Month: February 2026

Sex Toys for Every Type of Body and Ability (2026)

From app-controlled toys to mounts and wearables, I tested a variety of sex toys for every type of body and ability.

How to Parse Command-Line Options in Bash with getopts

The getopts command is a Bash built-in that provides a clean, structured way to parse command-line options in your scripts. Instead of manually looping through arguments...

Article: From Prompts to Production: A Playbook for Agentic Development

In this article, author Abhishek Goswami shares a practitioner’s playbook with development practices, that describes building agentic AI applications and scaling them in production. He also...

Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics

The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a substantial...

Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical

A new CNCF report identifies Kubernetes as the primary engine for AI growth, with 82% production adoption. However, technical maturity has outpaced organisational change. Human factors,...

Scanning Table for the Professional Maker

Sometimes the simplest objects need some overthinking. This is exactly what [Chris Borge] realized when using his 3D scanner and finding that the included rotation table...

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The Complex Engineering of Runways

Airport runways seem pretty simple, just another strip of asphalt or concrete not unlike the roads that our cars drive upon every day. We can even...

The Toyota Highlander is now a three-row electric SUV with 320 miles of range

Toyota unveiled the new 2027 Highlander, a fully redesigned midsize SUV that marks the brand’s first three-row electric vehicle for the US market and the first...

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review Moderna’s application for an mRNA flu vaccine, the company revealed Tuesday. While the move came as a...

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

The ad promotes Ring cameras’ new capability to search neighborhoods for a lost dog. | Screenshot from Ring video Ring’s new Search Party feature has once...

Google Chrome 145 Released With JPEG-XL Image Support

Back in 2022 Google deprecated and then removed JPEG-XL image support from the Chrome/Chromium browser codebase and now in 2026 it’s back. Last month I wrote...

Making a Hidden Door Status Sensor

The door sensor in its new enclosures. (Credit: Dillan Stock) A common sight in ‘smart homes’, door sensors allow you to detect whether a door is...

Simplifying modern defence operations with Red Hat Edge Manager

The modern front line has evolved into a hyperconnected, software-driven ecosystem. From reconnaissance drones to thousands of sensors embedded across the theatre, the network’s edge is...

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter is stepping down after six years

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th,...

SpaceX’s next-gen Super Heavy booster aces four days of “cryoproof” testing

The upgraded Super Heavy booster slated to launch SpaceX’s next Starship flight has completed cryogenic proof testing, clearing a hurdle that resulted in the destruction of...

Bezos could have saved The Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters

Demonstrators hold a “Save The Post” sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a “Save The Post” rally outside the Washington Post headquarters...

ChatGPT’s deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT’s deep research tool with a full-screen viewer that you can use to scroll through and navigate to specific areas of its AI-generated...

Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month

Samsung’s annual Galaxy S-series reveal is later than usual this year, but we finally have a confirmed date to circle on the calendar: February 25th. And...

How to Test React Applications with Vitest

Testing is one of those things that every developer knows they should do, but many put off until problems start appearing in production. If you’re building...

Trump’s new ‘Buy American’ requirement for EV charging would dramatically curtail build-out

It seems clear at this point to say that Donald Trump does not want to spend a single dime on EV charging. He tried to freeze...

Linux 7.0 Scheduler Updates Land Time Slice Extension, Performance & Scalability Work

Merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are some pretty exciting scheduler changes: new features and never-ending work around scheduler performance optimizations and greater scalability with...

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering

Note: apologies for this issue of the newsletter arriving slightly later than usual, I’m currently in San Francisco. Last night, I attended AI Night with WorkOS,...

Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day”...

Fitbit’s AI health coach is now available on your iPhone

Google announced on Tuesday that the public preview of Fitbit’s AI personal health coach is rolling out to iOS users in the U.S. as well as...

Pi Pico Learns Morse Code

When [101 Things] didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him. On the face of...

62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps

According to a new report released today, an increasing number of enterprises are using Java as a foundational language for AI development. Java platform provider Azul’s...

Ayaneo’s new Windows handheld will cost up to $4,299 with maxed out specs

The Next 2 features a 9.06-inch OLED screen with an adjustable refresh rate. | Image: Ayaneo Ayaneo opened preorders for its next Windows 11 handheld and...

The Physics Behind the Quadruple Axel, the Most Difficult Jump in Figure Skating

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full...

RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

My favorite Switch 2 controller is 30 percent off for today only

The EasySMX S10 is a fantastic wireless controller for the Switch 2 that offers nearly as many features as Nintendo’s $90 gamepad. I ranked it as...

Go 1.26 Introduces Two Language Changes, New Performance Improvements

For programmers fond of the Go programming language, Go 1.26 is out today with two language changes, performance improvements, and other alterations to this Google-backed programming...

CrossOver 26 Released with Wine 11.0 and NTSync Support

CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver 26, the latest version of their paid software that lets you run Windows games and apps on Linux and...

GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI’s Engine into Apps

Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into their own apps,...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign...

The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models. CVEs remain a useful, but imperfect...

Building a Self-Playing Chess Board Robot

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although...

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger...

The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?

The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)  has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security, and networking functionality from the kernel...

Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI

xAI co-founder Tony Wu abruptly announced his resignation from the company late Monday night, the latest in a string of senior executives to leave the Grok-maker...

Intel CPU Microcode 20260210 Brings Security Updates & Functional Fixes

Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues…

Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study.

The National Cancer Institute is using federal funds to study whether cancer can be cured by ivermectin, a cheap, off-patent anti-parasitic and deworming drug that fringe...

Linux 7.0 Bringing Mainline Support For The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC, Qualcomm Kaanapali

The various SoC and platform Device Tree additions were sent out today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Easily most exciting on the SoC side this cycle...

This GoPro and Lens Bundle Is $200 Off

You can grab a fully kitted action camera and all the lenses for $550.

Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those...

Linux 7.0 VFS Changes: Non-Blocking Timestamps, Standardized Generic I/O Error Reporting

In addition to introducing nullfs and the OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE support for containers, there were also a number of other interesting VFS updates merged on Monday for the...

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced...

Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info

Do you feel popular? There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but...

Dave Farber RIP

From the NANOG list comes the sad news of the passing of Dave Farber. His professional accomplishments and impact are almost endless, but often captured by...

This Tool Brings macOS-Style Installer for AppImages on Linux

AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management.

The Best USB To VGA Converter For The Job

There are many adapters, dongles, and cables designed for interfacing display standards, and no doubt some of you have them in the glue of your entertainment...

GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

Matthias Clasen has published a short summary of the GTK hackfest held prior to FOSDEM 2026. Topics include discussions on unstable APIs, a decision to bump the...

The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design

Vans are something most of us don’t think about much, since we rarely interact with them directly in our day-to-day lives. But the van is an...

CrossOver 26 Released – Powered By Wine 11.0 For Windows Apps/Games On Linux + macOS

CodeWeavers just announced CrossOver 26, the newest version of their commercial software built atop Wine for running Windows games and applications under Apple macOS and Linux…

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

GitHub’s former CEO launches a developer platform for the age of agentic coding

When GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke left the Microsoft-owned company in August of 2025, he said he did so to return to his startup roots. Now, after...

GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprise ship code faster

AI coding assistants are making developers more productive at writing code. But why aren’t most enterprises actually delivering more software? That’s the question Bill Staples, who...

Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026

The telecommunications industry is at a turning point: telcos are seeking ways to turn innovation into new opportunities. Looking at the data, the desire is easy...

Prepare for the Kubernetes Administrator Certification and Pass [2026 update]

We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification. This course is designed to provide...

Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest vs. AMD EPYC 9965 On Linux 6.18 Performance

With recently having carried out benchmarks and finding the Intel Xeon 6780E “Sierra Forest” performance has improved ~14% since launch day thanks to open-source/Linux software improvements...

TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database

When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we at TiDB contend that this framing...

Is That Ancient Reel Of PLA Any Good?

When it comes to knowledge there are things you know as facts because you have experienced them yourself or had them verified by a reputable source,...

[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

Michiel Leenaars, director of strategy at the NLnet Foundation, used his keynote at FOSDEM to sound warnings for the community for free and open-source (FOSS) software;...

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments...

Redis 8.6 Released With “Substantial” Performance Improvements & Memory Reduction

The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought “substantial” performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, fontforge, freerdp, kernel-rt, keylime, libsoup, libsoup3, nodejs22, nodejs24, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, python3.12-wheel, qemu-kvm, resource-agents, thunderbird, and util-linux), Debian...

Linux 7.0 Block Changes Land, Bounce Buffer DIO For Stable Pages

In addition to the BPF filtering support for IO_uring that was merged on Monday, the other block device changes and IO_uring updates were also merged for...

How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End

If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the...

The Best TVs We’ve Reviewed in 2026: Sony, Samsung, LG, and More

From LEDs to fancy OLED models, these are our favorite televisions at every price.

Improving Your Tests With the Python Mock Object Library

When you’re writing robust code, tests are essential for verifying that your application logic is correct, reliable, and efficient. However, the value of your tests depends...

Discord Announces Global Expansion of Teen Safety to Build a Safer Digital Future

Starting in March 2026, Discord is rolling out “teen-by-default” safety settings and advanced age assurance systems globally. The post Discord Announces Global Expansion of Teen Safety...

Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments

After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones “xx-zones” implementation...

The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon

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. A first look at...

Linux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring

The wonderful IO_uring for the Linux kernel for high performance asnyc I/O has picked up a new capability with Linux 7.0: BPF filtering…

6 Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Tested and Reviewed

We tested the latest and greatest gaming laptops, and whittled our list down to the six absolute best you can buy right now.

QCon Previews 20th Anniversary Conferences: Production AI, Resilience, and Staff+ Engineering

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, QCon’s 2026 conferences in London and San Francisco will focus on the engineering realities of agentic AI, resilient architectures, and platform ROI....

Vibe coding is passé. Karpathy has a new name for the future of software.

The vibe coding guy is back, and this time he’s talking about “agentic engineering.” Andrej Karpathy, who last year this time popularized the term “vibe coding,”...

4 Best Résumé Builders (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Ditch the old Word doc that’s hanging on by a thread. A proper résumé builder can help you stand out from the crowd.

After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice

On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group...

AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell,...

Quiz: Python’s pathlib Module: Taming the File System

In this quiz, you’ll revisit how to tame the file system with Python’s pathlib module. You’ll reinforce core pathlib concepts, including checking whether a path points...

Bidets Are Confusing Visitors at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.

Even Realities G2 Review: Smarter Glasses

These second-generation smart glasses give you superpowers—if the software behaves.

BellSoft Survey Finds Container Security Practices Are Undermining Developers’ Own Goals

Container security incidents are becoming a routine reality for software teams, and the tools meant to protect them may be making the problem worse. By Craig...

8 Best Space Heaters (2026): Tested, Measured, and Mistreated

These portable heaters will heat a room quickly, quietly, and safely.

Samsung Galaxy A17 5G Review: Crippling Performance

It’s a decent value for $200, but unreliable performance makes this Samsung smartphone tough to recommend.

Orchestrate a team of agents to reduce on-call burden

You can’t wake up an agent at 3am. The post Orchestrate a team of agents to reduce on-call burden appeared first on LeadDev.

Microsoft’s Azure Linux Adds 6.12 HWE Kernel, ARM64 Kernel Tuning For More Performance

Microsoft overnight released Azure Linux 3.0.20260204 as the latest release of their in-house Linux distribution widely used within their Azure environment and elsewhere…

Linux 7.0 Brings Support For “Slow” Workload Hints For Intel Panther Lake

The many power management, thermal, and ACPI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. As usual there are many changes coming from fixes to...

These Hackers Are Turning Dead Vapes Into Musical Synthesizers

Instead of throwing that spent Elf Bar nicotine vape into the trash, you can pull most of the guts out, plug in a circuit board and...

Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI

Amazon’s massive CapEx increase makes me much more nervous than Google’s, but it is understandable.

MythTV 36 Released With Web App Improvements & FFmpeg 8 Support

MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder “DVR” software that has been around now for more than two decades as the...

Windsurf Introduces Arena Mode to Compare AI Models During Development

Windsurf has introduced Arena Mode inside its IDE allowing developers to compare large language models side by side while working on real coding tasks. The feature...

LLVM 22.1-rc3 Released – LLVM To Provide Windows ARM Release Binaries Moving Forward

We are nearing the stable release of LLVM 22 in hopefully two weeks. Out today is the third release candidate of LLVM 22.1 for soliciting more...

The Best Walking Pads for Working From Home (2026)

Our remote team clocked serious hours walking, working, and sometimes jogging to find the best under-desk treadmills for home offices and small spaces.

Linux 7.0 Brings An EFI Framebuffer Quirk For Valve’s Steam Deck

The EFI subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel. Worth mentioning here is a new quirk for helping Valve’s Steam Deck handheld…

The Best Smart Sleep Pads for Your Most Efficient Sleep (2026)

Get tracking, temperature regulation, and other smart features without the hassle or investment of a smart bed.

Article: Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2: Advent of the Data Age Along with Consistency and Configuration

Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2 marks the beginning of the next generation of enterprise Java. It introduces Jakarta Query, a unified query language across Persistence, Data,...

How to Revert a Commit in Git

The git revert command creates a new commit that undoes the changes introduced by a specified commit. Unlike git reset , which rewrites the commit history,...

Waku: the Minimal React Framework Reaches Alpha

Waku 1.0 alpha, a lightweight React framework, achieves a major milestone with stable public APIs, shifting focus to bug fixes and compatibility. Ideal for mostly-static sites,...

‘Infinite agent code’ is coming to break your monorepos

Bigger is not always better. The post ‘Infinite agent code’ is coming to break your monorepos appeared first on LeadDev.

Find Cheatsheet

Basic Search # Find files and directories by name. Command Description find . -name "file.txt" Find an exact filename find . -iname "readme.md" Case-insensitive name search...

How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux

The post How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this guide, you’ll learn...

OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware

A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won’t use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn’t expected to ship until 2027.

Ubuntu Drops the ‘Software & Updates’ Tool from New Installs

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will drop the Software & Updates utility from default desktop installs, with developers saying many of its features are “dangerous or too complex”...

Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the...

NULLFS & OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0

Christian Brauner sent in a dozen VFS pull requests that are now-merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. The VFS pull requests worth noting right away...

Btrfs Brings Experimental Remap-Tree Feature & More In Linux 7.0

Among the pull requests merged today on this first day of the Linux 7.0 merge window are the many Btrfs file-system feature updates…

New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images At the center of a consequential case about social media liability is a key question:...

A Working Intercom From Antique Telephones

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around before the widespread adoption of the transistor in the...

Maximizing your experience: Top 6 benefits of having a Red Hat account

Unlock the full Red Hat experienceCreating a Red Hat account provides an upgraded experience for Red Hat products, support, and training. Whether you’re a hands-on-keyboard builder...

Freexian Collaborators: Writing a new worker task for Debusine (by Carles Pina i Estany)

Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. You can try out Debusine on debusine.debian.net, and follow its development on...

Go 1.26 is released

The Go Blog Go 1.26 is released Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team 10 February 2026 Today the Go team is pleased to release...

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

Need a Splashy Last Minute Valentine’s Day Gift? Try This Dessert Box

I tried Boarderie’s new sweets-only board, which ships overnight, to see if it’s impressive enough for your valentine.

Cine is a sleek, MPV-powered video player for GNOME

Cine is a new GTK4/libadwaita video player for Linux using an MPV backend. We take a look at the app as Ubuntu 26.04 prepares to swap...

Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”

In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled...

A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era

The shift from traditional AI pipelines toward agentic systems marks one of software engineering’s most important evolutions. Instead of static models answering isolated prompts, agentic systems...

MrBeast just bought a banking app

Beast Industries, owned by YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has acquired Step, a banking app designed for teens and young adults. The...

ChatGPT’s cheapest options now show you ads

Ads will appear as labeled “sponsored” links. | Image: OpenAI ChatGPT users may soon start seeing ads in their chats, as OpenAI announced on Monday that...

FCC accused of withholding DOGE information ‘in bad faith’

One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal...

Riot is already cutting staff on its new fighting game

Riot Games is already “reducing the size” of the team working on its recently-released free-to-play fighting game 2XKO, according to a post from executive producer Tom...

No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social...

Upcycling an iPad into a Touchscreen Display for your PC

Installing an RPi Pico board like it’s a modchip. (Credit: Tucker Osman, YouTube) Although generally iPads tend to keep their resale value, there are a few...

The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for her)

Valentine’s Day often comes with more pressure than it needs to. At heart, though, February 14th is about showing appreciation for the people you care about...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the...

Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall

Google continues to turn the screws on free YouTube users, expanding a test that restricts access to song lyrics on YouTube Music. Users without a premium...

Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says “fake news” will be punished

The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly investigating ABC’s The View in what FCC Democrat Anna Gomez called an attempt to intimidate critics of the Trump administration....

Toyota made a game engine

A screenshot of a demo from the Fluorite engine. Using a game engine in a “digital cockpit” is useful for things like step-by-step 3D tutorials about...

Redox OS Gets Cargo & The Rust Compiler Running On This Open-Source OS

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler “rustc” itself running within this platform. Plus they also...

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to access adult content by sharing video selfies or uploading...

Fragments: February 9

Some more thoughts from last week’s open space gathering on the future of software development in the age of AI. I haven’t attributed any comments since...

Converting AC Irrigation Valves To DC Operation

Due to historical engineering decisions made many decades ago, a great many irrigation systems rely on solenoid valves that operate on 24 volts AC. This can...

Is Open Source in Trouble?

First, the bad. I would argue that current open source practices and usage are not sustainable, or at the very least, there is a lot of...

IEEE Honors Global Dream Team of Innovators

Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose work...

Apple is killing the old HomeKit tomorrow

If you haven’t yet updated to the new Apple Home, your smart home devices may no longer work in the Home app on your iPhone, iPad,...

Vouch for an open source web of trust

Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted...

Save $100 On Our Favorite Home Printer

The Epson ET-2980 is a great value at its full price, and the discount sweetens the deal.

AMD openSIL + Coreboot Being Ported To A Modern AM5 Consumer Motherboard

While we are very eager for the AMD openSIL open-source CPU silicon initialization project to achieve production readiness with Zen 6 platforms for ultimately replacing AGESA,...

NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution

At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most...

[$] Development statistics for 6.19

Linus Torvalds released the 6.19 kernel on February 8, as expected. This development cycle brought 14,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline, making it the busiest release since...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Height-Adjustable Key Caps

Now, we can’t call these LEGO key caps for obvious reasons, but also because they don’t actually work with standard LEGO. But that’s just fine and...

AI-generated ads dropped the ball at this year’s Super Bowl

It feels like everyone who produced ad spots for this year’s Super Bowl with generative AI failed in terms of making gen AI seem useful or...

Seeed Studio's Open Source Robotic Arm Promises to Lower the Barrier to Embodied AI

The 6-DoF arm handles 1.5 kg loads with a 650 mm reach, targeting desktop AI work.

Ferrari’s first EV will have an interior designed by Jony Ive

Ferrari released the first interior images of the company’s first all-electric supercar, called the Ferrari Luce (“light” in Italian). This is the second time the Italian...

Disclosure Day Super Bowl trailer: Could it be… aliens?

Steven Spielberg directed two of the best alien films of all time: E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now he’s going back to those...

Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS

Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you are one of those people who have to give...

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon

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

Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters

We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of...

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake

Last week I began publishing the many exciting Panther Lake benchmarks under Linux from the interesting CPU performance and efficiency to the much anticipated Xe3 graphics...

Living in the (LLM) Past

In the early days of AI, a common example program was the hexapawn game. This extremely simplified version of a chess program learned to play with...

Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think

Research papers point to the growing impact of Deep Think across fields

Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari’s first EV interior

Ferrari has published images of the interior of its forthcoming electric vehicle, which it designed with LoveFrom, the new firm of former Apple star Jony Ive...

Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e

Apple’s 2026 has already brought us the AirTag 2 and a new Creator Studio app subscription aimed at independent content creators, but nothing so far for...

Chainguard’s AI-powered factory hits 500 million builds

Just a week after Chainguard announced Chainguard Factory 2.0, the company has hit a major milestone that demonstrates the scale of the system now running in...

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Real estate agents will tell you that a home’s most important feature is “location, location, location.” It’s similar in neuroscience: “Location is everything in the brain,”...

How to Use the Factory Pattern in Python – A Practical Guide

Design patterns are proven solutions to common problems in software development. If you’ve ever found yourself writing repetitive object creation code or struggling to manage different...

How to Save Multiple Drafts in Git: A Guide to Using Stash

Writing code can be similar to writing tutorials. In both cases, you’ll typically need to create and work on multiple drafts before reaching the final version....

Presentation: Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By analyzing The One Billion Row Challenge, he shares...

Blender 5.1 Lands Raycast Nodes, Blender Adjusting Release Cycle Moving Forward

Two interesting bits of Blender news this week for those fond of this leading open-source 3D modeling software…

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras?

The BBC recently published an exposé revealing that some Chinese subscription sites charge for access to their network of hundreds of hidden cameras in hotel rooms....

Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 5

Capture player identities, add a customization modal, and persist those preferences via Oak + PostgreSQL.

Uber Moves In-House Search Indexing to Pull-Based Ingestion in OpenSearch

Uber transitions its in-house search indexing to OpenSearch with a pull-based ingestion framework, improving reliability, backpressure handling, and multi-region consistency for large-scale streaming data while simplifying...

Offpunk 3.0 released

Version 3.0 of the Offpunk offline-first, command-line web, Gemini, and Gopher browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include integration of the unmerdify library...

Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social...

Debian’s tag2upload considered stable

Sean Whitton has announced that Debian’s tag2upload service is now out of beta and ready for use by Debian developers and maintainers. During the beta we...

Linux Kernel 6.19 is Officially Released: 300% TCP Boost Plus More

Linus Torvalds releases Linux Kernel 6.19. Discover the 300% TCP boost, PCIe Link Encryption, Live Update Orchestrator for VMs, and why the next version is Linux...

Debian’s tag2upload Reaches GA For Improving Packaging Workflow

Debian’s tag2upload has finally reached general availability “GA” status for helping Debian developers/maintainers with an improved Git-based packaging workflow…

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fontforge, kernel, and osbuild-composer), Debian (debian-security-support, sudo, wireshark, xrdp, and zabbix), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, k9s, libgit2, mingw-glib2, node-exporter,...

pandas 3.0 Lands Breaking Changes and Other Python News for February 2026

Last month brought exciting performance news for Python! The Python 3.15 alphas showed JIT compiler speed gains of up to 7–8% on some platforms, while pandas...

GNU Linux-Libre 6.19 Deals With More Firmware Blobs In Intel Xe, IWLWIFI & NVIDIA Nova

Building off yesterday’s Linux 6.19 release is now the GNU Linux-libre 6.19-gnu downstream release that strips out support for open-source drivers dependent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and...

The Download: what Moltbook tells us about AI hype, and the rise and rise of AI therapy

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. Moltbook was peak AI...

New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall

The hunt is on for anything that can surmount AI’s perennial memory wall–even quick models are bogged down by the time and energy needed to carry...

Ferrari’s New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum

We got a peek at the interior of Ferrari’s new Luce electric car, which was dreamed up by famed ex-Apple designer and his firm, LoveFrom. It...

Best Ebike Locks (2026): Kryptonite, Litelok, Abus, Hiplok

These are our favorite ebike locks for every ride, including the best bike locks designed to thwart angle grinders.

Your AI champions are the key to engineering adoption

Leveraging your power users. The post Your AI champions are the key to engineering adoption appeared first on LeadDev.

LLMs are Getting a Lot Better and Faster at Finding and Exploiting Zero-Days

This is amazing: Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models and a sign of how quickly things are moving. Security teams...

How AI coding makes developers 56% faster and 19% slower

There’s a growing body of research around AI coding assistants with a confusing range of conflicting results. This is to be expected when the landscape is...

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York

New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none...

Soundcore Aerofit 2 Pro Review: Open Earbuds With ANC?

The design of Soundcore’s latest open earbuds magically transforms them into noise-canceling buds. But does it actually work?

Article: Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective

In this article, the author argues that infrastructure and compute limitations can drive innovation. It demonstrates how smaller, efficient models, synthetic data generation, and disciplined engineering...

Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter, is here

For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy needs. And our reporters have looked closely at how...

AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?

The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can...

Oticon Zeal Review: A High Bar (and Price) for Hearing Aids

These ultra-tiny hearing aids push the boundary for high-quality audio in a minuscule prescription package.

Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users?

Two of the most popular modern terminal emulators for pro Linux users. But which one is the better of the two?

AMD Linux Driver Readying Peak Tops Limiter “PTL” Support

The AMDGPU and AMDKFD Linux kernel graphics driver code has been readying support for the Peak Tops Limiter (PTL) as a new feature to the latest...

How Curling Became the Winter Olympics’ Favorite Fixation

If throwing stones and sweeping ice seem strange to you, the centuries-old history of the sport explains why it became so beloved.

Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame.

Google Earnings, Google Cloud Crushes, Search Advertising and LLMs

Google announced a massive increase in CapEx that blew away expectations; the companies earnings results explain why the increase is justified.

Podcast: [Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon...

Xcode 26.3 Brings Integrated Agentic Coding for Anthropic Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex

The latest release of Xcode, Xcode 26.3, extends support for coding agents, such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, helping developers tackle complex tasks and...

Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds’ numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for...

GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3

Following last week’s release of GNU Coreutils 9.10, released today is GNU Binutils 2.46 for these commonly used GNU binary utilities on Linux systems and elsewhere…

Cloudflare Launches Vertical Microfrontend Template for Path-Based Edge Routing

Cloudflare has launched a Worker template for Vertical Microfrontends (VMFE), enabling independent teams to manage their stacks for specific URL paths, improving CI/CD efficiency. This architecture...

Bryte Balance Pro Smart Mattress Review: Sleeping Is Believing

The Bryte Balance Pro takes smart mattresses to the next level with adjustable coils and programmable massage settings.

This Startup Thinks It Can Make Rocket Fuel From Water. Stop Laughing

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era...

This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative's Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses

The open source groupware platform partners with Collabora to provide a paid feature for free. There is also a Kanban module along with a time approval...

How to Build 10MB NetBSD VMs That Boot in 10ms Using smolBSD

Learn how smolBSD creates minimal 10 MB NetBSD VMs that boot in 10ms. Full UNIX system, Docker-like workflow, runs on QEMU and Firecracker. The post How...

AI skepticism is a quiet career killer

Is it better to keep your concerns to yourself? The post AI skepticism is a quiet career killer appeared first on LeadDev.