Month: January 2026

Half of developers think gen AI is bad for the gaming industry

While generative AI is being adopted at various levels of game development, a new survey suggests that developers increasingly think the technology is bad for the...

A Bunch of Developers Have Come Together to Make Linux Gaming Great

The people behind Bazzite, Fyra Labs, Nobara, ChimeraOS, and a few other projects have teamed up to improve Linux gaming for everyone.

Libcamera 0.7 Released – GPU Acceleration Support For SoftISP Can Deliver 15x Performance

Libcamera 0.7 was published today for this modern software library for image signal processors (ISPs) and embedded cameras under Linux. The standout change with libcamera 0.7...

An E-Ink Macropad For Improved Productivity

Why press many button when few button do trick? That was the thinking of [Bike Cook Robots] when it came time to revamp his desk. To...

IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win

Slated for introduction in the next kernel cycle (Linux 6.20~7.0) is introducing large receive buffer support for IO_uring’s zero-copy receive code path. This large receive buffer...

Nvidia’s Campaign to Sell AI Chips to China Finally Pays Off

Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies—the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy.

A proposed governance structure for openSUSE

Jeff Mahoney, who holds a vice-president position at SUSE, has posted a detailed proposal for improving the governance of the openSUSE project. It’s meant to be...

[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext

The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) allows the installation of a custom CPU scheduler built as a set of BPF programs. Its merging for the 6.12 kernel...

Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?

Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that’s true. But Anthropic...

Do you have ideas about how to improve America’s space program?

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space...

Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions

Running out of disk space on Ubuntu? Before you start uninstalling applications or clearing caches, you might want to check your snap revisions. I’ve been getting...

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Digitize Your Documents?

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of...

Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage

Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s...

Securing npm is table stakes

As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and...

What Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question

They finally set this in stone.

Tesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead

Yesterday afternoon, following the end of trading on Wall Street for the day, Tesla published its financial results for 2025. They weren’t particularly good: Profits were...

Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5

Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email...

Trump Admin’s Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers

The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-25-openjdk, openssl, and python3.9), Debian (gimp, libmatio, pyasn1, and python-django), Fedora (perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper, python-tinycss2, and weasyprint), Mageia (glib2.0), Oracle (curl,...

States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds

Illinois lawmakers plan to introduce a climate change superfund bill in the state legislature this session, the latest in a growing number of states seeking to...

Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

The Internet woke up this week to a flood of people buying Mac minis to run Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), an open-source, self-hosted AI agent designed to...

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form

Following NVIDIA’s announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today’s the day. The GeForce...

The Download: inside the Vitalism movement, and why AI’s “memory” is a privacy problem

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. Meet the Vitalists: the...

Best Ski Gloves and Mittens, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2026)

Warm fingers mean more fun for all, so WIRED tested the best ski gloves and mittens for every condition.

Early Universe’s supermassive black holes grew in cocoons like butterflies

When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first high-definition infrared images back to Earth, astronomers noticed several tiny, glowing, crimson stains. These objects, quickly named...

Best Open Earbuds (2026): Bose, Soundcore, and More

These wireless earbuds with an “open” design let you zone out to your music while also keeping aware of your surroundings.

Who wants to be an engineering manager anyway?

Is management still worth climbing the ladder for in 2026? The post Who wants to be an engineering manager anyway? appeared first on LeadDev.

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic

Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN...

Building Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive

Continuous learning, adaptability, and strong support networks are the foundations for thriving teams, Matthew Card mentioned. Trust is built through consistent, fair leadership and addressing toxic...

6 Best Coffee Makers (2026): Drip Is Drippin’

The old-fashioned drip coffee maker has come a long way. Our favorite machines here can turn your barista into a stranger.

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

Gestala is the latest company to emerge from China’s burgeoning brain-computer interface industry. It plans to access the brain with noninvasive ultrasound technology.

Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.11 Released With Wildcat Lake Support

With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake....

How the grid can ride out winter storms

The eastern half of the US saw a monster snowstorm over the weekend. The good news is the grid has largely been able to keep up...

Meta Earnings, Turning Dials, Zuckerberg’s Motivation

Meta is up, despite massive CapEx plans. The company is turning every dial to drive revenue, because Mark Zuckerberg thinks winning in AI is existential.

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of...

Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”

“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?”  Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over the last couple of years, so...

C.J. Collier: Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs

Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs In Part 1, we established a secure, proxy-only network. In Part 2,...

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2025)

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Aquila Macedo (aquila) Peter Blackman (peterb) Kiran S Kunjumon (hacksk) Ben Westover (bjw)...

50% Off Blue Apron Promo Codes | February 2026

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50% Off DoorDash Promo Code | February 2026

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Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models

Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and language mixtures...

30% Off Samsung Promo Code | February 2026

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FOSS Weekly #26.05: Clawdbot Mania, NexPhone, Things We No Longer Use Terminal for and More Linux Stuff

When was the last time you were forced to use the terminal?

X-Cube Prism Becomes Dichoric Disco Ball

You’ve likely seen an X-cube, a dichoric prism used to split light into its constituent colours–you know, those fun little cubes you get when tearing apart...

16 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older Machines in 2026

The post 16 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older Machines in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this guide, we feature...

GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development – Adds LLM Features

Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs. Briefs: curl bounties; GPG...

Light Following Robot Does It The Analog Way

If you wanted to build a robot that chased light, you might start thinking about Raspberry Pis, cameras, and off-the-shelf computer vision systems. However, it needn’t...

Litestream Writable VFS

I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that should run anywhere,...

Context as architecture: A practical look at retrieval-augmented generation

In a previous article, The strategic choice: Making sense of LLM customization, we explored AI prompting as the first step in adapting large language models (LLMs)...

From if to how: A year of post-quantum reality

For the last 5 years, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has largely been discussed as a research topic. It was a question of if—if the standards are ratified,...

How Banco do Brasil uses hyperautomation and platform engineering to drive efficiency

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Gustavo Fiuza, IT leader, and Welton Felipe, DevOps engineer, about the...

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from...

Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering

Red Hat’s most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSAutoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI model serving: Performance validationNovember 26, 2025 Alberto PerdomoIn my previous...

Halide co-founder Sebastiaan de With is joining Apple’s design team

Sebastiaan de With, known for his work on apps like Halide, Kino, and Orion as the co-founder of Lux, is joining Apple’s design team, he announced...

Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dreams seem to have been replaced by a new vision: an AI-generated social feed. In an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg...

Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10

Windows 11 has reached a big milestone | Image: Getty Images Windows 11 now has 1 billion users. Microsoft hit the milestone during the recent holiday...

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots

Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk said in an earnings call with investors today. No...

The best iPhones

New iPhones for the AI era. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you’ve been holding off on getting a new iPhone, now’s the perfect...

Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent

Tesla published its financial results for 2025 this afternoon. If 2024 was a bad year for the electric automaker, 2025 was far worse: For the first...

Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI

RAMP—the predominantly Russian-language online bazaar that billed itself as the “only place ransomware allowed”—had its dark web and clear web sites seized by the FBI as...

Seven things to know about how Apple’s Creator Studio subscriptions work

Apple’s new Creator Studio subscription bundle officially launches today, offering access to a wide range of updated professional apps for an all-or-nothing price of $13 a...

The best Xbox controller to buy right now

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from...

ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips

ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security...

Stranded boys struggle to survive in Lord of the Flies trailer

BBC One has adapted William Golding’s classic 1954 novel Lord of the Flies into a new miniseries and just dropped the first trailer. The book has...

Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome

Google is launching a new “auto browse” feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf. The Gemini AI-powered capability is coming to Google...

Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon

In its earnings report, Tesla says that the third-generation version of its Optimus humanoid robot “meant for mass production” will be unveiled in the first quarter...

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines

Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $81.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $30.9...

Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere

Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly “WASM” run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run “anywhere” from the desktop to cloud and the edge....

Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline

Tesla just reported its second consecutive year of declining revenue and profits, further complicating Elon Musk’s $1 trillion effort to transform his company into a leader...

SpaceX sends list of demands to US states giving broadband grants to Starlink

SpaceX has made a new set of demands on state governments that would ensure Starlink receives federal grant money even when residents don’t purchase Starlink broadband...

Using 3D Printing and Copper Tape to Make PCBs

In a recent video [QWZ Labs] demonstrates an interesting technique to use 3D printing to make creating custom PCBs rather straightforward even if all you have...

GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

The Doomsday Clock Is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight. Here’s What That Means

Catastrophic risks are increasing, cooperation is declining, and swift action is needed from global leaders to correct course.

Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners

A federal judge in Virginia ruled Tuesday that the City of Norfolk’s use of nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) from Flock is constitutional and...

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT

Alarming critics, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Madhu Gottumukkala, accidentally uploaded sensitive information to a public version of ChatGPT last...

How Clean-Energy Firms Adapt Messaging in the Trump Era

As the Trump administration doubles down on its energy and AI dominance agenda, U.S. energy companies have found themselves navigating tricky communication strategies. Touting the clean,...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 862: Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelization? When can...

The Surface Laptop Is $400 Off

Take home a sweet discount on Microsoft’s first-party laptop.

Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley

People are letting the viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot run their lives, regardless of the privacy concerns.

Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript

Python dominated the early days of machine learning, but that’s changing as AI becomes more mainstream. Take, for instance, the recent release of Mastra, an open...

Why reviving the shuttered Anthem is turning out tougher than expected

On January 12, EA shut down the official servers for Anthem, making Bioware’s multiplayer sci-fi adventure completely unplayable for the first time since its troubled 2019...

Mourning Didier Spaier

We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-based Slint distribution, has recently passed away. Philippe Delavalade, who posted the announcement...

Kubernetes telemetry feature fully compromises clusters

If Kubernetes admins don’t have enough to worry about with the upcoming Nginx gateway cutoff, they now may need to rifle through their Helm charts to...

The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read”

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced that it will not be holding the 2026 spring board election. Instead, it will be creating a working group...

I bought “Remove Before Flight” tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they’re from Challenger

Forty years ago, a stack of bright red tags shared a physical connection with what would become NASA’s first space shuttle disaster. The small tags, however,...

Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes

Following last week’s code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug...

With Auto Browse, Google Chrome can now surf the web for you

For a while now, Google has been on a mission to extend its Chrome browser with more AI features, powered by its Gemini models. Now, the...

Google begins rolling out Chrome’s “Auto Browse” AI agent today

Google began stuffing Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser several months ago, and today the AI is expanding its capabilities considerably. Google says the chatbot will...

The Fancy Payment Cards of Taiwan

If you’re an old-schooler, you might still go to the local bar and pay for a beer with cash. You could even try and pay with...

Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You

Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.

[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has...

Meta blocks links to ICE List across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Meta has started blocking its users from sharing links to ICE List, a website that has compiled the names of what it claims are Department of...

Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty

On Wednesday, China approved imports of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips for three of its largest technology companies, Reuters reported. ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent received approval...

Transmission 4.1.0 Adds Sequential Downloading, IPv6 Support

Transmission 4.1 adds support for IPv6 and dual-stack UDP trackers, sequential downloading, and improved µTP (Micro Transport Protocol) performance. You’re reading Transmission 4.1.0 Adds Sequential Downloading,...

Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic...

South Carolina tops Texas measles outbreak record—with no end in sight

The explosive measles outbreak in South Carolina has now reached 789 cases, breaking Texas’s outbreak record last year of 762 cases, which at the time was...

A decade of werf, a software delivery tool for Kubernetes

Various cloud native projects are celebrating their first decade. While there are obvious big names, such as Kubernetes itself, Helm, and Cilium, the ecosystem is much...

Ryzen 9850X3D review: AMD’s bragging-rights gaming CPU gets more to brag about

AMD has released three distinct generations of its 3D V-Cache technology, which initially appeared in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2022. The kernel of the idea...

How to Use the Builder Pattern in Python – A Practical Guide for Developers

Creating complex objects can get messy. You’ve probably written constructors with too many parameters, struggled with optional arguments, or created objects that require multiple setup steps....

Wikipedia as a Storage Medium

We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a...

FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks...

Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear

AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for...

The Art of Asking Questions

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech...

PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

PC Gamer has run an amusing review of the scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux, which uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions. The scheduler is full of bizarre...

Drupal turns 25: From simple to complex — then simple again

It’s rare that a web product lasts 25 years, given how fast the industry cycles through technologies. But this month marks a quarter century of Drupal,...

Election Denier Tina Peters Was ‘Pardoned’ by Trump. She’s Still in Prison

Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado’s governor has held firm against...

Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source

After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their...

Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves

Two centuries ago, Joseph Fourier gave mathematicians a magical technique. He conjectured that it’s possible to write almost any function as a sum of simple waves,...

[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?

Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem for...

How to Style the New ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements

Chrome 144 recently shipped ::search-text, which is now one of several highlight-related pseudo-elements. This one selects find-in-page text, which is the text that gets highlighted when...

Mapping 6,000 Worlds: The New Era of Exoplanetary Data

In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a...

Agoda’s secret to 50x scale: Getting the database basics right

Agoda is the Singapore wing of Booking Holdings, the world’s leading provider of online travel (the brand behind Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, etc.). From January 2023 to...

The Amazing Maser

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology...

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.  Earlier this month, Google announced Personal...

The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought

When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first...

32 Essential Python One-Liners for Python’s 32nd Anniversary

Python turns 32. Explore 32 practical Python one-liners that show why readability, simplicity, and power still define the language today. The post 32 Essential Python One-Liners...

Bliki: Excessive Bold

I’m increasingly seeing a lot of technical and business writing make heavy use of bold font weights, in an attempt to emphasize what the writers think...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (openssl), Fedora (assimp, chromium, curl, freerdp, gimp, and harfbuzz), Mageia (glibc, haproxy, iperf, and python-pyasn1), Red Hat...

Terraform challenger Formae expands to more clouds

Late last year, startup Platform Engineering Labs made waves in the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by introducing a new IaC platform, called Formae, available initially...

Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an automated intrusion engine, the coercion of...

The Best Ski Helmets, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2026)

This is an essential item for all skiers and snowboarders. WIRED has tested the best helmets for all abilities and budgets.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU Review: Gaming’s Best Chip

This year’s Ryzen is still my top choice for PC games.

How Long Does It Take to Learn Python?

Have you read blog posts that claim you can learn Python in days and quickly secure a high-paying developer job? That’s an unlikely scenario and doesn’t...

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance

Ahead of tomorrow’s official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen...

ReliCSS

We all have a few skeletons in our CSS closets. There’s probably that one-off !important where you can now manage that more effectively with cascade layers....

The Download: A bid to treat blindness, and bridging the internet divide

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. The first human test...

What is this Clawdbot, Err Moltbot, Everyone's Screaming About?

This open source project has survived Anthropic’s trademark lawyers, crypto scammers hijacking its identity, and security holes exposing users.

Sony Bravia 5 Review: An Excellent Mid-Tier TV for Cinephiles

This mid-tier Sony comes with its highest-end processor, and that’s a big deal for home theater nerds.

Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks

An open source AI assistant called Moltbot (formerly “Clawdbot”) recently crossed 69,000 stars on GitHub after a month, making it one of the fastest-growing AI projects...

6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.

Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch

If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail. I’ve written my share of stories about misbehaving...

The Best Gifts for Sleep, as Tested by Our Team

Sleep is the one thing every giftee needs, and you can help them get it. These are our tried-and-tested picks for giftable sleep aids, from masks...

Google’s Smart Glasses Will Have the Best Software. But They’ll Have to Win on Style Too

When Google releases its smart glasses in the coming months, the strength of its AI-powered software will be its biggest leg up on its rivals. But...

No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the ‘Offline Club’

Across Europe’s largest cities, people are gathering for semi-silent, offline hangouts, in search of an experience that isn’t mediated through their smartphones.

Railway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure

Railway’s engineering team published a comprehensive guide to observability, explaining how developers and SRE teams can use logs, metrics, traces, and alerts together to understand and...

Apple Patches Old Versions of iOS to Keep iMessage and FaceTime Running

Apple is renewing certificates for iOS versions dating back to 2013 to keep the lights on a little longer.

SonicDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code

In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly “KDE-Lite”) is getting off the ground as a fork...

Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug

Upstreamed to the Nouveau open-source kernel driver in Linux 6.19 was support for larger pages and with that compression support available with the larger page sizes....

Raspberry Pi Preparing To Introduce A Smart Display Module

Raspberry Pi is gearing up to launch another new product: a Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module…

A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk

Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is...

An Interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour About Prediction Markets

An interview with Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour about the value of prediction markets.

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating...

C.J. Collier: Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action

Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action In Part 1 of this series, we laid the network foundation for...

FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI

FreeRDP 3.22 was just released as the newest version of this Apache-licensed open-source Remote Desktop protocol (RDP) implementation for interfacing with another computer over the network…

C.J. Collier: Dataproc GPUs, Secure Boot, & Proxies

Part 1: Building a Secure Network Foundation for Dataproc with GPUs & SWP Welcome to the first post in our series on running GPU-accelerated Dataproc workloads...

Sven Hoexter: Decrypt TLS Connection with wireshark and curl

With TLS 1.3 more parts of the handshake got encrypted (e.g. the certificate), but sometimes it’s still helpful to look at the complete handshake. curl uses...

Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation

Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter variants designed to support...

Article: One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Traditional caching fails to stop “thundering herds” where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss. This article proposes using Cloudflare Durable Objects to treat...

.NET 10 Becomes Available on AWS Lambda as Managed Runtime and Base Image

Amazon Web Services has announced that AWS Lambda now supports the creation of serverless applications using .NET 10. With this update, developers can use .NET 10...

Bash Positional Parameters

Positional parameters are Bash variables that hold arguments passed to a script or function. Learn how to use $1, $2, $@, $#, and the shift command...

How to Install OpenMediaVault 8 Step by Step

Learn what Openmediavault (OMV) is, how to install latest openmediavault 8 using its ISO and how to install OMV 8 on Debian 13 Linux. The post...

HTML Invoker Commands Achieve Baseline Support Across All Major Browsers

The HTML Invoker Commands API revolutionizes web interactivity by enabling developers to create button controls for popovers and dialogs without JavaScript. Supported across major browsers, it...

We-Vibe Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off

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RFC Patches Posted For Klint Integration With The Linux Kernel: Rust-Based Linting Tool

A request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out today for providing Klint integration with the Linux kernel. Klint is a new linting tool written...

11 Commands to View Linux Hardware Details (CPU, RAM, Disk)

The post 11 Commands to View Linux Hardware Details (CPU, RAM, Disk) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Learn 11 essential Linux...

How HP Calculators Communicate Over Infrared

For most people, calculators are cheap and simple devices used for little more than addition and the odd multiplication job. However, when you get into scientific...

COSMIC Desktop ‘Frosted Glass’ UI Effect Previewed

COSMIC, the Linux desktop that can look and work however you dang well like, is adding more bling. System76 co-founder Carl Richell has given us our...

Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop – But No GPU Acceleration Yet

While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the...

The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

The best Android phones

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s...

Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers

Smoothie bikes are a great way to make a nutritious beverage while getting a workout at the same time. [Tony Goacher] was approached by a local...

Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them

Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with...

How to find a tribe of mentors

Finding mentors across different verticals can be the key to unlocking the next level of your career. The post How to find a tribe of mentors...

Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession

An open-source AI agent that “actually does things” is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they’re using the agent to do a whole...

Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.

Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen...

TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say

TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errors—not the platform seemingly...

The best budget robot vacuums

Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to forget that they...

How Does Extended Bluetooth Advertising Work in AOSP?

Bluetooth Low Energy advertising has always been one of those things developers “just use” until it breaks in subtle, painful ways. You set a name, throw...

There’s a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. The emails originate from...

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers

Power lines during a winter storm in Irving, Texas, on Sunday, January 25th. | Photo: Getty Images The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states...

The best fitness trackers and watches we’ve tested

Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health...

New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW

In addition to Mesa 26.1 today seeing Vulkan present timing support finally merged to help reduce game stuttering and separately another long-in-development Mesa merge request for...

Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video

The Supreme Court is taking up a case on whether Paramount violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing a user’s viewing history to...

A WB-57 pilot just made a heroic landing in Houston after its landing gear failed

One of NASA’s three large WB-57 aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field on Tuesday morning in southeastern Houston. Video captured by KHOU 11 television...

Servicing the ‘Not Serviceable’ Bearings on a Vacuum Power Head

Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be...

The 50 Best Shows on HBO Max, WIRED’s Picks (February 2026)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Pitt, and Industry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this...

Razer’s testing a new tool for customizing its keyboards in your browser

Razer’s new browser-based customization tool is now available in beta. | Image: Razer Razer has announced the beta release of a new online customization tool compatible...

Post-rampocalyptic Chip-Swap Provides Desktop Memory at Laptop Prices

When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, you’re engaged in what economists...

GStreamer 1.28 Released With More Rust Code

GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework…

Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Here’s How to Turn It Off (2026)

Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it. Here’s how to change it back.

GNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI

GNU C Library “glibc” developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure...

Open Responses vs. Chat Completion: A new era for AI apps

The ability to build portable, provider-agnostic AI applications is the future of agentic development. For the past few years, OpenAI’s Chat Completion API has been considered...

Amazon shutters all of its physical Go and Fresh stores

Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it’s closing the majority of the stores and...

These Feature-Packed Earbuds Are Less Than $50

Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.

LG’s new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV 

LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, soundbars, monitors, and speakers....

The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun

At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women...

New Data Shows Robotaxis Competing on Price—and Speed

Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service...

A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more players

When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade...

Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS...

The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” 

When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk said he hasn’t put much time...

“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal...

The agentic revolution: A new vision for SREs

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are no longer an afterthought for harried IT leaders. They play a critical role in ensuring digital services work reliably at scale....

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called...

Regrowing Teeth Might Not Be Science Fiction Anymore

The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing process begins. Break...