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Salsa Wanderosa Electric Bike Review: Full-Suspension Drop-Bar Gravel Ride

It’s a drop-bar electric mountain bike! It’s a full-suspension electric gravel bike! It’s everything at once, and it’s awesome.

The Best Laptop Tote Bags to Buy (2026), WIRED-Tested and Reviewed

From travel days to board meetings, these laptop totes are designed to protect your valuables, and then some.

Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects

Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday…

LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source...

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

Following last week’s Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes…

College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are...

Another Viral AI Doomer Article, The Fundamental Error, DoorDash’s AI Advantages

Another AI doomer article has gone viral, and like many in the genre, it lacks an appreciation for dynamism and markets. Then, why DoorDash is going...

The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

AI Will Never Be Conscious

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

Making the Case for a Modern Synaptic-Style Package Manager on Linux

The Linux desktop has evolved, and it’s high time for the “advanced package manager” experience to evolve with it.

CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for...

Ladybird Browser Just Ported C++ Code to Rust in 2 Weeks Thanks to AI

Turns out AI is pretty handy when you need to port C++ code.

AI “Vibe Coding” Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL’s bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to...

chown Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chown. Command Description chown USER FILE Change file owner chown USER:GROUP FILE Change owner and group chown...

Master the Essential Keyboard Shortcuts in Linux Mint to Feel Like a Pro User

I am sharing some essential shortcuts to get you started. I will also briefly share how you can set custom shortcuts for all actions.

Article: Virtual Panel – Culture, Code, and Platform: Building High-Performing Teams

In this virtual panel, we’ll focus on performance improvement through platform engineering and fostering developer experience, to increase productivity, quality, developer well-being, and more. We’ll also...

Quesma Releases OTelBench to Evaluate OpenTelemetry Infrastructure and AI Performance

Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle...

Java News Roundup: JDK26-RC2, Payara Platform, Hibernate, Quarkus, Apache Camel, Jakarta EE 12

This week’s Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February...

Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests...

X-Ray a PCB Virtually

If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it.  But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a...

Predictable AI: Announcing the January and February validated model batches

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model...

Migrate your VMs faster with the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11

Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload...

Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging the gap from experimentation to production scale

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the...

Firefox 148 released with AI kill switch + more

The Firefox 148 update sees its stable release today, bringing with it a much-request ‘AI kill switch’ to easily disable all AI-powered features within the browser....

Start Your Surround Sound Journey With $50 off This Klipsch Soundbar

This soundbar is just the beginning, with the option to add wireless bookshelf speakers or a subwoofer.

The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem

The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed tomorrow, how hard would it be...

6 Best Duffel Bags We Tested While Traveling (2026)

Need to schlep some stuff? Consider these field-tested duffel bags. The Eastpak Duffel Pack S Tarp Black2 is our top pick.

GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This major release contains many new and improved functions. Among other things, it brings...

Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging

DALLAS—The Space Force officer tasked with overseeing more than $24 billion in research and development spending says the Pentagon is more interested in supporting startups building...

Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades...

Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was...

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

Panasonic, once revered for its plasma TVs, is giving up on making its own TV sets. Today, it announced that Chinese company Skyworth will take over...

The mythical agent-month

Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new...

Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer – just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year’s biggest anti-monopoly...

Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is

The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious...

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on...

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel’s accelerator “accel” subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver…

AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands Labs, where teams...

[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of...

Antoine Beaupré: PSA: North america changes time forward soon, Europe next

This is a copy of an email I used to send internally at work and now made public. I’m not sure I’ll make a habit of...

ATABoy is an Open Source USB Bridge For Old IDE Drives

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection–...

Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown...

Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know.

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from...

Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview of Weston 15.0, which was released on February 19. Weston is the reference implementation of a...

MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix

Avneesh Saluja, Santiago Castro, Bowei Yan, Ashish Rastogi Introduction Netflix’s core mission is to connect millions of members around the world with stories they’ll love. This requires...

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes?

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Intel’s open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today’s OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM)...

Apple’s newest AirTags are already on sale if you’re looking to upgrade

The second-gen trackers look similar to the originals but come with a few welcome upgrades. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Less than...

Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner...

New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”

Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years...

The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions

Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. | Image: Acme Weather Corporation After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some...

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s...

The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade

Mazda provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Diego and accommodation so Ars could drive the CX-5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENCINITAS, Calif.—Its...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way...

Wouter Verhelst: On Free Software, Free Hardware, and the firmware in between

When the Free Software movement started in the 1980s, most of the world had just made a transition from free university-written software to non-free, proprietary, company-written...

New Blog Post: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote

Now that I’m not spending all my time on Logic for Programmers, I have time to update my website again! So here’s the first blog post...

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

Lamborghini is the Latest Automaker to Pull the Plug on Luxury EVs

The CEO of the supercar company says demand for high-end full electric cars is “almost zero.” Could this mean Ferrari’s Luce will be dead on arrival?

Nuclear Waste Remediation by Proton Beam

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at...

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. In an emailed statement to The Verge,...

Kohler’s new shower reuses dirty water to get you clean

A giant main floor window next to Kohler’s new recirculating shower system isn’t required. | Image: Kohler Kohler claims its new Anthem EvoCycle smart shower system...

Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake

While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds’ versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in...

Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images As 2025...

How to Build and Deploy a Multi-Agent AI System with Python and Docker

You wake up and open your laptop. Your browser has 27 tabs open, your inbox is overflowing with unread newsletters, and meeting notes are scattered across...

Yep, it’s fast: Donut Lab’s solid-state battery gets its first test result

Since announcing earlier this year that it was on the cusp of a major battery breakthrough, Finnish startup Donut Lab has faced a lot of questions,...

AOC’s 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor is down to $380

It’s tough not to gush about a 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor that costs under $400 (I’ve done it before!). AOC’s G-Sync-compatible model with a 240Hz...

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel-rt and openssl), Debian (ca-certificates, chromium, gegl, glib2.0, libvpx, modsecurity-crs, nova, and pillow), Fedora (chromium, mingw-libpng, mupdf, python-pyasn1, python-PyMuPDF,...

The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

The Ladybird browser project has announced a move to the Rust programming language: When we originally evaluated Rust back in 2024, we rejected it because it’s...

FreeBSD’s Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4’2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among...

How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?

Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften...

[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing...

Uforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices

Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing,...

Build a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 6

Add structured logging, distributed traces, and game analytics to your Deno game and learn how to use Deno Deploy’s built-in logs, traces, and metrics dashboards.

Linux Kernel 7.0 RC1 Released: A “Solid Progress” Milestone

Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming Linux Kernel version 7.0. Here’s what’s new in Linux 7.0-rc1. The post Linux Kernel 7.0...

Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now...

Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design

I got this interesting question in an SVG workshop: “What is the performance difference between an SVG loader and simply rotating an image for a loader?”...

Python for Loops: The Pythonic Way

Python’s for loop allows you to iterate over the items in a collection, such as lists, tuples, strings, and dictionaries. The for loop syntax declares a...

Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes

For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel “ANV” open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes…

Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic

HBO has another critically acclaimed hit with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, and it...

The Download: Chicago’s surveillance network, and building better bras

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. Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon...

AI’s Math Tricks Don’t Work for Scientific Computing

AI has driven an explosion of new number formats—the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking at every possible way to save computation...

TSSLint 3.0: Final Major Release with Reduced Dependencies

TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual...

Best Puffer Jacket (2026): Patagonia, Arc’teryx, REI

Our favorite down puffer jackets will keep you warm in the backcountry and around town.

Fragments: February 23

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security,...

On the Security of Password Managers

Good article on password managers that secretly have a backdoor. New research shows that these claims aren’t true in all cases, particularly when account recovery is...

Calculus by Oscilloscope

Even entry-level oscilloscopes today have simple math functions such as adding or subtracting two channels. But as [Arthur Pini] notes, more advanced scopes can now even...

The first cars bold enough to drive themselves

No one knows exactly when the vehicles we drive will finally wrest the steering wheel from us. But the age of the autonomous automobile isn’t some...

Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them

The industry has spent the last few years optimizing AI agents’ code-generation capabilities. The focus has been on expanding context windows, fine-tuning models on repository-specific data,...

Quiz: Build a Hash Table in Python With TDD

In this quiz, you’ll review hash functions, collision resolution strategies, hash function distribution, the avalanche effect, and key principles of Test-Driven Development. For more practice and...

The Best iPad to Buy (and Some to Avoid) in 2026

We break down the current iPad lineup to help you figure out which of Apple’s tablets is best for you.

OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices

You don’t need a MacMini for running OpenClaw. These alternative projects can run on SBCs and ESP32 microcontrollers.

RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland

While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one...

Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads

Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes...

AI for Cybersecurity: Promise, Practice, and Pitfalls

AI is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape. From accelerating threat detection to enabling real-time automated responses, artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.But...

Article: Building a Least-Privilege AI Agent Gateway for Infrastructure Automation with MCP, OPA, and Ephemeral Runners

This article presents a least-privilege AI Agent Gateway that places clear controls between AI agents and infrastructure. Agents do not access infrastructure APIs directly. Instead, every...

Podcast: Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A Conversation with Chris Richardson

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Chris Richardson about using microservices to modernize software applications and the use of artificial intelligence in software architecture. We...

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17%

Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding libraries, though productivity gains were not statistically significant. Those...

FFmpeg Lands Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212 Decoding Support

FFmpeg developer Lynne is most known recently for all the Vulkan Video work to this open-source multimedia library while merged today to FFmpeg is another great...

3 tactics for leading a team through uncertainty

Lessons learned leading a team through a bumpy acquisition. The post 3 tactics for leading a team through uncertainty appeared first on LeadDev.

A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces

I’ve spent over two decades in the trenches of user experience design. I remember the transition from table-based layouts to CSS, the pivot to responsive design...

Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon

Early on the morning of September 2, 2024, a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train was the scene of a random and horrific mass shooting. Four...

Introduction To Bash Scripting [29 Topics]

This introduction to Bash scripting guide is created with different topics that will make you comfortable in writing your first bash script. The post Introduction To...

Bash Expansion: The Complete Beginner’s Guide (2026)

Bash expansion explained for beginners. Learn brace, tilde, parameter, command, arithmetic, process, globbing, word splitting, and quote removal with practical examples. The post Bash Expansion: The...

US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems to Tell Every App How Old You Are

A bill with a goal and vague language on how to achieve it.

Presentation: AI Innovation in 2025 and Beyond

Tejas Kumar explains the trajectory of AI innovation, moving beyond the hype of 2024’s RAG into the “year of agents” in 2025. He shares how technologies...

A Candle-Powered Light

For a little over two thousand years, the primary light sources after the sun had set were oil lamps and candles. This was well before the...

The Age-Verification Trap

Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use,...

rm Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for file and directory removal. Command Description rm [OPTIONS] FILE... Remove one or more files rm -r [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY... Remove...

Rivet Launches the Sandbox Agent SDK to Solve Agent API Fragmentation

Rivet Sandbox Agent SDK provides a universal API for coding agents, allowing developers to work with different agent runtimes like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp...

Join Us for Fedora Hatch at SCaLE 23x!

Fedora is heading back to sunny Southern California! As we gear up for SCaLE 23x, we are thrilled to announce a special edition of Fedora Hatch....

Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform

During Security Week 2025, we launched the industry’s first cloud-native post-quantum Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Zero Trust solution, a major step towards securing enterprise network...

Amperage

Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 16th, 2026, highlighting the second milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring...

NASA Delays Launch of Artemis II Lunar Mission Once Again

A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has prompted NASA to delay the Artemis II moon mission. Rather than March 6, the launch...

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

Linus has released 7.0-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. “You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the...

Hackaday Links: February 22, 2026

We’ll start things off this week with some breaking news from NASA: just days after the space agency announced the Artemis II crew was preparing to...

Rust debugging survey 2026

We’re launching a Rust Debugging Survey. Various issues with debugging Rust code are often mentioned as one of the biggest challenges that annoy Rust developers. While...

Strengthening the sovereign enterprise with new training from Red Hat

Sovereignty isn’t something that’s purely discussed in boardrooms in 2026—it’s a strategic initiative centered around business continuity and a way for organizations to reclaim autonomy, control,...

Metrics that matter: How to prove the business value of DevEx

Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a “soft” cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will default to OpenJDK 25

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ will use OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version. An expected change as OpenJDK 25 is a long-term support release, as...

Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:

Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds...

Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI

I wish I could talk to my Plex server… | Image: Samsung. In addition to summoning Bixby or Gemini, Galaxy S26 users will be able to...

Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next

There’s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being...

You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel’s masterpiece of early ambient music

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Spiegel for the site. As preparation for the interview, I spent a lot of time over the last...

Benjamin Mako Hill: What makes online groups vulnerable to governance capture?

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record...

Meshtastic Does More Than Simple Communication

Meshtastic has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, as the off-grid, long-range radio text messaging protocol gains a ton of new users. It’s been...

What About the Droid Attack on the Repos?

You might not have noticed, but we here at Hackaday are pretty big fans of Open Source — software, hardware, you name it. We’ve also spilled...

GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4…

Linux patch Command: Apply Diff Files

The patch command applies a set of changes described in a diff file to one or more original files. It is the standard way to distribute...

This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity

Organizations are investing heavily in AI, with some allocating up to 8% of their total revenue in AI tools for internal productivity. Yet, the 2025 AI...

Trump says Netflix will ‘pay the consequences’ if it doesn’t fire Susan Rice

Former Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice at the State Department on September 26, 2023. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images Donald Trump threatened that...

Recreating Mega Man’s Mega Buster

Mega Man is a popular video game character who is perhaps most notable for having a sort of lasery-type blaster for an arm. A real hand...

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready

Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically converts web pages from HTML to...

AOMedia Open Audio Codec “OAC” Aims To Be The Successor To Opus

While the Alliance For Open Media “AOMedia” is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the...

mv Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for move and rename operations. Command Description mv [OPTIONS] SOURCE DEST Move or rename one file/directory mv [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DIRECTORY...

This magazine plays Tetris — here’s how

The world’s first playable gaming magazine? Tetris has been immortalized in a playable McDonald’s plastic chicken nugget, a playable fake 7-Eleven Slurpee cup, and a playable...

Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows?

By now it’s pretty clear that JavaScript needs WebAssembly (Wasm) to perform heavy computational tasks. In the past few weeks we’ve covered the basics, did a...

Poem: The Attraction of Blackberries

The first time she tried to seduce me,(atoms falling in a vacuum)she asked about blackberries—(every mass exerts some gravity) Did I know their season, where they...

America desperately needs new privacy laws

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the dire state of tech regulation, follow...

Retro camera shootout: Camp Snap Pro vs. Flashback One35 V2

Fun vibes. Okay-ish photos. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There’s been a surge of interest over the last few years in inexpensive...

Inside a Compact Intel 3000 W Water-Cooled Power Supply

Recently [ElecrArc240] got his paws on an Intel-branded 3 kW power supply that apparently had been designed as a reference PSU for servers. At 3 kW...

What to Know About At-Home STI Tests: Pros, Cons, and Recommendations (2026)

It’s easier than ever to test for sexually transmitted infections at home. We break down whether or not you should.

AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance “perf” subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among...

Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux – Thanks To Valve Developer

Timur Kristóf of Valve’s open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enhancing the older AMD Radeon GPU support under Linux. Last year...

What Is Down Fill Power (2026): Fill Weight, Synthetics

Whether you’re looking for extra-warm jackets or bedding, you’ve probably seen this term. Let us, er, fill you in.

Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere

New research published Thursday bolsters growing concerns that a handful of companies and countries are using the global atmospheric commons as a dumping ground for potentially...

Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support

The upstream Linux kernel appears largely ready for Intel’s next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to Granite Rapids. Most of the driver support appears...

How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results

You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.

Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0

For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of improvements there. This work follows KVM also bringing...

Databricks Introduces Lakebase, a PostgreSQL Database for AI Workloads

Databricks has recently announced the general availability of Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. Lakebase is designed to integrate with...

How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3

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Theoretically a belt drive makes for a great upgrade to a bicycle, as it replaces the heavier, noisy and relatively maintenance-heavy roller chain with a zero-maintenance,...

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Serious About Learning Linux? Get 15 O'Reilly Linux and DevOps eBooks for Under $25

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A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s...

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Arturia launched a new version of its flagship effects suite, FX Collection, which includes two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910. FX Collection 6 also...

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I want to get back into the habit of blogging, but I’ve struggled. I’ve had several ideas of topics to try and write about, but I’ve...

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Although digital computers are – much like their human computer counterparts – about performing calculations, another crucial element is that of memory. After all, you need...

AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0

The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements and fixes for Linux 7.0…

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With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has graduated to beta. This means VPA...

TypeScript 6 Released: Developers Invited to Upgrade to Prepare for the Go Rewrite

The TypeScript team recently released TypeScript 6 in beta. The release serves as a key transition point rather than a full feature release. It focuses on...

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Micasa: A Local-First, Privacy-Focused Home Management TUI

Stop losing receipts. Use micasa to track home maintenance, project quotes, and appliance warranties in a single SQLite file. No cloud. No subscriptions. The post Micasa:...

OpenAI Introduces Harness Engineering: Codex Agents Power Large‑Scale Software Development

OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line production system. The platform integrates observability, architectural constraints, and structured...

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One thing I didn’t do last year was go to any Model Context Protocol (MCP) conferences, largely because I couldn’t see why one very young protocol...

AI Data Centers Turn to High-Temperature Superconductors

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I’ve always wanted to go skydiving. Aerial_Knight’s DropShot, from indie developer Aerial_Knight, lets me live out that dream – at least in a safe, virtual kind...

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When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the...

Stellantis is in a crisis of its own making

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eCryptfs Sees Renewed Patch Activity With Linux 7.0

We haven’t heard much about eCryptfs in recent years for that stackable in-tree Linux file-system providing per-directory encryption support. The FSCRYPT framework has shown its strong...

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating...

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[Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique. [Oliver] also has a mission, and that mission...

Souvenirs From the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Being Resold for Big Bucks Online

From pins to mascots to Swatch watches, memorabilia from the Milano Cortina Games is showing up on sites like eBay and Vinted.

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ollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding

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Linux 7.0 Lands More AMDGPU Fixes For Old Radeon Hardware

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You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

By typing simple, text-based commands into Windows’ PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft Store—all without the typical ads or clutter.

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Unlock the power of event-driven architecture with AWS’s innovative pattern for Amazon RDS SQL Server. This approach decouples database events from processing, enhancing scalability and responsiveness....

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After just two months, my husband saw enough hair regrowth that his college friends commented on it.