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Upgrading The E-mu Audity 20 Years After Factory Support Ended

If you purchased an E-mu Audity 2000 ROMpler back in 1998, you almost certainly got a rig with the 1.00 firmware. It was fine, if a...

The Shoes and Brooms Transforming Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about...

4 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed

A growing collection of pocket-sized gadgets lets you record your meetings and extract value from them. Here are our favorites.

Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

Of Intel’s different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various...

DreamWorks’ OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used...

I Have Fallen in Love With Open Earbuds (and You Should Too)

From jogging and cycling to multitasking or puttering around the house, open earbuds are an excellent way to jam out in the real world.

Microsoft On QEMU 10.2’s New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests

With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new “MSHV” accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V...

Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons

Looking for all our top recommended vacuums? Here are our favorites in every style we’ve tested, from stick vacs to robot vacuums.

For $4,550, Would You Buy a Single Premium Watch or a Swarm of Affordable Ones?

You could go all in on one pricey, luxe watch or assemble a collection of lower-budget timepieces. Let’s crunch the numbers.

Upgrading An Old Macbook With an Old Processor

The Core Duo processor from Intel may not have been the first multi-core processor available to consumers, but it was arguably the one that brought it...

How to Set or Change Timezone on Debian 13

Learn how to check and change the system time zone on Debian 13 Trixie using the timedatectl command.

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2025 edition

Another year of data from Société de Transport de Montréal, Montreal’s transit agency! A few highlights this year: Although the Saint-Michel station closed for emergency repairs...

Linux 6.19: 40% Speed Boost on Old AMD GPUs & Faster Ext4

Linux 6.19 brings native Vulkan support to older AMD Radeon GPUs, hardware-accelerated HDR via the DRM Colour Pipeline API and ext4 speed boosts. You’re reading Linux...

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Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next...

A Failed SwitchBot Plug Mini and Cooking Electrolytics

Poorly designed PCBs and enclosures that slowly cook the electrolytic capacitors within are a common failure scenario in general, but they seem especially prevalent in so-called...

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

When conducting performance benchmarks, the ultimate goal is an apples-to-apples comparison. Docker, widely recognized as one of the most brilliant inventions of the last 15 years,...

How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes

We’ve all experienced a frozen web page followed by endless refreshing, frustrated sighs, and the occasional foot stomp, only to keep seeing the spinning wheel. In...

How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

The speed at which ClawdBot MoltBot OpenClaw climbed in popularity was quite phenomenal, and for good reason: It has an audience beyond the developer space, especially...

Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative

With the U.S. government and other institutions calling for the use of memory-safe programming languages in critical systems, Jule, a nascent, open source alternative to C/C++...

LG’s C5 TV and Anker’s powerful power bank are this week’s best deals

It’s the first weekend of February, which can only mean one thing: The Super Bowl (or “Benito Bowl,” if you’re mainly tuning in for the Bad...

The second-gen AirTags are a scatterbrain’s best friend

The biggest con is this so-called Midnight Purple keyring is barely purple. It’s the iPhone 14 Pro Max Deep Purple all over again. In a somewhat...

Making a DIY Refrigerated Vest With Battery and Solar Power

Keeping a cool head is difficult at the best of times, least of all when it’s summer and merely thinking of touching bare skin to the...

Anker’s new charger with a screen would feel less gimmicky if it did more

Not every device needs a screen. The latest Anker 45-watt Nano charger, announced in January, which remains one of the smallest 45-watt chargers on the market,...

Traceroute Command in Linux

Learn how to use the traceroute command to trace the path packets take to a destination, diagnose network issues, and identify routing problems.

NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing…

Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently

Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding,...

Cairn is a climbing journey about perseverance and obsession

I’m an awful rock climber. Being scared of heights probably doesn’t help. But when I’ve tried it, I’ve loved the slow, methodical work of moving from...

Target Darts Omni Auto Scoring System Hits the Mark

Step up to the oche and hit the bull’s-eye with this automatic darts scoring system for online play.

We Ditched Clickup for Fizzy: An (Open Source) Kanban Board App

If you’re juggling multiple tasks and want something simpler than Jira or ClickUp, this is worth trying.

The best way to watch the Olympics

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, go Seahawks I...

4 Best Website Builders (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Don’t fuss around with files and servers. Just use one of these WIRED-tested website builders.

Sony’s Biggest QLED Screens See Big Discounts This Weekend

You can grab a lower price on some of Sony’s biggest QLED panels.

Initial AMD Zen 6 “znver6” Support Merged For LLVM/Clang

Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler’s codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target…

Robots Talking to Robots

Although there are a few robots on the market that can make life a bit easier, plenty of them have closed-source software or smartphone apps required...

Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds

Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, a far bigger drop than in the same...

The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games

From drones with “first-person” visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina.

KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance

Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta...

The 7 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025) Our Cats Would Recommend

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage

In a recent article titled “What came first- the CNAME or the A record?” Cloudflare explains how an unclear RFC specification caused the popular Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1...

Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers

A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display...

GNOME’s Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default

GNOME’s Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default…

Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions…

Gear News of the Week: Google’s Pixel 10a Arrives Soon, and Valve Delays Its Steam Hardware

Plus: Dexcom updates its app, Fitbit founders create a new family caregiving app, and Blink has a new outdoor security camera.

Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents to the Edge

Cloudflare has introduced Moltworker, an open-source solution for running Moltbot—a self-hosted personal AI agent—on its Developer Platform, eliminating the need for local hardware, such as Mac...

Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Xplorer Grip Pro Kit Review: An Even Better Action Camera

Want to turn your action camera into a point-and-shoot? Insta360’s new accessory makes the Ace Pro 2 into a great pocket camera alternative.

7 Steps to Better Financial Health You Can Take Right Now

The beginning of the year is a great time to take a hard look at your expenses and savings. Take these concrete steps to fix up...

He’s a Wrapper (Wire Wrapper, That Is)

Before PCBs, wiring electronic circuits was a major challenge in electronics production. A skilled person could make beautiful wire connections between terminal strips and components with...

Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker and Twitch

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation...

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes — Even For The Old R600g

While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release…

CIA’s World Factbook is Gone

Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you locate specialized data like the...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication

There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final...

Welding Nuts Inside Metal Tubes, Painlessly

[Jer Schmidt] needed a way to put a lot of M8 bolts into a piece of square steel tubing, but just drilling and tapping threads into...

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of...

Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

As the 2026 Olympic Winter Games begin today, news articles are swelling with juicy claims that male ski jumpers have injected their penises with fillers to...

An in-kernel machine-learning library

For those wanting more machine learning in the kernel, Viacheslav Dubeyko has posted a new in-kernel library for that purpose. What is the goal of using...

Awk Cheatsheet

Quick reference for the awk text processing command

Grep Cheatsheet

Quick reference for the grep text search command

We found 20 Verge-approved gifts on sale ahead of Valentine’s Day

Digital photo frames like the Aura Aspen are down to some of their best prices. Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if you haven’t started...

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Frustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with “out-of-left-field” references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the...

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in...

ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting

The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good’s killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips

This is a video of advice for squid fishing in Puget Sound. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...

Why $700 could be a “death sentence” for the Steam Machine

After writing two November stories analyzing price expectations for Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, I really didn’t think we’d be offering more informed speculation before the official...

Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add support for CarPlay...

This is the Trump Phone

This is the final(ish) design of the T1 Phone, though it’s going to lose the T1 logo. | Screenshot: Dominic Preston / The Verge Where’s the...

Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January…

It’s a renaissance woman’s world

Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs...

COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions

In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought global industry and travel nearly to a halt, satellite sensors recorded a dramatic plunge in nitrogen...

RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs...

I Am in the Epstein Files

Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in January 2026

Welcome to the first monthly report in 2026 from the Reproducible Builds project! These reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting...

My Favorite TV to Watch the Winter Olympics Is on Sale

Forget the Super Bowl, Samsung’s Fantastic S90F QD-OLED TV is on a sweet sale just in time for the Winter Olympics.

To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn’s second stage reignites

Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate...

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel....

I Tried What US Athletes Will Be Sleeping on at Milano Cortina

Saatva is providing a bedding bundle to Team USA hockey and figure skating at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games—here are my thoughts on it as a...

There isn’t even a cynical explanation for Jeff Bezos destroying The Washington Post

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in...

The Jeffrey Epstein Fortnite account is fake

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a “ruse.” In a reply on X, the developer...

IEEE Online Mini-MBA Aims to Fill Leadership Skills Gaps in AI

Boardroom priorities are shifting from financial metrics toward technical oversight. Although market share and operational efficiency remain business bedrocks, executives also must now manage the complexities...

Google Supercharges Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision

Google has added agentic vision to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with code execution to “ground answers in visual evidence”. According to Google, this not...

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

The entry-level AirPods are about $100. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on...

Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform

As AI agents fan out across enterprise apps, APIs, and data stores, they’re creating a security blind spot: autonomous systems with access to sensitive data that...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 356: Nanoprinting, Vibe Coding, and Keebin’ with Kristina, IN HELL!

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a...

2026.06: SaaSmageddon and the Super Bowl

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; highlighted...

Ubuntu 26.04 is coming to SpacemiT’s K3 (RISC-V RVA23 SoC)

SpacemiT and Canonical bring Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to the K3 RISC-V SoC, one of the first RVA23-compliant on sale. Ubuntu 24.04 support expands to the K1....

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine – Using Flutter & Dart

Well, here’s an unexpected combination… Toyota’s Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering...

Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars

While mainstream vehicles usually get comprehensive updates every few years, low-volume exotics tend evolve more gradually. Supercar platforms often remain unchanged for a decade or more,...

Spotify’s About the Song offers context and trivia about your favorite tracks

Teddy Swims hopes this song ‘resonates’ with listeners? You don’t say. Spotify is launching About the Song in beta today, which offers context and facts about...

19 Best Food Gifts to Buy Online, as Tested by Our Tastebuds (2026)

From tinned fish to baked goodies, you can deliver the best-tasting treats to their door—even if you don’t live close by.

Aura’s Aspen digital frame is a great gift, especially now that it’s $30 off

The Aura Aspen is a sweet and sentimental gift that’s $199. | Image: Aura Aura’s Aspen digital photo frame is a great Valentine’s Day gift if...

Video Friday: Autonomous Robots Learn By Doing in This Factory

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...

Six stable kernels for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.9, 6.12.69, 6.6.123, 6.1.162, 5.15.199, and 5.10.249 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised...

Moltbook was peak AI theater

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social...

The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

It’s Not a Lomo Smena 8M, But it’s Not Far Off

The joy of camera hacking lies for many at the low end of the market. Not working with many-thousand-dollar Leicas, but in cheap snapshot cameras that...

Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending.

In December 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on the BG2 podcast and made a prediction that felt provocative and hyped. Business applications delivered as Software...

VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing

While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 desktop release are some...

Ardour 9.0 released

The Ardour digital-audio-workstation (DAW) project has announced the release of version 9.0. This is a major release for the project, seeing several substantive new features that...

[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

Control-flow integrity (CFI) is a set of techniques that make it more difficult for attackers to hijack indirect jumps to exploit a system. The Linux kernel...

The Alexa app is so bad I’m using Siri again

My shopping list in Apple’s Reminders app (left) and in Amazon’s Alexa app (right). A recent UI overhaul of the Alexa app has made the list...

How to Build a Résumé Screening System Using Python and Multiprocessing

Hiring the right candidate starts with one time-consuming task: screening résumés. If you’ve ever posted a job opening, you know the pain of hundreds of applications...

New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

Last year, a team of scientists presented evidence that spruce trees in Italy’s Dolomite mountains synchronized their bioelectrical activity in anticipation of a partial solar eclipse—a...

How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services

Slowly but surely, I’ve been migrating over to self-hosted services so I can finally cut the cord to third parties. By keeping things within my LAN,...

Analogue’s 4K N64 is getting five new transparent color options

Extreme green looks hard to resist. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced another collection of limited-edition colors for its modern remake of the Nintendo 64. Last...

What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?

An autonomous vehicle drives down a lonely stretch of highway. Suddenly, a massive tornado appears in the distance. What does the driverless vehicle do next? This...

More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP

The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like...

SQL Server 2025 is generally available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, starting with the CU1 release. This milestone allows enterprises to deploy...

Lawmakers ask what it would take to “store” the International Space Station

Members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee voted to approve a NASA authorization bill this week, advancing legislation chock full of policy guidelines meant...

Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions

The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project provides step-by-step instructions on building a customized Linux system entirely from source. Historically, the project has provided separate System V and...

The Weird Propeller That Offers Improved Agility On The Water

When it comes to seaborne propulsion, one simple layout has largely dominated over all others. You pair some kind of engine with some kind of basic...

LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning

LinkedIn has rebuilt its static application security testing (SAST) pipeline using GitHub Actions and custom workflows, enabling consistent, enforceable code scanning across thousands of repositories. The...

AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds

Science washing is afoot. | Image: The Verge, AG1 This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects...

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations

The trajectory of a storm, the evolution of stock prices, the spread of disease — mathematicians can describe any phenomenon that changes in time or space...

NASA stage show explores “outer” outer space with Henson’s Fraggles

Move over Snoopy, because NASA has a new character helping to promote its deep space exploration plans. His name is Uncle Traveling Matt. No really, move...

Hiring the Canonical way: trust, humanity, and remote-first thinking

Daniele Procida (Director of Engineering) recently shared a practical guide on how to get a job at Canonical. It is an excellent resource for anyone navigating...

Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux

Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel’s much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther...

EU says TikTok needs to drop “addictive design”

Brussels has warned TikTok that its endlessly scrolling feeds may breach Europe’s new content rules, as regulators press ahead with efforts to rein in the social...

How Epstein became a tech influencer

There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel,...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, kernel, python3, and python3.12-wheel), Debian (alsa-lib, chromium, openjdk-25, phpunit, tomcat10, tomcat11, and tomcat9), Fedora (openqa, pgadmin4, phpunit10, phpunit11,...

The Best OLED TVs We’ve Ever Seen: LG, Samsung, and More

Looking to step up to the TV big leagues? These are the best OLED TVs you can buy.

AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 “RDNA 4m”

In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers...

New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots

A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same...

The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

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. An experimental surgery is...

NordProtect (2026) Review: A Bundle of ID-Protecting Services

A privacy-minded bundle that’s almost too simple.

Can China’s No. 2 automaker make it in America?

Is the long freeze on Chinese automakers selling cars in the US finally starting to thaw? China is the largest auto market in the world and...

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The boys’ club | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images He might be dead, but it sure seems like Jeffrey Epstein won. Sure, Epstein...

Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes

Welcome to Edition 8.28 of the Rocket Report! The big news in rocketry this week was that NASA still hasn’t solved the problem with hydrogen leaks...

iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter

404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled: The court record shows what devices and data...

BreezyBox: A BusyBox-Like Shell and Virtual Terminal for ESP32

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a similar experience for the...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #283: Improving Your GitHub Developer Experience

What are ways to improve how you’re using GitHub? How can you collaborate more effectively and improve your technical writing? This week on the show, Adam...

Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools

Datadog recently announced that its LLM Observability platform now provides automatic instrumentation for applications built with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), offering deeper visibility into the...

Waymo Hits a Rough Patch In Washington, DC

The company’s robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC’s...

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day… 1776. The year-long series of...

Why the Artemis II Crew Stays in Quarantine Before Their Journey to Moon

For two weeks, medical experts monitor the astronauts as they remain indoors, live in isolation, and avoid physical touch, all to prevent harmful microbes from traveling...

Why a Dehumidifier Is One of My Favorite Gadgets

A good dehumidifier can banish damp and mold, and help you keep a comfortable temperature in your home.

“DHEI” Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments...

Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

As of this week Oracle’s latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux’s native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in...

GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year

GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week…

What Paralympic Athlete Monster Mike Schultz Packs for His Races

The world champion adaptive snowboard cross athlete repairs his own prostheses before a competition.

Sports Betting Is Skyrocketing. Will It Take Over the Olympics?

Typically, the Olympics aren’t a hotbed of gambling. For the 2026 Winter Games, sportsbooks and betting platforms are watching for illicit activity while testing new ways...

Figure Skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Pushing the Limits of What’s Possible

For years, quad axel jumps seemed impossible. Then Ilia Malinin landed one in 2022. As he heads to the Milano Cortina Games, everyone wants to know...

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak...

Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users

One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to...

Presentation: Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a...

A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial

Juries will soon hear arguments in a case against Meta and Google that could reshape social media protections for kids.

Best Slippers for Working From Home or Relaxing (2026)

We tried dozens of house shoes to find the best pairs for working from home, running errands, and avoiding cold floors. Here are the ones worth...

Tax Services of 2026: TurboTax and H&R Block Tested

We tested five popular tax services to see which is the best to choose in 2026. Plus, we’ve rounded up helpful tips and guidance to lessen...

Buying a Mattress in 2026? We Tested 100+ and These Were the Standouts

WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.

‘Uncanny Valley’: Tech Elites in the Epstein Files, Musk’s Mega Merger, and a Crypto Scam Compound

Several big names in tech turned up in the Epstein files. In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts break down what it all means and...

An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth

This week I want to tell you about an experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies. Specifically, it’s helping people who have had treatment for...

How to Install Google Chrome Web Browser on Ubuntu 24.04

Step-by-step instructions for downloading, installing, updating, and managing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 24.04 using the official .deb package and repository.

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script

Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler...

pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards

The pg_lake extension, which was initially released to the open source community in November, is now natively available in Snowflake Postgres, the cloud data warehouse’s fully managed...

8 Best Couples Sex Toys (2026), Tested and Reviewed

No matter if you’re in the same room or an ocean away, these sex toys will help you stay connected to your partner.

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 Jan. 30...

I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work

An AI assistant in the terminal can help you guide through the process, help you move faster with your tasks. I tested Qwen Code and share...

MUI Releases Base UI 1 with 35 Accessible Components

Base UI 1.0 has officially launched! This unstyled React component library, backed by MUI, offers 35 accessible components with a commitment to long-term maintenance. With refined...

How to make a local open source AI chatbot who has access to Fedora documentation

If you followed along with my blog, you’d have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. (And if not, no worries as the scripts below...

Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS New Features And Release Timeline

Discover Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, code-named Resolute Raccoon, new features, roadmap, and release timeline. The post Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS New Features And Release Timeline appeared first...

Conductor Quantum Introduces Coda, a Natural Language Interface for Quantum Computing

Conductor Quantum has announced Coda, a natural language interface for running quantum programs on real quantum hardware. The system is positioned as a software layer that...

Getting the VIC-20 To Speak Again

The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of the 16-bit era. The Commodore VIC-20 had no such capability...

DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech

A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to.

Birger Schacht: Status update, January 2026

January was a slow month, I only did three uploads to Debian unstable: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr updated to 0.8.1-1 swayimg updated to 4.7-1 usbguard updated to 1.1.4+ds-2, which...

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

A Deep Dive Into Inductors

[Prof MAD] runs us through The Hidden Power of Inductors — Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and...

3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 312 released

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 312. This version includes the following changes: [ Jelle van der Waa ] *...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 5)

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages...

Friday Five — February 6, 2026

Don’t forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta! Register by February 23 for the lowest rates,...

Accelerating VM migration to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Hitachi storage offload delivers faster data movement

If you’re modernizing your virtualization infrastructure, you’ve probably discovered that migrating thousands of virtual machines (VMs) takes far longer than anyone anticipated.For IT leaders who haven’t...

Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

systemctl Cheatsheet

Quick reference for systemctl service and systemd unit management

journalctl Cheatsheet

Quick reference for viewing and filtering systemd journal logs

How to Dockerize Your Application and Deploy It

A step-by-step guide to containerising a FastAPI application with Docker and deploying it to the cloud for consistent, production-ready delivery. Modern applications rarely live in isolation....

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, users should be managing teams of...

How to Optimize PySpark Jobs: Real-World Scenarios for Understanding Logical Plans

In the world of big data, performance isn’t just about bigger clusters – it’s about smarter code. Spark is deceptively simple to write but notoriously difficult...

How to Build a Production-Ready Feature Flag System with Next.js and Supabase

Feature flags are powerful tools that let you control which features are visible to users without deploying new code. They enable gradual rollouts, A/B testing, and...

The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)

In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to...

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the...

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support

The GNU Nettle cryptographic library is out with a major new update that introduces support for SLH-DSA, the post-quantum signature scheme selected by NIST for the...

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?

Despite talk of its impending demise, the vibe coding craze appears to be alive and well, particularly in Europe. A new study by vibe marketing website LeadsNavi analyzed Google search...

“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and...

The one structural shift CISOs must make before AI outpaces their security strategy

Enterprise CISOs are stuck at a crossroads. Their budgets aren’t growing fast enough, AI is sucking up every bit of enterprise data, and the software environments...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got...

Open source USearch library jumpstarts ScyllaDB vector search

ScyllaDB, an open source columnar database, recently added vector search capabilities underpinned by USearch, an open source clustering and vector search library. The addition of vector...

Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent...

Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features

Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other...

Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University...

The enterprise is not ready for “the rise of the developer”

Asked what enterprises aren’t ready for as AI advances, Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace offers a prediction — and before doing so, admits it may get him...

9 Great Deals on WIRED-Approved Valentine’s Day Gifts (2026)

These swoon-worthy deals on WIRED-tested date-night boxes, sex toys, and other gadgets will make your Valentine’s Day extra sweet.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex model is the company’s most capable agentic coding model yet. However, unlike previous Codex models, it focuses not only on coding. With this...

Bad sleep made woman’s eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck

A poor night’s sleep might leave you feeling like your eyelids have filled with lead—and keeping them open is the ultimate dead lift. But for some,...