Category: Allgemein

You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

New York City got hit with a hell of a snowstorm last week. And, inevitably, when I’m watching the snow fall, wandering the oddly quiet streets...

Resources 1.10 can now monitor AMD NPU usage on Linux

Resources 1.10 adds AMD NPU reporting to let Linux users track Ryzen AI performance alongside CPU, RAM, GPU and other system hardware usage. You’re reading Resources...

This tiny pocket-friendly e-reader is packed with frustration and potential

I’ve used and reviewed dozens of e-readers over the years, but the 5-inch Kobo Mini remains my favorite for one simple reason: It was small. While...

GNU Hurd Is “Almost There” With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates...

Liya Linux proves high performance doesn’t require a command line

Any Linux distribution claiming that it wants to make Linux easy and accessible to the general public, as well as to establish itself as a new...

iPhone Becomes a Bluetooth Keyboard And Mouse

Sometimes you need to use a computer and you don’t have a spare keyboard and mouse on hand. [KoStard] figured an iPhone could serve as a...

I don’t hate the robot barista like I thought I would

It’s so embarrassing when a robot is better than you at latte art. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge In Seattle, the only thing we...

GNOME Resources 1.10 Adds Monitoring Support For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs

GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default...

50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’

Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community. As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world...

LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon

As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English...

Antigravity’s 360-degree A1 drone is nearly $250 off right now

Antigravity’s ambitious A1 360-degree drone is 15 percent off through February 9th. The first-ever discount on this model is available across all bundles, with the most...

Building a Watch Collection on a Budget? Here’s Where to Start (2026)

Yes, it is possible to scale horological heights without breaking the bank. It’s time to seek out the latest bargains.

The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Android phones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback...

7 Best Prepaid Phone Plans (2026)

Forget the pricey, postpaid cell plans and two-year contracts. Save with one of these WIRED-tested options from US Mobile, Boost, and Google Fi.

Benjamin Mako Hill: What do people do when they edit Wikipedia through Tor?

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record...

At NIH, a power struggle over institute directorships deepens

When a new presidential administration comes in, it is responsible for filling around 4,000 jobs sprinkled across the federal government’s vast bureaucracy. These political appointees help...

The Best Date-Night Boxes of 2026, Tested With My Hinge Dates

I tested 10 popular date-night boxes with people I met on Hinge. From writing love notes to trying out sex swings, these kits fulfilled their promise...

Linux’s b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper

The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a...

Fungus could be the insecticide of the future

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking...

How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

Here are three smart tricks, based on an understanding of frictional forces, to beat a slippery slope.

Limiting Battery Risk On Repurposed Smartphones With PostmarketOS

PostmarketOS is a Linux distribution specifically designed for those who wish to repurpose old smartphones as general-use computers, to a degree. This can be a great...

Best Valentine’s Day Gifts (2026): Legos, Karaoke, Digital Frames, and More

The holiday of romance is just around the corner. Don’t give something boring.

smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds

A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD...

cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0

Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops...

Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January

During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews,...

The Best Chocolate Boxes of 2026 for Valentine’s Delivery

We tasted dozens of chocolates to find the best-tasting delivery boxes for your true love, self-love, or your lovely mother.

Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0

For newer Framework devices like the Framework 13 AMD that make use of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC), the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is adding fan...

SSH Hardening: Best Practices for Securing Your Server

Learn how to harden your SSH server with best practices including key-only authentication, disabling root login, changing the default port, and setting up Fail2Ban.

The Information Networks That Connect Venezuelans in Uncertain Times

The people of Venezuela have spent years learning resilience in the face of censorship, disinformation, and repression. They now rely on those tools more than ever.

Lumafield Peers into the 18650 Battery

[Alex Hao] and [Andreas Bastian] of Lumafield recently visited with [Adam Savage] to share their battery quality report, which documents their findings after performing X-ray computed...

Junichi Uekawa: Got rid of documents I had for last year’s Tax return.

Got rid of documents I had for last year’s Tax return. Now I have the least document in my bookshelf out of the year.

Russ Allbery: Review: Paladin’s Faith

Review: Paladin’s Faith, by T. Kingfisher Series: The Saint of Steel #4 Publisher: Red Wombat Studio Copyright: 2023 ISBN: 1-61450-614-0 Format: Kindle Pages: 515 Paladin’s Faith...

Changing Print Layer Patterns to Increase Strength

Dy default, the slicing software used for 3D printers has the printer first create the walls around the edges of a print, then goes back to...

Tiling Shell 17.3 adds new tiling modes, touchscreen support

The Tiling Shell 17.3 GNOME extension update introduces new ‘Adaptive’ and ‘Granular’ edge-tiling modes, Wacom and touchscreen support, and layout reordering. You’re reading Tiling Shell 17.3...

Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For “Hopefully” Improved Performance

Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was “sheaves” as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while...

Motorized Faders Make An Awesome Volume Mixer For Your PC

These days, Windows has a moderately robust method for managing the volume across several applications. The only problem is that the controls for this are usually...

Nvidia CEO denies he’s ‘unhappy’ with OpenAI

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang denied reports that he was unhappy with OpenAI and said his company still planned to make a “huge” investment in the ChatGPT...

Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. So every month, we...

Docker Cheatsheet

Quick reference for Docker commands and concepts

Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux

Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution. Shotcut 26.1 is finally defaulting to GPU hardware...

Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene

Thomas Edison is well known for his inventions (even if you don’t agree he invented all of them). However, he also occasionally invented things he didn’t...

“No more Minnesota nice, Minneapolis will strike”

It was too cold to take off my mittens and check Google Maps so I put my faith in the trickle of bundled-up people ahead of...

Onnit’s Instant Melatonin Spray Keeps Bedtime Uncomplicated

Just spritz and sleep—no melatonin tablets or pills necessary.

Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port

Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments....

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data center satellites into orbit. While the FCC...

Chainguard Finds 98% of Container CVEs Lurking Outside the Top 20 Images

The latest State of Trusted Open Source report from Chainguard gives details on current industry thinking about vulnerabilities in container images and the long tail of...

Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration

Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January…

How to Copy SSH Keys with ssh-copy-id

Learn how to use the ssh-copy-id command to copy your SSH public key to a remote server for passwordless authentication.

Cheap Smart Ring Becomes MIDI Controller

The Colmi R02 is one of the cheapest smart rings on the market. It costs about $20, and is remarkably easy to hack. [Floyd Steinberg] took...

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for...

Beating context rot in Claude Code with GSD

Until now, I’ve generally only used LLM tools with existing projects. Attempts to create detailed projects from scratch via agentic LLMs like Claude with “vibe coding”...

The AirPods 4 and Google’s 4K streamer are just two of this week’s best deals

Happy Saturday, folks! After a few weeks of middling deals, we’re starting see things pick up. Some of our favorite deals of the holiday season have...

Secret Ingredients

We were talking on the podcast about rope. But not just any rope – especially non-stretchy rope for using in a mechanical context. The hack in...

How YouTube and Adhesive Tape Are Disrupting Assistive Technology

Assistive technology is expensive, and many people with disabilities live on fixed incomes. Disabled assistive tech users also must contend with equipment that was often designed...

Explore the Stratosphere With a DIY Pico balloon

There’s an interesting development in amateur ballooning: using so-called superpressure balloons, which float high in the atmosphere indefinitely rather than simply going up and up and...

Cassette Boy forces you to see its world in a whole new way

It’s no secret that Cassette Boy is inspired by the classics. It’s a top-down adventure game in the vein of a retro Legend of Zelda, while...

Michael Prokop: apt, SHA-1 keys + 2026-02-01

You might have seen Policy will reject signature within a year warnings in apt(-get) update runs like this: root@424812bd4556:/# apt update Get:1 http://foo.example.org/debian demo InRelease [4229...

ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it’s not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk’s AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to...

A nice upgrade for Apple’s simplest gadget

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 114, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, send Arc Raiders...

OpenAI Launches Prism, a Free LaTeX-Native Workspace with Integrated GPT-5.2

OpenAI has released Prism, a free, cloud-based LaTeX workspace designed for academic writing and collaboration, with GPT-5.2 integrated directly into the authoring environment. The platform combines...

Cordless Stick Vacuum Throw Down: Bosch, Shark, Dyson (2026)

Bosch’s Unlimited 10 combines key features from Dyson’s and Shark’s stick vacuums and packs some nice extras, but it can’t seem to keep debris inside.

A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing,...

Playing YouTube From The Command Line

Generally, one opens a web browser or an app to use YouTube. However, if you’re looking to just listen to the audio, you can actually do...

Best Mirrorless Cameras (2026): Full-Frame, APS-C, and More

Want the image quality of a DSLR without the bulk? These WIRED picks do more with less.

The 24 Best Movies on Amazon Prime, WIRED’s Picks (February 2025)

Sinners, Wicked, and Die Hard are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.

GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh “VRR” As Experimental

Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh “VRR” functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as...

OpenEverest: Open Source Platform for Database Automation

Percona recently announced OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management that supports multiple database technologies. Launched initially as Percona Everest, OpenEverest can be...

Jeffrey Epstein Had a ‘Personal Hacker,’ Informant Claims

Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and...

5 Best Touchscreen Gloves (2026), Tested and Reviewed

We braved the cold to answer a modern dilemma: Can you keep your hands warm and use a smartphone at the same time?

Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab’ing

KDE Plasma developers remain quite busy preparing for the Plasma 6.6 desktop release coming up in a little more than two weeks while at the same...

The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus “E-AC3” Patents Might Now Be Expired

For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus “Enhanced AC-3” audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by...

Gear News of the Week: Samsung’s TriFold Sells Out in Minutes, and a Leak Teases Google’s New OS

Plus: Vivaldi browser shuns AI, Samsung has a new sustainable display, and Frankfurt Airport tests Auracast for gate announcements.

Benjamin Mako Hill: Dialogue

Me: Do you want your coffee in a Japanese or Western style tea cup? M: Yunomi. Me: Apparently not as well as you think I do!

GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year – Possible Opt-In Unstable API

GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings…

How to Film ICE

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible...

Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB

Google Cloud has launched managed connection pooling for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, boosting client connections by 3x and transactional throughput by up to 5x. This feature simplifies...

Perfect Server Automated ISPConfig 3 Installation on Debian 12 and Debian 13, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial shows you how to easily set up a web, email and DNS server with ISPConfig 3 using the ISPConfig auto-installation script.

Greg Kroah-Hartman Wins Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026

Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman won the prestigious Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 for his dedication to Linux kernel stability. The post Greg Kroah-Hartman Wins...

Your eBooks Don't Have to Look Boring, Calibre 9.0 Now has Shelves

The eBook manager gets a visual upgrade with bookshelves and in-viewer editing.

Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Sometimes, the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on our wallpapers adventure more than 14 years ago. The...

NVIDIA Dynamo Planner Brings SLO-Driven Automation to Multi-Node LLM Inference

Microsoft and NVIDIA have released Part 2 of their collaboration on running NVIDIA Dynamo for large language model inference on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The first...

Microsoft Ships OData .NET (ODL) 9.0.0 Preview 3: Safety, Modern APIs, and Spec Compliance

Microsoft released OData .NET (ODL) 9.0.0 Preview 3, the latest preview iteration of the OData .NET client and core libraries, continuing the modernisation effort of the...

The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade

FujiFilm’s Instax Mini Link 3 printer is a much-loved $100 accessory in my travel journal kit. I often tape a printed image next to my handwritten...

Nano Feels Complicated? Try These 5 Easier Terminal Editors

The Linux terminal has come a long way from supporting only the keyboard to having software that can be navigated fully using a mouse.

Russ Allbery: Review: Dragon Pearl

Review: Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee Series: Thousand Worlds #1 Publisher: Rick Riordan Presents Copyright: 2019 ISBN: 1-368-01519-0 Format: Kindle Pages: 315 Dragon Pearl is...

Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3 is available to download

The third Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot is out, giving you an easy way to test the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ ahead of its stable release in April. Details and...

Writing an Optimizing Tensor Compiler from Scratch

Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep....

Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on January 28, 2026 in Washington,...

The shift left hangover: Why modern platforms are shifting down to cure developer fatigue

Over the last decade, “shift left” became the mantra of high-performing engineering organizations. The premise was sound: Move testing, security, and compliance earlier (to the left)...

Uber Gets Ready for AI in Network Observability with Cloud Native Overhaul

Transportation company Uber has publishing a detailed account of its new observability platform on it’s blog, highlighting that for them, network visibility is now a strategic...

How to Add Multi-Language Support in Flutter: Manual and AI-Automated Translations for Flutter Apps

As Flutter applications scale beyond a single market, language support becomes a critical requirement. A well-designed app should feel natural to users regardless of their locale,...

Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live

Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein’s emails shows...

Need a Curved Plastic Mesh? Print Flat, Curve Later

Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s considerably harder to 3D...

Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware

Peloton said on Friday that it’s cutting around 11 percent of its staff, mostly impacting “engineers working on technology and enterprise-related efforts,” reports Bloomberg. Last August,...

The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day. In 2012, Sharp brought the first...

Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti’s Killing

Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it.

Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool

The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, just a day after Google announced...

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents,...

TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it’s a giant scam with Big Pharma

The Trump administration is delaying the release of TrumpRx, an online platform that lets people buy prescription drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies at a discount, according...

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered

A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant: Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a...

Here’s why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program

Blue Origin has “paused” its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permanent end to the suborbital space tourism...

Ordering Pizza On Your Sega Dreamcast Is Very Clunky Indeed

If you’re ordering pizza these days, you’re probably using a smartphone app or perhaps still making a regular old phone call. If you’re creative and a...

Natural born SaaS killers

We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall...

Sonos’ Super Bowl sale knocks hundreds off its audio gear

Sonos isn’t exactly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the brand discounts its gear every year around this time like clockwork. It’s knocking 20 percent off...

AI Code Review Prompts Initiative Making Progress For The Linux Kernel

Chris Mason, the longtime Linux kernel developer most known for being the creator of Btrfs, has been working on a Git repository with AI review prompts...

I Let Google’s ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn’t Quite Click

Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that’s the idea.

Fitbit users now have until May to migrate to a Google account

Fitbit users who are holding out on moving their data over to a Google account now have until May 19th, 2026 to make the switch. The...

How to Go From Hello World to Building Real World Applications

Many developers start learning programming by building simple projects like todo apps, calculators, and basic CRUD applications. These projects are useful at the beginning, as they...

3 Great Heated Blanket Deals on My Favorite Affordable Models

Some of our favorite heated blankets are on sale (and might even arrive in time for you to use this weekend).

Do Expensive Filaments Make 3D Printed Wrenches Better?

What filament is strongest? The real answer is “it depends”, but sometimes you have a simple question and you just want a simple answer. Like, which...

FCC aims to ensure “only living and lawful Americans” get Lifeline benefits

There’s another battle unfolding between the Federal Communications Commission and California over the state’s distribution of federal Lifeline money. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is proposing new...

There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

Yes, you read that right. “Moltbook” is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that...

We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. As...

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that’s precisely what worries them

Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something that can, in some cases, build entire applications...

Ode to Very Small Devices

As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh,it’s the secret lives of small hidden machines,their junctures, and networks that inspire me:Mystic hidden functionaries that makeour...

Go Global to Make Your Career Go Further

This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. In your career, you are likely...

Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today

In case you missed it, we recently overhauled our guides to the best budget robot vacuums and the best mopping vacs, both of which feature a...

Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together

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...

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 3 Released For Testing

Resolute Snapshot 3 is now available as the newest monthly test candidate leading up the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release in April…

Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy

What responsibility do you have to speak up about bad things happening in the world? Does that responsibility change when speaking up might affect your business?...

Anthropic brings plugins to Cowork

Anthropic is extending Cowork with a plugin system that bundles skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents, giving non-developers the kind of extensibility that Claude Code users...

2026.05: The Chip Fly in the AI Ointment

(Photo by Gilles Mingasson/Liaison) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in...

Contribute to Fedora 44 KDE and GNOME Test Days

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often...

Web portal leaves kids’ chats with AI toy open to anyone with Gmail account

Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys, called...

How to Build an AI Social Media Post Scheduler Using Gemini and Late API in Next.js

Social media has become a vital tool for people and businesses to share ideas, promote products, and connect with their target audience. But creating posts regularly...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Still Committed To Linux 6.20~7.0 Even If Not Finalized For Release Time

Last year Canonical committed to shipping the latest upstream Linux kernel versions in new Ubuntu releases compared to their more conservative choices in prior releases that...

Microsoft designer proposes a Linux-style dock for Windows

Windows 11 remains too rigid for many, leading a Microsoft designer to propose a Linux-style dock via PowerToys to plug the gaps in Windows’ customisation. You’re...

Google’s AI advantage: why crawler separation is the only path to a fair Internet

Earlier this week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened its consultation on a package of proposed conduct requirements for Google. The consultation invites comments...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 355: Person Detectors, Walkie Talkies, Open Smartphones, and a WiFi Traffic Light

Another chilly evening in Western Europe, as Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List to chew the fat over the week’s hacks. It’s been...

When AI fails: The new reality of incident management

If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business function, 2026 is likely to be...

RISC-V User-Space Control Flow Integrity / Shadow Stack Appears Finally Ready

Similar to what has been available on Intel and AMD processors for users with the shadow stack for control-flow integrity, Linux on RISC-V is finally ready...

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women

Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity...

Whipping Up A Quick Adapter To Hack The Xbox 360

[Androxilogin] had a problem. An Xbox 360 Slim had shown up in the post, but failed to give much more than a beep when turned on....

At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve

Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary this month as the internet’s most reliable knowledge source. Yet behind the celebrations, a troubling pattern has developed: the volunteer community...

[$] Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

A few years ago, the only way to compile Rust code was using the rustc compiler with LLVM as a backend. Since then, several projects, including...

Vulkan 1.4.342 Published With Cooperative Matrix Conversion Extension

Following last week’s Vulkan spec updates that brought descriptor heaps and other notable new extensions and the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone, Vulkan 1.4.342 was published this...

After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent

Silicon Valley’s power brokers spent the past year currying favor with President Trump. Two deadly shootings in Minneapolis are now exposing the price of that bargain.

How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car?

I’ve been thinking about used electric vehicles lately. It’s not news that EVs depreciate faster than gasoline-powered cars. All the incentives like tax credits and OEM...

Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge

The human brain is a vast network of billions of neurons. By exchanging signals to depress or excite each other, they generate patterns that ripple across...

AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities

From an Anthropic blog post: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with...

NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon

A consequential debate that has been simmering behind closed doors at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, must soon come to a head. It concerns the selection...

AMD EPYC 9755 Delivers Decisive Performance Leadership Over Xeon 6 Granite Rapids With Nearly 500 Benchmarks

Back in December I carried out some fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC 9755 for these competing 128 core server processors using...

The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman

Daniel Stenberg, the recipient of last year’s Award for Excellence in Open Source from the European Open Source Academy, presented that award to this year’s recipient:...

Why WhatsApp Migrated to Rust from C++ (And What It Fixed)

WhatsApp migrated 160,000 lines of C++ to Rust to eliminate memory-safety bugs. Here’s how compiler-level security changed its threat model. The post Why WhatsApp Migrated to...

Why the forward-deployed engineer is tech’s hottest job

Your LinkedIn is suddenly filled with posts and job ads for the forward-deployed engineer (FDE) role. What does that even mean? The term FDE was coined by...

Forget VMware and VirtualBox: This should be your new VM manager

For decades, I used VirtualBox for all my virtual machine (VM) needs. I could use it as a graphical user interface (GUI), or I could run...

Building Natural Seawalls To Fight Off The Rising Tide

These days, the conversation around climate change so often focuses on matters of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events. While they no longer dominate the discourse,...

What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More

Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear not because leading this issue of What’s !important is...

Tips from a 20-year developer veteran turned consultancy founder – Tapas Adhikary interview [Podcast #206]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Tapas Adhikari. He’s a software engineer who runs a firm of 20 developers who build projects for companies around the world. He’s...

Three stable kernel updates

The 6.18.8, 6.12.68, and 6.6.122 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (curl, gimp:2.8, glibc, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, osbuild-composer, php:8.3, python-urllib3, python3.11, and python3.12), Debian (chromium), Mageia (ceph, gpsd, libxml2, openjdk,...

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Linux’s ublk Adding Batch I/O Dispatch Capability For Greater Performance

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Building vertical microfrontends on Cloudflare’s platform

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How to Install PHP on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn how to install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 24.04 with Apache or Nginx. Includes PHP-FPM setup, common extensions, and installing other PHP versions.

‘Infinite Jest’ Is Back. Maybe Litbros Should Be, Too

The notoriously challenging book is being rereleased for its 30th anniversary. Its fandom is annoying, sure—but at least they read.

France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.

AerynOS Establishes Policy Against LLM Contributions, 2026.01 ISO Refresh

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The Download: US immigration agencies’ AI videos, and inside the Vitalism movement

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Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer

Over the last two years, my team at Work & Co and I have been testing out and gradually integrating AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor,...

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With impeccable accuracy and poise, Samsung’s midrange OLED dazzles on the little things.

Keychron Q16 HE 8K Review: A Ceramic Disappointment

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Rocket Report: How a 5-ton satellite fell off a booster; will SpaceX and xAI merge?

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Inside Nvidia’s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever

It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support. Samsung and Google have only recently decided to offer seven years of...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #282: Testing Python Code for Scalability & What’s New in pandas 3.0

How do you create automated tests to check your code for degraded performance as data sizes increase? What are the new features in pandas 3.0? Christopher...

Viome Full Body Intelligence Test Review: Little Clarity, Pricey Supplements

Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

NAD+ Supplement 101: Possible Benefits and Precautions Explained (2026)

What is NAD+? Here’s how it works in your body, why it matters, and if supplementation is worth the hype.

HigherDose Red Light Hat Review: Scalp Savior (2026)

Turns out, red light isn’t just for your face. HigherDose’s Red Light Hat has given me the best hair and scalp I’ve had in years.

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities

Even as Big Tech CEOs curry favor with President Trump, Silicon Valley employees are calling on their bosses to use their influence to help stop his...

Open-Source Nova Driver In Linux 7.0 Continues Preparing For NVIDIA Turing GPU Support

This week the Rust DRM changes intended for the Linux 7.0 merge window were sent out by Danilo Krummrich. The Apple Silicon Asahi Linux “AGX” DRM...

Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee

For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows that benefits for depression may be attributable...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Updated To Disable GuC Power DCC For Panther Lake

Queued up in DRM-Next for the Intel open-source graphics driver ahead of the Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is expanding GPU temperature sensor reporting, multi-device SVM prep,...

Intel Releases LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 With New LLM Model Support

Intel today released the LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 update with expanding the array of large language models that can run on Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards with this...

Rspack Releases Version 1.7: Final 1.x Update Before 2.0 Transition

Rspack 1.7 has launched, enhancing performance and plugin compatibility as it prepares for a major version transition. Key features include improved SWC plugin compatibility, native asset...

How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence

For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress of a group of individuals who believe death is humanity’s “core problem.” Put simply, they...

Presentation: WASM Components are a FaaS’ Best Friend

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How to Install MySQL on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn how to install, secure, and configure MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 24.04. Includes setting up root authentication, creating users, and enabling remote access.

Article: Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark

This article introduces a reinforcement learning (RL) approach grounded in Apache Spark that enables distributed computing systems to learn optimal configurations autonomously, much like an apprentice...

Podcast: The Technical Founder’s Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership with...

I’ve Tested 1,000+ Sex Toys. These 8 Are What I Always Recommend

With close to two decades of experience, these are the sex toys I have no trouble recommending to most people.

Systemd Creator Quits Microsoft to Form His Own Linux-focused Start Up

Based in Germany, the company is made up of open source veteran developers.

Bazzite Joins Open Gaming Collective: A New Era for Linux Gaming

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Microsoft Adds Custom Copilot Agents for .NET Developers with C# and WinForms Experts

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Anthropic Releases Updated Constitution for Claude

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Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in January 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here...

Proof Without Content

Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides

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Prioritization in product management is hardly about what metric takes precedence over the other. Of all the roles a product manager plays, one of the most...

Solar Supercapacitor Lamp Probably Won’t Get You Saved At Sea

Most solar lights are cheap garbage that exist just to put more microplastics into the environment as they degrade in short order. [Jeremy Cook] built his...

Friday Five — January 30, 2026

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A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.

Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally

Having a health insurance plan with a high deductible could not only cost you—it could also kill you. A new study in JAMA Network Open found...

US spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s...

Microsoft Working On Improved vCPU Scheduler Support For Hyper-V Linux VMs

Microsoft posted a patch series for introducing Hyper-V integrated scheduler support into the Linux kernel for enhancing vCPU scheduling behavior for virtual machines running within Microsoft’s...

People complaining about Windows 11 hasn’t stopped it from hitting 1 billion users

Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of...