Month: January 2026

Sony’s first clip earbuds don’t quite hit the mark

The Sony LinkBuds Clip can be customized with different colored covers for the case. The Sony LinkBuds Clip are the company’s first clip earbuds. They follow...

The great e-bike crackdown has begun

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the e-bike movement, follow Andrew J. Hawkins....

Enhancing A/B Testing at DoorDash with Multi-Armed Bandits

While experimentation is essential, traditional A/B testing can be excessively slow and expensive, according to DoorDash engineers Caixia Huang and Alex Weinstein. To address these limitations,...

Inside a Sketchy Mains Voltage Touch Control Dimmer

In [Big Clive]’s recent grab bag of tat ordered from Chinese commerce platforms, there were two touch light control boxes that can turn any ungrounded conductive...

A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10

A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far. But “a Star Trek podcast...

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn’t...

Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids

This new prescription hearing aid has a special chip designed to improve hearing in noisy conditions.

How Long Should You Cold Plunge? We Asked Experts (2026)

You don’t need to Ernest Shackleton yourself to reap the benefits of cold plunging. A calm, controlled ice bath is key.

Linux Kernel Continuity Document Added: What Happens If Torvalds’ Git Repo Goes Away?

Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project’s continuity in the event...

Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are...

Bambu P1S Combo Review: Clean, Fast, 3D Printing

This is the easiest to use 3D printer I’ve ever tried.

The Lego Pokémon Line Shows Toys Are Only for Rich Adults Now

Who cares about kids when adult collectors are willing to pay top dollar?

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Display Support & Old Adreno 225 Enablement For Linux 7.0

Rob Clark this week sent out the latest MSM DRM kernel driver updates for the latest Qualcomm display/graphics enhancements ahead of next month’s Linux 7.0 merge...

SVT-AV1 4.0 Released With More Performance Optimizations

SVT-AV1 4.0 is out as the newest major feature release for this open-source AV1 video encoder that was originally started by Intel as an open-source project...

The 10 Best Essential Oil Diffusers We’ve Tried in 2026 (and 2 to Avoid)

Keep things smelling fresh with these handy home gadgets. After researching and testing over a dozen devices, the Urpower Aroma is our favorite for most people.

Commodore 64 Helps Revive the BBS Days

Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many of them might seem completely foreign...

Two Missing Characters: How a Regex Flaw Exposed AWS GitHub Repos to Supply-Chain Risk

AWS recently published a security bulletin acknowledging a configuration issue affecting some popular AWS-managed open-source GitHub repositories. Dubbed CodeBreach, the critical vulnerability could have resulted in...

The day of the second killing

Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from The Minnesota Star...

GIMP 3.0.8 Released In Advance Of GIMP 3.2

While the GIMP 3.2 release is expected out soon, GIMP 3.0.8 is available tonight as what could end up being the last set of bug fixes...

The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti

Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaging the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches For Enabling Recent Adobe Photoshop Versions On Linux

Following yesterday’s release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that...

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part...

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

Wireless MIDI Controller Has Lots Of Knobs

We live in a golden age for MIDI controllers. [rheslip]’s contribution to the milieu is a twisty take on the format, in that it’s covered in...

The state of homelab tech (2026)

Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but...

Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers, in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery...

Port of Context: The open source code mode

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become a well-adopted standard for connecting large language model (LLM)-based AI agents with external data and tools. As a...

Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual...

MicroSD Express cards and Anker’s travel adapter rule the deal roost this week

Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of which...

Reviewing Tweezers for Microsoldering and SMD Work

Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together...

LLMs create a new blind spot in observability

Teams that have run Software as a Service (SaaS) products know the routine: An alert goes off, and everyone scrambles to the observability stack first. Metrics,...

Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken

Some Gmail users have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inbox. Reports have been hitting the...

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland

The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux...

DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System

There’s yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system…

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 is out today as this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation that is used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. This is the important...

loss32 is a Linux Distro Nobody Asked For (But Still Has Its Usage)

This sure sounds like a meme project, but there’s more to it!

Distributed apps platform Aspire supports JavaScript, Python

Aspire, Microsoft’s open source, cloud native development platform, now supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java as first-class citizens. “With Aspire 13, JavaScript and TypeScript developers get...

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was later pronounced dead. This...

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Powers Agentic Shopping

Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enhance commerce on AI-powered platforms. UCP creates a common language for agentic shopping,...

GNU C Library 2.43 released

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2() system calls, experimental support for building with the...

Gunnar Wolf: Finally some light for those who care about Debian on the Raspberry Pi

Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel! As I have said in this blog and elsewhere, after putting quite a bit of work into...

How Claude Cowork helps developers spread the AI knowledge

Last month, I reviewed Claude Desktop and noted that the simple addition of giving Model Context Protocol (MCP) permission to use one of your local folders...

Gaming’s most fun sales data is full of old and obscure games

Every month, Circana video game analyst Mat Piscatella posts fascinating data about video game sales on Bluesky, highlighting trends like November’s historically bad month for game...

Crazy Old Machines

Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made up of a...

Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

Of course ad agencies love AI commercials, this Kalshi ad only cost $2,000 to make. I’ll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads....

A Decade In The Making, Time Slice Extension Could Be Merged For Linux 7.0

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it looks like the time slice extension work could finally been merged, which has seen various attempts over the...

Set Up, Configure and Secure SSH on Debian 13 Linux in 30 Minutes

Learn how to install, configure, and secure SSH on Debian 13. Complete guide with SSH keys, firewall setup, and fail2ban protection. The post Set Up, Configure...

The Project G Stereo Was the Definition of Groovy

Dizzy Gillespie was a fan. Frank Sinatra bought one for himself and gave them to his Rat Pack friends. Hugh Hefner acquired one for the Playboy...

This coming-of-age adventure game made me feel a little too seen

There’s a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station‘s Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she’s recently moved to a place simply called “the City”...

Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers (2026)

Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.

Get stuff done by yelling at your phone

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send hot...

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here. By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating...

What’s the Best Red Light Therapy Mask for Your Skin in 2026?

The LED devices we’d actually buy with our own money.

AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting...

A weird, itchy rash is linked to the keto diet—but no one knows why

A 20-year old man in Taiwan went to a dermatology clinic for a strange rash that had developed across his shoulders and chest. The raised, red,...

Isolated AC/DC Power Supply and Testing Station for 230 V Devices

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition. If such excitement is not really...

3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): WIRED-Tested and Approved

Most gaming laptops under $1,000 aren’t great, but these three machines stand out above the rest.

Best Portable Blenders of 2026: Ninja, Nutribullet, Beast

Cordless portable blenders have come a long way since their introduction a decade back. Here’s why the Ninja Blast Max smokes them all.

AMDGPU Driver Reverts Code For A Number Of Regressions On Linux 6.19

Merged on Friday as part of this week’s DRM kernel graphics driver fixes for the week is addressing a regression affecting many different users with the...

DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits

Plus: The FAA blocks drones over DHS operations, Microsoft admits it hands over Bitlocker encryption keys to the cops, and more.

GNOME’s AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool

Newlle as a virtual AI assistant for the GNOME desktop with API integration for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, and also local LLMs is out with a...

Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows

Plus: Asus exits the smartphone market, and Sony partners with TCL on TVs.

ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops

A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS...

Watch Party: The Best TAG in Years, a ’60s Sensation, and Omega Goes All White

It’s LVMH Watch Week, so here’s WIRED’s pick of the timepieces that made their debut—plus one notable gatecrasher.

Good News for Mobile App Developers: Skip Is Now Open Source

The tool gets rid of its subscription model and open-sources the engine.

This Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only...

Environmental Monitoring on the Cheap

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power for such a project are a solved...

The Loch Capsule dishwasher is small, fast, and efficient — it even sanitizes gadgets

The Loch Capsule in a tiny house that lacks space for a built-in dishwasher. A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can’t live without. It’s...

Expired Oracle Patent Opens Fast Sorting Algorithm to Open Source Databases

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the...

TopResume Free Review, Discounts & Packages for 2026

Discover ways to save at TopResume, including their free review service and 4-week Career Services Platform trial.

Beer Keg Plumbing for a Liquid Rocket

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube channel “Project KegRocket”...

I (Briefly) Tried Proton Lumo's New AI Workspaces

The feline-faced AI assistant just got a neat upgrade. 🐱

KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different...

Polymer Skins That Change Color and Texture When Exposed to Water

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors that emerge when a polymer is exposed to...

Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google’s plan to “onboard kids” into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this...

This Mega Snowstorm Will Be a Test for the US Supply Chain

Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usual—if their safeguards hold.

Clearly Filtered Discount: Pitcher, Water Bottle, Under-Sink

Clearly Filtered water pitchers, bottles, and under-sink filters are 10 to 19 percent off. I tested three filters to see how they performed.

GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library “glibc” was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packed update...

How to Use the Singleton Design Pattern in Flutter: Lazy, Eager, and Factory Variations

In software engineering, sometimes you need only one instance of a class across your entire application. Creating multiple instances in such cases can lead to inconsistent...

How to Evaluate and Select the Right LLM for Your GenAI Application

Every day, we learn something new about generative AI applications – how they behave, where they shine, and where they fall short. As Large Language Models...

How to Implement Type Safe Unions in C# With OneOf

Have you ever needed a method to return different types depending on the situation? Perhaps a payment processor that returns different payment types, an order that...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic...

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo

The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in the Star Trek Universe

Spock befriends a giant space squid in the comic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #5. As usual, you can also use this...

TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes

If you’ve ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole or spent a pleasant evening digging through college library stacks, you know the joy of a good...

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group...

Wine 11.1 Released In Kicking Off The New Development Cycle

Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for...

Vercel’s json-render: A step toward generative UI

Vercel recently released a new open source tool called json-render that signals a step toward generative user interfaces (UI), a term Vercel coined for AI-generated web...

Demand for Intel’s processors is apparently there, but the supply is not

Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday, and the news both for the quarter and for the year was mixed: year-over-year revenue...

How to Prep for This Weekend’s Big Winter Storm: Power, Heat, and Underwear

Bitter cold, power outages, and impassible roads are a terrible cocktail. Here’s how to prep and bunker in for an extreme winter storm.

DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has backed down from a fight to unmask the owners of Instagram and Facebook accounts monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun

Daniel Stenberg says the inflow of AI slop has become unsustainable for the curl security team to handle.

Our Favorite Earbuds for Most People Are Over 25 Percent Off

These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.

What TikTok’s new owners mean for your feed

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd, ByteDance – TikTok’s Chinese...

How to Work with PDF Files in Python: A PyPDF Guide

PDF files are everywhere. They’re used for reports, invoices, bank statements, research papers, and legal documents. While PDFs are easy to read for humans, they’re not...

CNCF: Kubernetes is ‘foundational’ infrastructure for AI

The latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Annual Cloud Native Survey has been released, and with “82% of container users running Kubernetes in production, cloud native has...

Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops

Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo...

White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says “the memes will continue”

The Trump White House yesterday posted a manipulated photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota civil rights attorney who was arrested after protesting in a church...

Telly’s “free” ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they’re actually delivered

Telly, a company that accepts advertising data instead of cash for its TVs, has reportedly had a hard time getting its “free” TVs into people’s homes....

Wired to Wireless: ESP32 Gives Your USB Keyboard Bluetooth

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly wired, which can limit where you...

Casio teased a retro gaming-inspired sampler

Casio SX-C1 sampler prototype on display at NAMM. Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the...

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera....

From data to dollars: AI’s role in the modern GTM stack

The discussion around AI often focuses on content creation, software development and financial management. However, one of the business processes being transformed fastest is the go-to-market...

2026.04: Netflix, Luka, and Life in La La Land

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content...

Ramp Builds Internal Coding Agent That Powers 30% of Engineering Pull Requests

Ramp has shared the architecture of Inspect. This internal coding agent has quickly reached about 30% adoption for merged pull requests in the company’s frontend and...

Tonearm, New Unofficial TIDAL Client for Linux, Hits Beta

Tonearm is a new GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL client that delivers what the streaming service itself doesn’t: a native Linux app with solid desktop integration – albeit unofficially,...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 354: Firearms, Sky Driving, and Dumpster Diving

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams took a break to talk about their favorite hacks last week. You can drop in to hear about articulated...

TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks

The TikTok deal is done, and Donald Trump is claiming a win, although it remains unclear if the joint venture he arranged with ByteDance and the...

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too?

Where’s the Trump Phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone’s whereabouts. As...

CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other...

Kubernetes 1.35 features that change Day 2 operations

Kubernetes continues to evolve and mature as the most preferred orchestration platform for containerized applications and microservices. Kubernetes 1.35, the most recent version, released in mid-December...

Video Friday: Humans and Robots Team Up in Battlefield Triage

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

Linux 6.19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions

Queued into tip/tip.git’s “sched/urgent” Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler’s NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge...

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

Love it or hate it, Tesla has been responsible for helping to shape the tastes of automotive consumers over the past decade-plus. Over-the-air updates that add more...

Marshall’s new hub connects to multiple Bluetooth speakers without pairing

The Heddon hub simplifies streaming audio to multiple speakers. | Image: Marshall Marshall has announced a new music streaming hub called the Heddon that can broadcast...

Not An April Fool's Joke, You Can Run Linux and Windows on This Android Smartphone

This $549 rugged smartphone runs Android 16, launches Debian Linux as an app, and dual-boots Windows 11.

Today only, you can buy the AirPods Pro 3 for less than $200 

The AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s best noise-canceling earbuds. If you’re considering gifting the AirPods Pro 3 for Valentine’s Day, now’s a great time to pick...

Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit

A new VS Code exploit can rewrite AI agents across all code repositories, an application security specialist demonstrated Thursday. On Wednesday, the SANS Technology Institute reported...

The Defunct Scooter Company, and the Default Key

Äike were an Estonian scooter company, which sadly went bust last year. [Rasmus Moorats] has one, and since the app and cloud service the scooter depends...

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more...

VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains

Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM...

Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea

Every week, more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT for health and wellness advice, according to OpenAI. The company says that many see the chatbot as...

More security tools are slowing down your incident response

Time plays a crucial role in an organization’s defense posture, including the timestamping of events, whether they occurred during business or non-business hours, context, such as...

The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.

Why this winter storm will likely be a wild one

Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power...

VoidZero Announces Oxfmt Alpha with Rust-Powered Performance and Prettier Compatibility

VoidZero has unveiled Oxfmt, a cutting-edge Rust-based code formatter that offers over 30x faster performance than Prettier for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Compatible with existing Prettier...

[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As...

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

Nearly three years ago, a particle from space slammed into the Mediterranean Sea and lit up the partially complete Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) detector off...

The end of the Sony era in TVs

There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the...

Presentation: Kraken’s Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green

Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources. He discusses an architectural blueprint leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB...

Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More

In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap “VK_EXT_descriptor_heap” extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group’s Vulkan Working...

Anbernic’s next wireless controller adds a screen and heart rate monitoring

The RG G01’s screen is potentially far more useful than its pulse sensor. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has announced its second wireless controller through a teaser...

Size (and Units) Really Do Matter

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to successfully use a...

Context is AI coding’s real bottleneck in 2026

Walk into any engineering leadership meeting today, and someone will question whether AI-generated code is secure or whether agents can be trusted in production. These are...

How to stay curious as a dev in the AI hype era with Sumit Saha [Podcast #205]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Sumit Saha, a software engineer and prolific teacher on YouTube. Sumit is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he runs a developer agency...

Best Action Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.

DoorDash Applies AI to Safety Across Chat and Calls, Cutting Incidents by 50%

DoorDash deploys SafeChat, an AI-driven safety system for moderating chat, images, and voice calls between Dashers and customers. Using a layered text moderation architecture, machine learning...

Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

Five years ago I published an article on how to create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes. It was the only technique that didn’t require media...

Rocket Report: Chinese rockets fail twice in 12 hours; Rocket Lab reports setback

Welcome to Edition 8.26 of the Rocket Report! The past week has been one of advancements and setbacks in the rocket business. NASA rolled the massive...

AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support

AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs...

GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the Guix daemon without...

Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms

Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies...

Two new stable kernels for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

The year of AI: 3 critical shifts coming to regulated industries

Enterprises in highly regulated industries spent 2025 rigorously evaluating AI capabilities, conducting proofs of concepts, and distinguishing genuine value from market noise. Through systematic testing and...

This month at Tailscale for January 2026

What’s new in Tailscale clients this month, including changes to containers, workload identity federation, and our GitHub Action.

The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Leuchttherm, Midori, Field Notes

Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

On January 22, 2026, an automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefixes unintentionally from a router at our...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (bind9, chromium, osslsigncode, and python-urllib3), Fedora (freerdp, ghostscript, hcloud, rclone, rust-rkyv0.7, rust-rkyv_derive0.7, and vsftpd), Mageia (avahi and...

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel

GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with...

Linux Lands Fix For Its “Subtly Wrong” Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years

Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling...

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

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. “Dr. Google” had its...

Docker logs got you down? Give this tool a try

One of the more challenging aspects of using Docker containers is troubleshooting. Unless you are a master of the art, just the mere act of finding...

How to Generate SSH Keys on Linux

Learn how to generate SSH keys on Linux using ssh-keygen, copy them to remote servers, and set up passwordless authentication.

Lenovo LOQ 15 Review: The Best Gaming Laptop Under $1,000

It’s rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

Open Props @custom-media Recipes

The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn’t find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle’s on the beat noting that it’s behind...

Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Review: The Most Beautiful, Best Robot Vacuum

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities

Really interesting blog post from Anthropic: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks...

Embedded TPM: Watch Out!

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having a recent TPM to even...

2026 Lucid Air Touring review: This feels like a complete car now

Life as a startup carmaker is hard—just ask Lucid Motors. When we met the brand and its prototype Lucid Air sedan in 2017, the company planned...

This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny island...

No, the Freecash App Won’t Pay You to Scroll TikTok

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

OpenCost Looks Back on 2025 Milestones and Charts a Roadmap for 2026

The OpenCost project, an open-source cost and resource management tool hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has published a year-in-review reflecting on its progress...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #281: Continuing to Improve the Learning Experience at Real Python

If you haven’t visited the Real Python website lately, then it’s time to check out a great batch of updates on realpython.com! Dan Bader returns to...

We Are Rewind GB-001 Cassette Boombox: Old-School Stylish

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.

Zlib-rs 0.6 Released With Improved AVX-512 Support

Zlib-rs is the effort out of the Trifecta Tech Foundation to provide a Zlib compression implementation written in the Rust programming language that can serve as...

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing...

Mini book: Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity

This eMag is designed to bring together insights from industry practitioners to explore how architecture can evolve in the era of AI. From rethinking platforms, automation...

Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions

Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions...

KMSCON 9.3 Released With Mouse Support By Default, Other Improvements

KMSCON as a KMS/DRM-based virtual console emulator in user-space has been released. KMSCON is one of the leading solutions for potentially replacing the in-kernel Virtual Terminal...

Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows

Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Jan. 16...

Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help.

This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a significant outbreak that ended up spreading...

America’s coming war over AI regulation

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest...

How to avoid package End of Life through backporting 

In July 2025, git received CVE-2025-48384, a high vulnerability allowing arbitrary code execution when cloning repositories. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added it to...

Vacuum Fluorescent Displays Explained

After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays...

Podcast: Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Gillian about building cross-functional teams for physical AI innovation, growing engineering culture...

A 1970s Electronic Game

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming company in 1978, the result...

How to Set Time, Timezone and Sync Server Clock in Linux

The post How to Set Time, Timezone and Sync Server Clock in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article,...

Double-Pronged Extension Cord

How to Use GPG to Encrypt and Decrypt Files in Linux

The post How to Use GPG to Encrypt and Decrypt Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article,...

Firefox’s Tab Notes Feature Feels Genuinely Useful (For Me, At Least)

Something has changed in my browsing habits of late, and I’m not sure I like it. I used to be a “if I don’t need it,...

AMD Lands Fresh Performance Improvements For RDNA4 In RadeonSI Driver

While slightly too late for making it into the Mesa 26.0 release that branched yesterday, merged now to Mesa Git for Q2’s Mesa 26.1 release are...

Sorry MAGA, Turns Out People Still Like ‘Woke’ Art

From Black vampires gobbling up Oscar nominations to gay pro hockey players dominating the culture, diverse stories broke through in an environment that’s increasingly hostile to...

2025 recap: Top videos on Red Hat TV

In case you missed it, we rounded up the top 5 videos on Red Hat TV from 2025. Red Hat TV is a no-cost streaming platform...

Friday Five — January 23, 2026

Register today to unlock what’s next at Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing...

Northrop Grumman scales enterprise Kubernetes for AI and hybrid cloud with Red Hat OpenShift

The journey to enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption can be a “wild, wild west” of disparate environments and challenging security for some organizations. That’s the landscape Northrop Grumman...

Zero trust workload identity manager generally available on Red Hat OpenShift

We’re excited to announce the general availability of zero trust workload identity manager, a Red Hat solution that delivers universal, runtime-attested identities for workloads in your...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 311 released

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 311. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Fix test...

US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid

As of today, the US is no longer a member of the World Health Organization—and it leaves the United Nations health agency with hundreds of millions...

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”

The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the...

Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job

On Thursday, Ilya Lichtenstein, who was at the center of a massive 2016 crypto heist worth billions at the time, wrote online that he is now...

Legislators Push to Make Companies Tell Customers When Their Products Will Die

A pair of bills in Massachusetts would require manufacturers to tell consumers when their connected gadgets are going dark. It should be a boon for cybersecurity...

Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

Apple is working on a wearable device that will allow the user to take advantage of AI models, according to sources familiar with the product who...

Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court

Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok’s nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and app...

CTO Chris Aniszczyk on the CNCF push for AI interoperability

On a surface level, AI agents aren’t so different from microservices, according to Chris Aniszczyk, co-founder and CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The...

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

Humanoid robots, space travel, the science of aging—Musk weighed in on all of it at this week’s World Economic Forum. But his predictions rarely work out...

Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini

It’s no secret that students worldwide use AI chatbots to do their homework and avoid learning things. On the flip side, students can also use AI...

Linux GPU Driver Loophole Being Fixed For Unprivileged Users Being Able To Tap Unbounded Kernel Memory

An oversight in the Linux kernel’s Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code could allow unprivileged users to trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption for a...

What Happens When a Chinese Battery Factory Comes to Town

Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits.

The 28 Best Movies on Apple TV, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

F1: The Movie, CODA, and Highest 2 Lowest are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV this month.