Month: January 2026

7 Best All-Clad Deals From the Factory Seconds Sale (2026)

All-Clad cookware is fantastic and expensive. This sale makes it more accessible.

Are your CI/CD pipelines accidentally increasing technical debt?

For most platform engineering teams, internal developer portals are considered the best way to solve DevOps scalability challenges. The ability to instantly spin up a new...

The 40 Best Shows on Apple TV, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

Hijack, Pluribus, and The Morning Show are among the best shows on Apple TV this month.

How CyberArk Protects AI Agents with Instruction Detectors and History-Aware Validation

To prevent agents from obeying malicious instructions hidden in external data, all text entering an agent’s context must be treated as untrusted, says Niv Rabin, principal...

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.

Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover

Netflix agreed to pay all cash for Warner Bros. Discovery, amending its $72 billion deal in an attempt to fight off Paramount’s hostile takeover bid. Netflix...

How Execution Context Works in JavaScript – A Handbook for Devs

Execution Context is one of the most fundamental yet most misunderstood concepts in JavaScript. It defines how JavaScript code is evaluated and executed, and it plays...

ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States

Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the...

From Vietnam Boat Refugee to Reliability Engineering Scholar

Hoang Pham has spent his career trying to ensure that some of the world’s most critical systems don’t fail, including commercial aircraft engines, nuclear facilities, and...

Sony is giving TCL control over its high-end Bravia TVs

TCL is taking majority ownership of Sony’s Bravia series of TVs, the two companies announced today. The two firms said they have signed a memorandum of...

5 Tech Predictions for 2026: From AI Inference to Kubernetes

Coming off a great holiday break, full of eggnog-induced reflection and an eagerness to get this year rolling, I couldn’t resist a quick (and slightly self-congratulatory)...

Refinement without Specification

Imagine we have a SQL database with a user table, and users have a non-nullable is_activated boolean column. Having read That Boolean Should Probably Be Something...

The Product-Minded Engineer: The importance of good errors and warnings

Before we start: I’m hiring! The Pragmatic Engineer is not a typical publication, and so this is also not a typical role. I’m looking for someone...

Netflix’s Star Search will let you vote to decide who wins

Though Netflix’s upcoming Star Search reboot will feature a panel of celebrity judges, viewers are going to have a hand in choosing which contestants win the...

LLVM Adopts “Human In The Loop” Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must...

WebAssembly vs. JavaScript: Testing Side-by-Side Performance

When we talk about WebAssembly (Wasm), we often describe it as “near-native speed” and “faster than JavaScript.” But what does that actually look like in practice? Before...

Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents

At a glance Today’s multimodal AI systems can give answers that sound right but may not be grounded in what they actually observe over time, leading to unpredictable errors and safety risks in real-world...

Former Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro

Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro’s board of directors just weeks after retiring as Nintendo of America’s president, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Though Hasbro’s press...

Demonstrating The Sheer Lack Of Security In First Gen Cellular Networks

Modern cellular networks are built to serve millions upon millions of users, all while maintaining strict encryption across all communications. But earlier cellular networks were by...

[$] An alternate path for immutable distributions

LWN has had a number of articles on immutable distributions, such as Bluefin and Bazzite, in recent years. These distributions have taken a variety of approaches,...

Reimagining ERP for the agentic AI era

The story of enterprise resource planning (ERP) is really a story of businesses learning to organize themselves around the latest, greatest technology of the times. In...

Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle

Imagine if our skies were always filled with a thick layer of opaque clouds. With no way to see the stars, or to view our planet...

AI Agents or Skills? Why the Answer Is ‘Both’

Before the hype around Model Context Protocol (MCP) had a chance to die down, Anthropic pulled another winner out of its hat: Agent Skills. Agents are...

Anthropic announces Claude CoWork

Introducing Claude Cowork: Anthropic’s groundbreaking AI agent revolutionizing file management on macOS. With advanced automation capabilities, it enhances document processing, organizes files, and executes multi-step workflows....

Corsair’s wired Hall effect gaming keyboard is cheaper than ever

Hall effect switches are the most customizable and fastest you can currently get in a gaming keyboard. As such, they don’t usually come cheap. However, they’re...

Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware...

Amazon’s CEO says tariffs are starting to ‘creep into’ pricing

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says consumers are starting to see the impact of tariffs less than a year after President Donald Trump implemented sweeping fees on...

How To Build Production-Ready AI Agents With RAG and FastAPI

Agentic AI has shifted from toy demos to the front lines of real products: autonomous research assistants, compliance copilots, ops bots that watch dashboards and file...

Marion Stokes Fought Disinformation with VCRs

You’ve likely at least heard of Marion Stokes, the woman who constantly recorded television for over 30 years. She comes up on reddit and other places...

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch

As Ars reported last week, NASA’s plan to replace the International Space Station with commercial space stations is running into a time crunch. The sprawling International...

The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us

AI agents are moving beyond coding assistants and customer service chatbots into the operational core of the enterprise. The ROI is promising, but autonomy without alignment...

Tracking and Controlling Data Flows at Scale in GenAI: Meta’s Privacy-Aware Infrastructure

Meta has revealed how it scales its Privacy-Aware Infrastructure (PAI) to support generative AI development while enforcing privacy across complex data flows. Using large-scale lineage tracking,...

Window Shadows Finally Arrive on COSMIC Desktop

System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and...

Patches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems

Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems…

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, kernel-rt, and net-snmp), Debian (apache-log4j2 and dcmtk), Fedora (exim, gpsd, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, python-biopython, and rust-lru), Mageia...

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,...

How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

Experiments in reading with LLMs

MIT’s Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment...

uv vs pip: Python Packaging and Dependency Management

When it comes to Python package managers, the choice often comes down to uv vs pip. You may choose pip for out-of-the-box availability, broad compatibility, and...

How BYD beat Tesla

The Model S. The Mach-E. The Ioniq. The… Dolphin Surf? That’s right, friends: There’s a new biggest name in EVs, and it means you might soon...

The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments

A number of startups and universities that are building “AI scientists” to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just...

The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos

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 man who made...

Fedora 44 Feature Approved For Better Windows On ARM Laptop Experience

A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee “FESCo” for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely...

Ubuntu's Snap Store is Under Siege from Scammers, and The Gates are Open

After years of crypto wallet theft, scammers have escalated to domain takeovers.

Netflix revises Warner Bros. bid to an all-cash offer

Netflix has updated the acquisition terms for its Warner Bros. Discovery offer to an all-cash deal, replacing its initial $82.7 billion cash and stock agreement. The...

Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?

Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small...

Inside Air Traffic Control

It is a movie staple to see an overworked air traffic controller sweating over a radar display. Depending on the movie, they might realize they’ve picked...

Salesforce Migrates 1,000+ EKS Clusters to Karpenter to Improve Scaling Speed and Efficiency

Salesforce has completed a phased migration of more than 1,000 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters from the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter, AWS’s open-source node-provisioning...

Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page: He ‘Makes Me Insane’

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about maintaining neutrality in an online ecosystem increasingly hostile to facts.

Spotify is testing a feature that syncs audiobooks with paper editions

Spotify wants audiobooks to be on the same page. Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up...

Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2

Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is...

DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver

DragonFlyBSD’s AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is...

He Went to Prison for Gene-Editing Babies. Now He’s Planning to Do It Again

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.”

She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back

More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a...

Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World

China’s lithium batteries aren’t always “made in China.” Companies like BYD and CATL are building factories on nearly every continent.

How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession

Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.

23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century

The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China.

China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World

A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.

China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.

Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?

Ads in ChatGPT, Why OpenAI Needs Ads, The Long Road to Instagram

OpenAI finally announced that ads are coming to ChatGPT. It’s an important step, but one with far more risk given the delay — and the delay...

Microsoft’s free Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming soon with ads

Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in October. Now, the software giant is...

Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

If the partnership goes ahead, TCL will have input into the development of future Sony Bravia TV models. Sony has announced plans to spin off its...

Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design

It’s 2026. We are operating in an era of incredible technological leaps, where advanced tooling and AI-enhanced workflows have fundamentally transformed how we design, build, and...

How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices

The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . ARM (Advanced RISC Machine)...

DIY Magnetic Markers Help 3D Scan Tricky Objects

3D scanners rely on being able to identify physical features of an object, and line up what it saw a moment ago with what it sees...

Realme promises days of battery from its 10,001mAh phone

I’m sure that single extra milliamp-hour will make all the difference. After teasing 10,000mAh and 15,000mAh concept devices, Realme is ready to make those big batteries...

AI doesn’t create great developers, it amplifies them

Research from GitClear suggests the best devs benefit the most when using AI coding tools. The post AI doesn’t create great developers, it amplifies them appeared...

Prisma 7: Rust-Free Architecture and Performance Gains

Prisma ORM 7.0 has revolutionized the TypeScript-first ORM landscape with a Rust-free architecture, delivering 3x faster queries, 90% smaller bundles, and improved developer experience. With dynamic...

Linux Kernel 6.19 RC6 Released: A Steady Update Despite a Larger Patch

Linus Torvalds released the sixth release candidate (RC6) for the upcoming Linux Kernel version 6.19. Here’s what’s new in Linux 6.19-rc6. The post Linux Kernel 6.19...

BASIC on a Calculator Again

We are always amused that we can run emulations or virtual copies of yesterday’s computers on our modern computers. In fact, there is so much power...

Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch

Just 12 years remain before a fundamental limit in timekeeping threatens to disrupt unprepared computer systems; Y2K38 is the new Y2K, and open-source contributors are aiming...

Build the skills you need for 2026

Mix, match, and save 35% on learning that scales—now through January 27. *Offer ends Jan 27th SAVE NOW The post Build the skills you need for...

Silicone Bakeware Might be Bad for Your Liver

Silicone bakeware has become a staple in many kitchens due to its flexible, yet temperature-tolerant nature. New research from Canada shows it could be causing trouble...

Sahil Dhiman: Conferences, why?

Back in December, I was working to help organize multiple different conferences. One has already happened; the rest are still works in progress. That’s when the...

Will Intel’s Core 3 Replicate the N100’s Budget Mini-PC Success?

Intel’s Core 3 (Wildcat Lake) aims to replace the popular N100 CPU, but if it isn’t as affordable, better performance won’t matter to the budget conscious....

X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year

A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server “main” Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026)

At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and...

Robot Sees Light with No CPU

If you ever built a line following robot, you’ll be nostalgic about [Jeremy’s] light-seeking robot. It is a very simple build since there is no CPU...

AI quickstarts: An easy and practical way to get started with Red Hat AI

Ready to accelerate your AI journey? AI quickstarts are officially here!AI quickstarts are a new catalog of ready-to-run, industry-specific use cases that put the power of...

Automating Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Automation isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. Organizations managing complex infrastructures often face a divide between Windows management tools and their broader automation strategy to...

Dell Technologies modernizes the developer experience with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces

At Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta on November 10, 2025, Joseph Kanjirathinkal, DevOps manager at Dell Technologies, and James Walton, principal solution architect at...

Event-Driven Ansible: Simplified event routing with Event Streams

The systems running an organization’s infrastructure and applications are interconnected, creating an environment of controlled chaos where events in one area can ripple unpredictably through others....

From manual to agentic: streamlining IT processes with Red Hat OpenShift AI

Many organizations are considering generative AI (gen AI) as a means of reducing the time employees spend filing IT requests and the time IT teams spend...

Shadow-Soft shares top challenges holding organizations back from virtualization modernization

For many organizations, the decision to modernize virtualization platforms is no longer a “nice to have,” it is a necessity driven by a market in flux....

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiDatetime 0.0.11 on CRAN: Micro-Maintenance

A new (micro) maintenance release of our RApiDatetime package is now on CRAN, coming only a good week after the 0.0.10 release which itself had a...

The fastest human spaceflight mission in history crawls closer to liftoff

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—Preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon in more than 50 years took a big step forward this weekend with the...

The end of OzLabs

OzLabs is a collection of Australian free-software developers that was, for most of its history, associated with IBM. Members of OzLabs have included Hugh Blemings, Michael...

Isoken Ibizugbe: Mid-Point Project Progress

Halfway There Hurray! I have officially reached the 6-week mark, the halfway point of my Outreachy internship. The time has flown by incredibly fast, yet it...

New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that...

The first new Marathon game in decades will launch on March 5

It has been nearly three years now since Destiny maker (and Sony subsidiary) Bungie formally announced a revival of the storied Marathon FPS franchise. And it...

Agent psychosis: are we going insane?

Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work...

Signs point to a sooner-rather-than-later M5 MacBook Pro refresh

Mac power users waiting on new high-end MacBook Pro models may have been disappointed last fall when Apple released an M5 upgrade for the low-end 14-inch...

OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers

A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE...

Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

Elon Musk is going for some substantial damages in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit mission and “making a fool out of him” as...

Asus confirms its smartphone business is on indefinite hiatus

An unconfirmed report early this month suggested Asus was pulling back on its smartphone plans, but the company declined to comment at the time. Asus chairman...

Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft’s lack of imagination

Currently, Microsoft’s long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players who have a Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription. Now, new reporting suggests Microsoft is planning to offer...

As Europe’s large ground telescope project advances, how is its US competitor faring?

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out”...

Google and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping

Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard enabling AI-driven shopping agents to complete tasks end-to-end from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase management....

Bungie’s Marathon shooter launches on March 5th

Bungie is putting an official date on Marathon today, its delayed extraction shooter. The slick-looking shooter from the makers of Halo and Destiny was originally set...

SoundSlab: How to Make a Synthesizer With All the Button Screens

Although arguably redundant on a typical computer keyboard, the idea of embedding small screens into the buttons on devices like audio production gear that often have...

Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025?

PostgreSQL contributor Robert Haas has published a blog post that breaks down code contributions to PostgreSQL in 2025. I calculate that, in 2025, there were 266...

Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path...

[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions

The io_uring subsystem is more than an asynchronous I/O interface for Linux; it is, for all practical purposes, an independent system-call API. It has enabled high-performance...

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that...

CAKE_MQ Slated For Linux 7.0 To Adapt SCH_CAKE For Today’s Multi-Core World

Queued into the Linux networking subsystem’s “net-next” branch ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window next month is cake_mq as a multi-queue aware variant of the...

Hellen Chemtai: Internship Highlights at Outreachy: My Journey with Debian OpenQA

Highlights Hello world . I am an intern here at Outreachy working with Debian OpenQA Image testing team. The work consists of testing Images with OpenQA....

Migrate to MX Linux from Another Distro Without Losing /home

Learn how to migrate to MX Linux from another distribution without losing /home data using Replace Existing Installation option. The post Migrate to MX Linux from...

Tolerating Delay with DTN

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up. Even if you are...

Gamers love AI in game dev — they just don’t know it yet, says Razer’s CEO

We’re back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, which we taped in front of a terrific...

This 5-foot lamp is a supersized tribute to the world’s most iconic pen

The Bic Lamp can be hung, mounted, or used as a vertical standing lamp. | Image: Seletti Seletti, an Italian design brand known for everything from...

How NVIDIA GB10 Performance With the Dell Pro Max GB10 Compares To The GH200

Earlier this month we looked at the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance up against AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo” with the superior performance for the...

Wine 11.0 released

Version 11.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. “This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes.”...

Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2026

I’m going to FOSDEM 2026! I’m presenting in the Containers dev room. My talk is Java Memory Management in Containers and it’s scheduled as the first...

Asus may have made its last phone

The Zenfone 12 Ultra is Asus’s latest — and perhaps final — flagship phone. Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan’s Inside that the company is done...

Two new stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 5.15.198, and 5.10.248 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons added just enough to suck me back in

Animal Crossing has always been anti-instant gratification. By design, you have to take your time, wait for days to pass in real time, and complete a...

How to Integrate ChatGPT’s API With Python Projects

Python’s openai library provides the tools you need to integrate the ChatGPT API into your Python applications. With it, you can send text prompts to the...

How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic

On October 13, 2025, security researchers from FearsOff identified and reported a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) validation logic that disabled some of...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, libpq, libsoup3, podman, and postgresql16), Debian (ffmpeg, gpsd, python-urllib3, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, forgejo, freerdp, harfbuzz, libtpms,...

Revocable Resource Management Appears On Track For Linux 7.0

A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management…

The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship

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. What it’s like to...

Presentation: No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging...

Photoshop Installer Runs on Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years

Still early to say whether this will make it into Wine officially, this should rekindle some hope for Linux users and users-to-be who have been missing...

Francesco Paolo Lovergine: A Terramaster NAS with Debian, take two.

After experimenting at home, the very first professional-grade NAS from Terramaster arrived at work, too, with 12 HDD bays and possibly a pair of M2s. NVME...

Are DJI Drones Still Banned? (2026)

Can you still buy a DJI drone in the US? (Yes.) Will you be able to buy future drones? (Maybe.) Here are the current DJI dos...

AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools

It all sounds pretty dystopian: Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis...

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself....

Quiz: How to Integrate ChatGPT’s API With Python Projects

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Integrate ChatGPT’s API With Python Projects. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to send...

Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers

Washington State’s House Bill 2321 is currently causing a bit of an uproar, as it seeks to add blocking technologies to 3D printers, in order to...

Going beyond pilots with composable and sovereign AI

Today marks an inflection point for enterprise AI adoption. Despite billions invested in generative AI, only 5% of integrated pilots deliver measurable business value and nearly...

Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behind

After launching almost three years ago, Meta’s Threads is now reportedly attracting more daily mobile users than rival platform X. According to Similarweb data shared by...

New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver

Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though...

How to Clean Your Keurig (and When)

Your pod coffee maker can get gross over time. Here’s how to clean it up.

Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds

All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think.

RADV Vulkan Driver Now Implements HPLOC For Even Faster Ray-Tracing Performance

There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times… Here is yet another merge request now merged...

Intel LLM-Scaler-Omni Update Brings ComfyUI & SGLang Improvements On Arc Graphics

Following last week’s updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today...

Showcasing open design in action: Loughborough University design students explore open source projects

Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project briefs....

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE’s Hack Week

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack...

The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

From surveys of the pre-Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of alien technology.

Podcast: [Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI...

Article: Preventing Data Exfiltration: A Practical Implementation of VPC Service Controls at Enterprise Scale in Google Cloud Platform

Implementing VPC Service Controls is more about people and process than technology. Organizations must conduct extensive upfront discovery, use phased rollouts to avoid breaking production systems,...

SPDX SBOM Generation Tool Proposed For The Linux Kernel

For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software...

The Best Streaming Bundles and Streaming Deals of January 2026

Here are the current best bundles from the most popular services.

Microsoft Releases Azure Functions Support for Model Context Protocol Servers

Microsoft has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Azure Functions, ensuring secure, standardized workflows for AI agents. With built-in OBO authentication and streamable HTTP transport,...

What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate

It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The...

Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion.

GitLab 18.8 Marks General Availability of the Duo Agent Platform

GitLab 18.8 brings a number of new features, including GitLab Duo Planner Agent, GitLab Duo Security Analyst Agent, auto-dismiss irrelevant vulnerabilities, and more. With this release,...

The 3 tenets of a usable vision 

Making your vision believable, motivating, and attainable is what drives team momentum. The post The 3 tenets of a usable vision  appeared first on LeadDev.

Pinterest’s Moka: How Kubernetes Is Rewriting the Rules of Big Data Processing

Digital pinboard provider Pinterest has published an article explaining its blueprint for the future of large-scale data processing with its new platform Moka. The company is...

Microsoft Open Sources XAML Studio, Reviving a Longstanding Prototyping Tool

Microsoft has officially open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight rapid prototyping tool for XAML-based UI development, under the .NET Foundation. The tool, originally released through the Microsoft...

TV Remote Uses Floppy Disks

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable floppy disk. It’s likely that most people below...

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

Docker’s Cagent Brings Deterministic Testing to AI Agents

Docker is positioning its Cagent runtime as a way to bring deterministic testing back to AI agents, addressing a growing problem for teams building production agentic...

Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s

The Aim I have just got a Furilabs FLX1s [1] which is a phone running a modified version of Debian. I want to have a phone...

Linux Gamers Are Finally Getting Their Own Browser

As Linux gaming continues growing past the 3% mark on Steam, Opera finally commits to native support.

Review and Demo of the Zoyi ZT-QB9 Smart Clamp Meter

Over on YouTube [Kiss Analog] reviews the New Zoyi ZT-QB9 Smart Clamp meter. If you’re putting together an electronics lab from scratch you absolutely must get...

Register, Submit a Presentation for oSC

Registration for openSUSE Conference 2026 is now open and people are encouraged to submit a talk beginning today. The conference is scheduled to take place June...

Vincent Bernat: RAID 5 with mixed-capacity disks on Linux

Standard RAID solutions waste space when disks have different sizes. Linux software RAID with LVM uses the full capacity of each disk and lets you grow...

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A Guide To Using Triacs For Switching AC

For switching high-powered loads from a microcontroller, or for switching AC loads in general, most of us will reach into the parts bin and pull out...

Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer

This week’s Java roundup for January 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of WildFly 39; point releases of JobRunr and Gradle; maintenance releases of...

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6

Linus has released 6.19-rc6 for testing. “So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this stage in the release cycle, but...

Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February…

Hackaday Links: January 18, 2026

Looking for a unique vacation spot? Have at least $10 million USD burning a hole in your pocket? If so, then you’re just the sort of...

Dima Kogan: mrcal 2.5 released!

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You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale

It’s relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Vale...

ReactOS For “Open-Source Windows” Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

ReactOS as the long-in-development “open-source Windows” project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very...

Wine Patches Bring Newer Versions of Adobe Photoshop to Linux

Wine patches finally fix Adobe Creative Cloud installer on Linux, letting you install Photoshop 2021 and 2025 without copying files from a Windows VM. You’re reading...

Linux 6.19 Landing Fixes For USB2/USB3 Issues With Apple M1/M2 Macs

Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These...

Multi-column Dock for GNOME Rethinks What a Dock Can Do 

The Multi-Column Dock extension for GNOME Shell lets you organise apps in collapsable groups with labels, colours, and for better dock management. You’re reading Multi-column Dock...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some computers from shutting down

Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band...

Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux

I’ve been using Linux since 1997. As the ’90s came to a close, there were so many new distributions coming out that it would make your...

What to do With a Flash-less ESP32-C3 Super Mini Board?

In an update video by [Hacker University] to an earlier video on ESP32-C3 Super Mini development boards that feature a Flash-less version of this MCU, the...

HP OMEN/Victus Gaming Laptops Gaining Fan Control Support Under Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle, the HP-WMI driver is slated to add manual fan control support for HP Victus S-Series gaming laptops as well...

Repair Advocates Name CES 2026’s Most Anticonsumer Tech

The Repair Association is a U.S. advocacy group fighting for customers’ “Right to Repair.” If you buy something, you should be able to repair it, the...

NASA Demolishes Historic Test Stands That Built the Space Age

The thunderous roar that echoed across Huntsville, Alabama, on 10 January wasn’t a rocket launch but something equally momentous: the end of an era. Two massive...

Here are the 10 deals worth grabbing from Best Buy’s winter sales event

Sony’s terrific Bravia 8 II is $900 off for a limited time. Good deals are often hard to come by at the beginning of the year...

Kaoss Pad V is the first major upgrade to Korg’s touch-based effects in 13 years

The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations, but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn’t received an update since the launch of the KP3+ in...

Why Coinbase derailed the crypto industry’s political future

Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 15,...

Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on dystopian developments in AI, follow Hayden Field....

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of...

Calculating the Capacitance and ESR Specifications for the Output Capacitor in Your Switching-Mode Power Supply

[Dr Ali Shirsavar] from Biricha Digital runs us through How to Select the Perfect Output Capacitor for Your Power Supply. Your switching-mode power supply (SMPS) will...

15 Best Electric Bikes (2026), Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking

We tested the best electric bikes in every category, from commuters and mountain bikes to foldables and cruisers.

5 Best Water Leak Detectors (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Don’t let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These WIRED-tested smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker.

Linux’s Intel-Speed-Select Tool Will Allow Non-Root Use With Linux 7.0

The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for allowing some control over Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) and managing of clock frequencies...

Jones Hovercraft 2.0 Snowboard Review: For Big Powder Days

Jeremy Jones’ sustainable snowboard is unbelievably fun in deep powder, steeps, and trees.

People Still Aren’t Into Buying Cars Online

A new report shows that only 7 percent of new-car buyers in the US completed their purchase online, despite a major push by automakers, Amazon, and...

ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For “Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash” Test Bed

A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to...

Linux 6.19-rc6 Bringing Sound Fixes For ROG Xbox Ally X & Various Laptops

With the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today there will be a number of sound fixes/workarounds to note from the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally...

6 Best Juicers (2026): Fast Juicers and Slow Juicers

Stay hydrated with tried-and-tested juicers for refreshing daytime beverages and eye-brightening evening drinks.

Personal Comfort’s the Rejuvenate Review: Have It Your Way

Memory foam layers, 45 firmness levels, and a library of specialty size options set this adjustable mattress apart.

Beating the World Record for Fastest Flying Drone Once Again

The fun part about world records is that anyone can take a swing at breaking them, which is what [Luke Maximo Bell] has been doing with...