Hacks & Buildsgithub.com
Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad
An iPad is running Linux's own graphics driver, unmodified, to drive an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
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Hacks & Buildsyoutube.com
A YouTuber 3D printed a working mechanical calculator out of 109 pieces, and it only adds and multiplies
The maker behind the YouTube channel 3D all Workshop spent two months building a pocket calculator with no metal springs, no screws and nothing he couldn't make on his 3D printer.
Securitytomshardware.com
A smart coffee maker sent 1TB over its owners' Wi-Fi in 10 days, and nobody knows why
A coffee maker has one job, and uploading isn't it.
Hacks & Buildsantonfrolov.substack.com
He hired an illustrator to draw his house, then turned the drawing into his Home Assistant dashboard
Anton Frolov's fireplace flickers, his garden lights glow and the bedroom air conditioner blows, in a hand-drawn picture of his house that doubles as his Home Assistant dashboard.
Softwaregithub.com
A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac
Googlebook OS now runs on a Mac, unofficially, in a virtual machine with GPU acceleration and Chrome working.
Drama & Failuresdecrypt.co
A startup says its AI passed as human in 48% of one-minute video calls, by its own test
Tavus, a San Francisco AI startup, says 26 of the 54 people who spent a minute on a video call with its new Griffin-Lite model believed afterward they'd been talking to a real person.
Weird Techcedardb.com
Somebody ported the original Doom to SQL
Lukas Vogel at CedarDB ported the original 1993 Doom to SQL, the language most of us use for pulling rows out of databases.
Drama & Failuresinquirer.com
Anthropic has been asking religious thinkers how Claude should behave
For months, Anthropic has hosted private meetings with dozens of religious scholars to help determine how to train its AI models to behave virtuously, The New York Times reported on Sept. 30.
Drama & Failurescosmowenman.substack.com
France's top court says a 3D scan of a Rodin sculpture isn't a document
Cosmo Wenman spent eight years asking the Rodin Museum in Paris for the 3D scans it made of Auguste Rodin's sculptures, arguing that scans made with public money are public records.
Drama & Failureslatimes.com
An AI radio host in Los Angeles sometimes has to be told to stop swearing
José FM in Los Angeles has a morning co-host named Coyotec, and he's a chatbot.
Softwarephoronix.com
A Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linux
Timur Kristóf, of Valve's Linux graphics driver team, moved old AMD graphics cards from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, and he presented that work in Toronto at XDC 2026.
Securitytheregister.com
A printed sign can steer a self-driving car, and the AI reads it as an order
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins got the AI models that steer self-driving cars and drones to obey commands written on a sign held up in front of the camera.
Drama & Failuresfoxbusiness.com
Trump ordered federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"
On Sept. 29, President Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents, and to "no longer acknowledge" the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI".