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....
WeiterlesenMonth: January 2026
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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...
Weiterlesen
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....
Weiterlesen
Tenants: The Missing Backbone of Modern Developer Platforms
If you are responsible for a developer platform, you are probably trying to reduce cloud sprawl, speed up delivery and remove friction from DevOps workflows. Yet...
Weiterlesen
The Bone Temple turns 28 Years Later into a terrifying crisis of faith
Because there was such a long gap between the releases of 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later, it was surprising to hear that writer-director duo...
Weiterlesen
Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who’ve found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back....
Weiterlesen
The best phone to buy right now
Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now. And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the...
Weiterlesen
Anthropic shakes up C-suite to expand its internal incubator
Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup:...
Weiterlesen
The best noise-canceling headphones to buy right now
Whether you’re wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you’re simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling...
Weiterlesen
Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing...
Weiterlesen
RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually follow it
The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently...
Weiterlesen
Why Neoclouds Are the Answer To AI Storage Lock-in
One of the more meaningful consequences of AI’s growth in the enterprise is its impact on the cloud race. The industry is shifting from the consolidation...
Weiterlesen.jpg)
The 51 Best Shows on Hulu, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)
A Thousand Blows, Tell Me Lies, and Paradise are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
Weiterlesen
JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code
To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was...
Weiterlesen
Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster
While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue,...
Weiterlesen
Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling
Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1...
Weiterlesen
Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests
President Trump asked Elon Musk to get Starlink working more reliably in Iran to thwart the Iranian government’s Internet shutdown. Starlink operator SpaceX was apparently already...
WeiterlesenReactOS Receives Fix For A Very Annoying Usability Issue
ReactOS began 2026 with another “major step” towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library....
Weiterlesen[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface
Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system’s performance goals. This is...
Weiterlesen
Why 40% of AI Agents Might Fail (and How To Save Yours)
In 2023, a Chevrolet dealership in California woke up to a viral nightmare: Its new AI chatbot had just agreed to sell a new, $76,000 Chevy...
Weiterlesen
Meet the Two Members Petitioning to Be President-Elect Candidates
The IEEE Board of Directors has received petition intentions from IEEE Senior Member Gerardo Barbosa and IEEE Life Senior Member Timothy T. Lee as candidates for...
Weiterlesen
Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’
In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.
Weiterlesen
EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air
If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears...
Weiterlesen
Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
Weiterlesen
Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts include closing down some of its VR...
Weiterlesen
Shortcut Your System With a Discounted Elgato Stream Deck +
Elgato’s Stream Deck + adds knobs and an LCD for even more info at a glance.
Weiterlesen
China’s Hottest App Is a Daily Test of Whether You’re Still Alive
Are You Dead Yet soared to the top of app-store charts and became a magnet for investors. In an exclusive interview with WIRED, one of its...
Weiterlesen
Apple’s Mac and iPad creative apps get bundled into “Creator Studio” subscription
Apple’s professional creative apps have been slower to jump on the subscription bandwagon than those from Adobe or some of its other competitors, but the company...
Weiterlesen
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68
Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, died today of prostate cancer at 68. Adams satirized the world of cubicle-based IT and engineering in...
Weiterlesen
4 Core Principles for Scaling Your API Engineering Practice
It might seem easy to design and deploy an API by following the predictable API development life cycle pattern. Without wasting a second thought, API developers...
Weiterlesen
Finding A Way To Produce Powerful Motors Without Rare Earths
The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and engineers have developed...
Weiterlesen
Design Systems for Software Engineers
Before we start: the agenda of The Pragmatic Summit is final. Here’s what to expect on 11 February, in San Francisco: Speakers might be familiar from...
Weiterlesen
This one could use less power: The Jeep Wagoneer S EV
It’s not really accurate to call the Wagoneer S Jeep’s first electric vehicle. For several years now, Europeans have been able to buy the Jeep Avenger,...
Weiterlesen
Linux Mint 22.3 Released, This is What’s New
Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is here. Built on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, it brings a new-look app menu, Linux 6.14 kernel, and a pair of new system...
Weiterlesen
Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena”. Linux Mint 22.3 is a long term support release which will be supported...
Weiterlesen
Traditional Code Review Is Dead. What Comes Next?
I noticed a quiet shift in our engineering team recently that brought me to a broader realization about the future of software development: Code review has...
WeiterlesenVeo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control
Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Weiterlesen
How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.3
It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22, 22.1 and 22.2 to version 22.3. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you...
Weiterlesen
Dozens of ICE Vehicles in Minnesota Lack ‘Necessary’ Lights and Sirens
A contract justification published in a federal register on Tuesday says that 31 ICE vehicles operating in the Twin Cities area “lack the necessary emergency lights...
WeiterlesenKDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup
The KDE Plasma 6.6 beta release is available today for helping to test this next iteration of the Plasma 6 desktop…
Weiterlesen
A new Titan emerges in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 teaser
It’s looking to be a solid year for kaiju fans. Not only are we getting Godzilla Minus Zero in November—sequel to the critically acclaimed Godzilla Minus...
Weiterlesen
Ramp Adds Developer Tools to Platform With AI Coding Assistant
Spend management platform provider Ramp has launched a new AI coding agent, Ramp Inspect, alongside its accounting platform expansion. Ramp Inspect joins a growing number of...
Weiterlesen
Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security
A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the continent using the ever-good-value...
WeiterlesenIntel’s Fantastic New Open-Source Demonstrator For AMX-BF16: Over 4x The Performance At 69% The Power
When it comes to software leveraging Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) functionality in modern Xeon processors, it’s largely been limited to AI applications/libraries like oneDNN, OpenVINO,...
Weiterlesen
Wine 11.0 Brings Ntsync Support, Complete WoW64 + Other Changes
Wine 11.0 improves gaming performance with kernel-level synchronisation, legacy 32-bit Windows app support and expanded Wayland integration. Full details inside. You’re reading Wine 11.0 Brings Ntsync...
WeiterlesenWine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux
As expected, Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on...
Weiterlesen
Exploring Dash to Dock: (Probably) The Most Downloaded GNOME Extension
Considering the vast configuration options it offers, you can guess why so many Linux users prefer Dash to Dock over others.
Weiterlesen
Mastering Frontend Tradeoffs: The 2026 Guide for Senior Devs
The frontend ecosystem is no longer driven by novelty alone. Teams care about performance budgets, hiring signals, maintenance costs and how quickly a product can adapt...
Weiterlesen
QCon London 2026: Practitioner-Led Tracks on Connectivity & Production AI Engineering
QCon London 2026 returns March 16–19 with 15 tracks for senior leads. Key sessions cover system integration via MCP, AI engineering, and debugging distributed systems. Explore...
WeiterlesenFirefox 147 released
Version 147.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for the XDG Base Directory specification, enabling local network...
WeiterlesenDebian Libre Live 13.3 Images Released For Avoiding Non-Free Firmware
Building off this past weekend’s Debian 13.3 release is now Debian Libre Live 13.3 images for this derivative that ships the install/live media without any of...
Weiterlesen
Solving Fragmented Mobile Analytics: Uber’s Platform-Led Approach
Uber Engineering outlines its platform-led mobile analytics redesign, standardizing event instrumentation across iOS and Android to improve cross-platform consistency, reduce engineering effort, and provide reliable insights...
Weiterlesen
Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization
Jim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that both of...
Weiterlesen
Microsoft Has a Plan to Keep Its Data Centers From Raising Your Electric Bill
In response to a growing backlash, Microsoft said it would take steps to ensure that data centers don’t raise utility bills in surrounding areas and address...
WeiterlesenSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia (libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups,...
Weiterlesen
Shopify, Walmart Endorse Google’s New Open Commerce Protocol
The retail AI protocol standards war is heating up. Google has unveiled a new open standard, the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), under the Apache 2 open...
Weiterlesen
This $4,500 Conductive Suit Could Make Power-Line Work Safer
In 2018, Justin Kropp was restoring a fire-damaged transmission circuit in Southern California when disaster struck. Grid operators had earlier shut down the 115-kilovolt circuit, but...
WeiterlesenIntro to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is one of the most significant and essential topics in programming. This course will give you a foundational conceptual understanding of object-oriented programming...
WeiterlesenSimon Josefsson: Debian Libre Live 13.3.0 is released!
Following up on my initial announcement about Debian Libre Live I am happy to report on continued progress and the release of Debian Libre Live version...
WeiterlesenUbuntu 25.04 Support Ends January 15, 2026: Upgrade Now
Ubuntu 25.04 reaches end of life on January 15, 2026. After this date, security updates stop. Learn what it means and how to upgrade safely. The...
WeiterlesenFFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for...
Weiterlesen
The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future
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. Sodium-ion batteries are making...
Weiterlesen
Urevo SpaceWalk 5L Walking Pad Review: Compact and Affordable
Urevo’s affordable new walking pad is cheaper than a round-trip ticket to hike in Iceland.
Weiterlesen
Wild mushrooms keep killing people in California; 3 dead, 35 poisoned
A third person has died in a rash of poisonings from wild, foraged mushrooms in California, health officials report. Since November, a total of 35 people...
Weiterlesen1980s Hacker Manifesto
Forty years ago, The Mentor—Loyd Blankenship—published “The Conscience of a Hacker” in Phrack. You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at...
Weiterlesen
Hey Fedora! Listen to This Developer and Make Managing Shell Extensions Better For All of Us
I wonder if Extension Manager could make it into Fedora one day.
Weiterlesen
Deploy your Spring Boot application to production
In a previous article, we covered how easy it is to create Spring Boot containers with Rockcraft. So the next logical step is to deploy and...
Weiterlesen
Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI...
Weiterlesen
Board Review: Tabletop Video Games With Physical Pieces
I loved Board’s unique blend of tabletop gaming, but my family gave it mixed reviews.
Weiterlesen
LangGrant Unveils LEDGE MCP Server to Enable Agentic AI on Enterprise Databases
LangGrant has launched the LEDGE MCP Server, a new enterprise platform designed to let large language models reason across complex database environments without directly accessing or...
Weiterlesen
Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’ Against the Trump Administration
The LinkedIn cofounder and frequent Trump target has a simple message for his peers: “Just speak up about the things that you think are true.”
Weiterlesen
Atonemo Streamplayer Review: Make Old Speakers New Again
Can this discrete audio puck really drag any old speakers into the streaming age?
WeiterlesenBcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in...
Weiterlesen
How AI will shape software engineering in 2026
It’s time to close the gap between expectations and reality. The post How AI will shape software engineering in 2026 appeared first on LeadDev.
Weiterlesen
Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
WeiterlesenApple and Gemini, Foundation vs. Aggregation, Universal Commerce Protocol
The deal to put Gemini at the heart of Siri is official, and it makes sense for both sides; then Google runs its classic playbook with...
WeiterlesenLLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support
LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February…
Weiterlesenwl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections
Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages…
Weiterlesen
14 essential AI programming tools 2026
Here are some of the best generative AI programming tools for software developers to try today. The post 14 essential AI programming tools 2026 appeared first...
WeiterlesenHaiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year…
Weiterlesen
What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take...
Weiterlesen
Best Baby Gear (2026): Baby Monitors, Strollers, Crib Mattresses
From baby monitors and sound machines to smart bassinets and car seats, here’s the baby tech we’ve tested and recommend.
Weiterlesen
Everything You Need to Know About Importing a Chinese Smartphone
The top Chinese smartphones are innovation-packed spec beasts, but it’s not always a good idea to import from the East.
Weiterlesen
Google Introduces Conductor, a Context-Driven Development Extension for Gemini CLI
Google has released Conductor, a new preview extension for Gemini CLI that introduces a structured, context-driven approach to AI-assisted software development. The extension is designed to...
WeiterlesenLinux Kernel 6.19 RC5 Released: Torvalds is Still Planning an RC8 Release
Linus Torvalds released Linux Kernel 6.19 rc5, noting that the kernel team is back on a normal schedule after the holiday break. The post Linux Kernel...
Weiterlesen
50% Off Verizon Promo Codes | January 2026
Save with Verizon coupon codes for $1,100 off Galaxy S25 phones, free iPhone 17 Pros, and up to 50% off plans.
Weiterlesen
Hoka Coupon Codes: 10% Off | January 2026
Enjoy free expedited shipping or 10% off Hoka discount codes, plus save up to 30% with the best discounts this month.
Weiterlesen
TurboTax Discount Codes | January 2026
Tax season doesn’t have to be stressful. Save on Live Assisted, 10% off Full Service, and more with exclusive TurboTax coupons right here on WIRED.
Weiterlesen
$100 Off Shark Promo Code | This January
Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops. Don’t miss $100 off, 10% off, and more limited-time coupons from WIRED.
Weiterlesen
B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This January
Enjoy top deals on cameras, computers, and tech essentials at B&H Photo.
WeiterlesenDesign Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | January 2026
Get 30% off, 20% off, and free shipping with our Design Within Reach coupon codes, plus up to 50% off furniture with these special discounts.
Weiterlesen
The ARCTURUS Computer Developed at Sydney University in the 1960s
[State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was a research computer...
Weiterlesen
Electronic Nose Sniffs out Mold
It turns out, that mold is everywhere. The problem is when it becomes too much, as mold infestations can have serious health effects on both humans...
Weiterlesen7 Best Tools to Monitor and Debug Disk I/O Performance in Linux
The post 7 Best Tools to Monitor and Debug Disk I/O Performance in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Brief: In...
WeiterlesenGCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
GCC 16 as this year’s major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today...
Weiterlesen
New Proposed Legislation Would Let Self-Driving Cars Operate in New York State
New York governor Kathy Hochul says she will propose a new law allowing limited autonomous vehicle pilots in smaller cities. Full-blown services could be next.
Weiterlesen
The best robot vacuums we’ve tested for 2026
Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of...
Weiterlesen
Optimizing a Desktop, 3D Printed Wind Tunnel
You’ve heard of wind tunnels– get some airflow going over a thingy, put some some smoke on, and voila! Flow visualization. How hard could it be?...
WeiterlesenRed Hat names Kevin Kennedy as global leader for the Red Hat partner ecosystem
The technology landscape is shifting rapidly, and at the heart of this change is a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of partners. Today, we are excited to introduce...
Weiterlesen
Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: dh-python development, Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, Surviving scraper traffic in Debian CI and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
Debian Contributions: 2025-12 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is...
Weiterlesen
What we know about Iran’s Internet shutdown
In late December 2025, wide-scale protests erupted across multiple cities in Iran. While these protests were initially fueled by frustration over inflation, food prices, and currency...
Weiterlesen
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing
Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more...
Weiterlesen
You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000
A company called GRU Space publicly announced its intent to construct a series of increasingly sophisticated habitats on the Moon, culminating in a hotel inspired by...
Weiterlesen
Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate.
Paramount Skydance escalated its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today by filing a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court against WBD, declaring its intention...
Weiterlesen
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an...
Weiterlesen
Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)
Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds’ latest project contains code that was “basically written by vibe coding,” but you shouldn’t read that to mean that Torvalds...
Weiterlesen
Fired Rockstar employees’ plea for interim pay denied
A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according...
Weiterlesen
Framework hikes desktop PC prices as RAM shortage drags on
Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it’s also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to...
Weiterlesen
Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week
Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The...
Weiterlesen
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath
The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee...
Weiterlesen
Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule
The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement to unlock handsets 60 days after they are...
Weiterlesen
The AI Verification Bottleneck: Developer Toil Isn’t Shrinking
The first few years of generative AI in software development felt like a series of increasingly impressive magic tricks. We asked complex questions and seemingly perfect...
Weiterlesen
Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
On Sunday, Google removed some of its AI Overviews health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk by false and misleading...
Weiterlesen
Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states
The Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment when canceling billions of dollars in environmental grants for projects in “blue states” that didn’t vote for him in...
Weiterlesen
A Field Guide to 2026 Federal, State and EU AI Laws
If you ship AI applications, you have probably noticed that the questions are changing. Enterprise security questionnaires now include AI-specific sections. Requests for proposals (RFPs) require...
Weiterlesen
The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming
Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor...
WeiterlesenWine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January…
Weiterlesen
Baseus’ retractable travel adapter is on sale for more than 50 percent off today
If you’re planning on traveling at all this year, the Baseus EnerCore CG11 Universal Travel Adapter is worth a look. The adapter can power up to...
Weiterlesen
UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok
The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the...
Weiterlesen
Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the...
Weiterlesen
Map Your API Landscape To Prevent Agentic AI Disaster
For over 15 years, Kin Lane, co-founder and chief community officer (CCO) for open source API foundation Naftiko, has been building his expertise in APIs —...
Weiterlesen
The Stranger Things behind-the-scenes doc is a lot more boring than a secret episode
It’s a weird time in the Stranger Things community. Following a monthslong lead-up to a finale that was so big it screened in theaters, the show’s...
Weiterlesen
Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could invalidate the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to issue fines against companies regulated by the FCC. AT&T, Verizon,...
Weiterlesen
Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?
Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery...
Weiterlesen
Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a...
Weiterlesen
Michelson Interferometer Comes Home Cheap
We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have...
Weiterlesen
Anthropic wants you to use Claude to ‘Cowork’ in latest AI agent push
Anthropic wants to expand Claude’s AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code – and it’s doing it with a brand-new...
Weiterlesen
NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope
Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway stars. From its perch a million...
Weiterlesen
New York wants to regulate Roblox
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is making kids’ online safety a cornerstone of her administration, and she’s eyeing a platform that has often flown under the...
Weiterlesen
Gunnar Wolf: Python Workout 2nd edition
This post is an unpublished review for Python Workout 2nd edition Note: While I often post the reviews I write for Computing Reviews, this is a...
Weiterlesen
Snag a Feature-Packed Gaming Headset for Under $100
Corsair’s updated Void Wireless sports Dolby Atmos and a lightweight, breathable fit.
WeiterlesenHow to Run a Bash Script in Linux
Learn different methods to run and execute bash scripts in Linux, including making scripts executable, using interpreters, and sourcing scripts.
Weiterlesen
Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis
Clips from creators in Minnesota have become primary evidence in attempts by the right wing to justify ICE’s surge on American cities.
Weiterlesen
The Weekend Our Pipeline Processed the Same Data 47 Times
It was Monday morning when our analytics team started noticing something wrong. Customer transaction volumes had apparently skyrocketed over the weekend, up 4,700% according to the...
Weiterlesen
These are my favorite Switch 2 accessories
The Nintendo Switch 2 can be enjoyed right out of the box, but it’s even better with the right accessories. Some of these add-ons are more...
Weiterlesen
Forks, Clouds and the New Economics of Open Source Licensing
When HashiCorp changed the licenses of Terraform and many of its other products from open source MPL 2.0 to the Business Source License (BSL), the backlash...
Weiterlesen
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about...
Weiterlesen
Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Reducing the size of initramfs kernel images
In the past few years, the size of the kernel images in Debian have been steadily growing. I don’t see this as a problem per se,...
WeiterlesenThe Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake
When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93%...
WeiterlesenCSS at Scale With StyleX
Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which...
Weiterlesen
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.”
Weiterlesen
How To Use LLMs for Continuous, Creative Code Refactoring
Refactoring used to be limited to a fixed set of transforms hardwired into IDEs. If the one you needed wasn’t included, you were out of luck...
Weiterlesen
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Cheap-O Keyboard
All right, I’ll cut to the chase: Cheap03xD is mainly so cheap because the PCB falls within a 10 x 10 cm footprint. The point was...
Weiterlesen
Apple chooses Google’s Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri
The “more intelligent” version of Siri that Apple plans to release later this year will be backed by Google’s Gemini language models, the company announced today....
Weiterlesen
Unit Testing in Go – A Beginner’s Guide
If you’re learning Go and you’re already familiar with the idea of unit testing, the main challenge is usually not why to test, but how to...
Weiterlesen
Microsoft Open-Sources XAML Studio
After 8 years, Microsoft’s tool for designing Windows apps is now open source.
Weiterlesen
How to Get Type Safety Without Code Generation Using tRPC and Hono
Have you ever updated your backend API property name but neglected to also update the frontend? I’m sure you have. When this occurs, it leads to...
Weiterlesen
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda for .NET 10, AWS Client VPN quickstart, Best of AWS re:Invent, and more (January 12, 2026)
At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If...
WeiterlesenTinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support
Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz…
Weiterlesen[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line
In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in...
Weiterlesen
Is this the beginning of the end for GameStop?
Six and a half years ago—after a failed corporate sale attempt, massive financial losses, and the departure/layoff of many key staff—I wrote about what seemed at...
Weiterlesen
CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to...
Weiterlesen
How To Scale GitOps Without Hitting the ‘Argo Ceiling’
Too often, GitOps becomes a victim of its own success. One cluster and one Argo CD instance quickly sprawl into 50 clusters and 50 Argo instances,...
Weiterlesen
Microsoft Share Update on TypeScript 7
Microsoft’s TypeScript 7, codenamed Project Corsa, transforms the compiler with a complete rewrite in Go, achieving up to 10x faster builds and reduced memory usage. With...
Weiterlesen
auto-cpufreq 3.0 Arrives for Linux with Better Battery Handling and CPU Turbo Control
New release gives Linux laptop users more control over CPU performance while fixing battery detection issues.
Weiterlesen
UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship
Elon Musk’s X is currently under investigation in the United Kingdom after failing to stop the platform’s chatbot, Grok, from generating thousands of sexualized images of...
Weiterlesen
Chasing The Coca-Cola Recipe
One of the most widely recognised product brands in the world is probably Coca-Cola, and its formula is famously kept a secret through precautions that probably...
Weiterlesen
Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More
Firefox 147 released with XDG directory support ending a 20-year Linux bug, auto Picture-in-Picture, better AMD video performance, and new web standards. You’re reading Firefox 147...
Weiterlesen
The Chevrolet Bolt is back… but for how long?
The new Chevrolet Equinox EV is a solid entry into the compact crossover market, and with a (just) sub-$35,000 starting price, it also counts as affordable...
Weiterlesen
New research shows how shunning ultraprocessed foods helps with aging
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet—and this shift leads to improvements across several key...
Weiterlesen
NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle
Two historic NASA test facilities used in the development of the Saturn V and space shuttle launch vehicles have been demolished after towering over the Marshall...
WeiterlesenMinimal Ubuntu Pro: lean images backed by enterprise-grade security
Deploy Minimal Ubuntu Pro across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The security landscape is growing continually in complexity. Whatever industry you work in, your organization has...
Weiterlesen
Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions
We’re used to thinking of the brain as an electric organ. The rest of the body? Not so much. But it would be a mistake to...
Weiterlesen
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates
A new release, now at version 0.0.22, of RcppAnnoy has arrived on CRAN, just a little short of two years since the previous release. RcppAnnoy is...
Weiterlesen
Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in November 2025. So, rather than offering another one, I...
WeiterlesenFirefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux...
WeiterlesenIntel Releases Open3D 0.19 With Experimental Cross-Platform GPU Support Using SYCL
Not to be confused with the Open 3D game engine, Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library...
WeiterlesenSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and wget2), Mageia...
Weiterlesen
New Mobile SDK Brings Low-Code Development to On-Device AI
One of the big AI development trends of last year was the shift to on-device inference, in many cases using so-called small language models (SLMs). Google...
Weiterlesen
Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane
On a blustery November day, a Cessna turboprop flew over Pennsylvania at 5,000 meters, in crosswinds of up to 70 knots—nearly as fast as the little...
WeiterlesenMitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim
Emissions from air freight have increased by 25% since 2019, according to a 2024 analysis by environmental advocacy organization Stand.Earth. The researchers found that the expansion...
Weiterlesen
Python’s deque: Implement Efficient Queues and Stacks
You can use Python’s deque for efficient appends and pops at both ends of a sequence-like data type. These capabilities are critical when you need to...
Weiterlesenauto-cpufreq v3.0.0 Released: Turbo Boost Overrides and Smarter CPU Control
auto-cpufreq v3.0.0 introduces turbo boost overrides, improved CPU frequency detection, and better battery handling for Linux laptops. The post auto-cpufreq v3.0.0 Released: Turbo Boost Overrides and...
WeiterlesenNova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler
Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler “IGC” 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P hardware…
Weiterlesen
The Download: introducing this year’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies
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. Introducing this year’s 10...
WeiterlesenLLMinus Working On AI/LLM-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution For The Linux Kernel
Building off an initial request for comments (RFC) patch series posted during the winter holidays, an updated RFC patch series was posted this weekend for LLMinus....
Weiterlesen
Securing digital assets as crypto crime surges
In February 2025, cyberattackers thought to be linked to North Korea executed a sophisticated supply chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. By targeting its infrastructure and...
Weiterlesen
Presentation: Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild
Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO challenges. Drawing from real-world Netflix projects, he discusses...
Weiterlesen
Daniel Lange: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+
Xterm misses the convenient option to resize the fonts with Ctrl+<plus> and Ctrl+<minus> like xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal do out of the box. This feature can be...
WeiterlesenCorrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
Fascinating research: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs. AbstractLLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much...
Weiterlesen
Best Travel Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed
We’ve found the best travel cameras—from point-and-shoot to full-frame—to help you bring home the perfect vacation photos.
Weiterlesen
10 Best Pet Cameras (2026), Tested With Our Pets
Whether you’re near or far, keep an eye on your fur baby with our favorite pet cameras.
Weiterlesen
The most fascinating monitors at CES 2026
CES 2026 took place in Las Vegas last week, and as usual, we’re looking at the most interesting monitors from the show. Not every display is...
WeiterlesenLLVM Clang Adds Support For “Ampere1C” CPUs – Presumably AmpereOne Aurora
The LLVM/Clang compiler today introduced support for the Ampere Computing Ampere1C CPU core target…
Weiterlesen
The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station
For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s about to change in the coming...
Weiterlesen
Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out
Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the...
WeiterlesenAuto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux
Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 released this weekend as the newest version of this Linux user-space tool to help you extend your laptop battery life by automatically applying CPU...
Weiterlesen
How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint
Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump into other atoms, splitting them and...
Weiterlesen
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which...
Weiterlesen
Good technology should change the world
The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That quip originally appeared in...
Weiterlesen
Hyte X50 PC Case Review: Computers Should Be Cute
Hyte’s rounded glass case brings a fun, bubbly aesthetic to your desk.
Weiterlesen