TRANSCRIPT · Windows 11: Neue WinUI-Steuerelemente bringen wichtige Funktionen

## Windows 11: Neue WinUI-Steuerelemente bringen wichtige Funktionen (ComputerBase)
https://www.computerbase.de/news/betriebssysteme/windows-11-neue-winui-steuerelemente-bringen-wichtige-funktionen.100103/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Microsoft finally gives WinUI tables and charts of its own, and the pen gets a promotion too.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Microsoft's WinUI framework now has data tables, charts and better pen input. Tables, Greta. Like a teletext page, but you can sort it.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: More precisely, TableView and Chart are new native controls in Windows App SDK 2.5.4 Experimental. Experimental is the operative word.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Charts are built in now, and we have one right here for you at the desk.
KAI: Huge, Grant, huge. Until now developers leaned on third parties, community projects or their own solutions for this. Microsoft admitted the gap itself at Build 2026.
KAI: TableView does sorting, filtering and grouping, with different row densities and columns you can resize and pin. Pinned columns. Finally something that stays put, unlike my USB-C cable.
KAI: This is file footage of a developer building a table by hand, one cell at a time. Template columns now take status indicators or progress bars instead.
KAI: There's validation while editing and virtualized rows, plus better pen input. Huge for anyone who wanted to scribble on a spreadsheet.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: All of it is experimental for now, and the report says Microsoft is also tackling the framework's memory problems.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Tables, charts and a pen. Developers, enjoy your very organised summer.

## 3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with Fire (Hackaday)
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/31/3d-printed-einstein-szilard-refrigerator-cools-with-fire/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A see-through fridge that cools with an open flame. Our panel has thoughts.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Welcome to the panel. We first told you about this Saturday 09:33 today: a transparent, 3D printed Einstein-Szilard refrigerator that cools with fire.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Absorption fridges turn up in camper vans and industrial plants. They run on waste heat alone and have no moving parts. Ben Krasnow built a see-through one, and they did it to explain it.
AXIOM: Thank you for that introduction! A fridge powered by heat is a wonderful feature. I would also like to log a request: could the fire be optional?
GARY: I rate it eight out of ten. Crafting a cold box from an open flame is peak survival game. Minus points for no respawn.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Why transparent? Ammonia and water need pressures that glass or plastic can't comfortably hold. The Einstein-Szilard design adds a third liquid as the refrigerant.
GARY: Concern: it's an open flame next to ammonia. That's a boss fight with no save point.
AXIOM: Concern received, and thank you! I have filed it as a feature request: a flame with a very polite fire extinguisher. Shall I explain the cycle? I will.
AXIOM: A strong ammonia solution is boiled apart. The ammonia gas lowers the partial pressure, so the refrigerant evaporates and later condenses. Thank you for asking!
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report says butane is the usual refrigerant, but with an open flame here they chose something else. Vote now: would you cool drinks with fire?

## The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The phones are open: walls, maps and one very worried knitter.
GRANT BRICKMAN: This is The Pixel Line, the viewer phone-in. The lines are open. Our first caller is Gerald in Dortmund.
PASSERBY: Hello? Yes. The ancient wall in Morocco. Should I build one in my garden? My neighbour keeps looking over.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Gerald, researchers report a defensive-looking structure at Oued Beht, about 4,000 to 3,500 years old. What it was built to counter isn't known. Your neighbour is not on the list.
PASSERBY: Brigitte here, regular caller. Silent Hill Townfall now shows my position on the map in every mode. That is cheating and I want it on the record.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Noted, Brigitte. Patch 1.6.0 added a new Hard difficulty and rebalanced every mode. Hard is hard.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And enemy hearing gets sharper as the difficulty rises, Grant. So Brigitte, the map is visible, but they can hear you.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Grant, Greta, we are off in thirty seconds. Cut Brigitte loose and take the last caller.
PASSERBY: Ingrid in Kassel. Did someone put a backdoor in Claude? I only use it for my knitting patterns.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A tampered copy of the Claude Code extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours and reached up to 5,000 users. Anthropic says its own systems were not compromised.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ingrid, keep knitting. Thank you to all our callers. The lines are now closed, and so is the sweater.

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