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I tried Firefox’s new ‘Smart Window’ in a beta build

Firefox’s new AI-powered ‘Smart Window’ feature is taking shape in development builds – I gave it a hands on in the latest v149.0b7 beta (on macOS)....

Hands on with Creality’s new M1 Filament Maker

Ever since 3D printing has become a popular tool, the question of waste has been looming in the background. The sad reality of rapid prototyping is...

What to Do in Dumbo If You’re Here for Business (2026)

The Big Apple has had a tech boom in the past few years—here’s where to stay, play, eat, and work in the city’s tech-dense Dumbo neighborhood.

How to Use WebSockets: From Python to FastAPI

Real-time data powers much of modern software: live stock prices, chat applications, sports scores, collaborative tools. And to build these systems, you’ll need to understand how...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Chardet; Linux and age verification; Debian AI; Python lazy imports; Python type-system PEP; PQC HTTPS certificates; MGLRU; Fedora strategy....

Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with...

Printing an Underwater Diving Helmet With Floating Air Supply

Old-school diving helmets are deceivingly simple, even if they are – as [Hyperspace Pirate] puts it in a recent video – essentially the equivalent of an...

One of Grammarly’s ‘experts’ is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature

Journalist Julia Angwin is one of the writers whose likeness was used in Grammarly’s “expert review” feature. | Photo: Eóin Noonan / Sportsfile via Getty Images...

iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID

The folding iPhone might come with an inner display the size of an iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone will come with an...

Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it’s unpopular

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s relentless anti-vaccine agenda is getting reined in as Republicans warn that further attacks on lifesaving vaccines could harm the party...

The South Carolina Measles Outbreak Is Slowing Down

The biggest US measles outbreak in decades may be over sooner than expected.

FCC chair blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation

It is fairly common for satellite companies to verbally spar over constellations, battling over territory such as preferred orbits and the electromagnetic spectrum for data transmission....

How the Iran War Could Jack Up Prices on Store Shelves

The Strait of Hormuz, a busy waterway off the coast of Iran, has come to a near standstill. If the war drags on much longer, it...

Learn How AI Agents Are Changing Software Development by Building a Flutter App Using Antigravity and Stitch

Software development has always evolved alongside the tools we build. There was a time when developers wrote everything in assembly language. Then higher-level languages arrived and...

Some of the best horror games ever made are included in Humble’s latest $15 bundle

Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors...

OBS Studio 32.1 Released With WebRTC Simulcast Support

OBS Studio 32.1 is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop screen recording app that is also popular with game live-streaming and other uses…

The bare metal problem in AI Factories

Operational challenges in modern AI infrastructure As AI platforms grow in scale, many of the limiting factors are no longer related to model design or algorithmic...

14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that...

Valve says it will fight New York’s loot box lawsuit

Valve wants players to know that it plans on fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, which last month accused the company of promoting “illegal...

Explain it like I’m 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a...

Windows 11’s Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

When Asus and Microsoft launched the ROG Xbox Ally X last summer, it came with a bespoke controller-driven full-screen interface running on top of Windows 11....

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

“Use a gun” or “beat the crap out of him”: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

An advocacy group said its study of 10 artificial intelligence chatbots found that most of them gave at least some help to users planning violent attacks...

How to Implement the Strategy Pattern in Python

Have you ever opened a food delivery app and chosen between “fastest route”, “cheapest option”, or “fewest stops”? Or picked a payment method at checkout like...

A Comprehensive Guide to Financial Storytelling using Data Visualization

In any analysis project, raw tables of numbers often don’t tell the full story. Visualisations simplify complexity by transforming data into shapes that our brains can...

How to Build an Autonomous AI Agent with n8n and Decapod

I tried out Open Claw two weeks ago. I loved the potential, but did not enjoy the tool itself. I, like many others, struggled with the...

3D Printing a Harmonic Pin-Ring Gearing Drive

Cycloidal drives are a type of speed reducer that are significantly more compact than gearboxes, but they still come with a fair number of components. In...

From Tailnet to platform

Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into...

Exclusive Preview Of System76’s Completely Redesigned Thelio Desktop

It has been eight years already since System76 announced Thelio as their own built-in-the-USA, custom-engineered cases for desktops and workstations. System76 Thelio is an open hardware...

Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents

Galileo, a company known for its AI observability and guardrails technology, on Wednesday released Agent Control, an open source control plane designed to help enterprises govern...

The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled

Instead of moving forward with a jury trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster as expected, the Justice Department announced a settlement Monday that omitted what used to be...

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that said its edit suggestions were “inspired by” real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge...

Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands

Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure.

Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?

There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to...

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems

Ahead of its flagship GTC conference next week, Nvidia on Wednesday launched the second model in its open-weight Nemotron 3 family: Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter...

Our Favorite Backyard Bluetooth Speaker Is $25 Off

The compact but surprisingly potent Ultimate Ears Boom 4 gets marked down ahead of your first spring party.

How to Build a Serverless RAG Pipeline on AWS That Scales to Zero

Most RAG tutorials end the same way: you’ve got a working prototype and a bill for a vector database that runs whether anyone’s querying it or...

Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers

Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange...

Microsoft’s ‘Xbox mode’ is coming to every Windows 11 PC

Microsoft seems more determined than ever to combine Xbox and Windows – to the point that its next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will play PC games...

IEEE Launches Global Virtual Career Fairs

Last year IEEE launched its first virtual career fair to help strengthen the engineering workforce and connect top talent with industry professionals. The event, which was...

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show

The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

Tetrate launches open source marketplace to simplify Envoy adoption

Agentic AI development company Tetrate has launched Built on Envoy, a free and open source extensions marketplace for Envoy. Envoy is an open source edge and...

A glimpse into tuner culture: Fast and Furious exhibit at the Petersen

The Fast and Furious franchise has come a long way in the quarter-century since the first film’s release. Originally an undercover cop story, the franchise has...

Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible

Earlier this year, Pierce Boggan, the Product Lead for VS Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, quietly dropped a bombshell on the product management world: His...

[$] California’s Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does not...

Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, won’t reach alpha until 2027

We’re here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft “VP of Next Generation” Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many...

Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips

Intel’s Core Ultra 200S desktop chips, codenamed “Arrow Lake,” first launched in late 2024, and they were the most significant updates to Intel’s desktop CPU lineup...

From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

JetBrains names the debt AI agents leave behind

Developers have spent years fighting technical debt. Now there’s a new variant accumulating in codebases, and many teams don’t even know about the pileup. JetBrains calls...

OpenAI’s Sora video generator is reportedly coming to ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Sora video generator could soon become a built-in feature in ChatGPT, as reported by The Information. Sora is currently only available on its website or...

Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit

Anduril Industries announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space intelligence firm that operates a vast network of sensors monitoring the veiled movements...

Introducing Moonforge: a Yocto-based Linux OS (Igalia Blog)

Igalia has announced the Moonforge Linux distribution, based on OpenEmbedded and Yocto. Moonforge is an operating system framework for Linux devices that simplifies the process of...

“Self-healing” IT? HPE research explores how AI-trained models can catch silent infrastructure failures

The volume of data and noise that comes with enterprise IT complexity leaves operations teams struggling to understand how to prioritize issues and improve reliability. Things...

CI/CD in Production with Jenkins

Automation is no longer just a “nice-to-have” skill, it powers modern software development. To help you master automation and CI/CD, we’ve just released a massive 17-hour...

Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor

Chipmaker Nvidia is preparing to launch its own open source AI agent platform to compete with the likes of OpenClaw, according to a recent Wired report....

A Rotary Dial The 3D Printed Way

There’s a meme which may have a basis in truth, of a teenager left clueless when presented with a rotary telephone. The dial, in reality a...

Webpack Publishes 2026 Roadmap with Native CSS Support, Universal Target, and Path to Version 6

Webpack’s 2026 roadmap, led by Even Stensberg, unveils substantial enhancements aimed at modernizing the bundler. Key features include native CSS module support, universal compilation for various...

How to Use Flex in Tailwind CSS and Justify Flex Items

Hey there! If you’re building modern web interfaces, chances are you’ve already fallen in love with Tailwind CSS for its speed and flexibility. One of the...

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs

Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when...

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan....

The 2 failures with AI coding that are creating security bottlenecks

Code assistants have fallen short of the “10x engineers” we expected. A recent GitLab survey of DevOps practitioners found that while more than one-third of code...

Learn how to fine-tune LLMs in 12 hours

The goal isn’t just to train a model; it’s to build a system that understands your specific data as well as you do. We just posted...

Alternative app store AltStore PAL is joining the fediverse

AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL...

next-20260311: linux-next

Version: next-20260311 (linux-next) Released: 2026-03-11

Sven Hoexter: RFC 9849 – Encrypted Client Hello

Now that ECH is standardized I started to look into it to understand what’s coming. While generally desirable to not leak the SNI information, I’m not...

Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming

With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared...

NIH director launches “Scientific Freedom” lectures with non-scientist

On Tuesday, word spread that the National Institutes of Health was launching a series of what it’s calling “Scientific Freedom Lectures,” with the first scheduled for...

German Fireball’s 15 Minutes of Fame

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the...

Keep Your Intuition Sharp While Using AI Coding Tools

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech...

Publish your data, AI techniques, and agentic engineering work on Towards Data Science

If you’re reading The New Stack, there’s a good chance you’ve already done something worth writing about: built an agent pipeline, shipped a model to production,...

This Is the Next Wave of Political Fundraising

In Discord servers and Instagram DMs, content creators are organizing, turning followings in the millions into millions of dollars in political giving.

Verdict: Yes, you should go see Project Hail Mary as soon as possible

First, in the plainest language, before we get to anything else, Project Hail Mary is a fantastic film. It does right by its source material, and...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppDE 0.1.9 on CRAN: Maintenance

Another maintenance release of our RcppDE package arrived at CRAN, and has been built for r2u. RcppDE is a “port” of DEoptim, a package for derivative-free...

Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems

The MTIA processors are the tech giant’s latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders...

From Minutes to Seconds: Uber Boosts MySQL Cluster Uptime with Consensus Architecture

Uber redesigned its MySQL fleet using a consensus-driven architecture based on MySQL Group Replication, reducing cluster failover time from minutes to seconds. By moving leader election...

Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals

Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine zooming in closer and closer to the device...

Pydantic AI: Build Type-Safe LLM Agents in Python

Pydantic AI is a Python framework for building LLM agents that return validated, structured outputs using Pydantic models. Instead of parsing raw strings from LLMs, you...

Abusing Customizable Selects

Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build silly and fun things with them? In this article,...

D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan

The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding...

What crackdown? Trump’s EPA enforcement claims don’t pass sniff test.

For over a decade, Hino Motors Ltd. imported and sold more than 105,000 vehicles and engines with misleading or fabricated emissions data, until testing by the...

[$] HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

There has been ongoing discussion in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) about how to protect internet traffic against future quantum computers. So far, that work...

Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support

Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libvpx, nfs-utils, nginx:1.26, osbuild-composer, postgresql, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and python-pyasn1), Debian (imagemagick), Fedora (perl-Crypt-SysRandom-XS and systemd),...

Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses

AI agents are no longer experiments. They are production infrastructure, making billions of HTTP requests per day, navigating the web, calling APIs, and orchestrating complex workflows....

How Robert Goddard’s Self-Reliance Crashed His Rocket Dreams

There’s a moment in John Williams’s Star Wars overture when the brass surges upward. You don’t just hear it; you feel propulsion turning into pure possibility....

AI Security for Apps is now generally available

Cloudflare’s AI Security for Apps detects and mitigates threats to AI-powered applications. Today, we’re announcing that it is generally available. We’re shipping with new capabilities like...

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It’s finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and...

Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure

By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group How DHCP Changed Connectivity In the late 1990s, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) quietly catalyzed a revolution in digital connectivity....

Presentation: From Symptom Checkers to Smart Chatbots: The Role of AI in Virtual Care

Andre Ribeiro discusses the architecture of Healthily’s AI symptom checker. He explains how Bayesian inference and RAG models bridge the gap between medical insights and confident...

Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze

Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.  Feng,...

The Download: Pokémon Go to train world models, and the US-China race to find aliens

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 Pokémon...

Don’t lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don’t panic

We all remember that infamous scene in the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, where a boy licks a cold metal post on the playground and ends...

Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming

Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.

Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The...

Quiz: Threading in Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Threading in Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and manage threads, use ThreadPoolExecutor,...

Quiz: Create and Modify PDF Files in Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Creating and Modifying PDF Files in Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll practice reading, extracting, and modifying...

The Fort Strength Training Wearable Tracks Your Sets (2026)

You don’t have to be a gym bro to get strong. Three ex-Tesla engineers made a beautiful bar velocity tracker for every kind of weight lifter.

Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence

After leaving Meta last year, the former deputy prime minister of the UK is charting a new path in the AI industry that has nothing to...

How to Upgrade to Fedora 44 Beta From Fedora 43 Step-by-Step

Learn how to upgrade your Fedora 43 system to the Fedora 44 beta version step-by-step using the DNF system upgrade plugin. The post How to Upgrade...

Best Indoor Garden Systems: We’ve Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in...

Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI

Canada has a choice to make about its artificial intelligence future. The Carney administration is investing $2-billion over five years in its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy....

Mini Multi-Arcade Game Cabinets with an ESP32 and Galagino

Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized...

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers

Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Louis Theroux on the Manosphere: ‘It’s Highly Profitable to Be a Dick on the Internet’

With the release of his Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, the director talked to WIRED about why so many young men are drawn to toxic influencers.

Fujifilm Instax Evo Cinema Review: Retro Video Fun

The latest Instax camera embraces video with a retro cine design and effects-laden video clips that you can share online.

Linux Patches Make The IPv6 Stack Less Modular To Lower Architectural Burden

Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed...

AlmaLinux To Focus On Increased Testing & Other Goals For 2026

Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026…

Oracle Earnings, Oracle’s Cloud Growth, Oracle’s Software Defense

Oracle crushed earnings in a way that not only speaks to the secular AI wave they are riding but also to Oracle’s strong position

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Linux’s KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)

Intel’s Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support...

Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities

Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform…

AI-Powered Bot Compromises GitHub Actions Workflows Across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects

AI-powered bot hackerbot-claw exploited GitHub Actions workflows across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF projects over 7 days using 5 attack techniques. Bot achieved RCE in 5 of...

Pulling Espresso by Hand Is More Fun Than Pushing a Button

A manual espresso machine proves the best coffee-brewing tech is sometimes analog.

Rally Orbital Massager Review: The Oscillating Revolution

There are some minor drawbacks, but the Rally massager stands out as the lone circular massager in a sea of percussive heads.

The staff+ playbook for derisking big decisions

Staff+ engineers need a broad understanding of how organizations operate and evolve. The post The staff+ playbook for derisking big decisions appeared first on LeadDev.

Python Virtual Environments: venv and virtualenv

A Python virtual environment is a self-contained directory that includes its own Python interpreter and a set of installed packages, isolated from the system-wide Python installation....

Uno Platform 6.5 Released With AI Agent Support, Unicode Text, and Studio Improvements

Uno Platform 6.5 introduces Antigravity AI agent support, allowing agents to verify app behavior at runtime. Hot Design now launches by default with a redesigned toolbar...

Technology Is Reshaping Sleep Apnea Treatment

For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.

Subduction Retrieval

What to Do in Chicago If You’re Here for Business (2026)

Where to lock in, power down, and actually enjoy your business trip.

Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic

The White House is preparing an executive order targeting the AI startup, even as its earlier actions against the company face a major test in court.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing “zero-day” flaws...

Bits from Debian: Infomaniak Platinum Sponsor of DebConf26

We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf26 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is an independent, employee-owned Swiss technology company that designs,...

Scaling Enterprise Federated AI with Flower and Open Cluster Management

Federated AI inverts the traditional machine learning paradigm. Instead of bringing data to the model, it brings the model to the data. Training happens locally on...

Arduino’s new AI single-board computer runs Ubuntu 

Qualcomm subsidiary Arduino has announced the VENTUNO Q, a new single-board computer that ships with Ubuntu pre-installed. This isn’t a board aimed at casual makers or...

How to Build a Spam Email Detector with Python and Naive Bayes Classifier

Ever wondered how Gmail knows that an email promising you $10 million is spam? Or how it catches those “You’ve won a free iPhone!” messages before...

Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency’s own risk guidelines

A NASA satellite that spent more than a decade coursing through the Van Allen radiation belts encircling Earth is about to fall back into the atmosphere....

Clear Resin Casting Replicates Old Acrylic for Selectric Repair

IBM Selectric typewriters have a lot of unique parts that can be tricky to source, but one we didn’t think of was the clear acrylic(?) dust...

How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs

A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime...

FDA contradicts Trump admin, declines to approve generic drug for autism

In September, the Trump administration took what it called “bold actions” on autism that included touting the generic drug leucovorin as a promising treatment. In a...

A live-action Samurai Champloo is in the works

Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of...

Listen to the Live Nation CEO’s alleged threats to a concert venue

Was it a threat or a reality check? That’s a key question in the government’s anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after...

Ford is giving its commercial fleet business an AI makeover

Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by...

Nosh Robotics’ $1,500 robot chef doesn’t need any help with dinner

Anyone who finds themselves wishing they could spend less time on meal prep might have a solution in the form of the recently-launched Nosh One from...

How Datadog Cut the Size of Its Agent Go Binaries by 77%

After the Datadog Agent grew from 428 MiB to 1.22 GiB over a period of 5 years, Datadog engineers set out to reduce its binary size....

I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best

If you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot — and get a lot in return. Buying...

Ghostty 1.3 terminal released with search, scrollbars and more

A big update to Ghostty terminal emulator has dropped, delivering a raft of new features like scrollback search, native scrollbars and and process completion notifications. Ghostty...

Amazon calls engineers for a “deep dive” internal meeting to discuss “GenAI”-related outages

A normally optional, routine Amazon meeting turned serious when the brand’s top retail executive summoned engineers to discuss a series of AI-related outages. While the memo...

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration’s immigration crackdown.

There Are No LEDs Around the Face of This Clock

This unusual clock by [Moritz v. Sivers] looks like a holographic dial surrounded by an LED ring, but that turns out to not be the case....

Big change brings big change

This week’s been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it’s seriously good for coding), and living brain...

With its latest Phi-4 reasoning model, Microsoft reckons bigger isn’t always better

The dominant trend in artificial intelligence of late has been clear: bigger models, more data, more compute. But the cost of training and running those systems...

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected...

How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 44 Beta

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able...

Razer’s BlackShark V2 Pro gaming headset is $90, which is a new low price

The Razer BlackShark V2 Pro is a lightweight gaming headset you can pair with multiple devices. | Image: Razer If you’re looking for a reliable wireless...

How Uber uses AI for development: inside look

Before we start: all The Pragmatic Summit videos are now available to view. Paid newsletter subscribers also have access to each session with the Q&A session,...

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-esque simulated social network made up of AI agents that went viral a few weeks ago. The company will hire Moltbook...

Pokopia Pokédex review: a classic, reimagined

Thirty years ago, Nintendo struck gold with the release of the original Pokémon games. Soon, kids across the world were introduced to dozens of magical creatures...

Anker’s Discounted Power Station Can Power Your Next Camping Trip

Go off-grid camping for a long weekend with my favorite portable power station from Anker. It’s on sale.

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol

Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.

After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

Google has spent the past few years in a constant state of AI escalation, rolling out new versions of its Gemini models and integrating that technology...

Nvidia plans NemoClaw launch, an open-source platform for AI agents

Nvidia is planning to launch NemoClaw, an open-source platform for AI agents, next week. The product is reportedly already being pitched to the usual big names...

Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery

Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you’re an intrepid detective in a grimy noir detective story, tasked with figuring out the sordid details behind...

Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm “radical left, woke”

Anthropic sued the Trump administration yesterday in an attempt to reverse the government’s decision to blacklist its technology. Anthropic argues that it exercised its First Amendment...

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

States’ trial against Live Nation could move forward as soon as next week

The Live Nation trial is not over yet. Several states look to be headed to trial on their own as soon as Monday unless they hash...

Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon

A federal judge has issued an order blocking Perplexity’s web browser-based AI agents from placing Amazon orders on a user’s behalf, as reported earlier by Bloomberg....

How to deploy an AI server on your Debian/Ubuntu server

Whenever I use AI, I always opt to go with a locally installed instance. The reason for that is twofold. First, when I’m using locally installed...

Trump’s divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)

For the second time, Vinay Prasad is set to leave the Food and Drug Administration. In a post on social media Friday, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary...

Our Favorite Earbuds for Samsung Owners Are on Sale

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE are a great pairing for anyone with a Galaxy phone.

NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

NASA’s inspector general released a new report on Tuesday that examines the space agency’s management of the Human Landing System development contracts signed with SpaceX and...

Blood Tests Could Provide Early Warning of Alzheimers Disease

Alzheimer’s disease remains a frustratingly difficult condition to manage for the millions of patients affected worldwide and their families. The cause of the disease is still...

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

How to Build Real-Time Update Systems with MQTT and Express.js

Real-time updates are everywhere – like live sports scores, stock tickers, chat applications, and IoT dashboards. If you want to build systems that push data to...

Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing

Google didn’t waste time integrating Gemini into its popular Workspace apps, but those AI features are now getting an overhaul. The company says its new Gemini...

A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts

The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

Power Control for a Busy Workbench

Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen...

GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps

Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride...

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns

Every year, we have a blast covering a fresh crop of winners of the Ig Nobel prizes. After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony...

The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

That fireball was LZ37. Nobody wanted to see repeats post-war.Image: “The great exploit of lieutenant Warnefort 1916 England” by Gordon Crosby, public domain. After all the...

With GridGain acquisition, MariaDB bets on in-memory computing and Apache Ignite

MariaDB is one of the stalwarts of the open-source database world. Born out of the MySQL fork following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, the project has...

These new winter tires have studs that retract as it warms up

Nokian provided flights from Austin, Texas, to Ivalo, Finland, and accommodation so Ars could visit its test facility. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. IVALO,...

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents...

Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data

Summary Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computing on encrypted data without decryption, but it’s currently slow on standard CPUs and GPUs. Intel’s Heracles chip accelerates FHE...

Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?

Buying a cheap laptop is easy. You just go to Best Buy or Newegg or Amazon or Walmart or somewhere, you pick the cheapest one (or...

Investigating multi-vector attacks in Log Explorer

In the world of cybersecurity, a single data point is rarely the whole story. Modern attackers don’t just knock on the front door; they probe your...

Building a security overview dashboard for actionable insights

For years, the industry’s answer to threats was “more visibility.” But more visibility without context is just more noise. For the modern security team, the biggest...