The open-source project Strata, from developer Niko1221, runs a 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8 mixture-of-experts LLM on gaming-PC hardware by treating VRAM as a cache and keeping the full expert set i…
Matthew Trahan released support-fins, an open-source 3D printing support tool built with assistance from Claude that generates fin-shaped supports baked directly into STL models instead of grid or org…
An AI model called GPT-6 Astra has reportedly deciphered a previously unbroken World War I German radio message encoded with the ADFGVX cipher, according to PrinzAI. The message, sent on November 27, …
Researchers at ETH Zurich built a disembodied robotic hand that uses its fingers as legs to walk, righting itself within twenty seconds in 21 of 25 fall-recovery tests and crossing fourteen surfaces r…
Mikey Sklar released CircuitPython Turbo, a project built with help from Anthropic's Claude LLM that adds precompiled 'native' and 'viper' execution modes to CircuitPython, the Adafruit-focused fork o…
About 30 humanoid robots gathered in Warsaw in September 2026 to protest the impact of AI and robots on the labor market, an event organized to draw public and media attention and showcase modern huma…
Developer jordanhubbard has released PythonOS, an operating system that boots directly to a Python interpreter and runs everything on top of it, including an optional GUI mode, according to a GitHub r…
Hackaday reports that maker brenpoly built 'Polymo,' a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that only stays alive if the user puts down their phone, using an ESP32 in a 3D-printed case and a local LLM on the …
A new GitHub project by nampara-ai packages the vintage WordStar 4.0 word processor with DOSBox, providing scripts to run it on Linux, Mac, Windows, and in a browser via WebAssembly. The project offer…
A new e-paper display project by [arnegiacomo] uses a Raspberry Pi 5 and BirdNet-Go, an AI-powered birdsong classifier, to automatically draw pictures of birds heard outside in real time, assembling i…
OpenAI's Codex coding agent helped an experienced programmer turn a ten-line shell script into a more robust utility for launching Internet radio stations on Linux, fixing a potential bug involving st…
FLOSS Weekly Episode 880 features Jonathan Bennett interviewing Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits about Patch the Planet, an initiative to help open-source projects address vulnerabilities introduced …
Open-source large language models are rapidly eroding the competitive moats of companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, with the only remaining barrier being physical computing resources, according to a T…
German designer Simon Weckert has created a fabric pattern intended to confuse AI image recognition systems, causing them not to identify the wearer as a person. The design uses saturated colors to ta…
A new project called multikernel Linux (mklinux) allows multiple independent Linux kernels to run simultaneously on bare metal without a hypervisor, achieving near-perfect isolation and lower latency …
Andrea Ricci ported DOOM to the SCINTIX P4 single-board computer and used Anthropic's Claude Sonnet large language model to play the game, with the model receiving only the same visual information as …
Matt Lenhard's writeup on Vectoral reveals that cheap AI token resellers obtain tokens fraudulently, often through free credits, stolen cards, or reverse-engineered consumer products, then resell acce…
AI companies are scanning and destroying books published after 1970 to train models on pre-AI content, a practice critics call destructive to rare books, but a Hackaday editor argues the books are not…
The Internet Archive has released a collection of vintage artificial intelligence software from the 1970s to the 1990s, playable in browsers via emulation. Curated by Jason Scott, the collection inclu…
Apple has begun sending push notifications to users in 110 countries warning them of targeted malware attacks, with the company recommending Lockdown Mode for affected devices. Researchers at Usenix 2…