Apps, platforms, operating systems and updates.https://www.nerdbite.com/en-gbWed, 07 Oct 2026 06:32:46 GMTeditor@nerdbite.com (NerdBite)editor@nerdbite.com (NerdBite)Copyright 2026 NerdBite60https://www.nerdbite.com/unity-s-new-car-dashboard-demo-hits-60fps-on-a-raspberry-pi-but-it-s/https://www.nerdbite.com/unity-s-new-car-dashboard-demo-hits-60fps-on-a-raspberry-pi-but-it-s/A slicker in-car interface template sounds like a win for drivers, except this one is aimed squarely at developers, not showroom floors.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:32:46 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/cloud-providers-are-finally-letting-you-switch-your-wallet-off-before/https://www.nerdbite.com/cloud-providers-are-finally-letting-you-switch-your-wallet-off-before/AWS and Google Cloud have both quietly added hard spending limits this year - but only as opt-in extras, not the default, and that's the bit worth arguing about.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:32:59 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/aws-says-transcribe-now-supports-your-own-encryption-keys-but-tells/https://www.nerdbite.com/aws-says-transcribe-now-supports-your-own-encryption-keys-but-tells/Amazon has quietly added customer-managed KMS keys to Transcribe's custom resources, though its own announcement is so thin it raises more questions than it answers.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:32:36 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-redesign-in-a-decade-but-is-it-actually-2-0/https://www.nerdbite.com/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-redesign-in-a-decade-but-is-it-actually-2-0/The alternative Android app store has rebuilt itself from the ground up after 14 test releases, though some longtime users reckon the version number is doing more work than the update itself.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:33:23 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/nvidia-lets-you-write-cuda-kernels-in-rust-but-read-the-fine-print/https://www.nerdbite.com/nvidia-lets-you-write-cuda-kernels-in-rust-but-read-the-fine-print/Two new toolchains promise memory-safe GPU kernels without leaving Rust, though one is stable-ready and the other is very much a work in progress.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:33:25 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/unity-launches-a-cli-tool-to-tidy-up-messy-build-pipelines-but-the/https://www.nerdbite.com/unity-launches-a-cli-tool-to-tidy-up-messy-build-pipelines-but-the/A new command-line tool promises to simplify Unity's notoriously fragile CI/CD scripts, though Unity's announcement leaves out most of the practical detail developers will actually need.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:32:26 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-sketch-to-prompt-tool-for-material-design-just-hit-6-800-github/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-sketch-to-prompt-tool-for-material-design-just-hit-6-800-github/M3E Canvas lets you doodle an app screen and turn it into an AI coding prompt, and it's racking up stars fast, though rapid GitHub growth isn't proof of much on its own.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:33:05 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/ios-27-lands-with-siri-ai-but-the-keyboard-bug-you-hate-is-still-there/https://www.nerdbite.com/ios-27-lands-with-siri-ai-but-the-keyboard-bug-you-hate-is-still-there/Apple's big autumn update brings a smarter Siri and fresh parental controls, but early adopters say some very old annoyances have survived the rebuild.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:32:42 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-github-repo-for-sketching-app-screens-has-6-500-stars-but-does/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-github-repo-for-sketching-app-screens-has-6-500-stars-but-does/M3E Canvas promises to turn rough app sketches into AI-coding prompts, and it's racked up stars at a startling rate. Here's what's actually confirmed and what isn't.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:33:11 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-tool-that-sketches-app-screens-and-writes-ai-prompts-is-racing-up/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-tool-that-sketches-app-screens-and-writes-ai-prompts-is-racing-up/M3E Canvas has picked up over 6,000 stars in under a fortnight, promising to turn rough app sketches into ready-made prompts for AI coding tools, here's what's actually been verified.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:32:56 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/google-is-quietly-hiding-search-result-links-behind-a-new-redirect/https://www.nerdbite.com/google-is-quietly-hiding-search-result-links-behind-a-new-redirect/A scraping company says Google has swapped plain result URLs for an opaque 'goto' redirect, and while that's bad news for bulk data-harvesters, it changes almost nothing for anyone actually clicking a link.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:32:35 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-gui-sketchpad-for-vibe-coding-just-hit-6-000-github-stars-but-stars/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-gui-sketchpad-for-vibe-coding-just-hit-6-000-github-stars-but-stars/m3e-canvas lets you doodle an app screen and spit out a prompt for Claude Code or Cursor, and it's racked up thousands of stars in under a fortnight, here's what that number actually tells you.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:33:15 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/shopify-ditches-react-native-for-native-apps-again-and-blames-ai-for/https://www.nerdbite.com/shopify-ditches-react-native-for-native-apps-again-and-blames-ai-for/The e-commerce giant says coding agents have made building twice in Swift and Kotlin cheaper than maintaining one shared codebase, but the claim is doing a lot of heavy lifting.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:32:53 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/internet-archive-wants-your-monthly-donation-tripled-but-read-the/https://www.nerdbite.com/internet-archive-wants-your-monthly-donation-tripled-but-read-the/The digital library behind the Wayback Machine is running a 2:1 matching drive this September, and commenters are already flagging some awkward gotchas around cancelling.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:32:54 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/cloud-in-a-bottle-wants-self-hosting-to-feel-like-an-app-store-not-a/https://www.nerdbite.com/cloud-in-a-bottle-wants-self-hosting-to-feel-like-an-app-store-not-a/A new open-source project promises smartphone-simple self-hosting - but its launch was already dented by an unmarked promo campaign from someone linked to the team.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:32:31 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/praxist-has-5-900-github-stars-and-a-big-pitch-but-what-does-it/https://www.nerdbite.com/praxist-has-5-900-github-stars-and-a-big-pitch-but-what-does-it/A Python project claiming to run autonomous research has shot up GitHub's charts in under a fortnight, though there's little on offer beyond a README and thirteen commits.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:32:36 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/this-github-repo-hit-6-970-stars-in-under-two-weeks-but-what-is-it/https://www.nerdbite.com/this-github-repo-hit-6-970-stars-in-under-two-weeks-but-what-is-it/PRAXIST is billed as an 'autonomous research system', and developers are starring it in droves, but the claims on the project page are doing most of the heavy lifting.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:32:58 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/fastpotify-is-a-slick-winamp-skinned-spotify-client-built-on-a/https://www.nerdbite.com/fastpotify-is-a-slick-winamp-skinned-spotify-client-built-on-a/A new open-source desktop app promises fast, lightweight Spotify playback with retro Winamp skins - but its entire foundation depends on a project whose future is being argued over on Hacker News.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:32:54 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/praxist-the-github-ai-researcher-that-s-gone-from-nowhere-to-4-800/https://www.nerdbite.com/praxist-the-github-ai-researcher-that-s-gone-from-nowhere-to-4-800/A Python repo promising an 'autonomous research system' has rocketed up GitHub's charts in under a fortnight, yet basic questions about who made it and whether it works remain unanswered.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:32:44 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/lake-ontario-is-now-lake-america-on-us-maps-but-only-if-you-re/https://www.nerdbite.com/lake-ontario-is-now-lake-america-on-us-maps-but-only-if-you-re/Google says it's just following the official US government register, but the rebrand of a shared border lake shows how quickly a naming dispute becomes a Maps headache.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:32:04 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/you-can-boot-a-virtual-iphone-on-a-mac-now-but-it-s-strictly-for/https://www.nerdbite.com/you-can-boot-a-virtual-iphone-on-a-mac-now-but-it-s-strictly-for/A new open-source tool lets Apple Silicon Macs run a virtualised iOS, but it demands disabled security protections and doesn't play nicely with the EU or Japan.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:32:30 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/cloudflare-says-it-clawed-back-100tb-of-memory-from-1-1-1-1-s-dns/https://www.nerdbite.com/cloudflare-says-it-clawed-back-100tb-of-memory-from-1-1-1-1-s-dns/A tidy-sounding engineering win is real, but it doesn't mean your DNS lookups just got faster - and it took Cloudflare months to actually ship it.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:33:17 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-github-repo-hit-6-866-stars-in-under-two-weeks-but-what-does-it/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-github-repo-hit-6-866-stars-in-under-two-weeks-but-what-does-it/dsh-routing-suite is racing up GitHub's trending charts, though its own README leaves more questions than answers about who built it and whether the numbers mean anything.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:33:10 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/a-repo-called-deepseek-harness-has-196-000-github-stars-nobody-can/https://www.nerdbite.com/a-repo-called-deepseek-harness-has-196-000-github-stars-nobody-can/The numbers on GitHub are real enough to check. Almost everything else about this project isn't.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:33:55 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/apple-backtracks-hide-my-email-addresses-aren-t-moving-after-all/https://www.nerdbite.com/apple-backtracks-hide-my-email-addresses-aren-t-moving-after-all/A domain switch that sounded like it would break every masked email address you've ever handed out has, after grumbling from developers, been quietly scaled back.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:32:36 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/deepseek-s-new-harness-has-185-000-github-stars-but-what-is-it/https://www.nerdbite.com/deepseek-s-new-harness-has-185-000-github-stars-but-what-is-it/A TypeScript project from DeepSeek's GitHub org has racked up six-figure stars in under a fortnight, yet the page itself offers almost nothing to say what it does or why it's exploding.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:33:49 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/signal-founder-s-old-pittsburgh-scrapping-story-goes-viral-but-check/https://www.nerdbite.com/signal-founder-s-old-pittsburgh-scrapping-story-goes-viral-but-check/A 2006 journal entry about cast-iron bathtubs vanishing overnight has racked up hundreds of upvotes on Hacker News, but there's no way to check any of it - and that's rather the point.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:33:23 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/ai-makes-fast-code-cheap-to-write-so-why-does-everything-still-feel/https://www.nerdbite.com/ai-makes-fast-code-cheap-to-write-so-why-does-everything-still-feel/A developer's essay argues performance optimisation has gone from rare craft to commodity thanks to AI coding tools - but the comments underneath poke a fair few holes in that theory.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:32:30 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/aws-quietly-switches-on-a-new-local-zone-in-las-vegas-but-the/https://www.nerdbite.com/aws-quietly-switches-on-a-new-local-zone-in-las-vegas-but-the/AWS says it's opened a Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada - here's what that actually means, and what its own announcement conveniently doesn't spell out.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:32:12 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/deepseek-s-harness-tool-hits-162-000-github-stars-but-nobody-s-saying/https://www.nerdbite.com/deepseek-s-harness-tool-hits-162-000-github-stars-but-nobody-s-saying/A new DeepSeek repo has rocketed up GitHub's charts in under a fortnight, yet the project page offers little more than a slogan and a commit log.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:33:01 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/bluesky-s-screenshot-watermark-is-a-clever-bit-of-ios-trickery-not/https://www.nerdbite.com/bluesky-s-screenshot-watermark-is-a-clever-bit-of-ios-trickery-not/A developer went digging into why Bluesky's logo appears on screenshots but not on screen - and found the app is quietly abusing a privacy API meant for something else entirely.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:32:19 GMTSam AllcockSoftwarehttps://www.nerdbite.com/cloudflare-ddos-report-h1-2026-media-most-attacked/https://www.nerdbite.com/cloudflare-ddos-report-h1-2026-media-most-attacked/Cloudflare mitigated 935 attacks above 1 Tbps in six months, up 519 per cent quarter on quarter. Media, production and publishing took more of it than any other sector.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMTSam AllcockSoftware