Month: February 2026

Git Cheatsheet

Getting Started # Initialize and configure Git. Command Description git init Initialize a new repository git clone url Clone a remote repository git status Show working...

Next Moca Releases Agent Definition Language as an Open Source Specification

Moca has open-sourced Agent Definition Language (ADL), a vendor-neutral specification intended to standardize how AI agents are defined, reviewed, and governed across frameworks and platforms. The...

How to Use the Linux column Command to Format Text into Tables

The post How to Use the Linux column Command to Format Text into Tables first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this...

Super Bowl Tailgate Photo Essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

We met up with attendees of Super Bowl LX’s pregame festivities to get their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and...

Iptables Cheatsheet

View Rules # Inspect current firewall rules. Command Description sudo iptables -L List rules sudo iptables -L -n List without resolving names sudo iptables -L -v...

Carbon Dating

Linux Kernel 6.19 Arrives! You Get Intel, AMD Improvements, and ASUS Armoury Support

Hardware support gets major buffs across multiple architectures.

Turning Point USA’s Halftime Show Was Exactly What You’d Expect

“The All-American Halftime Show,” born out of outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to...

Kodak MC3: Everything But a Phone In 2001

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a...

Inside Bad Bunny’s Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured...

Java News Roundup: GlassFish 8.0, OpenHai 1.0, LangChain4j, Infinispan, Hibernate, JobRunr

This week’s Java roundup for February 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of GlassFish 8.0 and OpenHai 1.0; point releases of LangChain4j, Infinispan and JBang;...

Hackaday Links: February 8, 2026

We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25...

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Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything

Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots. While Bad Bunny will be the star of the halftime...

A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please

Sure, most Americans are glued to their TVs for the today’s Super Bowl and/or the Winter Olympics. But for the non-sports minded, Amazon MGM Studios has...

YouTube Music starts putting lyrics behind a paywall

Free YouTube Music accounts are now seeing their access to lyrics limited, according to multiple reports. Google started testing lyrics as an exclusive feature for Premium...

The 6.19 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 6.19 kernel. “No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected – just as the US prepares to come...

Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0

Following Linus Torvalds releasing Linux 6.19 stable, Linus Torvalds is now out with his customary release announcement. Notably he officially confirmed that the next kernel version...

Linux 6.19 Released With Better Support For Older AMD GPUs, DRM Color Pipeline API

As anticipated due to the extra week for the cycle given end of year holidays, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 6.19 stable kernel as the...

New York is considering two bills to rein in the AI industry

AI data centers are becoming a bipartisan concern. | Image: Microsoft New York’s state legislature is set to consider a pair of bills that would require...

Wooden Case Makes a 2026 TV Stylish

The middle of the 20th century produced a revolution in understated stylish consumer design, some of which lives on today. The reality of living in a...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in January 2026

About 80% of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian, as well as one direct donation via GitHub Sponsors (thanks!). If you appreciate this...

Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects

After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand “SDSi” GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently...

Habit Detection For Home Assistant

Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very...

You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH

Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn’t currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can’t stop listening to the new Mandy,...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: chronometre: A new package (pair) demo for R and Python

Both R and Python make it reasonably easy to work with compiled extensions. But how to access objects in one environment from the other and share...

IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight

During the early phase of my career, I used to spend eight hours a day inside the Visual Studio IDE. Fast-forward to today, and developers spend...

D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan

D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 /...

The iPhone 17e could launch soon with MagSafe and an A19 chip

Close up of the hands of a person setting up a brand new iPhone 16e. (Photo by: Nano Calvo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) |...

Investigating the Science Claims Behind the Donut Solid State Battery

Earlier this year Donut Lab caused quite the furore when they unveiled what they claimed was the world’s first production-ready solid state battery, featuring some pretty...

GuliKit’s tiny USB dongle lets you connect your PS5 controller to your Switch 2

Dongles have a well-earned reputation for being a nuisance. They’re often costly and annoying to deal with, but for gamers, there’s one that I love to...

How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) using the LCARS in Star Trek: The Next Generation. | Image: CBS via Getty Images One of my pandemic hobbies that...

Vincent Bernat: Fragments of an adolescent web

I have unearthed a few old articles typed during my adolescence, between 1996 and 1998. Unremarkable at the time, these pages now compose, three decades later,...

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set...

A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 — Or Linux 7.0

With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2026

Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian (as the LTS-...

Best Wireless Earbuds (2026): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More

Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.

Netflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming wars, follow Emma Roth....

Digital car keys are getting more sophisticated

Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo Alto, California, for the 16th annual “Plugfest,” hosted by the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC)...

Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset “On Demand” Software Defined Silicon

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a “Software Defined Silicon” feature for activating extra licensed hardware features....

Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux

Building off Friday’s release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to...

Upgrading The E-mu Audity 20 Years After Factory Support Ended

If you purchased an E-mu Audity 2000 ROMpler back in 1998, you almost certainly got a rig with the 1.00 firmware. It was fine, if a...

4 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

A growing collection of pocket-sized gadgets lets you record your meetings and extract value from them. Here are our favorites.

The Shoes and Brooms Transforming Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about...

Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

Of Intel’s different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various...

DreamWorks’ OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used...

I Have Fallen in Love With Open Earbuds (and You Should Too)

From jogging and cycling to multitasking or puttering around the house, open earbuds are an excellent way to jam out in the real world.

Microsoft On QEMU 10.2’s New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests

With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new “MSHV” accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V...

Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons

Looking for all our top recommended vacuums? Here are our favorites in every style we’ve tested, from stick vacs to robot vacuums.

For $4,550, Would You Buy a Single Premium Watch or a Swarm of Affordable Ones?

You could go all in on one pricey, luxe watch or assemble a collection of lower-budget timepieces. Let’s crunch the numbers.

Upgrading An Old Macbook With an Old Processor

The Core Duo processor from Intel may not have been the first multi-core processor available to consumers, but it was arguably the one that brought it...

How to Set or Change Timezone on Debian 13

Learn how to check and change the system time zone on Debian 13 Trixie using the timedatectl command.

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2025 edition

Another year of data from Société de Transport de Montréal, Montreal’s transit agency! A few highlights this year: Although the Saint-Michel station closed for emergency repairs...

Linux 6.19: 40% Speed Boost on Old AMD GPUs & Faster Ext4

Linux 6.19 brings native Vulkan support to older AMD Radeon GPUs, hardware-accelerated HDR via the DRM Colour Pipeline API and ext4 speed boosts. You’re reading Linux...

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Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next...

A Failed SwitchBot Plug Mini and Cooking Electrolytics

Poorly designed PCBs and enclosures that slowly cook the electrolytic capacitors within are a common failure scenario in general, but they seem especially prevalent in so-called...

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

When conducting performance benchmarks, the ultimate goal is an apples-to-apples comparison. Docker, widely recognized as one of the most brilliant inventions of the last 15 years,...

How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes

We’ve all experienced a frozen web page followed by endless refreshing, frustrated sighs, and the occasional foot stomp, only to keep seeing the spinning wheel. In...

How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

The speed at which ClawdBot MoltBot OpenClaw climbed in popularity was quite phenomenal, and for good reason: It has an audience beyond the developer space, especially...

Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative

With the U.S. government and other institutions calling for the use of memory-safe programming languages in critical systems, Jule, a nascent, open source alternative to C/C++...

LG’s C5 TV and Anker’s powerful power bank are this week’s best deals

It’s the first weekend of February, which can only mean one thing: The Super Bowl (or “Benito Bowl,” if you’re mainly tuning in for the Bad...

The second-gen AirTags are a scatterbrain’s best friend

The biggest con is this so-called Midnight Purple keyring is barely purple. It’s the iPhone 14 Pro Max Deep Purple all over again. In a somewhat...

Making a DIY Refrigerated Vest With Battery and Solar Power

Keeping a cool head is difficult at the best of times, least of all when it’s summer and merely thinking of touching bare skin to the...

Traceroute Command in Linux

Learn how to use the traceroute command to trace the path packets take to a destination, diagnose network issues, and identify routing problems.

Anker’s new charger with a screen would feel less gimmicky if it did more

Not every device needs a screen. The latest Anker 45-watt Nano charger, announced in January, which remains one of the smallest 45-watt chargers on the market,...

NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing…

Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently

Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding,...

Target Darts Omni Auto Scoring System Hits the Mark

Step up to the oche and hit the bull’s-eye with this automatic darts scoring system for online play.

Cairn is a climbing journey about perseverance and obsession

I’m an awful rock climber. Being scared of heights probably doesn’t help. But when I’ve tried it, I’ve loved the slow, methodical work of moving from...

We Ditched Clickup for Fizzy: An (Open Source) Kanban Board App

If you’re juggling multiple tasks and want something simpler than Jira or ClickUp, this is worth trying.

4 Best Website Builders (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Don’t fuss around with files and servers. Just use one of these WIRED-tested website builders.

The best way to watch the Olympics

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, go Seahawks I...

Sony’s Biggest QLED Screens See Big Discounts This Weekend

You can grab a lower price on some of Sony’s biggest QLED panels.

Initial AMD Zen 6 “znver6” Support Merged For LLVM/Clang

Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler’s codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target…

Robots Talking to Robots

Although there are a few robots on the market that can make life a bit easier, plenty of them have closed-source software or smartphone apps required...

Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds

Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, a far bigger drop than in the same...

The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games

From drones with “first-person” visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina.

KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance

Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta...

The 7 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025) Our Cats Would Recommend

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage

In a recent article titled “What came first- the CNAME or the A record?” Cloudflare explains how an unclear RFC specification caused the popular Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1...

Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers

A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display...

GNOME’s Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default

GNOME’s Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default…

Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions…

Gear News of the Week: Google’s Pixel 10a Arrives Soon, and Valve Delays Its Steam Hardware

Plus: Dexcom updates its app, Fitbit founders create a new family caregiving app, and Blink has a new outdoor security camera.

Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents to the Edge

Cloudflare has introduced Moltworker, an open-source solution for running Moltbot—a self-hosted personal AI agent—on its Developer Platform, eliminating the need for local hardware, such as Mac...

Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Xplorer Grip Pro Kit Review: An Even Better Action Camera

Want to turn your action camera into a point-and-shoot? Insta360’s new accessory makes the Ace Pro 2 into a great pocket camera alternative.

7 Steps to Better Financial Health You Can Take Right Now

The beginning of the year is a great time to take a hard look at your expenses and savings. Take these concrete steps to fix up...

He’s a Wrapper (Wire Wrapper, That Is)

Before PCBs, wiring electronic circuits was a major challenge in electronics production. A skilled person could make beautiful wire connections between terminal strips and components with...

Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker and Twitch

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation...

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes — Even For The Old R600g

While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release…

CIA’s World Factbook is Gone

Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you locate specialized data like the...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication

There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final...

Welding Nuts Inside Metal Tubes, Painlessly

[Jer Schmidt] needed a way to put a lot of M8 bolts into a piece of square steel tubing, but just drilling and tapping threads into...

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of...

Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

As the 2026 Olympic Winter Games begin today, news articles are swelling with juicy claims that male ski jumpers have injected their penises with fillers to...

An in-kernel machine-learning library

For those wanting more machine learning in the kernel, Viacheslav Dubeyko has posted a new in-kernel library for that purpose. What is the goal of using...

Grep Cheatsheet

Quick reference for the grep text search command

Awk Cheatsheet

Quick reference for the awk text processing command

We found 20 Verge-approved gifts on sale ahead of Valentine’s Day

Digital photo frames like the Aura Aspen are down to some of their best prices. Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if you haven’t started...

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Frustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with “out-of-left-field” references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the...

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in...

ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting

The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good’s killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips

This is a video of advice for squid fishing in Puget Sound. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...

Why $700 could be a “death sentence” for the Steam Machine

After writing two November stories analyzing price expectations for Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, I really didn’t think we’d be offering more informed speculation before the official...

Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add support for CarPlay...

This is the Trump Phone

This is the final(ish) design of the T1 Phone, though it’s going to lose the T1 logo. | Screenshot: Dominic Preston / The Verge Where’s the...

Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January…

It’s a renaissance woman’s world

Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs...

COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions

In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought global industry and travel nearly to a halt, satellite sensors recorded a dramatic plunge in nitrogen...

RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs...

I Am in the Epstein Files

Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in January 2026

Welcome to the first monthly report in 2026 from the Reproducible Builds project! These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting...

My Favorite TV to Watch the Winter Olympics Is on Sale

Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung’s Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.

To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn’s second stage reignites

Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate...

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel....

I Tried What US Athletes Will Be Sleeping on at Milano Cortina

Saatva is providing a bedding bundle to Team USA hockey and figure skating at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games—here are my thoughts on it as a...

There isn’t even a cynical explanation for Jeff Bezos destroying The Washington Post

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in...

The Jeffrey Epstein Fortnite account is fake

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a “ruse.” In a reply on X, the developer...

IEEE Online Mini-MBA Aims to Fill Leadership Skills Gaps in AI

Boardroom priorities are shifting from financial metrics toward technical oversight. Although market share and operational efficiency remain business bedrocks, executives also must now manage the complexities...

Google Supercharges Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision

Google has added agentic vision to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with code execution to “ground answers in visual evidence”. According to Google, this not...

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

The entry-level AirPods are about $100. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on...

Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform

As AI agents fan out across enterprise apps, APIs, and data stores, they’re creating a security blind spot: autonomous systems with access to sensitive data that...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 356: Nanoprinting, Vibe Coding, and Keebin’ with Kristina, IN HELL!

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a...

2026.06: SaaSmageddon and the Super Bowl

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...

Ubuntu 26.04 is coming to SpacemiT’s K3 (RISC-V RVA23 SoC)

SpacemiT and Canonical bring Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to the K3 RISC-V SoC, one of the first RVA23-compliant on sale. Ubuntu 24.04 support expands to the K1....

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine – Using Flutter & Dart

Well, here’s an unexpected combination… Toyota’s Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering...

Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars

While mainstream vehicles usually get comprehensive updates every few years, low-volume exotics tend evolve more gradually. Supercar platforms often remain unchanged for a decade or more,...

Spotify’s About the Song offers context and trivia about your favorite tracks

Teddy Swims hopes this song ‘resonates’ with listeners? You don’t say. Spotify is launching About the Song in beta today, which offers context and facts about...

19 Best Food Gifts to Buy Online, as Tested by Our Tastebuds (2026)

From tinned fish to baked goodies, you can deliver the best-tasting treats to their door—even if you don’t live close by.

Aura’s Aspen digital frame is a great gift, especially now that it’s $30 off

The Aura Aspen is a sweet and sentimental gift that’s $199. | Image: Aura Aura’s Aspen digital photo frame is a great Valentine’s Day gift if...

Video Friday: Autonomous Robots Learn By Doing in This Factory

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...

Six stable kernels for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.9, 6.12.69, 6.6.123, 6.1.162, 5.15.199, and 5.10.249 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised...

Moltbook was peak AI theater

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social...

The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

It’s Not a Lomo Smena 8M, But it’s Not Far Off

The joy of camera hacking lies for many at the low end of the market. Not working with many-thousand-dollar Leicas, but in cheap snapshot cameras that...

Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending.

In December 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on the BG2 podcast and made a prediction that felt provocative and hyped. Business applications delivered as Software...

VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing

While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 desktop release are some...

Ardour 9.0 released

The Ardour digital-audio-workstation (DAW) project has announced the release of version 9.0. This is a major release for the project, seeing several substantive new features that...

[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

Control-flow integrity (CFI) is a set of techniques that make it more difficult for attackers to hijack indirect jumps to exploit a system. The Linux kernel...

The Alexa app is so bad I’m using Siri again

My shopping list in Apple’s Reminders app (left) and in Amazon’s Alexa app (right). A recent UI overhaul of the Alexa app has made the list...

How to Build a Résumé Screening System Using Python and Multiprocessing

Hiring the right candidate starts with one time-consuming task: screening résumés. If you’ve ever posted a job opening, you know the pain of hundreds of applications...

New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

Last year, a team of scientists presented evidence that spruce trees in Italy’s Dolomite mountains synchronized their bioelectrical activity in anticipation of a partial solar eclipse—a...

How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services

Slowly but surely, I’ve been migrating over to self-hosted services so I can finally cut the cord to third parties. By keeping things within my LAN,...

More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP

The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?

An autonomous vehicle drives down a lonely stretch of highway. Suddenly, a massive tornado appears in the distance. What does the driverless vehicle do next? This...

Analogue’s 4K N64 is getting five new transparent color options

Extreme green looks hard to resist. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced another collection of limited-edition colors for its modern remake of the Nintendo 64. Last...

Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like...

SQL Server 2025 is generally available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, starting with the CU1 release. This milestone allows enterprises to deploy...

Lawmakers ask what it would take to “store” the International Space Station

Members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee voted to approve a NASA authorization bill this week, advancing legislation chock full of policy guidelines meant...

Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions

The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project provides step-by-step instructions on building a customized Linux system entirely from source. Historically, the project has provided separate System V and...

The Weird Propeller That Offers Improved Agility On The Water

When it comes to seaborne propulsion, one simple layout has largely dominated over all others. You pair some kind of engine with some kind of basic...

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.

AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds

Science washing is afoot. | Image: The Verge, AG1 This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects...

LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning

LinkedIn has rebuilt its static application security testing (SAST) pipeline using GitHub Actions and custom workflows, enabling consistent, enforceable code scanning across thousands of repositories. The...

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations

The trajectory of a storm, the evolution of stock prices, the spread of disease — mathematicians can describe any phenomenon that changes in time or space...

NASA stage show explores “outer” outer space with Henson’s Fraggles

Move over Snoopy, because NASA has a new character helping to promote its deep space exploration plans. His name is Uncle Traveling Matt. No really, move...

Hiring the Canonical way: trust, humanity, and remote-first thinking

Daniele Procida (Director of Engineering) recently shared a practical guide on how to get a job at Canonical. It is an excellent resource for anyone navigating...

Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux

Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel’s much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther...

EU says TikTok needs to drop “addictive design”

Brussels has warned TikTok that its endlessly scrolling feeds may breach Europe’s new content rules, as regulators press ahead with efforts to rein in the social...

How Epstein became a tech influencer

There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel,...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, kernel, python3, and python3.12-wheel), Debian (alsa-lib, chromium, openjdk-25, phpunit, tomcat10, tomcat11, and tomcat9), Fedora (openqa, pgadmin4, phpunit10, phpunit11,...

The Best OLED TVs We’ve Ever Seen: LG, Samsung, and More

Looking to step up to the TV big leagues? These are the best OLED TVs you can buy.

AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 “RDNA 4m”

In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers...

New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots

A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same...

The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

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. An experimental surgery is...

NordProtect (2026) Review: A Bundle of ID-Protecting Services

A privacy-minded bundle that’s almost too simple.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The boys’ club | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images He might be dead, but it sure seems like Jeffrey Epstein won. Sure, Epstein...

Can China’s No. 2 automaker make it in America?

Is the long freeze on Chinese automakers selling cars in the US finally starting to thaw? China is the largest auto market in the world and...

Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes

Welcome to Edition 8.28 of the Rocket Report! The big news in rocketry this week was that NASA still hasn’t solved the problem with hydrogen leaks...

iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter

404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled: The court record shows what devices and data...

BreezyBox: A BusyBox-Like Shell and Virtual Terminal for ESP32

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a similar experience for the...

Waymo Hits a Rough Patch In Washington, DC

The company’s robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC’s...

Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools

Datadog recently announced that its LLM Observability platform now provides automatic instrumentation for applications built with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), offering deeper visibility into the...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #283: Improving Your GitHub Developer Experience

What are ways to improve how you’re using GitHub? How can you collaborate more effectively and improve your technical writing? This week on the show, Adam...

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day… 1776. The year-long series of...

Why a Dehumidifier Is One of My Favorite Gadgets

A good dehumidifier can banish damp and mold, and help you keep a comfortable temperature in your home.

Why the Artemis II Crew Stays in Quarantine Before Their Journey to Moon

For two weeks, medical experts monitor the astronauts as they remain indoors, live in isolation, and avoid physical touch, all to prevent harmful microbes from traveling...

“DHEI” Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments...

Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

As of this week Oracle’s latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux’s native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in...

GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year

GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week…

Sports Betting Is Skyrocketing. Will It Take Over the Olympics?

Typically, the Olympics aren’t a hotbed of gambling. For the 2026 Winter Games, sportsbooks and betting platforms are watching for illicit activity while testing new ways...

What Paralympic Athlete Monster Mike Schultz Packs for His Races

The world champion adaptive snowboard cross athlete repairs his own prostheses before a competition.

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak...

Figure Skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Pushing the Limits of What’s Possible

For years, quad axel jumps seemed impossible. Then Ilia Malinin landed one in 2022. As he heads to the Milano Cortina Games, everyone wants to know...

Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users

One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to...

Presentation: Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a...

Tax Services of 2026: TurboTax and H&R Block Tested

We tested five popular tax services to see which is the best to choose in 2026. Plus, we’ve rounded up helpful tips and guidance to lessen...

Best Slippers for Working From Home or Relaxing (2026)

We tried dozens of house shoes to find the best pairs for working from home, running errands, and avoiding cold floors. Here are the ones worth...

A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial

Juries will soon hear arguments in a case against Meta and Google that could reshape social media protections for kids.

Buying a Mattress in 2026? We Tested 100+ and These Were the Standouts

WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.

An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth

This week I want to tell you about an experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies. Specifically, it’s helping people who have had treatment for...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Tech Elites in the Epstein Files, Musk’s Mega Merger, and a Crypto Scam Compound

Several big names in tech turned up in the Epstein files. In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts break down what it all means and...

How to Install Google Chrome Web Browser on Ubuntu 24.04

Step-by-step instructions for downloading, installing, updating, and managing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 24.04 using the official .deb package and repository.