Month: January 2026

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing

Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma...

Australian plumber is a YouTube sensation

Warning: Unclogging a restaurant’s grease trap is not for the faint of heart. Large swathes of the US were blanketed in snow and ice over the...

Best Walking Pad Deals: Save $150 and More (2026)

Whether you’re working from home or just trying to hit your step goals, these walking pad deals make it easy to move every day.

A critical GnuPG security update

There is a new GnuPG update for a “critical security bug” in recent GnuPG releases. A crafted CMS (S/MIME) EnvelopedData message carrying an oversized wrapped session...

How the Factory and Abstract Factory Design Patterns Work in Flutter

In software development, particularly object-oriented programming and design, object creation is a common task. And how you manage this process can impact your app’s flexibility, scalability,...

How to Build an AI-Powered RAG Search Application with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a complete RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) search application from scratch. Your application will allow users to upload documents, store...

Sergio Cipriano: Query Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API

Query Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API In my post about tracking my Debian uploads, I used the ProjectB database directly to retrieve how...

Inside a five-year-old startup’s rapid AI makeover

Before we start: Elin and I are running a survey on AI usage by software engineers and engineering teams. If you have 10 minutes, please consider...

AI Overviews gets upgraded to Gemini 3 with a dash of AI Mode

It can be hard sometimes to keep up with the deluge of generative AI in Google products. Even if you try to avoid it all, there...

How to secure Vertex AI pipelines with Google Cloud tools

AI models now power critical systems across many sectors. You’ll find them in healthcare, banking, cybersecurity, and defense. When you move these models to production on...

UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning

At a glance AI-driven medical image report generation can help medical providers become more efficient and productive. Current models are difficult to train because reporting practices...

Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE

A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.

Google Axion CPU Performance With The New Google Cloud N4A Instances

Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in...

The GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware

GNU C Library maintainer Carlos O’Donell has announced that the project will be moving its core services away from Sourceware in favor of services hosted at...

Meet the tech workers taking a stand against ICE

Hundreds of tech workers are turning up the pressure on their employers. The post Meet the tech workers taking a stand against ICE appeared first on...

Running DOOM on Earbuds

In 1993, DOOM was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you...

Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian...

Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it

Volvo provided flights from Austin, Texas, to Stockholm, Sweden, and accommodation so Ars could learn about its new seatbelt. Ars does not accept paid editorial content....

Pornhub Will Block New UK Users Starting Next Week to Protest ‘Flawed’ ID Law

Only users who have already registered and completed age verification will be able to access the world’s largest porn site.

Ai2 makes building custom coding agents easier and cheaper

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is launching a new family of open coding agents today that, as standalone models, outperform similar-sized models on standard benchmarks....

Build Pipeline Parallelism from Scratch

Pipeline parallelism speeds up training of AI models by splitting a massive model across multiple GPUs and processing data like an assembly line, ensuring no single...

Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using...

Apple patches ancient iOS versions to keep iMessage, FaceTime, other services working

When Apple stops supporting older iPhones and iPads with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, it usually isn’t the end of the line—Apple keeps releasing...

Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

Looking for a Discord alternative? Roomy is an open-source, decentralized platform built for communities that value privacy and control.

Trade wars muzzle allied talks on Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield

Gen. Michael Guetlein, the senior officer in charge of the US military’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, has laid out an audacious schedule for deploying...

[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs

The kernel’s “kfunc” mechanism is a way of exporting kernel functions so that they can be called directly from BPF programs. There are over 300 kfuncs...

Learn Relational Database Design

Relational databases are used all the time in software development. We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will help you learn relational...

Why NASA, IMSA, and tech companies are teaming up on tech transfer

IMSA provided accommodation so Ars could attend its symposium and the Rolex 24. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The annual 24-hour race...

TigerVNC 1.16 Released With “w0vncserver” For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions

TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is “w0vncserver” as a new server...

Zombie Netscape Won’t Die

The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon...

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses...

RAG isn’t dead, but context engineering is the new hotness

So, is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) dead now? Last May I asked that question of Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI, based on the growing hype around...

Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year

Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number...

Meet the mysterious electrides

For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some meteorites,...

Zlib-rs Declares A Stable & Complete API For This Rust-Based Zlib Implementation

Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete…

Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

The Xfce team has announced that it will be providing funding to Brian Tarricone to work on xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for Xfce: Xfwl4 will not...

As data from space spikes, an innovative ground station company seeks to cash in

A company that seeks to disrupt the way in which data from space is received and transmitted has found some key investors and customers. On Tuesday...

Chainguard EmeritOSS backs MinIO, other orphaned projects

Open source has a problem. There are many under-supported, or even abandoned, open source programs that are still in wide use, but there’s no one at...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, python-urllib3, python3.11-urllib3, and python3.12-urllib3), Debian (imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and openjdk-21), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ghostscript, glibc, mingw-glib2,...

QCon chat: Is agentic AI killing continuous integration?

In the age of AI, will we still need continuous integration (CI) at all? One panelist in a QCon AI conference panel on AI and engineering...

How Norway Accomplished a Near-Total EV Transition

More than 97 percent of the new cars Norwegians registered in November 2025 were electric, almost reaching the country’s goal of 100 percent. As a result,...

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans....

A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)

We built an AI gateway that provides security and visibility for coding agent usage across organizations, to make the safe way of accessing AI the easy...

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Create Callable Instances With Python’s .__call__()

In Python, a callable is any object that you can call using a pair of parentheses and, optionally, a series of arguments. Functions, classes, and methods...

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

* This post was updated at 11:45 a.m. Pacific time to clarify that the use case described here is a proof of concept and a personal...

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

From bluebird days to blizzards, WIRED tested the best ski goggles for all weather conditions.

Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce

Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce…

The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification

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. Inside OpenAI’s big play...

Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland

The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of...

This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush

Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.

Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK

This week’s Java roundup for January 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, targeted for JDK 27; GlassFish Grizzly...

The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants

The US Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants. The case centers on the trial of Okello Chatrie, a Virginia man who pleaded guilty...

The Smart Light Bulbs Worth Buying in 2026: Cync, Meross, Tapo

If you’re new to smart home tech, light bulbs are an affordable, low-commitment place to start.

8 Best Laptops (2026), WIRED-Tested and Approved

Our expert team of laptop testers stand behind these Windows laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Linux portables.

New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As “A Whopping 260%”

A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only...

ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling

Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth...

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its...

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

Intel Earnings, The Agentic Opportunity, Intel’s Mistaken Pessimism

Intel’s earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity.

Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory “OOM” behavior...

Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance

Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on...

Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going

We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Here’s what they said.

OpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms

OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life sciences environments. Both...

How to Install Java on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn how to install OpenJDK and Oracle JDK on Ubuntu 24.04. Covers Java 21, 25, and other LTS versions.

Southwest Airlines Says Bye to Open Seating—and Hello to Boarding Complexity

An airline’s boarding policy shake-up shows the limits of efficiency. (Spoiler: It’s money.)

Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts

Have you ever set z-index: 99999 on an element in your CSS, and it doesn’t come out on top of other elements? A value that large...

Using AI to improve developer onboarding

AI’s strengths extend to smoother onboarding processes – but to what end? The post Using AI to improve developer onboarding appeared first on LeadDev.

Article: The Friction Fix: Change What Matters

Friction is the invisible current that sinks every transformation. Friction isn’t one thing, – it’s systemic. Relationships produce friction: between the people, teams and technology. The...

How to Install Git on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn how to install and configure Git on Ubuntu 24.04 using apt, the Git PPA, or by compiling from source.

Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access control from...

10% Dell Coupon Codes | January 2026

Get 10% off with verified Dell promo code, plus today’s coupons for up to $600 off laptops, Alienware monitors, and all things tech.

How to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux

The post How to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this guide,...

One Hundred Years Of Telly

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that it’s a hundred years...

How to Chat with Your PDF Using Retrieval Augmented Generation

Large language models are good at answering questions, but they have one big limitation: they don’t know what is inside your private documents. If you upload...

All the ways TikTok is broken: here’s what’s real and what’s not

While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are...

Elana Hashman: A beginner’s guide to improving your digital security

In 2017, I led a series of workshops aimed at teaching beginners a better understanding of encryption, how the internet works, and their digital security. Nearly...

AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option

AMD’s RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter’s Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off...

Sovereign AI architecture: Scaling distributed training with Kubeflow Trainer and Feast on Red Hat OpenShift AI

As AI becomes an engine of national competitiveness, the concept of sovereign AI—the capacity to operate AI systems free from external influence—is increasingly relevant, but the...

Some notes on starting to use Django

Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+...

Valve’s Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux…

Unofficial AppImage Lets You Run Canva’s Affinity on Ubuntu

Linux lacks native versions of industry-grade creative tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and while open-source options are capable, not everyone is willing to relearn and...

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI...

BellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave

The hardened container market has been heating up with venture money and startups, but Java platform provider BellSoft thinks its eight years of building Java runtimes...

X faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes

X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it...

Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished

A federal judge ordered a new briefing due Wednesday on whether DHS is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies, leaving ICE...

Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one...

TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners

The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.

Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last...

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing...

Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In...

Apple’s AirTag 2 is easier to find thanks to new chip

Apple is introducing a new version of its AirTag tracking device—simply dubbed “the new AirTag”—and claims it offers substantial improvements thanks to a new Bluetooth chip....

“Wildly irresponsible”: DOT’s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns

The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it’s a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rules impacting the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines,...

AMD Squeezing Out More More ROCm/HIP Performance With New Device-Side PGO

Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed...

The best Bluetooth trackers for Apple and Android phones

Bluetooth trackers come in all shapes and sizes. | Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they’re...

Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis

Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl’s bug bounty program, zerobrew takes...

OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor

OpenAI’s co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn’t just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC – together, he and his wife Anna’s...

Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE

A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery...

Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million

Google could owe you some money, now that it’s moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated...

Apple’s luxe AirPods Max have dropped to one of their lowest prices ever

All colors are on sale right now, including the attractive blue shade. If you prefer over-ear headphones to earbuds and own an iPhone or another Apple...

Restoring a 1924 Frigidaire B-9 Refrigerator Back to Working Condition

Before the refrigerator became a normal part of any kitchen, those with enough money to throw around could get an icebox, which used melting ice to...

The 10 Best Sleep Masks We’ve Tested While Snoozing (2026)

Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks. Our top pick is from Blissy.

Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default

The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window…

The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix

The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix: From Structured Queries to Natural Language By Alex Hutter and Bartosz Balukiewicz Our previous blog posts (part 1, part...

AI DevOps vs. SRE agents: Compare AI incident response tools

If you’ve seen a new crop of data about ops lately, you may have noticed this new category coming up: AI agents that promise to take...

Async Rust: Pinning demystified

This is the second of a four-part series. Read Part 1: How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters) In the previous part of this...

IEEE Brings Hands-On STEM Activities to India’s Rural Areas

“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” Spoken by Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the words echo...

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science 

In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have...

Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE

“Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth. Then worry about fucking me,” a Reddit post reads. “Immigrants of any status are my friends, neighbors, and colleagues.”...

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held...

This Wireless Mic Kit Is $70 Off

Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.

The brothers meet Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer

Universal Pictures and Illumination dropped a new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and gaming fans will no doubt be delighted at the news...

Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework

With the MCP protocol, Anthropic created the de facto standard for AI models and agents to talk to third-party applications. After donating the MCP protocol to...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Split with the Num Pad

I love, love, love Saturn by [Rain2], which comes in two versions. The first, which is notably more complex, is shown here with its rings-of-Saturn thumb...

Tattle TV has turned a Hitchcock classic into a vertical video ‘microdrama’

Most vertical video microdrama apps have been focused on putting out newly produced series meant to be watched on your phone. But Tattle TV thinks that...

MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva

Anthropic’s Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily access tools and...

TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover

TikTok’s takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled. The app, which is available on Android and iOS, currently...

Intel’s Panther Lake Chips Aren’t Just Good—They Beat Apple’s M5

I’ve tested a laptop powered by Panther Lake—pitting them head-to-head against laptops with Apple Silicon—and Intel has finally scored a much-needed win with the Core Ultra...

Godot 4.6 Ships Many Improvements For This Leading Open-Source Game Engine

Godot 4.6 is officially out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine…

[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5

The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification....

Intel Panther Lake / Arc B390 Linux Benchmarks Still Coming

Ahead of tomorrow’s official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated...

Why chatbots are starting to check your age

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech...

Cisco is using eBPF to rethink firewalls, vulnerability mitigation

Networking giant Cisco purchased Isovalent in 2024 to get in on the cloud native action. In our cloud native community, Isovalent was primarily known for Cilium,...

Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program

Curl creator Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post explaining why the project is ending its bug-bounty program, which started in April 2019: The never-ending slop...

Astronomy Live on Twitch

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred...

How Tailscale Peer Relays saved my holiday: a 12.5X performance boost from India

Visiting family in India used to mean sluggish, inconsistent connections to a U.S. homelab. Tailscale Peer Relays meant no more frozen terminals or slow transfers.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)

Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are...

TikTok explained why some US creators are seeing posts with “0 views”

TikTok has been glitching for US users since Sunday, and TikTok’s new US owners finally confirmed the cause: a power outage at a US data center. “Since...

How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds

Over the years, hackers and modders at large have made it their mission to port classic first-person shooter Doom to practically anything with a display. Recently,...

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised...

Mecha Comet – Modular Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules

Linux handhelds are having a moment of late, yet few wear their geek cred as proudly as the Mecha Comet, a new open source, palm-sized computer...

How open standards enable zero trust on commodity hardware

Confidential computing has always held a certain promise. The idea that workloads could process sensitive data while remaining isolated even from the infrastructure that runs them...

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic...

Revisiting The Linux 6.19 Performance With Some New Wins & Losses

Back at the start of the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle I ran benchmarks showing some scheduler performance regressions with the new kernel. Fortunately, two weeks out...

There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element

I was building a Modal component that uses the <dialog> element’s showModal method. While testing the component, I discovered I could tab out of the <dialog>...

A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps

Modern cloud native attacks don’t always rely on a single breakthrough exploit. Instead, threat actors chain together small assumptions, overlooked behaviors, and trusted components in ways...

Does Carbon Fiber PLA Make Sense?

Carbon fiber (CF) has attained somewhat of a near-mystical appeal in consumer marketing, with it being praised for being stronger than steel while simultaneously being extremely...

Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 4

Building a leaderboard with database integration for our example browser-based game.

After 5 Years, Apple Finally Upgrades the AirTag

The second-generation AirTag features Apple’s newer Ultra Wideband chip and has a louder speaker and better range.

EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes

The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spread sexualized images of women and...

Patch Proposed To Allow Toggling Linux Kernel VT Support At Boot Time

A patch causing a healthy technical debate today on the Linux kernel mailing list would allow the kernel virtual terminal “VT” support to be enabled/disabled at...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, net-snmp, pcs, and thunderbird), Debian (apache2, imagemagick, incus, inetutils, libuev, openjdk-17, php7.4,...

Nvidia makes AI weather forecasting more accessible, no supercomputer needed

With very few exceptions, large-scale weather forecasting has been the domain of government agencies with access to massive supercomputers. But that is changing. Nvidia launched two...

The power of sound in a virtual world

In an era where business, education, and even casual conversations occur via screens, sound has become a differentiating factor. We obsess over lighting, camera angles, and...

GeoPandas Basics: Maps, Projections, and Spatial Joins

GeoPandas extends pandas to make working with geospatial data in Python intuitive and powerful. If you’re looking to do geospatial tasks in Python and want a...

Cable cuts, storms, and DNS: a look at Internet disruptions in Q4 2025

In 2025, we observed over 180 Internet disruptions spurred by a variety of causes – some were brief and partial, while others were complete outages lasting...

Linux Kernel 6.19 RC7 Released: A Large Release Candidate Justifies the Extra Week

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.19-rc7. While the patch is larger than usual for this stage, the release is going smoothly with a final stable version expected...

Initial AMD GFX13 Target Merged To LLVM 23 Git – Presumably RDNA5

Added to the LLVM 23 Git codebase minutes ago is a pull request adding the initial AMDGPU GFX13 target for their next-generation graphics core IP. AMD...

The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants

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 new biologists...

Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers

This is coming: The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware...

Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: “I don’t think they’re great right now”

Crew members traveling to the lunar surface on NASA’s Artemis missions should be gearing up for a grind. They will wear heavier spacesuits than those worn...

The cURL Project Drops Bug Bounties Due To AI Slop

Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor quality of bug reports filed due to...

We Strapped on Exoskeletons and Raced. There’s One Clear Winner

WIRED put the latest consumer exoskeletons from Dnsys and Hypershell in a head-to-head test on a pro athletic track. On your marks …

Quiz: GeoPandas Basics: Maps, Projections, and Spatial Joins

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of GeoPandas. You’ll review coordinate reference systems, GeoDataFrames, interactive maps, and spatial joins with .sjoin(). You’ll also explore how...

Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software

Guilherme Carreiro discusses the architecture behind Shopify’s theme system, focusing on balancing extreme customizability with platform stability. He explains how they leverage Liquid as a safe...

Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous

Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.

AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics

A patch series posted last week for the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver implements HDMI Variable Rate Refresh “VRR” and other gaming features for HDMI displays. With...

People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them

As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.

TSMC Risk

Listen to this post: Log in to listen You probably think, given this title, you know what this Article is about. The most advanced semiconductors are...

Podcast: Startup Software Architecture – You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information,...

Article: Virtual Panel – AI in the Trenches: How Developers Are Rewriting the Software Process

This virtual panel brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders to explore how AI is changing the landscape of software development. Practitioners share their insights on...

LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0

For the Intel-powered LG Gram Style 14 laptop one of the Linux support caveats is the internal speakers not working properly under Linux, but with a...

ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel

ASRock Rack’s PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide...

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance

Kairui Song of Tencent sent out a new patch series overnight working on enhancing the Linux kernel’s swap code. With the patches there are some memory...

Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language

Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage collection. Designed with...

Google Releases Gemma 3 270M Variant Optimized for Function Calling on Mobile and Edge Devices

FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents...

How to Install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn three ways to install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 24.04: NodeSource repository, nvm, and default Ubuntu packages.

Ageism is squeezing everyone out of tech jobs

Tech companies are steering clear of both younger and older generations. The post Ageism is squeezing everyone out of tech jobs appeared first on LeadDev.

Aspire 13.1 Brings MCP Integration, CLI Enhancements, and Azure Deployment Updates

Aspire 13.1 has been released as an incremental update that builds on the polyglot platform foundation introduced with Aspire 13. The release focuses on improving developer...

December 2025 Baseline monthly digest

Read about various happenings with Baseline during December 2025.

Early Arthropods

Bike Spokes, Made of Rope

We know this one is a few years old, but unless you’re deep into the cycling scene, there’s a good chance this is the first time...

Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 19th, 2026, highlighting the first milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring...

Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases

While we wait to see what comes of the new X.Org Server Git branch plans and a possible X.Org Server 26.1 release, several X.Org libraries saw...

Hackaday Links: January 25, 2026

If predictions hold steady, nearly half of the United States will be covered in snow by the time this post goes live, with the Northeast potentially...

SSH Cheatsheet

Quick reference for SSH commands and configuration

End-to-end security for AI: Integrating AltaStata Storage with Red Hat OpenShift confidential containers

Confidential computing represents the next frontier in hybrid and multicloud security, offering hardware-level memory protection (data in use) through technologies such as AMD SEV and Intel...

How DTCC uses GitOps to accelerate customer value and security

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Brian Cook, (director, Kubernetes site reliability engineer Kubernetes security posture management),...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

European organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital...

Otto Kekäläinen: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription offering for Ubuntu users who want to pay for the assurance of getting quick and high-quality security updates for Ubuntu. I...

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7

The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So normally this would be the last rc of the release, but as I’ve mentioned every rc (because...

Add Custom Toggles to GNOME’s Quick Settings with this Extension

Add custom command and script toggles to GNOME Shell’s Quick Settings menu. Create up to 6 buttons to trigger any action you want, easily and in...

Linux 6.19-rc7 Released With Kernel Continuity Plan, A Few Important Fixes

The Linux 6.19 kernel remains on track for its official release two weeks from today, with the extra RC being baked in due to the end...

Balancing a Turbine Rotor to 1 mg With a DIY Dynamic Balancer

Although jet engines are theoretically quite simple devices, in reality they tread a fine line between working as intended and vaporizing into a cloud of lethal...

LACT 0.8.4 Brings Improved Overclocking UI For GPUs On Linux

In the absence of any official GUI control panel from AMD or Intel for their graphics cards on Linux, LACT remains a popular choice particularly for...

Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE

Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn’t trigger something like civil war.

Agentic AI meets integration: The next frontier

Artificial intelligence has already transformed the way organizations analyze data, predict outcomes, and generate content. The next leap forward is arriving fast. Enter agentic AI: Autonomous...

SSH over USB on a Raspberry Pi

Setting up access to a headless Raspberry Pi is one of those tasks that should take a few minutes, but for some reason always seems to...

Anton Gladky: Introducing v2/changelogs FTP-Master API

v2/changelogs – FTP-Master API released and how can it be used to track your uploads

Funding, AI and Politics Take Center Stage at FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM, Europe’s biggest open-source event returns to Brussels with keynotes on FOSS funding, AI security and digital sovereignty from January 31-February 1. You’re reading Funding, AI...

AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle

This week’s batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD changes queued up ahead of the next kernel merge window is focused on delivering a variety of driver fixes…

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE

It’s not surprising when the guy who’s been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns his ire towards...

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun

Federal officers line up outside as demonstrators protest outside of the Whipple Federal Building on January 17th, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests have ramped up around...

Not the Linux You Remember: 16 Every Day Tasks That No Longer Need the Terminal

It’s not that Linux became “GUI only”, but that the Linux desktop has become far more complete. The modern desktop we know today ships graphical tools...

The art of visual inspection: Spot the hidden story in your charts

You have a nice set of data, but how do you convey its meaning to an audience? In the latest of a series of free technology...

Trusting your phone to Abxylute’s mobile controller requires a big leap of faith

Turning your phone into a handheld with the M4 could be risky. As a retro gaming fan, I was thrilled when Apple opened its App Store...

This Unlikely Microsoft Prediction Might Just Hit The Mark

It’s fair to say that there are many people in our community who just love to dunk on Microsoft Windows. It’s an easy win, after all,...

What’s the right Linux desktop UI for you?

If you’ve never used Linux before and are considering it now, there’s one thing you’ll inevitably run into, and that’s choice. With Linux, you can choose...

Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking?

Americans do not like masked secret police. There is really no other way to put it. The reasons why are manifold: accountability, trust in law enforcement,...

Pebblebed Ventures’ AI tool analyzes 20 years of Linux bugs

Can we develop a better bug-finding tool by analyzing the Linux kernel’s last 20 years of commits using AI? In a recent blog post, security researcher...