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Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...

OpenAI Launches Frontier, a Platform to Build, Deploy, and Manage AI Agents Across the Enterprise

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents, designed to make AI agents reliable, scalable, and integrated into real company systems...

2026.08: Losing in the Attention Economy

@PUBG Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle;...

How to Use Documentation as a Marketing Tool

I was recently moved to the marketing team at my company, and that shift has made me reflect more deeply on the role documentation plays in...

Rudra is a new keyboard-driven launcher for GNOME Shell

The world isn’t short on keyboard-based Linux launchers. Albert, Ulauncher, rofi and GNOME Do (if you’re old enough to remember that one) are among those I’ve...

Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 358: Soft Displays, LCD Apertures, and Mind Controlled Toys

For today’s podcast Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and we’re pushing the limits of mobile connectivity as Jenny’s coming to us from a North...

Auto-Reloading Magnet Dispenser Can Feed Itself

Magnet placement tools are great because they remove finger fumbling while ensuring correct polarity every time. [EmGi] has made a further improvement by making a version...

The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks

As someone who had a front-row seat to the container orchestration wars, I am watching the same movie play out again with AI agent frameworks. It’s...

Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform”

For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console...

Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf26

We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf26 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use open-source server solutions. The comprehensive...

“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent...

AI Safety Meets the War Machine

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser

With HBO’s critically acclaimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that other Game...

Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration’s signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in...

HD on a VHS Tape? How Did They Do It?

There was a period from the 1970s to the mid-2000s or so when a fixture underneath the family TV set was a VHS videocassette recorder. These...

Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers

For my money, the 2004 Game Boy Advance re-releases of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are still the best versions of the original Pokémon games. They fixed most of the bugs...

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Donald Trump was not authorized to implement emergency tariffs to ostensibly block illegal drug flows and offset trade deficits. It’s...

Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You

Just before we wrapped up 2025, I saw this proposal for :near(), a pseudo-class that would match if the pointer were to go near the element....

Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC

When beginning some early Linux 7.0 kernel benchmarking this week for looking at its performance in its early development state, I started off testing on Core...

How to Install Java on Mac in 2026

Java is the most widely used programming language for enterprise software, Android development, and university computer science courses. Apple doesn’t include Java with macOS, so you...

How to Run Rust on Jupyter Notebooks

If you’ve ever wanted to combine the power of Rust with the interactive goodness of Jupyter notebooks, you’re in the right place. Maybe you’re tired of...

How to Build and Deploy a Production-Ready WhatsApp Bot with FastAPI, Evolution API, Docker, EasyPanel, and GCP

WhatsApp bots are widely used for customer support, automated replies, notifications, and internal tools. Instead of relying on expensive third-party platforms, you can build and deploy...

Ask Hackaday: Do You Have a Dead Man’s Switch?

During the Cold War, the specter of a nuclear “dead man’s switch” was central to the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). In the event that...

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy...

[$] Open-source Discord alternatives

The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content —...

Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

Last night, Tesla made some hefty cuts to Cybertruck pricing in an effort to stimulate some sales. The bombastic tri-motor “Cyberbeast” is $15,000 cheaper at $99,990,...

The three paths AI could take from here – Shawn Wang SWYX interview [Podcast #208]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He’s a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space podcast focused on applying...

The Book of Remind

Dianne Skoll, creator and maintainer of the command-line calendar and alarm program Remind, has announced the release of The Book of Remind. As the name suggests,...

GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support

Following GNOME 50’s Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead...

An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US...

FreeBSD KDE Desktop Installer Script is Ready for Testing

The FreeBSD Foundation is launching an automated KDE installer for the 15.1 release. Join the FreeBSD KDE Installer Call for Testing. The post FreeBSD KDE Desktop...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana), Debian (gegl, inetutils, libvpx, nova, and python-django), Fedora (azure-cli, chromium, microcode_ctl, python-azure-core, python3.14, and roundcubemail), Red Hat (grafana...

Making infrastructure access lighter, simpler, and smarter

Tailscale’s latest updates treat secure connectivity, access control, and audit observability as one cohesive system, reducing complexity while keeping strict standards.

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard way for AI agents to use external tools. But there is a tension at its core: agents need...

Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0

While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0…

Your Coffee Grinder Is as Important as Your Brewer—Here Are the 5 Best We’ve Tested

We used particle size analysis and real-world testing to find the best conical burr, flat burr, and blade grinders for every budget and style of coffee...

Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week for this next major kernel release. There are some...

The Download: Microsoft’s online reality check, and the worrying rise in measles cases

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. Microsoft has a new...

Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar answer: data platforms that enable AI...

Epilogue GB Operator Review: Play Your Game Boy Games on a Laptop

Epilogue’s adorable GB Operator plug-in gizmo is a must-have for collectors of retro Nintendo Game Boy games.

jQuery Releases v4: First Major Version in Almost 10 Years

jQuery 4 has launched, celebrating 20 years of innovation in web development. This major update modernizes the library by removing legacy code and outdated browser support...

Boldr Kelvin Review (2026): Heats Your Body, Heats the Wall

The Boldr Kelvin heater looks cool and promises energy savings and far-infrared heat. Too bad it also heats backward.

Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models...

Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock

It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies. As Hamilton Nolan advises,...

NextSilicon’s Maverick-2: the Future of High-Performance Computing?

A few months back, Sandia National Laboratories announced they had acquired a new supercomputer. It wasn’t the biggest, but it still offered in their eyes something...

Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas

Welcome to Edition 8.30 of the Rocket Report! As I write this week’s edition, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is undergoing a second countdown rehearsal at...

OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption

The OpenTelemetry open-source observability project recently published a comprehensive guide titled “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” aimed at helping organizations understand, adopt, and scale observability using the OpenTelemetry standard....

Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

How to Layer Your Clothes to Stay Warm in Any Season (2026)

Whether you’re hiking, climbing, or backpacking, here’s how to use base layers, mid layers, and a shell to be comfortable no matter what nature throws at...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #285: Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to Clients

How can you move your MCP tools beyond plain text? How do you add interactive UI components directly inside chat conversations? This week on the show,...

The Best Mushroom Gummies on the Market, Lab-Approved (2026)

These edibles made from functional fungi are not your childhood Flintstone vitamins.

Meet Scotland’s Whisky-Sniffing Robot Dog

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels.

Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze

Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” has entered its feature freeze…

Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support

Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is...

The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

Job titles of the future: Breast biomechanic

Twenty years ago, Joanna Wakefield-Scurr was having persistent pain in her breasts. Her doctor couldn’t diagnose the cause but said a good, supportive bra could help....

Community service

The bird is a beautiful silver-gray, and as she dies twitching in the lasernet I’m grateful for two things: First, that she didn’t make a sound....

Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected

Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple’s Metal API. Initially targeting macOS, KosmicKrisp since was merged to Mesa and has evolved...

USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0

All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window…

Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here’s What It Means for You

If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing.

The War Over Prediction Markets Is Just Getting Started

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and advocates over their legality.

Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists

House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.

The Olympics and Politics Are More Intertwined Than Ever. Maybe That’s a Good Thing

The Olympics often provide a moment of unity and celebration during times of geopolitical uncertainty. But blind nationalism didn’t win at the 2026 Winter Games.

Measles cases are rising. Other vaccine-preventable infections could be next.

There’s a measles outbreak happening close to where I live. Since the start of this year, 34 cases have been confirmed in Enfield, a northern borough...

Presentation: How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions

Alex Radovici explains the shift from C-ABI and scripting to the Wasm Component Model (WASI Preview 2). He shares how to build secure plugin systems that...

Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pulls

The Podman team and the Fedora Quality Assurance team are organizing a Test Week from Friday, February 27 through Friday, March 6, 2026. This is your...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 13...

Eliminating the Impossible

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe

Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried...

JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 10 new features, in the form...

Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve

Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. Besides a handful of fixes and clarifications,...

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to...

Small models, big impact: The future of scaling enterprise AI agents

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that “bigger” was the only...

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle’s infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings...

Friday Five — February 20, 2026

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn’t be a wall but a foundation for the...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 313 released

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 313. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't fail...

The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton

Last month, just a few weeks after Dynatrace finalized its acquisition of DevCycle, Michael Beemer of Dynatrace and Andrew Norris, co-founder and former CEO of DevCycle,...

BleachBit 5.1.0 Beta adds cookie manager and expert mode

BleachBit 5.1.0 beta is out with a new cookie manager, expert mode to prevent accidental data loss, new browser support, and fixes for Linux users. You’re...

An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a...

Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is.

You’ve heard of Docker Desktop, right? Of course you have. Docker Desktop is a user-friendly GUI app that simplifies managing Docker containers. With this point-and-click tool,...

Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis

A Georgia college student named Darian DeCruise has sued OpenAI, alleging that a recently deprecated version of ChatGPT “convinced him that he was an oracle” and...

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as “Type A” mishap, says agency made mistakes

NASA on Thursday announced it has formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test...

The essential shift every ITOps leader must make to survive an unrelenting stream of incidents

High-profile IT incidents are becoming more frequent and more severe. A single hour of downtime for a revenue-generating service could cost large enterprises between $100,000 and...

AI agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Here’s how AppSec teams must adapt.

It has never been easier to quickly and at scale find security vulnerabilities. Linus’s Law, Eric Raymond’s famous dictum about open source software, states that “given...

Rubik’s WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

There’s something special about the gadget that “just works.” Technology can open opportunity for those devices but also complicate and weigh down products that have done...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default

It’s not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version…

How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue

LLMs are accelerating work across engineering disciplines, from generating React components and building backend APIs to noodling with SQL. But we all know LLMs make mistakes,...

RP2040 Powers A MIDI-Controlled Soundboard

When you’re livestreaming, it can be tempting to fire off all kinds of wacky sound effects like you’re a morning radio DJ back in the heady...

How will OpenAI compete?

“Jakub and Mark set the research direction for the long run. Then after months of work, something incredible emerges and I get a researcher pinging me...

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

Horizon Central, the town square of Meta’s metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central Meta, after laying off about...

Rising identity complexity: How CISOs can prevent it from becoming an attacker’s roadmap

Identity has always been the thread that stitches enterprise IT together, but the nature of that identity has changed dramatically. Twenty years ago, identity meant a...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Private DC Club Has Mysterious Ties to an Ex-Cop With a Controversial Past

The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious...

Diablo II’s new Warlock is a great excuse to revisit a classic game

Diablo II is one of those storied classic PC games that’s pretty much always fun to come back to—so much so that some players have put...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or...

The 10 Best Shows to Stream Right Now (February 2026)

Fallout, Neighbors, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters are just a few of the TV shows we’re swooning over for February.

‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok

On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising.

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

Upgrade Your Computer Speakers With These Discounted Edifier M60s

These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they’ll blow your monitor’s built-in speakers out of the water.

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great

Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task, Gemini 3.1 Pro, which is officially...

After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

Siminoff acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that including maps that showed mass surveillance in an ad was a mistake. | Screenshot from...

From chickens to humans, animals think “bouba” sounds round

Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate...

Fixing a Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit

As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone...

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift

The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it’s betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

The Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams?

Note: after a two-week hiatus, The Pulse returns. The absence was due to organizing and hosting The Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco. You can access The...

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes

Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, according to Bloomberg. The...

Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is Agent-2-Agent (A2A) for agents to talk...

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw – the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that “actually does things” – absolutely everywhere. Funny...

Baseus’ retractable, 6-in-1 travel adapter is on sale for its lowest price to date

The nifty universal adapter lets you charge your electronics in more than 200 countries worldwide. | Image: Baseus Packing multiple charging adapters can quickly eat up...

Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics

The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2...

F1: Preseason tests show how different 2026 will be

It’s just two weeks until F1 gets underway in Australia, and teams are currently in Bahrain, midway through their third and final preseason test. The 2026...

Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing TP-Link over claims that the router-maker is misleading customers about its ties to China. In a lawsuit filed this...

The History of the View-Master

We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a...

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice

The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into the history of those controversies, it...

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it’s better at complex problem-solving

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping...

Apple TV’s The Hunt finally has a premiere date

The Hunt – Apple TV’s new French-language drama that was previously put on indefinite hold following concerns about plagiarism – has been given a solid release...

The U.S. and China Are Pursuing Different AI Futures

More money has been invested in AI than it took to land on the moon. Spending on the technology this year is projected to reach up...

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of allowing the distribution and storage of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in iCloud. In...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir

“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees...

New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in New York City in December of 2025. | Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images New York Governor...

AI Helped Uncover A “50-80x Improvement” For Linux’s IO_uring

Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI...

Seven stable kernels for Thursday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.3, 6.18.13, 6.12.74, 6.6.127, 6.1.164, 5.15.201, and 5.10.251 stable kernels. As usual, each includes important fixes and users are advised to...

Thermoforming Printed Parts with Hot Water

Thermoforming is the process of softening a material enough so that it can be tweaked into a new shape, with the source of the thermal energy...

Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing

In Formula One, grip is everything. The world’s best engineers devote their careers to designing cars that maximize downforce and grip to squeeze every bit of...

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Media Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions

Insights from Microsoft’s Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures report It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction when viewing online images...

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image...

Community Refines Git Packaging Workflow

Contributors and developers within openSUSE Project recently met to coordinate the Git-based packaging workflow for Leap 16 and discussed how the process applies to the Leap...

Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes

Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very...

[$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

The kernel’s unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvement in recent times. Recent articles have described the addition of the swap...

Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware

The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty...

AMD Announces hipThreads For Easier Porting Of C++ Code To GPUs

The newest addition to AMD’s ROCm/HIP portfolio is HIP Threads “hipThreads” as a C++ style concurrency library for AMD GPUs…

The Requirements of AI

The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. We aren’t convinced....

Reducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key’s Event-Driven Platform

Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events with millisecond latency,...

FOSS Weekly #26.08: KDE Plasma 6.6, Mint Release Schedule Change, ASCII Weather, Firefox Tweaking and More Linux Stuff

Quizzes and Puzzles? Yes or no?

openSUSE governance proposal advances

Douglas DeMaio has announced that Jeff Mahoney’s new governance proposal for openSUSE, which was published in January, is moving forward. The new structure would have three...

Fragments: February 19

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe. I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design, since...

Workload identity federation is generally available

Connect CI/CD and cloud workloads through OIDC, now with support for Terraform, API, and Kubernetes workloads, tsnet integration, and automatic cloud token exchange.

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. “You’ve likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (edk2, glibc, gnupg2, golang, grafana, nodejs:24, and php), Debian (gimp and kernel), Fedora (fvwm3), Mageia (microcode and vim), Oracle...

Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity

When searching for “MT7902” and “Linux” there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining...

Tailscale Services is now generally available

Major improvements make services more powerful, more auditable, and easier to operate at scale, extending Tailscale as a secure connectivity platform across environments.

Bliki: Host Leadership

If you’ve hung around agile circles for long, you’ve probably heard about the concept of servant leadership, that managers should think of themselves as supporting the...

Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys

We love hearing about the latest findings coming out of an Eötvös Loránd University (ELU) research group focused on gifted word learner (GWL) dogs—if only for...

The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots

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 uncrewed narco subs...

Presentation: DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation

The panelists share how AI is redefining DevOps and SRE practices by moving teams beyond reactive monitoring toward predictive, automated delivery and operations. They discuss integrating...

Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared (2026)

We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers in 2026

8 Best Computer Monitors (2026): Budget, OLED, 4K, and More

The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a portable screen).

9 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find...

Malicious AI

Interesting: Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage...

New Tool Makes 3D Printed PCBs, Fast

Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment. However, it can...

Quiz: Python’s tuple Data Type: A Deep Dive With Examples

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python tuples. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit various ways to interact with Python tuples. You’ll also...

8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

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The openSUSE Project moved forward with a proposed governance structure following a virtual meeting yesterday that drew community members together for a discussion on advancing a...

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Lifting weights can keep you carrying groceries and riding bikes even as you get older. Here’s our guide to a simple home setup.

Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features –...

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Version 0.3.0 of the fnmatch-regex Rust crate is now available. The major new addition is the glob_to_regex_pattern function that only converts the glob pattern to a...

Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75%

Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management “MM” updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is...

Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost

Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instructions for “parsing gigabytes of JSON per second.” Notably it showed years ago...

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Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.

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The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities. They have burned a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s oil...

An Interview with Matthew Ball About Gaming and the Fight for Attention

An interview with Matthew Ball about the state of the video gaming industry in 2026, and why everything is a fight for attention.

Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking

Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation results from...

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Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 Review: Stronger Build, Sweeter Sound

Bowers & Wilkins’ latest Px7 headphones keep sound and style at the forefront, with brilliant results.

This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off

Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.

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Article: Spec-Driven Development – Adoption at Enterprise Scale

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Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Sriram Kalyan, head...

Dnf Command in Linux: Package Management Guide

dnf (Dandified YUM) is the default package manager on Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and other RPM-based distributions. It replaces the older yum package manager and...

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This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source)

If you are looking for a free video downloader that just works on Linux, Windows or macOS, VidBee is the ideal choice here.

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony

The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026

Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN...

How to Develop AI Agents Using LangGraph: A Practical Guide

AI agents are all the rage these days. They’re like traditional chatbots, but they have the ability to utilize a plethora of tools in the background....

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Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AI agent goes rogue; debuginfo; iocaine; revocable resource-management patches; 7.0 merge window; AccECN; LLMs and security; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team....

Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026, same as in the previous two...

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Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the...

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No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an...

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OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and the various other personal AI agents that are all the hype right now can quickly burn through millions of AI tokens. What has...

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Earlier this month we spotted the addition of a new GFX1170 GPU target in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Making this GFX1170 target interesting is that its...

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Your team needs to solve a problem, and there’s no clear solution path. Multiple approaches might work, but you’re not sure which. Success isn’t guaranteed. This...

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Foreign data wrappers (FDWs) make remote Postgres tables feel local. That convenience is exactly why FDW performance surprises are so common. A query that looks like...

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Bose’s fabulous QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 noise-canceling headphones are the best travel headphones and are $50 off.

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With the Linux 7.0 merge window beginning to calm down ahead of the 7.0-rc1 release due out on Sunday, one of the areas I was most...

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Following our report last week that Verizon is forcing people to wait 35 days for phone unlocks after paying off device installment plans, Verizon is apparently...

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AI is drowning codebases in machine-written output, but without a strategic framework, we aren’t just innovating; we’re automating the creation of legacy mess, one enterprise software...

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2026 is looking like a pretty good year for affordable electric vehicles. There’s a new Nissan Leaf that starts at a hair under $30,000 (as long...

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Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for. But wait! This year there’s a twist, or rather two. What absolutely hasn’t changed,...

Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths”

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency was accused of abandoning its mission to protect public health after repealing an “endangerment finding” that has...

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Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

Save on Gaming Earbuds Perfect for Playing on Switch or ROG Xbox Ally

While it may sound unorthodox, these earbuds make a great companion for your Switch 2 or other portable console.

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Ever wanted to know how engineers made their calculations before digital calculators were on every workbench? [Richard Carpenter] and [Robert Wolf] have just the thing—a sliderule...

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This week, Apple released the first developer betas for iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, and its other operating systems. On Tuesday, it followed those up...