Month: January 2026

Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch

A PC mod that added online gameplay to Rockstar’s 2006 school-exploration title Bully was abruptly taken down on Wednesday, roughly a month after it was first...

Inside Cal Hacks 2025 – 36 Hours at the World’s Largest Collegiate Hackathon

What happens when you lock over 2,500 ambitious developers in a massive science museum for an entire weekend? We posted a documentary on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube...

How to Benchmark Embedding Models On Your Own Data

Finding the right embedding model for your specific data can often feel like guesswork, but it doesn’t have to be. While generic benchmarks provide a baseline,...

StyleX vs. Tailwind: Meta’s Take on CSS-in-JS Maintainability

Tailwind has been in the news lately, as it struggles to keep its doors open in the AI era. But it’s not the only “CSS-in-JS” solution...

Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced API access deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to get major tech companies to...

Key Senate staffer is “begging” NASA to get on with commercial space stations

In remarks this week to a Texas space organization, a key Senate staff member said an “extension” of the International Space Station is on the table...

What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More

The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and...

Forgejo 14.0 released

Version 14.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Notable changes in this release include several database improvements, new options for approving actions execution from...

Best Packing Cubes for Every Kind of Trip (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Whether you’re a no-frills backpacker or a bag-checking fashionista, there’s a perfect packing cube out there for you.

[$] Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations

Al Viro does not often stray outside of the core virtual filesystem area; when he does, it is usually worthy of note. Recently, he wandered into...

Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship

Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual...

A note for MXroute users

We have recently noticed that email from LWN.net seems to be blocked by MXroute. Unfortunately, the company also does not seem to have a way for...

Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0

Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what...

US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China

US President Donald Trump has announced new tariffs on Nvidia and AMD as part of a novel scheme to enact a deal with the technology giants...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, gnupg2, and mongo-c-driver), Fedora (firefox, gpsd, linux-firmware, and seamonkey), Mageia (net-snmp), Oracle (kernel, podman, postgresql16, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16,...

Lessons from 2 Years of Integrating AI into Development Workflows

Two years ago, I started experimenting with AI-assisted development tools. Today, they’re embedded into daily workflows across our engineering organization. Getting there wasn’t about adopting the...

OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise

At a glance Many real-world business problems can benefit from optimization, but translating decisions, constraints, and goals from natural language into optimization algorithms is slow. OptiMind...

Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Today, we’re excited to share that Cloudflare has acquired Human Native, a UK-based AI data marketplace specializing in transforming multimedia content into searchable and useful data....

11 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids’ Watches

These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.25 on CRAN: Microfix

Version 0.0.25 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN right now, and will be uploaded to Debian and built for r2u shortly along with a minimal refresh of...

Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 Delivers A “12x Performance Boost” With Integrated Graphics

Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI’s Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big...

The Download: spying on the spies, and promising climate tech

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 man hunting...

After Rejecting US Government's Aid Over DEI, Python Software Foundation Accepts $1.5 Million in Funding from Claude AI

A two-year partnership aimed at bolstering security for Python and PyPI.

9 Best Blind Boxes—Bag Charms, Plush Pendants, and More (2026)

In the market for a mystery treat? There’s more out there than Labubu. We bought a bunch of blind boxes online, and these are our favorites.

Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process

Change approval has been a constraining force on software delivery for decades. With teams adopting AI coding assistants and agents, the quantity, size and complexity of...

Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference

The longtime cybersecurity professional says she’s taking the helm of the legacy security organization at “an inflection point” for tech and the world beyond.

D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End

Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games...

What Is VO2 Max? Here’s What You Need to Know About the Longevity Metric (2026)

VO2 max can predict cardiorespiratory health and longevity, but only if you understand what the number can and can’t tell you.

New Vulnerability in n8n

This isn’t good: We discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21858, CVSS 10.0) in n8n that enables attackers to take over locally deployed instances, impacting an estimated 100,000...

The difficulty of driving an EV in the “most beautiful race in the world”

Polestar provided flights from Los Angeles to Milan and accommodation so Ars could participate in the Green Mille Miglia. Ars does not accept paid editorial content....

The Tea App Is Back With a New Website

Months after major data leaks, the app where women leave Yelp-style reviews about men is relaunching with a new website. It’s not back on iOS, but...

Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.

Livestream: Welcome to the Chinese Century

Join our livestream—and pose a question to WIRED’s panel of experts—on China’s dominance, influence, and how it is rewriting the future.

Asus ROG Falcata Review: A Split Gaming Keyboard

With the looks and speed of a gaming keyboard and the comfort of an ergonomic keyboard, the Falcata is a unique and expensive hybrid for a...

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

libvirt 12.0 Released – Bhyve ARM64 Support & Other Improvements For The BSD Hypervisor

Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a...

Linux Patches Bring Mainline Kernel Support For The ASUS IPMI Expansion Card

DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS “Kommando” IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up...

Taking the Technical Leadership Path

Technical leaders face challenges beyond individual contributor work: aligning with business on investments, managing systemic aspects, mentoring, and keeping up with a changing codebase. We need...

oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt...

Three climate technologies breaking through in 2026

Happy New Year! I know it’s a bit late to say, but it never quite feels like the year has started until the new edition of...

An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with United CEO Scott Kirby. Kirby has had a remarkable career in the aviation industry....

Wikipedia’s Existential Threats Feel Greater Than Ever

As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public that may no longer believe in its ideals.

Lizn Hearpieces Review: Affordable but Uncomfortable Hearing Aids

These odd-looking hearing aids double as solid earbuds, but comfort is a major issue.

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Released & Designed For Running GenAI Models

In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for...

You Can Now Use ONLYOFFICE on Raspberry Pi-Like ARM Devices

Native ARM support expands the open source office suite’s reach.

AWS Hikes EC2 Capacity Block Rates by 15% in Uniform ML Pricing Adjustment

AWS has raised EC2 Capacity Block prices for ML by 15% across all regions, impacting GPU-based workloads. The uniform price hikes affect top-tier instances powered by...

Our Favorite Coway Air Purifiers Are on Sale (2026)

Breathe easier with these discounts on one of WIRED’s favorite air purifier brands, including an option for large rooms.

Mistral Releases OCR 3 with Improved Accuracy on Handwritten and Structured Documents

Mistral has released Mistral OCR 3, the latest version of its optical character recognition model, focused on higher accuracy across a wide range of document types,...

Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

Next week, Volvo shows off its new EX60 SUV to the world. It’s the brand’s next electric vehicle, one built on an all-new, EV-only platform that...

Django Releases Version 6.0 with Built-In Background Tasks and Native CSP Support

Django 6.0 has arrived, offering developers cutting-edge features like a built-in tasks framework, enhanced security with Content Security Policy, and template partials for modular design. This...

linux mint 22.3 zena what’s new upgrade guide

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is released. Learn what’s new, how long it’s supported, and how to upgrade from Linux Mint 22.2 and older versions. The post...

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector...

FOSS Weekly #26.03: Torvalds Using AI, Dash to Dock, Linux Kernel Bugs, Pacman's Rust Replacement and More

2026 is the year of vibe coding?

Philips Kid’s Kit Revisited

[Anthony Francis-Jones], like us, has a soft spot for the educational electronic kits from days gone by. In a recent video you can see below, he...

Making Code a Hundred Times Slower With False Sharing

The cache hierarchy of the 2008 Intel Nehalem x86 architecture. (Source: Intel) Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This...

Orion Browser Releases Its First Linux Alpha

An alpha release of Orion for Linux, a new Webkit-based web browser from paid search engine Kagi, is out for testing – and early impressions are...

Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0

Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon...

The best e-reader to buy right now

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook...

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account’s ability to edit images of real people....

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: SFC v. VIZIO; GPLv2 requirements; Debian and GTK 2; OpenZL; kernel scheduler QoS; Rust concurrent data access; Asciinema. Briefs:...

A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the War of 1812 and lost his...

Dad Makes Kid’s Balance Bike Into Electric Snow Trike Like a Boss

The balance bikes toddlers are rocking these days look like great fun, but not so great in the snow. Rather than see his kid’s favourite toy...

2025: The Year of the Return of the Ada Programming Language?

In 2025, the Ada programming language made what might be considered a comeback. (But don’t call it one! Yet.) Last March, Ada broke into the TIOBE...

Feature store: The front-end for all of your AI data pipelines

Enterprise AI is evolving beyond individual models to unified data ecosystems.As organizations scale their AI initiatives, an exciting opportunity emerges—building a unified data gateway that connects...

New efficiency upgrades in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15

If you’re a platform engineer or SRE, you know that managing infrastructure and efficiently managing it are two very different things. You’ve been able to run...

Revolutionizing learning: How Ford’s Kubernetes community sparks technological innovation

As traditional learning methods fall short in the fast-paced world of cloud computing and container orchestration, Ford has pivoted to a more agile approach to technology...

Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons

This week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted their desire to “make Star Trek real”—while unconsciously reminding us of what the...

Build buy-in for your 2026 strategy 

A good strategy requires support from all the teams involved. The post Build buy-in for your 2026 strategy  appeared first on LeadDev.

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor, maintainers of the Python cryptography module, have put out some strongly worded criticism of OpenSSL. It comes from a talk they...

SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined

A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week to a total of 434 cases,...

The Stream Deck Plus is back to its lowest price

The Stream Deck Plus is on sale for $159.99. If you’re looking for a simple way to streamline your workflow, the Elgato Stream Deck Plus is...

Experts Hail Anthropic’s $1.5M Python Security Commitment

Anthropic‘s $1.5 million investment in Python security is both self-interested and smart, analysts say, addressing a critical vulnerability in the language that powers AI development everywhere....

GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol

More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems...

Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees,...

How Relational Database Constraints Work and Why They’re Important

Databases are a crucial tool because they store the data that power our day-to-day lives. Databases are designed to match the real world as much as...

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant that allowed hackers to pluck a host of sensitive user data with a single click on...

I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys

Since the days of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the humble first-person shooter has flourished in myriad and complex directions. The genre has expanded in narrative and...

How to Build a Payroll System with Express and Monnify Using Background Jobs

Processing payroll payments is an important operation for any business. When you need to pay employees simultaneously, you can’t afford to have your server hang, get...

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or...

Naya Connect is a modular mechanical keyboard system for the indecisive

Naya has already shipped one successful Kickstarter for a weird keyboard. The Naya Create was an ergonomic split deck with four swappable controller addons: a touchpad,...

FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch

The FBI searched a Washington Post reporter’s home and seized her work and personal devices as part of an investigation into what Attorney General Pam Bondi...

A New Life For An Old Amplifier

An audio amplifier was once a fairly simple analogue device, but in recent decades a typical home entertainment amplifier will have expanded to include many digital...

Open Source Whamm: Use WebAssembly To Monitor and Fix Running Apps

Whamm is designed to allow users to instrument their WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications with a programming language or code, or let them program their WebAssembly applications...

The GitHub problem (and other predictions)

Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it...

Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback.  Our new User...

US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk

The US House of Representatives, that glorious and efficient gathering of We the People, has been hit with yet another scandal. Like most (non-sexual) House scandals,...

Amazon didn’t have to go far to find its live-action Kratos

Amazon has announced the first cast member of its God of War live-action adaptation on Prime Video. Ryan Hurst, known for his work as Opie in...

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

Late Wednesday, X Safety confirmed that Grok was tweaked to stop undressing images of people without their consent. “We have implemented technological measures to prevent the...

An Early Run With Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC Turin – The Current Performance Gains Over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release — including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux...

How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent

The ability to connect AI agents to external systems defines their practical utility. Without tools, an agent is limited to generating text based on its training...

Neuroscientists Decipher Procrastination: A Brain Mechanism Explains Why People Leave Certain Tasks for Later

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.

Federal data underscores meteoric rise of streaming subscription prices in 2025

The prices that Americans paid for subscription- and rental-based access to video streaming services and video games increased 29 percent from December 2024 to December 2025,...

Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube

Lume Cube has a variety of marked-down lighting products to help revamp your home office.

The React Framework Face-Off: Which One Owns the Future?

Frontend developer and educator Kent Dodds has some good news for frontend developers confused about which React-based framework to choose. “For those who are looking for...

BMW says electric M3 will be a ‘new level’ of performance

BMW teased its forthcoming all-electric M-series performance sedan today, promising that the quad-motor M3 sports car would feature specs that are truly next level when it...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 860: Elixir Origin Story

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it’s...

I’ve tested 30 smart locks, and these are the best

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey...

Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth

Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory. CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections,...

Caught in the Middle: The New Role of Platform Teams

Earlier this year, the platform team at a global bank introduced a new workflow for developers to provision cloud environments on demand. The goal was to...

AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’

AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.

Bose’s first-gen QC Ultra headphones have returned to their best price to date

This year’s CES introduced a bevy of unique headphones, including Fender’s first set and a pair that roll up to become a Bluetooth speaker when you...

Netflix’s first original podcasts star Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin

Netflix is launching its first pair of original video podcasts, hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson and NFL commentator and former star Michael Irvin....

Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls

A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may...

Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”

Civilization VII is coming to the iPhone and iPad, Apple and publisher 2K announced today. Formally titled Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Arcade Edition, it is developed...

Genetic Therapy Aims To Bring Hearing To Those Born Deaf

For those born with certain types of congenital deafness, the cochlear implant has been a positive and enabling technology. It uses electronics to step in as...

How to Use the tailwind-sidebar NPM Package in Your React and Next.js Apps

These days, developers are increasingly preferring utility-first CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS to help them build fast, scalable, and highly customizable user interfaces. In this article,...

[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL

Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world’s ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed the LZ4 algorithm and designed...

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

On Tuesday, Bandcamp announced on Reddit that it will no longer permit AI-generated music on its platform. “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in...

New RADV Code Can Deliver 10x Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation For Some Games

A new merge request opened today for Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke

A New York man is suing Prenuvo, a celebrity-endorsed whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provider, claiming that the company missed clear signs of trouble in his...

Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros....

The Ultimate 3D Integration Would Cook Future GPUs

Peek inside the package of AMD’s or Nvidia’s most advanced AI products and you’ll find a familiar arrangement: The GPU is flanked on two sides by...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in...

My Gripes with Prolog

For the next release of Logic for Programmers, I’m finally adding the sections on Answer Set Programming and Logic Constraint Programming that I TODOd back in...

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive “personal...

ESP32-P4 Powers Retro Handheld after a Transplant

The ESP32-P4 is the new hotness on the microcontroller market. With RISC-V architecture and two cores running 400 MHz, to ears of a certain vintage it...

GlobalFoundries Acquires Synopsys ARC Processor IP, To Be Integrated Into MIPS

Last year GlobalFoundries acquired MIPS while an interesting new development announced today is that GlobalFoundries has acquired the ARC Processor IP and its solutions business from...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.15 on CRAN: New Upstream, Some Maintenance

A brand new release 0.1.15 of the RcppSimdJson package is now on CRAN. RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic and genuinely impressive simdjson library by Daniel Lemire and...

Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase

Back in December we reported on drafted plans for revitalizing Fedora Games Lab to be a modern Linux gaming showcase. This Fedora Labs initiative has featured...

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

After repeatedly denying for weeks that his force used AI tools, the chief constable of the West Midlands police has finally admitted that a hugely controversial...

[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK 2 graphics toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five years, and ship Debian 14 (“forky”)...

How engineering leaders can dictate AI success

4 surefire tactics for effective AI rollouts The post How engineering leaders can dictate AI success appeared first on LeadDev.

Is Sloppy File Sharing Endangering Your Enterprise?

Sharing digital data is one of the most important and riskiest parts of modern business. Multiple times a day, organizations transfer sensitive information — customer data,...

Stretchable OLEDs Just Got a Huge Upgrade

Wearable displays are catching up with phones and smart watches. For decades, engineers have sought OLEDs that can bend, twist, and stretch while maintaining bright and...

Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore

In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support...

Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist...

Why You Should Stop Managing Kafka Manually – A Guide to Kafka UI and Cruise Control

Over 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Apache Kafka. That’s not surprising, as Kafka has revolutionized how we build real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. If...

How to Use the NixOS Linux Distro – A Tutorial for Developers

NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager and the Nix language. It’s first stable release was in 2013, and it uses a...

$99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves “100% Open-Source” Upstream PowerVR Graphics

Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But...

In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis

Protests across Minnesota—and around the country—are ongoing, as residents demonstrate against their federal government.

AI Governance Is the Next IT Battleground

AI has moved decisively from experimentation to execution. It now sits at the core of enterprise transformation strategies, reshaping the way organizations think about performance, resilience,...

Playing With CodePen slideVars

Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel...

String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy

In 1998, astronomers discovered dark energy. The finding, which transformed our conception of the cosmos, came with a little-known consequence: It threw a wrench into the...

GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed

In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the “50.alpha” tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50...

Linux 7.0 To Focus Just On Full & Lazy Preemption Models For Up-To-Date CPU Archs

A Linux scheduler patch queued up into a TIP branch this past week further restrict is the preemption modes that will be advertised. With it hitting...

Presentation: Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success

Matthew Card discusses the intersection of leadership and inclusivity at the BBC. He explains how “changing the bar” rather than just raising it can transform team...

Radicle 1.6.0 released

Version 1.6.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for systemd credentials, use of Rust’s...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (sssd), Debian (linux-6.1 and python-parsl), Fedora (chezmoi, complyctl, composer, and firefox), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (buildah, libpq, podman, postgresql,...

EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule aimed at speeding up and streamlining the permitting process for large energy and infrastructure projects, including oil...

How to Create a Django Project

Before you can start building your Django web application, you need to set up your Django project. In this guide you’ll learn how to create a...

Intel Panther Lake GSC Firmware Published Ahead Of Laptop Availability

While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops...

Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.

Like any industry led by designers, the automotive world is subject to trends and fashions. Often, these are things the rest of us complain about. Wheels...

The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How next-generation nuclear reactors...

15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— I’ve Tested 65 to Pick Them

Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.

WIRED Tested Dozens of Blenders. These Are Our 8 Favorites (2026)

The perfect kitchen companions, these versatile blenders can whip up breakfasts, dips, milkshakes, cocktails, and everything in between.

The Merach Vibration Plate Is the Funniest Workout I’ve Ever Done

It turns out that this TikTok-viral vibration plate may have some surprising health benefits.

How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts

Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools. Now all of that has changed.

Quiz: How to Create a Django Project

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of creating a Django project. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and activate a virtual...

TikTok Shop Showed Me Search Suggestions for Products With Nazi Symbolism

Even after TikTok removed swastika jewelry from its online shop, I was algorithmically nudged toward a web of Nazi-related products during searches, like “double lightning bolt”...

HHKB Professional Classic Type-S Review: A Brilliant but Niche Keyboard

The keyboard for someone who wishes they could buy a ’97 Tacoma off the lot today.

How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines Into a Single Source of Truth

Agoda recently described how it consolidated multiple independent data pipelines into a centralized Apache Spark-based platform to eliminate inconsistencies in financial data. The company implemented a...

Intel Compute Runtime Updated With Initial Crescent Island & Nova Lake S Support

The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: gunsales 0.1.3 on CRAN: Maintenance

An update to the gunsales package is now on CRAN. As in the last update nine years ago (!!), changes are mostly internal. An upcoming dplyr...

Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

Behold, the hyperscale data center!  Massive structures, with thousands of specialized computer chips running in parallel to perform the complex calculations required by advanced AI models....

XWayland RandR Improvements Merged For Kicking Off 2026 X.Org Server Activity

Michel Dänzer of Red Hat has kicked off 2026 xorg-server activity with landing a patch series enhancing the Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension support under XWayland...

Meta Compute, The Meta-OpenAI Battle, The Reality Labs Sacrifice

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Compute, a bet that winning in AI means winning with infrastructure; this, however, means retreating from Reality Labs.

AI-Powered Code Editor Cursor Introduces Dynamic Context Discovery to Improve Token-Efficiency

Cursor introduced a new approach to minimize the context size of requests sent to large language models. Called dynamic context discovery, this method moves away from...

Vercel Open-Sources Bash Tool for Context Retrieval Using Local Filesystems

Vercel has open-sourced bash-tool that provides a Bash execution engine for AI agents, enabling them to run filesystem-based commands to retrieve context for model prompts. By...

New “Thames” Linux Accelerator Driver Posted Along With Companion Gallium3D Driver

Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the “Rocket” driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses,...

Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa

Everyone needs a safe way to listen to music on outdoor runs. We’ve found the bone conduction headphones to grab on your way out the door.

Better Context Will Always Beat a Better Model

AI leaders have, for the last couple of years, obsessed over benchmarks, debating whether GPT-4, Claude or Gemini holds the crown. This enterprise AI conversation has...

7 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Wondering what you’re missing out on? Here are our favorite smartphones that aren’t officially sold stateside but are available in markets like the UK and Europe.

Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour

I’ve recently refreshed the animated graphics on my website with a new theme and a group of pioneering characters, putting into practice plenty of the techniques...

How to build DORA-ready infrastructure with verifiable provenance and reliable support

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force across the EU on January 17, 2025, fundamentally changing how financial institutions must approach infrastructure and technology...

Bash Comparison Operators

Learn how to use comparison operators in Bash to compare integers and strings in your shell scripts.

Article: Platform-as-a-Product: Declarative Infrastructure for Developer Velocity

Declarative infrastructure config hides complexity, enabling developers to focus on application code. Unified YAML per service allows early cost validation, while independent CI with centralized CD...

Lixplore-cli: Command Line Tool for Academic Research

Search academic papers directly from your command line. Lixplore-cli is a free, open-source tool for researchers who prefer terminal workflows over web browsers. The post Lixplore-cli:...

$50 Target Promo Code & Coupons | January 2026

Get $50 off your next order or up to 50% off sitewide with Target coupon codes and Circle deals.

Atari Brings the Computer Age Home

[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System....

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Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is Officially Available Now! Introduces Two New Apps

A fresh menu, troubleshooting tools, and other improvements arrive in this point release.

How to Build and Deploy a Blog-to-Audio Service Using OpenAI

Turning written blog posts into audio is a simple way to reach more people. Many users prefer listening during travel or workouts. Others enjoy having both...

When Electricity Doesn’t Take the Shortest Path

Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans....

ZLUDA Boasts Full Llama.cpp Support, Better Windows Handling For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

The open-source ZLUDA project for bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware that can run unmodified is out with a new progress report. ZLUDA had a productive fourth...

How to Work with the ORC File Format in Python – A Guide with Examples

If you’ve worked with big data or analytics platforms, you’ve probably heard about ORC files. But what exactly are they, and how can you work with...

Why is Debugging Hard? How to Develop an Effective Debugging Mindset

For years, developers have been told that coding was their primary job. They were encouraged to write clean code, learn tools, understand frameworks, and ship features...

Hangover 11.0 Released: Wine + FEX/Box64 Pairing For Windows x86 Apps On ARM64 Linux

Building off today’s release of Wine 11.0 for enabling countless Windows applications and games to run well under Linux and being the basis of Valve’s Proton...

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition

Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s...

Gunnar Wolf: The Innovation Engine • Government-funded Academic Research

This post is an unpublished review for The Innovation Engine • Government-funded Academic Research David Patterson does not need an introduction. Being the brain behind many...

Old Windsurfers Become New Electric Surfboards

Windsurfing has experienced a major decline in popularity in the last few decades as the sport’s culture failed to cater to beginners at the same time...

The Design & Implementation of Sprites

We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers and run them...

Improving VirtOps: Manage, migrate or modernize with Red Hat and Cisco

Virtualization has been an evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. A variety of applications run on virtualization technology and many companies are assessing...

Registration is now open for Red Hat Summit 2026

Red Hat Summit is taking over the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, May 11-14, 2026 and we want you to be there. Registration is...

What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?

This is another post in our series covering what we learned through the Vision Doc process. In our first post, we described the overall approach and...

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

On January 8, 2026, a routine update to 1.1.1.1 aimed at reducing memory usage accidentally triggered a wave of DNS resolution failures for users across the...

Ubuntu 26.04 Undergoes ‘Mass Rebuild’ of All Archive Packages

A ‘mass rebuild’ of packages in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive packages is underway to ensure wider available of architecture variants, frame pointers and ELF metadata. You’re...

The Fight on Capitol Hill to Make It Easier to Fix Your Car

As vehicles grow more software-dependent, repairing them has become harder than ever. A bill in the US House called the Repair Act would ease those restrictions,...

Inside the White House shitposting machine

Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared...

BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel

BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the electric M Neue Klasse....

Steinar H. Gunderson: plocate 1.1.24 released

I’ve released version 1.1.24 of plocate, as usual dominated by small patches from external contributors. The changelog is below: plocate 1.1.24, January 13th, 2026 - Improve...

The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

RAM prices have soared, which is bad news for people interested in buying, building, or upgrading a computer this year, but it’s likely good news for...

WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official

President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which...

Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen framework that infects Linux machines with a wide assortment of modules that are notable for the range of advanced capabilities they...

CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions

A recent survey shows that, last year, 57% of enterprise organizations spent over $1 million on migration projects — with an average loss of $315,000 per...

Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is fighting to unmask the owner of Facebook and Instagram accounts of a community watch group monitoring Immigration and...

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies

For years, the Food and Drug Administration provided an informational webpage for parents warning them of the dangers of bogus autism treatments, some promoted by anti-vaccine...

I tested several cases for the Switch 2 and these are the best

Our picks include carrying cases and ones you can leave on during handheld and docked play. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images You might find it...

Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at...

Hacking the Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot for Doom

With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers it’d be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as well....