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Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js

This article is a sponsored by SurveyJS There’s a mental model most React developers share without ever discussing it out loud. That forms are always supposed...

I Used Google’s New Gemini-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Tool in Docs. It’s Great at Corporate-Speak

Google has injected Docs, Drive, Sheets, and Slides with its Gemini assistant, adding new features that can pull information from your emails and the web to...

Apple MacBook Neo Review: Delicious, Low-Hanging Fruit

At $599, the MacBook Neo is Apple’s first budget laptop. For the most part, Apple cut corners in the right places and made a MacBook its...

Prioritizing energy intelligence for sustainable growth

Loudoun County, Virginia, once known for its pastoral scenery and proximity to Washington, DC, has earned a more modern reputation in recent years: The area has...

The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI...

What’s the Best iPhone to Buy or Avoid Right Now? (2026)

The iPhone 17e is here. Here are all the details on Apple’s smartphones to help you find the right model, whether that’s the ultralight iPhone Air...

Some People Are Too Sleepy to Make Fancy Coffee. For Them, There’s the Keurig K-Cafe

If convenient coffee is what you seek, this coffee machine is worth every inch of counter space.

GitLab Suggests AI Can Detect Vulnerabilities But it’s AI Governance that Determines Risk

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how software vulnerabilities are detected, but questions about who governs the risks AI exposes, and how those risks are acted on,...

The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems

Artificial Intelligence has become a core capability in modern software systems, powering applications such as personalized recommendations, fraud detection, medical diagnostics, and autonomous systems. Yet, as...

Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board is the VENTUNO Q

There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture....

How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?

For railroads, it’s all about managing static and kinetic friction.

How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics (2026)

Get rid of old, broken, and unused devices—even Lightning cables—without adding to the e-waste problem.

Use Microsoft PC Manager to Speed Up Your Windows 11 Computer

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close.

Cloudflare Releases Experimental Next.js Alternative Built With AI Assistance

Cloudflare released vinext, an experimental Next.js reimplementation built on Vite by one engineer, with AI guidance over one week, for $1,100. Early benchmarks show 4.4x faster...

Wiim Amp Ultra Review: A Fantastic Streaming Amp With TV Input

This amazing Sonos Amp alternative offers nearly everything you could want from a modern stereo.

11 Best Pillows: Tested For Side, Back, and Stomach Sleepers (2026)

We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, on your back, or in a tangle...

AI is helping your boss code again

Claude Code has a lot to answer for. The post AI is helping your boss code again appeared first on LeadDev.

Announcing Fedora Linux 44 Beta

On Tuesday, 10 March 2026, it is our pleasure to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 44 Beta! As with every beta release, this is your...

Fast-tracking industrial and AI deployment on Renesas RZ platforms 

Certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images now available Canonical is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 24 images...

How to Create a systemd Service File in Linux

systemd is the init system used by most modern Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. It manages system processes, handles service dependencies, and starts...

tcpdump Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core tcpdump command forms. Command Description sudo tcpdump Start capturing on the default interface sudo tcpdump -i eth0 Capture on a specific interface...

Translating risk insights into actionable protection: leveling up security posture with Cloudflare and Mastercard

Every new domain, application, website, or API endpoint increases an organization’s attack surface. For many teams, the speed of innovation and deployment outpaces their ability to...

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to...

FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that...

Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP

Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practically nothing when idle. They’re the best and safest place on the...

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

The Go Blog //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner Alan Donovan 10 March 2026 Go 1.26 contains an all-new implementation of the go fix subcommand, designed...

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Opening DebConf 26 Registration, Debian CI improvements and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2026-02 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is...

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.

There’s Hope That At Least Colorado’s Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source

Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact...

After falling far behind the rest of industry, Blue Origin creates new stock option plan

Editor’s note: On Monday afternoon, Blue Origin chief executive Dave Limp sent employees an email announcing a “new stock option” plan that would allow all employees...

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed

Just your typical backyard cleanroom shed. (Credit: Dr. Semiconductor, YouTube) Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening...

‘Flying Cars’ Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer

The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and “eVTOLs” up and running around the country—even if they’re...

Apple smart home display rumors now point to a fall launch with iOS 27

The rumored “HomePod with a screen” we’ve heard so much about was reportedly lined up for launch in 2025, and then this spring, and now, according...

The government shutdown is hitting airports — but not ICE

Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Chaos reigned at airports across the country last weekend, with thousands of travelers reportedly waiting in hours-long security...

Everything from the last week of everything is gambling now

Kalshi is facing backlash from its own users after a class action lawsuit was filed last week alleging it failed to pay out as promised for...

Isoken Ibizugbe: Starting Out in Outreachy

So you want to join Outreachy but you don’t understand it, you’re scared, or you don’t know what open source is about. What is FOSS anyway? ...

Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions

Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a...

Employees across OpenAI and Google support Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon

On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over being designated as a supply chain risk. Hours later, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI...

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government

Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic’s defense.

Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size

At this January’s massive NAMM music tech show in Los Angeles, six products won “best of show” awards. Several of them went to major music and...

NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it’s running very well in initial...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 05, 2025 in...

You can get three months of Disney Plus and Hulu for $15 

You can stream Daredevil Born Again’s new season when it arrives on Hulu on March 24th. | Disney Plus / Marvel If you’re looking for a...

Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off the Goods

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to...

Apple’s new M5 Max feels like a huge upgrade if you bought your laptop three years ago

We’ve been busy testing many new MacBooks, ranging from the new $1,099 M5 MacBook Air, going all the way up the $6,149 16-inch MacBook Pro with...

Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores

Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max make deceptively large changes to how Apple’s high-end laptop and desktop chips are built. We’ve already covered those changes in...

Apple Studio Display XDR review: pro at a premium

The Studio Display XDR is an excellent, and expensive, display for creative professionals. It’s been almost exactly four years since Apple released the 5K Studio Display...

US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

The Trump administration agreed to stop pursuing a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster as part of a settlement that blindsided state attorneys general in the...

One of this rugged phone’s cameras is a pop-out action cam

What if your smartphone’s camera wasn’t locked to the back of the device? Honor’s Robot Phone, which we got to see in action at MWC 2026,...

‘Cash Apples’ is giving away $500,000 to people who click on trees in a web browser

Want to make real money just by clicking on virtual trees? Starting today at 1PM PT / 4PM ET, residents of the United States can begin...

Anthropic launches a multi-agent code review tool for Claude Code

Thanks to agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others, developers are shipping more code than ever. But this also means that more code...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its...

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2

With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official...

Last Year in SBCs

While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from...

Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds

Last Friday, Nintendo joined thousands of companies suing the Trump administration to secure full refunds, plus interest, for billions in unlawful tariffs collected under the International...

How Cross-Cultural Engineering Drives Tech Advancement

Innovation rarely happens in isolation. Usually, the systems that engineers design are shaped by global teams whose members’ knowledge and ideas move across borders as easily...

Flexible feline spines shed light on “falling cat” problem

Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least...

Your Espresso Machine Doesn’t Have to Be Fancy to Make Good Coffee

A former barista explains why your espresso machine doesn’t have to be fancy to make quality coffee.

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the...

Our Favorite Wireless Headphones Are $60 Off

The Sony WH-1000XM6 get a noticeable markdown for a limited time.

Dirk Eddelbuettel: nanotime 0.3.13 on CRAN: Maintenance

Another minor update 0.3.13 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN, and has been uploaded to Debian and compiled for r2u. nanotime relies on the...

Don’t worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine “this year”

Valve quickly reconfirmed that it plans to ship the Steam Machine and other recently announced hardware products “this year,” after an official blog post late last...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026)

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the...

Canonical and Arduino collaborate to enable Ubuntu on the VENTUNO Q, the next generation platform for AI

Through a strategic partnership with Canonical, Arduino’s latest product offers a seamless Linux experience for complex AI workloads in robotics, edge AI vision and more. LONDON,...

How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger

We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warning...

How context rot drags down AI and LLM results for enterprises, and how to fix it

One of the most quoted business mantras today states that if a company wants to be successful, data is everything. This has been repeated for decades,...

2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing

Formula 1’s 2026 season got underway this past weekend in Melbourne, Australia. Formula 1 has undergone a radical transformation during the short offseason, with new technical...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd

Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure...

Take a Ride on wrongbaud’s Hardware Hacking Highway

Regular Hackaday readers will no doubt be familiar with the work of Matthew Alt, AKA [wrongbaud]. His deep-dive blog posts break down hardware hacking and reverse...

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation

The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.

How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host...

Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub – Still As Windows-Only Binaries

Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it...

Cursor builds always-on agents to tackle developer task tedium

AI-powered code editor company Cursor has introduced Cursor Automations to build always-on agents that operate on its deep understanding of the codebase. Established as a fork...

Netflix Automates RDS PostgreSQL to Aurora PostgreSQL Migration Across 400 Production Clusters

Netflix engineers describe an internal automation platform that migrates nearly 400 RDS PostgreSQL clusters to Aurora, reducing downtime and operational risk. The platform coordinates replication, CDC...

Presentation: 4 Patterns of AI Native Development

Patrick Debois discusses the evolution of software engineering in the age of AI. He shares four key patterns: transitioning from producer to manager, focusing on intent...

Linux Kernel 7.0 RC3 Released: A Biggest Update in Recent History

Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate (RC3) for Linux Kernel 7.0. Learn what’s new in Linux 7.0-rc3. The post Linux Kernel 7.0 RC3 Released: A...

NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing...

Disorder Drives One of Nature’s Most Complex Machines

At the dawn of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this...

The Value of z-index

The z-index property is one of the most important tools any UI developer has at their disposal, as it allows you to control the stacking order...

AMD Formally Launches Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series 8-12 Core Models

AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through...

Moving AI apps from prototype to production requires enterprise-grade postgres infrastructure

There’s no ignoring the AI gold rush. In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using AI, a 23 percentage-point increase from the year prior. The number of...

AI coding agents can write code, Crafting wants to help them ship it

AI coding agents are getting very good at generating code, but for enterprise engineering teams, that’s only part of the battle. There’s also testing, validation, and...

Best Base Layers (2026): Merino Wool, Synthetic, and More

Whether you’re layering up for winter cold or looking for an ultralight summer system, I’ve tested and found the best base layers for all your outdoor...

Do Offshore Wind Farms Pose National Security Risks?

When the Trump administration last year sought to freeze construction of offshore wind farms by citing concerns about interference with military radar and sonar, the implication...

The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices

When Tony Fadell started working on the iPod, usability often trumped security. The result was an iterative process. Every time someone would find a security weakness...

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and...

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

In December 2025, Cloudflare received reports of HTTP/1.x request smuggling vulnerabilities in the Pingora open source framework when Pingora is used to build an ingress proxy....

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

Security is traditionally a game of defense. You build walls, set up gates, and write rules to block traffic that looks suspicious. For years, Cloudflare has...

Python Gains frozendict and Other Python News for March 2026

After years of community requests, Python is finally getting frozendict. The Steering Council accepted PEP 814 in February, bringing an immutable, hashable dictionary as a built-in...

The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs

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. Is the...

[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking

Python has a unique approach to static typing. Python programs can contain type annotations, and even access those annotations at run time, but the annotations aren’t...

64% of female developers say AI is accelerating their careers

Yet women are 25% less likely to use AI tools. The post 64% of female developers say AI is accelerating their careers appeared first on LeadDev.

digiKam 9.0.0 released

Version 9.0.0 of the digiKam photo-management system has been released. “This major version introduces groundbreaking improvements in performance, usability, and workflow efficiency, with a strong focus...

New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices

A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (delve, git-lfs, and postgresql16), Fedora (cef, chezmoi, chromium, coturn, erlang-hex_core, firefox, gh, gimp, k9s, keylime, keylime-agent-rust, libsixel, microcode_ctl, nextcloud,...

KDE is Developing Plasma Bigscreen, an Open Source TV Interface for Smart TVs and HTPCs

KDE is developing Plasma Bigscreen, an open-source TV interface built on KDE Plasma and Wayland for smart TVs, HTPCs, and set-top boxes. The post KDE is...

Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt

Chevrolet provided flights from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could drive the Bolt. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WESTLAKE VILLAGE,...

Feeld Was a Dating App for the Freaks. Now Some People Call It ‘Normie Hell’

The app that catered to unconventional kinks is gaining steam among daters with vanilla preferences—and some aren’t happy about it.

Apple iPhone 17e Review: MagSafe Makes a Difference

A bump in storage and the addition of MagSafe make Apple’s cheapest iPhone a better value proposition than its predecessor.

Colin Watson: Free software activity in February 2026

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. OpenSSH openssh: Please remove/replace usage...

Quiz: Introduction to Python SQL Libraries

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python SQL Libraries. Work through this quiz to connect to databases with Python, interact with SQLite, MySQL, and...

Quiz: Pydantic AI: Build Type-Safe LLM Agents in Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Pydantic AI: Build Type-Safe LLM Agents in Python. You’ll revisit what Pydantic AI is, how to specify a...

Best Sonos Speakers (2026): Soundbars, Headphones, Dolby Atmos, and More

From smart speakert so soundbars, Sonos makes the best streaming speakers you can buy. These are my personal favorites.

Java News Roundup: Apache Solr 10, LangChain4j, Grails, JobRunr, Gradle, Devnexus, Commonhaus

This week’s Java roundup for March 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Apache Solr 10; point releases of LangChain4j, JobRunr, Multik and Gradle;...

The technical leap where most brilliant AI initiatives spectacularly fail

The hard work is done. Your organization successfully navigated the treacherous waters of legacy infrastructure and now stands at the threshold of true AI capability. But...

The Moon is Safe, For Now: No Collision in 2032 After All

When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it created a bit of a kerfuffle when it was reported it had a couple-percent chance of hitting the...

“It doesn’t feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US

This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco, as they have since 1988, for the weeklong Game...

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later

Ten years ago, persuasive design was a relatively new frontier in the field of UX. In a 2015 Smashing article, I was among those who showed...

Podcast: Mindful Leadership in the Age of AI

In this episode, Thomas Betts and Sam McAfee discuss how AI hype is reshaping organizational behavior, why many companies struggle with experimentation, and how unclear decision...

New Attack Against Wi-Fi

It’s called AirSnitch: Unlike previous Wi-Fi attacks, AirSnitch exploits core features in Layers 1 and 2 and the failure to bind and synchronize a client across...

Hatch’s Sale Has the Restore 3, Rest, and Rest+ All Discounted

Hatch’s sunrise alarm clock is popular for a reason, and it’s on sale this week. An older-model sound machine for babies is on sale too.

GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But “Slow” Progress On Fixes

Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping...

MacBook Neo, The (Not-So) Thin MacBook, Apple and Memory

The MacBook Neo was built to be cheap; that it is still good is not only a testament to Apple Silicon, but also the fact that...

Don’t Expect Big Surprises in the Government’s Alien Files

Donald Trump has ordered the release of files related to aliens, UAP, and UFOs. If previous disclosures are any indication, get ready for a letdown.

Are Smart Beds Worth It? A Certified Sleep Science Coach Weighs In (2026)

These tech-packed beds can adjust firmness, track your sleep, and regulate temperature automatically. Based on my testing, here’s what’s worth the investment.

Why RFK’s CDC Is Endorsing ‘Shared Decisionmaking’ for Vaccines

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda.

Sven Hoexter: Latest pflogsumm from unstable on trixie

If you want the latest pflogsumm release form unstable on your Debian trixie/stable mailserver you’ve to rely on pining (Hint for the future: Starting with apt...

Article: Change as Metrics: Measuring System Reliability Through Change Delivery Signals

System changes are the primary driver of production incidents, making change-related metrics essential reliability signals. A minimal metric set of Change Lead Time, Change Success Rate,...

Can AI Kill the Venture Capitalist?

VCs are betting that artificial intelligence will disrupt nearly every industry in the world. Are they prepared for it to disrupt their own?

Microsoft Launches MCP C# SDK v1.0, Bringing Full Support for Latest Protocol Specification

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, bringing full support for the 2025-11-25 MCP Specification. The release introduces enhanced authorization flows, icon...

ping Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core ping command forms. Command Description ping host Continuously ping a host ping -c 4 host Send 4 echo requests, then stop ping...

AI adoption has to be driven from the top

Not by mandate, but clear leadership and guidance over why AI is being adopted. The post AI adoption has to be driven from the top appeared...

Complexity is a choice. SASE migrations shouldn’t take years.

For years, the cybersecurity industry has accepted a grim reality: migrating to a zero trust architecture is a marathon of misery. CIOs have been conditioned to...

Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations

Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the...

Home Remedies

HandBrake 1.11 adds ProRes, DNxHR encoders and MOV output

HandBrake, the free and open-source video transcoder, has just dropped its first major release of 2026 – adding new professional encoders, MOV output container and a...

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3

Linus has released 7.0-rc3 for testing. “So it’s still pretty early in the release cycle, and it just feels a bit busier than I’d like. But...

Linux 7.0-rc3 Released: “Some Of The Biggest In Recent History”

Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April…

How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing...

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people...

Apple is going high-end with new ‘Ultra’ products next

Fresh off launching the low-cost MacBook Neo, Apple is reportedly preparing at least three new products that will fit into its highest-end “ultra” lineup. According to...

CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs

The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs…

Resources 1.10.2 fixes ‘implausible’ Intel NPU values

Several Intel NPU fixes land in the latest update to Resources, which Ubuntu is making the default system monitor in 26.04 LTS. Resources is a GTK4/libadwaita...

Vibe code full-stack apps fast with TanStack Start

It’s no secret that it’s gotten significantly easier to build applications in the last few years. And vibe coding is only making it easier and easier....

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away

A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount...

Listen to this: Mabe Fratti’s experimental cello pop

The opening notes of “Kravitz”, which kicks off Mabe Fratti’s 2024 record Sentir Que No Sabes, are lodged in my brain permanently. It’s not a showy...

Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine?

Kubernetes has always been sensitive to bad inputs. What’s changed is how often teams are running into it. As more bursty workloads—especially inference—land on Kubernetes, a familiar pattern shows up more often: clusters add nodes...

What we’re listening to, watching, and reading right now.

There is so much art out there that it’s absolutely impossible to keep up. Whether it’s a slept-on post-punk album from the ‘80s, a new sci-fi...

Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition

The restored PET/CBM 3032. (Credit: Drygol, retrohax.net) The Commodore CBM 3032 is a successor to the original Commodore PET 2001, yet due a conflicting trademark issue...

The best Switch 2 controller just got better (and a little worse)

The pink option is one of the prettiest controllers I’ve used. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Crowning the EasySMX S10 the best Switch 2...

Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer

One of our favorite TV shows last year was Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s revival of the hugely popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe. Who could...

Snowflake Cortex Code CLI adds dbt and Apache Airflow support for AI-powered data pipelines

Snowflake Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake’s coding agent that was announced at the end of February, recently added support for dbt and Apache Airflow. There are several...

FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More

FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements…

The cute and cursed story of Furby

The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn’t do much – couldn’t do anything, really – but it could...

Rspress 2.0: AI-Native Documentation, Faster Startup and a Redesigned Theme

Rspress 2.0 has launched with a revamped theme, boosted performance, and innovative AI features, transforming developer documentation. With enhanced build speeds and a new Static Site...

The uncomfortable truth about hybrid vehicles

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the EV struggle, follow Andrew J. Hawkins....

Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1

Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P “NVL-P” device bits for Intel’s ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. But this support...

Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3

This week’s batch of “x86/urgent” patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel…

Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied theropods that paleontologists originally misinterpreted as early flightless birds, only to later recognize them as an ant-eating lineage of non-avian dinosaurs. For...

How to Run Ethernet Cables to Your Router and Keep Them Tidy

Boosting internet speeds around your home is easy with Ethernet cables, and these tips will help you keep things neat.

LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern

The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite...

digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released

The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release…

Spoofing an Emergency Traffic Preemption Signal

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or creating a clear getaway...

Force Your MacBook to Only Charge up to 80 Percent (and Why You Should)

Laptop batteries lag in performance as they age. But you can slow down their deterioration by tweaking your Mac’s charging settings.

Fender Mix Headphones Review: Modular Over-Ears

Say goodbye to disposable headphones with Fender’s customizable and replaceable parts.

Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2

Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing...

A Certified Sleep Coach Shares the Sleep Week Deals She’s Adding to Cart (2026)

From mattresses to sateen sheets, these exclusive deals on my personal picks can help you upgrade your sleep for less.

The Moka Pot Is the Best Way to Brew Coffee (2026)

Bialetti’s timeless design doesn’t just look good. It makes an incredible cup that’s perfect to keep you awake through the time change.

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run SQL queries across data stored in...

Best Sunrise Alarm Clock (2026): Lumie, Hatch, WiiM

I’ve never been a morning person. This bedside gadget is the only thing that’s ever changed that.

Military AI Policy Needs Democratic Oversight

A simmering dispute between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Anthropic has now escalated into a full-blown confrontation, raising an uncomfortable but important question:...

Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock

Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered...

Left-Handed People Are More Competitive, Says Science

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better.

xargs Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core xargs command forms. Command Description xargs command Read stdin and pass items to a command printf '%sn' a b c | xargs...

Quarterhorse vs Blackbird: Hermeus’ Flight Puts them One Step Closer to Record

You’ve got to be ambitious to target a legend. If there’s one thing the folks at Hermeus Aerospace are, though, it’s ambitious: not only do they...

Hiding a Bomb in Plain Sight

You are at war. Trains are key to keeping your army supplied with fuel, ammunition, food, and medical supplies. But, inexplicably, your trains keep blowing up....

Linux 7.0 Adds A New Minor Performance Optimization Shown With AMD Zen 2 CPUs

The Linux event poll “epoll” code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged...

Why the Ratio Four Series Two Is What I Use to Test New Coffees

A new generation of home machines has made good old drip coffee a place for connoisseurs. For more than a year, the Four is the source...

Hunting for elusive “ghost elephants”

Deep in the Angolan Highlands lurks a rumored new species of elephant. Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years...

The Tragic Demise of the Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens

A commercial Delrama prism-based anamorphic lens for large cameras. (Source: Mathieu Stern, YouTube) Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of...

Huston: Revisiting time

Geoff Huston looks at the network time protocol, and efforts to secure it, in detail. NTP operates in the clear, and it is often the case...

NanoClaw can stuff each AI agent into its own Docker container to deal with OpenClaw’s security mess

On the one hand, I feel a bit conflicted pointing out the recognised security issues with OpenClaw, even as serious AI thought leaders are naming their...

Instant Photography For The Maker

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy...

Scaling Human Judgment: How Dropbox Uses LLMs to Improve Labeling for RAG Systems

To improve the relevance of responses produced by Dropbox Dash, Dropbox engineers began using LLMs to augment human labelling, which plays a crucial role in identifying...

Sony appears to be testing dynamic pricing on PlayStation games

A site called PSprices has been tracking prices on Sony’s digital game store and noticed something unusual: some games were being offered at different prices to...

Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration

Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project…

Is AI Killing Open Source Software?

“It’s complicated” can be used to describe relationships and how AI works — or doesn’t — with open source development. According to longtime open source leader...

Time’s running out to get a free gift card when you preorder a new MacBook

This has been a week to remember here at The Verge. MWC 2026 in Barcelona lead straight into Apple’s week of product announcements. There was truly...

Vizio accounts are becoming Walmart accounts

Walmart bought Vizio in 2024, and now it’s taking the next steps to formally fold the TV maker into itself by phasing out Vizio accounts. Now,...

AMD GAIA 0.16 Introduces C++17 Agent Framework For Building AI PC Agents In Pure C++

AMD’s GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16....

Choice, Control, and Interruption

We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can...

Open-source coding agents like OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are solving a huge headache for developers

AI coding agents are proliferating, but the economics of running large language models (LLMs) are breaking down as developers juggle multiple APIs and seriously unpredictable token...

Laser-Based 3D Printing Could Build Future Bases on the Moon

Through the Artemis Program, NASA hopes to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon in its southern polar region. China, Russia, and the European Space...

The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster

The woman at the door wore a plush lobster headdress. She sat in the front hallway of a multistory event venue in Manhattan, beside a bundle...