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Backup Tapes Come Back to the Homelab

It's one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage.

Valve Releases Hardware Files, Including a KiCad Example, for Steam Frame Hardware and Accessories

Valve has made good on its promise to make its next-generation Steam Frame virtual reality (VR) headset accessible to those looking to build or mod the device, releasing initial details on using its hardware expansion port along with "stripped down CAD" files. "Information provided within this repository is for informational purposes only," Valve warns those interested in using the design files it has released to expand their Steam Frame with mods and accessories. "The reference material is provided on an AS-IS basis.

Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots

This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in humanoid robots, and why adaptive, speed-aware control is essential for closing the gap between simulation and real-world deployment. What you will learn about: Why combining a professional athlete's motion style with reliable task performance remains an open challenge in humanoid ball-sports robotics, and how separating a high-level planner from a low-level tracker addresses this trade-off. How motion data extracted from broadcast video and motion-capture recordings can be reconstructed, retargeted, and physically corrected into reference motions a humanoid robot can safely track.

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc7

3-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. According to Linus: "As always, I would have preferred to see a smaller rc, but it's not like anything in here looks like a reason to delay the final release. " One notable change that slipped into the mainline this week is the deprecation of the ext4 data=journal mode; it will be removed entirely at the beginning of 2028.

Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI

Your agent can now use the to buy a domain. vercel domains searchvercel domains checkvercel domains pricevercel domains buy The purchase decision itself stays with you by design. Run non-interactively, returns a structured, machine-readable error and the suggested next commands, so the agent hands the confirmation back to you, prohibiting it from spending money without your approval.

Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash

We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. 0x.