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Build a Production-Ready Pipeline with Docker, CI/CD & Hostinger

Learn to take a full-stack React, Go, and MongoDB application from local development to a fully containerized production environment. We just posted a full course on...

Automating RDS Postgres to Aurora Postgres Migration

Ram Srivasta Kannan, Wale Akintayo, Jay Bharadwaj, John Crimmins, Shengwei Wang, Zhitao Zhu Introduction In 2024, the Online Data Stores team at Netflix conducted a comprehensive review...

Introducing Markdown for Agents

The way content and businesses are discovered online is changing rapidly. In the past, traffic originated from traditional search engines, and SEO determined who got found...

ShareChat hit a billion features per second, then it had to make it 10x cheaper

“Great system…now please make it 10 times cheaper.” That’s not exactly what the ShareChat team wanted to hear after completing a major engineering feat: scaling a...

What the FDA’s 2026 Update Means for Wearables

As new consumer hardware and software capabilities have bumped up against medicine over the last few years, consumers and manufacturers alike have struggled with identifying the...

How to Choose the Right TV in 2026 (and a Few We Like)

How many ports do you need? What does 4K UHD even mean? What’s RGB LED? Here’s everything you need to know.

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.27 on CRAN: C++20 Accommodations

Version 0.0.27 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN moments ago, and will be uploaded to Debian and built for r2u shortly. The (nice) documentation site will be...

Here’s What It’s Like to Use TurboTax’s Mobile App to File Taxes on Your Own (2026)

Sigh. Another tax season is upon us. I filed my taxes with TurboTax, exploring its newest features and free or low-cost filing options.

When an upstream change broke smartcard FIPS authentication – and how we fixed it

A government agency mandated smartcard authentication across their Ubuntu fleet. When they enabled FIPS mode to meet compliance requirements, smartcard authentication stopped working. Nearly 1,000 systems...

The Best Kindle Accessories (2026): Cases, Page Turners, Stickers

Looking to better protect your Kindle or add a little personality to your favorite e-reader? From cases and covers to page turners and even charms, this...

Linux 7.0 Performance Events Prep For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

The performance “perf” events changes for the Linux 7.0 kernel are continuing to prepare for next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to current Xeon...

Open platforms, edge AI, and sovereign telco clouds: Ecrio & Canonical at MWC Barcelona

Building telco clouds with open source At MWC Barcelona 2026, Canonical is demonstrating how telecommunications operators and enterprises can design and operate a cloud on their...

The Download: AI-enhanced cybercrime, and secure AI assistants

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. AI is already making...

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the...

An Interview with Ben Thompson by John Collison on the Cheeky Pint Podcast

Listen to this post: Good morning, Today’s Stratechery Interview is with me! On January 27 I sat down with Stripe President John Collison in the Cheeky...

13 Best MagSafe Power Banks for iPhones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your iPhone or Qi2 Android phone topped up with one of these WIRED-tested Qi2 or MagSafe portable chargers.

Why the Linux Mint Team is Considering a Longer Development Cycle

Learn why the Linux Mint team is moving away from their six-month “treadmill” to a longer development cycle to focus on innovation over release management. The...

3D Printer Surveillance

New York is contemplating a bill that adds surveillance to 3D printers: New York’s 2026­2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) includes language that should alarm...

We let Chrome’s Auto Browse agent surf the web for us—here’s what happened

We are now a few years into the AI revolution, and talk has shifted from who has the best chatbot to whose AI agent can do...

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

Get hands-on with Python lists in this quick quiz. You’ll revisit indexing and slicing, update items in place, and compare list methods. Along the way, you’ll...

Therabody JetBoots Pro Plus Review: 3-in-1 Recovery Tech

The JetBoots Pro Plus promise faster, more effective recovery by combining multiple therapies in one device. I tested whether it’s worth the $1,150 splurge.

Intel Is Making It Easier In Linux 7.0 To Monitor Energy Use For A Group Of Tasks

Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control “resctrl” improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code...

KYY X90G Quad Portable Monitor Extender Review: 3 More Screens

This accessory gives your laptop three extra displays—as long as you’re prepared to lug them around.

Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons)

Lead developer says frequent releases leave little time for development.

Linux 7.0 Removes Support For Signing Modules With Insecure SHA-1

The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it’s no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still...

Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0

Diverse and empowered teams are impactful teams, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned in his talk on creating impactful software teams at QCon London. A session 0 helps...

Alexa+ and Kindle Scribe Now Work Together With ‘Send to Alexa’

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps.

I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups

Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI...

AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.

Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to...

Why EVs are gaining ground in Africa

EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa....

Media Driver Updates Merged For Linux 7.0 – Still Without The AMD ISP4 Driver

All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well...

Many Adjustable Bed Frames Have a “Zero Gravity” Feature. I Tried It for a Week

I decided to try my adjustable bed frame’s “zero gravity” feature for a week. I wouldn’t do it again.

The Best Hearing Aids of 2026, Tested and Reviewed

These WIRED-tested devices will help you hear sounds more clearly. Never miss out on a dinner conversation again.

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning

As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal...

WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices

WhatsApp has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, replacing 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of memory-safe code for 3 billion devices. The rollout,...

15 Best Bed Frames (2026), Tested in Our Homes

Looking for the best bed frame? Our top pick is the Classic Bed from Thuma. Explore our other favorites, which include options for all budgets and...

What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest...

Making Effective, Affordable Water Level Monitors

Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets...

Article: You’ve Generated Your MVP Using AI. What Does That Mean for Your Software Architecture?

AI‑generated code creates implicit architectural decisions, forcing teams to rely on experimentation to validate quality attributes. To get useful results from AI, teams must clearly express...

Screen Cheatsheet

Start and Exit # Command Description screen Start a new screen session screen -S work Start session named work screen -ls List running sessions screen -X...

Save the Date: Fedora Council Video Meeting on 2026 Strategy Summit

Date: Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 Time: 14:00 UTC Location: Google Meet The Fedora Council is hosting a public video meeting to discuss the outcomes of the...

openSUSE Board on Participation, Governance and Community

With the 2026 openSUSE community Board elections coming up, Ish Sookun, Jeff Mahoney and Rachel Schrader are the board members elected last election and having another...

Interop 2026: Continuing to improve the web for developers

Learn about the features included in Interop 2026.

microgpt

This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and...

4 Ways to Find Out Which Process Listening on a Particular Port

The post 4 Ways to Find Out Which Process Listening on a Particular Port first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this...

Making a Functional Control Panel of the Chernobyl RBMK Reactor

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all...

Implementing 3D Graphics Basics

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we...

SpaceX takes down Dragon crew arm, giving Starship a leg up in Florida

Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew...

Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM

The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also...

Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch

Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer...

Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

On Wednesday, a fossil-fuel lobbying group called the Washington Coal Club awarded President Trump a trophy that named him the “Undisputed Champion of Clean, Beautiful Coal.”...

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

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git; GCC and KCFI; modernizing swapping; 6.18 statistics; modern FOSS challenges. Briefs: Kernel ML; tag2upload; LFS sysvinit; postmarketOS FOSDEM;...

DIY Wall-Plotter Does Generative Art, But Not As We Know It

[Teddy Warner]’s GPenT (Generative Pen-trained Transformer) project is a wall-mounted polargraph that makes plotter art, but there’s a whole lot more going on than one might...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: cross building, rebootstrap updates, Refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2026-01 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is...

Building bridges to European Digital Sovereignty

Europe stands at a critical digital crossroads. As the European Commission shapes the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy, the conversation has shifted toward a vital objective:...

Announcing Rust 1.93.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.93.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient...

From challenge to champion: Elevate your vulnerability management strategy

In the world of cybersecurity, vulnerability management is frequently a collaborative effort between vendors, software maintainers, and customers. It’s a continuous journey of discovery, prioritization, and...

El Paso airport closed after military used new anti-drone laser to zap party balloon

On Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration closed airspace up to 18,000 feet above the El Paso International Airport in Texas, saying the restrictions would be...

Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger

Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation –...

iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android

iPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, Apple released...

You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job

Matan-Paul Shetrit puts it bluntly: “If you generate slop, I’m not blaming the AI, I’m blaming you.” As Director of Product Management at Writer, a full-stack...

The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for him)

Valentine’s Day is often thought of as the quintessential Hallmark holiday – and why wouldn’t it be? Most of the time, it’s marketed to us with...

Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents’ electricity bills. The company said it would pay...

Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: “Complete Garbage”

The Linux MultiMediaCard “MMC” subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other...

‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing New Fans to Hockey. Does the Sport Deserve Them?

Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men’s hockey’s lack of...

Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist

Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows...

How to Build a Real-Time Public Speaking and Presentation Coach

Nowadays, being able to present an idea, project, or achievement is a must-have skill. The ability to showcase and talk about your work can determine whether...

Top Heroku Alternatives for Deployment in 2026

For more than a decade, Heroku defined what “developer-friendly deployment” meant. Push code, forget servers, and focus on shipping features. That promise shaped an entire generation...

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died...

Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV

A Samsung OLED TV of the same vintage as my S90C. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop...

Linux man pages 6.17 released

Version 6.17 of the Linux manual-page collection has been released. Along with a long list of updates to the man pages themselves, it includes some new...

ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota

Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

Aurora says it will ‘triple’ its driverless truck network

Aurora, the driverless truck firm founded by former members of Google’s pioneering self-driving car team, is branching out. In advance of its quarterly earnings report today,...

Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri

iPhone 17 Pro Max | Image: The Verge Apple had been reportedly pushing to introduce some big changes to Siri with iOS 26.4, but now the...

Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it’s not a big deal, CEO says.

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand. There was...

Thermoforming: Shaping Curvy Grilles With No Supports

Making sure the heatgun is on ‘low’ and gloves are on while pushing on the mold. (Credit: Zion Brock) Although hobbyists these days most often seem...

Did seabird poop fuel rise of Chincha in Peru?

The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the...

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path

On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the...

Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review

Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and...

Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS

Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before...

Building the machine that builds the machine

Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests...

“Windows 11 26H1” is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

Since its release in the fall of 2021, Microsoft’s Windows 11 has received an “annual feature update” in the second half of every year. These feature...

Google recovers “deleted” Nest video in high-profile abduction case

Like most cloud-enabled home security cameras, Google’s Nest products don’t provide long-term storage unless you pay a monthly fee. That video may not vanish into the...

Is a secure AI assistant possible?

AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly. Once they have tools that they...

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act

The National Labor Relations Board abandoned a Biden-era complaint against SpaceX after a finding that the agency does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company....

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power

Imagine you could use an operating system that’s as easy as ChromeOS, while also being as powerful as Linux. What would you do with that? The...

Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices

Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in...

China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late...

The ICE Expansion Won’t Happen in the Dark

People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it’s ICE.

FLOSS Weekly Episode 864: Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That’s Bill’s book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your...

Rediscovering the Lost Legacy of Chemist Jan Czochralski

During times of political turmoil, history often gets rewritten, erased, or lost. That is what happened to the legacy of Jan Czochralski, a Polish chemist whose...

I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me

I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.

Samsung’s offering up to $900 of trade-in credit toward its new phones

Samsung’s next Unpacked event is happening on February 25th, and we anticipate the company will announce the Galaxy S26 lineup of phones. There may be some...

Proving What’s Possible

As a formal methods consultant I have to mathematically express properties of systems. I generally do this with two “temporal operators”: A(x) means that x is...

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

Mesa 26.0 was just officially released as this quarter’s new feature release for these open-source OpenGL / Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems...

Chrome 146 Now In Beta With WebNN Origin Trial For Neural Networks In The Browser

Following yesterday’s Chrome 145 release with JPEG-XL support, Chrome 146 today was promoted to the beta channel to help facilitate broader testing of the next round...

Smart home PSA: Apple’s “new architecture” for Home app becomes mandatory today

In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible...

Tips for Using AI Tools in Technical Interviews

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

Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private

The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board, even though she had been dead for five years.

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links

Microsoft has fixed a serious security vulnerability affecting Markdown files in Notepad. In the company’s Tuesday patch notes, Microsoft says a bad actor could carry out...

Our Favorite Upgraded Power Bank Is $30 Off

This supercharged Anker pack can keep all your devices topped up.

Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

Let’s face it; remembering a bunch of passwords is the pits, and it’s just getting worse as time goes on. These days, you really ought to...

How to Build AI Agents That Remember User Preferences (Without Breaking Context)

Why Personalization Breaks Most AI Agents Personalization is one of the most requested features in AI-powered applications. Users expect an agent to remember their preferences, adapt...

Your infrastructure is evolving, but is your operational framework still stuck in the past?

Major service outages are becoming more frequent, more severe, and taking longer to resolve. According to recent survey data, the average organization reports 86 outages per...

The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It...

Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year

Linux Mint developers are considering ending the distro’s six‑month release cycle, a change that could mean fewer updates and a slower release pace. You’re reading Linux...

Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake Generational Performance Since The Gen9 Graphics Era

Last week on Phoronix we provided initial Linux graphics benchmarks for the new Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics found with the higher-end Panther Lake SoCs with 12...

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications...

AMD ROCm TheRock 7.11 Released, Ubuntu Making Progress On Shipping ROCm Packages

Two useful bits of ROCm news today for those interested in AMD’s open-source GPU compute stack…

[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of...

Learn Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking using Kali Linux

To protect your applications against threats, it’s helpful to understand the methods that attackers can use against you. We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org...

postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

The postmarketOS project has published a recap from FOSDEM 2026, including the FOSS on Mobile devroom, and a summary of its post-FOSDEM hackathon. This includes decisions on...

Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver

The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard...

Monthly News – January 2026

Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your support! We received donations from more than...

Ex-GitHub CEO Launches “Entire”, a Git Observability Layer for AI Agents

Stop losing AI context. Entire CLI unifies your code with AI reasoning by capturing sessions, tool calls, and checkpoints in Git. The post Ex-GitHub CEO Launches...

VibeOps Folks Rejoice! Warp Launches Oz for Managing AI Coding Agents in the Cloud

Can run many agents simultaneously, targets developer teams.

What’s next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change?

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme...

Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features

You have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark. Seems easy enough,...

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing...

Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale

I just noticed that the ebook version of Rewriring Democracy is on sale for $5 on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Google...

Presentation: Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi explains the structural shifts required as an engineering org scales from 30 to 100+ engineers. He shares how to transition from managing performance to...

Stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has unleashed six new stable kernels: 6.18.10, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.1.163, 5.15.200, and 5.10.250. Each one contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised...

How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Jaime Banks: How Do You Define an AI Companion? Novel technology is often a double-edged...

Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs

The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to “auto” rather than being off by default…

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-6.1, munge, and tcpflow), Fedora (accel-ppp, atuin, babl, bustle, endless-sky, envision, ettercap, fapolicy-analyzer, firefox, glycin, gnome-settings-daemon, go-fdo-client, greenboot-rs,...

How Do You Define an AI Companion?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Brad Knox: How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful? AI models intended to provide...

What Exactly Is the Zen of Python?

The Zen of Python is a collection of 19 aphorisms that capture the guiding principles behind Python’s design. You can display them anytime by running import...

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support

For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements…

How to build engineering teams in the AI era

Using the Reverse Conway Method. The post How to build engineering teams in the AI era appeared first on LeadDev.

Intel Releases New Compute Runtime, Upstreams More SYCL Code To LLVM

Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete...

The Feds closed air space around El Paso on Wednesday to address “cartel” drones

The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly halted flights into and out of El Paso International Airport on Tuesday night at 11:30 pm local time (1:30 am EST...

The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa

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. A “QuitGPT” campaign is...

Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability

In the first part of this series, we established the fundamental shift from generative to agentic artificial intelligence. We explored why this leap from suggesting to...

How to Set Up an Apple Watch for Your Kids (2026)

Want to give your children an easy way to contact you—without giving them a smartphone? Family Setup on WatchOS can help.

9 Best Cheap Laptops (2026), Tested and Reviewed

From surprisingly good $300 Chromebooks to excellent $650 Windows laptops, these are the best budget laptops we’ve tested.

Prompt Injection Via Road Signs

Interesting research: “CHAI: Command Hijacking Against Embodied AI.” Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce...

America, it’s time to think beyond leather for luxury car seats

A long time ago, in (I believe) an issue of Car Magazine from the mid-1990s, the designer Gordon Murray shared his thoughts about a possible four-door...

Quiz: What Exactly Is the Zen of Python?

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of The Zen of Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit core aphorisms and learn how they guide...

Razer Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz Review: A Keyboard for the Competitive

This esports keyboard isn’t particularly comfortable, but it’s incredibly competitive.

Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function

The core timer changes to the Linux 7.0 kernel score a rather nice performance improvement in a UDP receive network stress test from inlining a function...

Jessie Diggins’ Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

What a three-time Olympic medalist packs to Milano Cortina 2026.

Wacom MovinkPad 11 Tablet Review: A Portable Sketch Pad

Wacom’s Android-based drawing pad tries, and mostly succeeds, to pack a full digital art workstation into a portable sketch pad.

Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop

There were recently patches for getting the Adobe Photoshop 2025 installer to work on Linux under Wine. Those patches were picked up by Wine-Staging and now...

What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data...

Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.

Podcast: [Video Podcast] The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools

AI coding assistants promise speed, but what do they mean for quality, trust, and the architect’s craft? In this inaugural episode of Next Gen Architecture Playbook,...

Spotify Earnings, Individualized Networks, AI and Aggregation

Spotify’s nature as a content network means that AI is a sustaining technology, particularly because they have the right business model in place.

Compiler-Driven Static Analysis Locking Context Checking Merged For Linux 7.0

The locking code changes have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and it introduces support for a new compiler-driven feature being introduced on the compiler...

AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris.

Mazzer Philos Review (2026): Sweet, Zero-Retention Grinds

Mazzer Philos is a commercial-caliber coffee grinder made for the home countertop. And it made for some of the most delicious espresso I pulled this year.

CloudFront Adds Origin mTLS Authentication for End-to-End Zero Trust

Amazon CloudFront now supports mutual TLS authentication for origin servers, completing end-to-end zero-trust authentication from viewers to backends. The feature replaces IP allowlists and shared secrets...

Best Presidents’ Day Mattress Sales of 2026

Some of the best sales of the year are happening right now—we’ll help you save on our all-time favorite mattresses and bedding.

Astronomers Are Closing In on the Kuiper Belt’s Secrets

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic...

EVs could be cheaper to own than gas cars in Africa by 2040

Electric vehicles could be economically competitive in Africa sooner than expected. Just 1% of new cars sold across the continent in 2025 were electric, but a...

Adios! Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool

Removed because it was deemed too complex and dangerous for normies.

FTP Cheatsheet

Connect and Login # Start an FTP session and authenticate. Command Description ftp hostname Connect to server ftp 192.168.1.10 Connect by IP ftp hostname 21 Connect...

Sex Toys for Every Type of Body and Ability (2026)

From app-controlled toys to mounts and wearables, I tested a variety of sex toys for every type of body and ability.

Article: From Prompts to Production: A Playbook for Agentic Development

In this article, author Abhishek Goswami shares a practitioner’s playbook with development practices, that describes building agentic AI applications and scaling them in production. He also...

How to Parse Command-Line Options in Bash with getopts

The getopts command is a Bash built-in that provides a clean, structured way to parse command-line options in your scripts. Instead of manually looping through arguments...

Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics

The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a substantial...

Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical

A new CNCF report identifies Kubernetes as the primary engine for AI growth, with 82% production adoption. However, technical maturity has outpaced organisational change. Human factors,...

Scanning Table for the Professional Maker

Sometimes the simplest objects need some overthinking. This is exactly what [Chris Borge] realized when using his 3D scanner and finding that the included rotation table...

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The Complex Engineering of Runways

Airport runways seem pretty simple, just another strip of asphalt or concrete not unlike the roads that our cars drive upon every day. We can even...

The Toyota Highlander is now a three-row electric SUV with 320 miles of range

Toyota unveiled the new 2027 Highlander, a fully redesigned midsize SUV that marks the brand’s first three-row electric vehicle for the US market and the first...

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review Moderna’s application for an mRNA flu vaccine, the company revealed Tuesday. While the move came as a...

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

The ad promotes Ring cameras’ new capability to search neighborhoods for a lost dog. | Screenshot from Ring video Ring’s new Search Party feature has once...

Google Chrome 145 Released With JPEG-XL Image Support

Back in 2022 Google deprecated and then removed JPEG-XL image support from the Chrome/Chromium browser codebase and now in 2026 it’s back. Last month I wrote...

Making a Hidden Door Status Sensor

The door sensor in its new enclosures. (Credit: Dillan Stock) A common sight in ‘smart homes’, door sensors allow you to detect whether a door is...

Simplifying modern defence operations with Red Hat Edge Manager

The modern front line has evolved into a hyperconnected, software-driven ecosystem. From reconnaissance drones to thousands of sensors embedded across the theatre, the network’s edge is...

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter is stepping down after six years

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th,...

SpaceX’s next-gen Super Heavy booster aces four days of “cryoproof” testing

The upgraded Super Heavy booster slated to launch SpaceX’s next Starship flight has completed cryogenic proof testing, clearing a hurdle that resulted in the destruction of...

Bezos could have saved The Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters

Demonstrators hold a “Save The Post” sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a “Save The Post” rally outside the Washington Post headquarters...

ChatGPT’s deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT’s deep research tool with a full-screen viewer that you can use to scroll through and navigate to specific areas of its AI-generated...

Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month

Samsung’s annual Galaxy S-series reveal is later than usual this year, but we finally have a confirmed date to circle on the calendar: February 25th. And...

How to Test React Applications with Vitest

Testing is one of those things that every developer knows they should do, but many put off until problems start appearing in production. If you’re building...

Trump’s new ‘Buy American’ requirement for EV charging would dramatically curtail build-out

It seems clear at this point to say that Donald Trump does not want to spend a single dime on EV charging. He tried to freeze...

Linux 7.0 Scheduler Updates Land Time Slice Extension, Performance & Scalability Work

Merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are some pretty exciting scheduler changes: new features and never-ending work around scheduler performance optimizations and greater scalability with...

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

Steve Yegge on AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering

Note: apologies for this issue of the newsletter arriving slightly later than usual, I’m currently in San Francisco. Last night, I attended AI Night with WorkOS,...

Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day”...

Fitbit’s AI health coach is now available on your iPhone

Google announced on Tuesday that the public preview of Fitbit’s AI personal health coach is rolling out to iOS users in the U.S. as well as...

Pi Pico Learns Morse Code

When [101 Things] didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him. On the face of...

62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps

According to a new report released today, an increasing number of enterprises are using Java as a foundational language for AI development. Java platform provider Azul’s...

Ayaneo’s new Windows handheld will cost up to $4,299 with maxed out specs

The Next 2 features a 9.06-inch OLED screen with an adjustable refresh rate. | Image: Ayaneo Ayaneo opened preorders for its next Windows 11 handheld and...

The Physics Behind the Quadruple Axel, the Most Difficult Jump in Figure Skating

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full...

RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

My favorite Switch 2 controller is 30 percent off for today only

The EasySMX S10 is a fantastic wireless controller for the Switch 2 that offers nearly as many features as Nintendo’s $90 gamepad. I ranked it as...

Go 1.26 Introduces Two Language Changes, New Performance Improvements

For programmers fond of the Go programming language, Go 1.26 is out today with two language changes, performance improvements, and other alterations to this Google-backed programming...

CrossOver 26 Released with Wine 11.0 and NTSync Support

CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver 26, the latest version of their paid software that lets you run Windows games and apps on Linux and...

GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI’s Engine into Apps

Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into their own apps,...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign...

The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models. CVEs remain a useful, but imperfect...

Building a Self-Playing Chess Board Robot

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although...

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger...

The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?

The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)  has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security, and networking functionality from the kernel...

Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI

xAI co-founder Tony Wu abruptly announced his resignation from the company late Monday night, the latest in a string of senior executives to leave the Grok-maker...

Intel CPU Microcode 20260210 Brings Security Updates & Functional Fixes

Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues…