Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure...
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YouTube Star AboFlah Made Streaming His Life. He Wants His Kids to Live Offline
AboFlah talks about his new goals, streaming for charity, and when it’s time to log off.
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The Seven Sensors and Breakout Boards to Avoid in a Product
We’ve all seen these sensors and modules kicking around, as part of beginner kits, strapped into prototypes and potentially even in products deployed in the field....
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git worktree: Work on Multiple Branches at Once
Use git worktree to check out multiple branches in separate directories, handle urgent fixes without stashing, and clean up linked worktrees safely.
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Play games with your brain signals using Octopus 16 wireless EEG device
Octopus 16 is a wireless biosignal HID device for the XIAO ESP32-S3 board designed to let users play computer games using brain signals (EEG) with no...
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Cloudflare Introduces Meerkat for Strongly Consistent Global Coordination
Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency,...
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UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”?
There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as...
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APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of...
Read moreRussell Coker: Packet Edit Meme and Debian SE Linux
There’s yet another Linux kernel exploit based on container functions, here’s the result when run as user_t on a SE Linux system: $ ./packet_edit_meme [*] target...
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Bike Trainers as Video Game Controllers
While we’ve largely settled on analog sticks and digital buttons for controlling video games, there’s all sorts of projects to create truly esoteric controllers that allow...
Read moreSteam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use...
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