Month: January 2026

What’s next for AI in 2026

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...

There Is No One Left On Debian’s Data Protection Team

Besides Debian’s aging bug tracker interface, another challenge as the Debian Linux distribution project begins 2026 is that all volunteers have left their Data Protection Team....

CES Live Blog, Day 1: The Coolest Tech We’ve Seen So Far

Read our live updates from CES 2026 in Las Vegas to see the latest consumer gadgetry in all of its chatbot-enabled, sensor-packed, AI-infused glory.

At CES 2026, Everything Is AI. What Matters Is How You Use It

Integrated chatbots and built-in machine intelligence are no longer standout features in consumer tech. If companies want to win in the AI era, they’ve got to...

AI and the Human Condition

Listen to this post: Log in to listen Pity the paradox of the content producer in the age of AI. On one hand, AI is one...

Article: Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture,...

AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling

Merged back in December for Mesa 26.0 was RADV now supporting some new performance counters to help game developers and open-source driver developers. That new performance...

GCC 16 Lands Support For Using Picolibc

While veteran open-source developer Keith Packard is known for his X.Org Server contributions over many years, another more recent open-source creation of his is Picolibc as...

I Switched to eSIM, and I Am Full of Regret

Switching between mobile phones used to be easy. Then came eSIM.

AWS Adds Intelligent-Tiering and Replication for S3 Tables

AWS has introduced Intelligent-Tiering and cross-region replication for S3 Tables to automate cost optimization and data availability for Apache Iceberg workloads. These features allow data to...

Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes Outreachy interns for December 2025-March 2026 round

Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and as you might have already noticed, Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2025 – March 2026 round....

Your first team is the key to org-wide efficiency 

Alignment with your peers is the best way to secure cross-team success. The post Your first team is the key to org-wide efficiency  appeared first on...

Vincent Bernat: Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go

Akvorado collects sFlow and IPFIX flows over UDP. Because UDP does not retransmit lost packets, it needs to process them quickly. Akvorado runs several workers listening...

Jonathan McDowell: Free Software Activities for 2025

Given we’ve entered a new year it’s time for my annual recap of my Free Software activities for the previous calendar year. For previous years see...

Russell Coker: Phone Charging Speeds With Debian/Trixie

One of the problems I encountered with the PinePhone Pro (PPP) when I tried using it as a daily driver [1] was the charge speed, both...

Google’s Eight Essential Multi-Agent Design Patterns

Google recently published a guide outlining eight essential design patterns for multi-agent systems, ranging from sequential pipelines to human-in-the-loop architecture. The guide provides concrete explanations of...

Tensegrity

Birdbuddy’s new smart feeders aim to make spotting birds easier, even for beginners

The Birdbuddy 2 goes for $199. Birdbuddy is introducing two new smart bird feeders: the flagship Birdbuddy 2 and the more compact, cheaper Birdbuddy 2 Mini...

I just want to keep unfolding the Samsung Z Trifold

A tablet wherever your phone goes. Holding the Z Trifold confirmed my suspicions: it’s a tablet with a phone attached. And after spending an hour folding...

Bicycle Tows 15,000 Pounds

An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new problem. Making...

LG’s Wallpaper OLED TV returns to CES, and it’s wafer thin

The LG OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV. The amazingly thin wallpaper design from LG is back. The first Wallpaper TV was released back in 2017, and...

Shut the fridge door!

Family Hub fridges are getting a new hands-free feature. Samsung’s latest update to its Family Hub smart fridge line adds a feature I’ve always wanted –...

Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, JReleaser, TornadoInsight, Apache Camel

This week’s relatively quiet Java roundup for December 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of JReleaser 1.22.0 and...

The new Ultraloq smart lock uses both your face and your palm to let you in

Xthings is rolling into CES with a bunch of new gear, including two new smart locks and a few smart security cameras. It’s definitely the Ultraloq...

Ikea’s new $4 USB-C charger is cheaper than Apple’s and Anker’s

It’s only available in one color option. | Image: Ikea Ikea has released the most affordable version of its Sjöss USB-C chargers yet. Following an $8...

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc4

The 6.19-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So this rc is still a bit smaller than usual, but it’s not _much_ smaller, and I think...

RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors

New OLED gaming monitors from top companies coming out this year should look clearer and crisper. LG Display and Samsung Display, which typically provide the actual...

The Shure MV88 USB-C stereo mic mounts directly to your phone

Disclaimer: Microphone does not emit green lasers. Shure is updating its MV88 microphone for the modern age by adding a USB-C connector for mounting directly to...

Withings thinks of its latest smart scale as a ‘longevity station’

The Body Scan 2 will be available in Q2 2026, pending FDA clearance on some metrics. | Image: Withings Withings is back at CES 2026 with...

Print Pixel Art to a Floppy Disk

Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid...

Accelerating success with the Red Hat Partner Program

The Red Hat Partner Program continues to evolve with enhancements centered on the entire partner lifecycle and designed to deliver three core outcomes for partners: simplicity,...

The AI resolution that will still matter in 2030

New year, new pressureAs a PMM, I spend a lot of time at the intersection of technology and the way we communicate it. It is my...

Project goals update — December 2025

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 41 project goals, with 13 of them designated as Flagship Goals. This post provides selected updates...

Mammotion’s flagship robot lawnmower now uses lidar to map your yard

Mammotion is upgrading its flagship robotic lawnmower with its new lidar-equipped navigation system, allowing it to generate a live 3D map of your yard while it...

Linux 6.19-rc4 Released Following A Quiet Holiday Week, 6.19-rc8 Already Planned

Following the holidays, Linux 6.19-rc4 was released today in working toward the Linux 6.19 stable kernel release in early February…

Modifying a QingPing Air Quality Monitor for Local MQTT Access

The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the room,...

Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Getting It Might Not Be So Simple

The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro’s capture was tied to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually...

Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike

Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska....

Why APIs Are the Missing Link for Truly Autonomous AI Agents

Recent breakthroughs in AI have caught the eyes of executives who are eager to realize new efficiencies through automation. Though the potential gains of AI will...

GNU ddrescue 1.30 “Orders of Magnitude” Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head

GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue...

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out – Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11

Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 “Anh-Linh” while updated ISOs are expected to soon become...

OpenMediaVault, a Linux-Based Solution for Building a NAS

Network Attached Storage (NAS) options are everywhere, and you can pay a pretty penny for a solution. Attached to a network switch or router, it is...

Ray Marching in Excel

3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you...

Linus Torvalds Gets Candid About Windows, Workflows, and AI

Linux creator Linus Torvalds made a different kind of appearance recently, on a YouTube show hosted by Canadian tech enthusiast Linus Sebastian. Called Linus Tech Tips...

See the Sky Like Never Before With a DIY Eyepiece

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options. They can view with the naked...

DuckDB’s WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser

DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no infrastructure setup. The new feature leverages DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly...

15 Best Electrolyte Powders (2026): Tasty and Effective

Get those lost minerals back with the help of our top picks.

TrixiePup64 2601 Released For Debian 13 Powered Puppy Linux In Wayland & X11 Flavors

For those with fond memories of Puppy Linux as a very lightweight Linux distribution, released last month was a new TrixiePup64 for continuing the Puppy Linux...

Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time

What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the...

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

Linux’s Hung Task Detector Will Be Able To Be Reset For Easing System Administration

Worked on back in 2024 for the Linux kernel was a built-in counter to keep track of the number of hung tasks since boot. That feature...

Patch Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux

Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional guitar controllers to Linux....

Protein Bars: Gluten-Free, Whole Foods, Fiber (2026)

What to prioritize, what to skip, when to enjoy—plus, we’ve selected WIRED’s favorite bars worth trying.

New AMD Linux Driver Patches Posted For Batch Userptr Allocation Support

A new feature being worked on recently for the AMDKFD kernel compute driver is batch user pointer “userptr” allocation support. With this new user-space API it...

What Is Liquorix Kernel? Should You Use It?

In this jargon buster, we explain what is Liquorix kernel, why it is popular among Linux gamers and if there are any real benefits of using...

You’ve Got a Public Reddit Profile. Here’s How to Curate It

Make your profile page look good—and make sure you’re not sharing more than you want to.

8 WhatsApp Features to Boost Your Security and Privacy

Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there.

Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet?

In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to...

Sahil Dhiman: Full /8 IPv4 Address Block Holders in 2025

Here, I tried to collect entities that owned full /8 IPv4 address block(s) in 2025. A more comprehensive and historical list can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks....

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Matthew Garrett: What is a PC compatible?

Wikipedia says “An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and its subsequent models”....

FPGA Dev Kit Unofficially Brings MSX Standard Back

In the 1980s there were an incredible number of personal computers of all shapes, sizes, and operating system types, and there was very little interoperability. Unlike...

Rust-Based Fjall 3.0 Released For Key-Value Storage Engine Akin To RocksDB

In addition to the release of Stoolap 0.2 as a modern embedded SQL database written in Rust, Fjall 3.0 is available as another Rust-written database solution....

Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able...

Valhalla’s Things: And now for something completely different

Posted on January 4, 2026 Tags: topic:walking Warning mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense. A lot...

Surprise, surprise: Silksong wins Steam’s Game of the Year

Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also...

What Happens Next in Venezuela—and the Rest of Latin America?

Donald Trump says that Venezuela’s governance will remain in the hands of senior US officials until a “proper and judicious transition” can take place. The rest...

Teardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System

Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these...

Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture

Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The...

Is Agentic Metadata the Next Infrastructure Layer?

AI agent development is booming. Ninety percent of enterprises are actively adopting AI agents, according to Kong, and Gartner predicts that one-third of enterprise software applications...

Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro’s Capture

From seemingly AI-generated videos to repurposed old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the...

Why AI Workloads Are Fueling a Move Back to Postgres

I have spent the last couple of years watching the database landscape move through waves of excitement and disappointment. Vectors, graph, multimodal and NoSQL systems all...

The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in...

Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable

While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great...

Meta’s Quest 3S is still $50 off and comes with a $50 gift card

We posted a couple of times about Meta’s Quest 3S during the holidays. The virtual reality headset that typically sold for $299.99 was — and still...

The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro. ChatGPT Disagrees

Some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news. Others decidedly don’t.

Linux Audio Quirk Handling On The Way For Dell Panther Lake Laptops

Ahead of the initial batch of Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased at CES next week in Las Vegas, we’re seeing last minute quirk...

Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, and Other AC Surprises

While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap one’s...

I went to the Stranger Things finale in theaters and the strangest thing happened

The parking lot was packed. That’s the first Strange Thing. A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem,...

Stoolap 0.2 Released For Modern Embedded SQL Database In Rust

Stooplap v0.2 released today as this SQLite alternative for providing embedded SQL database needs while written in the Rust programming language. Stoolap supports both in-memory and...

CES 2026 Preview: E-ink Smartphone, Allergen Detector, and More

In a few days, Las Vegas will be inundated with engineers, executives, investors, and members of the press—including me—for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, one of...

This smart home controller is literally a piece of wood

The Mui Board is a minimalist, screen-free interface for controlling tech in your home. One of the fun parts of being a tech journalist for over...

Joerg Jaspert: AI Shit, go away; iocaine to the rescue

As a lot of people do, I have some content that is reachable using webbrowsers. There is the password manager Vaultwarden, an instance of Immich, ForgeJo...

Jacob’s Ladder

I know now how the sparks can climb,in broadening arcs of ions—the heat they grow inside themselveslike some permission or belief. But at ten, it seemed...

Framework Laptop 16 (RTX 5070) Review: A Dream Come True

With upgradable graphics, the Framework Laptop 16 achieves what PC nerds have only ever dreamed of.

CES 2026: all the news, gadgets, and innovations from the biggest tech show

Hot on the heels of new year’s celebrations, the annual Consumer Electronics Show will get underway in early January 2026. Once again, Las Vegas will host...

Benjamin Mako Hill: Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record...

GNOME Glycin Adds XPM/XBM Support To Address Fedora’s Last Unsandboxed Image Loader

GNOME’s Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the...

Printing in Metal with DIY SLM

An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as...

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using Handy, a Free Speech-to-Text App

It’s called Handy, and it uses AI models to accurately convert your speaking voice into text—all for free.

View CSV Files in Linux Terminal—No Spreadsheet Needed

Learn how to view, format, and inspect CSV files in the Linux terminal using column, cut, sort, grep, and less commands. No spreadsheet needed The post...

RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards

Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in...

Blood Feud: Oura’s Health Panels Versus Whoop’s Advanced Labs

It’s easier than ever to order your own blood draws, but direct-access testing won’t replace a doctor.

How to Manage Files on iOS and Android

You have more access to your phone’s file system than you may think.

13 Best Fitness and Workout Apps for 2026, Tested & Reviewed

These fitness apps will help you turn New Year’s resolutions into real results.

Emmanuel Kasper: Storing GPG private keys on a dedicated device

The limits of cryptography Since this blog post is about security and cryptography, it makes sense to start with this XKCD reminder about the value of...

How to Protect Your iPhone or Android Device From Spyware

Being targeted by sophisticated spyware is relatively rare, but experts say that everyone needs to stay vigilant as this dangerous malware continues to proliferate worldwide.

Zork Running on 4-Bit Intel Computer

Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on...

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AWS Introduces Fifth-Generation Graviton Processor with M9g Instances

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Russ Allbery: Review: Challenges of the Deeps

Review: Challenges of the Deeps, by Ryk E. Spoor Series: Arenaverse #3 Publisher: Baen Copyright: March 2017 ISBN: 1-62579-564-5 Format: Kindle Pages: 438 Challenges of the...

A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate but Possibly Low Cost

For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and...

Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026

The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well...

Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch

Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds,...

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

Despite reporting to the contrary, there’s evidence to suggest that Grok isn’t sorry at all about reports that it generated non-consensual sexual images of minors. In...

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case

With the new year comes a new report of a deadly, puzzling infectious disease. In a January 1 case study, health officials with the Centers for...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found in Light Fixture

Probably a college prank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: 2025 — A Musical Retrospective

2026 already! The winter weather here has really been beautiful and I always enjoy this time of year. Writing this yearly musical retrospective has now become...

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

OpenAI, the company that developed the models and products associated with ChatGPT, plans to announce a new audio language model in the first quarter of 2026,...

Adding Solar Power to an Electric Tractor

In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it’s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not...

Microsoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models

A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts...

Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around...

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit...

Billion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein thanks Trump for early prison release

Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free....

SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation

The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all nations zooming around the Earth. One-third of them will soon move to lower altitudes....

Advice for People (Still) Entering the Tech Industry in 2026

In the face of AI-driven constant change, what advice would you give to those entering the tech industry next year? Despite 2025 having been another year...

Video Friday: Watch Scuttle Evolve

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...

Jailbreaking the Amazon Echo Show

As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as...

Linux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems

A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory “OOM” killer...

Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

If you’ve been too busy replaying all of Ars’ top games of 2025 to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry....

Hackaday Podcast Ep 351: Hackaday Goes To Chaos Communication Congress

Elliot was of at Europe’s largest hacker convention: Chaos Communication Congress. He had an awesome time, saw more projects than you might think humanely possible, and...

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual...

Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

Tesla published its final production and delivery numbers this morning, and they make for brutal reading. Sales were down almost 16 percent during the final three...

In 2026, AI Is Merging With Platform Engineering. Are You Ready?

If there’s something we realized in 2025, it’s that AI is an amplifier of human-led software development teams — not a replicant or replacement of human...

Kroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work

Greg Kroah-Hartman has written an overview of how the kernel’s security team works. The members of the security team contain a handful of core kernel developers...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop

Now that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has appointed a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses, he has a little more time on his hands for...

New Linux Patches Allow More Easily Changing The Tux Kernel Boot Logo

A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are...

After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

A small section of the International Space Station that has experienced persistent leaks for years appears to have stopped venting atmosphere into space. The leaks were...

Pebble’s round smartwatch is getting a reboot

The Pebble Round 2 (pictured here in rose gold) ditches the OG Time Round’s chunky display bezel. It’s time to reboot another OG Pebble smartwatch –...

This smart fridge wants to solve the hassle of grocery shopping

This GE Profile fridge has a patented “Scan-to-List” barcode scanner built in, designed to make it easy to add items to a digital shopping list. Have...

Swiggy Rolls Out Hermes V3: From Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI

Swiggy has released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. The Slack-native system combines vector retrieval, conversational memory,...

Low-Cost, Portable Streaming Server

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking...

Tesla Loses Its EV Crown to BYD as Sales Keep Dropping

Full-year electric vehicle sales figures have dropped for 2025, revealing China’s BYD is now officially global top dog.

RadeonSI Starts 2026 With NIR Compilation Refactoring For Better Performance, Lower GLSL Compile Times

Merged on New Year’s Day was a set of 36 patches authored by well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák for refactoring the NIR compilation code...

Tesla’s fourth quarter sales fell a lot more than expected

Tesla’s sales fell in the fourth quarter of 2025, as rising competition and the expiration of the federal EV tax credit continued to sap the company’s...

Joachim Breitner: Seemingly impossible programs in Lean

In 2007, Martin Escardo wrote a often-read blog post about “Seemingly impossible functional programs”. One such seemingly impossible function is find, which takes a predicate on...

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited...

6.18.3 stable kernel released

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.3 stable kernel. As always, this update contains important fixes; users of this kernel are advised to upgrade.

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (smb4k), Fedora (direwolf, gh, usd, and webkitgtk), Slackware (libpcap and seamonkey), and SUSE (kepler).

Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights

During the month of December on Phoronix there was new and original content each and every day, ending the month with 305 original news articles and...

LG announces the ‘world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop’

We should get more information about the upcoming 2026 LG Gram Pro series at CES. LG is teasing the 2026 Gram Pro laptops that will be...

This Engineer Builds Bespoke Accordions and Autonomous Car Systems

When Sergey Antonovich rediscovered a childhood passion for music, he found an unexpected application for his skills as an embedded systems engineer: building bespoke digital accordions....

What to expect at CES 2026

The biggest tech show of the year kicks off next week, as some of the industry’s top players show up to Las Vegas for CES 2026....

Fender’s new Bluetooth speakers can play audio from four sources simultaneously

The ELIE speakers don’t make you choose audio from just one source. | Image: Fender Audio Fender, the guitar maker also known for its amps and...

Fender’s first wireless headphones have a long-lasting, replaceable battery

Fender Audio, the consumer electronics brand owned by the famous guitar maker, has announced its first pair of wireless headphones at CES 2026. What sets the...

Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras

404 Media has the story: Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom...

Liquid CO2 For Grid Scale Energy Storage Isn’t Just Hot Air

There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial...

Best Running Shoes, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Saucony, Nike, Hoka

We clocked thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal.

Welcome to the Future of Noise Canceling

The next generation of noise reduction is currently being developed in R&D labs around the world. Take a look at what’s to come.

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #278: PyCoder’s Weekly 2025 Top Articles & Hidden Gems

PyCoder’s Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2025. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help...

Debian’s Bug Tracker With No Web UI For Editing Bugs Is Very Obscure For 2026

Debian’s maintainer of the Meson build system package is calling attention to the unfortunate state of Debian’s bug tracker in 2026. Editing bug data within Debian’s...

How to Disable Sleep on Laptop Lid Close in Linux (2 Minutes)

Disable sleep on laptop lid close in Linux using systemd-logind. Works on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu. 2-minute fix with safety warnings included. The post How to...

10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best meal kits in 2026, from Martha Stewart’s meal kit to the best meal delivery on a budget.

Six Years Since The Reiser5 File-System Was Announced

With the start of the New Year it now marks six years since the unexpected announcement of the Reiser5 file-system being developed as the continuation of...

Here’s How Long You Should Walk Every Day to Prevent Back Pain

Back pain is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. Recent research reveals how much time you should spend walking on a daily...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in December 2025

Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Merge requests: reviewed !135: Upgrade to 20251125 ktls-utils: Bugs: replied to and closed #1121921: ktls-utils: Deprecated tlshd config path breaks autopkgtests Uploads: uploaded...

Job titles of the future: Head-transplant surgeon

The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. His idea? Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto...

3 things Will Douglas Heaven is into right now

The most amazing drummer on the internet My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano’s YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed...

How Protesters Became Content for the Cops

The tactics behind protest policing are changing—from one of cooperation to intentional antagonism for political marketing purposes.

You Can Track Plenty of Fitness Stats With Just Your Phone—No Wearables Required

Log your steps, track your sleep, and measure your progress toward your goals using your phone alone.

Amazon S3 Vectors Reaches GA, Introducing “Storage-First” Architecture for RAG

AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion vectors. By natively integrating vector search into the S3...

What Is the ‘Super Flu’ That Is Spreading in Europe and the United States?

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently...

Steinar H. Gunderson: Rewriting Git merge history, part 1

I remember that when Git was new and hip (around 2005), one of the supposed advantages was that “merging is so great!”. Well, to be honest,...

Presentation: From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix

Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy discuss the evolution of Netflix’s media processing observability, moving from monolithic tracing to a high-cardinality analytics platform. They explain how to...

Article: The Architect’s Dilemma: Choose a Proven Path or Pave Your Own Way?

Software platforms and frameworks act like paved roads: they accelerate MVP/MVA delivery but impose decisions teams may not accept. If the paved roads don’t reach your...

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Enjoy 20% off your first order with a Brooks coupon code, plus top discounts and deals on our favorite Brooks running shoes.

Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $5,000+ Off

Whether you’re shopping for a ThinkPad, Yoga laptop, or Legion gaming PC, these Lenovo discount codes and promotions can help you save big on your next...

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Save up to 60%, plus an extra 20% with HP promo codes for laptops, printers, PCs, and more tech.

Dima Kogan: Using libpython3 without linking it in; and old Python, g++ compatibility patches

I just released mrcal 2.5; much more about that in a future post. Here, I’d like to talk about some implementation details. libpython3 and linking mrcal...

Birger Schacht: Status update, December 2025

December 2025 started off with a nice event, namely a small gathering of Vienna based DDs. Some of us were at DebConf25 in Brest and we...

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Mesa 25.3.3 Ships Latest Bug Fixes, Intel Vulkan GTK4 Toolkit Workarounds

Mesa 25.3.3 shipped on Thursday as the newest stable point release for Q4’s Mesa 25.3 feature series. Now being into the new quarter, we have Mesa...

Steam On Linux Ends 2025 With 3.19% Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use Approaches 72%

Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch...

Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 “Init Freedom” Without systemd

Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide “init freedom” with letting users instead opt for SysVinit,...

10 Biggest Ubuntu Changes in 2025

What changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the “oxidisation” of sudo to the end of X11, here’s a recap of the 10 biggest changes the distro...

What Do You Want to See From Ubuntu in 2026?

What would make 2026 Ubuntu’s best year yet? Share your wishlist wants and must-haves, be it bold changes or resolving long-standing bugs. Sound off! You’re reading...

Russ Allbery: 2025 Book Reading in Review

In 2025, I finished and reviewed 32 books, not counting another five books I’ve finished but not yet reviewed and which will therefore roll over to...

Marvel rings in new year with Wonder Man trailer

Marvel Studios decided to ring in the new year with a fresh trailer for Wonder Man, its eight-episode miniseries premiering later this month on Disney+. Part...

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve...

LG’s new karaoke-ready party speaker uses AI to remove song vocals

LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the...

How To Build a Developer Career When the First Rung Is Gone

As AI tools become increasingly integrated in many industries across all levels, there has been a quiet but undeniable shift. The tasks that used to be...

Our New Years Wish is to Hide in a Giant Pokéball

Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — one could be excused for feeling a...