Category: Allgemein

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...

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...

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...

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.

Bazookasaurus

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…

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,...

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...

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...

AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC

AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle…

Pass the NVIDIA-Certified Associate AI Infrastructure and Operations Certification Exam

The NCA-AIIO certification is an entry-level credential that validates the foundational concepts of AI computing related to infrastructure and operations. We just posted a course on...

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit “may not have been my wisest”

Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tweet at the center of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter “may not have been my...

The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning

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. Online harassment...

Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart bulbs are now available in the US

Ikea’s new smart bulbs are hitting the US a month early. | Image: Ikea After being announced last November, Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart home collection has been...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-rpm-macros, libpng, thunderbird, udisks2, and valkey), Fedora (coturn, php-zumba-json-serializer, valkey, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (delve, go-rpm-macros, grafana, grafana-pcp, image-builder,...

The Different Ways to Select in CSS

Temani Afif recently did this exercise and I thought I’d build off of it. Some of these are useful. Many of them are not. There’s a...

Ending the “silent drop”: how Dynamic Path MTU Discovery makes the Cloudflare One Client more resilient

You’ve likely seen this support ticket countless times: a user’s Internet connection that worked just fine a moment ago for Slack and DNS lookups is suddenly...

Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism

Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints faced by startups, led him...

Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next

Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat solution, might be heading to Linux.

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will “upgrade” your M5’s CPU to new “super” cores

As part of Apple’s flurry of Mac announcements earlier this week, the company announced the new M5 Pro and M5 Max processors. And those chips are...

Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs

The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel…

Sam Altman wonders: Could the government nationalize artificial general intelligence?

“It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project,” Sam Altman publicly mused this past...

Best Gravel Running Shoes (2026): Salomon, Adidas, Nike

The best new shoes in this hybrid, niche footwear style can take you from your front door, down the asphalt, and into the trees.

Best Workout Headphones (2026), Tested in the Gym and in the Streets

Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites.

LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On

There’s just something delightful about scaled items. Big things shrunk down, like LEGO’s teeny tiny terminal brick? Delightful. Taking that terminal brick and scaling it back...

Quiz: How to Use the OpenRouter API to Access Multiple AI Models via Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use the OpenRouter API to Access Multiple AI Models via Python. By completing this quiz, you’ll...

KEF Muo Bluetooth Speaker: Portable Hi-Fi

Is a $250 Bluetooth speaker worth it? If it’s this one made by KEF, it just might be.

Quiz: Spyder: Your IDE for Data Science Development in Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Spyder: Your IDE for Data Science Development in Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to...

Designing human-agent engineering teams

AI agents are now collaborators, not just tools. That changes how teams work. The post Designing human-agent engineering teams appeared first on LeadDev.

Why Linux Users Love to Hate Ubuntu

Ubuntu may not be perfect, but the amount of hate it receives from Linux users is often exaggerated. Here’s why the criticism deserves a rethink.

Decentralizing Architectural Decisions with the Architecture Advice Process

Our system architectures have changed as technology and development practices have evolved, but the way we practice architecture hasn’t kept up. According to Andrew Harmel-Law, architecture...

Suunto Vertical 2 Review: Catching Up to the Pack

Suunto’s latest adventure fitness tracker finally introduces a bright AMOLED screen that’s great for maps.

Hacked App Part of US/Israeli Propaganda Campaign Against Iran

Wired has the story: Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones. They came not from the government advising...

AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls

The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the...

Intel GMA500 “Poulsbo” Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026

Approaching twenty years after Intel’s Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support,...

Nothing Has Two New Midrange Phones, but Only One Will Be Sold in the US

Nothing won’t launch a flagship phone this year, but the colorful and affordable Phone (4a), Phone (4a) Pro, and Headphone (a) are here to fill the...

How to Survive Daylight Saving Time: Start Early (2026)

Forcing your body to wake up a full hour earlier out of nowhere will be as brutal as it sounds. Instead, start early and add some...

QCon AI Boston’s Early Program Focuses on the Engineering Work Behind Production AI

As teams move AI from pilots to production, the hard problems shift from demos to dependability. The first confirmed talks for QCon AI Boston (June 1–2)...

An Interview with Gregory Allen About Anthropic and the U.S. Government

An interview with Gregory Allen about Anthropic’s dispute with the U.S. government.

How much wildfire prevention is too much?

The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing AI fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out...

libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support

The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop

This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” powered laptops...

Best Sheets Under $200 and $100 (2026): Cotton, Bamboo, Organic

After sleeping on more than 70 different sets of sheets, these are the best sets that won’t break the bank.

Don’t Let Industry Jargon Cost You When Shopping for a Smart Bed

Why the terms “smart bed,” “adjustable mattress,” and “adjustable frame” are not interchangeable, and how to avoid an expensive mistake.

GitHub Data Shows AI Tools Creating “Convenience Loops” That Reshape Developer Language Choices

GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report reveals a “convenience loop” where AI coding assistants drive language choice. TypeScript’s 66% surge to the #1 spot highlights a shift toward...

How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time

Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts...

Online harassment is entering its AI era

Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source...

Meta’s new AI unit takes flat management structures to the extreme

And how to avoid the world’s worst bottleneck. The post Meta’s new AI unit takes flat management structures to the extreme appeared first on LeadDev.

3 Must-Have Break Apps for Linux Users (If You Work 8–9 Hours a Day)

The post 3 Must-Have Break Apps for Linux Users (If You Work 8–9 Hours a Day) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides ....

Using a Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler to Freeze Water

Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as...

ss Command in Linux: Display Socket Statistics

ss is a command-line utility for displaying socket statistics on Linux. It is the modern replacement for the deprecated netstat command and is faster, more detailed,...

less Cheatsheet

Basic Usage # Common ways to open files and piped output in less. Command Description less file.txt Open a file in the pager less /var/log/syslog Read...

Cloudflare Debuts Markdown for Agents and Content Signals to Guide AI Crawlers

Cloudflare has introduced “Markdown for Agents,” a feature that lets AI crawlers request Markdown versions of web pages. The company pairs the feature with a proposed...

Running Video Through A Guitar Effects Pedal

Guitar pedals are designed to take in a sound signal, do fun stuff to it, and then spit it out to your amplifier where it hopefully...

How Automatic Return Routing solves IP overlap

The public Internet relies on a fundamental principle of predictable routing: a single IP address points to a logically unique destination. Even in an Anycast architecture...

A QUICker SASE client: re-building Proxy Mode

When you need to use a proxy to keep your zero trust environment secure, it often comes with a cost: poor performance for your users. Soon...

How to Use Rsync Command: 16 Examples for Linux File Sync

The post How to Use Rsync Command: 16 Examples for Linux File Sync first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article,...

Trying a Vibe-Coded Operating System

If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch,...

Notice: Brief Downtime Expected Overnight

Update: Everything should be back up now. Thanks!..

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 5, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python’s bitwise-inversion operator; atomic buffered I/O; keeping open source open; Magit and Majutsu; IIIF; free software and free tools....

FEX 2603 Released With A Partial Fix For The Steam GUI Crashing On AArch64

FEX 2603 as the Valve-sponsored open-source project allowing Linux x86/x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux — including the likes of Steam and various games as...

Scaling the future of Open RAN: Red Hat joins the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation

At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most complex challenges in technology are best solved through open collaboration. This week, as announced by the Linux...

MCP security: Implementing robust authentication and authorization

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly relevant in today’s agentic AI ecosystem because it standardizes how AI agents access tools, data sources, and external systems....

How does real-world AI deliver value? The Ask Red Hat example

At Red Hat Summit 2025, we introduced Ask Red Hat, a conversational AI designed to be an intelligent front door for our customers. It began as...

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.94.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software....

Why the future of AI depends on a portable, open PyTorch ecosystem

This blog is an adaptation of our keynote presentation at PyTorch Day India. In the debate between open source and proprietary technology, open source wins —...

These $500 Windows Laptops Show the MacBook Neo’s Competition

They aren’t as high-end as the MacBook Neo, but these Windows laptops show that Apple has some strong competition.

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive

The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work to...

Why enterprise software development needs air traffic control

How platform orchestration solves the AI tool fragmentation crisis without sacrificing developer choice Imagine being a CIO today. Your developers want to experiment with the latest...

Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

DENVER—Last month, President Donald Trump took to social media with an announcement that he would direct the Pentagon and other federal agencies to “begin the process”...

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when...

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance

“Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event.

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers

Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator,...

Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

Google is in the midst of rewriting the rules for mobile applications, spurred by ongoing legal cases and an apparent desire to clamp down on perceived...

Sean Whitton: Southern Biscuits with British ingredients

I miss the US more and more, and have recently been trying to perfect Southern Biscuits using British ingredients. It took me eight or nine tries...

Sean Whitton: dgit-as-a-service retrospective

We recently launched tag2upload, aka cloud dgit or dgit-as-a-service. This was something of a culmination of work I’ve been doing since 2016 towards modernising Debian workflows,...

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”

A man killed himself after the Google Gemini chatbot pushed him to kill innocent strangers and then started a countdown for the man to take his...

USB Hubs Can Save You Lots of Hassles—Here Are 5 We Like Best in 2026

Ditch the dongles. These multiport USB hubs will maximize your connectivity options.

Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels....

AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates

There are thousands upon thousands of Linux distributions, so when a new flavor comes into being, the first thing I check is to see what sets...

Which iPhone 17 Model Should You Buy?

The iPhone 17e is here to fill out Apple’s smartphone lineup. Our primer on the differences and similarities of these iPhones can help you shop.

After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Sony no longer plans to bring current and future single-player games to personal computers, according to Bloomberg. The report specifically names last year’s Ghost of Yotei...

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers

The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows

OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding app is now available on Windows. To say Codex has been a hit for OpenAI would be an understatement. The Codex App...

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

Archaeologists are keen to learn more about the specific diets and culinary practices of ancient populations around the globe. An interdisciplinary team of scientists analyzed the...

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick...

The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

During a brief hearing on Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation spent only a few minutes “marking up” new legislation that provides...

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

NEW YORK CITY—Whether you’re talking about the iBook, MacBook, or MacBook Air, Apple’s most basic laptops have started at or within $100 of the $1,000 price...

This 5.1 Soundbar Bundle Is $100 Off

Sony’s upgraded Bravia Theater System 6 packs a complete home audio setup into a single box.