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A bite-sized adventure that puts a wrench into the classic Zelda formula

There are a lot of games that try to emulate The Legend of Zelda, but few that manage to capture that spirit in such a small,...

OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban

I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments. And not just the headlines, but...

The WIRED Guide to Wires: How to Manage the Mess of Cables Around Your Desk

You need to sort out that rat’s nest of cables under your desk. These cable management tips and products can help you do it.

Apple’s cheap laptop looks like a winner

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 118, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please take my...

AWS Introduces Nested Virtualization on EC2 Instances

AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables...

A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3....

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.26 on CRAN: More Maintenance

A new maintenance release 0.4.26 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization...

FreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option

The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE...

DIY 3D Pen is Born To Weld

Depending who you ask, 3D pens are silly toys or handy tools. Those who use them as tools find them handy to fill gaps in printed...

The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars for a fraction of the cost

When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It...

The Best MIDI Controllers for Synths, Guitars, and More (2026)

Want to digitally control your favorite instruments? These tools will help.

New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft’s .NET MAUI

Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft’s .NET MAUI…

3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 “Turin” Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working...

Resources For GNOME Adds Intel Xe GPU Power Usage & Intel NPU Frequency Reporting

Resources, the modern GNOME GTK4/libadwaita-based GUI application for system resource monitoring and an alternative to GNOME System Monitor, is out with a new update. Resources 1.10.2...

From Iran to Ukraine, everyone’s trying to hack security cameras

For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer...

Best Mid Layer for Hiking, Backpacking, and Travel (2026)

Should you get a high-tech jacket like a grid fleece, or stick with tried and true merino wool? We found the warmest, lightest mid layers for...

CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations

Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more.

How Each Gulf Country Is Intercepting Iranian Missiles and Drones

As missiles and drones cross the region’s skies, the Gulf’s layered air-defense networks—from THAAD to Patriot batteries—are being tested in real time.

Standardizing Post-Quantum IPsec: Cloudflare Adopts Hybrid ML-KEM to Replace Ciphersuite Bloat

Cloudflare has extended hybrid post-quantum encryption to IPsec and WAN traffic, standardizing its SASE stack ahead of the NIST 2030 deadline. By adopting a streamlined ML-KEM...

How to Avoid Getting Locked Out of Your Google Account

Make a recovery plan now to avoid losing access to your account in the future.

Steinar H. Gunderson: A286874(14) = 28

There’s a logic puzzle that goes like this: A king has a thousand bottles of wine, where he knows that one is poisoned. He also has...

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults

Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and...

wc Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core wc command forms. Command Description wc file.txt Show lines, words, and bytes for a file wc file1 file2 Show counts per file...

Remotely Unlocking an Encrypted Hard Disk

Can you remotely unlock an encrypted hard disk? [Jyn] needed to unlock their home server after it rebooted even if they weren’t home. Normally, they used...

Get Gmail alerts on Ubuntu without a dedicated mail client

Pigeon Email Notifier is a GNOME Shell extension that does one thing: show a desktop notification when new mail arrives in your Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or IMAP...

How an Old Automatic Stoker was Hacked Onto a Modern Lancashire Boiler

Usage of an automatic stoker. (Source: Claymills Pumping Station, YouTube) Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its...

DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs

The DJI Romo robot vacuums. | Image: DJI On Valentine’s Day, I brought you a story that’s since made headlines all around the world: How one...

KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week

Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were...

This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work

Deveillance’s Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would...

Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026

A blog post from Valve on Friday initially seemed to throw cold water on the idea that the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller would...

Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran’s attacks on US bases

Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the...

Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements

Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games...

Marley Spoon Meal Kit Review 2026: Less Martha, More Moroccan

Marley Spoon has stripped Martha Stewart from its website and seems to be cooking a little differently. Here’s a review.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Byzantine Monk Cooking

This is a very weird story about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules. At Constantinople’s...

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean—and...

72 ‘Buy It for Life’ Products: Cast-Iron, Tools, Speakers, Chairs, and More

From cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we’ve rounded up products that are made to last for decades.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Grammarly’s “expert review” feature offers to give users writing advice “inspired by” subject matter experts, including recently deceased professors, as Wired reported on Wednesday. When I...

OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding

Everybody is building AI agents. But the enterprises actually shipping them to production are learning that an agent on its own is rarely the answer. Woodson...

The best microSD Express card for the Switch 2 is the cheapest one you can find

Don’t buy one unless you can see the “EX” label on the card and package. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Unlike the original Switch,...

Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers

The open-source maintainer sits at the center of the modern software ecosystem, with the libraries they build often deep within production systems. That influence has made...

The Trump administration says it can’t process tariff refunds because of computer problems

The US Customs and Border Protection says it currently can’t comply with an order to process billions of dollars in refunds stemming from tariffs imposed by...

The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever

Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining.

IT-Tools brings many useful developer tools into one convenient location

How many tools do you use as a developer? I’m guessing that the answer is “many.” There are token generators, hash text, Universally Unique Identifier generators, encrypt/decrypt...

Google’s new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data

The command line is hot again. For some people, command lines were never not hot, of course, but it’s becoming more common now in the age...

GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option

Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the...

How to Build a Production-Ready Voice Agent Architecture with WebRTC

In this tutorial, you’ll build a production-ready voice agent architecture: a browser client that streams audio over WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication), a backend that mints short-lived...

Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has ordered federal agencies to patch three critical iOS vulnerabilities that were exploited over a 10-month span in hacking campaigns...

How to Center Any Element in CSS: 7 Methods That Always Work

Centering elements in CSS often seems straightforward at first, but it quickly becomes confusing once you start building real layouts. A property like text-align: center; works...

Nintendo is suing the US government for a refund of Trump’s illegal tariffs

Nintendo of America is suing the US government over President Trump’s tariffs and is demanding a “prompt refund, with interest” of any duties that it has...

Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually...

New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the...

The AI Doc is an overwrought hype piece for doomers and accelerationists alike

Co-director Daniel Roher. | Image: Focus Features We are in the thick of a massive push to incorporate generative AI into almost every aspect of our...

Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a binary asteroid system. By intentionally ramming a probe into the 160-meter-wide moonlet...

New Research Reassesses the Value of AGENTS.md Files for AI Coding

Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files...

Nearly half of all companies now use Rust in production, survey finds

A decade into tracking the Rust programming language, the 2025 State of Rust Survey, released this week, paints a picture of a language that has moved...

How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

Back in 2009, residents were scandalized when employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip were accused of exhuming old graves in order...

Portable Tow Rope Batman Would Be Proud Of

Out of all of Batman’s massive array of tools which turn a relatively ordinary person into a superhero, perhaps his most utilitarian is his grappling gun...

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in February 2026

Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-fortieth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated...

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to...

These Beats Headphones We Like Are $150 Off

Save a chunk of change on the Beats Studio Pro over-ear headphones.

When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind

We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.

2026.10: Higher Powers and Lower Macs

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in Philadelphia is John Gruber’s favorite steakhouse; Ben owes John a steak after losing a multi-month bet as to whether or...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS adds Snap and web search to the Overview

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with two new extensions installed and active by default, both adding new search capabilities to the GNOME Shell Overview. The first new...

[$] Fedora shares strategy updates and “weird research university” model

In early February, members of the Fedora Council met in Tirana, Albania to discuss and set the strategic direction for the Fedora Project. The council has...

Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life

If you want to keep your Linux instances safe and secure, your best course is to use Long Term Support (LTS) Linux kernels. They’re the ones...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies

An early print of the linoleum block that Kristina started carving during the podcast. (It’s the original Cherry MX patent drawing, re-imagined for block printing.) This...

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

Anti-vaccine activist and current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has worked hard to villainize infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, even writing a conspiracy-laden book lambasting...

Anthropic and the Pentagon

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by...

You can already save up to $50 on the new M4 iPad Air

In case you missed it, Apple announced a host of new devices this week, including both a new phone and a cheaper laptop. It also unveiled...

The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

A venture capitalist is running his entire company on twelve Markdown files. No web application. No workflow engine. No orchestration runtime. Just structured documents in a...

Climate change sucks, but at least it won’t kill your EV battery

If you’ve spent more than five minutes driving an electric vehicle, chances are good you’re a convert. But most people haven’t driven an EV, and surveys...

Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor...

Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance’s Chinese apps

While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other...

ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that...

Video Friday: A Robot Hand With Artificial Muscles and Tendons

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...

Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is...

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a major shakeup in the Artemis Program, intended to put the nation on a better path back to the...

Scaling Global Storytelling: Modernizing Localization Analytics at Netflix

Valentin Geffrier, Tanguy Cornuau Each year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss...

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed

Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be...

New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem

Picture a bizarre training exercise: A group of runners starts jogging around a circular track, with each runner maintaining a unique, constant pace. Will every runner...

Architecting for Global Scale: Inside DoorDash’s Unified, Composable Dasher Onboarding Platform

DoorDash has rebuilt its Dasher onboarding into a unified, modular platform to support global expansion. The new architecture uses reusable step modules, a centralized status map,...

The Trump phone was a no-show at the world’s biggest mobile show

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. This...

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly

Means uses a common wellness influencer playbook that uses selective science to discredit institutions. | Getty Images This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday...

How Does Kubernetes Self-Healing Work? Understand Self-Healing By Breaking a Real Cluster

I have noticed that many engineers who run Kubernetes in production have never actually watched it heal itself. They know it does. They have read the...

OpenWrt 25.12.0 released

Version 25.12.0 of the OpenWrt router distribution is available; this release has been dedicated to the memory of Dave Täht. Changes include a switch to the...

Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central...

Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A “Severe Performance Regression”

Sent out today was this week’s batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a “severe performance...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (freerdp, libsixel, opensips, and yt-dlp), Mageia (python-django, rsync, and vim), Red Hat (go-rpm-macros and osbuild-composer), SUSE (7zip,...

How to Use Docker Compose for Production Workloads — with Profiles, Watch Mode, and GPU Support

There’s a perception problem with Docker Compose. Ask a room full of platform engineers what they think of it, and you’ll hear some version of: “It’s...

How to Upgrade Zorin OS 17 to 18: Step-by-Step Guide

Zorin OS 18 upgrade path is open. Learn how to safely upgrade from Zorin OS 17 in-place while keeping your files and apps. The post How...

The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment

Inside a cavernous hall at the Swiss-French border, the air hums with high voltage and possibility. From his perch on the wraparound observation deck, physicist Walter...

From the endpoint to the prompt: a unified data security vision in Cloudflare One

Cloudflare One has grown a lot over the years. What started with securing traffic at the network now spans the endpoint and SaaS applications – because...

Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art

Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg did not necessarily set out to create a new genre. But, in some ways, that’s exactly what the duo did...

11 Best USB Flash Drives (2026): Pen Drives, Thumb Drives, Memory Sticks

These WIRED-tested memory sticks are a virtual filing cabinet in your pocket.

This phone starts fires on purpose

Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won’t start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week at Mobile...

useradd Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core useradd command forms. Command Description sudo useradd username Create a user account with defaults sudo useradd -m username Create user and home...

AMD CPPC Performance Priority Being Prepared For Linux – New Zen 6 Feature

Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being...

Intel Xeon Features To Be Supported By Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – Some Lacking User-Space Packages

Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some...

The Download: 10 things that matter in AI, plus Anthropic’s plan to sue the Pentagon

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. Coming soon:...

Corsair Sabre V2 Carbon Fiber and Magnesium Gaming Mice Review

Is it worth using motorsports materials in a gaming mouse? As long as it’s the same price as plastic.

Jones Mercury FASE Snowboard Bindings Review: The Best Fast Entry System

In! Out! In! Out! Jones’ latest fast-entry snowboard bindings mean you’ll never get left behind by a bunch of skiers again.

Russell Coker: Links March 2026

Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1]. cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being...

Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

It has been two weeks since the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, but an estimated 300,000 US businesses still have no idea if or...

AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a...

These 2 Apps Help Me Make Sense of My 100K Screenshots

The shameful pile of screenshots on my phone was as useless as it was disorganized. Rodeo and Swipewipe are helping to change that.

Linux Hotplug Events Explained

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was...

Which of these two arcades is the “world largest”—and does it matter?

In New Hampshire, just off the western shore of the vacation destination Lake Winnipesaukee, there’s a town called Laconia. With a population somewhere south of 17,000,...

Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at least, the changes...

Quiz: Python Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues in Practice

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python stacks, queues, and priority queues. You’ll review LIFO and FIFO behavior, enqueue and dequeue operations, and how...

There are 2 kinds of devs. One of them is screwed. Justin Searls interview [Podcast #210]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He’s a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that’s still going – even after he figured...

CNCF Graduates Dragonfly, Marking Major Milestone for Cloud-Native Image Distribution

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced recently that Dragonfly, its open source image and file distribution system, has reached graduated status, the highest maturity level...

Sovereign clouds: enhanced data security with confidential computing 

Increasingly, enterprises are interested in improving their level of control over their data, achieving digital sovereignty, and even building their own sovereign cloud. However, this means...

Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government

An unknown hacker used Anthropic’s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite...

7 Laptop Docking Stations to Unlock the Full Desktop Experience (2026)

Laptop docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I’ve been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’

New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have...

Oracle Updates Free Solaris CBE For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Uses

Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the “Common Build Environment” version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source...

NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing

The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate…

Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements…

Scenario Modeling and Array Design for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs)

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites present unique technical challenges, from managing large satellite constellations to ensuring reliable communication links. In this webinar,...

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad?

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different...

Posture Correctors That Will Straighten You Out (2026)

You’re hunched over your desk and phone for hours. I rounded up gadgets, a DIY trick, and even some yoga advice to help you straighten up.

OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal

OpenAI’s $110B funding includes AWS as the exclusive third-party distributor for the Frontier agent platform, introducing an architectural split: Azure retains stateless API exclusivity; AWS gains...

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as...

Sleep Apnea Often Goes Undetected in Women. That’s Starting to Change

Women’s sleep apnea symptoms differ from men’s and can often be confused with hormonal shifts. Researchers are working to close the detection gap.

Presentation: So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle “bends in the road,”...

Building a Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his...

Article: Read-Copy-Update (RCU): The Secret to Lock-Free Performance

Innovative software engineer with expertise in optimizing concurrency through advanced techniques like Read-Copy-Update (RCU). Proven track record of boosting read performance by over 110% in read-heavy...

The War on Iran Puts Global Chip Supplies and AI Expansion at Risk

From helium extraction in Qatar to shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, the semiconductor industry depends on fragile links across the Gulf. Escalation could ripple...

Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow

I’ve been working in User Experience design for more than twenty years. Long enough to have seen the many job titles, from when stakeholders asked us...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 27...

How to Install Git on Debian 13

Git is the world’s most popular distributed version control system used by many open-source and commercial projects. It allows you to collaborate on projects with fellow...

How to Deploy AI-Generated Code on a PaaS Platform

Vibe coding is about momentum. You open your editor, prompt an AI, stitch pieces together, and suddenly you have something that works. Maybe it’s messy. Maybe...

Ebike Charges At Car Charging Stations

Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, and with them comes along a whole slew of charging infrastructure. The fastest of these are high-power machines that can...

Norton Coupon Codes and Discounts: Up to 58% Off

Whether you’re looking to protect your small business or your personal computer, we have the top coupons and deals to help you save at Norton.

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Firefox Nova – our first look at the browser’s big redesign

A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a ‘Nova’ redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech blogger...

Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.

Antoine Beaupré: Wallabako retirement and Readeck adoption

Today I have made the tough decision of retiring the Wallabako project. I have rolled out a final (and trivial) 1.8.0 release which fixes the uninstall...

Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes

Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release…

GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes

GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop…

Planning the design of your production-grade RAG system

In our previous article Context as architecture: A practical look at retrieval-augmented generation, we treated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as an architectural idea. We explored why retrieval...

Friday Five — March 6, 2026

Red Hat MWC Barcelona NewsroomFollow Red Hat’s news from the world’s largest mobile industry event including customers and partners like Bell Canada, Telenor AI Factory, Telefónica,...

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta...

System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating...

One developer, team power: The future of AI-driven DevSecOps

Every conversation about AI in software delivery circles back to the same core idea: Give engineers better AI tools, and they’ll need fewer teammates. It’s a...

Here’s Every Country Directly Impacted by the War on Iran

As the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate, more than a dozen countries in the region have reportedly been affected by air strikes.

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix

In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the AI industry has been entrenching itself with the Department of...

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

MS exec: Microsoft’s next console will play “Xbox and PC games”

Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run Windows...

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are “unreviewable,” DOJ lawyer tells judge

A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal judge Wednesday that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such ample authority over the country’s...

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing at 1:41 pm ET today. By...

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

In keeping with its recently accelerated release cadence, OpenAI has shipped GPT-5.4 (including GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro). This update comes at a critical time, as...

It’s Peak Season for Bird-Watchers to Spot Migratory Hummingbirds, and Our Favorite Feeder Is on Sale

Early March is the best time to see rare migratory species in your own backyard, and a smart feeder can help you ID them.

The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem

Donald Trump said he would replace the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Noem’s tenure was marked by aggressive anti-immigration tactics and ICE and CBP’s...

Rust 1.94.0 released

Version 1.94.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include array windows (an iterator for slices), some Cargo enhancements, and a number of newly stabilized...

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

The grith.ai blog reports on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of a compromised version of the Cline utility. For the next eight...

Why Fandom Discourse Feels Extra Cringe Right Now

Infighting and backlash among Heated Rivalry fans is most pronounced on X—fueled in part by censorship-driven migration from platforms like Tumblr.

[$] The relicensing of chardet

Chardet is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used to encode a text string. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim,...

Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows

Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language…

From TV Repairman to Electromagnetic Compatibility Expert

No one had very high career aspirations for teenager David A. Weston—except for Weston himself. Growing up in London, he scored low on the U.K. national...

Birdbuddy’s AI-powered hummingbird feeder is matching its best price to date

Birdbuddy’s smart hummingbird feeder can capture both photo and video of your feathery friends. | Image: Birdbuddy Spring is peak bird-watching season, and if you want...

The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

Prime Video has dropped the full trailer for the fifth and final season of The Boys, teeing up the final confrontation between Antony Starr’s Homelander and...

Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing,...

Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver...

Buildroot 2026.02 released

Peter Korsgaard has announced version 2026.02 of Buildroot, a tool for generating embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. Notable changes include added support for HPPA, use of...

Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup

Though Netflix lost the war for Warner Bros., it has just bought an AI startup from the internet’s favorite Dunkin’ Donuts aficionado. Today, Netflix announced that...

The Best Roku TV Is $210 Off

Amazon and Best Buy have Roku’s QLED Mini-LED panel marked down by hundreds of dollars.

Nerve damage, energy management, and Apple TV: F1 in 2026 starts today

Later this evening—Friday morning local time—the new 1.6 L V6 engines that power this year’s crop of Formula 1 machinery will roar into life as practice...

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer. This issue is the entire The Pulse issue from the past week, which...

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.4, the next version of its frontier model. The company calls it its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work”...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards

Curious about split keyboards, but overwhelmed by the myriad options for every little thing? You should start with [thehaikuza]’s excellent Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards. Image...

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents

OpenAI is launching GPT-5.4, the latest version of its AI model that the company says combines advancements in reasoning, coding, and professional work involving spreadsheets, documents,...

Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

James Gunn and Peter Safran injected a much-needed shot of levity into the DC Universe when they took over the franchise and launched their “Gods and...

The Pulse: AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it...

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Two months ago, a key staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was “begging” NASA to release a document that would...

Israel Hacked Traffic Cameras in Iran

Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel’s hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country’s leadership. The New York...

Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way

With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it’s past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here...

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps

In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading or updating ByteDance apps designed...

The Bargain-Basement MacBook Neo Exposes the Insane Price of Another Key Apple Product

Can it really be the case that the company can now make a laptop $200 cheaper than a watch?

Roblox is censoring chats with AI

Roblox is using AI to alter the content of chat messages on its platform in real time using a new feature rolling out today. Real-time chat...

Vincent Bernat: Automatic Prometheus metrics discovery with Docker labels

Akvorado, a network flow collector, relies on Traefik, a reverse HTTP proxy, to expose HTTP endpoints for services implemented in a Docker Compose setup. Docker labels...

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya

Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses could be sending sensitive footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, Kenya, according to an investigation by the Swedish outlets Svenska Dagbladet and...

A Live ISO For Those Vibe Coding Experiments

Vibe coding is all the rage at the moment if you follow certain parts of the Internet. It’s very easy to dunk upon it, whether it’s...

Osmo is trying to crack AR edutainment (again)

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. I...

NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2

Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGSL 0.3.14 on CRAN: Maintenance

A new release 0.3.14 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL by relying on the...

Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors

Debian Project Leader “DPL” Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics...

New stable kernels to address build failures

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166 stable kernels. These releases address a regression reported by Peter Schneider; Levin said that...

[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU

The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance...

You can now fill your home with Ikea’s cheap and tiny new Bluetooth speaker

Alongside smart Lego bricks and lots of robots, one of the most anticipated gadgets announced at CES 2026 was a cheap Bluetooth speaker from the company...

Preorders for Apple’s colorful MacBook Neo come with a $25 gift card

The forthcoming MacBook Neo is certainly compelling — at least for the right person. One could argue that buying a last-gen MacBook Air is a better...

Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS

There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS...

How to Protect Sensitive Data by Running LLMs Locally with Ollama

Whenever engineers are building AI-powered applications, use of sensitive data is always a top priority. You don’t want to send users’ data to an external API...

FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer Linux LTS Kernels and More

Age verification is the new pandemic.

SpyTech: The Underwater Wire Tap

In the 1970s, the USSR had an undersea cable connecting a major naval base at Petropavlovsk to the Pacific Fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The cable traversed...

Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news itself in increasingly weird, unsettling, and...

Learn MLOps with MLflow and Databricks

As the industry standard for managing the machine learning life cycle, MLflow provides the necessary architecture to build systems that are both reproducible and scalable. We...