Month: January 2026

Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro

Dear Apple, I was, given my interest in virtual and augmented reality, already primed to have a high degree of interest in the Vision Pro, but...

Podcast: Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and...

Article: Spec Driven Development: When Architecture Becomes Executable

Spec-Driven Development inverts traditional architecture by making specifications executable and authoritative. It transforms declared intent into validated code through AI generation and provides architectural determinism. It...

Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit

With Budgie 10.10 released this weekend, Budgie desktop developers have provided an update around Budgie 11 desktop development…

BTW, Arch Users! Pacman Might Be Getting a Rust Replacement

The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman’s replacement.

AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support

AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3...

Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior

Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and...

UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026

As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year...

Is “agent-shoring” the end of software offshoring?

The days of offshoring software development could be numbered The post Is “agent-shoring” the end of software offshoring? appeared first on LeadDev.

Software Policies Can Fuel Waste

A photo posted to Reddit and followup media coverage about computers being discarded in large amounts due to software policies should ignite public concern on the...

Cloudflare Scales Infrastructure as Code with Shift-Left Security Practices

Cloudflare has eliminated manual configuration errors across hundreds of production accounts by implementing Infrastructure as Code with automated policy enforcement, processing approximately 30 merge requests daily...

FACTS Benchmark Suite Introduced to Evaluate Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models

A new industry benchmark aimed at systematically evaluating the factual accuracy of LLMs has been released with the launch of the FACTS Benchmark Suite. Developed by...

Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance

This four-week consultation on open source software tackles the cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and automotive sectors.

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes

In addition to Linus Torvalds doing some vibe coding and more with his new “AudioNoise” project this week, Linux 6.19 kernel development ticked back up with...

Design of Common Emitter Amplifier

It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come...

Daniel Kahn Gillmor: AI as a Compression Problem

A recent article in The Atlantic makes the case that very large language models effectively contain much of the works they’re trained on. This article is...

Sailing Rigs

Taking a Look at Variable Vacuum Capacitors

Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of...

Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK

This week’s Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and...

Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living...

Bash Cheatsheet

Quick reference for Bash shell scripting

Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale.

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no...

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is FedRAMP High Authorized

After much anticipation, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is now authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls...

Manage clusters and applications at scale with Argo CD Agent on Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

The Argo CD Agent is now Generally Available with the release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19. Organizations using Kubernetes and OpenShift have widely adopted the...

Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale.

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no...

Patryk Cisek: Choosing Secrets Manager for Homelab

Secrets Manager for Homelab For a few years, I’ve been managing the configuration of a bunch of self-hosted services using Ansible Playbooks. Each playbook needed at...

You need to listen to Billy Woods’ horrorcore masterpiece for the A24 crowd

Billy Woods has one of the highest batting averages in the game. Between his solo records like Hiding Places and Maps, and his collaborative albums with...

Latest Linux 6.19 Code Fixes Rust Binder Driver, Adds Intel Nova Lake Point S To MEI

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.19-rc5 release, the char/misc pull request was merged earlier today with a notable fix to the Rust Binder driver as well...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiDatetime 0.0.10 on CRAN: Maintenance

A new maintenance release of our RApiDatetime package is now on CRAN, coming just about two years after the previous maintenance release. RApiDatetime provides a number...

The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out

The 2026 edition of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 4-6 in Zagreb, Croatia. The call for proposals has gone...

EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM machine!

EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.25 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization...

That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda

In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the...

Linux Consulting Firm Linutronix Recently Began A New Chapter

Some news that slipped under the radar prior to the holidays… Linutronix as the Linux consulting firm that has led the real-time “PREEMPT_RT” work and more...

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to...

Here are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions

It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation....

When To Use GenAI: A Practical Decision Framework

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities evolve, software architects and developers face critical decisions about when to use GenAI-based solutions versus traditional programming approaches. A systematic,...

A New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass

At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in...

Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails

If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue....

GameStop is kicking off 2026 by shutting down over 400 stores in 42 states

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion market cap....

Four stable kernel updates

The 6.18.5, 6.12.65, 6.6.120, and 6.1.160 stable updates have been released. They all contain a small patch set fixing a scheduling regression associated with idle balancing;...

Even Linux Creator Linus Torvalds is Using AI to Code in 2026

Linus Torvalds is working on a new side project and he is not hesitating to take the help of AI.

Google’s AI Inbox could be a glimpse of Gmail’s future

This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emails with an AI-generated list of to-dos and topics...

The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU)....

The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need

Agent builders are finding that sometimes the easiest way for an agent to do its job is to simply give it a few Unix tools and...

Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more...

AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit

AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The...

How TiVo killed live TV

For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became...

Python: What’s Coming in 2026

If 2025 was “the year of type checking and language server protocols” for Python, will 2026 be the year of the type server protocol? “Transformative” developments...

Chilean Telescope Array Gets 145 New Powerful Amplifiers

For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe. This includes the gas and dust of...

I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint

Not every phone needs to be a black rectangle. It’s January, which means there’s a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before...

Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inaction) of lawmakers seeking...

16 Best Heat Protectant Sprays for Wet and Dry Hair (2026)

I’ve spent almost a year testing dozens of heat protectants for hair. Whether you’re blow-drying, curling, or straightening, these are the best formulas I’ve found.

The oceans just keep getting hotter

Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In...

The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection

[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device...

Bluesound Pulse Cinema Review: A Pretty Sonos Alternative

This is a promising stand-alone Dolby Atmos soundbar for music fans, but it still needs a few software tweaks.

Linux Lands Safeguard For RISC-V Against Another Microarchitectural Attack Vector

Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren’t magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent...

Sony A7V Review: The Best Overall Mirrorless Camera

Sony’s latest full frame mirrorless is a hybrid powerhouse with features to impress both video and still photographers.

GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored

A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an “exploratory phase” is GYESME that describes itself as a “design-led” downstream of GNOME...

Why is Everyone Talking About Window Tiling in 2026?

The Linux desktop has been perfecting window tiling while everyone else forgot about it until recently.

Linus Torvalds’ Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise – Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding

In addition to Linus Torvalds’ recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over...

Want to Stop Doomscrolling? You Might Need a Sleep Coach

Traditionally sleep coaches treat babies. But now more and more anxious, screen-attached grownups are the ones who need nursing.

Best Side-Sleeper Mattresses 2026: Picked by a Sleep Science Coach

We’ve tested hundreds of the top hybrid, memory foam, and cooling mattresses to find the best combination of support and pressure relief.

The Danger of Reducing America’s Venezuela Invasion to a 60-Second Video

January 3 marked the return of US military intervention in Latin America. While the events unfolded between Caracas and Brooklyn, social networks had already fabricated their...

Reverse-Engineering the Tamagotchi IR Connection

The Tamagotchi Connection is a series of Tamagotchi toys that took the original portable pet concept and mixed things up with a wireless connection, which allowed...

Russell Coker: Terminal Emulator Security

I just read this informative article on ANSI terminal security [1]. The author has written a tool named vt-houdini for testing for these issues [2]. They...

ESP with EEG — No, Not That ESP!

While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read EEG data and use...

A 1990s VNA Gets An LCD

A Vector Network Analyser, or VNA, is the ultimate multi-tool of RF test equipment. They can now be had in not very capable form for almost...

Otto Kekäläinen: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done....

Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week

In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that...

These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026

A giant version of Lockin’s wirelessly charged V7 smart lock was a showstopper on the CES show floor. I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s...

The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites

The FCC approved SpaceX’s plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have...

Simplifying the SmartKnob

A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC motor for programmable haptic response. It...

Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code’s Creator

Claude Code’s creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompting, and rigorously verifying...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.1.1 on CRAN: Many Improvements in Semi-Annual Update

Team Rcpp is thrilled to share that an exciting new version 1.1.1 of Rcpp is now on CRAN (and also uploaded to Debian and already built...

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland

The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project’s transition from X11 to Wayland…

Build Cheaper, Safer, Auditable AI with SLMs and RAG

Enterprises experimenting with large language models (LLMs) often encounter the same challenges once pilot projects move into production. Infrastructure costs escalate rapidly, response times become unpredictable...

Multi-material Parts the Easy Way

You have a part that needs different colors or different material properties — with a multi-color 3D printer, no problem. You can also laboriously switch filaments...

Matthias Geiger: Building a propagation box for oyster mushrooms

Inspiration In November I watched a short documentary about a guy who grew pearl oyster mushrooms in his backyard. They used pallet boxes (half of a...

Scarlett Gately Moore: I love KDE too much to retire! Snap beta releases trickling in. Stay tuned.

A short but sweet note to say I am coming out of my short retirement to help with snaps again. My time is extremely limited, however...

Amazfit’s Active 2 tracker and Blu-rays are this week’s best deals

The start of the year is typically a great time to snag deals on health and fitness gear, including trackers and wireless earbuds, and this week...

Beyond Python: Why LLMs Need More Stable, Open Source Code

In the future dreams of Large Language Models, there will be no need for human intervention and they will write code in a highly efficient form...

I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape Pro looks like the perfect one

Put this ball under your board. Keychron announced new mechanical keyboards with marathon battery life at CES, but this trackball stole the spotlight. The Nape Pro...

Mageia 10 Alpha Released – 32-bit ISOs Still Available

The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake...

Manjaro Is Arch Linux for Newbies

You’ve may have heard that Arch Linux isn’t exactly the easiest Linux distribution to install or use. What if I told you that there’s a distribution...

For the Fun of It

I was off at the Chaos Communication Congress last weekend, and one of the big attractions for one who is nerdily inclined is seeing all of...

We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes. LG introduced CLOiD, a household robot it says can...

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

Is this… bliss? | Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and...

Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes

Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie…

Linux Working Around Audio Problems On The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X

For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround...

38 Bash Tips: Essential Shell Features and Shortcuts (38th Birthday Edition)

Bash turns 38! Learn 38 built-in shell features and tips: keyboard shortcuts, history tricks, parameter expansion, conditionals & arrays. The post 38 Bash Tips: Essential Shell...

4 Questions To Help You Translate AI Theory Into Practice

“AI for the Enterprise: The Playbook for Developing and Scaling Your AI Strategy” is a new ebook I wrote for The New Stack with sponsorship from...

Nvidia’s New Rubin Architecture Thrives on Networking

Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The...

The Playdate gets its Monument Valley

Diora might be the most ambitious game I’ve played on the Playdate. It’s all about perspective: You turn the handheld’s crank to rotate your viewpoint of...

What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to...

Postman Adds Open Source Documentation and SDK Products

The API platform Postman announced Thursday it has acquired Fern, a developer experience company that helps developers ship API documentation and build software development kits (SDKs)....

The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you had...

NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools Across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several...

Best Deals for New Year’s Resolutions: Sleep, Fitness, and More (2026)

Whether you’re hitting the gym or tracking your schedule, these discounts on WIRED-approved gear can help.

ollama 0.14 Can Make Use Of Bash For Letting AI/LLMs Run Commands On Your System

The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run –experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop...

Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds

Alice Ryhl of Google has been working on an improvement to the Linux kernel code for inlining C helpers into Rust when making use of a...

Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

As age-verification laws continue to dismantle the adult industry—and determine the future of free speech on the internet—a Utah lawmaker proposed a bill this week that...

Texas Instruments Explain Low-Dropout Linear Voltage Regulators

Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators. For a hacker, power is pretty...

The 50 Best Movies on Netflix, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway, Frankenstein, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery are just a few of the movies you...

Fujifilm X-E5 Mirrorless Camera Review: Compact Color Science in a Retro Package

Did you want the TikTok-popular X100VI, but with an interchangeable lens? The Fujifilm X-E5 has you covered.

Shokz OpenFit Pro Review: ANC on Open Earbuds?

True ANC on a set of open-ear earbuds would be a game changer. Shokz’s OpenFit Pro give us a taste of what that might be like.

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme

With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma, there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the...

12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds

These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.

ZLUDA Adds CUDA 13.1 Compatibility For Running CUDA Apps On Non-NVIDIA Hardware

The current incarnation of ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA...

Where Are All the New Cars?

New cars were scant at CES this year, largely because the center of gravity for the auto world has moved—technologically and geographically—to China.

MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data From MongoDB’s Heap Memory

MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated...

Total Wireless Promo Codes & Deals: 50% Off Select Plans

Find great deals for Total Wireless, like 50% off select plans, and enjoy big savings.

BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached

Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is...

KitchenAid Promo Code: 50% Off This Month

Save on every purchase with top KitchenAid coupons from WIRED, including up to 50% off select countertop appliances.

The Open Source Diary App for Android That Organizes Your Life on a Timeline

A well-designed diary app that keeps your data private, works offline, and respects your freedom.

Math Breakthrough Helps Your Feng Shui

In 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move through a 1-meter corridor with...

AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software

Hitting the “1.0” milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant...

Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message

Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your...

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential...

Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

On her blog, Julia Evans writes about improving Git documentation, including a new data model man page she wrote with Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, and updates to...

SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

SpaceX today received US permission to launch another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, bringing its total authorization to 15,000 Gen2 satellites including those previously approved. “Under this...

How to Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents

Most AI tools require you to send your prompts and files to third-party servers. That’s a non-starter if your data includes private journals, research notes, or...

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

ESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket

It took a while, but a consensus has emerged in Europe that the continent’s space industry needs to develop reusable rockets. How to do it and...

Bose SoundTouch Smart Speakers get an Open Source Lifeline

After initially announcing that Bose will completely turn off all ‘smart’ features in its SoundTouch series of speaker products, the company has seemingly responded to the...

Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago

Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the...

TrueNAS WebShare: ZFS-Backed, Enterprise-Grade File Sharing From The Web Browser

For situations where Samba (SMB) or NFS usage aren’t appropriate or desiring the convenience of accessing files from a web browser on any device, TrueNAS is...

X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing,...

This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhone near you

The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot. One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies’ lack...

AI is coming for collectibles next

Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at...

How to Build a Local-First CLI Financial Tracker with Rust [Full Handbook]

Most financial apps store your sensitive data on remote servers. This requires you to trust a company with your records and rely on their service staying...

Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday

A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October continues to rage, with the state health department reporting Friday that nearly 100 new cases have...

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Is Discounted on Amazon

The Samsung Galaxy Watch8 gets marked down across a variety of colors, sizes, and feature sets.

Friday Squid Blogging: The Chinese Squid-Fishing Fleet off the Argentine Coast

The latest article on this topic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...

Solawave Wand Fans: Don’t Miss This Buy One, Get One Free Sale

Double up on LED therapy, because sharing is caring.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been...

Wine 11.0-rc5 Brings 32 Bug Fixes

With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes...

Seeing Sound with a Laser

You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what [Goosetopherson] thought about, and thus a new project...

Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo

Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.

This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it even more potential

The “Lego Ruler”. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026,...

Did you know that Gmail has emoji reactions?

Google rolled out emoji reactions to personal Gmail accounts a little over two years ago, and I completely forgot about it until now – probably because...

Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City

On Thursday evening in Manhattan’s Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after an agent fatally shot...

Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to...

The Hidden Cost Killing Your Innovation Strategy

In today’s AI rush, I’ve seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons of DevOps and DevSecOps into AI...

A UI-Focused Display Library For The ESP32

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library...

How to Build an In-Memory Rate Limiter in Next.js

An API rate limiter is a server-side component of a web service that limits the number of API requests a client can make to an endpoint...

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced...

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of nonconsensual...

The One Mistake That Weakens Every AI-Generated App

If you’ve ever built more than a quick prototype with AI tools like Lovable or Replit, you’ve likely felt the friction that comes with extending the...

Sena Kizildemir Simulates Disasters to Prevent Building Collapses

When two airplanes hit the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001, no one could predict how the Twin Towers would react...

US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

Collecting fallen (or “shed”) elk antlers is a popular pastime in elk-heavy places like Montana, but it’s usually a pretty low-tech, on-the-ground affair. That’s why last...

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times,...

Open Source Retrieval Infrastructure Can Fix AI’s Production Gap

While big models captured all the early glory with their larger context windows, greater parameters and more power, the reality on the ground for many enterprise...

Video Friday: Robots Are Everywhere at CES 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...

2026.02: AI Power, Now and In 100 Years

(@bscholl) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle;...

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on...

Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect...

Tailwind Creator Says AI Played a Role in Downsizing

Tailwind CSS, the popular CSS framework, laid off three engineers — 75% of its engineering team — on Monday. In a personal podcast posted to the...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a...

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective...

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Once again, people are taking Grok at its word, treating the chatbot as a company spokesperson without questioning what it says. On Friday morning, many outlets...

Simon Josefsson: Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian

One of my holiday projects was to understand and gain more trust in how Debian binaries are built, and as the holidays are coming to an...

AMD Enabling New GFX12.1 & More RDNA 3.5 Hardware Blocks With Linux 6.20~7.0

AMD today sent out their latest pull request to DRM-Next of new AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes they are looking to get into the next kernel cycle,...

Free Dockhand Tool Simplifies Docker Container Management

Do you have too many Docker containers running? A quick check of my home lab and on just a single server, I have 10 running Docker...

Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.

Rocket Report: A new super-heavy launch site in California; 2025 year in review

Welcome to Edition 8.24 of the Rocket Report! We’re back from a restorative holiday, and there’s a great deal Eric and I look forward to covering...

[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust

The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of...

Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl....

X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s...

How to Use the Export Command in Linux

Everything you need to know about the export command in Linux: set variables, export functions, and manage your shell environment.

OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes

Database support provider Percona is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). For Kubernetes environs, the newly named...

First developer job at age 38 with lawyer turned software engineer Zubin Pratap [Podcast #203]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as a corporate lawyer, he taught himself...

“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet

The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing Internet pornography, from a Craigslist ad she responded to more than 15 years ago....

London called, and the world answered: creating a Summit without borders

When we announced that the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 would be a remote event, we knew we were taking a big step. We asked ourselves: how can...

Presentation: Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite...

General Motors writes down $6 billion as domestic EV sales plans change

American automakers who got overenthusiastic about electric vehicles continue to pay the price—literally. Yesterday, General Motors told investors that building and selling fewer EVs will cost...

Google Cloud: A Deep Dive into GKE Sandbox for Agents

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Agent Sandbox is a new Kubernetes extension designed to run workloads, such as AI agents, that execute untrusted or specialized code in...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdfminer and vlc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and microcode_ctl), Slackware (libtasn1), SUSE (apptainer, curl, ImageMagick, libpcap, libvirt, libwget4, php8,...

The Download: the case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How I learned to...

Why GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are a leap forward for coding

It feels different this time. The post Why GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are a leap forward for coding appeared first on LeadDev.

Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords

Palo Alto’s crosswalk signals were hacked last year. Turns out the city never changed the default passwords.

Conservative Lawmakers Want Porn Taxes. Critics Say They’re Unconstitutional

Alabama passed a 10 percent porn tax last year, as Utah and Pennsylvania eye similar bills. Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #279: Coding Python With Confidence: Beginners Live Course Participants

Are you looking for that solid foundation to begin your Python journey? Would the accountability of scheduled group classes help you get through the basics and...

‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car

What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.

Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA

There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of...

QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support

The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good…

Burtran Nano-Oxy Smart Air Purifier: Safe Sleep?

This negative-oxygen-ion-generating purifier claims to create a “forestlike atmosphere” in your bedroom.

A new CRISPR startup is betting regulators will ease up on gene-editing

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech breakthrough of the century. Yet so...

Crispr Pioneer Launches Startup to Make Tailored Gene-Editing Treatments

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.

Mini book: The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

This special edition of The InfoQ eMag, contains a comprehensive collection of our popular InfoQ Trends Reports from 2025, a year with both evolution and revolution...

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light...

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver

Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT synchronization primitives…

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors

The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from...

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would...

60 Must-Have Free and Open-Source Linux Tools for 2026

The post 60 Must-Have Free and Open-Source Linux Tools for 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . It’s time once again to...

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