Month: February 2026

LibreOffice 26.2 Released With Many Refinements To This Open-Source Office Suite

LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite…

One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop

A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit...

LibreOffice 26.2 Released with Big Excel Improvements & Markdown Support

LibreOffice 26.2 is here with multi-user Base, better Excel pasting, Markdown support and speed boosts. Coming to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Download now. You’re reading LibreOffice 26.2...

Why Are Some Women Training for Pregnancy Like It’s a Marathon?

A growing legion of “zero trimester” influencers are convincing followers that healthy pregnancies are a choice—and that raw milk, watching sunsets, and pricey specialized courses can...

Apple Earnings, Supply Chain Speculation, China and Industrial Design

Apple’s earnings could have been higher but the company couldn’t get enough chips; then, once again a new design meant higher sales in China.

libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org...

AMD Expands FPGA Offerings With Mid-Range Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2

AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for “intelligent, high performance systems” for medical, industrial, and other...

AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

Vercel Introduces Skills.sh, an Open Ecosystem for Agent Commands

Vercel has released Skills.sh, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with a standardized way to execute reusable actions, or skills, through the command line....

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims

Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine...

Agent Trace: Cursor Proposes an Open Specification for AI Code Attribution

Cursor has published Agent Trace, a draft open specification aimed at standardizing how AI-generated code is attributed in software projects. Released as a Request for Comments...

Linux Kernel 6.19 RC8 Released: A Calm Final Rehearsal for the Stable Release

Linus Torvalds released the Linux Kernel version 6.19 RC8. Linux 6.19 final will be released on 8 February 2026. The post Linux Kernel 6.19 RC8 Released:...

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal

The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and...

Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026

Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of...

Article: From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect...

Astro Announces Version 6 Beta with Redesigned Development Server and First-Class Cloudflare Workers

Astro 6 Beta transforms web development with a revamped server leveraging Vite’s Environment API, first-class Cloudflare Workers support, and stable live content collections. Emphasizing performance and...

GitHub Reworks Layered Defenses After Legacy Protections Block Legitimate Traffic

GitHub engineers recently traced user reports of unexpected “Too Many Requests” errors to abuse-mitigation rules that had accidentally remained active long after the incidents that prompted...

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

It’s been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those...

A VIC-20 Emulator In Your Browser

The Commodore VIC-20 was a solid microcomputer that paved the way for the legendary Commodore 64 to come. If you’re a fan of the machine and...

How to Install Python on Ubuntu 24.04

This guide explains how to install Python on Ubuntu 24.04 using the deadsnakes PPA or by building from source. Covers Python 3.13, 3.14, and virtual environments.

Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣

echo “don’t panic”

Binary Star

17 Must-Have Tools for Ubuntu Users in 2026

The post 17 Must-Have Tools for Ubuntu Users in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article, you will discover...

Finally! Firefox Is Getting a Kill Switch for Its (Unwanted) AI Features

Maybe this will bring back some of those lost users.

Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much...

Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate

Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st. In an FAQ, the company now says that Animate will now be in maintenance...

Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments

While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD...

Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds

Papers gains new PDF annotation tools, including ink, text boxes and improved form support, now available in GNOME Nightly builds. You’re reading Papers adds handwriting &...

Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being too ‘woke’

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos (L) and Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition...

Lego Typewriter Writes Plastic Letters

Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the...

What’s new in post-quantum cryptography in RHEL 10.1

In May 2025, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) shipped with the first steps toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against attacks by quantum computers, which...

Netflix says users can cancel service if HBO Max merger makes it too expensive 

There is concern that subscribers might be negatively affected if Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios businesses. One of the biggest fears...

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027

Microsoft confirmed last year that it’s working on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Now, AMD is hinting that the next Xbox console, which...

Sed Cheatsheet

Quick reference for sed stream editor

Godlike Titan threatens humanity in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 trailer

Last month, Apple TV released a teaser for the second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, part of Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse, which brought Godzilla, King Kong,...

Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished

In September 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI announced a letter of intent for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI’s AI infrastructure. At the time,...

Department of Justice appeals Google search monopoly ruling

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and the plaintiffs in the antitrust case against Google filed a cross-appeal, as the DOJ Antitrust Division announced in a...

Slopaganda goes West

After right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley‘s viral video alleging fraud at Minnesota daycares he said were operated by Somali residents, Donald Trump’s administration responded by flooding the...

Borderlands 4 for Switch 2 is on ‘pause’

Development on the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 is on “pause,” according to a statement from a Take-Two spokesperson given to Variety. “We made...

An ‘Intimacy Crisis’ Is Driving the Dating Divide

In his book The Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue...

The four best Super Bowl TV deals we found

The Super Bowl is not only one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it’s also one of the best times of year to find...

Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy

A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the...

NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist

A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for...

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The...

Rewinding a Car Alternator for 240 Volt

Two phases installed on the stator. (Credit: FarmCraft101, YouTube) As part of his quest to find the best affordable generator for his DIY hydroelectric power system,...

Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee “FESCo” has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end...

X office raided in France’s Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning

French law enforcement authorities today raided X’s Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of an investigation into illegal content. The Paris public...

Microsoft says it’s building an app store for AI content licensing

Microsoft says it is working on the Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM), an AI licensing hub that shows usage terms set by publishers. That way, AI companies...

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of...

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota’s Killings

Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved...

Ysgrifennu Côd yn Gymraeg (Writing Code in Welsh)

Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are...

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support to enable AWS account access and managed application use in additional AWS Regions....

Upgrade Your Roku Before the Big Game

Roku is knocking down the price of all of its streaming devices ahead of football’s big game.

Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2

Although it was finally replaced last year by the new Switch 2, the orginal switch isn’t done just yet. Many recent Switch games (and a handful...

Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date

Chromebooks debuted 16 years ago with the limited release of Google’s Cr-48, an unassuming compact laptop that was provided free to select users. From there, Chromebooks...

Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP

Apple has announced a new version of Xcode, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for building software for its own platforms, like the...

Republicans Are All In on Boosting Fraud Allegations in California

Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE’s surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare...

Oh Dear! Notepad++ Was Quietly Compromised for Six Months (But Don't Panic Just Yet)

The attack occurred last year, but updating to a recent version is still recommended.

Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity?

Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network. If you believe Elon Musk, Moltbook is at the “very early stages of the...

Wing Commander III: “Isn’t that the guy from Star Wars?”

It’s Christmas of 1994, and I am 16 years old. Sitting on the table in our family room next to a pile of cow-spotted boxes is...

Deepdive: How 10 tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools

Right now, it seems like almost every tech company is changing its developer tooling stack, which is a big shift from eighteen months ago when the...

GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements – Including HiDPI

In time for next month’s GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to...

Upset at reports that he’d given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard

Amid the Trump administration’s attack on universities, Harvard has emerged as a particular target. Early on, the administration put $2.2 billion in research money on hold and...

Staying secure and simple in a complex world

Ross is joining to help us shape what Tailscale’s product lines become next, as we grow and evolve. We’re going to keep it understandable, predictable, and...

Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX

We warned you! Today, Ingress NGINX is still being used by 50% of Kubernetes users to manage incoming traffic, but it’s long been slotted for retirement. We...

Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2026 talk recording available

FOSDEM 2026 was great! I hope to blog a proper postmortem in due course. But for now, The video of my talk is up, as are...

Breaking Boundaries in Wireless Communication

This paper discusses how RF propagation simulations empower engineers to test numerous real-world use cases in far less time, and at lower costs, than in situ...

No Hassle Visual Code Theming: Publishing an Extension

Creating your theme is the fun part. After you’re done, the next step is to publish your theme so you — and others — can enjoy...

How to Install Docker on Debian 13 (Trixie)

Learn how to install Docker on Debian 13 Trixie step by step using the official Docker repository. Includes verification, non-root access, updates, and uninstall steps.

China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year

Flush door handles have been quite the automotive design trend of late. Stylists like them because they don’t add visual noise to the side of a...

Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks

For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” performance on Linux, today’s the day! Last Thursday...

Best Microsoft Surface Laptop (2026): Which Model to Buy or Avoid

Surface Pro or Surface Laptop? Here’s how to decide which Microsoft device is right for you.

[$] The future for Tyr

The team behind Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to produce a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware, and by the...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, iperf3, kernel, kernel-rt, openssl, osbuild-composer, php:8.2, python3, util-linux, and wireshark), Debian (clamav and xrdp), Fedora (gimp...

Senior staff departing OpenAI as firm prioritizes ChatGPT development

OpenAI is prioritizing the advancement of ChatGPT over more long-term research, prompting the departure of senior staff as the $500 billion company adapts to stiff competition...

AI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from...

Nintendo’s Virtual Boy Is a Silly but Fun Blast From the Past

This $100 accessory adds a little bit of that Nintendo quirkiness to the otherwise no-nonsense Switch 2.

OpenAI Begins Article Series on Codex CLI Internals

OpenAI recently published the first in a series of articles detailing the design and functionality of their Codex software development agent. The inaugural post highlights the...

Getting Started With Google Gemini CLI

This video course will teach you how to use Gemini CLI to bring Google’s AI-powered coding assistance directly into your terminal. After you authenticate with your...

Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads

Today, we are launching Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. With Local Uploads enabled, object data is automatically written to a storage location close to...

7 Best Shower Filters (2026), WIRED Tested and Approved

We tested leading filtered shower heads, from Rorra to Canopy to Jolie. The winners were clear.

Pocket TTS: High-Quality Local Voice Cloning Without GPU

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs, no latency. 100M parameters, 200ms latency, voice cloning included. The post Pocket TTS:...

36 Years in Making, GNU's Very Own Kernel Project Hurd is Anything But Dead

Better late than never!

Windows 11 May Introduce a Linux-like Feature for its Power Users

This sure does feel familiar to any Linux user. And it is for Windows power users.

Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being “Fundamentally Broken”

Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem’s Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to...

The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis

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. Microbes could extract the...

A Continuous Glucose Monitor Might Help You Lose Weight (2026)

Signos is the first FDA-cleared, AI-enabled system that uses CGMs to nudge you toward healthier behaviors.

Koala Wanda Sofa Bed Review: Compact Comfort

This sleeper sofa comprises a reversible chaise, sofa, daybed, and queen-size bed—I slept on it for a week to see if it’s good for guests.

Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys

Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year. It’s possible for users to store those...

LED Interior Lighting Could Compromise Human Visual Performance

LED lighting is now commonplace across homes, businesses, and industrial settings. It uses little energy and provides a great deal of light. However, a new study...

The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris released a self-replicating program into the early Internet. Within 24 hours, the Morris worm had infected roughly 10...

Introducing Deno Sandbox

Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.

Deno Deploy is Generally Available

Deno Deploy is now generally available, plus some highlights of new features and tools.

‘Fallout’ Producer Jonathan Nolan on AI: ‘We’re in Such a Frothy Moment’

The Westworld showrunner thinks AI will be good for burgeoning filmmakers, but not for Hollywood blockbusters.

A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats

With ICE and CBP roaming the streets, united community action is more important than ever right now – from local mutual aid groups to school safety...

Etleap Launches Iceberg Pipeline Platform to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Apache Iceberg

Etleap has recently launched the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new managed data pipeline layer designed to let enterprises adopt Apache Iceberg without building or maintaining a...

Nick Goepper’s Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

What a three-time Olympic medalist packs for the Milano Cortina Winter Games.

12 Athletes to Watch at the 2026 Winter Olympics

History is already being made at the Milano Cortina Games—and they haven’t even started.

All the Sports You Won’t See at the 2026 Winter Olympics

The makeup of the Winter Olympics has changed many times in the 100-plus years of the Games. Here are some sports that haven’t stood the test...

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris’ IPS Package Management To Rust

OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of...

How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against...

‘She Has a Presence’: The ‘Melania’ Superfans Who Turned Up for Opening Weekend

WIRED attended two documentary screening parties—one on each coast—for the First Lady’s film. What a time.

How to tear gas children

The day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had...

Microsoft and Software Survival

Listen to this post: Log in to listen One way to track the AI era, starting with the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, is by which...

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes

Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing...

Rising Temperatures Are Taking a Toll on Sleep Health

As nights get hotter around the globe due to climate change, the prevalence of sleep apnea is expected to increase by as much as threefold.

X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto

The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year’s X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm…

Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One

So what’s the difference between combobox, multiselect, listbox, and dropdown? While all these UI components might appear similar, they serve different purposes. The choice often comes...

Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time...

AWS IoT Greengrass comes to Ubuntu Core

AWS’s open source edge run time meets Canonical’s fully containerized OS for devices delivering a supported and robust end-to-end answer for enterprises looking to develop their...

Tutorial: getting started with AWS IoT Greengrass on Ubuntu Core

We recently announced that you can now benefit from the combined power of Ubuntu Core and AWS IoT Greengrass to bring the computation, storage, and AI...

What Tailwind teaches us about open source in the age of AI

The rise of AI coding tools is a stress test on open source software business models. The post What Tailwind teaches us about open source in...

How Resident Evil 2 for the N64 Kept its FMV Cutscenes

Originally released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998, Resident Evil 2 came on two CDs and used 1.2 GB in total. Of this, full-motion video (FMV)...

Article: Working with Code Assistants: The Skeleton Architecture

Prevent AI-generated tech debt with Skeleton Architecture. This approach separates human-governed infrastructure (Skeleton) from AI-generated logic (Tissue) using Vertical Slices and Dependency Inversion. By enforcing security...

What 7 years as a contractor taught me about onboarding 

How to enable your developers to make an instant impact. The post What 7 years as a contractor taught me about onboarding  appeared first on LeadDev.

Dev Proxy v2.1 Introduces Configuration Hot Reload and Stdio Traffic Proxying

The Dev Proxy team has released Dev Proxy version 2.1, introducing new features aimed at improving developer productivity and simplifying local testing workflows. This release focuses...

Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March

The launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first flight of astronauts to the Moon in more than 53 years, will have to wait another month...

How to Enable AI Agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux

The post How to Enable AI Agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Learn how to...

The Switch is now Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time

The original Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update – January 2026

Software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed beginning in 2026 started off fast and paused in the middle of the month before resuming. New major versions transactional-update...

[Yang-Hui He] Presents to The Royal Institution About AI and Mathematics

Over on YouTube you can see [Yang-Hui He] present to The Royal Institution about Mathematics: The rise of the machines. In this one hour presentation [Yang-Hui...

5 Must-Try AI Tools for Linux Users in 2026

The post 5 Must-Try AI Tools for Linux Users in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article, you will...

MongoDB Introduces Embedding and Reranking API on Atlas

MongoDB has recently announced the public preview of its Embedding and Reranking API on MongoDB Atlas. The new API gives developers direct access to Voyage AI’s...

KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems

The KDE desktop’s new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.6 will mark the first time that KDE requires that the underlying OS uses systemd,...

Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions

The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files shed light on the convicted sex offender’s ties to Silicon Valley—and Peter Thiel’s exacting approach to food.

Print-in-Place Gripper Does It With a Single Motor

[XYZAiden]’s concept for a flexible robotic gripper might be a few years old, but if anything it’s even more accessible now than when he first prototyped...

Achieve more with Red Hat OpenShift 4.21

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21, based on Kubernetes 1.34 and CRI-O 1.34, is now generally available. Together with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, this release demonstrates our...

Evolution to a sovereign TechCo: Embracing Polycloud, agentic AI, and digital trust

The clock is ticking for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). To survive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, every CSP must transition to a TechCo model and beyond....

Valhalla’s Things: A Day Off

Posted on February 3, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits Today I had a day off. Some of it went great. Some less so. I woke up, went...

Durable Execution: Build reliable software in an unreliable world

Software reliability is a persistent problem for developers because IT systems are built on unreliable components: hardware degrades; software has bugs; networks drop packets; large language...

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

By fusing SpaceX and xAI—which acquired X last year—Elon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.

Rsync Cheatsheet

Quick reference for rsync commands and options

Adobe Animate is shutting down next month

Adobe is pulling the plug on Adobe Animate. In a FAQ posted to Adobe’s website, the company says it will stop selling the animation software on...

Looking back at Catacomb 3D, the game that led to Wolfenstein 3D

If you know anything about the history of id Software, you know how 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D helped establish the company’s leadership in the burgeoning first-person shooter...

Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier

Crunchyroll is one of the most popular streaming platforms for anime viewers. Over the past six years, the service has raised prices for fans, and today,...

Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything

AI is ubiquitous in both the consumer and enterprise sectors. Yet few organizations are realizing AI’s full potential. Why? AI agents must make decisions and take...

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation...

Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’

Waymo announced a $16 billion investment round aimed at bringing its robotaxi business to more US cities, as well as some overseas markets. The funding round...

Here are the best Apple Watch deals available right now

The Apple Watch SE 3 — our go to pick for most people — is on sale starting at $219 ($30 off) for a limited time....

IEEE Considers Safety Guidelines for Neurotech Consumer Products

Nonmedical devices that read brainwaves, such as smart headbands, headphones, and glasses, are becoming more popular among consumers. The products claim to make users more productive,...

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk’s companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon. “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most...

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

Elon Musk is merging two of the companies that he leads, SpaceX and xAI (which also owns X), into one. According to an announcement from Musk:...

Will Elon Musk’s emails with Jeffrey Epstein derail his very important year?

Last week, the Department of Justice released a trove of documents related to its case against Jeffrey Epstein, its largest to date. Amid the millions of...

Isoken Ibizugbe: How Open Source Contributions Define Your Career Path

Hi there, I’m more than halfway through (8 weeks) my Outreachy internship with Debian, working on the openQA project to test Live Images. My journey into...

Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access

Ukraine and SpaceX say they recently collaborated to stop strikes by Russian drones using Starlink and will soon block all unregistered use of Starlink terminals in...

Why enterprise businesses should adopt immutable Linux for the desktop

If you’ve been a part of the Linux community for even a brief period, over the past few years, chances are pretty good that you’ve stumbled...

How to Debug React State Updates Like a Pro (Without Polluting Production)

When you’re debugging a large React codebase, you might start to feel like a detective. Especially when you are looking for unexpected state changes, components that...

Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was “brittle.” Here’s how 2.0 fixes it.

The new, revised Chainguard Factory 2.0 swaps out 1.0’s fragile, event-driven pipeline with a self-healing system powered by a new open source framework called DriftlessAF. Lots...

A Higher-End Pico-Based Oscilloscope

Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now, but microcontrollers have recently become fast...

Patryk Cisek: Bitwarden Secrets Manager With Ansible

If you’d like to have a simple solution for managing all the secrets you’re using in your Ansible Playbooks, keep reading on. Bitwarden’s Secrets Manager provides...

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants

Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived...

OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents

OpenAI is betting that coding agents are outgrowing the terminal. The company launched a macOS desktop app on Monday for its Codex software development agent, which focuses less on...

Firefox 148 Ready With New Settings For AI Controls

With the concerns raised over comments by Mozilla’s new CEO with wanting to evolve Firefox into a “modern AI browser”, the Firefox 148 release due out...

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction

The Trump administration is no fan of renewable energy, but it reserves special ire for wind power. Trump himself has repeatedly made false statements about the...

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China

Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last...

Git 2.53.0 released

Version 2.53.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include documentation for the Git data model, the ability to choose the diff algorithm...

Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored...

The tech monoculture is finally breaking

Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale’s Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović...

The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most...

Ikea’s next cheap Bluetooth speaker is a playful purple mouse

Following the debut of its $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speakers at CES 2026, Ikea is introducing another wireless speaker with a playful design and an affordable price...

Linux Prepares To Support Microsoft’s “Turn On Display” DSM To Address Laptop Issues

Microsoft in Windows 11 22H2 introduced a new ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM) “Turn On Display” notification that the Linux 7.0 kernel will be adding support...

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products—including lead paint and leaded gasoline—in the 1970s because of its toxic effects on human health. Scientists...

Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China’s LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5

Recently I finally got my hands on a LoongArch processor, the ISA developed by China’s Loongson Technology as an evolution from their earlier use of the...

Ongoing RAM crisis prompts Raspberry Pi’s second price hike in two months

The ongoing AI-fueled shortages of memory and storage chips has hit RAM kits and SSDs for PC builders the fastest and hardest, meaning it’s likely that,...

Judge rules Department of Energy’s climate working group was illegal

On Friday, a judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the law in forming its Climate Working Group, which released a report that was intended to...

Usagi’s New Computer is a Gas!

[Dave] over at Usagi Electric has a mystery on his hands in the form of a computer. He picked up a Motorola 68000 based machine at...

Dyson Deals: WIRED’s Top Pick Pet Vacuum and Purifier-Heater

WIRED’s favorite pet vacuum and our favorite purifier-heater are on steep discount right now.

DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims’ names, reports say

The Epstein files released by the Department of Justice on Friday included at least a few dozen unredacted nude photos and names of at least 43...

Our Favorite Soundbar for Most People Is $50 Off

Yamaha’s simple setup and substantial subwoofer set it apart, especially on sale.

Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel’s best laptop CPU in a very long time

Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them has been across-the-board awful or totally without redeeming qualities....

You can turn off every Firefox AI feature this month

Firefox 148 adds a new “AI Controls” panel to granularly disable or entirely block AI features with a kill-switch. Opt out of AI when the update...

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. What would it...

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only 10 human cases reported worldwide in...

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

Today, OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool that was previously used through a command line interface (CLI) on...

Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory

While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026)

Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New...

Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short

While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various...

Why Civilization VII is the way it is, and how its devs plan to win critics back

It has been difficult at times for new mainline releases in the Civilization series of games to win over new players right out of the gate....

How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos

In early 2007, René Hudec was in Building D of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, thumbing through roomfuls of floor-to-ceiling cabinets that look more like a...

Beyond automation: Dynatrace unveils agentic AI that fixes problems on its own

AI unsurprisingly took center stage during the keynotes and throughout much of Dynatrace Perform 2026, the annual user conference last week in Vegas. But while AI now plays a...

Here’s what Cities: Skylines 2’s new developer is updating first

Back in November, Cities: Skylines 2 publisher Paradox made the surprising announcement that longtime series developer Colossal Order would be ceasing work on the series as part...

Ouch – the Raspberry Pi just got more expensive (again)

Raspberry Pi announces new price hikes for 2026, blaming the “AI infrastructure roll-out” for rising RAM costs. Pi 4 and Pi 5 models get way more...

Presentation: Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his “Three Levels of Impact” framework and shares practical...

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters

A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing,...

Hellen Chemtai: Career Growth Through Open Source: A Personal Journey

Hello world ! I am an intern at Outreachy working with the Debian OpenQA team on images testing. We get to know what career opportunities awaits...

[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table

The kernel’s swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical component in the memory-management subsystem and has a significant impact...

Don’t Regulate AI Models. Regulate AI Use

At times, it can seem like efforts to regulate and rein in AI are everything, everywhere, all at once. China issued the first AI-specific regulations in...

Airbnb Expands Global Checkout with “Pay as a Local,” Scaling to 220 Markets in 14 Months

Airbnb expands its global checkout with the “Pay as a Local” initiative, supporting over 20 locally preferred payment methods across 220 markets. The company replatformed its...

How to Use –dry-run Flag in Linux Commands: Avoid Mistakes Before They Happen

Learn how to use –dry-run in Linux commands like rsync, apt, and git. Preview changes before execution to avoid data loss. The post How to Use...

No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension

Years ago, when I read Sarah Drasner’s article on creating a VS Code theme, I silently thought to myself, That’s a lot of work… I’m never...

Paul Tagliamonte: Paging all Radio Curious Hackers

After years of thinking about and learning about how radios work, I figured it was high-time to start to more aggressively share the things i’ve been...

Narwhals become quieter as the Arctic Ocean grows louder

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy waters. The speckled toothed whales—sometimes...

The crucial first step for designing a successful enterprise AI system

Many organizations rushed into generative AI, only to see pilots fail to deliver value. Now, companies want measurable outcomes—but how do you design for success? At...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (iperf3, kernel, and php), Debian (ceph, pillow, pyasn1, python-django, and python-tornado), Fedora (bind9-next, cef, chromium, fontforge, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk,...

The Terminal: First Steps and Useful Commands for Python Developers

The terminal provides Python developers with direct control over their operating system through text commands. Instead of clicking through menus, you type commands to navigate folders,...

Experimental Linux Code For 1GB PUD-Level THPs Shows 34% Faster Memory Access Times

Early, experimental code for implementing 1GB PUD-level THPs in the Linux kernel are showing positive benchmark results but other upstream stakeholders were surprised by this patch...

Linux's Second-in-Command Greg Kroah-Hartman Bestowed With The European Open Source Award

Linux kernel maintainer honored at Brussels ceremony for decades of critical infrastructure work.

NASA gears up for one more key test before launching Artemis II to the Moon

If all goes according to plan Monday, NASA’s launch team at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will load more than 700,000 gallons of super-cold propellants into...

The Download: inside a deepfake marketplace, and EV batteries’ future

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the marketplace powering...

3 Best Floodlight Security Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Light up and secure your driveway, backyard, or porch with a floodlight security camera.