Month: February 2026

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1Password is going up in price

1Password is increasing its prices on March 27th, 2026. In an email sent to users, the password manager says it will raise the price of its...

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GNU Awk 5.4.0 released

Version 5.4.0 of GNU awk (gawk) has been released. This is a major release with a change in gawk’s default regular-expression matcher: it now uses MinRX...

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Firefox 148.0 released

Version 148 of Firefox has been released. The most notable change in this release is the addition of a “Block AI enhancements” option that allows turning...

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Knowledge Priming

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants – lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He’s noticed five...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and munge), Debian (openssl), Mageia (gegl), Oracle (firefox, freerdp, gnupg2, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libpng15, munge,...

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Start Building With FastAPI

FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python. It leverages standard Python type hints to provide automatic validation, serialization, and interactive documentation. When you’re...

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Is AI Good for Democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country,...

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AI Will Never Be Conscious

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

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chown Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chown. Command Description chown USER FILE Change file owner chown USER:GROUP FILE Change owner and group chown...

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X-Ray a PCB Virtually

If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it.  But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a...

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GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This major release contains many new and improved functions. Among other things, it brings...

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The mythical agent-month

Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new...

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How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes?

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many...

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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel-rt and openssl), Debian (ca-certificates, chromium, gegl, glib2.0, libvpx, modsecurity-crs, nova, and pillow), Fedora (chromium, mingw-libpng, mupdf, python-pyasn1, python-PyMuPDF,...

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How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften...

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Python for Loops: The Pythonic Way

Python’s for loop allows you to iterate over the items in a collection, such as lists, tuples, strings, and dictionaries. The for loop syntax declares a...

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Fragments: February 23

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security,...

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On the Security of Password Managers

Good article on password managers that secretly have a backdoor. New research shows that these claims aren’t true in all cases, particularly when account recovery is...

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Calculus by Oscilloscope

Even entry-level oscilloscopes today have simple math functions such as adding or subtracting two channels. But as [Arthur Pini] notes, more advanced scopes can now even...

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Quiz: Build a Hash Table in Python With TDD

In this quiz, you’ll review hash functions, collision resolution strategies, hash function distribution, the avalanche effect, and key principles of Test-Driven Development. For more practice and...

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AI for Cybersecurity: Promise, Practice, and Pitfalls

AI is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape. From accelerating threat detection to enabling real-time automated responses, artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.But...

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A Candle-Powered Light

For a little over two thousand years, the primary light sources after the sun had set were oil lamps and candles. This was well before the...

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The Age-Verification Trap

Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use,...

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rm Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for file and directory removal. Command Description rm [OPTIONS] FILE... Remove one or more files rm -r [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY... Remove...

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

Linus has released 7.0-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. “You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the...

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Hackaday Links: February 22, 2026

We’ll start things off this week with some breaking news from NASA: just days after the space agency announced the Artemis II crew was preparing to...

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Rust debugging survey 2026

We’re launching a Rust Debugging Survey. Various issues with debugging Rust code are often mentioned as one of the biggest challenges that annoy Rust developers. While...

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mv Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for move and rename operations. Command Description mv [OPTIONS] SOURCE DEST Move or rename one file/directory mv [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DIRECTORY...

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Poem: The Attraction of Blackberries

The first time she tried to seduce me,(atoms falling in a vacuum)she asked about blackberries—(every mass exerts some gravity) Did I know their season, where they...

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