The report explains that maintaining internet access during a blackout depends on keeping every device between the wall jack and a laptop powered, including modems, routers, gateways and, for fiber users, the optical network terminal (ONT). It notes some providers install battery backups on ONTs, though these are typically meant for phone lines rather than internet service, so users should confirm coverage with their provider.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-07
The Ghostty project has released libghostty-vt 1.0, a portable C library for terminal emulation extracted from Ghostty's core, now with a stable, ABI-locked C interface. Over the past year it moved from an experimental module to powering JetBrains IDE terminals for over 12.5 million users, with adoption also underway or planned at Neovim, KDE's Konsole, Vercel's Turborepo, devenv and others.
mitchellh.com
· 2026-11-06
A developer has released Ghostman, an open-source command-line tool for sending API requests and inspecting webhooks directly in the terminal. It stores collections as local YAML files, starts in under 200ms, and includes a built-in webhook receiver that runs on localhost without needing external tunneling services.
github.com
· 2026-10-30
A counterfeit crypto trading app called Padre Terminal was distributed through Apple's App Store and linked to the theft of roughly $23,000 from 27 Solana wallets, according to blockchain investigator Iris. The app allegedly drained funds after users entered their private keys, and has since been removed from the App Store. Iris traced the stolen funds to a Solana wallet address and said the attacker converted USDC holdings into SOL to avoid having funds frozen.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-29
Astroterm is a C-based command-line program that renders real-time positions of stars, planets, constellations and moon phases as ASCII art, with views configurable by date, time and location. It is available via package managers including pacman, dnf, Homebrew and Nix, or can be built from source.
github.com
· 2026-10-28
Artificial Analysis launched version 5 of its Intelligence Index, a composite benchmark measuring AI model capabilities, adding two new tests (FrontierCode 2.0 and Terminal-Bench-Science) and upgrading three others, including a refined version of Humanity's Last Exam. The firm also introduced a companion Progress Index to track model capability over time, and reports that 60% of the Index now relies on private or held-out test data. In current results, Claude Opus 5.5 leads with a score of 58, narrowly ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 57.
artificialanalysis.ai
· 2026-10-28
Astropad released Workbench 1.4, a remote desktop app update that lets users switch between a Mac's screen and a terminal window without reconnecting, with sessions persisting across devices. The update also adds voice dictation for terminal commands, drag-and-drop file transfer for Mac-to-Mac connections, and native support for iPhone Duo with agent-monitoring panes.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-27
Ghostty's 1.4.0 release delivers performance and memory improvements, a complete Kitty graphics protocol implementation including animation, and SSH integration upgrades, built from 2,889 commits by 172 contributors over seven months. The maintainers also disclosed and patched five security vulnerabilities, including paste-protection and tmux control mode crashes affecting versions 1.3.0 and 1.3.1.
ghostty.org
· 2026-10-27
A developer working on porting JonesForth assembly to NASM says a self-imposed deadline caused them to rush the translation, prompting a deliberate pause to fix syntax errors and review each instruction for correctness. To slow down and document the process, they plan to log their debugging sessions using GNU Screen, the terminal multiplexer, replacing their manual use of Linux virtual terminals for running Vim and GDB side by side.
ratfactor.com
· 2026-10-25
A new tool called Corgi was shown on Hacker News as a terminal multiplexer designed to manage both human workflows and AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode in one interface. It tracks agent status (working, needs attention, finished, idle), keeps sessions and processes running in the background, and shows file changes and token usage per workspace. Corgi is installable via a curl script and supports features like image pasting over SSH, worktree organization, and scripting via a '--skill' command.
corgi.computer
· 2026-10-23
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weight 3T-class model built on Kimi K3 with expanded post-training compute, offering a 1-million-token context window and gains in coding, 3D creation, financial research and agentic tasks. A faster variant, K3.1 Pro Highspeed, runs 2-3 times quicker and both are live now on Kimi.ai, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, with full model weights due by November 4.
kimi.ai
· 2026-10-23
A developer built WorldTUI, a 360-million-parameter model based on Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B, fine-tuned on recorded terminal sessions from real programs run in Docker. The model has no actual shell or filesystem behind it; it predicts screen changes in response to each keypress, and can simulate file creation, vim, tmux, and even the game snake. A browser demo lets users test it, including typing a misspelled command to reveal it's not a genuine shell.
simedw.com
· 2026-10-22
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