BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached
Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is...
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The Open Source Diary App for Android That Organizes Your Life on a Timeline
A well-designed diary app that keeps your data private, works offline, and respects your freedom.
Read moreMath Breakthrough Helps Your Feng Shui
In 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move through a 1-meter corridor with...
Read moreAI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software
Hitting the “1.0” milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant...
Read moreBetterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message
Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your...
Read moreOpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential...
Read moreEvans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
On her blog, Julia Evans writes about improving Git documentation, including a new data model man page she wrote with Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, and updates to...
Read moreSpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites
SpaceX today received US permission to launch another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, bringing its total authorization to 15,000 Gen2 satellites including those previously approved. “Under this...
Read moreHow to Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents
Most AI tools require you to send your prompts and files to third-party servers. That’s a non-starter if your data includes private journals, research notes, or...
Read moreGrok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
Read moreESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket
It took a while, but a consensus has emerged in Europe that the continent’s space industry needs to develop reusable rockets. How to do it and...
Read moreBose SoundTouch Smart Speakers get an Open Source Lifeline
After initially announcing that Bose will completely turn off all ‘smart’ features in its SoundTouch series of speaker products, the company has seemingly responded to the...
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