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October 2026

  1. Full Disk Access is the most dangerous setting on my Mac
  2. Google's Playground lets anyone make a game, one token at a time
  3. I asked Android users what's stopping them from getting an iPhone
  4. Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at home
  5. Withings wants about $100 a year to sync your scale with Apple Health
  6. iPhone Duo inner screen repair costs $999, so if you preorder one anyway, buy AppleCare+
  7. Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra costs up to nearly $6,000, and the reviews are in
  8. A developer pulled its horror drinking game's demo, afraid AI vibe coders would clone it
  9. Regex Marble Run turns your regular expression into a 3D marble run
  10. Someone simulated a Commodore 64 pin by pin, so you can break it on purpose
  11. The Duck Pond synthesizes every quack live, and you can throw the ducks peas
  12. Four Gemini agents beat Minecraft on their own, and died 605 times doing it
  13. Somebody built a programming language whose whole job is to break AI models
  14. Somebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dock
  15. The man who put Lemmings on the Palm Pilot just put his whole Palm OS toolbox on GitHub
  16. Windows 98 just got USB 3 and Thunderbolt drivers, 28 years late
  17. iPhone Duo sold out until January? Don't pay a scalper
  18. One hobbyist built a working laptop around a 6502, the chip inside the Apple II
  19. There's now a museum for DNS, the internet's phone book, and it's as nerdy as it sounds
  20. One AI assistant sent 187 messages chasing a refund it couldn't get
  21. The UK wants a name for its space junk collector, and you get two words
  22. This homebuilt 3D printer works at a scale you need a microscope to see
  23. Apple Intelligence is coming to China without the new Siri
  24. A fake South Park episode on torrent sites was a 118 KB program wrapped in 886 MB of junk
  25. This humanoid robot sits down and powers off when you walk up
  26. The leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the sky
  27. Someone trained a tiny AI to pretend it is a terminal
  28. AI data centers now need their own special gray paint
  29. Someone built a Linux desktop where windows are paper on a walnut desk and the dock is a drawer
  30. A startup drilled into an underwater volcano for electricity
  31. Apple ran a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to cool it
  32. Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table
  33. HPE wants to send a fanless computer to the Moon
  34. He wanted a Spectrum laptop, so he built one
  35. Tiny Little Office puts the document inside its own link
  36. Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser
  37. A maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years ago
  38. Two Commodore 64 sound chips get a USB connection to modern computers
  39. JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus
  40. Penmentor puts AI math hints beside your handwriting
  41. Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board
  42. Nebraska's first hot dog cannon couldn't outthrow the vendor
  43. Moby-Dick takes over 19 hours to scroll through this tiny GIF
  44. A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing
  45. Lukas Werner's VGA project makes room for the pixels you never see
  46. A maker turned discarded drink bottles into printer filament
  47. Intel documented a CPU instruction its own chip refuses to run, then dropped it from the manual
  48. Hackers took over supermarket fridges across Europe
  49. You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code
  50. Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad
  51. A YouTuber 3D printed a working mechanical calculator out of 109 pieces, and it only adds and multiplies
  52. A smart coffee maker sent 1TB over its owners' Wi-Fi in 10 days, and nobody knows why
  53. He hired an illustrator to draw his house, then turned the drawing into his Home Assistant dashboard
  54. A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac
  55. A startup says its AI passed as human in 48% of one-minute video calls, by its own test
  56. Somebody ported the original Doom to SQL
  57. Anthropic has been asking religious thinkers how Claude should behave
  58. France's top court says a 3D scan of a Rodin sculpture isn't a document
  59. An AI radio host in Los Angeles sometimes has to be told to stop swearing
  60. A Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linux
  61. A printed sign can steer a self-driving car, and the AI reads it as an order
  62. Trump ordered federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"