Month: February 2026

Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs

Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew Halaney Imagine this — you click play on Netflix on a Friday night and behind the scenes hundreds of containers spring to action in a...

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israeli Attack on Iran

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Running a Desktop PC off AA Alkaline Cells

Everyone is probably familiar with the concept of battery-powered devices, but generally, this involves a laptop with a beefy battery pack and hardware optimized for low...

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on...

Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI tools. The move comes after Anthropic...

The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night

That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s automated alert system is online and already bombarding...

Xiangyi Cheng Is Bringing AR to Classrooms and Hospitals

When Xiangyi Cheng published her first journal paper as a principal investigator in IEEE Access in 2024, it marked more than a professional milestone. For Cheng,...

Mike Gabriel: Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 – Project Report (Q3/2025)

Debian Lomiri for Debian 13 (previous project) In our previous project around Debian and Lomiri (lasting until July 2025), we achieved to get Lomiri 0.5.0 (and...

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was actually...

The Only Snail You Want In Your Garden Is a Seed-Starting Hack

As temperatures warm up in the Northern Hemisphere, one’s mind naturally turns to the outdoors and the garden — even if some of our gardens are...

I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)

There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.

You can still grab great deals on Bose headphones and Astro Bot this weekend

Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next...

NASA Is Making Big Changes to Speed Up the Artemis Program

America’s journey back to the moon has run into a few missteps. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is banking on a new approach.

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware

Physical AI, also known as embodied AI, is purported to be the next evolution in the quest to build autonomous systems that behave in the real...

Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon

I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments. And not just the headlines, but...

The Joys of 3D Printing

Al and I were talking on the podcast today about a sweet 3D printed wide-format camera build, and we got to musing on why we 3D-print....

Review: Xiaomi 17 Ultra and Leitzphone Pack Leica Magic Into a Flagship Phone

The latest Xiaomi flagship is a beast and comes in a specially co-designed Leica edition that’s picture-perfect.

Xiaomi 17 is a small(ish) phone with a big(ish) battery

The Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra are launching together, but there’s no sign of the Pro. Xiaomi has just given a global launch to two of...

Xiaomi’s Leica Leitzphone mostly earns the name

The Leitzphone has just launched internationally alongside a regular version of the 17 Ultra. Xiaomi and Leica’s long-running phone partnership just got a little closer. Alongside...

Xiaomi’s tracker doesn’t need a case to clip to your keys

The Xiaomi Tag is a bit larger than Apple’s second-gen AirTags. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag...

This Power Grid Pioneer’s EV Prediction Came 100 Years Too Soon

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered...

The Witcher is a perfect fit for Reigns’ Tinder-like roleplaying

I never knew how easy it was to die in an orgy. But that’s just one of the many threats facing Geralt of Rivia in his...

top Command in Linux: Monitor Processes in Real Time

top is a command-line utility that displays running processes and system resource usage in real time. It helps you inspect CPU usage, memory consumption, load averages,...

A legendary weather app makes a comeback

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send Android...

Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought

More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.

14 Best Travel Toiletry Bags, Tested Over Many Miles (2026)

Our team evaluated a ton of toiletry bags to find the best storage, organization, and design options for all your essentials.

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet....

The Best MicroSD Cards for Your Camera, Switch, and More

Everything you need to know about memory cards for cameras, video game systems, and more.

The Best Laptop Cooling Pad and Why You Should Buy One

Most laptop cooling pads are useless, but if you get the right one, it can make a huge impact on how long your gaming laptop lasts.

Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums

Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more.

EveryPlate’s Meal Kit Offers Affordable Vegetarian Options

HelloFresh’s budget subsidiary surprised me with its basic but tasty vegetarian meal selection.

Which Water Filter Pitchers Filter PFAS? How to Check

Checking up on the claims of water filter makers can be a discomfiting maze. Here’s how to verify independent water filter certifications.

This Ruroc Helmet Ruined My Ski Holiday

Branded intimidating and scary, this full-face Ruroc headgear for the slopes made me a pariah on the piste.

US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran

US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown.

NaCl Casting Technique Really Earns Its Salt

Sodium Chloride has a melting point of 801 C (1,474 F), putting it comfortably between commonly-cast materials like aluminum and bronze. Which led to [Robinson Foundry]...

Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Blooming flowers, longer days, milder temperatures — with March just around the corner, the world is slowly but surely awakening from its winter slumber, fueling us...

Meet the wildlife conservation AI 5G hotspot at MWC Barcelona 2026

From March 2-5 in Barcelona, Canonical will present a working wildlife conservation platform that combines open source 5G, AI, and cloud-native infrastructure in a travel friendly...

MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling

MySQL is changing the way foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the...

Tenways nearly perfects the shareable city e-bike

The CGO Compact electric bike twists and folds to create a wall-hugging profile. Good electric bikes are expensive. So why not buy one and share it?...

Evolved Nerf RC Tank Now Leaves Welts

[Joshua Clay] recently unveiled his newest RC Nerf Dart Robot and talks through his design choices, pointing out that in his aim to have it launch...

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in February 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here...

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

Philco Bet the Farm on The Predicta… and Lost

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

US President Donald Trump (R) looks on as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela | AFP...

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a...

Storyteller: A Medium For Guiding Others Through Code

As a computer science instructor, I have long wished that there was a better way to guide others through my code. When I was first learning...

The Air Force’s new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it

DENVER—The US Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week. But no...

GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs

If you are cloning from a GNOME repository on their GitLab and now finding your Git traffic being redirected to GitHub, you are not alone. GNOME’s...

AI Assistant Uses ESP32

Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with...

18 Best Wireless Chargers, All Tested and Reviewed (2026)

Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch.

NASA is pushing back its plans for a Moon landing

NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it’s delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission,...

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

Netflix has dropped out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), making Paramount Skydance the expected owner of WBD. A Paramount-WBD merger remains subject...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that. As usual, you can also use this squid...

Opus 4.5 changed everything

Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We...

These Deals Can Have You Zipping Around on a New E-Scooter This Spring

With spring just around the corner, now’s the smart time to snag an electric scooter.

Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance’s merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that...

MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting

The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category.  The shortlisted...

Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government

President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to “STRONG-ARM” the Pentagon and directing federal agencies...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Free software toolchain for the simplest RISC-V CPU in a small FPGA?

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a presentation organized by the Norwegian Unix Users Group on implementing RISC-V using a small FPGA. This project...

Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity

Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t require exotic refrigeration to...

Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform

Red Hat has been deploying AI in the enterprise for some time. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now comes ready to do AI work;...

Video Game Archive Myrient to Shut Down on March 31

Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of reasons, but primarily the skyrocketing...

The Best Roku Is $20 Off

The Roku Ultra isn’t just speedier, it also offers some advanced features that some viewers will find really handy.

What’s an E-Bike? California Wants You to Know

Cities want to stop kids from getting hurt. A lawmaker thinks warning them away from legal gray-area “e-motos” could help.

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Xeon 6 SoCs “Granite Rapids D”

Catching me by surprise today was a new Intel CPU microcode drop “20260227” for Linux users/administrators outside of their typical Patch Tuesday alignment for CPU microcode...

Let Hauntimator Steer Your Next Animatronic Display

Animatronic displays aren’t just for Halloween, and hackers today have incredible access to effective, affordable parts with which to make spectacles of light, sound, and movement....

How to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities in Next.js API Routes

Imagine this situation: A user logs in successfully to your application, but upon loading their dashboard, they see someone else’s data. Why does this happen? The...

The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset

The HTC U24 Pro may not be gold, but its design is otherwise awfully similar to the Trump phone’s. | Image: HTC Where’s the Trump phone?...

Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border

The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone...

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by...

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

We haven’t had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies,...

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control If Paramount Buys Warner Bros.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

Hyprland 0.54 Released As A “Massive” Update To This Wayland Compositor

Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what’s described as a “a massive update with no understatement” to this Wayland compositor…

AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association,...

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77. Simmons, who worked...

FedEx will refund customers for Trump’s tariffs — if there ever are any refunds

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court’s ruling that some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “illegal.” In a statement on...

cat Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core cat command forms. Command Description cat FILE Print a file to standard output cat FILE1 FILE2 Print multiple files in sequence cat...

Video Friday: Robot Dogs Haul Produce From the Field

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...

2026.09: This Was an Xbox

Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted...

ONLYOFFICE 9.3 makes document editing easier than ever

A new version of ONLYFFICE Desktop Editors, a open source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux, is out with a fresh set of features and...

How strong is New York’s “illegal gambling” case against Valve’s loot boxes?

For years now, Valve fans have been making jokes about the company’s slow transition from game maker to glorified digital hat and knife paint marketplace. This...

Hackaday Podcast Ep 359: Flying Squids, Edible Passwords, and a CAD Automaton

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the...

What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More

Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community...

[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

The Python bitwise-inversion (or complement) operator, “~“, behaves pretty much as expected when it is applied to integers—it toggles every bit, from one to zero and...

And the award for the most improved EV goes to… the 2026 Toyota bZ

The world’s largest automaker has had a somewhat difficult relationship with battery-electric vehicles. Toyota was an early pioneer of hybrid powertrains, and it remains a fan today,...

Wall Street Has AI Psychosis

A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.

SilverStone RM4A: 4U Rackmount Server/Workstation Chassis That’s Great For Liquid Cooling

For those looking to build a rackmount-ready server or workstation that can handle up to an SSI-EEB motherboard and capable of fitting a large liquid cooling...

Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs

There’s a moment, just before the tight mass of cells that is a developing mouse embryo implants itself in the womb, that it all comes apart....

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Netflix backed out of its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios businesses on Thursday night. After increasing its bid for all...

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket...

Behind the Winter Update: The team that made it work

A look behind the scenes at the people who turned product releases into real impact.

Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element

TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! .element { position: absolute; place-self: center; inset: 0; }...

Two new stable kernels, possible regression

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.4 and 6.18.14 stable kernels. Shortly after 6.19.4 was released Kris Karas reported “getting a repeatable Oops right when networking is...

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

An Ars Technica colleague recently bought a new M4 MacBook Air. I have essentially nothing bad to say about this hardware, except to point out that...

Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements

While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media...

Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents

Vercel has launched “react-best-practices,” an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers,...

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by “nearly half” in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, buildah, firefox, freerdp, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana-pcp, kernel, libpng15, munge, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, podman, protobuf, python-pyasn1, runc, and skopeo), Debian (chromium,...

Block’s massive AI-driven layoff is a warning

Jack Dorsey strikes again The post Block’s massive AI-driven layoff is a warning appeared first on LeadDev.

Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and...

Apple says it has “a big week ahead.” Here’s what we expect to see.

Excepting the AirTag 2, so far it’s been a quiet year for Apple hardware. But that’s poised to change next week, as the company is hosting...

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

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. AI is rewiring how...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: x13binary 1.1.61.2 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance

The x13binary team is happy to share the availability of Release 1.1.61.2 of the x13binary package providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau which...

Aventon Soltera 3 Electric Bike Review: A Fun Hybrid Single-Speed

Aventon’s latest single-speed hybrid bicycle is light, looks cool, and is the most bikey electric bike on the market right now.

Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s...

Phishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs

This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are...

Rocket Report: Vulcan “many months” from flying; Falcon 9 extends reuse milestone

Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon from Rocket Lab on the timing...

Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor Review: Cuffless BP Tracking

The Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor is the first cuffless monitor to be cleared by the FDA. It’s discreet, highly accurate, and simple to use

Huxe Will Give You a Personalized, Daily Audio Summary Powered by AI

The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but...

Kubernetes Introduces Node Readiness Controller to Improve Pod Scheduling Reliability

The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by making the API...

The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Podcast interview with Internet of Bugs [Podcast #209]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and...

Quiz: Dependency Management With Python Poetry

Test your understanding of Dependency Management With Python Poetry. You’ll revisit how to install Poetry the right way, create new projects, manage virtual environments, declare and...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #286: Overcoming Testing Obstacles With Python’s Mock Object Library

Do you have complex logic and unpredictable dependencies that make it hard to write reliable tests? How can you use Python’s mock object library to improve...

Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026

2025: From RISC-V enablement to real execution  2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began...

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere

A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.

Mesa Developers Trying To Reach A Consensus On AI Policy

If all goes well, Mesa developers are hoping to reach a consensus or at least some common ground on an AI policy in March. Mesa is...

Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2

Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday…

MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act

MidnightBSD has modified its license to exclude California residents from desktop use starting January 1, 2027 due to Digital Age Assurance Act. The post MidnightBSD Excludes...

Genode OS 26.02 Halfway Done Migrating From GitHub To Codeberg

Genode OS 26.02 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source operating system framework that also serves as the basis for their Sculpt general...

Bond Strength, Biocompatibility, and Beyond

Designing a medical device? This whitepaper helps you evaluate adhesive options for biocompatibility, sterilization resistance, and manufacturability — so you can make the right material decision...

Tin Can Is a Dumb Phone for Kids. Can Someone Teach Them How to Use It?

With its twirly cord and landline-like features, the Tin Can is giving kids a crash course in phone etiquette. For example: Talk!

Best Red Light Therapy for Hair Growth: WIRED-Approved (2026)

After 16 weeks of daily use, our WIRED testers saw visible hair regrowth with these red light therapy devices.

AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think

Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for...

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost...

6 Great Power Bank Deals for Your Thirsty Phone Battery

We’ve tested dozens of portable power banks, and several of our top picks are on sale right now.

Presentation: Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code

Jim Gough discusses the transition from accidental architect to API program leader, explaining how to manage the complexity of secure API connectivity. He shares the Common...

Preorder Google’s Newest Phone and Get a Free $100 Gift Card

If you’re planning on upgrading to the newest midrange Pixel phone, this deal is worth your while.

How to justify AI investments

With Workato CTO, Adam Seligman. The post How to justify AI investments appeared first on LeadDev.

sort Command in Linux: Sort Lines of Text

sort is a command-line utility that sorts lines of text from files or standard input and writes the result to standard output. By default, sort arranges...

Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents

Microsoft’s Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios, datasets,...

Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

At 3 AM, a single IP requested a login page. Harmless. But then, across several hosts and paths, the same source began appending ?debug=true — the...

Fixing the Damage of a Botched SNES SuperCIC Mod

Not what you want to see when testing that ‘repaired’ SNES. (Credit: Skawo, YouTube) The good part about older game consoles like the Super Nintendo is...

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure

Internet traffic relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to find its way between networks. However, this traffic can sometimes be misdirected due to configuration errors...

Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security

Cloudflare Radar already offers a wide array of security insights — from application and network layer attacks, to malicious email messages, to digital certificates and Internet...

The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

You’ve seen it. Maybe you didn’t register it consciously, but you’ve seen it. That little widget asking you to verify you’re human. That full-page security check...

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

Handling data in streams is fundamental to how we build applications. To make streaming work everywhere, the WHATWG Streams Standard (informally known as “Web streams”) was...

Dental Formulas

Wind Power Is Taking Off In China– All The Way to 2000 m AGL

2000 m above ground level (AGL), winds are stronger and much, much more consistent than they are at surface. Even if the Earth were a perfect...

Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4 is now available to download

Canonical’s engineers have announced the fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04, ahead of next month’s all important beta release. Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4, like...

LXD 6.7 Released With AMD GPU Passthrough Support

Canonical today released LXD 6.7 as the latest feature update to this system container and virtual machine manager commonly used in Ubuntu Linux environments…

The Latest Repair Battlefield Is the Iowa Farmlands—Again

A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere.

These Are Our Absolute Favorite Android Earbuds, and They’re Below $200

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have great ANC and long battery life, and they’re marked down in several colors.

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 4 Released

The fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” is now available for testing. This alternative to the Ubuntu 26.04 daily ISOs is a...

Hands-On With Nano Banana 2, the Latest Version of Google’s AI Image Generator

Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.

Robot Looks Exactly Like a Roll of Filament, If Filament Had Eyes

[Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament;...

From operations to outcomes: The business value of automation

In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 6)

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages...

Allocating on the Stack

The Go Blog Allocating on the Stack Keith Randall 27 February 2026 We’re always looking for ways to make Go programs faster. In the last 2...

Friday Five — February 27, 2026

SDTimes – Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from...

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense’s demands for unrestricted access to...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in a substantial...

Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs...

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company...

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running...

Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

Ubuntu 26.04 will show asterisks when you type your sudo password, as Canonical adds a patch to its Rust-based sudo-rs. Here’s what changed and why. You’re...

xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

For miles around xAI’s makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, neighbors have endured months of constant roaring, erupting pops, and bursts of high-pitched whining from 27...

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

Jack Dorsey’s Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by “nearly half” and axing more than 4,000...

Lenovo leak reveals a foldable gaming handheld that’s also a Windows laptop

Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo’s next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld...

Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains

Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat...

The physics of squeaking sneakers

We’re all familiar with the high-pitched squeak of basketball shoes on the court during games, or tires squealing on pavement. Scientists conducted several experiments and discovered...

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default

On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters...

Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ default wallpaper unveiled

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ has a new default wallpaper. It keeps the purple gradient but drops the sharp geometric angles. Download a high-res copy. You’re...

Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That’s according to the...

Driving WS2812Bs With Pure Logic

The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about any microcontroller you can think of....

Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher price tag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are “more of the same for more money,” my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming...

This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue

The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.

FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children’s online privacy law against certain websites...

Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all

In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers...

Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability

Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to...

From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological advancement forced his hand. The developer...

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.

Building the Haxocorder

The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist...

This Startup Makes Access to Rehabilitation Facilities Easier

When doctors in the United States refer patients to specialty or post-acute medical care such as physical therapy or long-term nursing care, nearly half never complete...

Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era?

Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should...

AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions

At re:Invent 2025, we introduced a completely re-imagined AWS Security Hub that unifies AWS security services, including Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Inspector into a single experience....

Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool

Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes me lean back and go, “Wooo, that’s cool!” Well, I recently had that very...

The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it.

Agentic workflows are rapidly accelerating the volume of pull requests, and validation is quickly becoming the most critical bottleneck. Teams using service meshes like Istio are...

Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly entertaining creatures. YouTube and...

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic...

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

Today’s issue of The Pulse focuses on a single event because it’s a significant one with major potential ripple effects. On Tuesday, Cloudflare shocked the dev...

CORPGEN advances AI agents for real work

At a glance Today’s AI agent benchmarks test one task at a time, while real workplace productivity requires managing dozens of interdependent tasks at once. To...

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results

Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Nano Banana image generation model, which promises to improve upon last November’s Nano Banana Pro and the...

New Path to Battery-Grade Lithium Uses Electrochemistry

As electric vehicles roll off assembly lines, a bottleneck sits upstream: lithium refinement. Turning raw lithium into the compounds needed for batteries is expensive, messy, and...

Ford is recalling 4.3 million trucks and SUVs to fix a towing software bug

Last year, Ford set a new industry record: It issued 152 safety recalls, almost twice the previous high set by General Motors back in 2014. More...

Bionode is Hand Truck Transformed into Mobile Computing Lab

[Steven K. Roberts] is the original digital nomad, having designed and built mobile computing for his own use since the 80s. His latest project is Bionode,...

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office

The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent...

Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn

For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all...