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Ageism is squeezing everyone out of tech jobs

Tech companies are steering clear of both younger and older generations. The post Ageism is squeezing everyone out of tech jobs appeared first on LeadDev.

How to Install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 24.04

Learn three ways to install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 24.04: NodeSource repository, nvm, and default Ubuntu packages.

Aspire 13.1 Brings MCP Integration, CLI Enhancements, and Azure Deployment Updates

Aspire 13.1 has been released as an incremental update that builds on the polyglot platform foundation introduced with Aspire 13. The release focuses on improving developer...

December 2025 Baseline monthly digest

Read about various happenings with Baseline during December 2025.

Early Arthropods

Bike Spokes, Made of Rope

We know this one is a few years old, but unless you’re deep into the cycling scene, there’s a good chance this is the first time...

Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 19th, 2026, highlighting the first milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring...

Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases

While we wait to see what comes of the new X.Org Server Git branch plans and a possible X.Org Server 26.1 release, several X.Org libraries saw...

Hackaday Links: January 25, 2026

If predictions hold steady, nearly half of the United States will be covered in snow by the time this post goes live, with the Northeast potentially...

Otto Kekäläinen: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription offering for Ubuntu users who want to pay for the assurance of getting quick and high-quality security updates for Ubuntu. I...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

European organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital...

How DTCC uses GitOps to accelerate customer value and security

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Brian Cook, (director, Kubernetes site reliability engineer Kubernetes security posture management),...

End-to-end security for AI: Integrating AltaStata Storage with Red Hat OpenShift confidential containers

Confidential computing represents the next frontier in hybrid and multicloud security, offering hardware-level memory protection (data in use) through technologies such as AMD SEV and Intel...

SSH Cheatsheet

Quick reference for SSH commands and configuration

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7

The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So normally this would be the last rc of the release, but as I’ve mentioned every rc (because...

Add Custom Toggles to GNOME’s Quick Settings with this Extension

Add custom command and script toggles to GNOME Shell’s Quick Settings menu. Create up to 6 buttons to trigger any action you want, easily and in...

Linux 6.19-rc7 Released With Kernel Continuity Plan, A Few Important Fixes

The Linux 6.19 kernel remains on track for its official release two weeks from today, with the extra RC being baked in due to the end...

Balancing a Turbine Rotor to 1 mg With a DIY Dynamic Balancer

Although jet engines are theoretically quite simple devices, in reality they tread a fine line between working as intended and vaporizing into a cloud of lethal...

LACT 0.8.4 Brings Improved Overclocking UI For GPUs On Linux

In the absence of any official GUI control panel from AMD or Intel for their graphics cards on Linux, LACT remains a popular choice particularly for...

Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE

Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn’t trigger something like civil war.

Agentic AI meets integration: The next frontier

Artificial intelligence has already transformed the way organizations analyze data, predict outcomes, and generate content. The next leap forward is arriving fast. Enter agentic AI: Autonomous...

SSH over USB on a Raspberry Pi

Setting up access to a headless Raspberry Pi is one of those tasks that should take a few minutes, but for some reason always seems to...

Anton Gladky: Introducing v2/changelogs FTP-Master API

v2/changelogs – FTP-Master API released and how can it be used to track your uploads

Funding, AI and Politics Take Center Stage at FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM, Europe’s biggest open-source event returns to Brussels with keynotes on FOSS funding, AI security and digital sovereignty from January 31-February 1. You’re reading Funding, AI...

AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle

This week’s batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD changes queued up ahead of the next kernel merge window is focused on delivering a variety of driver fixes…

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE

It’s not surprising when the guy who’s been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns his ire towards...

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun

Federal officers line up outside as demonstrators protest outside of the Whipple Federal Building on January 17th, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests have ramped up around...

Not the Linux You Remember: 16 Every Day Tasks That No Longer Need the Terminal

It’s not that Linux became “GUI only”, but that the Linux desktop has become far more complete. The modern desktop we know today ships graphical tools...

The art of visual inspection: Spot the hidden story in your charts

You have a nice set of data, but how do you convey its meaning to an audience? In the latest of a series of free technology...

Trusting your phone to Abxylute’s mobile controller requires a big leap of faith

Turning your phone into a handheld with the M4 could be risky. As a retro gaming fan, I was thrilled when Apple opened its App Store...

This Unlikely Microsoft Prediction Might Just Hit The Mark

It’s fair to say that there are many people in our community who just love to dunk on Microsoft Windows. It’s an easy win, after all,...

What’s the right Linux desktop UI for you?

If you’ve never used Linux before and are considering it now, there’s one thing you’ll inevitably run into, and that’s choice. With Linux, you can choose...

Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking?

Americans do not like masked secret police. There is really no other way to put it. The reasons why are manifold: accountability, trust in law enforcement,...

Pebblebed Ventures’ AI tool analyzes 20 years of Linux bugs

Can we develop a better bug-finding tool by analyzing the Linux kernel’s last 20 years of commits using AI? In a recent blog post, security researcher...

Sony’s first clip earbuds don’t quite hit the mark

The Sony LinkBuds Clip can be customized with different colored covers for the case. The Sony LinkBuds Clip are the company’s first clip earbuds. They follow...

The great e-bike crackdown has begun

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

Enhancing A/B Testing at DoorDash with Multi-Armed Bandits

While experimentation is essential, traditional A/B testing can be excessively slow and expensive, according to DoorDash engineers Caixia Huang and Alex Weinstein. To address these limitations,...

Inside a Sketchy Mains Voltage Touch Control Dimmer

In [Big Clive]’s recent grab bag of tat ordered from Chinese commerce platforms, there were two touch light control boxes that can turn any ungrounded conductive...

A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10

A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far. But “a Star Trek podcast...

Phonak Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere Review: Premium Hearing Aids

This new prescription hearing aid has a special chip designed to improve hearing in noisy conditions.

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn’t...

How Long Should You Cold Plunge? We Asked Experts (2026)

You don’t need to Ernest Shackleton yourself to reap the benefits of cold plunging. A calm, controlled ice bath is key.

Linux Kernel Continuity Document Added: What Happens If Torvalds’ Git Repo Goes Away?

Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project’s continuity in the event...

Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are...

The Lego Pokémon Line Shows Toys Are Only for Rich Adults Now

Who cares about kids when adult collectors are willing to pay top dollar?

Bambu P1S Combo Review: Clean, Fast, 3D Printing

This is the easiest to use 3D printer I’ve ever tried.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Display Support & Old Adreno 225 Enablement For Linux 7.0

Rob Clark this week sent out the latest MSM DRM kernel driver updates for the latest Qualcomm display/graphics enhancements ahead of next month’s Linux 7.0 merge...

SVT-AV1 4.0 Released With More Performance Optimizations

SVT-AV1 4.0 is out as the newest major feature release for this open-source AV1 video encoder that was originally started by Intel as an open-source project...

The 10 Best Essential Oil Diffusers We’ve Tried in 2026 (and 2 to Avoid)

Keep things smelling fresh with these handy home gadgets. After researching and testing over a dozen devices, the Urpower Aroma is our favorite for most people.

Commodore 64 Helps Revive the BBS Days

Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many of them might seem completely foreign...

Two Missing Characters: How a Regex Flaw Exposed AWS GitHub Repos to Supply-Chain Risk

AWS recently published a security bulletin acknowledging a configuration issue affecting some popular AWS-managed open-source GitHub repositories. Dubbed CodeBreach, the critical vulnerability could have resulted in...

The day of the second killing

Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from The Minnesota Star...

GIMP 3.0.8 Released In Advance Of GIMP 3.2

While the GIMP 3.2 release is expected out soon, GIMP 3.0.8 is available tonight as what could end up being the last set of bug fixes...

The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti

Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaging the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches For Enabling Recent Adobe Photoshop Versions On Linux

Following yesterday’s release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that...

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part...

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

Wireless MIDI Controller Has Lots Of Knobs

We live in a golden age for MIDI controllers. [rheslip]’s contribution to the milieu is a twisty take on the format, in that it’s covered in...

The state of homelab tech (2026)

Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but...

Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers, in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery...

Port of Context: The open source code mode

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become a well-adopted standard for connecting large language model (LLM)-based AI agents with external data and tools. As a...

Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual...

MicroSD Express cards and Anker’s travel adapter rule the deal roost this week

Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of which...

Reviewing Tweezers for Microsoldering and SMD Work

Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together...

LLMs create a new blind spot in observability

Teams that have run Software as a Service (SaaS) products know the routine: An alert goes off, and everyone scrambles to the observability stack first. Metrics,...

Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken

Some Gmail users have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inbox. Reports have been hitting the...

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland

The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux...

DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System

There’s yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system…

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 is out today as this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation that is used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. This is the important...

loss32 is a Linux Distro Nobody Asked For (But Still Has Its Usage)

This sure sounds like a meme project, but there’s more to it!

Distributed apps platform Aspire supports JavaScript, Python

Aspire, Microsoft’s open source, cloud native development platform, now supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java as first-class citizens. “With Aspire 13, JavaScript and TypeScript developers get...

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was later pronounced dead. This...

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Powers Agentic Shopping

Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enhance commerce on AI-powered platforms. UCP creates a common language for agentic shopping,...

GNU C Library 2.43 released

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2() system calls, experimental support for building with the...

Gunnar Wolf: Finally some light for those who care about Debian on the Raspberry Pi

Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel! As I have said in this blog and elsewhere, after putting quite a bit of work into...

How Claude Cowork helps developers spread the AI knowledge

Last month, I reviewed Claude Desktop and noted that the simple addition of giving Model Context Protocol (MCP) permission to use one of your local folders...

Gaming’s most fun sales data is full of old and obscure games

Every month, Circana video game analyst Mat Piscatella posts fascinating data about video game sales on Bluesky, highlighting trends like November’s historically bad month for game...

Crazy Old Machines

Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made up of a...

Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

Of course ad agencies love AI commercials, this Kalshi ad only cost $2,000 to make. I’ll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads....

A Decade In The Making, Time Slice Extension Could Be Merged For Linux 7.0

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it looks like the time slice extension work could finally been merged, which has seen various attempts over the...

Set Up, Configure and Secure SSH on Debian 13 Linux in 30 Minutes

Learn how to install, configure, and secure SSH on Debian 13. Complete guide with SSH keys, firewall setup, and fail2ban protection. The post Set Up, Configure...

The Project G Stereo Was the Definition of Groovy

Dizzy Gillespie was a fan. Frank Sinatra bought one for himself and gave them to his Rat Pack friends. Hugh Hefner acquired one for the Playboy...

This coming-of-age adventure game made me feel a little too seen

There’s a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station‘s Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she’s recently moved to a place simply called “the City”...

Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers (2026)

Responsibly dispose of your food scraps with one of these indoor, (mostly) odor-free, WIRED-tested devices.

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here. By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating...

Get stuff done by yelling at your phone

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send hot...

What’s the Best Red Light Therapy Mask for Your Skin in 2026?

The LED devices we’d actually buy with our own money.

AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting...

A weird, itchy rash is linked to the keto diet—but no one knows why

A 20-year old man in Taiwan went to a dermatology clinic for a strange rash that had developed across his shoulders and chest. The raised, red,...

Isolated AC/DC Power Supply and Testing Station for 230 V Devices

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition. If such excitement is not really...

3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): WIRED-Tested and Approved

Most gaming laptops under $1,000 aren’t great, but these three machines stand out above the rest.

Best Portable Blenders of 2026: Ninja, Nutribullet, Beast

Cordless portable blenders have come a long way since their introduction a decade back. Here’s why the Ninja Blast Max smokes them all.

AMDGPU Driver Reverts Code For A Number Of Regressions On Linux 6.19

Merged on Friday as part of this week’s DRM kernel graphics driver fixes for the week is addressing a regression affecting many different users with the...

DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits

Plus: The FAA blocks drones over DHS operations, Microsoft admits it hands over Bitlocker encryption keys to the cops, and more.

GNOME’s AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool

Newlle as a virtual AI assistant for the GNOME desktop with API integration for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, and also local LLMs is out with a...

Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows

Plus: Asus exits the smartphone market, and Sony partners with TCL on TVs.

ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops

A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS...

Watch Party: The Best TAG in Years, a ’60s Sensation, and Omega Goes All White

It’s LVMH Watch Week, so here’s WIRED’s pick of the timepieces that made their debut—plus one notable gatecrasher.

Good News for Mobile App Developers: Skip Is Now Open Source

The tool gets rid of its subscription model and open-sources the engine.

This Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

Researchers have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only...

Environmental Monitoring on the Cheap

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power for such a project are a solved...

The Loch Capsule dishwasher is small, fast, and efficient — it even sanitizes gadgets

The Loch Capsule in a tiny house that lacks space for a built-in dishwasher. A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can’t live without. It’s...

Expired Oracle Patent Opens Fast Sorting Algorithm to Open Source Databases

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the...

TopResume Free Review, Discounts & Packages for 2026

Discover ways to save at TopResume, including their free review service and 4-week Career Services Platform trial.

Beer Keg Plumbing for a Liquid Rocket

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube channel “Project KegRocket”...

I (Briefly) Tried Proton Lumo's New AI Workspaces

The feline-faced AI assistant just got a neat upgrade. 🐱

KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different...

Polymer Skins That Change Color and Texture When Exposed to Water

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors that emerge when a polymer is exposed to...

Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google’s plan to “onboard kids” into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this...

This Mega Snowstorm Will Be a Test for the US Supply Chain

Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usual—if their safeguards hold.

Clearly Filtered Discount: Pitcher, Water Bottle, Under-Sink

Clearly Filtered water pitchers, bottles, and under-sink filters are 10 to 19 percent off. I tested three filters to see how they performed.

GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library “glibc” was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packed update...

How to Use the Singleton Design Pattern in Flutter: Lazy, Eager, and Factory Variations

In software engineering, sometimes you need only one instance of a class across your entire application. Creating multiple instances in such cases can lead to inconsistent...

How to Evaluate and Select the Right LLM for Your GenAI Application

Every day, we learn something new about generative AI applications – how they behave, where they shine, and where they fall short. As Large Language Models...

How to Implement Type Safe Unions in C# With OneOf

Have you ever needed a method to return different types depending on the situation? Perhaps a payment processor that returns different payment types, an order that...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic...

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo

The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in the Star Trek Universe

Spock befriends a giant space squid in the comic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #5. As usual, you can also use this...

TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes

If you’ve ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole or spent a pleasant evening digging through college library stacks, you know the joy of a good...

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group...

Wine 11.1 Released In Kicking Off The New Development Cycle

Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for...

Vercel’s json-render: A step toward generative UI

Vercel recently released a new open source tool called json-render that signals a step toward generative user interfaces (UI), a term Vercel coined for AI-generated web...

Demand for Intel’s processors is apparently there, but the supply is not

Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday, and the news both for the quarter and for the year was mixed: year-over-year revenue...

How to Prep for This Weekend’s Big Winter Storm: Power, Heat, and Underwear

Bitter cold, power outages, and impassible roads are a terrible cocktail. Here’s how to prep and bunker in for an extreme winter storm.

DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has backed down from a fight to unmask the owners of Instagram and Facebook accounts monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun

Daniel Stenberg says the inflow of AI slop has become unsustainable for the curl security team to handle.

Our Favorite Earbuds for Most People Are Over 25 Percent Off

These excellent earbuds were already a good deal before the discount.

What TikTok’s new owners mean for your feed

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd, ByteDance – TikTok’s Chinese...

How to Work with PDF Files in Python: A PyPDF Guide

PDF files are everywhere. They’re used for reports, invoices, bank statements, research papers, and legal documents. While PDFs are easy to read for humans, they’re not...

CNCF: Kubernetes is ‘foundational’ infrastructure for AI

The latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Annual Cloud Native Survey has been released, and with “82% of container users running Kubernetes in production, cloud native has...

Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops

Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo...

White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says “the memes will continue”

The Trump White House yesterday posted a manipulated photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota civil rights attorney who was arrested after protesting in a church...

Telly’s “free” ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they’re actually delivered

Telly, a company that accepts advertising data instead of cash for its TVs, has reportedly had a hard time getting its “free” TVs into people’s homes....

Wired to Wireless: ESP32 Gives Your USB Keyboard Bluetooth

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly wired, which can limit where you...

Casio teased a retro gaming-inspired sampler

Casio SX-C1 sampler prototype on display at NAMM. Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the...

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera....

From data to dollars: AI’s role in the modern GTM stack

The discussion around AI often focuses on content creation, software development and financial management. However, one of the business processes being transformed fastest is the go-to-market...

Ramp Builds Internal Coding Agent That Powers 30% of Engineering Pull Requests

Ramp has shared the architecture of Inspect. This internal coding agent has quickly reached about 30% adoption for merged pull requests in the company’s frontend and...

2026.04: Netflix, Luka, and Life in La La Land

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

Tonearm, New Unofficial TIDAL Client for Linux, Hits Beta

Tonearm is a new GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL client that delivers what the streaming service itself doesn’t: a native Linux app with solid desktop integration – albeit unofficially,...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 354: Firearms, Sky Driving, and Dumpster Diving

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams took a break to talk about their favorite hacks last week. You can drop in to hear about articulated...

TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks

The TikTok deal is done, and Donald Trump is claiming a win, although it remains unclear if the joint venture he arranged with ByteDance and the...

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too?

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...

CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other...

Kubernetes 1.35 features that change Day 2 operations

Kubernetes continues to evolve and mature as the most preferred orchestration platform for containerized applications and microservices. Kubernetes 1.35, the most recent version, released in mid-December...

Video Friday: Humans and Robots Team Up in Battlefield Triage

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...

Linux 6.19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions

Queued into tip/tip.git’s “sched/urgent” Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler’s NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge...

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

Love it or hate it, Tesla has been responsible for helping to shape the tastes of automotive consumers over the past decade-plus. Over-the-air updates that add more...

Marshall’s new hub connects to multiple Bluetooth speakers without pairing

The Heddon hub simplifies streaming audio to multiple speakers. | Image: Marshall Marshall has announced a new music streaming hub called the Heddon that can broadcast...

Not An April Fool's Joke, You Can Run Linux and Windows on This Android Smartphone

This $549 rugged smartphone runs Android 16, launches Debian Linux as an app, and dual-boots Windows 11.

Today only, you can buy the AirPods Pro 3 for less than $200 

The AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s best noise-canceling earbuds. If you’re considering gifting the AirPods Pro 3 for Valentine’s Day, now’s a great time to pick...

Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit

A new VS Code exploit can rewrite AI agents across all code repositories, an application security specialist demonstrated Thursday. On Wednesday, the SANS Technology Institute reported...

The Defunct Scooter Company, and the Default Key

Äike were an Estonian scooter company, which sadly went bust last year. [Rasmus Moorats] has one, and since the app and cloud service the scooter depends...

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more...

VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains

Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM...

Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea

Every week, more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT for health and wellness advice, according to OpenAI. The company says that many see the chatbot as...

More security tools are slowing down your incident response

Time plays a crucial role in an organization’s defense posture, including the timestamping of events, whether they occurred during business or non-business hours, context, such as...

VoidZero Announces Oxfmt Alpha with Rust-Powered Performance and Prettier Compatibility

VoidZero has unveiled Oxfmt, a cutting-edge Rust-based code formatter that offers over 30x faster performance than Prettier for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Compatible with existing Prettier...

Why this winter storm will likely be a wild one

Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power...

The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.

[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As...

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

Nearly three years ago, a particle from space slammed into the Mediterranean Sea and lit up the partially complete Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) detector off...

The end of the Sony era in TVs

There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the...

Presentation: Kraken’s Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green

Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources. He discusses an architectural blueprint leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB...

Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More

In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap “VK_EXT_descriptor_heap” extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group’s Vulkan Working...

Anbernic’s next wireless controller adds a screen and heart rate monitoring

The RG G01’s screen is potentially far more useful than its pulse sensor. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has announced its second wireless controller through a teaser...

Size (and Units) Really Do Matter

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to successfully use a...

Context is AI coding’s real bottleneck in 2026

Walk into any engineering leadership meeting today, and someone will question whether AI-generated code is secure or whether agents can be trusted in production. These are...

How to stay curious as a dev in the AI hype era with Sumit Saha [Podcast #205]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Sumit Saha, a software engineer and prolific teacher on YouTube. Sumit is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he runs a developer agency...

DoorDash Applies AI to Safety Across Chat and Calls, Cutting Incidents by 50%

DoorDash deploys SafeChat, an AI-driven safety system for moderating chat, images, and voice calls between Dashers and customers. Using a layered text moderation architecture, machine learning...

Best Action Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.

Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

Five years ago I published an article on how to create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes. It was the only technique that didn’t require media...

Rocket Report: Chinese rockets fail twice in 12 hours; Rocket Lab reports setback

Welcome to Edition 8.26 of the Rocket Report! The past week has been one of advancements and setbacks in the rocket business. NASA rolled the massive...

AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support

AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs...

GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the Guix daemon without...

Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms

Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies...

Two new stable kernels for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

The year of AI: 3 critical shifts coming to regulated industries

Enterprises in highly regulated industries spent 2025 rigorously evaluating AI capabilities, conducting proofs of concepts, and distinguishing genuine value from market noise. Through systematic testing and...

The Best Paper Notebooks and Journals, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Leuchttherm, Midori, Field Notes

Celebrate National Handwriting Day (I did not make that up) with new notebooks, a journal, or sketchbooks.

This month at Tailscale for January 2026

What’s new in Tailscale clients this month, including changes to containers, workload identity federation, and our GitHub Action.

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

On January 22, 2026, an automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefixes unintentionally from a router at our...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (bind9, chromium, osslsigncode, and python-urllib3), Fedora (freerdp, ghostscript, hcloud, rclone, rust-rkyv0.7, rust-rkyv_derive0.7, and vsftpd), Mageia (avahi and...

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel

GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with...

Linux Lands Fix For Its “Subtly Wrong” Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years

Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling...

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

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. “Dr. Google” had its...

Docker logs got you down? Give this tool a try

One of the more challenging aspects of using Docker containers is troubleshooting. Unless you are a master of the art, just the mere act of finding...

Open Props @custom-media Recipes

The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn’t find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle’s on the beat noting that it’s behind...

Lenovo LOQ 15 Review: The Best Gaming Laptop Under $1,000

It’s rare to find a gaming laptop under $1,000 without any major compromises, but the Lenovo LOQ 15 surprises.

How to Generate SSH Keys on Linux

Learn how to generate SSH keys on Linux using ssh-keygen, copy them to remote servers, and set up passwordless authentication.

Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Review: The Most Beautiful, Best Robot Vacuum

Roborock hasn’t updated its popular, affordable Qrevo Curv line of robovacs for years. Finally, it’s happening!

AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities

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

Embedded TPM: Watch Out!

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having a recent TPM to even...

2026 Lucid Air Touring review: This feels like a complete car now

Life as a startup carmaker is hard—just ask Lucid Motors. When we met the brand and its prototype Lucid Air sedan in 2017, the company planned...

This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny island...

OpenCost Looks Back on 2025 Milestones and Charts a Roadmap for 2026

The OpenCost project, an open-source cost and resource management tool hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has published a year-in-review reflecting on its progress...

No, the Freecash App Won’t Pay You to Scroll TikTok

Freecash will actually pay money out to users but not for watching videos. This misleading marketing coincides with the app’s rising popularity.

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #281: Continuing to Improve the Learning Experience at Real Python

If you haven’t visited the Real Python website lately, then it’s time to check out a great batch of updates on realpython.com! Dan Bader returns to...

We Are Rewind GB-001 Cassette Boombox: Old-School Stylish

We Are Rewind’s speaker/cassette player combo is an imperfect but satisfying reissue of a bygone audio era.

Zlib-rs 0.6 Released With Improved AVX-512 Support

Zlib-rs is the effort out of the Trifecta Tech Foundation to provide a Zlib compression implementation written in the Rust programming language that can serve as...

Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions

Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions...