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The Chevrolet Bolt is back… but for how long?

The new Chevrolet Equinox EV is a solid entry into the compact crossover market, and with a (just) sub-$35,000 starting price, it also counts as affordable...

New research shows how shunning ultraprocessed foods helps with aging

Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet—and this shift leads to improvements across several key...

NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle

Two historic NASA test facilities used in the development of the Saturn V and space shuttle launch vehicles have been demolished after towering over the Marshall...

Minimal Ubuntu Pro: lean images backed by enterprise-grade security

Deploy Minimal Ubuntu Pro across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The security landscape is growing continually in complexity. Whatever industry you work in, your organization has...

Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions

We’re used to thinking of the brain as an electric organ. The rest of the body? Not so much. But it would be a mistake to...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppAnnoy 0.0.23 on CRAN: Several Updates

A new release, now at version 0.0.22, of RcppAnnoy has arrived on CRAN, just a little short of two years since the previous release. RcppAnnoy is...

Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025

Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in November 2025. So, rather than offering another one, I...

Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support

Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux...

Intel Releases Open3D 0.19 With Experimental Cross-Platform GPU Support Using SYCL

Not to be confused with the Open 3D game engine, Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and wget2), Mageia...

New Mobile SDK Brings Low-Code Development to On-Device AI

One of the big AI development trends of last year was the shift to on-device inference, in many cases using so-called small language models (SLMs). Google...

Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane

On a blustery November day, a Cessna turboprop flew over Pennsylvania at 5,000 meters, in crosswinds of up to 70 knots—nearly as fast as the little...

Python’s deque: Implement Efficient Queues and Stacks

You can use Python’s deque for efficient appends and pops at both ends of a sequence-like data type. These capabilities are critical when you need to...

Mitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim

Emissions from air freight have increased by 25% since 2019, according to a 2024 analysis by environmental advocacy organization Stand.Earth. The researchers found that the expansion...

auto-cpufreq v3.0.0 Released: Turbo Boost Overrides and Smarter CPU Control

auto-cpufreq v3.0.0 introduces turbo boost overrides, improved CPU frequency detection, and better battery handling for Linux laptops. The post auto-cpufreq v3.0.0 Released: Turbo Boost Overrides and...

Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler

Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler “IGC” 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P hardware…

The Download: introducing this year’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies

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. Introducing this year’s 10...

LLMinus Working On AI/LLM-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution For The Linux Kernel

Building off an initial request for comments (RFC) patch series posted during the winter holidays, an updated RFC patch series was posted this weekend for LLMinus....

Presentation: Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild

Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO challenges. Drawing from real-world Netflix projects, he discusses...

Securing digital assets as crypto crime surges

In February 2025, cyberattackers thought to be linked to North Korea executed a sophisticated supply chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. By targeting its infrastructure and...

Daniel Lange: Resizing Xterm fonts with Ctrl+ and Ctrl+

Xterm misses the convenient option to resize the fonts with Ctrl+<plus> and Ctrl+<minus> like xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal do out of the box. This feature can be...

Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations

Fascinating research: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs. AbstractLLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much...

Best Travel Cameras (2026), Tested and Reviewed

We’ve found the best travel cameras—from point-and-shoot to full-frame—to help you bring home the perfect vacation photos.

10 Best Pet Cameras (2026), Tested With Our Pets

Whether you’re near or far, keep an eye on your fur baby with our favorite pet cameras.

The most fascinating monitors at CES 2026

CES 2026 took place in Las Vegas last week, and as usual, we’re looking at the most interesting monitors from the show. Not every display is...

LLVM Clang Adds Support For “Ampere1C” CPUs – Presumably AmpereOne Aurora

The LLVM/Clang compiler today introduced support for the Ampere Computing Ampere1C CPU core target…

The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station

For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s about to change in the coming...

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

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Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out

Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the...

Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux

Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 released this weekend as the newest version of this Linux user-space tool to help you extend your laptop battery life by automatically applying CPU...

Article: Spec Driven Development: When Architecture Becomes Executable

Spec-Driven Development inverts traditional architecture by making specifications executable and authoritative. It transforms declared intent into validated code through AI generation and provides architectural determinism. It...

Podcast: Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and...

Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro

Dear Apple, I was, given my interest in virtual and augmented reality, already primed to have a high degree of interest in the Vision Pro, but...

Hyte X50 PC Case Review: Computers Should Be Cute

Hyte’s rounded glass case brings a fun, bubbly aesthetic to your desk.

Good technology should change the world

The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That quip originally appeared in...

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which...

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons. Those bump into other atoms, splitting them and...

Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit

With Budgie 10.10 released this weekend, Budgie desktop developers have provided an update around Budgie 11 desktop development…

BTW, Arch Users! Pacman Might Be Getting a Rust Replacement

The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman’s replacement.

AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support

AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3...

UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026

As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year...

Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior

Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and...

Is “agent-shoring” the end of software offshoring?

The days of offshoring software development could be numbered The post Is “agent-shoring” the end of software offshoring? appeared first on LeadDev.

Cloudflare Scales Infrastructure as Code with Shift-Left Security Practices

Cloudflare has eliminated manual configuration errors across hundreds of production accounts by implementing Infrastructure as Code with automated policy enforcement, processing approximately 30 merge requests daily...

Software Policies Can Fuel Waste

A photo posted to Reddit and followup media coverage about computers being discarded in large amounts due to software policies should ignite public concern on the...

FACTS Benchmark Suite Introduced to Evaluate Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models

A new industry benchmark aimed at systematically evaluating the factual accuracy of LLMs has been released with the launch of the FACTS Benchmark Suite. Developed by...

Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance

This four-week consultation on open source software tackles the cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and automotive sectors.

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes

In addition to Linus Torvalds doing some vibe coding and more with his new “AudioNoise” project this week, Linux 6.19 kernel development ticked back up with...

Design of Common Emitter Amplifier

It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come...

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor: AI as a Compression Problem

A recent article in The Atlantic makes the case that very large language models effectively contain much of the works they’re trained on. This article is...

Taking a Look at Variable Vacuum Capacitors

Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of...

Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK

This week’s Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and...

Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living...

Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale.

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no...

Manage clusters and applications at scale with Argo CD Agent on Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

The Argo CD Agent is now Generally Available with the release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19. Organizations using Kubernetes and OpenShift have widely adopted the...

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is FedRAMP High Authorized

After much anticipation, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is now authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls...

Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale.

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no...

Bash Cheatsheet

Quick reference for Bash shell scripting

Patryk Cisek: Choosing Secrets Manager for Homelab

Secrets Manager for Homelab For a few years, I’ve been managing the configuration of a bunch of self-hosted services using Ansible Playbooks. Each playbook needed at...

You need to listen to Billy Woods’ horrorcore masterpiece for the A24 crowd

Billy Woods has one of the highest batting averages in the game. Between his solo records like Hiding Places and Maps, and his collaborative albums with...

Latest Linux 6.19 Code Fixes Rust Binder Driver, Adds Intel Nova Lake Point S To MEI

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.19-rc5 release, the char/misc pull request was merged earlier today with a notable fix to the Rust Binder driver as well...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RApiDatetime 0.0.10 on CRAN: Maintenance

A new maintenance release of our RApiDatetime package is now on CRAN, coming just about two years after the previous maintenance release. RApiDatetime provides a number...

The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out

The 2026 edition of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 4-6 in Zagreb, Croatia. The call for proposals has gone...

EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM machine!

EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.25 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization...

That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda

In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the...

Linux Consulting Firm Linutronix Recently Began A New Chapter

Some news that slipped under the radar prior to the holidays… Linutronix as the Linux consulting firm that has led the real-time “PREEMPT_RT” work and more...

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to...

Here are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions

It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation....

When To Use GenAI: A Practical Decision Framework

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities evolve, software architects and developers face critical decisions about when to use GenAI-based solutions versus traditional programming approaches. A systematic,...

A New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass

At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in...

Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails

If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue....

GameStop is kicking off 2026 by shutting down over 400 stores in 42 states

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion market cap....

Four stable kernel updates

The 6.18.5, 6.12.65, 6.6.120, and 6.1.160 stable updates have been released. They all contain a small patch set fixing a scheduling regression associated with idle balancing;...

Even Linux Creator Linus Torvalds is Using AI to Code in 2026

Linus Torvalds is working on a new side project and he is not hesitating to take the help of AI.

Google’s AI Inbox could be a glimpse of Gmail’s future

This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emails with an AI-generated list of to-dos and topics...

The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU)....

The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need

Agent builders are finding that sometimes the easiest way for an agent to do its job is to simply give it a few Unix tools and...

Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more...

AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit

AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The...

How TiVo killed live TV

For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became...

Python: What’s Coming in 2026

If 2025 was “the year of type checking and language server protocols” for Python, will 2026 be the year of the type server protocol? “Transformative” developments...

Chilean Telescope Array Gets 145 New Powerful Amplifiers

For decades, scientists have observed the cosmos with radio antennas to visualize the dark, distant regions of the universe. This includes the gas and dust of...

I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint

Not every phone needs to be a black rectangle. It’s January, which means there’s a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before...

Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inaction) of lawmakers seeking...

16 Best Heat Protectant Sprays for Wet and Dry Hair (2026)

I’ve spent almost a year testing dozens of heat protectants for hair. Whether you’re blow-drying, curling, or straightening, these are the best formulas I’ve found.

The oceans just keep getting hotter

Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In...

The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection

[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device...

Bluesound Pulse Cinema Review: A Pretty Sonos Alternative

This is a promising stand-alone Dolby Atmos soundbar for music fans, but it still needs a few software tweaks.

Linux Lands Safeguard For RISC-V Against Another Microarchitectural Attack Vector

Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren’t magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent...

Sony A7V Review: The Best Overall Mirrorless Camera

Sony’s latest full frame mirrorless is a hybrid powerhouse with features to impress both video and still photographers.

GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored

A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an “exploratory phase” is GYESME that describes itself as a “design-led” downstream of GNOME...

Why is Everyone Talking About Window Tiling in 2026?

The Linux desktop has been perfecting window tiling while everyone else forgot about it until recently.

Linus Torvalds’ Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise – Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding

In addition to Linus Torvalds’ recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over...

Want to Stop Doomscrolling? You Might Need a Sleep Coach

Traditionally sleep coaches treat babies. But now more and more anxious, screen-attached grownups are the ones who need nursing.

Best Side-Sleeper Mattresses 2026: Picked by a Sleep Science Coach

We’ve tested hundreds of the top hybrid, memory foam, and cooling mattresses to find the best combination of support and pressure relief.

The Danger of Reducing America’s Venezuela Invasion to a 60-Second Video

January 3 marked the return of US military intervention in Latin America. While the events unfolded between Caracas and Brooklyn, social networks had already fabricated their...

Reverse-Engineering the Tamagotchi IR Connection

The Tamagotchi Connection is a series of Tamagotchi toys that took the original portable pet concept and mixed things up with a wireless connection, which allowed...

Russell Coker: Terminal Emulator Security

I just read this informative article on ANSI terminal security [1]. The author has written a tool named vt-houdini for testing for these issues [2]. They...

ESP with EEG — No, Not That ESP!

While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read EEG data and use...

A 1990s VNA Gets An LCD

A Vector Network Analyser, or VNA, is the ultimate multi-tool of RF test equipment. They can now be had in not very capable form for almost...

Otto Kekäläinen: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done....

Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week

In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that...

These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026

A giant version of Lockin’s wirelessly charged V7 smart lock was a showstopper on the CES show floor. I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s...

The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites

The FCC approved SpaceX’s plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have...

Simplifying the SmartKnob

A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC motor for programmable haptic response. It...

Inside the Development Workflow of Claude Code’s Creator

Claude Code’s creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompting, and rigorously verifying...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.1.1 on CRAN: Many Improvements in Semi-Annual Update

Team Rcpp is thrilled to share that an exciting new version 1.1.1 of Rcpp is now on CRAN (and also uploaded to Debian and already built...

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland

The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project’s transition from X11 to Wayland…

Build Cheaper, Safer, Auditable AI with SLMs and RAG

Enterprises experimenting with large language models (LLMs) often encounter the same challenges once pilot projects move into production. Infrastructure costs escalate rapidly, response times become unpredictable...

Multi-material Parts the Easy Way

You have a part that needs different colors or different material properties — with a multi-color 3D printer, no problem. You can also laboriously switch filaments...

Matthias Geiger: Building a propagation box for oyster mushrooms

Inspiration In November I watched a short documentary about a guy who grew pearl oyster mushrooms in his backyard. They used pallet boxes (half of a...

Scarlett Gately Moore: I love KDE too much to retire! Snap beta releases trickling in. Stay tuned.

A short but sweet note to say I am coming out of my short retirement to help with snaps again. My time is extremely limited, however...

Amazfit’s Active 2 tracker and Blu-rays are this week’s best deals

The start of the year is typically a great time to snag deals on health and fitness gear, including trackers and wireless earbuds, and this week...

Beyond Python: Why LLMs Need More Stable, Open Source Code

In the future dreams of Large Language Models, there will be no need for human intervention and they will write code in a highly efficient form...

I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape Pro looks like the perfect one

Put this ball under your board. Keychron announced new mechanical keyboards with marathon battery life at CES, but this trackball stole the spotlight. The Nape Pro...

Mageia 10 Alpha Released – 32-bit ISOs Still Available

The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake...

Manjaro Is Arch Linux for Newbies

You’ve may have heard that Arch Linux isn’t exactly the easiest Linux distribution to install or use. What if I told you that there’s a distribution...

For the Fun of It

I was off at the Chaos Communication Congress last weekend, and one of the big attractions for one who is nerdily inclined is seeing all of...

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

Is this… bliss? | Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and...

We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes. LG introduced CLOiD, a household robot it says can...

Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes

Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie…

Linux Working Around Audio Problems On The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X

For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround...

38 Bash Tips: Essential Shell Features and Shortcuts (38th Birthday Edition)

Bash turns 38! Learn 38 built-in shell features and tips: keyboard shortcuts, history tricks, parameter expansion, conditionals & arrays. The post 38 Bash Tips: Essential Shell...

4 Questions To Help You Translate AI Theory Into Practice

“AI for the Enterprise: The Playbook for Developing and Scaling Your AI Strategy” is a new ebook I wrote for The New Stack with sponsorship from...

Nvidia’s New Rubin Architecture Thrives on Networking

Earlier this week, Nvidia surprise-announced their new Vera Rubin architecture (no relation to the recently unveiled telescope) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The...

What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to...

The Playdate gets its Monument Valley

Diora might be the most ambitious game I’ve played on the Playdate. It’s all about perspective: You turn the handheld’s crank to rotate your viewpoint of...

Postman Adds Open Source Documentation and SDK Products

The API platform Postman announced Thursday it has acquired Fern, a developer experience company that helps developers ship API documentation and build software development kits (SDKs)....

The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you had...

NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools Across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several...

Best Deals for New Year’s Resolutions: Sleep, Fitness, and More (2026)

Whether you’re hitting the gym or tracking your schedule, these discounts on WIRED-approved gear can help.

ollama 0.14 Can Make Use Of Bash For Letting AI/LLMs Run Commands On Your System

The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run –experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop...

Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds

Alice Ryhl of Google has been working on an improvement to the Linux kernel code for inlining C helpers into Rust when making use of a...

Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

As age-verification laws continue to dismantle the adult industry—and determine the future of free speech on the internet—a Utah lawmaker proposed a bill this week that...

Texas Instruments Explain Low-Dropout Linear Voltage Regulators

Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators. For a hacker, power is pretty...

Fujifilm X-E5 Mirrorless Camera Review: Compact Color Science in a Retro Package

Did you want the TikTok-popular X100VI, but with an interchangeable lens? The Fujifilm X-E5 has you covered.

The 50 Best Movies on Netflix, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway, Frankenstein, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery are just a few of the movies you...

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.

Shokz OpenFit Pro Review: ANC on Open Earbuds?

True ANC on a set of open-ear earbuds would be a game changer. Shokz’s OpenFit Pro give us a taste of what that might be like.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme

With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma, there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the...

12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds

These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.

ZLUDA Adds CUDA 13.1 Compatibility For Running CUDA Apps On Non-NVIDIA Hardware

The current incarnation of ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA...

Where Are All the New Cars?

New cars were scant at CES this year, largely because the center of gravity for the auto world has moved—technologically and geographically—to China.

MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data From MongoDB’s Heap Memory

MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated...

Total Wireless Promo Codes & Deals: 50% Off Select Plans

Find great deals for Total Wireless, like 50% off select plans, and enjoy big savings.

BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached

Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is...

KitchenAid Promo Code: 50% Off This Month

Save on every purchase with top KitchenAid coupons from WIRED, including up to 50% off select countertop appliances.

The Open Source Diary App for Android That Organizes Your Life on a Timeline

A well-designed diary app that keeps your data private, works offline, and respects your freedom.

Math Breakthrough Helps Your Feng Shui

In 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move through a 1-meter corridor with...

AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software

Hitting the “1.0” milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant...

Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message

Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your...

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential...

Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

On her blog, Julia Evans writes about improving Git documentation, including a new data model man page she wrote with Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, and updates to...

SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

SpaceX today received US permission to launch another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, bringing its total authorization to 15,000 Gen2 satellites including those previously approved. “Under this...

How to Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents

Most AI tools require you to send your prompts and files to third-party servers. That’s a non-starter if your data includes private journals, research notes, or...

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

ESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket

It took a while, but a consensus has emerged in Europe that the continent’s space industry needs to develop reusable rockets. How to do it and...

Bose SoundTouch Smart Speakers get an Open Source Lifeline

After initially announcing that Bose will completely turn off all ‘smart’ features in its SoundTouch series of speaker products, the company has seemingly responded to the...

Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago

Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the...

TrueNAS WebShare: ZFS-Backed, Enterprise-Grade File Sharing From The Web Browser

For situations where Samba (SMB) or NFS usage aren’t appropriate or desiring the convenience of accessing files from a web browser on any device, TrueNAS is...

X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns

X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing,...

This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhone near you

The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot. One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies’ lack...

AI is coming for collectibles next

Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at...

How to Build a Local-First CLI Financial Tracker with Rust [Full Handbook]

Most financial apps store your sensitive data on remote servers. This requires you to trust a company with your records and rely on their service staying...

Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday

A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October continues to rage, with the state health department reporting Friday that nearly 100 new cases have...

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Is Discounted on Amazon

The Samsung Galaxy Watch8 gets marked down across a variety of colors, sizes, and feature sets.

Friday Squid Blogging: The Chinese Squid-Fishing Fleet off the Argentine Coast

The latest article on this topic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...

Solawave Wand Fans: Don’t Miss This Buy One, Get One Free Sale

Double up on LED therapy, because sharing is caring.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been...

Wine 11.0-rc5 Brings 32 Bug Fixes

With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes...

Seeing Sound with a Laser

You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what [Goosetopherson] thought about, and thus a new project...

Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo

Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.

This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it even more potential

The “Lego Ruler”. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026,...

Did you know that Gmail has emoji reactions?

Google rolled out emoji reactions to personal Gmail accounts a little over two years ago, and I completely forgot about it until now – probably because...

Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City

On Thursday evening in Manhattan’s Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after an agent fatally shot...

Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to...

The Hidden Cost Killing Your Innovation Strategy

In today’s AI rush, I’ve seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons of DevOps and DevSecOps into AI...

A UI-Focused Display Library For The ESP32

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a display library...

How to Build an In-Memory Rate Limiter in Next.js

An API rate limiter is a server-side component of a web service that limits the number of API requests a client can make to an endpoint...

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced...

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of nonconsensual...

The One Mistake That Weakens Every AI-Generated App

If you’ve ever built more than a quick prototype with AI tools like Lovable or Replit, you’ve likely felt the friction that comes with extending the...

Sena Kizildemir Simulates Disasters to Prevent Building Collapses

When two airplanes hit the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001, no one could predict how the Twin Towers would react...

US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

Collecting fallen (or “shed”) elk antlers is a popular pastime in elk-heavy places like Montana, but it’s usually a pretty low-tech, on-the-ground affair. That’s why last...

Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times,...

Open Source Retrieval Infrastructure Can Fix AI’s Production Gap

While big models captured all the early glory with their larger context windows, greater parameters and more power, the reality on the ground for many enterprise...

Video Friday: Robots Are Everywhere at CES 2026

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...

2026.02: AI Power, Now and In 100 Years

(@bscholl) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle;...

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on...

Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect...

Tailwind Creator Says AI Played a Role in Downsizing

Tailwind CSS, the popular CSS framework, laid off three engineers — 75% of its engineering team — on Monday. In a personal podcast posted to the...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog

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

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective...

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Once again, people are taking Grok at its word, treating the chatbot as a company spokesperson without questioning what it says. On Friday morning, many outlets...

Simon Josefsson: Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian

One of my holiday projects was to understand and gain more trust in how Debian binaries are built, and as the holidays are coming to an...

AMD Enabling New GFX12.1 & More RDNA 3.5 Hardware Blocks With Linux 6.20~7.0

AMD today sent out their latest pull request to DRM-Next of new AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes they are looking to get into the next kernel cycle,...

Free Dockhand Tool Simplifies Docker Container Management

Do you have too many Docker containers running? A quick check of my home lab and on just a single server, I have 10 running Docker...

Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.