2026-10-03 Discoveries

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.

Sites in ChatGPT

Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence

Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow. The post Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence first appeared on Quanta…

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

Electronic Busy Board is Fun for Kids and Hackers

While you may not be familiar with the term “busy board”, you’ve almost certainly seen one. It’s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course …

The latest AI news we announced in September 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026

Your Immune System Ages in Two Big Bursts

Your 40s and 60s are periods of intense remodeling

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs

Homebrew computers don’t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]’s all-through-hole, 68008-based “68k-MBC” certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contest. While there are both “full” and …

Veltrix AI for E-commerce

Find how your e-commerce business could earn more

Gaia Alari’s Lilting Animations are Drawn Frame by Frame

Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Gaia Alari’s Lilting Animations are Drawn…

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

Docs, benchmarks and setup notes for ds4, antirez

This Spectacular Star Field Hides Brown Dwarfs That Never Ignite

The James Webb Space Telescope does it again

Hackaday Podcast Episode 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays, and Jenny Visits a Blast…

Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is …

Muse Gadgets

Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself. Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you’ve got lying on…

Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future

In Munich, Saraceno's ecological and collaborative projects take center stage for a sweeping presentation titled 'Ancestral Futures.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article…

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah Department of…

Apple Pass Designer

Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview passes that reflect your business.

Making My Perfect Pencil

What Goes on in the Brain When a Good Buzz Gets Harshed

In 1974, Pfizer developed a synthetic cannabinoid that mimicked the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but was around 40 times stronger. Unfortunately, this synthetic super weed was never marketed. Instead, it’s used to test the effects of THC on lab animals, like the mice in a new Nature…

Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model

Teachoo

AI that helps you learn anything and everything.

Wild Hijinx and Hilarious Happenstance Reign in the 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards

The competition welcomed its largest ever number of entries this year from photographers in 112 countries. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wild Hijinx and Hilarious…