Webb Opens Treasure Chest
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this Aug. 6, 2026, infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic...
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How to Host Odoo: Self-Hosted vs Managed Hosting
Odoo is an open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that helps businesses manage operations such as sales, customer relationship management (CRM), inventory, accounting, human resources
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How to Understand a Legacy Codebase Using AI Before Changing it
The first thing many engineers want to do when they inherit a legacy codebase is change it. And I understand the impulse. You open a class...
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NASA’s Artemis II Crew Set to Receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor
President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug....
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Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay
Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to...
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 383: QR Codes, Caving Gear, and the Old School Way to Learn Electronics
In this week’s episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there...
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Don't tell Nintendo, but I turned GTA 5 into Pokémon Go using a mod
Also, probably don't tell Rockstar.
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Sandustry is the first factory simulation game I've played that gets heaps right
Before we talk about Sandustry, the excellent new spelunking factory builder from Lantto Games and Hooded Horse, we need to revisit that most quintessentially vidyagame of...
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2026.34: App Snore
The best Stratechery content from the week of August 17, 2026, including Apple making compromises in the EU, Truth (Social) and reconciliation, and August fun with...
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Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks
Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game,...
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Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser
Anthropic launched a new Browser Use tool that gives Claude a structured view of a web page in addition to The post Anthropic’s new browser tool...
Read moreAI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of...
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