Month: February 2026

Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is Agent-2-Agent (A2A) for agents to talk...

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw – the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that “actually does things” – absolutely everywhere. Funny...

Baseus’ retractable, 6-in-1 travel adapter is on sale for its lowest price to date

The nifty universal adapter lets you charge your electronics in more than 200 countries worldwide. | Image: Baseus Packing multiple charging adapters can quickly eat up...

Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics

The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2...

F1: Preseason tests show how different 2026 will be

It’s just two weeks until F1 gets underway in Australia, and teams are currently in Bahrain, midway through their third and final preseason test. The 2026...

Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing TP-Link over claims that the router-maker is misleading customers about its ties to China. In a lawsuit filed this...

The History of the View-Master

We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a...

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice

The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into the history of those controversies, it...

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it’s better at complex problem-solving

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping...

Apple TV’s The Hunt finally has a premiere date

The Hunt – Apple TV’s new French-language drama that was previously put on indefinite hold following concerns about plagiarism – has been given a solid release...

The U.S. and China Are Pursuing Different AI Futures

More money has been invested in AI than it took to land on the moon. Spending on the technology this year is projected to reach up...

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of allowing the distribution and storage of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in iCloud. In...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir

“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees...

New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in New York City in December of 2025. | Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images New York Governor...

AI Helped Uncover A “50-80x Improvement” For Linux’s IO_uring

Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI...

Seven stable kernels for Thursday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.3, 6.18.13, 6.12.74, 6.6.127, 6.1.164, 5.15.201, and 5.10.251 stable kernels. As usual, each includes important fixes and users are advised to...

Thermoforming Printed Parts with Hot Water

Thermoforming is the process of softening a material enough so that it can be tweaked into a new shape, with the source of the thermal energy...

Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing

In Formula One, grip is everything. The world’s best engineers devote their careers to designing cars that maximize downforce and grip to squeeze every bit of...

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Media Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions

Insights from Microsoft’s Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures report It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction when viewing online images...

Community Refines Git Packaging Workflow

Contributors and developers within openSUSE Project recently met to coordinate the Git-based packaging workflow for Leap 16 and discussed how the process applies to the Leap...

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image...

Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes

Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very...

[$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

The kernel’s unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvement in recent times. Recent articles have described the addition of the swap...

Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware

The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty...

AMD Announces hipThreads For Easier Porting Of C++ Code To GPUs

The newest addition to AMD’s ROCm/HIP portfolio is HIP Threads “hipThreads” as a C++ style concurrency library for AMD GPUs…

The Requirements of AI

The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. We aren’t convinced....

Reducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key’s Event-Driven Platform

Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events with millisecond latency,...

FOSS Weekly #26.08: KDE Plasma 6.6, Mint Release Schedule Change, ASCII Weather, Firefox Tweaking and More Linux Stuff

Quizzes and Puzzles? Yes or no?

openSUSE governance proposal advances

Douglas DeMaio has announced that Jeff Mahoney’s new governance proposal for openSUSE, which was published in January, is moving forward. The new structure would have three...

Fragments: February 19

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe. I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design, since...

Workload identity federation is generally available

Connect CI/CD and cloud workloads through OIDC, now with support for Terraform, API, and Kubernetes workloads, tsnet integration, and automatic cloud token exchange.

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. “You’ve likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (edk2, glibc, gnupg2, golang, grafana, nodejs:24, and php), Debian (gimp and kernel), Fedora (fvwm3), Mageia (microcode and vim), Oracle...

Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity

When searching for “MT7902” and “Linux” there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining...

Tailscale Services is now generally available

Major improvements make services more powerful, more auditable, and easier to operate at scale, extending Tailscale as a secure connectivity platform across environments.

Bliki: Host Leadership

If you’ve hung around agile circles for long, you’ve probably heard about the concept of servant leadership, that managers should think of themselves as supporting the...

Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys

We love hearing about the latest findings coming out of an Eötvös Loránd University (ELU) research group focused on gifted word learner (GWL) dogs—if only for...

The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots

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. How uncrewed narco subs...

Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared (2026)

We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers in 2026

Presentation: DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation

The panelists share how AI is redefining DevOps and SRE practices by moving teams beyond reactive monitoring toward predictive, automated delivery and operations. They discuss integrating...

8 Best Computer Monitors (2026): Budget, OLED, 4K, and More

The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a portable screen).

9 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find...

Malicious AI

Interesting: Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage...

New Tool Makes 3D Printed PCBs, Fast

Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment. However, it can...

Community Advances Governance Proposal After Virtual Meeting

The openSUSE Project moved forward with a proposed governance structure following a virtual meeting yesterday that drew community members together for a discussion on advancing a...

8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

Quiz: Python’s tuple Data Type: A Deep Dive With Examples

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python tuples. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit various ways to interact with Python tuples. You’ll also...

Best Home Gym Setup (2026): Adjustable Weights, Resistance Bands, and More

Lifting weights can keep you carrying groceries and riding bikes even as you get older. Here’s our guide to a simple home setup.

How a Small Enablement Team Supported Adopting a Single Environment for Distributed Testing

Po Linn Chia presented how they re-used a single development environment to deploy multiple service versions for testing their distributed system in her presentation “No QA...

Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features –...

Peter Pentchev: Ringlet release: fnmatch-regex 0.3.0

Version 0.3.0 of the fnmatch-regex Rust crate is now available. The major new addition is the glob_to_regex_pattern function that only converts the glob pattern to a...

Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75%

Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management “MM” updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is...

Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost

Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instructions for “parsing gigabytes of JSON per second.” Notably it showed years ago...

The building legal case for global climate justice

The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities. They have burned a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s oil...

How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona...

Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.

An Interview with Matthew Ball About Gaming and the Fight for Attention

An interview with Matthew Ball about the state of the video gaming industry in 2026, and why everything is a fight for attention.

Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking

Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation results from...

PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features

PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and video streams...

This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off

Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.

Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 Review: Stronger Build, Sweeter Sound

Bowers & Wilkins’ latest Px7 headphones keep sound and style at the forefront, with brilliant results.

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by...

ZIP/UNZIP Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Common command forms for ZIP operations. Command Description zip [OPTIONS] archive.zip files Create or update ZIP archive unzip [OPTIONS] archive.zip Extract ZIP archive...

Mag-Lev Lemming Refuses To Fall

Are you ready to feel old? Lemmings just turned thirty-five. The famous puzzle game first came out in February of 1991 for the Commodore Amiga, before eventually being...

Article: Spec-Driven Development – Adoption at Enterprise Scale

Spec‑Driven Development shifts AI‑augmented software delivery from tactical prompting to collaborative intent articulation. Enterprises face gaps in tooling, workflow integration, multi‑repo coordination, and cross‑functional collaboration. Sustainable...

What it takes to make agentic AI work in retail

Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Prasad Banala, director...

From integration chaos to digital clarity: Nutrien Ag Solutions’ post-acquisition reset

Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Sriram Kalyan, head...

Dnf Command in Linux: Package Management Guide

dnf (Dandified YUM) is the default package manager on Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and other RPM-based distributions. It replaces the older yum package manager and...

IP Command Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use this structure for most ip operations. Command Description ip [OPTIONS] OBJECT COMMAND General ip command syntax ip -br a Show addresses in...

This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source)

If you are looking for a free video downloader that just works on Linux, Windows or macOS, VidBee is the ideal choice here.

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony

The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026

Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN...

How to Develop AI Agents Using LangGraph: A Practical Guide

AI agents are all the rage these days. They’re like traditional chatbots, but they have the ability to utilize a plethora of tools in the background....

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AI agent goes rogue; debuginfo; iocaine; revocable resource-management patches; 7.0 merge window; AccECN; LLMs and security; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team....

Innovation is a team sport: Top 10 stories from across the Red Hat ecosystem

No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an...

Production-ready: Red Hat’s blueprint for 2026

Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the...

Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026, same as in the previous two...

Anthropic: You can still use your Claude accounts to run OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Co.

OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and the various other personal AI agents that are all the hype right now can quickly burn through millions of AI tokens. What has...

Clint Adams: Holger says

sq network keyserver search $id ; sq cert export --cert=$id > $id.asc Posted on 2026-02-18 Tags: quanks

More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 “RDNA 4m”

Earlier this month we spotted the addition of a new GFX1170 GPU target in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Making this GFX1170 target interesting is that its...

Product-Led Research: A Practical Guide for R&D Leaders [Full Book]

Your team needs to solve a problem, and there’s no clear solution path. Multiple approaches might work, but you’re not sure which. Success isn’t guaranteed. This...

How to Elevate Your Database Game: Supercharging Query Performance with Postgres FDW

Foreign data wrappers (FDWs) make remote Postgres tables feel local. That convenience is exactly why FDW performance surprises are so common. A query that looks like...

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price in Months

Bose’s fabulous QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 noise-canceling headphones are the best travel headphones and are $50 off.

Linux 7.0 Showing Some Early Performance Regressions On Intel Panther Lake

With the Linux 7.0 merge window beginning to calm down ahead of the 7.0-rc1 release due out on Sunday, one of the areas I was most...

Verizon acknowledges “pain” of new unlock policy, suggests change is coming

Following our report last week that Verizon is forcing people to wait 35 days for phone unlocks after paying off device installment plans, Verizon is apparently...

Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development

AI is drowning codebases in machine-written output, but without a strategic framework, we aren’t just innovating; we’re automating the creation of legacy mess, one enterprise software...

Chevy Bolt, BMW i3, or something else? At $10k, you have lots of EV options

2026 is looking like a pretty good year for affordable electric vehicles. There’s a new Nissan Leaf that starts at a hair under $30,000 (as long...

2026 Hackaday Europe Call for Participation: We Want You!

Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for. But wait! This year there’s a twist, or rather two. What absolutely hasn’t changed,...

Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths”

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency was accused of abandoning its mission to protect public health after repealing an “endangerment finding” that has...

This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

Save on Gaming Earbuds Perfect for Playing on Switch or ROG Xbox Ally

While it may sound unorthodox, these earbuds make a great companion for your Switch 2 or other portable console.

Sliderule Simulator Teaches You How To Do Calculations The Old Fashioned Way

Ever wanted to know how engineers made their calculations before digital calculators were on every workbench? [Richard Carpenter] and [Robert Wolf] have just the thing—a sliderule...

5 changes to know about in Apple’s latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS betas

This week, Apple released the first developer betas for iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, and its other operating systems. On Tuesday, it followed those up...

Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.

Polestar aims to shake off EV doldrums with 4 new models in 3 years

Polestar says it will release four new electric models over the next three years, including a new SUV and a revamped version of its Polestar 2...

Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when...

IEEE Course Improves Engineers’ Writing Skills

In the rapidly evolving world of engineering technology, professionals devote enormous energy to such tasks as mastering the latest frameworks, optimizing architectures, and refining machine learning...

Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads

Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some Pentium II era...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard

The release also includes a new color blindness filter, an on-screen keyboard, and better high refresh rate display handling.

Microsoft is bringing a built-in network speed test to Windows 11

Microsoft is working on a bunch of new features for Windows 11, including a new network speed test that you can access from your taskbar. The...

Ken Watanabe didn’t think a kabuki movie would work

A three-hour-long period drama about kabuki, a centuries-old form of Japanese theater, doesn’t exactly sound like box office gold. But that’s exactly what happened with Kokuho....

Intel’s Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home

Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of path-based renderers. With time Blender began making...

A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is $200 off, marking a new low price

Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is an excellent 2-in-1. | Image: The Verge If you want a Chromebook that can double as a tablet when you...

Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out

It is open source, vendor-neutral, and free to self-host.

FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its shocking refusal to consider Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine for approval. The refusal was revealed last week in a...

Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth?

Maybe you’ve heard, but Elon Musk is apparently a Moon fan now. He has historically been the ultimate cheerleader for human missions to Mars, and as...

Is your on-call rotation quietly burning out top talent?

On-call work is a fact of life for IT operations (ITOps) teams, but as systems complexity and business pressure mount, burnout can quickly spread across teams....

System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware

Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern desktops and workstations. Helping distinguish System76 from...

Audible syncs ebook reading and audiobook listening to keep you focused

On Wednesday, Audible launched a new “immersion reading” feature that could help readers concentrate on their audiobooks by allowing them to read along with the ebook...

Stream of Consciousness Driven Development

This is something I just tried out last week but it seems to have enough potential to be worth showing unpolished. I was pairing with a...

Antoine Beaupré: net-tools to iproute cheat sheet

This is also known as: “ifconfig is not installed by default anymore, how do I do this only with the ip command?” I have been slowly...

The Dismal Repairability of Milwaukee Tools

Despite the best efforts of the manufacturers, there are folks out there that try to repair power tools, with [Dean Doherty] being one of them. Recently...

Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind

Here’s a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components — because you can literally make a card “component” out of Tailwind utilities....

Linux 7.0 Brings Several Enhancements For Modern Laptops

The x86 platform driver updates were merged recently for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window. As is a common theme for platform-drivers-x86, a lot of the...

Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

At a glance Microsoft Research publishes breakthrough in Nature on glass-based data storage that could preserve information for 10,000 years.  New technique extends technology from expensive fused silica to ordinary borosilicate...

Ring and Kidde’s Newest Smoke Detector Is Here, and It’s Battery Powered (2026)

The Alexa-enabled smoke detector is Kidde’s second model in collaboration with Ring—no wires required.

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

It’s a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of endoplasmic...

Computer Networking Fundamentals

How does the Internet really work? For many technical jobs it is important to understand computer networking. We just posted a massive 12-hour course that will...

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors,...

Record scratch—Google’s Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music “the universal language of mankind.” Is that still true when the so-called music is being generated by a...

Burnt Hair and Soft Power: A Night Out With Evie Magazine

Evie is a longtime favorite of far-right. At its very first live event, the strength of the publication’s politics was in the pretense that it doesn’t...

Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app

Let Gemini be your, uh, Bard? | Image: Google Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind’s latest audio model....

Fragments: February 18

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced...

Google Pixel 10A preorders come with a $100 gift card

As promised, Google opened preorders for its Pixel 10A midrange phone, and it’ll launch on March 4th. We already published a hands-on with the device, and...

[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP

The “More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification” (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft. The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over...

Waymo denies using remote drivers after Senate testimony goes viral

Waymo defended its use of remote assistants for its robotaxis after the testimony of one of its top executives during a Senate hearing went viral. In...

Stream Tailscale logs to Google Cloud Storage

Send Tailscale logs directly into your own GCS storage and manage them with your existing Google Cloud controls.

The Best Google Pixel Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

Here’s a guide to all the models—plus Pixel case recommendations and smart software tricks to try.

Dell UltraSharp U5226KW: An Outstanding 52-Inch 6K Monitor With Extensive Connectivity

Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5223KW monitor. While the model number may not imply much, this monitor is...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no...

Fleet device posture integration is now generally available

Use Fleet-managed device state in Tailscale access policies to ensure access matches device posture.

Tomorrow’s Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies

One day soon, a doctor might prescribe a pill that doesn’t just deliver medicine but also reports back on what it finds inside you—and then takes...

Fedora now available in Syria

Justin Wheeler writes in Fedora Magazine that Fedora is now available in Syria once again: Last week, the Fedora Infrastructure Team lifted the IP range block...

Ancient Ice production

Today, we take ice for granted. But having ice produced in your home is a relatively modern luxury. As early as 1750 BC, ancient people would...

Google’s Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

It’s that time of year—a new budget Pixel phone is about to hit virtual shelves. The Pixel 10a will be available on March 5, and pre-orders...

Huntress device posture integration is now generally available

As Huntress endpoint protection posture changes, access policies can respond automatically—without manual updates.

The Google Pixel 10a Is Barely Different From the Pixel 9a

With specs nearly identical to last year’s Pixel 9a, the new Pixel 10a doesn’t pack as much of a punch as prior A-series smartphones.

Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks

I’m sure you’ve heard of streaks or used an app with one. But ever wondered why streaks are so popular and powerful? Well, there is the...

Thomas Lange: 42.000 FAI.me jobs created

The FAI.me service has reached another milestone: The 42.000th job was submitted via the web interface since the beginning of this service in 2017. The idea...

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

Customer-deployed, high-throughput relaying with production-level readiness, and you can run on it on any Tailscale node.

An Asahi Linux progress report

The Asahi Linux project, which is working to implement support for Linux on Apple CPUs, has published a detailed 6.19 progress report. We’ve made incredible progress...

An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog)

Adam Harvey, on behalf of the crates.io team has published a blog post to inform users of a change in their practice of publishing information about...

X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail

In Qing dynasty China, artisans augmented decorative pieces by incorporating iridescent kingfisher feathers—a technique known as tian-tsui. Scientists at Northwestern University’s Center for Scientific Studies in...

Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another

Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ceph, gimp, gnutls28, and libpng1.6), Fedora (freerdp, libpng, libssh, mingw-libpng, mingw-libsoup, mingw-python3, pgadmin4, python-pillow, thunderbird, and vim), Mageia (postgresql15),...

How to Install Python on Your System: A Guide

To learn how to install Python on your system, you can follow a few straightforward steps. First, check if Python is already installed by opening a...

LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0

The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.0 on CRAN: Easier Calendar Switching

The eighteenth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today. There have been no calendar updates in QuantLib 1.41 or 1.42 so it has been...

The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives

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. Welcome to the dark...

6 agentic knowledge base patterns emerging in the wild

AI agents have become the software industry’s latest fascination. Backed by large language models (LLMs), this new class of AI is unlocking data-driven decision-making and autonomous...

Building Self-Hosted Trading Infrastructure on openSUSE

Modern Linux systems are increasingly used to run autonomous, policy-driven services that operate continuously without user interaction. One example is a self-hosted trading agent running on...

Amazon alone is responsible for 52% of tech layoffs in 2026 so far

That’s a lot. The post Amazon alone is responsible for 52% of tech layoffs in 2026 so far appeared first on LeadDev.

AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

The title of the post is”What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works,” and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27,...

An Open Source Client for World of Warcraft

When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space. Millions of players continue to login every month. [Kelsi...

Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial

Over the last few years, evidence has piled up that psychedelic drugs can provide relatively rapid relief from the symptoms of clinical depression. The drugs seemingly...

Understanding the /etc/fstab File in Linux

The /etc/fstab file (filesystem table) is a system configuration file that defines how filesystems, partitions, and storage devices are mounted at boot time. The system reads...

The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Reviewed (2026)

A svelte smart ring can track important activity, sleep, and health metrics. Unlike some smartwatches, a ring doesn’t need to be charged every day.

Why Olympic Choreographer Benoît Richaud Went Viral Just for Changing Jackets

Benoît Richaud is working with 16 figure skaters from 13 countries at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. WIRED spoke to him about how he roots...

GitHub Agentic Workflows Unleash AI-Driven Repository Automation

Recently launched in technical preview, GitHub Agentic Workflows introduce a way to automate complex, repetitive repository tasks using coding agents that understand context and intent, GitHub...

Quiz: How to Install Python on Your System: A Guide

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of how to install Python. This quiz covers questions about how to check which version of Python is installed...

Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping

Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support...

Dell XPS 14 Review (2026): This Laptop Marks an Incredible Comeback

Sporting a refined design and incredible integrated GPU performance, the Dell XPS 14 is the return to form I hoped it would be.

Are Mushroom Supplements Worth Taking? (2026)

We spoke with registered dietitians and tested popular formulas to break down the research behind functional fungi.

FreeBSD’s KDE Desktop Install Option Ready For Testing

As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based...

Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0

Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator “DSA” 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches...

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream

“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter. As we...

The robots who predict the future

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience...

The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: “People would love to have a...

Shopify Earnings, Shopify’s AI Advantages

Shopify is poised to be one of the biggest winners from AI; it would behoove investors to actually understand the businesses they are selling.

KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS

All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel…

Nobody knows what programming will look like in two years

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An Inside Look at Lego’s New Tech-Packed Smart Brick

Lego’s next release is a digital brick loaded with sensors that add new layers of interactivity to its play sets. WIRED got exclusive access to the...

Predict, compare, and reduce costs with our S3 cost calculator

Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to...

How to Choose the Bamboo Sheets for You (2026)

Bamboo makes some of the softest bedding you can find. Here’s how it’s made and how it’s different from cotton and linen bedding.

Gentoo Linux Migrates Mirror Infrastructure to Codeberg

Gentoo Linux is migrating its mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg to avoid forced Copilot usage. Learn how to use the new AGit workflow and what this...

Presentation: Panel: Modern Data Architectures

The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about “click-and-drag” UI tools; it is software engineering applied to data. By Fabiane Nardon, Matthias Niehoff,...

The Raspberry Pi as a Studio Camera

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors....

DNF Cheatsheet

Basic Commands # Start with package lists and metadata. Command Description dnf --version Show DNF version dnf check-update List available updates dnf makecache Refresh repository metadata...

MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet

Connect and Exit # Open a SQL session and disconnect safely. Command Description mysql -u root -p Connect as root (prompt for password) mysql -u user...

How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search

Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived context, and continuous evaluation...

8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch

The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who...

Retro Rover: LT6502 Laptop Packs 8-Bit Power on the Go

Making your own laptop can be a challenging project, but a doable one, especially given the large number of options available today for computing. Of course...

Lowe’s Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 40% Off Appliances

Find the latest Lowe’s promo codes and offers, including up to 40% off select major appliances and $5 off $50 with sign-up, here at WIRED.

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GNOME 50 Merges “sdr-native” Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays

As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week’s GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter...

NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While “NTFS Remake” Driver Bakes

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is...

The Best Way to Pay Your Taxes Online (2026)

Paying US federal and state taxes online can be confusing, and one wrong move can result in penalties or extra money owed. We break it down...

SAS Viya Platform with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

In this article, we provide essential “how to” technical information for deploying SAS Institute’s SAS Viya platform, on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) as...

How llm-d brings critical resource optimization with SoftBank’s AI-RAN orchestrator

As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it’s no longer just about whether they can run AI...

Red Hat Learning Subscription Course reimagines virtual training

Virtual training, which flexibly delivers live, instructor-led learning, has become a core component of modern IT skills development. As demand for scalable, role-relevant training has grown,...

Simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux provisioning in image builder with new Red Hat Lightspeed security and management integrations

Last November, we announced that Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, the next evolution of our predictive analytics service. While the name is new,...

Notes on clarifying man pages

Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page....

Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems

Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access...

Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool

The Docker run command is a great introduction to running containers. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it’s fairly easy to learn. It’s also a bit limiting....

GameHub will give Mac owners another imperfect way to play Windows games

For a while now, Mac owners have been able to use tools like CrossOver and Game Porting Toolkit to get many Windows games running on their...

How to Use Different Container Runtimes: Docker, Podman, and Containerd Explained

If you’re a developer working with containers, chances are Docker is your go-to tool. But did you know that there’s a whole ecosystem of container runtimes...

AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For “RMPOPT” To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers

AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT...