2026-10-11 Discoveries

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

Your personal AI agent in your own Cloudflare account. Chat, memory, tasks, notes and scheduled reminders, deployed with one command: npx create-talorys@latest. Free-tier friendly, single-user, no ...

Bitwarden Dual License Model

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

Poking at the Radxa Dragon Q8B Raspberry Pi 5 Killer

Although the asking price of $209 plus shipping seems high for the Radxa Dragon Q8B, featuring the Qualcomm SC8280XP and 8 GB of LPDDR4X, this is 2026, and amid the …

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.

Valve Releases Hardware and CAD Reference For New VR Headset

Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository that includes everything a budding modder might need, and then some. Want …

The Secret Superpowers of Amphibians and Reptiles

They are full of unusual senses

AdsNotch

Turn your Mac’s screen into ad space and earn money

Restoring an Altimeter Watch to Former Heights

Finding inexpensive broken hardware for sale, buying it, and restoring it to working condition is a long-standing tradition for hackers on a limited budge. But there are some devices that …

The Placenta Is More Powerful—and More Mysterious—Than You Think

People say it looks like broccoli, a tree, a bowl, a pizza, a crescent moon, a Frisbee, a pancake. Etymologically, “pancake” is closest: Placenta means cake in Latin and comes from the Greek word plakoenta, which means flat cake. Per a Greco-Roman recipe that’s been dated to 160 B.C., in order to…

Tuck

A tidy menu bar for macOS 27

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

Reverse engineer apps, binaries and browser behavior with your coding agent. Follow clear guides and try interactive examples with REA.

A Spooky Mathematical Coincidence

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Why Old Dogs Might Be Able to Teach Alzheimer’s Researchers New Tricks

Most people know someone with Alzheimer’s disease . When I was growing up, my grandmother struggled with dementia, and I saw firsthand how difficult that was for our family. That experience was one reason I became a neurotoxicologist who studies how misshapen proteins and inflammation in the brain…

Letra

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