2026-05-01
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and...
How to Safely Integrate AI Into Structured Backend Systems
This article explores the challenges of integrating AI into structured backend systems like Java Spring Boot applications. It shows how small inconsistencies in AI-generated outputs can cause cascading failures across...
“The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards”
The creators of the Blackberry were sure that customers loved the keyboard. That’s what they heard all day from their users, and it must have been right since they had...
Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'
A whole range of Ubuntu sites and services seem to be affected.
Self driving interview
In honor of yesterday’s nonspecific point in the gradual arrival of self-driving cars, an interview with myself. Interviewer: It sounds like you’re pretty excited about self-driving cars. Weren’t you just...
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new tech to support driving license applications that...
How to Build a Browser-Based Voice Assistant With the AssemblyAI Voice Agent API
This tutorial walks through building a real-time voice assistant using a unified API that handles speech recognition, language processing, and speech synthesis over a single WebSocket connection. The key takeaway...
7 Things You Can Build With a Single WebSocket (Using AssemblyAI’s Voice Agent API)
Most voice AI architectures look like a Rube Goldberg machine. You pipe audio into a speech-to-text service, feed the transcript to an LLM, send the LLM’s reply to a text-to-speech...
How to Evaluate STT for Voice Agents in Production
Voice agent developers are optimising for TTFB — time to first byte — but it's one of the least useful metrics in production. What actually determines how fast and reliable...
Is it a Pet? No, it’s a Teacher’s Pet!
Here at Hackaday we cover the world of retrocomputing, which means that we see all manner of older computers in our everyday work. We might even claim that we’ve seen...
11 ways to be less deferential
often worry that people are being too deferential about their beliefs. I also hear others worrying about this, and nobody seemingly worrying about the reverse, except perhaps my friends and...
Uphold refutes Misstatements in New York Attorney General’s Press Release Regarding Cred, LLC Fraud
Uphold has pushed back against statements from the New York Attorney General following a settlement tied to the 2020 collapse of Cred. The company says it was a victim of...
Ragnov
Ragnov is one of those early Amiga curiosities that gives a fascinating glimpse into the early days of a development team that would go on to produce other well known...
What Microsoft’s 10-Q Says About OpenAI
Buried on page nine of Microsoft’s 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 is a paragraph worthy of attention. Why? What does it reveal? A lot. For starters, Microsoft...
BTCC Exchange and the Argentine Football Association Unite as Legends in New Campaign Video
Lodz, Poland, April 30th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTCC Exchange, the world's longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, has released a landmark campaign video celebrating its official partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Titled "Legends Made...
Directory Opus 5.100 | PPA.pl
Przez kilka ostatnich dni Dimitris "MiDWaN" Panokostas dostarczył trzy kolejne wersje programu Directory Opus 5. Wprowadził w nich obsługę systemu graficzny Picasso96, który zastąpił cybergraphics, co powinni wyraźnie zauważyć posiadacze...
The Settlers 2 - nowa mapa | PPA.pl
Wydawnictwo Look Behind You przygotowało nową mapę do gry "The Settlers 2 - Gold Edition". Jest ona dostępna za darmo do pobrania z Aminetu....Czytaj więcej na stronie www.ppa.pl »
Iron Rails | PPA.pl
"Iron Rails" to gra strategiczna inspirowana planszówką "Ticket To Ride" (polski tytuł: "Wsiąść do pociągu"). Gracz kontroluje imperium kolejowe, zbierając karty pociągów, ustalając połączenia pomiędzy miastami i wypełniając inne zadania....
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment...
Railblaze | PPA.pl
"Railblaze" to gra zręcznościowa, w której zadaniem gracza, kierującego wskaźnikiem poruszającym się po "siatce" jest zebranie wszystkich niebieskich kul znajdujących się w każdym z dwudziestu etapów, jednocześnie nie dając się...
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