How HP Calculators Communicate Over Infrared
For most people, calculators are cheap and simple devices used for little more than addition and the odd multiplication job. However, when you get into scientific...
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COSMIC Desktop âFrosted Glassâ UI Effect Previewed
COSMIC, the Linux desktop that can look and work however you dang well like, is adding more bling. System76 co-founder Carl Richell has given us our...
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Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop – But No GPU Acceleration Yet
While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the...
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The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress
Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
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The best Android phones
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when itâs time to upgrade, thereâs...
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Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers
Smoothie bikes are a great way to make a nutritious beverage while getting a workout at the same time. [Tony Goacher] was approached by a local...
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Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them
Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with...
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How to find a tribe of mentors
Finding mentors across different verticals can be the key to unlocking the next level of your career. The post How to find a tribe of mentors...
WeiterlesenMoltbot, the AI agent that âactually does things,â is techâs new obsession
An open-source AI agent that “actually does things” is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they’re using the agent to do a whole...
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Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.
Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen...
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TikTok users âabsolutely justifiedâ for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say
TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errorsânot the platform seemingly...
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The best budget robot vacuums
Todayâs robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, itâs easy to forget that they...
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There’s a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address
There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email addressâwhich Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow listâis delivering scam spam. The emails originate from...
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The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers
Power lines during a winter storm in Irving, Texas, on Sunday, January 25th. | Photo: Getty Images The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states...
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The best fitness trackers and watches weâve tested
Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health...
WeiterlesenNew Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW
In addition to Mesa 26.1 today seeing Vulkan present timing support finally merged to help reduce game stuttering and separately another long-in-development Mesa merge request for...
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Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video
The Supreme Court is taking up a case on whether Paramount violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing a user’s viewing history to...
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A WB-57 pilot just made a heroic landing in Houston after its landing gear failed
One of NASA’s three large WB-57 aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field on Tuesday morning in southeastern Houston. Video captured by KHOU 11 television...
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Servicing the âNot Serviceableâ Bearings on a Vacuum Power Head
Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be...
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The 50 Best Shows on HBO Max, WIREDâs Picks (February 2026)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Pitt, and Industry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this...
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Razerâs testing a new tool for customizing its keyboards in your browser
Razerâs new browser-based customization tool is now available in beta. | Image: Razer Razer has announced the beta release of a new online customization tool compatible...
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Post-rampocalyptic Chip-Swap Provides Desktop Memory at Laptop Prices
When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, youâre engaged in what economists...
WeiterlesenGStreamer 1.28 Released With More Rust Code
GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework…
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Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Hereâs How to Turn It Off (2026)
Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didnât ask for it. Hereâs how to change it back.
WeiterlesenGNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI
GNU C Library “glibc” developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure...
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Open Responses vs. Chat Completion: A new era for AI apps
The ability to build portable, provider-agnostic AI applications is the future of agentic development. For the past few years, OpenAIâs Chat Completion API has been considered...
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Amazon shutters all of its physical Go and Fresh stores
Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it’s closing the majority of the stores and...
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These Feature-Packed Earbuds Are Less Than $50
Anker knocks almost half the cost off its already budget-friendly earbuds.
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LG’s new subscription program charges up to ÂŁ277 per month to rent a TVÂ
LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, soundbars, monitors, and speakers....
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The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women...
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New Data Shows Robotaxis Competing on Priceâand Speed
Research from the ride-hail aggregator Obi finds Waymo is starting to edge up on Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Tesla, which operates a ride-hail service...
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A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more players
When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade...
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Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users of Metaâs social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS...
WeiterlesenThe first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin âshortlyâÂ
When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk said he hasnât put much time...
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âIG is a drugâ: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal...
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The agentic revolution: A new vision for SREs
Site reliability engineers (SREs) are no longer an afterthought for harried IT leaders. They play a critical role in ensuring digital services work reliably at scale....
WeiterlesenOpenAIâs latest product lets you vibe code science
OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called...
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Regrowing Teeth Might Not Be Science Fiction Anymore
The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing process begins. Break...
WeiterlesenKDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma...
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Australian plumber is a YouTube sensation
Warning: Unclogging a restaurant’s grease trap is not for the faint of heart. Large swathes of the US were blanketed in snow and ice over the...
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Best Walking Pad Deals: Save $150 and More (2026)
Whether youâre working from home or just trying to hit your step goals, these walking pad deals make it easy to move every day.
WeiterlesenA critical GnuPG security update
There is a new GnuPG update for a “critical security bug” in recent GnuPG releases. A crafted CMS (S/MIME) EnvelopedData message carrying an oversized wrapped session...
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How the Factory and Abstract Factory Design Patterns Work in Flutter
In software development, particularly object-oriented programming and design, object creation is a common task. And how you manage this process can impact your app’s flexibility, scalability,...
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How to Build an AI-Powered RAG Search Application with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a complete RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) search application from scratch. Your application will allow users to upload documents, store...
WeiterlesenSergio Cipriano: Query Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API
Query Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API In my post about tracking my Debian uploads, I used the ProjectB database directly to retrieve how...
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Inside a five-year-old startupâs rapid AI makeover
Before we start: Elin and I are running a survey on AI usage by software engineers and engineering teams. If you have 10 minutes, please consider...
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AI Overviews gets upgraded to Gemini 3 with a dash of AI Mode
It can be hard sometimes to keep up with the deluge of generative AI in Google products. Even if you try to avoid it all, there...
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How to secure Vertex AI pipelines with Google Cloud tools
AI models now power critical systems across many sectors. Youâll find them in healthcare, banking, cybersecurity, and defense. When you move these models to production on...
WeiterlesenGoogle Axion CPU Performance With The New Google Cloud N4A Instances
Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in...
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Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them âPhysically Safeâ From ICE
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Googleâs Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.
WeiterlesenThe GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware
GNU C Library maintainer Carlos O’Donell has announced that the project will be moving its core services away from Sourceware in favor of services hosted at...
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Meet the tech workers taking a stand against ICE
Hundreds of tech workers are turning up the pressure on their employers. The post Meet the tech workers taking a stand against ICE appeared first on...
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Running DOOM on Earbuds
In 1993, DOOMÂ was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you...
WeiterlesenSystemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company
Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris KĂŒhl (CEO), Christian...
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Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it
Volvo provided flights from Austin, Texas, to Stockholm, Sweden, and accommodation so Ars could learn about its new seatbelt. Ars does not accept paid editorial content....
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Pornhub Will Block New UK Users Starting Next Week to Protest âFlawedâ ID Law
Only users who have already registered and completed age verification will be able to access the world’s largest porn site.
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Ai2 makes building custom coding agents easier and cheaper
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is launching a new family of open coding agents today that, as standalone models, outperform similar-sized models on standard benchmarks....
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Build Pipeline Parallelism from Scratch
Pipeline parallelism speeds up training of AI models by splitting a massive model across multiple GPUs and processing data like an assembly line, ensuring no single...
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Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent
Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using...
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Apple patches ancient iOS versions to keep iMessage, FaceTime, other services working
When Apple stops supporting older iPhones and iPads with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, it usually isn’t the end of the lineâApple keeps releasing...
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Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web
Looking for a Discord alternative? Roomy is an open-source, decentralized platform built for communities that value privacy and control.
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Trade wars muzzle allied talks on Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield
Gen. Michael Guetlein, the senior officer in charge of the US military’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, has laid out an audacious schedule for deploying...
Weiterlesen[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs
The kernel’s “kfunc” mechanism is a way of exporting kernel functions so that they can be called directly from BPF programs. There are over 300 kfuncs...
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Learn Relational Database Design
Relational databases are used all the time in software development. We just published a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will help you learn relational...
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Why NASA, IMSA, and tech companies are teaming up on tech transfer
IMSA provided accommodation so Ars could attend its symposium and the Rolex 24. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.âThe annual 24-hour race...
WeiterlesenTigerVNC 1.16 Released With “w0vncserver” For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions
TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is “w0vncserver” as a new server...
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Zombie Netscape Wonât Die
The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon...
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Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users â built with Rust â as part of its effort to harden defenses...
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RAG isnât dead, but context engineering is the new hotness
So, is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) dead now? Last May I asked that question of Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI, based on the growing hype around...
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Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number...
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Meet the mysterious electrides
For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earthâs lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some meteorites,...
WeiterlesenZlib-rs Declares A Stable & Complete API For This Rust-Based Zlib Implementation
Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete…
WeiterlesenXfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor
The Xfce team has announced that it will be providing funding to Brian Tarricone to work on xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for Xfce: Xfwl4 will not...
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As data from space spikes, an innovative ground station company seeks to cash in
A company that seeks to disrupt the way in which data from space is received and transmitted has found some key investors and customers. On Tuesday...
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Chainguard EmeritOSS backs MinIO, other orphaned projects
Open source has a problem. There are many under-supported, or even abandoned, open source programs that are still in wide use, but thereâs no one at...
WeiterlesenSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, python-urllib3, python3.11-urllib3, and python3.12-urllib3), Debian (imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and openjdk-21), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ghostscript, glibc, mingw-glib2,...
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QCon chat: Is agentic AI killing continuous integration?
In the age of AI, will we still need continuous integration (CI) at all? One panelist in a QCon AI conference panel on AI and engineering...
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How Norway Accomplished a Near-Total EV Transition
More than 97 percent of the new cars Norwegians registered in November 2025 were electric, almost reaching the countryâs goal of 100 percent. As a result,...
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A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
We built an AI gateway that provides security and visibility for coding agent usage across organizations, to make the safe way of accessing AI the easy...
WeiterlesenBuilding a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver
* This post was updated at 11:45 a.m. Pacific time to clarify that the use case described here is a proof of concept and a personal...
WeiterlesenCreate Callable Instances With Python’s .__call__()
In Python, a callable is any object that you can call using a pair of parentheses and, optionally, a series of arguments. Functions, classes, and methods...
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The Best Ski Goggles, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2026)
From bluebird days to blizzards, WIRED tested the best ski goggles for all weather conditions.
WeiterlesenXfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce
Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce…
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The Download: OpenAIâs plans for science, and chatbot age verification
This is todayâs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatâs going on in the world of technology. Inside OpenAIâs big play...
WeiterlesenVulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland
The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of...
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This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
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Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK
This week’s Java roundup for January 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, targeted for JDK 27; GlassFish Grizzly...
WeiterlesenThe Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants
The US Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants. The case centers on the trial of Okello Chatrie, a Virginia man who pleaded guilty...
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The Smart Light Bulbs Worth Buying in 2026: Cync, Meross, Tapo
If youâre new to smart home tech, light bulbs are an affordable, low-commitment place to start.
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8 Best Laptops (2026), WIRED-Tested and Approved
Our expert team of laptop testers stand behind these Windows laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Linux portables.
WeiterlesenNew Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As “A Whopping 260%”
A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only...
WeiterlesenThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling
Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth...
WeiterlesenIntel Earnings, The Agentic Opportunity, Intelâs Mistaken Pessimism
Intel’s earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity.
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captorsâ crimesâand then escape. This is his story.
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Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compoundâs Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a âpig butcheringâ scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materialsâincluding 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its...
WeiterlesenUpdated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF
Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory “OOM” behavior...
WeiterlesenPicolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance
Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on...
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Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going
We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Hereâs what they said.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms
OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life sciences environments. Both...
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Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
Have you ever set z-index: 99999 on an element in your CSS, and it doesnât come out on top of other elements? A value that large...
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Southwest Airlines Says Bye to Open Seatingâand Hello to Boarding Complexity
An airlineâs boarding policy shake-up shows the limits of efficiency. (Spoiler: Itâs money.)
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Article: The Friction Fix: Change What Matters
Friction is the invisible current that sinks every transformation. Friction isnât one thing, â itâs systemic. Relationships produce friction: between the people, teams and technology. The...
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Using AI to improve developer onboarding
AI’s strengths extend to smoother onboarding processes â but to what end? The post Using AI to improve developer onboarding appeared first on LeadDev.
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Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access control from...
WeiterlesenHow to Install Git on Ubuntu 24.04
Learn how to install and configure Git on Ubuntu 24.04 using apt, the Git PPA, or by compiling from source.
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10% Dell Coupon Codes | January 2026
Get 10% off with verified Dell promo code, plus todayâs coupons for up to $600 off laptops, Alienware monitors, and all things tech.
WeiterlesenHow to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux
The post How to Impose High CPU Load and Stress Test on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this guide,...
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One Hundred Years Of Telly
Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that itâs a hundred years...
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How to Chat with Your PDF Using Retrieval Augmented Generation
Large language models are good at answering questions, but they have one big limitation: they donât know what is inside your private documents. If you upload...
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All the ways TikTok is broken: hereâs whatâs real and whatâs not
While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are...
WeiterlesenElana Hashman: A beginner’s guide to improving your digital security
In 2017, I led a series of workshops aimed at teaching beginners a better understanding of encryption, how the internet works, and their digital security. Nearly...
WeiterlesenAMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option
AMD’s RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter’s Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off...
WeiterlesenSome notes on starting to use Django
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that Iâve never tried before but that has been around for 20+...
WeiterlesenValve’s Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux…
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Unofficial AppImage Lets You Run Canvaâs Affinity on Ubuntu
Linux lacks native versions of industry-grade creative tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and while open-source options are capable, not everyone is willing to relearn and...
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OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI...
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BellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave
The hardened container market has been heating up with venture money and startups, but Java platform provider BellSoft thinks its eight years of building Java runtimes...
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X faces EU investigation over Grokâs sexualized deepfakes
X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it...
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Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished
A federal judge ordered a new briefing due Wednesday on whether DHS is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies, leaving ICE...
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
âIn my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,â one...
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TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
The technical failure coincided with TikTokâs ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.
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Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.âs top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last...
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Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.comâa domain reserved for testing...
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Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In...
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Apple’s AirTag 2 is easier to find thanks to new chip
Apple is introducing a new version of its AirTag tracking deviceâsimply dubbed “the new AirTag”âand claims it offers substantial improvements thanks to a new Bluetooth chip....
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âWildly irresponsibleâ: DOT’s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns
The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it’s a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rules impacting the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines,...
WeiterlesenAMD Squeezing Out More More ROCm/HIP Performance With New Device-Side PGO
Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed...
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The best Bluetooth trackers for Apple and Android phones
Bluetooth trackers come in all shapes and sizes. | ï»żIllustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where theyâre...
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Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis
Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curlâs bug bounty program, zerobrew takes...
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OpenAIâs president is a Trump mega-donor
OpenAI’s co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn’t just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC – together, he and his wife Anna’s...
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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery...
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Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million
Google could owe you some money, now that it’s moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated...
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Appleâs luxe AirPods Max have dropped to one of their lowest prices ever
All colors are on sale right now, including the attractive blue shade. If you prefer over-ear headphones to earbuds and own an iPhone or another Apple...
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Restoring a 1924 Frigidaire B-9 Refrigerator Back to Working Condition
Before the refrigerator became a normal part of any kitchen, those with enough money to throw around could get an icebox, which used melting ice to...
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The 10 Best Sleep Masks Weâve Tested While Snoozing (2026)
Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks. Our top pick is from Blissy.
WeiterlesenFirefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default
The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window…
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The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix
The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix: From Structured Queries to Natural Language By Alex Hutter and Bartosz Balukiewicz Our previous blog posts (part 1, part...
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AI DevOps vs. SRE agents: Compare AI incident response tools
If youâve seen a new crop of data about ops lately, you may have noticed this new category coming up: AI agents that promise to take...
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Async Rust: Pinning demystified
This is the second of a four-part series. Read Part 1: How Rust does Async differently (and why it matters) In the previous part of this...
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IEEE Brings Hands-On STEM Activities to Indiaâs Rural Areas
âUntil we get equality in education, we wonât have an equal society.â Spoken by Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the words echo...
WeiterlesenInside OpenAIâs big play for scienceÂ
In the three years since ChatGPTâs explosive debut, OpenAIâs technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schoolsâanywhere people have...
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Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE
“Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth. Then worry about fucking me,” a Reddit post reads. “Immigrants of any status are my friends, neighbors, and colleagues.”...
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How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft
In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held...
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This Wireless Mic Kit Is $70 Off
Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.
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The brothers meet Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer
Universal Pictures and Illumination dropped a new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and gaming fans will no doubt be delighted at the news...
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Keebinâ with Kristina: the One with the Split with the Num Pad
I love, love, love Saturn by [Rain2], which comes in two versions. The first, which is notably more complex, is shown here with its rings-of-Saturn thumb...
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Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework
With the MCP protocol, Anthropic created the de facto standard for AI models and agents to talk to third-party applications. After donating the MCP protocol to...
WeiterlesenTattle TV has turned a Hitchcock classic into a vertical video âmicrodramaâ
Most vertical video microdrama apps have been focused on putting out newly produced series meant to be watched on your phone. But Tattle TV thinks that...
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MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva
Anthropic’s Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily access tools and...
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TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
TikTok’s takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled. The app, which is available on Android and iOS, currently...
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Intelâs Panther Lake Chips Arenât Just GoodâThey Beat Apple’s M5
Iâve tested a laptop powered by Panther Lakeâpitting them head-to-head against laptops with Apple Siliconâand Intel has finally scored a much-needed win with the Core Ultra...
WeiterlesenGodot 4.6 Ships Many Improvements For This Leading Open-Source Game Engine
Godot 4.6 is officially out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine…
Weiterlesen[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5
The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification....
WeiterlesenIntel Panther Lake / Arc B390 Linux Benchmarks Still Coming
Ahead of tomorrow’s official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated...
WeiterlesenWhy chatbots are starting to check your age
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech...
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Cisco is using eBPF to rethink firewalls, vulnerability mitigation
Networking giant Cisco purchased Isovalent in 2024 to get in on the cloud native action. In our cloud native community, Isovalent was primarily known for Cilium,...
WeiterlesenStenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program
Curl creator Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post explaining why the project is ending its bug-bounty program, which started in April 2019: The never-ending slop...
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Astronomy Live on Twitch
Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred...
WeiterlesenHow Tailscale Peer Relays saved my holiday: a 12.5X performance boost from India
Visiting family in India used to mean sluggish, inconsistent connections to a U.S. homelab. Tailscale Peer Relays meant no more frozen terminals or slow transfers.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)
Hey! Itâs my first post for 2026, and Iâm writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are...
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TikTok explained why some US creators are seeing posts with “0 views”
TikTok has been glitching for US users since Sunday, and TikTok’s new US owners finally confirmed the cause: a power outage at a US data center. “Since...
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How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds
Over the years, hackers and modders at large have made it their mission to port classic first-person shooter Doom to practically anything with a display. Recently,...
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Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?
The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf â a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices â recently shared a screenshot indicating theyâd compromised...
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Mecha Comet â Modular Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules
Linux handhelds are having a moment of late, yet few wear their geek cred as proudly as the Mecha Comet, a new open source, palm-sized computer...
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How open standards enable zero trust on commodity hardware
Confidential computing has always held a certain promise. The idea that workloads could process sensitive data while remaining isolated even from the infrastructure that runs them...
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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic...
WeiterlesenRevisiting The Linux 6.19 Performance With Some New Wins & Losses
Back at the start of the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle I ran benchmarks showing some scheduler performance regressions with the new kernel. Fortunately, two weeks out...
WeiterlesenThere is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
I was building a Modal component that uses the <dialog> elementâs showModal method. While testing the component, I discovered I could tab out of the <dialog>...
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A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps
Modern cloud native attacks donât always rely on a single breakthrough exploit. Instead, threat actors chain together small assumptions, overlooked behaviors, and trusted components in ways...
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Does Carbon Fiber PLA Make Sense?
Carbon fiber (CF) has attained somewhat of a near-mystical appeal in consumer marketing, with it being praised for being stronger than steel while simultaneously being extremely...
WeiterlesenBuild a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 4
Building a leaderboard with database integration for our example browser-based game.
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After 5 Years, Apple Finally Upgrades the AirTag
The second-generation AirTag features Appleâs newer Ultra Wideband chip and has a louder speaker and better range.
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EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes
The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Muskâs xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spread sexualized images of women and...
WeiterlesenPatch Proposed To Allow Toggling Linux Kernel VT Support At Boot Time
A patch causing a healthy technical debate today on the Linux kernel mailing list would allow the kernel virtual terminal “VT” support to be enabled/disabled at...
WeiterlesenSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, net-snmp, pcs, and thunderbird), Debian (apache2, imagemagick, incus, inetutils, libuev, openjdk-17, php7.4,...
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Nvidia makes AI weather forecasting more accessible, no supercomputer needed
With very few exceptions, large-scale weather forecasting has been the domain of government agencies with access to massive supercomputers. But that is changing. Nvidia launched two...
WeiterlesenCable cuts, storms, and DNS: a look at Internet disruptions in Q4 2025
In 2025, we observed over 180 Internet disruptions spurred by a variety of causes â some were brief and partial, while others were complete outages lasting...
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GeoPandas Basics: Maps, Projections, and Spatial Joins
GeoPandas extends pandas to make working with geospatial data in Python intuitive and powerful. If youâre looking to do geospatial tasks in Python and want a...
WeiterlesenThe power of sound in a virtual world
In an era where business, education, and even casual conversations occur via screens, sound has become a differentiating factor. We obsess over lighting, camera angles, and...
WeiterlesenLinux Kernel 6.19 RC7 Released: A Large Release Candidate Justifies the Extra Week
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.19-rc7. While the patch is larger than usual for this stage, the release is going smoothly with a final stable version expected...
WeiterlesenInitial AMD GFX13 Target Merged To LLVM 23 Git – Presumably RDNA5
Added to the LLVM 23 Git codebase minutes ago is a pull request adding the initial AMDGPU GFX13 target for their next-generation graphics core IP. AMD...
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The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants
This is todayâs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatâs going on in the world of technology. Meet the new biologists...
WeiterlesenIreland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers
This is coming: The Irish government is planning to bolster its policeâs ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware...
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Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: “I don’t think they’re great right now”
Crew members traveling to the lunar surface on NASA’s Artemis missions should be gearing up for a grind. They will wear heavier spacesuits than those worn...
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The cURL Project Drops Bug Bounties Due To AI Slop
Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor quality of bug reports filed due to...
WeiterlesenQuiz: GeoPandas Basics: Maps, Projections, and Spatial Joins
In this quiz, youâll test your understanding of GeoPandas. Youâll review coordinate reference systems, GeoDataFrames, interactive maps, and spatial joins with .sjoin(). Youâll also explore how...
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We Strapped on Exoskeletons and Raced. Thereâs One Clear Winner
WIRED put the latest consumer exoskeletons from Dnsys and Hypershell in a head-to-head test on a pro athletic track. On your marks âŠ
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Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Guilherme Carreiro discusses the architecture behind Shopifyâs theme system, focusing on balancing extreme customizability with platform stability. He explains how they leverage Liquid as a safe...
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Deepfake âNudifyâ Technology Is Getting Darkerâand More Dangerous
Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.
WeiterlesenAMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics
A patch series posted last week for the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver implements HDMI Variable Rate Refresh “VRR” and other gaming features for HDMI displays. With...
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People Are Protesting Data Centersâbut Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs theyâre expected to bring.
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Article: Virtual Panel – AI in the Trenches: How Developers Are Rewriting the Software Process
This virtual panel brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders to explore how AI is changing the landscape of software development. Practitioners share their insights on...
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Podcast: Startup Software Architecture – You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information,...
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TSMC Risk
Listen to this post: Log in to listen You probably think, given this title, you know what this Article is about. The most advanced semiconductors are...
WeiterlesenLG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0
For the Intel-powered LG Gram Style 14 laptop one of the Linux support caveats is the internal speakers not working properly under Linux, but with a...
WeiterlesenASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel
ASRock Rack’s PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide...
WeiterlesenNew Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance
Kairui Song of Tencent sent out a new patch series overnight working on enhancing the Linux kernel’s swap code. With the patches there are some memory...
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Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language
Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage collection. Designed with...
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