The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. Wherever the dust settles, myriad important open source projects use Freenode’s IRC s…

iOS and iPadOS include capabilities that let apps use alternative browser engines — browser engines other than WebKit — for dedicated browser apps and apps providing in-app browsing experiences in the EU. To use an alternative browser engine in your app,…

DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard

A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio. And it's open source, too.

'All of the defaults are insecure' Zenity CTO claims

I didn't discover the joy of writing Rust code until I stopped trying to make the language something it isn't.

Boeing is helping develop NASA's next-generation megarocket, but inspectors have found shortcomings in that work. Meanwhile, the company's Starliner spaceship waits in space.

Our video games writers get their children to play the games they loved as kids – and get to grips with the ones they adore now. Will they be bored, baffled –or hooked?

Long explored but infrequently embraced, base 3 computing may yet find a home in cybersecurity.

In 1905, prospector Pablo Valencia survived a week without water as he walked more than 100 miles in the Sonoran Desert. 75 years later, teacher Bill Broyles retraced his route.

His name was Hugh Donald McIntosh. An Australia-born entrepreneur, he had been a fight promoter, theatrical producer and newspaper magnate. By 1935, however, he was bankrupt. Attempts to resurrect his fortune included an angora rabbit farm and a cake shop.…

Stripe Payments, Social Authentication & 2FA, Email Integrations, Tailwind/DaisyUI Theming, Astro Marketing Site, Automatic SSL, Containerized With Docker, and much more...

NASA fears Boeing autonomous software update for Starliner could render ISS docking port inoperable

Enhance Tesseract OCR output for scanned PDFs by applying Large Language Model (LLM) corrections. - Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr

Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a revolutionary approach which could generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar

I look left and right, and I’m the only one who…