Category: Allgemein

[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Various forms of tools, colloquially known as “AI”, have been rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. Many developers are embracing LLM tools for code creation...

Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()

Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript scrollytelling site like this one, it makes me question...

Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to...

Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub

Wondering about the replacement? Gentoo is betting on Codeberg.

Plasma 6.6.0 released

Version 6.6.0 of KDE’s Plasma desktop environment has been released. Notable additions in this release include the ability to create global themes for Plasma, an “extract...

A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch...

KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more

KDE Plasma 6.6 release lets you extract text from screenshots, control app volume from the taskbar, save custom themes and fixes the 60Hz animation cap. You’re...

The Complicated Legacy of Mind Controlled Toys

Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes in an included headset,...

We’re Measuring Data Center Sustainability Wrong

In 2024, Google claimed that their data centers are 1.5x more energy efficient than industry average. In 2025, Microsoft committed billions to nuclear power for AI...

Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs

With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional...

Looks a lot like an electric station wagon: the 2026 Toyota bZ Woodland

Toyota provided flights from Columbus, Ohio to Santa Barbara, California and accommodation so Ars could drive the Woodland bZ. Ars does not accept paid editorial content....

An update on upki

In December 2025, Canonical announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure called upki. Jon Seager has published an update about the project with...

99% of adults over 40 have shoulder “abnormalities” on an MRI, study finds

Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem—in...

Interop 2026

Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, go-toolset:rhel8, and golang), Debian (roundcube), Fedora (gnupg2, libpng, and rsync), Mageia (dcmtk and usbmuxd), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gimp, gnupg2,...

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

Write Python Docstrings Effectively

Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this video course, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats,...

Moonshot AI Releases Open-Weight Kimi K2.5 Model with Vision and Agent Swarm Capabilities

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 and...

Aperture: Stop choosing between safe AI and fast AI

Aperture is an AI gateway inside your network, one that takes the friction out of deploying AI for your organization.

Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming

matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: “emerge once, deploy everywhere.”

Harness Engineering

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI’s recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context...

Microsoft .NET On Linux Patches Use IO_uring For Massive Performance Benefits

A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits…

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

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. The curious case of...

Announcing FIPS 140-3 for Ubuntu Core22

With the release of the FIPS 140-3 certified cryptographic modules for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical is building on its long tradition of enabling customers to deploy...

Notepad++ 8.9.2 Introduces “Double-Lock” Security to Fix the Update Hijack

Worried about the Notepad++ supply chain attack? Notepad++ 8.9.2 adds “Double-Lock” security to stop malware hijacking. The post Notepad++ 8.9.2 Introduces “Double-Lock” Security to Fix the...

Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs

Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased...

AirTag Has Hole Behind the Battery? It’s Likely Been Silenced

Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control. [Shahram] shows how the speaker of an AirTag can be...

Leapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation

Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort remain decisive factors in...

OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces

OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent’s core logic from its...

The Simplest Android App for Scanning Documents

Most scanning apps try to get you to buy a cloud storage subscription or pay for extras. Not FairScan, which is free and open-source, and has...

Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in...

DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other...

Thin Is In

Listen to this post: Log in to listen There was, in the early days of computing, no debate about thick clients versus thin: When a computer...

AI Digital Twins Are Helping People Manage Diabetes and Obesity

As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make...

The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis

When Sam Zahr first saw the gray Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible with orange interior and orange roof, he knew he’d found a perfect addition to his fleet....

Open source has a big AI slop problem

AI has increased the strain on already stretched maintainers. The post Open source has a big AI slop problem appeared first on LeadDev.

Does AI Make the Agile Manifesto Obsolete?

Capgemini’s Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don’t fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as...

Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal

Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather

UFW Cheatsheet

Basic Commands # Start with status and firewall state. Command Description ufw status Show firewall status and rules ufw status verbose Show detailed status and defaults...

Using 3D Printed Breadboards to Accommodate Wide Boards

Although off-the-shelf breadboards are plentiful and cheap, they almost always seem to use the same basic design. Although you can clumsily reassemble most of them by...

Article: Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Applications in Kubernetes

Kubernetes often reacts too late when traffic suddenly increases at the edge. A proactive scaling approach that considers response time, spare CPU capacity, and container startup...

The hidden costs of tech support

Quantifying the engineering cost of customer support. The post The hidden costs of tech support appeared first on LeadDev.

Russell Coker: Links February 2026

Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1]. This disturbing...

Chrome 144 Ships Temporal API: Advancing JavaScript Date/Time Standardisation

Chrome 144 introduces the groundbreaking Temporal API, revolutionizing date and time management in JavaScript. As a modern alternative to the criticized Date object, Temporal resolves parsing...

Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria

Mrhbaan, Fedora community! I am happy to share that as of 10 February 2026, Fedora is now available in Syria. Last week, the Fedora Infrastructure Team...

Navigation API – a better way to navigate, is now Baseline Newly Available

The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications.

Chmod Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chmod. Command Description chmod MODE FILE General chmod syntax chmod 644 file.txt Set numeric permissions chmod u+x...

The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race

The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “greenbelt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure.

Performing an Autopsy on 15 Dead Battle Born LFP Batteries

More molten plastic spacers between the bus bar and terminal. (Credit: Will Prowse) Because size matters when it comes to statistics, [Will Prowse] decided to not...

15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux

The post 15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article, you...

What the FDA’s 2026 Wellness Device Update Means for Wearables

With more and more sensors being crammed into the consumer devices that many of us wear every day, the question of where medical devices begin and...

GlassFish 8.0 Delivers Compatibility with Jakarta EE 11, Enhanced Security and Improved Data Access

After 15 milestone releases, the Eclipse Foundation has released version 8.0 of GlassFish featuring support for virtual threads; enhanced application security; and improved data access. GlassFish...

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo’s desire to move away from GitHub was...

Using go fix to modernize Go code

The Go Blog Using go fix to modernize Go code Alan Donovan 17 February 2026 The 1.26 release of Go this month includes a completely rewritten...

Redefining automation governance: From execution to observability at Bradesco

At Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil and Latin America, the ability to scale is crucial. Automation plays a central role in this...

Introducing Red Hat build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-ready local container development environments

The “works on my machine” problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their...

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026 (by Santiago Ruano Rincón)

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for January. Activity summary During the month of January, 20...

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by...

Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature

A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express...

How to Take Machine Learning Beyond Python Notebooks with These Helpful Tools

Machine learning tasks usually start in a Python notebook, and for good reason. Notebooks make it easy to explore data, test ideas, and iterate quickly with...

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova...

How to Build Your Own Circuit Breaker in Spring Boot – and Really Understand Resilience4j

This article explains how to design and implement your own circuit breaker in Spring Boot using explicit failure tracking, a scheduler-driven recovery model, and clear state...

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux

DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a...

Get ready for new Macs and iPads: Apple announces “Special Experience” on March 4

It may be more tempting to take that aging Mac you’ve been coddling and put it out to pasture soon. Apple has announced an event for...

Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that...

Antoine Beaupré: Keeping track of decisions using the ADR model

In the Tor Project system Administrator’s team (colloquially known as TPA), we’ve recently changed how we take decisions, which means you’ll get clearer communications from us...

Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, cops say

A Best Buy employee in Florida was charged with fraud after allegedly using his manager’s code to heavily discount nearly 150 items that he and his...

Philipp Kern: What is happening with this “connection verification”?

You might see a verification screen pop up on more and more Debian web properties. Unfortunately the AI world of today is meeting web hosts that...

Retrotechtacular: Mr. Wizard Jams with IBM

You may not remember [Mr. Wizard], but he was a staple of nerd kids over a few decades, teaching science to kids via the magic of...

All the Claw things

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the...

Apple’s Podcasts app will let you ‘seamlessly’ switch between audio and video shows

Apple is upgrading its Podcasts app to let users “seamlessly” swap between audio and video podcasts using its HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. While listening to...

[$] Open source security in spite of AI

The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel...

RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly

The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note…

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the NEO With the Typewriter Shell

Isn’t this glorious? If you don’t recognize what this is right away (or from the post title), it’s an AlphaSmart NEO word processor, repackaged in a...

ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art”

ByteDance says that it’s rushing to add safeguards to block Seedance 2.0 from generating iconic characters and deepfaking celebrities, after substantial Hollywood backlash after launching the...

Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel...

A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later

Heating accounts for nearly half of the global energy demand, and two-thirds of that is met by burning fossil fuels like natural gas, oil, and coal....

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises...

Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit

Greg-Kroah Hartman has released the 6.19.2, 6.18.12, 6.12.73, and 6.6.126 stable kernels. These kernels each contain a single change; Kroah-Hartman has reverted one problematic commit that...

How Volunteers Saved a Victorian-Era Pumping Station From Demolition

D-engine of the Claymills Pumping Station. (Credit: John M) Although infrastructure like a 19th-century pumping station generally tends to be quietly decommissioned and demolished, sometimes you...

Linux 6.19.2 & Other LTS Kernels Released To Fix Systems Not Booting

Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it’s since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout from that first point release with some systems not...

Presentation: The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform

Luca Mezzalira shares a decision framework for micro-frontends, covering composition, routing, and communication. He explains how to structure “stream-aligned” teams and use a “tiger team” for...

Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime

This month I have been doing a lot of Panther Lake benchmarking under Linux with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of much...

Agoda’s API Agent Converts Any API to MCP with Zero Code and Deployments

Agoda engineers developed API Agent, enabling a single MCP server to access any internal REST or GraphQL API with zero code and zero deployments. The system...

Apple’s doing something on March 4th

Apple is hosting a “special Apple experience” in New York City on Wednesday, March 4th at 9AM ET, instead of at the Apple Park location it...

Python virtual environments: isolation without the chaos

Installing packages globally isn’t always a good idea. Different tools inside an application can require specific versions of features, functions, or dependencies. These can conflict with...

Real LED TVs Are Finally Becoming A Thing

Once upon a time, the cathode ray tube was pretty much the only type of display you’d find in a consumer television. As the analog broadcast...

Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Today, let’s talk about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state.  You probably saw this ad during the Super Bowl a couple of...

Tuning into the future of collaboration 

When work went remote, the sound of business changed. What began as a scramble to make home offices functional has evolved into a revolution in how...

GhostBSD Switches to XLibre Over Wayland

Eric Turgeon explains why GhostBSD switched from Xorg to XLibre instead of Wayland. Learn Why did GhostBSD abandon Xorg after 15 years. The post GhostBSD Switches...

Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables

Michigan is taking on major oil and gas companies in court, joining nearly a dozen other states that have brought climate-related lawsuits against ExxonMobil and its...

The Chess “Italian Game” Handbook: Traps for White

A chess game is usually divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. In the opening phase, each player develops and sets up their pieces....

[$] Compact formats for debugging—and more

At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo, Stephen Brennan gave a presentation on the debuginfo format, which contains the symbols and other information needed for...

Four stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users of...

Linux 7.0 Better Segregates Legacy CardBus Code To Avoid On Modern PCs

The PCI subsystem updates for Linux 7.0 are aplenty as usual and contain a wide assortment of different fixes and code improvements…

Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support

Malware analysis Linux distro gets Ubuntu 24.04 base, a new installer, and many new tools.

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, pdns-recursor, python-django, and wireshark), Fedora (gnutls, linux-sgx, mingw-expat, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, p11-kit, python-aiohttp, vim,...

This Former Physicist Helps Keep the Internet Secure

When Alan DeKok began a side project in network security, he didn’t expect to start a 27-year career. In fact, he didn’t initially set out to...

TinyDB: A Lightweight JSON Database for Small Projects

TinyDB is a Python implementation of a NoSQL, document-oriented database. Unlike a traditional relational database, which stores records across multiple linked tables, a document-oriented database stores...

I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child

Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.

Switch 2 pricing and next PlayStation release could be impacted by memory shortage

It may take Sony another three years to give the PS5 (pictured) a successor. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony and Nintendo are...

The Download: unraveling a death threat mystery, and AI voice recreation for musicians

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. Hackers made death threats...

Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2’s Adreno GPU

Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed for enabling the Adreno GPU on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite...

Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid Mattress Review: Going for Gold and Good Sleep

The Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid has been chosen for Olympians. Could it be the one for you, too?

The Promptware Kill Chain

Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously...

Sideways on the ice, in a supercar: Stability control is getting very good

McLaren provided flights from Washington, DC, to Ivalo, Finland, and accommodation so Ars could drive its car on a frozen lake. Ars does not accept paid...

A Novelty Clock Makes The Best Tiny Mac Yet

We’re lucky enough in 2026 to have cheap single-board computers fast enough to emulate machines from the 1990s, touching on the 32-bit era. We’ve seen a...

Quiz: TinyDB: A Lightweight JSON Database for Small Projects

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the TinyDB database library and what it has to offer, and you’ll revisit many of the concepts from...

Amazon Props Up Misleading, Junky Laptops No One Should Buy

I review laptops for a living, and it kills me when I see the PCs that Amazon and other retailers filter to the top.

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’

Last year’s Galaxy S25 Ultra. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung has released a new advertisement for its upcoming Galaxy S26 launch that...

OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards

While the OpenRISC project began ten years before RISC-V was started, it hasn’t enjoyed the hardware ecosystem successes of the latter but still the upstream Linux...

The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess

Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be...

Inside the App Where Queer Gooners Run Free

In light of Zoom crackdowns and Skype shutting down, Batemates has emerged as an alternative for “bators” who like masturbating together online.

After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model

Hollywood groups have spoken out against Seedance 2.0 since generated videos like fight scenes between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral. | Image by Dave...

InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements

InputPlumber 0.74 is now available for this open-source input routing and control daemon for Linux systems. InputPlumber enables combining of multiple input devices, emulating different inputs,...

Murena Teams Up With German Manufacturer to Offer a €698 de-Googled Android Tablet

Featuring 12GB of RAM and a 10,000 mAh battery, this collaboration with Volla brings some decent specs to the privacy-first mobile market.

Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks

For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19.1 is out today to address some...

Podcast: [Video Podcast] Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Muzeeb Mohammad about building event-driven microservices for financial systems. The discussion covers some of the core principles and patterns...

A Star is born

Two hours before one of the most important live events in Netflix’s history, LA’s sprawling CBS Radford Studio Center is abuzz with the strangest combination of...

Sony LinkBuds Clip Review: Solid Buds, Premium Price

Sony’s new LinkBuds Clip serve up solid performance, but I’d wait until they’re on sale.

The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest...

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

The threats started in spring.  In April 2024, a mysterious someone using the online handles “Waifu” and “Judische” began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord...

Best Linux Distributions for Every Use Case

A Linux distribution (or “distro”) is an operating system built on the Linux kernel, combined with GNU tools, libraries, and software packages. Each distro includes a...

Makers Are Building Back Against ICE

In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation.

Vim 9.2 Released: Wayland Support, XDG Config, and Improved Diff

Vim 9.2 is released. Explore the major updates in Vim 9.2, including experimental Wayland support, fuzzy completion, and XDG config paths. The post Vim 9.2 Released:...

SCP Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use this general form for scp commands. Command Description scp SOURCE DEST General scp syntax scp file.txt user@host:/path/ Copy local file to remote...

Inside a Fake Mean Well DIN-rail PSU

Looks just like the real deal in a dark cabinet. (Credit: Big Clive, YouTube) These days, you can get fakes, bootlegs, and similar for just about...

Article: Architecting Agentic MLOps: A Layered Protocol Strategy with A2A and MCP

In this article, the authors outline protocols for building extensible multi-agent MLOps systems. The core architecture deliberately decouples orchestration from execution, allowing teams to incrementally add...

Google Explores Scaling Principles for Multi-agent Coordination

Google Research tried to answer the question of how to design agent systems for optimal performance by running a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations. From...

A leader’s blueprint for scaling systems

How to overcome the scalability ceiling. The post A leader’s blueprint for scaling systems appeared first on LeadDev.

Calls for Board Candidates Moves Forward

The openSUSE Project has opened nominations and candidacy for its regular Board Election and voting is scheduled to begin March 1. After a delay to clean...

Microfluidic Display Teaches The Basics

We’ve always been interested in fluidic logic and, based on [soiboi’s] videos, he is too. His latest shows how to use silicone and a vacuum to...

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Antoine Beaupré: Kernel-only network configuration on Linux

What if I told you there is a way to configure the network on any Linux server that: works across all distributions doesn’t require any software...

How to Find Most Used Disk Space Directories and Files in Linux

The post How to Find Most Used Disk Space Directories and Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . As a...

Benjamin Mako Hill: Why do people participate in similar online communities?

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...

Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle

This week’s Java roundup for February 9th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 26 and Gradle 9.4; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics...

Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time

Linus Torvalds merged the code this weekend that allows easily replacing the Tux penguin boot logo used during the boot process. This new code optionally allows...

Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to reduce update sizes

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will split its 600MB linux-firmware package into 17 vendor-specific packages to reduce bandwidth and download sizes of firmware updates. You’re reading Ubuntu 26.04...

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool

Digital sovereignty is the ultimate strategic lever for innovation. It propels organizations beyond compliance into true operational freedom where you, not your cloud provider, dictates your...

From legacy VMs to the network brain: Why 2026 is the year of the common telco cloud

As we prepare to head to the Fira and MWC Barcelona 2026, I find myself thinking about an industry question I am constantly asked: “Where is...

Building the foundation for an AI-driven, sovereign future with Red Hat partners

At Red Hat, we believe the telecommunications landscape is entering its most transformative chapter yet. To thrive, telecommunications service providers must transcend their traditional role as...

exFAT Achieves Better Sequential Read Performance With Linux 7.0

The open-source Linux file-system driver for supporting Microsoft’s exFAT now can deliver better sequential read performance with Linux 7.0 thanks to multi-cluster support…

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has “a lot...

Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month

A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Valentine’s Day, and astronauts popped open the hatches at 5:14 pm ET (22:14 UTC) on...

Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold...

Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed

Download the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot as an SVG vector file to use in your custom wallpapers and personalised Ubuntu artwork. You’re reading...

wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer

Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were...

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them....

cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source

At FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, Daniel Stenberg, creator of the popular open source data transfer program, cURL, described AI as a force that “augments us humans”...

You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession

This isn’t one for the squeamish. | Image: Metrograph Pictures Let me just say that I highly recommend you go into Possession blind. Don’t watch a...

“It ain’t no unicorn”: These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters

It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the Northern California woods, a 7-foot-tall, ape-like creature covered in black fur and walking...

Here are the 55 best Presidents Day deals we’ve found so far

Deals have been admittedly pretty dry since the holidays, but now that February is in full swing, we’re starting to see strong discounts return across a...

Can a Scan Tool Kill a Car?

It’s no real secret that modern-day cars are basically a collection of computers on wheels, which also means that we get all the joys of debugging...

OpenClaw is being called a security “Dumpster fire,” but there is a way to stay safe

In a blog earlier this February, Snyk engineers said they scanned the entire ClawHub (the OpenClaw marketplace) and found that over 7 percent of the skills...

I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

I can still hear it whining and whirring. | Photo by Robert Hart / The Verge After a few weeks living with Casio’s AI-powered pet, Moflin,...

Logitech’s new Superstrike is a faster, more customizable gaming mouse

Enthusiast gaming keyboard tech has made the jump to gaming mice – well, to one gaming mouse so far. The $179.99 Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike...

Apple’s first-gen AirTags are still worth buying now that they’re $16 apiece

The first-gen AirTag remains a good tracker, though remember you’ll need to buy a separate accessory to attach it to your belongings. | Photo by Vjeran...

NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance...

Ian Jackson: Adopting tag2upload and modernising your Debian packaging

Introduction tag2upload allows authorised Debian contributors to upload to Debian simply by pushing a signed git tag to Debian’s gitlab instance, Salsa. We have recently announced...

Why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs?

Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like: Or: The scrambled text...

AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about video game industry’s pushback against generative...

Nobody Can Complain When you Fart, If It’s For Science!

There are some stories that you can tell a writer has enjoyed composing, and, likely, whoever wrote the piece for Medical Express reporting on new smart...

The Nothing That Has the Potential to Be Anything

You can never truly empty a box. Why? Zero-point energy.

The Best Samsung Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

From flagship and budget to flipping and folding, Samsung’s Galaxy range spans the breadth of the smartphone cosmos. WIRED’s here to help you make your choice.

Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs

A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches...

Mesa’s KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity

Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative...

Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.

9 Best Windows Laptops (2026): WIRED-Tested Laptops to Buy

Windows laptops have never been so good, and they’re only going to get better as we move through 2026.

NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0

The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release…

CurrentBody LED Hair Growth Helmet Review: Baby Hairs Abound (2026)

This FDA-cleared red-light helmet helps spur hair growth and is Bluetooth-enabled with a comfortable design. But don’t expect results overnight.

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0

The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver...

AI, Fancy Footwear, and All the Other Gear Powering Olympic Bobsledding

Bobsledders rely a lot on specialized equipment to perform well and stay safe during the “Formula 1 of ice.” Here’s a quick guide.

Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel

In part II of his Emacs series, novelist Theena Kumaragurunathan, demonstrates how Emacs is becoming an extension of his writing brain.

GameCube Dock for Switch, Revisited

While modern game consoles are certainly excellent, there is still something magical about the consoles of yore. So why not bring the magical nostalgia of a...

LocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns

LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that...

The WalMart Atomic Clock

In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect...

Real-Time 3D Room Mapping with ESP32, VL53L5CX Sensor and IMU

ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent...

Linux Mint is adding post-install home encryption option

Linux Mint 23 will expand its System Administration tool (mintsysadm) with a new Users section, enabling post-install home encryption and more. You’re reading Linux Mint is...

F2FS Delivers “Several Key Performance Optimizations” With Linux 7.0

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel…

Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem...

X.Org Server’s “Master” Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On “Main”

This Valentine’s Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of...

Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends

Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant. | Image: Jmail The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove...

NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Saturday the agency is looking at ways to prevent the fueling problems plaguing the Space Launch System rocket before the Artemis...

Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer

Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s,...

Vim 9.2 Released With Experimental Wayland Support, Better HiDPI Display Support

Vim 9.2 is out today as the newest feature release for this robust and comprehensive text editor. This Valentine’s Day release for Vim lovers brings experimental...

Steinar H. Gunderson: A286874(15) >= 42

The following 42 15-bit values form a 2-disjunctive matrix (that is, no union of two values contain or equal a third value), or equivalently, a superimposed...

A Valentine’s Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

It’s Valentine’s Day, and while there are plenty of classic and current rom-coms out there for those wishing to immerse themselves in warm and fuzzy feelings,...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at 2...

iBuyPower’s gaming desktops are discounted for Presidents Day

Buying a pre-assembled gaming desktop makes sense for some. It can save you time and money, too, compared to buying PC components piecemeal. If you’re weighing...

Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks

The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were...

Georgia Tech announced the finalists in its wild musical instrument competition

There’s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech / The Verge Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in its annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition....

Vim 9.2 released

Version 9.2 of the Vim text editor has been released. “Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features,...

HackerOS is what a Linux enthusiast’s OS should be

There are over 1,000 Linux distributions on the market. Throw a rock into the tech pond, and I guarantee that you’ll hit a Linux distribution. They...

Honor Thy Error

Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are like a Tarot card deck full of whimsical ideas meant to break up a creative-block situation, particularly in the recording...

Arcjet reaches v1.0, promises stable security for JavaScript apps

Arcjet this week released v1.0 of its JavaScript SDK, moving it from beta to a stable, production-ready API. Arcjet’s security platform ships with an organization’s code...

The Pocket Taco is the best way to turn your phone into a Game Boy

My ongoing quest to turn my iPhone into one of my favorite consoles of all time has led me to a curiously named controller. GameSir’s Pocket...

A powerful tool of resistance is already in your hands

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal...