Month: February 2026

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script

Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler...

pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards

The pg_lake extension, which was initially released to the open source community in November, is now natively available in Snowflake Postgres, the cloud data warehouse’s fully managed...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Jan. 30...

8 Best Couples Sex Toys (2026), Tested and Reviewed

No matter if you’re in the same room or an ocean away, these sex toys will help you stay connected to your partner.

I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work

An AI assistant in the terminal can help you guide through the process, help you move faster with your tasks. I tested Qwen Code and share...

How to make a local open source AI chatbot who has access to Fedora documentation

If you followed along with my blog, you’d have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. (And if not, no worries as the scripts below...

MUI Releases Base UI 1 with 35 Accessible Components

Base UI 1.0 has officially launched! This unstyled React component library, backed by MUI, offers 35 accessible components with a commitment to long-term maintenance. With refined...

Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS New Features And Release Timeline

Discover Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, code-named Resolute Raccoon, new features, roadmap, and release timeline. The post Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS New Features And Release Timeline appeared first...

Conductor Quantum Introduces Coda, a Natural Language Interface for Quantum Computing

Conductor Quantum has announced Coda, a natural language interface for running quantum programs on real quantum hardware. The system is positioned as a software layer that...

Getting the VIC-20 To Speak Again

The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of the 16-bit era. The Commodore VIC-20 had no such capability...

DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech

A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to.

Birger Schacht: Status update, January 2026

January was a slow month, I only did three uploads to Debian unstable: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr updated to 0.8.1-1 swayimg updated to 4.7-1 usbguard updated to 1.1.4+ds-2, which...

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

A Deep Dive Into Inductors

[Prof MAD] runs us through The Hidden Power of Inductors — Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and...

3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not...

Accelerating VM migration to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Hitachi storage offload delivers faster data movement

If you’re modernizing your virtualization infrastructure, you’ve probably discovered that migrating thousands of virtual machines (VMs) takes far longer than anyone anticipated.For IT leaders who haven’t...

Friday Five — February 6, 2026

Don’t forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta! Register by February 23 for the lowest rates,...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 5)

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...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 312 released

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 312. This version includes the following changes: [ Jelle van der Waa ] *...

Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

systemctl Cheatsheet

Quick reference for systemctl service and systemd unit management

journalctl Cheatsheet

Quick reference for viewing and filtering systemd journal logs

How to Dockerize Your Application and Deploy It

A step-by-step guide to containerising a FastAPI application with Docker and deploying it to the cloud for consistent, production-ready delivery. Modern applications rarely live in isolation....

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, users should be managing teams of...

How to Optimize PySpark Jobs: Real-World Scenarios for Understanding Logical Plans

In the world of big data, performance isn’t just about bigger clusters – it’s about smarter code. Spark is deceptively simple to write but notoriously difficult...

How to Build a Production-Ready Feature Flag System with Next.js and Supabase

Feature flags are powerful tools that let you control which features are visible to users without deploying new code. They enable gradual rollouts, A/B testing, and...

The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)

In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to...

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the...

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support

The GNU Nettle cryptographic library is out with a major new update that introduces support for SLH-DSA, the post-quantum signature scheme selected by NIST for the...

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?

Despite talk of its impending demise, the vibe coding craze appears to be alive and well, particularly in Europe. A new study by vibe marketing website LeadsNavi analyzed Google search...

“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and...

The one structural shift CISOs must make before AI outpaces their security strategy

Enterprise CISOs are stuck at a crossroads. Their budgets aren’t growing fast enough, AI is sucking up every bit of enterprise data, and the software environments...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got...

Open source USearch library jumpstarts ScyllaDB vector search

ScyllaDB, an open source columnar database, recently added vector search capabilities underpinned by USearch, an open source clustering and vector search library. The addition of vector...

Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent...

Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features

Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other...

Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University...

The enterprise is not ready for “the rise of the developer”

Asked what enterprises aren’t ready for as AI advances, Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace offers a prediction — and before doing so, admits it may get him...

9 Great Deals on WIRED-Approved Valentine’s Day Gifts (2026)

These swoon-worthy deals on WIRED-tested date-night boxes, sex toys, and other gadgets will make your Valentine’s Day extra sweet.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex model is the company’s most capable agentic coding model yet. However, unlike previous Codex models, it focuses not only on coding. With this...

Bad sleep made woman’s eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck

A poor night’s sleep might leave you feeling like your eyelids have filled with lead—and keeping them open is the ultimate dead lift. But for some,...

The 2026 Winter Olympics Will Have a Major Impact on the Region’s Snow

A recent report found that carbon emissions caused by the Milano Cortina Olympics could lead to the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and millions...

The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Gay Dating App

The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.

The Latest Apple Watch Is $100 Off

Upgrade to a full day of battery life and new health features.

Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android “very soon”

There is very little functional difference between iOS and Android these days. The systems could integrate quite well if it weren’t for the way companies prioritize...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Will No Longer Block D3cold For All Battlemage GPUs

Merged a year ago to the Linux kernel’s Xe graphics driver was a change to disable D3Cold across all Battlemage GPUs. This was done due instability...

OpenAI is hoppin’ mad about Anthropic’s new Super Bowl TV ads

On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch complained on X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two of which...

Anthropic debuts Opus 4.6 with standout scores for solving hard problems that other AIs miss

Anthropic launched Opus 4.6 on Thursday, an update to its flagship Opus model that delivers major improvements over its predecessor—and many competitors—across virtually every benchmark. Opus...

Why Your UI Won’t Update: Debugging Stale Data and Caching in React Apps

Your UI doesn’t “randomly” refuse to update. In most cases, it’s rendering cached data, which is data that was saved somewhere so the app doesn’t have...

Harvard CS50 2026 – Free Computer Science University Course

Harvard University’s CS50 is one of the most popular beginner computer science courses in the world. We just released the entire 25-hour CS50 course on the...

Rethinking imitation learning with Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models

At a glance Imitation learning becomes easier when an AI agent understands why an action is taken. Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDMs) predict plausible future states, clarifying the direction of behavior...

Debian’s CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic

LLM scrapers for AI are even hungry for Debian’s continuous integration “CI” data. Due to the ongoing abuse of the open web by LLM scrapers, the...

OpenClaw Full Tutorial for Beginners

The AI landscape has shifted in 2026 from passive chatbots to proactive autonomous agents, with OpenClaw leading the charge as the most viral open-source project of...

New Raspberry Pi 4 models splits RAM across dual chips

A new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been (quietly) introduced. The key difference? It now uses a dual-RAM configuration. The Raspberry Pi...

It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw

All those security fears about the OpenClaw AI agent and its social network, Moltbook, are already proving true, according to security researchers who have been cataloguing...

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super refresh is delayed, and the RTX 60-series might miss 2027

The Super refresh to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs was expected at CES 2026 in January, but it didn’t make an appearance. The Information reports that in...

PlayStation’s live service push continues with a co-op Horizon spinoff

Sony is expanding its Horizon universe again with Horizon Hunters Gathering, a “cooperative action game” in development by franchise creator Guerrilla for PS5 and PC. Horizon...

Three Decades Of ReactOS

Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been...

Game consoles built streaming — until it outgrew them

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. It’s...

Peloton’s gamble on expensive new hardware has yet to pay off

Last fall, new Peloton CEO Peter Stern made a bet. The company announced a complete refresh of its entire hardware lineup, complete with swivel screens and...

Pinterest fires two engineers for building layoff-tracking tool

The pressure is building. The post Pinterest fires two engineers for building layoff-tracking tool appeared first on LeadDev.

This black hole “burps” with Death Star energy

Back in 2022, astronomers were puzzled by a so-called “tidal disruption event” (TDE), dubbed AT2018hyz, that had faded when it was first noticed three years earlier,...

“Quantum Twins” Simulate What Supercomputers Can’t

While quantum computers continue to slowly grind towards usefulness, some are pursuing a different approach—analog quantum simulation. This path doesn’t offer complete control of single bits...

@KamalaHQ is relaunching as a Gen Z ‘progressive content hub’

Kamala Harris’ social media strategy in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election was filled with Gen Z dog whistles: viral branding based on pop music,...

NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon

The iPhone is going orbital, and this time it will be allowed to hang around for a while. On Wednesday night, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed...

10 strategies to reduce MCP token bloat

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached an inflection point. While some MCP deployments are still in the experimentation phase, many are moving the technology into...

Context Engineering for Coding Agents

The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding agent’s context has exploded over the past few months. Claude Code is leading the...

Why is the Trump administration really appealing its Meta loss?

After a federal judge ruled that Meta was not an illegal monopolist in a blow against the Federal Trade Commission, the agency issued what was in...

[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map

The first installment in this series introduced several data structures in the kernel’s swap subsystem and described work to replace some of those with a new...

Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS

For decades, enterprises reacted to shifting business pressures with stopgap technology solutions. To rein in rising infrastructure costs, they adopted cloud services that could scale on...

Tesla slipped behind VW in European EV sales last year

Electric vehicle enthusiasts are probably right to feel a little disheartened about the state of the United States’ transition to EVs. But they should take heart...

CSS Bar Charts Using Modern Functions

New CSS features can sometimes make it easier and more efficient to code designs we already knew how to create. This efficiency could stem from reduced...

JLab’s new Bluetooth speaker doubles as supersized headphones

JLab, a brand best known for its budget-friendly but well-featured wireless earbuds, has announced a new pair of headphones that are far less discreet. The oversized...

How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written in Blood

It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation,...

Motorola Moto Watch Review: Polar-Powered

Motorola partnered with Polar to make an Android smartwatch that delivers improved fitness stats.

Reality is losing the deepfake war

Today, we’re going to talk about reality, and whether we can label photos and videos to protect our shared understanding of the world around us. No...

Nintendo reveals an impressive Switch 2 lineup with Indiana Jones, Fallout 4, FF7 Rebirth, and more

We just got through the Switch 2’s first holiday season, which means that Nintendo has slowly started to reveal what 2026 will look like for the...

tload Command in Linux: Monitor System Load in Real-Time

Complete tload command guide for Linux. Monitor CPU load average with live ASCII graphs. Installation, usage examples, and comparison with top/uptime. The post tload Command in...

Intel Arc B390 Graphics Performance On Linux With Panther Lake

Yesterday was our first look at the Intel Panther Lake Linux performance with the Core Ultra X7 358H and focused on the CPU performance. In today’s...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (brotli, curl, kernel, python-wheel, and python3.12), Debian (containerd), Fedora (gnupg2, pgadmin4, phpunit10, phpunit11, phpunit12, phpunit8, phpunit9, and yarnpkg), Mageia...

Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis

When Valve announced its Steam Machine desktop PC and Steam Frame VR headset in mid-November of last year, it declined to announce pricing or availability information...

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the Internet...

Can I offer you a tiny Bluetooth speaker in these trying times?

I knew as soon as I laid eyes on Vappeby that I had to have it. Sure, it would be right at home on my desk,...

2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

Welcome to the 24th edition of Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report. In this report, Cloudforce One offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of...

TrueNAS 26 Looks Toward OpenZFS 2.4, Linux 6.18 LTS & LXC Container Support

Following the release of TrueNAS 25.10 for this Linux-based, OpenZFS-running operating system focused on network appliances / storage devices, iX systems has shared some of their...

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

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. This is the most...

Ubuntu To Support The SpacemiT K3 As One Of The First RISC-V RVA23 SoCs

Canonical and SpacemiT announced today that Ubuntu Linux will be officially supported on SpacemiT’s new K3 RISC-V SoC. What makes the K3 interesting is being one...

These 10 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested (2026)

We tested some of the most popular automatic dry- and wet-food pet feeders to see which ones are worth the money.

Electronic Waste Graveyard Immortalizes Dead Electronics

Everyone here can think of a cloud-connected product that was killed because the company that made it stopped supporting it. While these corporations have forgotten their...

Backdoor in Notepad++

Hackers associated with the Chinese government used a Trojaned version of Notepad++ to deliver malware to selected users. Notepad++ said that officials with the unnamed provider...

SpacemiT announces the availability of  Ubuntu on K3/K1 series RISC-V AI computing platforms

SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. today announced a  collaboration with Canonical to make  Ubuntu available on SpacemiT’s new K3 SoC and the existing K1 series RISC-V...

What Is Thread? Matter’s Smart Home Network Protocol, Explained

Thread is a mesh networking protocol that connects low-power smart home gadgets, and it’s one of Matter’s underlying technologies.

The Best Flower Delivery Services of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

Skip the sad grocery store bouquet this Valentine’s Day. These online flower delivery services do the heavy lifting for you—just don’t forget the card.

OpenCode: an Open-source AI Coding Agent Competing with Claude Code and Copilot

Open-source AI coding tool OpenCode features a native terminal-based UI, multi-session support, and compatibility with over 75 models, including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and local models. In...

Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production

Teams rely on strong unit and integration tests instead of end-to-end tests. Using TDD, pair programming, and good design, they ship small changes often, test in...

FOSS Weekly #26.06: Bash Manual in Epstein Files, Linux after Linus, Nano like Editors, France Takes on Big Tech and More

Your weekly assortment of FOSS news, Linux tips and open source tools.

Brenna Huckaby Starter Pack: Paralympic Winter Games 2026

How this four-time Paralympic medalist controls her controllables under the spotlight.

How the Olympic Torchbearers Are Chosen

From world-class athletes to the stars of Heated Rivalry, torchbearers are selected for their inspiring stories. Here’s what to know about the people carrying the flame...

Krita 6.0 Beta Released – Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support

The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita...

Three questions about next-generation nuclear power, answered

Nuclear power continues to be one of the hottest topics in energy today, and in our recent online Roundtables discussion about next-generation nuclear power, hyperscale AI...

How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China

Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now.

An Interview with Benedict Evans About AI and Software

An interview with Benedict Evans about the crisis facing software, the future of the corporation, OpenAI, and the struggle to define the LLM paradigm.

NetBSD’s Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don’t Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon

For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD’s considerations for Rust in its kernel, you...

LibreOffice 26.2 is a Maintenance Release That Feels Like a Stable One

Performance upgrades and format compatibility improvements land with this release.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue

Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.

Google Pushes for gRPC Support in Model Context Protocol

Google Cloud is bridging a critical gap for enterprises by introducing a gRPC transport package for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enhancing integration for businesses already...

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from...

Intel ISPC 1.30 Released With AMX Support Added To The Standard Library

Intel ISPC 1.30 is now available as the latest feature update to their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a variant of the C programming language to...

When Mains Networking Fails, Use Phone Wires

A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline...

Python Switch Case Statement (match-case)

Learn how to use Python’s match-case statement (structural pattern matching) as a switch-case equivalent. Covers if-elif-else, dictionary lookup, and match-case with examples.

I Didn’t Care for Dildos Until I Tried This One From Lelo

Even if you typically don’t like dildos, the Lelo Gigi 3 could be your ticket to sexual pleasure.

How to Fix Fail2Ban Startup Errors on Debian 13 During SSH Hardening

Error triggered during SSH hardening? No worries! This guide explains how to fix fail2Ban startup error on Debian Linux 13 step by step. The post How...

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Learn how to build a responsible AI system for your website or web application.

CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions

When learning the principles of basic CSS, one is taught to write modular, reusable, and descriptive styles to ensure maintainability. But when developers become involved with...

I Tried the TerraMaster F4-425 Plus as My First NAS; Here’s What I Liked (and Didn’t)

Thinking about your first NAS, too? Here’s my hands-on TerraMaster F4-425 Plus review covering setup, performance, software, and limitations.

Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack: Is Your Version Secure?

Notepad++ update servers were compromised for 6 months in 2025. Learn how the Chrysalis backdoor targeted users and why you must manually update to version 8.9.1...

Restoring the Soul of a 1940s Radio

Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment, we can also sympathize with the...

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

At a glance Microsoft Research releases PazaBench and Paza automatic speech recognition models, advancing speech technology for low resource languages. Human-centered pipeline for low-resource languages: Built...

Museums incorporate “scent of the afterlife” into Egyptian exhibits

In 2023, scientists identified the compounds in the balms used to mummify the organs of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman, suggesting that the recipes were unusually complex...

Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance

The Linux 6.19 merge window had introduced support for larger pages and compression with the Nouveau kernel driver, which ultimately should help provide a performance win...

Detecting Helium Leaks with Sound in a Physics-Based Sensor

Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless non-reactivity also means traditional gas sensing methods don’t...

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available

The Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available to install. It brings Linux kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2.7 and Wayland Protocols 1.45 to the current LTS....

LinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale

LinkedIn’s engineering team successfully upgraded its legacy ZooKeeper service discovery platform to enhance scalability and performance. By leveraging Apache Kafka and the xDS protocol, the new...

System76’s COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience

Following December’s release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: rfoaas 2.3.3: Limited Rebirth

The original FOAAS site provided a rather wide variety of REST access points, but it sadky is no more (while the old repo is still there)....

GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling

Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their “50.beta” releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory...

Netflix Says if the HBO Merger Makes It Too Expensive, You Can Always Cancel

During a hearing at the US Senate, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company is working with the US government on guardrails against more price hikes.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Sigil; Eurydice; Sub-schedulers for sched_ext; Swap table; Futex robust lists; Tyr. Briefs: openSUSE governance; Git 2.53.0; LibreOffice 26.2; Open...

5K iMac Turned Into 5K Display

While Apple weren’t the first to invent high-DPI displays or to put them into consumer electronics, they did popularize them fairly effectively with the Retina displays...

AI insights with actionable automation accelerate the journey to autonomous networks

The telecommunications industry is accelerating its digital transformation, driven by the increasing complexity of modern networks and the demand for faster, more reliable services rollout. To...

The Best Super Bowl TV Deals (2026)

Upgrade your viewing setup before inviting your friends over to watch the big game.

Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more...

FBI stymied by Apple’s Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist’s iPhone

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone because it was protected by Apple’s Lockdown...

Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available

Last year, we launched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances, M8i instances, and R8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available...

No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes...

Microsoft’s New Open-Source Project: LiteBox As A Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS

Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security...

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis.

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing...

Debian’s Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away

You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian’s data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts...

US House takes first step toward creating “commercial” deep space program

A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on Wednesday. The legislation must still be approved by...

How AOSP 16 Bluetooth Scanner Works: The Ultimate Guide

Ah, Bluetooth. The technology we all love to hate. It’s like that one friend who’s always just about to connect, but then… doesn’t. For years, Android...

Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week’s worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa...

Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn’t intervened to block SEC lawsuit

Donald Trump is so far not stepping in to help Elon Musk end a lawsuit raised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his 2022...

How to Use Monorepos in Flutter

As Flutter applications grow beyond a single mobile app, teams quickly encounter a new class of problems. Shared business logic begins to be copied across projects....

Trump admin is “destroying medical research,” Senate report finds

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration, appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Tuesday....

Setting Docker Hardened Images free

In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to...

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepad++ update infrastructure to deliver a backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows.

Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P

In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and...

Paying Tribute to Finite Element Field Computation Pioneer

MVK Chari, a pioneer in finite element field computation, died on 3 December. The IEEE Life Fellow was 97. Chari developed a finite element method (FEM)...

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

“Capture it all”: ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorists” database that lists US citizens...

Our Favorite Pixel Phone Is $100 Off

While the Pixel 9a isn’t the fanciest offering, it is the best value, and it gets even better with a discount.

GitHub is letting developers choose between Copilot and its biggest rivals

GitHub subscribers now have a choice of coding agents to help them create. In addition to GitHub’s own Copilot, users can choose from Anthropic’s Claude Code,...

Fragments: February 4

I’ve spent a couple of days at a Thoughtworks-organized event in Deer Valley Utah. It was my favorite kind of event, a really great set of...

User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app

Adobe has canceled plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate. On Monday, Adobe announced that it would stop allowing people to sell subscriptions to Animate...

Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To “Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs”

While link-time optimizations “LTO” can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to...

[$] API changes for the futex robust list

The robust futex kernel API is a way for a user-space program to ensure that the locks it holds are properly cleaned up when it exits....

How to Build and Deploy a LogAnalyzer Agent using LangChain

Modern systems generate huge volumes of logs. Application logs, server logs, and infrastructure logs often contain the first clues when something breaks. The problem is not...

Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics Debut Next-Generation Sports Smarts

From 6-22 February, the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy will feature not just the world’s top winter athletes but also some of the most...

How TCP Turns Round Trip Time and Jitter into Packet Loss

Have you ever noticed that your network connection sometimes feels fast and then suddenly slow, even when nothing obvious has changed? A request that takes 20...

JetBrains will enable Wayland support in IntelliJ 2026.1

JetBrains confirms native Wayland support for IntelliJ IDEs starting in 2026.1. The move from X11 improves scaling and performance for Linux developers. You’re reading JetBrains will...

Cozey Neptune Sofa Bed Review: Firm but Flexible

This modular sleeper sofa allows buyers to design any seating configuration they want, if they don’t mind a solid surface.

GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More

With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2...

Community to Discuss New Governance Proposal

Members of the openSUSE community will have a virtual meeting on Feb. 18 at 3:30 p.m. UTC to discuss a proposed governance framework aimed at clarifying...

Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs

“I’m all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,”...

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

When you slip a slide under a microscope, a system of glass lenses magnifies the object of your attention — a microbe, for example. But even...

Mistral’s New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money

“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup’s vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major...

Best Laptop Backpacks We’ve Tried and Tested (2026)

Whether you’re biking to the office or schlepping a camera to a shoot, a laptop bag is your constant companion. These WIRED-reviewed packs do the job.

The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust

ClickHouse’s decision to shift parts of its codebase to Rust is a perfect storm: the convergence of a wildly popular database and a language riding a...

[$] Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs

Creating an ebook in EPUB format is easy, for certain values of “easy”. All one really needs is a text editor, a few command-line utilities; also...

Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites

European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent. Officials believe that the...

LibreOffice 26.2 released

Version 26.2 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. LibreOffice 26.2 is focused on improvements that make a difference in daily work and brings better...

Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing

While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel “ANV”...

Presentation: Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

Sarah Usher discusses the architectural “breaking point” where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw,...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (openqa, os-autoinst, python-jupytext, python-python-multipart, rust-sequoia-keystore-server, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and xen), Oracle (curl, kernel, net-snmp, python3, and python3.12),...

NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room with the SLS rocket

The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old, and it continues to be dominated by two unfortunate traits: It is...

AI meets SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu

Partnership between Microsoft and Canonical Since 2016, when Microsoft announced its intention to make Linux a first class citizen in its ecosystem, Canonical and Microsoft have...

Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming Beyond Records

The OpenJDK Amber project has published a new design note proposing “carrier classes” and “carrier interfaces” to extend record-style data modeling to more Java types. The...

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

The previous article in this series, “Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary,” focused on the first AI-orchestrated espionage campaign and the failure of...

What Is RGB LED TV? Everything You Need to Know About This Next-Gen TV Tech In 2026

With incredible colors, brightness, and contrast, RGB backlighting is the technology that will drive the next 10 years of innovation in televisions and displays.

Logic for Programmers New Release and Next Steps

It’s taken four months, but the next release of Logic for Programmers is now available! v0.13 is over 50,000 words, making it both 20% larger than...

Why You Should Attend a Python Conference

The idea of attending a Python conference can feel intimidating. You might wonder if you know enough, if you’ll fit in, or if it’s worth your...

The Best Cordless Vacuums for Your Whole House (2026)

Clean your house without the constraint of a power cord with these cordless stick vacuums.

GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements

Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on...

The Download: the future of nuclear power plants, and social media-fueled AI hype

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. Why AI companies are...

9 Best Outdoor Security Cameras (2026): Battery-Powered, LTE, No Subscription

These weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered and LTE cameras that...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: More Features (and Fixes)

The twentythird release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in the now twenty year history (!!) as a (initially non-CRAN)...

Why Microsoft engineers are using Claude Code 

Keeping an eye on the competition. The post Why Microsoft engineers are using Claude Code  appeared first on LeadDev.

Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

Instead of using AI as a coach, our AI chatbots just began talking to each other, as we became human facilitators for an AI love story....

US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites

The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006. I’m actually impressed to see a declassification...

Comparing a Clone Raspberry Pi Pico 2 With an Original One

Although [Thomas] really likes the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and the RP2350 MCU, he absolutely, totally, really doesn’t like the micro-USB connector on it. Hence he...

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

I can’t code. I know, I know—these days, that sounds like an excuse. Anyone can code, right?! Grab some tutorials, maybe an O’Reilly book, download an...

Sen. Warren wants to know what Google Gemini’s built-in checkout means for user privacy

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout feature into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter...

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in January 2026

Debian packages: dracut: Bugs: replied to and reassigned #1124400: update-initramfs no longer includes /lib/modules/<kver>/updates directory flash-kernel: Bugs: closed #1102690: A higher version (…) is still installed,...

Outdoor Vitals Vantage Alpine Puffer Jacket Review: Perfect Spring Puffer

Outdoor Vitals’ Vantage Alpine puffer jacket uses gold-embedded down to break up water molecules to keep you warm and dry.

Winter Olympics 2026: Why I Love Watching Curling

Within the sports culture of more, bigger, and faster, the epically slow winter sport of curling is an entrancing watch.

The 2026 Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies: What You Need to Know

From Heated Rivalry stars to the event’s iconic venues, here’s what you should be looking out for at the Winter Olympics 2026 opening and closing ceremonies.

Alpine Skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

From maple syrup packets to a latex pillow, these are his personal essentials that bring a taste of Vermont to Milan.