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Kraftwerk's Radioactivity at 50: From Sci-Fi Hymn to Anti-Nuclear Anthem
Kraftwerk's 1975 album Radio-Activity, reissued for its 50th anniversary, cemented the Düsseldorf quartet's shift into fully electronic music and showcased thei
Needle: A 26M-Parameter Model Distilled from Gemini for On-Device Tool Calling
Cactus Compute has released Needle, a 26-million-parameter model distilled from Gemini 3.1 that specializes in single-shot function calling. Built on a new "Sim
Obsidian Launches Automated Plugin Reviews and Safety Scorecards
Obsidian has launched Obsidian Community, a new directory and developer dashboard replacing its previous GitHub-based plugin submission flow. With over 4,000 co
Operation: Epic Furious — Hacker News post points to bare landing page
A Hacker News submission titled "Operation: Epic Furious" links to epicfurious.com, but the page itself contains nothing beyond the operation's name. No descrip
OrcaSlicer Fork Restores Cloud Printing for Bambu Lab Hardware
A community fork of OrcaSlicer published under the FULU Foundation reinstates full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers, letting users send jobs over the
Petition Urges NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Stop Blocking the Wayback Machine
A public petition is pressuring major news outlets to reverse decisions that prevent the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from preserving their journalism. Si
Rust on an ATtiny85: A Rube Goldberg LED Graduation Cap
A Purdue graduate built a microcontroller-driven LED graduation cap programmed in Rust, triggered by a reed switch and magnet that detects the ceremonial tassel
Scrcpy 4.0 migrates to SDL3, adds flex displays and camera controls
Genymobile's Android screen-mirroring tool scrcpy has shipped version 4.0, headlined by a migration from SDL2 to SDL3. The switch brings active upstream mainten
Six CVEs hit dnsmasq as AI-driven bug hunting overwhelms maintainer
CERT disclosed six serious, long-standing vulnerabilities in dnsmasq on May 11, 2026, affecting essentially all non-ancient versions of the widely deployed DNS/
Six Typographic Tricks That Instantly Make Text Look Like the Future
A tongue-in-cheek breakdown of the visual conventions sci-fi movies rely on to signal that text belongs to the future. Starting from plain Eurostile Bold, the p
SpaceX Unveils Starship V3 With Major Design Overhaul
SpaceX has published an update on Starship V3, the next major iteration of its fully reusable super-heavy launch system. The page positions V3 as a substantial
uBlock Origin fork swaps hidden ads for 'They Live' OBEY tiles
A new hobby fork of uBlock Origin Lite, called they_live_adblocker, replaces cosmetically-filtered ads with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 19