELIZA Rearranged Its Users' Words, and Some Still Needed Convincing It Was a Machine
- The FAA starts replacing floppy-dependent controller displays, with 430 planned sites still ahead
- The original floppy disk’s envelope cleaned it as well as covering it
- A free app makes Microsoft’s Surface Mouse buzz on a Mac and adds a shortcut ring
- The first Macintosh nearly missed its software deadline. The spacebar got formatting moving.
- Nintendo DS vs. DS Lite: 57 grams lighter, with four brightness levels
- Nintendo DS vs. DSi: bigger 3.25-inch screens, but no Game Boy Advance slot
- A tiny agent runtime starts in 64 MB, then tells you not to run it there
- Phone Link brings Android messages to a Mac, but call audio stays on the phone
- Ben Hammersley Suggested Podcasting While Padding a Newspaper Story on Deadline
- Razer bent its $80 earbud plug to get out of your gaming grip
- Spotify listening privacy needs more than switching off Friend Activity
- Tamagotchi Turns 30 With a Times Square Takeover After Winning a Prize for Wasting Our Time
- Wake traces stolen crypto toward exchanges and turns the trail into a report
- An iPhone browser lets web pages talk to nearby Bluetooth devices and NFC tags
- Windows 95 installed a tiny Windows 3.1 first so you could answer setup questions sooner
- X-87 paints a DOS landscape with 256 bytes and a very patient CPU
- Xbox and GameCube Landed Three Days Apart With Opposite Pitches for the Living Room
- The 1988 Internet worm tried last names backward. Email debug mode did the rest.
- A free security lab lets you break virtual machines while keeping the original disks untouched
- Bill Atkinson got two weeks to prove Apple needed Pascal. Lisa used the result.
- A Civilization VII cartridge becomes a Switch code loader through its chat box
- Engine-X lets you pull a running gearbox apart in your browser
- Epson firmware blocks the network reset, but a USB cable still reaches the ink counter
- Free disk imaging can restore Windows even when Windows will not start
- GameCube vs. Wii: RVL-001 is the model number that keeps both disc libraries
- Your first GitHub contribution needs a small change and evidence it works
- A gym member rebuilt its rotating QR pass using account keys left in a phone log
- IBM's early disk team used compressed air to keep the head from scraping data
- IBM's tape breakthrough involved a vacuum cleaner and baby pants
- Internet Explorer retired, but Edge still runs its engine through at least 2029
- Jay Tholen turned a childhood game-engine bug into Mr. Grinman's ceiling-grip power
- Alice hid its Mac game settings inside a Cheshire Cat
- Meta's 135-kilowatt AI rack needs plumbing inside the data center
- Microsoft says its Mouse spent four weeks in Canadian agricultural quarantine
- nandfs runs Doom on a CPU made of folders, at minutes per frame
- An old graphics card can show Windows 11 without having a supported driver
- Paint.NET still edits photos for free, but its hardware requirements have moved on
- Pixel walkers turn your web page's text into platforms, then a resize flings them
- Retrogram puts real WhatsApp and Telegram chats into separate ICQ-style windows
- ripplemap follows a base image into repositories that never mention it
- Windows gave SimCity a special memory mode because the game read memory it had freed
- Tunefield puts your DJ library in a 3D field, with export behind a future paid release
- Wii vs. Wii U: the GamePad shows Wii games while its buttons sit out
- Windows 3D Pipes survived a screensaver contest when marketing canceled the vote
- Windows keeps its built-in Administrator disabled for a reason
- Free Windows software still offers extra apps, and protection has two separate switches
- Windows Solitaire's removed boss key disguised the game as C code
- Apple explained printer settings with a font animal that became the dogcow
- Atari 2600 vs. Atari 5200: four direction switches became two position sensors
- This ESP32 launcher loads Doom and Quake from an SD card without rebooting
- Looseleaf draws paper-and-ink buttons around real React controls
- Pokopia Recomp turns a Switch 2 game dump into a native Windows build
- Nokia 3310 vs. Nokia 1100: 47 grams lighter, with a flashlight
- REDMAGIC 12 Pro puts an 8,400mAh battery behind a 185Hz gaming screen
- Sony's MDR-3R revives Walkman headphones, with a warning against Walkman use
- Vortex spins a Raspberry Pi and two LED panels into a playable 3D globe
- Wing Commander co-op works by turning a dead loading message into executable code
- He assigned letters prime numbers so every Scrabble word’s anagram key fits in 64 bits
- A free browser toy finds full names made from exactly the same letters as yours
- Apple will check public iCloud links for harmful content, even with Advanced Data Protection on
- Atari 2600 vs. ColecoVision: eight times the main RAM and an add-on that played Atari's own cartridges
- Bambu’s $2,499 printer keeps nine tools loaded so a material swap takes about six seconds
- The earliest “Hello, world” its creators remembered was written for C’s predecessor, B
- A browser sandbox turns your photo into wood you can set on fire
- A free tool turns a Go repository into one HTML map you can hand to someone
- Commodore 64 vs. VIC-20: nearly thirteen times the system RAM behind a familiar keyboard
- Diablo’s fan port lets the dungeon stay online after its first player leaves
- Early web pages had an HTML tag that switched off every tag after it
- A late creator's donated code revealed how to trigger a 29-year-old Elder Scrolls Easter egg
- An Android car dashboard turns your engine readings into an F-16 display and tunes real aircraft radio
- His single-knob ESP32 radio can tune Argentina from Germany after shrinking the audio fourfold
- A browser aquarium makes you grow filter bacteria before you can keep fish alive
- Floppy disk vs. microSD card: 2TB equals about 1.36 million standard HD floppy capacities
- Fred Cohen’s 1983 virus demo got full system rights in under five minutes at its fastest
- A free app shares one mouse and streams Windows apps into Mac windows over direct connections
- A free browser tool turns shortwave warbles into weather maps and cuts out the web player’s gaps
- Disc Image Studio burns visible pictures into ordinary blank discs
- Hyperbutler runs Docker on Windows without WSL, reporting 319 MiB at idle
- Game Boy Pocket kept 160 × 144 pixels and cut rated playtime from 30 to 10 hours
- An ESP32 GTA countdown clock takes pixel-art drive-by breaks
- An old iPod touch backup surfaces early apps with their version numbers intact
- An ISP’s DNS interference gave itself away when an encrypted lookup returned another address
- A desktop laser harp times each pluck and triggers its own fog machine
- Microsoft Word had so many shortcuts it collided with the Mac’s emergency abort keys
- The Mac’s four-voice sound demo squeezed two values into each register
- The Macintosh team’s pirate flag went up with rusty nails and survived a Lisa-team heist
- NES vs. Nintendo 64: a huge CPU-clock leap still left a cartridge slot
- NullPlayer runs Windows Media Player skins on a Mac, scripts included
- oldTunes puts a current iCloud library behind the iTunes 2005 interface
- OLED vs. Mini-LED: one dark pixel can switch off, a dimming zone has neighbors
- OpenRA brings Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 into one free modern engine
- The original Mac shipped a hook for a little man who never fit
- A Pentium Pro with modern chess software won 78 games against an old engine on a new PC
- A Python smartwatch’s free RAM rose from 7.1 to 12.4 KB after filesystem work
- PiPedal turns a Raspberry Pi into a guitar-effects box controlled from a phone
- PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: your discs and game library decide before the teraflops
- Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Arduino UNO Q: desktop Linux or Linux with a dedicated controller
- An archive upload collects the Roland ROM pairs that bring old DOS music back
- ScreenGuard gives Linux app limits that can minimize the window eating your afternoon
- SSD vs. HDD: the boot drive and the bulk library have different jobs
- Super Nintendo vs. Game Boy Advance: twice the external work RAM, on two AAs
- SyncForge listens to your speakers, then makes the fast ones wait for Bluetooth
- ThunderScan made an ImageWriter read photos by replacing its ink ribbon
- CERN's two-year staff turnover gave the Web proposal an office problem to solve
- A $75 game of Space Travel helped push Unix onto a spare PDP-7
- USB-C vs. Thunderbolt: the plug fits, but the connection still negotiates its limits
- Your USB drive can have free space and still reject a large file because of FAT32
- Vint Cerf's Christmas networking RFC ends with an off-by-one index
- A damaged Windows Phone 8 prototype boots again with repaired files and a software GPU
- A trailing space can make Windows open a different file with the same visible name
- Windows XP vs. Windows 7: XP's regular update window lasted 812 more days
- Windows XP vs. Windows 98: XP's total support run was about 4.4 years longer
- A Zelda calculator watches Dampé's blinks to time his Heart Piece roll
- Atari 2600 vs. Intellivision: 128 bytes of RAM against 1,456, split three ways
- The barcode began with Morse code in sand and a plan to read circles
- Big-endian and little-endian got their names from an argument over eggs
- Seeed’s $39.90 e-paper dashboard swaps Wi-Fi for Bluetooth and a two-year estimate
- Corpse-Party Rebuilt+ revives the PC-98 horror game, with a few modern comforts
- Theme Hospital can finally wait while you build the room
- Dreamcast vs. PS2: 16 MB of main memory against 32 MB, not 26 against 32
- Silencio-2 puts sighs and whispers in a 112 MB voice model
- This browser ocean bends waves around rocks, and labels the benchmark properly
- Florilegium grows a different flower garden in the space your document leaves empty
- hjkl teaches Vim by letting you fix the text any way that works
- The 11-inch iPad Pro is lighter than Air, with a brighter screen and faster port
- Ken Thompson’s compiler backdoor could survive deleting its source
- Linux kill kept one digit and terminated almost the whole machine
- Lisp’s parentheses stuck after Steve Russell made a paper’s notation executable
- Lorem ipsum borrows Cicero’s pain, but its printing origin still has gaps
- A lost Indiana Jones VGA ad survives with Lucasfilm spelled wrong
- Mac fonts went global because Steve Jobs rejected the commuter stops
- Bill Atkinson improved on Xerox windows without knowing their limit
- make began with programmers debugging fixes they had forgotten to compile
- A PET command decoded MICROSOFT from bytes hidden after the sine table
- Neo Geo Freak’s 10,000 Japanese pages now have an English way in
- This browser Office editor saves the parts you changed
- OpenRCT2 lets friends build the same RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 park
- OpenVDDK reads VMware disks through the library slot migration tools already use
- Donald Davies called them packets so the network’s pieces wouldn’t become your message
- A home computer design puts its processor across 20 programmable logic chips
- A GIF royalty announcement helped create PNG in about two months
- IBM’s disk-drive pioneer first caught its attention with a test-grading machine
- Finger’s 1977 status reports told coworkers where you sat and when you last typed
- A Roland owner dumped the early TR-707 firmware nobody could find
- The Colony packed a roaming 3D world onto one Mac floppy; ScummVM is testing it
- A Sega programmer’s floppies saved the Tails game that needed four years of art
- Sega Master System vs. NES: 4x the RAM (8 KB to 2 KB) and 8x the video RAM
- Skykeep puts iCloud’s apps on Linux, with a local library that works offline
- SQL started as SEQUEL, then a trademark issue took the vowels
- Steve Jobs brought Mick Jagger a Macintosh; Jade found the fun in MacPaint
- SNES vs. PlayStation: 128 KB of RAM against 2 MB, and cartridges against CDs
- A librarian’s mousepad helped “surfing the Internet” catch a much bigger wave
- Unix’s spellchecker removed "id" because it kept sheltering a mistyped "is"
- UTF-8’s diner-placemat design had one demand: find your place in the bytes
- A wall-sized tube computer needs ten minutes to warm up before the tweaking starts
- Classic Winamp fits inside a browser, skins and all
- An ESP32 camera adds Wi-Fi to a blood-pressure display by reading its digits
- Windows kept BOZOSLIVEHERE working after the warning became its name
- Xerox’s laser-printer inventor needed distance from Xerox management
- Atari 7800 added 32 times the RAM and kept the 2600’s sound hardware
- An Echo Dot’s Hidden USB Pads Became a Route Out of Alexa
- Natively can dress up as Terminal, but its screen-share hiding is best effort
- CalibRaw carries editable RAW photo adjustments between desktop and Android
- Four Minecraft AIs Spent 11 Minutes Appointing a Fertilizer Operator
- A diagram skill fetches real logos, then asks twice before putting your stack online
- A Stranger Things Light Wall Lets a Phone Fix the Letter Wiring
- USB-C vs. Lightning on iPhone: the cable in the box is still USB 2 speed
- Waveshare puts the Arduino UNO Q behind a touchscreen and removes the display cable
- Game Boy Color quadrupled work RAM and kept the same 160 × 144 grid
- Nintendo DS had 512 times Game Boy’s main RAM and still could not play its games
- Karbonn Rebel Pro has 1,000mAh less battery capacity than the plain Rebel
- A Macintosh designer left extra board traces for a solder-in RAM upgrade
- MacPaint’s Downloadable Source Shows How Bill Atkinson Hid the Flicker
- Switch 2 vs. Switch 1: 8x the storage and 1080p, but as little as 2 hours of battery
- Analog Redial lets a rotary phone ring the other room, or read pi when you dial 314
- The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now costs $385, up from its $120 launch price
- Thief's remaster brings four new missions from The Black Parade's creators
- Unix mail alerts still carry a dog’s obituary in the biff manual
- A nearby USB 3 device can interfere with Bluetooth, Microsoft warns
- WetSock gets its 1990s weather icon working again by replacing a dead feed
- Offtrackometer puts a wandering needle on your wandering meeting
- Casio's Feel Sync fixes the notes you play, but it can't use your streaming subscription
- Commodore 128 doubled the C64’s main RAM and added a CPU for another library
- Ctrl+Alt+Delete saved IBM's engineers from rebooting PCs with a screwdriver
- A developer built his wife a walkable art museum, then had to reconstruct a sculpture from photos
- Fairbuds 2 put a $9.99 battery swap inside $119.99 wireless earbuds
- Taito Paid Students 180,000 Yen to Show Games and Kept No Code
- A 2009 Chumby One Gets Nine Podcast Stations, With a Knob That Actually Tunes Them
- Apple replaced Lisa’s “Do It” button after a tester read it as “Dolt”
- A free script switches off Bravia screen tracking, then watches the TV’s connections
- Advertise to Yourself puts your own deadlines in Chrome’s new-tab page
- A 25 GB Blu-ray holds 5.32 single-layer DVDs, even when software calls it 23.28 GiB
- An 80-minute data CD has the sector capacity of 600 PC/AT floppy disks
- Game Boy Advance had 36 times the original Game Boy’s work RAM and kept its cartridges useful
- Ted Nelson named hypertext in 1965. His links were supposed to work both ways.
- The first Zune held six first-generation iPods’ worth of music, five years later
- Apple’s random-clicking Mac tester kept choosing Quit, so the apps learned to stop it
- PDF began by unwinding printer code, and Adobe's own salespeople didn't get the point
- PostgreSQL 19 Slipped as AI Bug Reports Outpaced Human Review
- A Prusa Printer Heatbed Picked Up Stereo FM Radio
- Doom takes over a Snapmaker U1’s screen, but the printer gets first refusal
- An experimental Mac project runs ARM64 SteamOS and translates games through several layers
- A Windows 95 Compatibility Call Ended With Instructions for a DOS Boot Disk
- A 1TB USB stick holds about 678,000 standard floppy disks’ worth of bytes
- Apple’s Pizza-Container Application Gave Steam a Chimney
- A browser VHS camera gives your video tape hiss along with the tracking noise
- Cloudflare stopped rereading whole DNS zones for one setting and cut peak memory 85%
- AVault records Android calls through Shizuku, but its encrypted vault needs a reality check
- agent-desktop Clicks App Controls Without Borrowing Your Mouse
- Ghosts ’n Goblins designed Red Arremer to be harder than a boss
- The early internet's host list was a text file you downloaded from SRI
- A LoRa Board Tracks Aircraft After Its Maker Bypasses the Radio Filter
- A chip-design backup was never made, so its manager reconstructed two revisions six years later
- A free Android-to-PC app combines phone notifications, file transfers and apps in windows
- Pixel 10 vs. iPhone 17: a 5x telephoto lens or 256 GB of starting storage
- Prince of Persia’s Apple II source survived on a 22-year-old floppy
- QR code corners use a pattern Denso's engineers struggled to find in ordinary print
- Sony’s First Portable CD Player Needed a Six-C-Battery Case
- Super NES Split Its RAM by Job; Nintendo 64 Shared a Larger Pool
- Wi-Fi 7’s widest channel is twice Wi-Fi 6’s, and it lives in 6 GHz
- Six Windows 98-era boot disks bring back the problem of finding the CD drive
- Ecstatica built its 1994 horror cast out of rounded shapes, then let their posture show the damage
- 311 Wrapped gives your ZIP code a year-end recap of complaints to the city
- Audio Auto Switch remembers the USB-C headphones your Mac keeps ignoring
- LoopyDOOM lets Casio’s sticker-printing console print a frame of Doom
- Commodore 64 vs. ZX Spectrum: 64K of RAM against 16K or 48K
- A moderation bot posted 200 times by mistake and helped give Usenet “spam” its name
- WebX11 puts Linux apps in your browser, then sharpens the picture when motion stops
- Stashcard gives your Steam inventory a receipt with wallet and cash prices kept separate
- Pixel 10 vs. Pixel 10 Pro: both zoom 5x, with a 10.8 MP or 48 MP telephoto
- Unwanted iPhone events may belong to one calendar you can unsubscribe from
- The Mac’s Command symbol came from a Swedish sign after Steve Jobs objected to Apple logos
- MediEvil’s fan PC rebuild gives Sir Dan a right-stick camera
- The NES had 16 times Atari 2600’s work RAM, plus a different way to draw
- A Plants vs. Zombies code archive can rebuild its Git history without GitHub
- A Programmer Backed Up a Loop Counter That the Same Loop Kept Overwriting
- A Raspberry Pi ISP Gave a 1999 iBook Wireless Dial-Up
- ROG Ally X Has 60% More Battery Than Steam Deck OLED, Before the Game Starts
- The Super NES had 64 times the NES’s work RAM, but Mode 7 made the tracks turn
- Windows 2000’s Giant Stage Laptop Revealed a Patrick Stewart Stand-In
- Doom Runs in Word by Replacing a Document Picture Every Tick
- This Terminal Snake Game Freezes When Your Coding Agent Needs You
- Amazon puts a $30 camera upgrade inside the Echo Studio
- HackerTube replaces YouTube thumbnails with frames from halfway through the video
- Ten old Angry Birds and Bad Piggies Windows installers resurfaced in one archive
- Apollo Stored Its Flight Program in Wires Threaded Through Magnetic Rings
- Catcopter gives flying cats four paw rotors and a fight over catnip
- A Contra fan port checks 40,000 frames against the NES original
- Doom keeps its random numbers in a fixed 256-byte loop
- Duck Hunt Let Player Two Steer the Duck You Were Trying to Shoot
- Eternal Darkness’s fake save wipe worried Nintendo about real memory-card damage
- Evercade Nexus lets two handhelds share one cartridge without a Wi-Fi network
- Floorplan follows an app’s checkout screen into the code behind it
- Game Boy Promised Up to 30 Hours While Game Gear Ate Six AAs in About Four
- Gitmsg turns every chat message into a Git commit, including the embarrassing edits
- Handy puts local speech transcription into the text field you are already using
- A Zip 100 Held Roughly 70 Floppies, but Couldn’t Read a Single One
- Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation could crash laptops, so the fix filtered the music
- keybind-find reads the shortcuts you actually configured, then runs the one you pick
- Kobodeck Makes a Kobo Find Saved Articles by Pretending USB Was Connected
- Kube32 gives tiny ESP32 boards pods, kubectl and CrashLoopBackOff
- MoMA preserves 176 emoji built from twelve-by-twelve pixel grids
- Lightpanda saves an agent’s browser work as a script that needs no model to run
- The Macintosh team put its signatures inside the case mold
- Apple Hid a Sony Engineer in a Closet While Saving the Mac’s Floppy Drive
- Maclet puts its own Rust container runtime inside a Mac’s Linux guest
- Magical Share sends files through moving QR codes with the radios off
- Mariner 1 Lost a Guidance Antenna and a Mathematical Overbar Before Its Destruction
- Louis Pouzin Named the Shell, Then Colleagues Built It From His Flowchart After He Left
- Switch has 40 times the Game Boy’s pixels; battery ratings need a model number
- Nokia 3210 vs. 3310: the 160 million sales claim doesn't hold up
- A 120-Page Novella Takes 1.6 Seconds to Typeset With Linux’s Manual-Page Tool
- NTFSTool writes Windows drives on a Mac through FSKit, with a macOS 26 catch
- Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 lets you hum Link’s songs into the microphone
- The iPhone 17 fits 123 times a PalmPilot’s pixels into a similar pocket weight
- Palm Pilot vs. Apple Newton: $299 and Graffiti against $699 and handwriting
- ParticleDB Answered WHERE 4 = 5 by Returning Row Five
- Pi-DOS boots a Raspberry Pi into DOS while Linux handles the hardware underneath
- A security boundary protected old manuals while the real work grew eight times larger outside
- Walkman vs. iPod: one cassette in 1979, 1,000 songs on a 5 GB drive in 2001
- A No-Parking Sign Helped Convince Apple to Draw Rounded Rectangles
- Genesis had the faster clock; Super NES had twice the work RAM
- teardown turns a machine explanation into an offline 3D page you can take apart
- The $119 Waffle Home Brings Back the Family Phone, With a One-Contact Free Plan
- Windows 95’s floppy detector got opposite answers from two kinds of drive
- A mouse started typing when its adapter’s 72-minute counter wrapped
- ASCII Gave Printers Separate Commands to Go Left and Down. Your Text Files Kept Them.
- Awk’s Authors Used Their Own Names to Demonstrate Its Search Pattern
- CamMonitor Turns an Old Android Phone Into a Camera That Sleeps When Nobody Watches
- Commodore 64 vs. Amiga 500: 64 KB to 512 KB, plus a disk drive, in five years
- The $595 Commodore 64 Put Custom Sound Beside RAM That Cost Apple Buyers Far More
- Crystal Caves runs in a browser after a C rewrite checked against the DOS game
- An IRC Currency Bot’s Download Tool Outgrew Two Names and Became curl
- Keypause turns off your Mac keyboard long enough to clean it
- A joke S3 server hides your files inside photo pixels
- OmarchyTV puts a tiling home screen on your TV without rooting it
- AirFlick Drop sends iPhone files to Windows through Safari, with a claimed 15 GB ceiling
- Hop turns space on your Windows drive into a Linux installer, skipping the USB stick
- Interstate ’76 gets a Godot rebuild with co-op and an F12 trip back to 1997
- Kobo Clara BW vs. Kindle: $10 more buys waterproofing and a warmer light
- OmniDiff shows the changed PDF pages and font glyphs that Git leaves you to inspect
- A Palm OS developer opened a 1 GB archive of SDKs, examples and limited-release OS source
- Pitstop checks game stutters before changing Windows, then logs the fixes for undo
- T-Mobile welcomes SpaceX as a supplier, but rules out renting it a mobile network
- This electronic candle needs a real flame to light and a breath to turn off
- A free 512-byte boot-sector program, bootgpt, boots a PC straight into a neural network that dreams fake Linux logs
- The $199 Evercade Nexus Lets Two Handhelds Play One Game Cartridge, With No Internet
- A free Windows app, hop, installs dual-boot Linux from your hard drive with no USB stick
- A free Go-based Kotlin compiler, kc, builds JVM libraries 10x to 16x faster than JetBrains' kotlinc at one-tenth the RAM
- A free Claude Code skill, reanimate, films any website animation and rewrites its code until the frames match
October 2026
- ASCII Has a Backslash Because a 1961 Committee Wanted to Type AND and OR as /\ and \/
- Ben Krasnow 3D-Printed a See-Through Einstein Refrigerator That Gets Cold From an Alcohol Flame
- Bluetooth Was Only a Codename: the Industry Voted 4-1 for "PAN" Until a Web Search Turned Up Tens of Thousands of Hits
- Brian Eno Made the Windows 95 Startup Sound on a Mac, to a Brief That Ended "It Must Be Three and a Quarter Seconds Long"
- BrickStation Turns Lego's PlayStation Set Into a Working PS1 Emulator, Hidden in One Side Tray
- Commodore's 1600 VICmodem Was the First Modem Under $100, and You Dialed by Hand, Then Plugged In the Handset Cord
- Undo Is Z Because Cut-and-Paste Pioneer Larry Tesler Picked It for the Apple Lisa, and Its Zigzag Reads as Do, Undo, Redo
- Darkbloom Paid Mac Owners to Run AI Inference. Now Most Earn a Few Cents to a Few Dollars a Day
- Email Addresses Use @ Because Ray Tomlinson's 1971 Terminals Had About a Dozen Punctuation Marks, and Only @ Meant 'At'
- Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905
- pixelfx Is a Free Library of 244 Pixel Art Game Effects Written as Code, Not Sprite Sheets, From Fire and Ice to Whole Attack Moves
- iQOO's Neo 12 Puts a Cooling Fan Inside an IP68 and IP69 Phone, With a 9,000mAh Battery, for China
- A 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
- DFRobot's $2,599 LattePanda Sigma 2 Puts an Intel Core Ultra X7, 64GB of RAM and a Preloaded Qwen Model on a 146mm Board
- Arnaud 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
- OpenMouse Sets DPI and Polling Rate on Gaming Mice From Logitech, Razer, Corsair and Dozens More in a Browser Tab
- The Word "Pixel" Was First Printed in 1965 by a JPL Engineer Processing Space-Probe Photos
- Raspberry 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
- New Windows Malware Steals Your Logins, Then Has an AI Write a Report Titled "WHAT THEY'RE WORTH"
- Windows 11's October Preview Update Adds Cloud Rebuild, a Full Reinstall That Needs No USB Stick
- A Windows 3.1 User Set Every Color in Control Panel to Black, Then Called Support About a Blank Screen
- WireGuard VPN Works on Wi-Fi but Hangs on Cellular: Set the MTU to 1280
- Excel 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
- LinuxRunner Puts Debian, Arch and Alpine Desktops on an iPhone With No Jailbreak, Running Firefox and Blender Through Its Own ARM64 Interpreter
- Matthew Garrett Turned On Google Cast in His US Samsung Q800A Soundbar by Rooting It and Telling It It Was Australian
- Steve Ballmer Wrote the Words on Windows 3.1's Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen, and They Shipped Almost Word for Word
- Pardo and Landau's 1970 Patent Let Spreadsheet Formulas Sort Themselves, and Its Owners Sued Lotus 1-2-3 With It
- Atari 2600 Adventure's Easter Egg: Warren Robinett Signed a 4K Game With 128 Bytes of RAM Because Atari Kept Its Designers Anonymous
- Capri Is a Free Cyberpunk Desktop Pet That Narrates What Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity Are Doing, and Sulks When You Open ChatGPT
- cc-pair Has Claude Code and Codex Review Each Other's Code by Trading Numbered Files
- hashsync Cut an rsync Copy Over SSH From 19 Minutes to 4 by Matching Data the Receiver Already Had
- InferSSD Runs a 763-Billion-Parameter DeepSeek Model on a 48 GB MacBook Pro by Reading Experts From the SSD
- Infinite Mac Now Boots BeOS, the 1990s OS Apple Almost Bought, in a Browser Tab, Even the 1996 Build Rigged to Stop Booting in 1997
- A Wii Mod Swaps the 2007 Opera Browser Inside Nintendo's Internet Channel for NetSurf, an Open-Source Browser Updated This Month
- Tactical-Retreat, a Free Open-Source Rebuild of Counter-Strike 1.5, Plays Classic CS Without Owning Half-Life
- A Fan Mod Puts the Sega Saturn's Extra Castle Areas and a Playable Maria Into the PlayStation's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, All on One CD-R
- Lemmings TS, an Open-Source Browser Remake of Lemmings, Builds the Game From Your Own Windows CD Image and Plays on Android
- Understand Anything, a Free Plugin for Claude Code and Codex, Turns a Strange Codebase Into a Clickable Map With Plain-English Tours
- CAPTCHA Began in 2000 When Yahoo's Udi Manber Told Carnegie Mellon That Bots Posing as Teenagers Were Working Its Chat Rooms
- Florilegium Grows a Different Delft-Blue Flower Border on Every LuaLaTeX Page From Math Alone, Snails and Bees Included
- Global Law Puts the World's Statutes in One Git Repository, Where Every Commit Is a Law Taking Effect and git blame Names the Law That Wrote Each Line
- JetBrains' Free ThinkRail IDE Shelves Each Workspace on Its Own When Its Pull Request Merges or After a Quiet Week
- Nesformer Compiles an NES CPU Into a Qwen3.5 Model's Weights, and Super Mario Bros. Runs on Them at One Frame Every Few Seconds
- NetBSD Adds atto, a 48 KB Modeless Editor, to Its Base System Beside vi, and Its Man Page Says "atto Is Not the Standard Editor"
- SimCity Ran on Slow Hardware by Splitting Its Simulation Into 16 Turns and Scanning an Eighth of the Map at a Time
- Ken Kutaragi Says Losing Nintendo's CD Deal Felt Like Freedom, and He Never Built the PlayStation for Revenge
- The 1974 TCP Spec, RFC 675, Says "Internet" Only in Its Title and Explains Sockets as a Mail-Order House's Post Office Box
- Google Will Honor __usage_ai-training, a Shared robots.txt Line That Opts a Site Out of AI Training Across Participating Companies, Starting in 2027
- Sonic '06's Cut Lighting and Shadows Are Still in the Game Files, Switched Off, and Its Most-Used Shader Has No Shadows or Point Lights
- A Game Boy Magazine Gave 2000's Tomb Raider a 10/10, Then Lowered the Score So It Wouldn't Beat Pokémon and Zelda
- Internet Pioneer Jon Postel's 1975 RFC 706, "On the Junk Mail Problem," Proposed Letting a Computer Refuse Messages From a Host That Floods It
- Simantic's Review Bot Runs Your Pull Request's Firmware on a Simulated STM32 Chip, and Its Demo Catches a One-Bit Slip That Leaves an LED Stuck On
- Overtone, a Free Open-Source Caption Tool, Cuts Separate Captions for Widescreen and Phone Video From One File So Vertical Lines Stop Breaking on 'the'
- Martin Fowler Tells Writers Not to Let AI Draft Even a First Version, Because Editing Can't Get the 'LLM Voice' Back Out
- Keplearn, a Free Rust Tool Named for Kepler, Reads a Table of Measurements and Prints the Equation Behind It, Gravity Included
- Impeccable, a Free Design Add-On for AI Coding Agents, Flags 62 Tells of AI-Made Web Pages, From Purple Gradients to Cards Inside Cards, With No AI Model
- C Compilers Still Name Your Program 'a.out' Because Ken Thompson's 1968 PDP-7 Had No Linker
- RFC 1097, a 1989 April Fools' Spec, Let a Telnet Server Flash Hidden Messages for Milliseconds and Planned Morse Code on the Caps Lock LED
- RFC 748, an April 1, 1978 Telnet Spec, Made Servers Ask Your Permission Before Randomly Losing Your Files
- RFC 1925, an April 1, 1996 Internet Memo Filed as Humor, Listed 'You Can Always Add Another Level of Indirection' Among Twelve Networking Truths
- RFC 3514 Gave IPv4 an "Evil Bit" That Attack Packets Must Set So Firewalls Can Drop Them
- A Yorkshire Farm Ran a Few Hundred Cattle on One Windows XP PC With No Backups, Patched by the Farmer's 14-Year-Old Grandson
- The 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
- An Ochaken Fansite Online Since 2004 Now Serves Gambling Ads, So a Web Archivist Shows How to Save Sites as WARC Files
- Sylphide OS, a Hobby Operating System, Puts a Black-and-White 512x384 Windowed Desktop on Microcontroller Computers, Including a Homemade Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Board
- Stack Overflow's Own API Counts 969 Questions From September 2026, Down From 141,728 in September 2020
- A Single Malformed WAP Push Text Crashes Android's Phone Service and Can Drop Calls, Including Emergency Calls, With No Tap From the Victim
- Skyreader RSS Subscriptions Stored on AT Protocol PDS Records Are Public, Exposing Paywalled and Private Feed URLs
- A 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
- Doomformer Compiles a Neural Network Into a DOOM Map Where Voodoo Dolls Do the Math, and Every Value Matches NumPy Exactly
- dontallow Auto-Clicks Don't Allow on the macOS Local Network Prompt Chromium Browsers Keep Re-Triggering From a Temp Folder
- Windows Still Refuses a File Named CON Because the MS-DOS 1.0 Assembler Tacked .LST Onto Every Filename
- Steve Jobs Kept Rejecting a Mac Calculator, So Chris Espinosa Built a 'Construction Set' and Let Jobs Design It Himself in About Ten Minutes
- Openjutsu Swaps the Person in Your Video for a Character Photo on Your Own GPU, a Free ComfyUI Take on Higgsfield's Genjutsu
- HMD's Nokia 2360 Flip Lets Family Set Up a Senior's Phone Remotely Over SMS, but It's 2G Only
- Lenovo's $1,099 Googlebook 15 Pairs With Your Android Phone by QR Code, but Drag-and-Drop File Transfers Stop at 200MB
- Star Andrew Schmelyun's GitHub Repo and a Raspberry Pi Prints Your Profile Picture on a Receipt Printer for His Wall
- Douglas Engelbart's 1970 Computer Mouse Patent Called It an 'X-Y Position Indicator' and Said You Could Move It With Your Feet
- Apple's $299 HomeView Needs Your iPhone Nearby, While Amazon's $500 Echo Show 16 Runs the House Solo
- Wizball 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
- Genesis Project's Sabre Wulf Remastered Rewrites Ultimate's 1984 Jungle Maze for the C64 as a Free D64
- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Says Super Mario Bros.'s Biggest Invention Was Letting Mario Jump Over Bowser Instead of Fighting Him
- Apple Shipped iOS 27.1 Only on the Foldable iPhone Duo, So Every Other iPhone Jumped From 27.0.1 Straight to 27.2
- The Konami Code Began as Kazuhisa Hashimoto's Own Cheat Because He Couldn't Beat Gradius While Porting It
- Anti-Bot Fingerprinting Script Names Its Functions After Ricin and Dirty Bombs So AI Models Refuse to Decode It
- Apple's PROLED MacBook Pro Calibrates With Apple CMF 2026 Instead of the 1931 CIE Color Math
- Rairii Boots Classic Mac OS 7.6 on a Real Nintendo Wii by Forking OpenBIOS for the Console's ArtX Chipset
- OnePlus Ace 7 Pro Puts a Cooling Fan's Vents in the Camera Island and Drops the Ultrawide
- Adafruit's $34.95 Metro ESP32-P4 Hydra Puts Raspberry Pi Display and Camera Connectors on an Arduino Uno-Shaped Board
- Google Chrome's Enhanced Autofill Now Pulls Order Numbers and Flight Bookings From Your Gmail Into Web Forms
- NixThis Turns Off Windows Ads and Nags When You Point Your Cursor at Them
- Reddit Will Test a Logged-In-Only Site Outside the US as Search Referrals Drop by More Than 1 Million a Week
- Rubin Observatory's Linking Code Found Possible Dwarf Planet 2026 ED138, and Its Author First Checked for a Bug
- SpaceX Buys Grain's Nationwide 800 MHz Airwaves, Reportedly for $8 Billion, So Starlink Can Reach Phones Indoors
- tinyworldformer Runs AI-Dreamed Pac-Man, Breakout and Doom-Lite on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, and Its Dream-Trained Player Scored 210 in a Game That Tops Out at 56
- Walmart Cancels Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Pre-Orders the Day Before Delivery, While Its Site Shows the Console at $700
- Windows Vista Dropped Space Cadet Pinball Because Its 64-Bit Port Let the Ball Fall Straight Through the Plunger
- Exin Therapeutics' CEO Says an AI Agent Picked the Gene Therapy and Brain Coordinates for a Mouse Surgery, Then Wouldn't Let Him Override It
- Core 4 Solutions Lists a $59.7 Million AI Cluster on eBay With 9,600 Nvidia A100s and $50 Overnight Shipping
- Arduboy Maker Kevin Bates' $149 Digital Candle Generates Its Flicker With a 3,545-Parameter Neural Network on 144 LEDs
- Jon Postel Reserved All 16 Million 127 Addresses in 1981, Two Years Before Anyone Chose 127.0.0.1 for Loopback
- LattePanda Sigma 2 Lets Its Intel Arc GPU Claim 59GB of 64GB Memory, on a $2,599 Board the Size of the Original Sigma
- LILYGO's $150 T-Display K230 Runs Linux on RISC-V With LoRa Built In, and Its Snap-On Keyboard Adds LTE-M and GPS
- nx2android Turns Nintendo Switch Games You Already Own Into Native Android Apps, With No Emulator Running
- OpenBot Turns an Android Phone Into the Brain of a $50 Robot Car
- Origami Robotics' S1 Glove Reads 20 Finger Joints So Its Matching Robot Hand Can Copy Each One Directly
- Sheet, a Free Design App That Runs on Your Own Computer, Lets Claude, Codex and Cursor Edit the Same Canvas at Once
- SidecarTridge Tested All 1,831 Atari ST Hard-Disk Game Adaptations and Patched 209 to Run From a microSD Card
- The First Unix Pipes Used > Instead of |, and Dennis Ritchie Said a Missing > Created a File Instead of Running the Command
- vphone-cli Boots iOS in a Mac VM Using Apple's Private Cloud Compute Research Machines
- A 1928 Punch-Card Patent Switched From Round Holes to Oblong Ones So Closely Spaced Columns Wouldn't Tear
- Causal 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
- Apple's M6 iMac Moves to 2.5Gb Ethernet and Wi-Fi 7, and the Cheapest Model Now Starts at $1,499
- Apple Made Lisa Programmers Report Weekly Lines of Code, So Bill Atkinson Made QuickDraw Six Times Faster and Wrote -2000
- A Botched Server Patch Stopped a University's Email at About 500 Miles, and the Speed of Light Set the Limit
- The Coding Placeholder 'Foo' Started in a 1930s Fireman Comic Before MIT's Model Railroad Club Adopted It
- Creeper, the 'First Computer Virus,' Was a Worm, and Reaper, the Program Built to Kill It, Was a Worm Too
- Filee Converts Files Offline When You Drop Them on a Donut Menu That Opens at Your Cursor
- This Halloween Skull Uses 24 GHz Radar to Track Three People Through Its Plastic Head, With No Camera
- A Homemade RISC-V CPU Runs DOOM on an FPGA, Sent to the PC at 64x32 Because the Serial Cable Was Too Slow
- Honor X8e 4G phone reuses August's X7e Plus, 108MP camera and Snapdragon 685 included, with 400mAh less battery
- Amazon's $79.99 Kindle Page Turn Cover Brings Back Physical Buttons, but Only on the New Signature Editions
- A Last-Minute Fuel-Valve Change Nobody Told the Software Team About Made Apollo 5's Guidance Computer Shut Down Its Own Moon-Lander Engine
- Linux Was Almost Named Freax Until the FTP Admin Who Hosted It Named the Folder Linux
- IEEE Spectrum's Hidden Lockbox Opens Only When You Trace a Secret Gesture With a Magnet Over an 8-by-8 Hall-Sensor Grid
- 'No Space Left on Device' With 50GB Free Means You're Out of Inodes, and df -i Shows It
- Christine Peterson Coined "Open Source" in 1998, Then Let Todd Anderson Drop It Into a Meeting
- Printable Commodore 64 Keycaps Put PETSCII Graphics on Modern MX Keyboards, With a Font Traced From a Real C64
- Rob Pike Says Unix's Hidden Dot Files Came From an ls Shortcut That Skipped Every Name Starting With a Period
- RoboParty's RP1 humanoid robot publishes its CAD, 14 circuit boards and wiring under an open hardware license, minus the joint-motor firmware
- Sdrtop Is a Rust Terminal Monitor That Reads Software Radios, Maps Wi-Fi Airtime and Decodes Pagers With No Audio
- Sony's $85 See-Through PS5 Controllers Show the Insides, While the Matching $75 Console Covers Hide Them
- Sudo Began on a VAX at SUNY Buffalo Around 1980 and Passed Through Several Teams Before Todd Miller Took It Public in 1994
- VoiceStudio Clones, Designs and Dubs Voices in 646 Languages on Your Own Computer as an Open-Source ElevenLabs Alternative
- Wi-Fi Stands for Nothing: 'Wireless Fidelity' Was a Tagline Its Own Founder Calls a Mistake, and the Name Nearly Lost to Trapeze
- Windows Drops Bluetooth Headphones to Mono Phone-Call Audio Whenever Any App Opens Their Microphone
- Windows' Built-In SleepStudy Report Shows Which Component Drains a Laptop's Battery While the Lid Is Closed
- Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash
- Amazon Spain applied a customer's years-old VAT number to a kitchen knife, and no support channel could remove it
- Analogue's $219.99 Super Nt+ builds the wireless radio into the SNES console and lets you swap cartridges without powering down
- anymove, an open-source mocap tool, animates a rigged 3D creature from one AI video that films it from two angles in one frame
- Apple's M6 14-inch MacBook Pro adds two CPU cores and Wi-Fi 7, and now starts at $1,999 with a 1TB drive
- Scott Fahlman invented the :-) smiley at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, three days after a joke mercury-spill warning was taken seriously
- Executive Eightball app shuffles an executive's meeting-notes buzzword database into 270 million CEO-style sentences
- FreeBSD Co-Founder Jordan Hubbard Ports DHH's Omarchy Desktop to FreeBSD as Daemonarchy, Coding With Claude
- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops security benchmarks, but only vetted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program can use it for now
- Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil's 1942 torpedo patent hopped frequencies using player-piano rolls synced by clock motors
- HTTP'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
- Huawei's CNY 1,399 Enjoy 100 Pairs the Pro's 6,100mAh Battery With HarmonyOS 7 Fake-Voice and Scam-Call Warnings
- Huawei'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
- NESPC Turns an Original NES Into a Desktop PC With a Start Menu, a File Manager and Minesweeper
- pngdeer, a free open-source PNG compressor, makes files 8 to 12% smaller than TinyPNG in its maker's 180-image test
- The QWERTY Keyboard Grew Out of Telegraph Gear Built for Morse Code Operators, Kyoto Researchers Found
- RFC 1149, a 1990 internet spec, sent IP packets on paper taped to pigeons' legs, and a Norwegian Linux group made it work
- Tellyscope is a free Android phone app that debloats your Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, no PC and no root
- UltraTears is an unofficial native Windows port of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, built on your PC from your own Switch dump
- Lou Montulli designed web cookies at Netscape in 1994 to stop cross-site tracking, then chose to leave third-party cookies on
- Windows 11 updates since September can leave some USB headsets silent with Code 10; switching to 2-channel audio brings sound back
- Zero Breach Toolkit is a free, read-only scanner that checks your computer and phone backups for Pegasus and Predator traces
- GoldenEye 007, the 1997 Nintendo 64 shooter, now runs natively on Windows and Linux with mouse look
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, the Nintendo DS game, now runs natively on Windows PCs with its cut Stop magic restored
- Deleting big files on a Mac can free no space for half an hour, because Time Machine's hidden snapshots still hold it
- Windows 11's October 13 update can stop work Wi-Fi and VPN from signing you in automatically; one registry value decides it
- Windows 11's Smart App Control switch is grayed out after you turn it off; two registry values from Microsoft turn it back on
- Windows piles your apps onto one monitor after sleep; a free open-source tray app puts every window back where it was
- Your Windows PC wakes itself up at 3 a.m. because Windows schedules its own maintenance then; one command names the culprit
- vivo's X500 Pro Max Goes Global With a 200MP ZEISS Telephoto, and Europe's Battery Is 6,750mAh Where China's Is 8,000mAh
- vivo's Y600 Puts a 10,000mAh Battery in a 1,999-Yuan Phone, and vivo Says It Livestreamed for 32 Hours on One Charge
- win4wine Runs Windows XP's Real Explorer as a Linux Desktop on Patched Wine, Using Files From Your Own XP Disc
- Windows XP Turned 25 This Week and Still Runs on More PCs Than Windows 8
- XREAL Aura Puts Android XR in 95-Gram See-Through Glasses by Wiring Them to a 265-Gram Pocket Puck, From $1,099
- Poco's X8s Adds the 2.5x Telephoto Camera the X7 Never Had, in a Smaller 6.35-Inch Phone From $399
- Redmi's K100 Keeps the K90's Chip, Adds 2,900mAh of Battery and Drops Its Telephoto Camera
- RPCS3 Says 80% of PS3 Games Are Now Playable on PC, Up From 75% in July
- Steward, a Free Immich Add-On, Guesses Where Your Photos Without GPS Were Taken and Lets You Pick
- TwinDesk, a Free App, Shares One Mouse Across Mac, Windows and Linux and Puts Your Android Phone's Calls on the PC
- Virtual Intel Mac Runs Intel macOS Mojave on Apple Silicon With Graphics Acceleration, So 32-Bit Apps and Aperture Open Again
- Nintendo's 1985 NES Test-Market Warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, Is Still Standing, and Three NES Historians Found It
- OpenFilm Lets a Coding Agent Make Videos as Web Pages, Then Lets You Edit Every Frame by Hand
- Oppo's Find X10 Phones Launched Worldwide, and Europe's Version Holds 850mAh Less Battery Than India's
- Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sega Saturn's Four-Disc RPG, Now Runs Natively on Windows PCs in Widescreen, Built From Your Own Discs
- Pharo 14 Brings Smalltalk-Style Live Coding to the Command Line and RISC-V, After 978 Pull Requests
- Mike Muuss Named Ping After the Sound Sonar Makes and Wrote It in One Night in December 1983
- Apple's Mac Studio gets its 512GB memory option back, at $15,500 instead of the old $4,000
- McDonald's China Put 4,000 Fry-Box Wireless Mice on Sale, Their Shells Partly Made From Old Happy Meal Toys
- Motorola's Moto G47 Power Keeps the Headphone Jack and Grows to a 7,000mAh Battery, but Ships on Android 16
- Net-merge, a Free Open-Source App, Spreads Your Downloads Across Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a Phone Hotspot at Once
- Indra, a one-million-parameter text-recognition model, reads scans 15 times faster than Tesseract on a CPU
- Apple's iPad mini cost $499 in June; the new OLED model starts at $699 with the same 128GB
- iQOO's Neo12 phone hides a 59-blade cooling fan and a 9,000mAh battery inside, from about $630
- John Tukey Suggested the Word "Bit" to Claude Shannon and Printed the Earliest Known "Software" in 1958
- Logitech's Pebble Up travel mouse has a shell you lift into a 35-degree tilt for your wrist
- Google's $180 Fitbit Edge Is Its First Tracker With a Battery You Can Swap, and It Drops Tap-to-Pay
- Google Says AI Overviews Can't Be Turned Off, but Adding udm=14 to the Search URL Skips Them Every Time
- Grep Is Named After the Ed Editor Command g/re/p, and Ken Thompson Built It in About an Hour
- Honor's Cheaper Win RT2 and Win Turbo2 Carry a Bigger 12,070mAh Battery Than Its Flagship Win2
- Honor's Win2 Gaming Phone Puts Two Fans Inside, One Spinning at 31,000rpm, and Is Still Rated IP69K
- Huawei's Pura 90 Plus puts a 1-inch camera sensor with an f/1.6 to f/4.0 adjustable aperture in a CNY 5,499 phone
- Amazon's New $99.99 Echo Dot Adds a Smart Home Hub and Costs Twice What a Dot Listed for Before August
- Apple's First Touchscreen Mac Is a $2,899 OLED MacBook Pro That Turns Taps Into Clicks for Apps Never Built for Touch
- IBM's Werner Buchholz Coined "Byte" in a 1956 Memo, When a Byte Could Be One to Six Bits
- Co-op Anything Has AI Coding Agents Turn Single-Player Games Into Online Co-Op, Starting With the Whole Deus Ex Campaign
- A $7 ESP32 Board Lets an AI Tap Through Any iPhone App by Posing as an AirPlay Screen and a USB Mouse
- B3ta Cofounder Rob Manuel Drew 81 Jokes Using Only the ZX81's 64 Characters, and Put Them in a 240-Page Hardback
- AgenticBench Planted Fake Secrets in Files, Symlinks and Error Messages to See Which of 25 Coding Agents Would Leak Them
- Aqueous, a New Archiver, Undoes JPEG, PNG and ZIP Compression, Squeezes Harder, Then Rebuilds Every Original Bit for Bit With WebAssembly
- Attackers Got In Through a Company's Camera-Management Software, Then Hid Behind a Copy of Windows' Parental Controls Monitor
- Discord Will Put Public Messages From Its 63,000 Discoverable Servers on the Web; One Data and Privacy Toggle Keeps Yours Off
- eBay's First Sale Was Pierre Omidyar's Broken $30 Laser Pointer, and a Buyer Paid $14.83 for It
- Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Claude Code Got Herbert Simon's 1961 Heuristic Compiler Running Again, and It Prints the Code From His 1963 Paper
- Andrew Healey Pointed an AI Agent and Ghidra at Fast Food Tycoon 2's 4,046 Functions and Found How It Kept Customers Visible Through Walls
- The Web's First Famous Photo Was Les Horribles Cernettes, a CERN Office Band That Sang About Physicists
- Gheist Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Plant a Workflow That Prints Every Repo Secret in Base32, Slipping Past GitHub's Log Masking
- Homelable Scans Your Home Lab With nmap, Then Lets You Draw the Rack and Its Patch Cables Port to Port
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Was Taught by Nobody: The Software Toolworks Invented Her and Paid a Model $500 for the Face
- Michael Pick Cut Apart a High-Mileage BMW i3's Carbon-Fiber Body to Build the Small Electric Pickup Nobody Sells, on a Budget of Under $10,000
- Moldova's E-Government Chief Resigns After Attackers Pulled Personal Data on About 750,000 People Through Services That Needed No Login
- UNM Hospital, New Mexico's Only Level 1 Trauma Center, Diverted Ambulances After a Red Skull Took Over Staff Screens
- PhantomTac: A Half-Millimetre Magnet Sticker Fools a Robot's Touch Sensors Into Crushing a Box or Dropping It Mid-Move
- Parley Puts Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Sessions in One Local IRC Channel, With a Breaker That Stops Them Talking in Circles
- Ploom Runs Every Thread Order of a Python Test Until One Fails, Then Saves That Order So the Bug Replays on Demand
- ProxMate Sends Friends an Invite Link to Spin Up VMs on Your Proxmox Cluster, Without Ever Showing Them the Admin Panel
- A self-taught Seoul hacker used an AI pentest agent to breach 60 companies in 40 days, took 8.2 million records, and collected about $210
- Smashcat's Arduino Uno Now Plays Pac-Man Championship Edition on a TV, Drawing Each Line Just Before the Screen Does
- Space Invaders Speeds Up as You Win Because Its 1978 Code Moved One Alien at a Time, and Tomohiro Nishikado Kept It
- Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board
- Survival LLM Puts 930,000 Wikipedia Articles, a Medical Encyclopedia and Military Survival Manuals in a Free 9 GB Offline AI That Picks Its Model by Your RAM
- Harmen Stoppels's Tar-Minefield Feeds 81 Crafted Archives to About 20 Tar Readers, and They Pull Different Files Out of the Same Bytes
- The Trojan Room Coffee Pot: The First Famous Webcam Existed So Cambridge Scientists Wouldn't Climb Stairs for an Empty Pot
- Wenlan Turns Your Notes and AI Chats Into a Local Wiki, and Throws Out Any Page Whose Citations Don't Match the Source
- Jan de Jager's Browser Emulator Builds a Whole 486 PC, Motherboard, Jumpers and Plug-In Cards, Then Boots DOOM in One Tab
- Wi-Fi Grew Out of CSIRO Radio Astronomer John O'Sullivan's Search for Exploding Black Holes
- Wikipedia's AI Cleanup Volunteers Hunt 'Stands as a Testament' Prose as Pangram Flags About 20% of New Articles as AI-Written
- A $15 Thrift-Store TRANZ 330 Credit Card Terminal Now Uses Its Z80 and a GPS to Work Out Where the Planets Are, Then Prints It Like a Receipt
- The Shadow Kindle Jailbreak Gets Root Over USB With Decoy Folders, a Leaky File Date and One Extra Parameter
- Rod Burlamaqui's arc-rebar Script Gives an Intel Arc B580 Resizable BAR on a 2015 Supermicro Board With No BIOS Option, Taking VRAM Bandwidth From 15 to 392 GB/s
- Bruce Ediger Built a Million-Page Fake Website as a Trap and Caught One Coordinated Crawler Reading It Rank by Rank From 7,690 Contabo IP Addresses
- Ransomware Hit Welsh Local-Government Data Unit Data Cymru Through a Test Account Named Test2 With the Password Password1, Left Active for 12.5 Years
- Enkiplate turns an Inkplate 4TEMPERA e-paper touchscreen into a Japanese flashcard deck that climbs from kana to kanji at 12 new cards a day
- ESP-Watchtower turns a $3 ESP8266 into a home-network tripwire with a fake Telnet shell, a fake router login and a fake security camera
- Windows' Swift Pair pops a friendly 'connect?' bubble for any nearby Bluetooth keyboard, and a $10 chip is enough to be that keyboard
- D. Bohdan and Claude ported the 1991 Mac game Glider 4.0 to the browser from its Pascal source, checking every pixel against the original on an emulated Mac
- GMO Internet Pulled the Plug on All 26,739 Servers of Its FX-Trading Cloud Desktop After Attackers Planted Malware, Traded on Customer Accounts and Demanded $50 Million
- Chris McCoy Played Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle by Decoding a Blind Musician's Braille Score Into MIDI, and His Parser Caught Seven Bars Where the Braille Disagrees With the 1874 Print
- Hack the North's 1,750 Programmable ESP32 Badges Shipped Through Four Board Spins, a Capacitor in an Inductor's Slot and an NFC Chip That Couldn't Read
- Kevin Coleman Clicked a Fake YouTube Support Ticket, and the Phishers Left Their Own Passkey on His Google Account: a Way Back In That Needs No Password and No 2FA
- Keybytes Puts a RISC-V Microcontroller in Every Single Key, Then Snaps the Keys Together With Magnets and Pogo Pins
- KitCut moved its AI film studio off a $250-a-month Azure VM onto a used gaming PC, and the same 8-minute film renders in 3m49s instead of 17m42s
- Last Commit writes Día de los Muertos epitaphs for dead GitHub repos with a small Qwen model running in your browser
- Nietzschian Debugger Runs on Claude and Refuses to Fix Your Bug, Asking Questions at Three Settings From Socrates to Zarathustra
- The Oldest GUI Program Still Running on Windows 11 Is a 1992 NT Beta CD Player That Borrowed the System's C Runtime
- Shitty Screenshare, From the Developer Behind WHIP in OBS, Says Your Blurry Video-Call Share Is the Browser's Fault and OBS or FFmpeg Can Send It Instead
- Sudo Play, a Free Mac Menu Bar App, Picks One Spotify Playlist a Day From Your Genre and Developer Mood, Like Friday Deploy or Debugging
- JFrog Found a Worm in 42 GitHub Repos That Hid 13 MB Payloads From Code Search and Planted Claude Code SessionStart Hooks to Run Them
- A DOOM-style raycaster lives inside a TrueType font's hinting bytecode, and the browser draws its 3D walls by re-hinting one glyph
- Introvert Programmer Built a Raspberry Pi 5 NAS From Two Old Laptop Drives, With an Arabic-Speaking AI Assistant You Can Call
- iFixit's iPhone Duo Hinge Model Points to a Center Support Bar That Doesn't Drop Far Enough, as Owners Report Cracked Inner Screens
- Xuan-Son Nguyen's ESP32-S3 Firmware Gives an Old USB-Only Canon Printer AirPrint and AirScan, Once You Bridge a 5V Pad So the Printer Sees the Cable
- Denis Zontak's One-Mac Software Factory Turned a GitHub Ticket Into a Merged Pull Request Overnight on a $200-a-Month AI Subscription
- In Murmell's Test of AVP, a Git Replacement for Coding Agents, a Claude Code Agent Read a Rejected Push as Success and Four Tasks Never Reached Main
- proc, a Free Process Tool, Now Has an Agent Skill That Stops Claude Code and Codex From Piping lsof Into kill -9 on Processes They Didn't Start
- Elm creator Evan Czaplicki wrote his own email sender and found sending is about one HTTPS request, yet Outlook users never saw his mail, not even in spam
- Meatloaf, an ESP32 on a Commodore 64's IEC serial port, loads programs from any URL and presents them as a period floppy drive
- TitleArt Rebuilds 1997-Era Microsoft WordArt in the Browser and Exports It as SVG, GIF or Video
- Drew DeVault Forked Vim at the Last Patch Before Vim9 Script to Make Vim Classic, an Editor Maintained With No Generative AI
- NUS Researchers Wove a Working Touchscreen Into a Garment Sleeve From 1 mm Fibres That Survive 50 Machine Washes
- A 1990s St. Louis BBS cropped its borrowed ANSI logon screens to 17 lines and cut off the artists' signatures, and Josh Renaud traced them back
- MeshLive, an open-source Android app, livestreams video phone to phone over Bluetooth with no internet, each phone passing it on about 20 metres
- Blocks, a 1:1 Minecraft Switzerland generated from swisstopo's open data, runs on a height mod because the Dufourspitze stands 4,634 blocks tall
- Ubicloud Traced Kimi's Tool-Call Accuracy Drop to 91% Back to a vLLM Default Change
- Charlie Gerard's Overgrown, a Chrome extension, grows vines over tabs you ignore, and past 5% overgrowth you can't click the page until you hack them back with a machete, chainsaw or flamethrower
- Gavff Dug Up Nyko's Forgotten 8x Zoom Lens for the Nintendo DSi, Then Pointed the DSi at the Moon
- Hugging Face's $399 Microduck learned to walk, skate and stand itself back up in a simulator, and its code is on GitHub
- A Homelabber Built KTTY, a 24/7 Halloween Cable Channel From ErsatzTV and a QAM Modulator, Then Found Its Default Frequencies Sat on T-Mobile's Spectrum
- nktbuilds Heard a Coin-Sized Bluetooth Tag 12 km Away With a €60 Grid Dish That Only Listens
- Jon G. Aguado's LIA dog collar tracks a pet over Meshtastic radio with no SIM, and its Beacon mode lights the dog up in the dark
- CuriousMarc taught a 1976 MMD-1 trainer board to pass for an Altair and run Microsoft's first BASIC
- BorisDigital built a 1990s TV master control room out of Raspberry Pis so he could watch his tube TVs outside
- MattKC ran the Philips CD-i off a USB-C phone charger by building a board that asks for 9 volts and flips part of it to the minus 5 volts the console needs
- Kristian Duske Built TrenchBroom So He Could Make Quake Maps Again. He Never Made Another One.
- Bot Reborn Gives a $4 Silverlit Toy Robot 200 ms Reflexes With a 0.8B Qwen Model That Picks a Move Instead of Writing a Word
- vfio-native Patches Linux KVM and QEMU Until VMAware's 85 VM-Detection Checks Call a Virtual Machine Bare Metal
- Respring Brings 32-Bit iPhone Games Like Peggle and Koi Pond Back to Modern iPhones by Translating Their Old ARM Code
- Symantec's AI honeypot caught an attack agent in 'Skynet' mode that brings no model of its own and runs on whatever exposed LLM it finds, so the owner pays for every step
- A Systems Academic Called Marc Brooker's Garbage-Collection Death Spiral a Fantasy. He Animated Real etcd Traces Stuck in It.
- Debut rebuilds macOS Command-Tab around Spaces, and lets you switch desktops without the slide
- Eye Security registered Popcorn Time's abandoned update domain, found millions of machines ready to run anything it sent, and pushed one update that only switched the updater off
- Goose, a Programming Language With No Heap, Was Designed by FlatBuffers' Creator and Built by Claude Fable
- Marco Franzon's print3d Has an AI Agent Measure a Clothes Peg From a Museum Photo and Hand You a Bambu Lab Print File
- Retro PC Shop's repair bench makes you discharge the PSU capacitor first, and a capacitor soldered in backwards goes bang
- A Taylor & Francis paper on Z-Library's copyright ethics cited a TorrentFreak article TorrentFreak never wrote
- Civilisation Pocket Squeezes Civ Onto the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Losing Everything Just Leaves You Watching the Rivals Play
- Encarta 95 Web boots a whole Windows 95 in your browser just to open Microsoft's old encyclopedia
- Flock sent researcher Joshua Michael a cease-and-desist, and now Proton hosts his map of 170,000 Flock cameras
- HatchZip extracts archives from the end and cuts off each finished part, so a 180 GB game unpacks on a nearly full disk
- Hibernate started the morning after Gavin King lost the argument, and it shipped under his employer's package name
- ICANN data shows some ISPs sending every DNS query to Google, Cloudflare and a third resolver at once, and nobody can tell if it's a bug
- The Month in Cloud Bills: Google's London backup generators never started, and attackers hunting AI keys hit app hosts Zeabur and Railway and the coding tool OpenCode
- Bottles creator Mirko Brombin's Raven plays the Windows kernel on Linux, so Windows installers run as they are
- Signal's hang-up button waited in the same queue as everything else, so a caller who flooded it could keep your audio streaming (CVE-2026-113380)
- The Slurptop is a 3D-printed luggable laptop that runs on a 24V Kobalt power-tool battery
- Snapintosh boots Apple's own macOS 27 kernel on an ASUS Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop, with a Metal driver written from scratch
- ZacOS 9 redraws the whole Mac OS 9 desktop for Debian Linux, with a SheepShaver for the real classic apps
- A Line-by-Line C# Port of VLC's Gaussian Blur Ran 23% Slower Than the C, Then Both Got 30 Times Faster
- One Must Fall 2097 Remastered Rebuilds the 1994 Robot Fighter in TypeScript and WebGL, With F2 Swapping VGA and HD Mid-Fight
- Latch is one script tag that hands AI browsers your site's search box, cart button and forms as WebMCP tools
- Brian Krebs said Rufus left him with about 100 trojans, then wiped the PC that could have proved it
- Somebody put the $1,999 iPhone Duo's home screen on a Nintendo 3DS, and you can drag a widget across the hinge
- Koala runs each AI agent in its own Linux VM on a Mac, and the API key never goes inside
- Block Blast deals an unwinnable 'lethal puzzle' when you beat your high score and the loaded ad is worth 3.5x your last one, a decompile shows
- Prateek Chauhan Turned a 2015 HP Laptop Into a Homelab in Two Days With Claude Code, Four Rules and a Progress File It Read After Every Reboot
- Your white noise machine is a fan blowing nowhere: Jeff Kaufman's case for a $47 purifier that makes the same hum and cuts bedroom smoke to 16% of outdoors
- Death Plan Switch emails solo devs once a week, and after 144 hours of silence it sends their pre-written messages
- A pharmacy chain's firewall admin password was 'password,' and IT fought the rating because a high finding killed their bonuses
- Ponytail, a free 'laziest senior dev' prompt for Claude Code and other coding agents, cut a 335-line date picker to 10 lines by using the browser's own calendar
- Quake Now Runs on the Atari 8-Bit, Five Days After Kweepa Fit It on the Commodore 64 as Wireframe Rooms and Stick-Figure Monsters
- A Kumité Player Asked for Fighter Faces That Bleed in Stages. Polytricity Added Them to His New Commodore 64 Karate Game 18 Hours Later.
- Nick Steele Reverse-Engineered Digital Calipers Into an Open-Source $32 Linear Encoder, Gapped With Two Layers of Kapton Tape
- Kitze's pwn.watch Tracks Live Exploits and Hands Your AI Agent the Patch Brief
- Quad9 will pull its free DNS out of France rather than block beIN Sports' pirate tennis streams, after a Paris court pointed at the malware it already blocks worldwide
- REA Let Codex Rebuild 1996's DX-Ball From the .exe, and All 270 Functions Compile Back Byte for Byte
- Wes Bos scanned his office with an iPhone, had Codex rebuild it in Three.js, then made every filament spool throwable
- x402, the HTTP 402 Payment Protocol for AI Agents, Shipped With No Spending Limit: V12 Found a Server Could Ask for the Whole Wallet
- Apple Music's 404 Page Hides a Working iPod, Down to the 5-Second Hold That Unlocks Brick
- Tiny Computers folds the iPhone Duo into a pocket 1984 Macintosh, Commodore 64 or Windows 95 laptop, keyboard and all
- USB went from 5Gbps on AMD's 2011 chipset to 80Gbps, and the USB-IF now says "USB4" and "USB 3.2" don't belong on the box
- Aaron Christophel's Aspire PIXO Vape Now Runs DOOM on Its Own Chip, on an Engine Built for a 32 KB Clamp Meter
- Concat, a free open-source CapCut replacement, ships an MCP server so Claude can cut your video on your own machine
- Find My Turns Strangers' iPhones Into Your Stolen Mac's Informants, and Activation Lock Survives the Wipe
- Kevin Rose Took Digg's Helm in 2010. Bots Put Him Back There in 2026, After He Rebought It With Reddit's Cofounder
- LastPass's Vaults Walked Out Through a Keylogger on One Engineer's Personal Device, and Passkeys Retired the Strong-Password Advice
- When Apple Passed Microsoft in 2010, Nvidia Was a $9 Billion Graphics-Card Company. Its Gaming Chips Now Make It Worth $5.1 Trillion
- The pi record went from 5 trillion digits on a desktop to 314 trillion on one StorageReview server, and it still takes about three months
- Asked to hide a secret in a picture, Claude Fable 5.1 makes each building's height a letter
- The first Switch 2 jailbreak came in through an old BASIC programming game, with a Bluetooth light switch on the power button
- Flat Pack turns IKEA's 16-page BILLY manual into a 3D build you can spin, pull apart and step through
- HackiOS boots real iOS 16.5 on a POCO X5 Pro from RAM, and a reboot puts Android back
- LinPad puts Firefox, VS Code and VLC in iPad windows, with no VM and no jailbreak
- Local Wikipedia trims Wikipedia down to the things within a half-hour walk of you
- OnKey learns a song's melody from one play in Spotify or YouTube, then scores your singing on a Mac
- Permit Pending is a free city builder where every apartment block has to survive a hearing, an appeal and a lawsuit
- Tell Qwen3-Coder the app is for a US defense contractor and it got easier to hack, in one security firm's test
- A scammer opened a Cash App account with her Social Security number, and she's the one charged with computer fraud
- Trend Micro's ZDI posted unpatched Linux kernel bug reports to the public mailing list, two of them rated CVSS 9.0
- The PHP2Shell fixes for Debian and Ubuntu, back to PHP 5.6, came out of a DNS engineer's side repo
- Witchcraft and Alchemy sputtered platinum onto glass with a garage vacuum rig to make a Panaplex-style display
- FilaLoom Makes a Bambu Lab A1 Pick Up a Yarn Needle and Weave Twill Into Its Own Prints
- Cohere gave a GPT-5.6 coding agent 16 cheap helpers, and they only paid off as planners
- Noel Friedrich's worksheet decodes a QR code with a pencil, in 10 to 120 minutes
- HLS Radio Converter turns a Raspberry Pi into the MP3 translator old Frontier Silicon Wi-Fi radios need
- Glovebox turns a Raspberry Pi Zero in a Tesla's USB port into a dashcam that backs itself up to your NAS, and holds a key that can drive the car
- Phishers bought 'gcp' search ads, billed their own Gemini projects to victims' Google Cloud accounts, and demoted the admins who could unplug them
- People are pointing Claude Code at their smart TVs to switch the ads off, and the trick has spread from Android TV to Fire TV and LG
- Walkai-talkai puts Claude Code on a walkie-talkie, and anyone on your channel can give it orders
- tldraw's AI turns pull requests into narrated videos, and HyperFrames, Framefields and Remotion want to render yours
- Triage only sends you the bug reports that crash again on a clean machine
- Taskman names every Claude Code session after its ticket, so agents can tell each other their tests failed
- Coucou lets your coding agents live in the Mac's notch, where a blob named Mochi asks for your OK
- buddylist turns Claude Code, Codex and Gemini into MSN Messenger buddies, and a nudge stops them mid-task
- Beam walks one window off your agents' Mac mini and leaves a note saying where it went
- Google's Playground lets anyone make a game, one token at a time
- I asked Android users what's stopping them from getting an iPhone
- Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at home
- Withings wants about $100 a year to sync your scale with Apple Health
- iPhone Duo inner screen repair costs $999, so if you preorder one anyway, buy AppleCare+
- Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra costs up to nearly $6,000, and the reviews are in
- A developer pulled its horror drinking game's demo, afraid AI vibe coders would clone it
- Regex Marble Run turns your regular expression into a 3D marble run
- Someone simulated a Commodore 64 pin by pin, so you can break it on purpose
- The Duck Pond synthesizes every quack live, and you can throw the ducks peas
- Four Gemini agents beat Minecraft on their own, and died 605 times doing it
- Somebody built a programming language whose whole job is to break AI models
- Somebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dock
- The man who put Lemmings on the Palm Pilot just put his whole Palm OS toolbox on GitHub
- Windows 98 just got USB 3 and Thunderbolt drivers, 28 years late
- iPhone Duo sold out until January? Don't pay a scalper
- One hobbyist built a working laptop around a 6502, the chip inside the Apple II
- There's now a museum for DNS, the internet's phone book, and it's as nerdy as it sounds
- One AI assistant sent 187 messages chasing a refund it couldn't get
- The UK wants a name for its space junk collector, and you get two words
- This homebuilt 3D printer works at a scale you need a microscope to see
- Apple Intelligence is coming to China without the new Siri
- A fake South Park episode on torrent sites was a 118 KB program wrapped in 886 MB of junk
- This humanoid robot sits down and powers off when you walk up
- The leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the sky
- Someone trained a tiny AI to pretend it is a terminal
- AI data centers now need their own special gray paint
- Someone built a Linux desktop where windows are paper on a walnut desk and the dock is a drawer
- A startup drilled into an underwater volcano for electricity
- Apple ran a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to cool it
- Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table
- HPE wants to send a fanless computer to the Moon
- He wanted a Spectrum laptop, so he built one
- Tiny Little Office puts the document inside its own link
- Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser
- A maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years ago
- Two Commodore 64 sound chips get a USB connection to modern computers
- JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus
- Penmentor puts AI math hints beside your handwriting
- Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board
- Nebraska's first hot dog cannon couldn't outthrow the vendor
- Moby-Dick takes over 19 hours to scroll through this tiny GIF
- A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing
- Lukas Werner's VGA project makes room for the pixels you never see
- A maker turned discarded drink bottles into printer filament
- Intel documented a CPU instruction its own chip refuses to run, then dropped it from the manual
- Hackers took over supermarket fridges across Europe
- You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code
- Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad
- A YouTuber 3D printed a working mechanical calculator out of 109 pieces, and it only adds and multiplies
- A smart coffee maker sent 1TB over its owners' Wi-Fi in 10 days, and nobody knows why
- He hired an illustrator to draw his house, then turned the drawing into his Home Assistant dashboard
- A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac
- A startup says its AI passed as human in 48% of one-minute video calls, by its own test
- Somebody ported the original Doom to SQL
- Anthropic has been asking religious thinkers how Claude should behave
- France's top court says a 3D scan of a Rodin sculpture isn't a document
- An AI radio host in Los Angeles sometimes has to be told to stop swearing
- A Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linux
- A printed sign can steer a self-driving car, and the AI reads it as an order
- Trump ordered federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"