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A 2.5 litre per second air pump powered directly from a photovoltaic panel, about $10 in materials.
The sound on the video isn’t amazing, if there’s any questions let me know. I’ll be doing a more involved construction tutorial on this at some point.
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Ben Davis shares his first impressions of GPT-6 Astra after testing it on some of DEF CON’s hardest puzzle challenges. He explains how parallel research branches help the model test theories, stay on track, and solve complex problems, including one no one else had solved.
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Basic ASTs and AI aren’t enough to safely automate code fixes. To securely update transitive dependencies across a massive enterprise codebase, you need a compiler-accurate representation: the Lossless Semantic Tree (LST). See how the foundational technology behind modern remediation platforms supports the FINOS OSERA initiative to fix enterprise vulnerabilities once and distribute them everywhere. #SoftwareEngineering #OSERA #FINOS
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AI voice cloning is now incredibly easy, running on personal hardware. This demonstration shows how simple it is to create convincing deepfakes, raising serious concerns. #Deepfakes #AI #VoiceCloning #Technology
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00:00 Intro
00:44 Sponsor: TuxCare
01:45 Brave say they outperform every other major browser
04:49 Firefox 155 should load pages faster
06:36 CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian
09:42 Debian says yes to AI
12:14 GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support
13:52 Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland
15:19 KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now
16:39 Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign
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20:29 FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft
23:25 KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta
25:24 Grab bag of gaming news
28:45 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
Links:
Brave say they outperform every other major browser
https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/
Firefox 155 should load pages faster
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-155-faster-page-loads/
CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL
Debian says yes to AI
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00005.html
GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/5219
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC
Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland
KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/
Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign
https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10283.msg61637.html
KDE Connect redesign ready for testing
https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/
FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft
https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/
Grab bag of gaming news
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/game-launcher-launchbox-should-get-a-linux-version-in-2027/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/
Community & Collaboration The open source community continues to thrive with initiatives like Social Coworking and Office Hours focusing on code linting in R, offering a collaborative environment to improve code quality. In other news, the Central European Hub (CEE) shared insights from electing its steering committee, highlighting the process and lessons learned. Meanwhile, the … Read more
Analysis: The Open-Source Tipping Point The latest headlines paint a vivid picture: open-source is no longer just a niche movement—it’s becoming the backbone of modern tech, particularly in AI. From Nvidia’s massive $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face to Abu Dhabi’s release of fully transparent models, the momentum is undeniable. This shift is driven by … Read more
Open Source at the Core of Innovation This week’s digest showcases a vibrant open source ecosystem, with significant strides in browser-based AI, clarity on agentic AI, and a notable victory for Linux in the policy arena. These stories underline how open source continues to drive accessibility, innovation, and user rights. Hugging Face’s release of 207 … Read more
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The heat engine which drives the solar tracker… tracking.
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Meet GPT-6 Astra, our latest frontier model for tasks where raw intelligence matters. Charlie Guo, Developer Experience Engineer at OpenAI, demonstrates improved Computer Use, stronger creative and knowledge-work outputs, and new asynchronous tool calling and steering in the Responses API.
Read more: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
