Month: February 2026

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[$] The reverting of revocable

Transient devices pose a special challenge for an operating-system kernel. They can disappear at any time, leaving behind kernel data structures that no longer refer to...

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LEDs Enter the Nanoscale

MicroLEDs, with pixels just micrometers across, have long been a byword in the display world. Now, microLED-makers have begun shrinking their creations into the uncharted nano...

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A single stable kernel for Thursday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.71 stable kernel. He writes, “All users of the 6.12 kernel series that had issues with 6.12.69 or 6.12.70 should upgrade,...

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (brotli, git-lfs, image-builder, kernel, keylime, libsoup3, and pcs), Fedora (chromium, gnutls, osslsigncode, and p11-kit), Mageia (golang, libpng, thunderbird, and...

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Introducing Markdown for Agents

The way content and businesses are discovered online is changing rapidly. In the past, traffic originated from traditional search engines, and SEO determined who got found...

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3D Printer Surveillance

New York is contemplating a bill that adds surveillance to 3D printers: New York’s 2026­2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) includes language that should alarm...

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Why EVs are gaining ground in Africa

EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa....

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Screen Cheatsheet

Start and Exit # Command Description screen Start a new screen session screen -S work Start session named work screen -ls List running sessions screen -X...

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microgpt

This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and...

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Implementing 3D Graphics Basics

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we...

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Announcing Rust 1.93.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.93.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient...

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Linux man pages 6.17 released

Version 6.17 of the Linux manual-page collection has been released. Along with a long list of updates to the man pages themselves, it includes some new...

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Is a secure AI assistant possible?

AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly. Once they have tools that they...

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Proving What’s Possible

As a formal methods consultant I have to mathematically express properties of systems. I generally do this with two “temporal operators”: A(x) means that x is...

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Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year

Linux Mint developers are considering ending the distro’s six‑month release cycle, a change that could mean fewer updates and a slower release pace. You’re reading Linux...

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Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications...

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[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of...

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Monthly News – January 2026

Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support! We received donations from more than...

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Stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has unleashed six new stable kernels: 6.18.10, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.1.163, 5.15.200, and 5.10.250. Each one contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised...

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Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-6.1, munge, and tcpflow), Fedora (accel-ppp, atuin, babl, bustle, endless-sky, envision, ettercap, fapolicy-analyzer, firefox, glycin, gnome-settings-daemon, go-fdo-client, greenboot-rs,...

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How Do You Define an AI Companion?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Brad Knox: How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful? AI models intended to provide...

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What Exactly Is the Zen of Python?

The Zen of Python is a collection of 19 aphorisms that capture the guiding principles behind Python’s design. You can display them anytime by running import...

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Prompt Injection Via Road Signs

Interesting research: “CHAI: Command Hijacking Against Embodied AI.” Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce...

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What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data...

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FTP Cheatsheet

Connect and Login # Start an FTP session and authenticate. Command Description ftp hostname Connect to server ftp 192.168.1.10 Connect by IP ftp hostname 21 Connect...

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