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GSMA Open Gateway offers developers one API for 300+ mobile networks

Developers care about protocols, standards, and specifications — a little. But it’s not what keeps them up at night. Your average software engineer cares more about...

Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android’s fate globally without cracking open Google’s Android monopoly quite the way it otherwise...

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

At a glance Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a compact and smart open‑weight multimodal reasoning model that balances reasoning power, efficiency, and training data needs. It is a broadly...

The AI Shift: Why RISC-V is poised to challenge Arm and x86

The RISC-V standard has evolved and matured to the extent that performance drawbacks have largely disappeared compared with the long-tried and tested – and much pricier...

Why traditional ITOps is failing to keep up with the unique nature of AI incidents

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

Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise

The TX50U isn’t very Linux-friendly If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of...

DragonflyDB CEO: Most real-time AI infrastructure was built for a different era

The business case for real-time AI is clear. Personalization drives engagement, real-time inference drives revenue, and context-rich machine learning is becoming the baseline expectation for products....

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

Downdetector and Speedtest – the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be...

This Student-Built EV Focuses on Repairability

At first glance, the Aria EV looks not much different than any other student-built electric prototype—no different than the battery-powered cars built by engineering students from...

Cloud repatriation is hard. Here’s how to build a self-service developer platform that works.

As more organizations move workloads back on-premises, they find themselves caught in a conundrum: How do they close the gap between cost control and the security...

Honor’s Robot Phone is a bad robot, an interesting camera, and maybe your friend

The friend-shaped phone. After over four months of teasing, I’ve finally been able to see Honor’s Robot Phone in action. And after all that, it looks...

Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

Google’s budget Pixels have long been a top recommendation for anyone who needs a phone with a good camera and doesn’t want to pay flagship prices....

Google Pixel 10a Review: Sensible Value

It may not offer much new, but the Pixel 10a remains one of the best smartphones in the US for under $500.

Linux Mint shows off its new lock screen/screensaver

Linux Mint is working on a redesigned screensaver and lock screen for the Cinnamon desktop. Based on our first look, it’s a solid improvement. If the...

Success With FreeDOS on a Modern Platform

Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS...

The Texas Senate Primary Was a Preview of Creator Wars to Come

After the 2024 election, influencers were seen as an asset. A contentious race between Democrats James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett showed that they can also be...

MacBook Neo versus an old MacBook Air: good luck

Are you the one? | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge My first thought when Apple announced the MacBook Neo today was “okay, but...

Jonathan Dowland: More lava lamps

Mathmos had a sale on spare Lava lamp bottles around Christmas, so I bought a couple of new-to-me colour combinations. The lamp I have came with...

Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses Google’s Gemini AI chatbot of trapping 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas in a “collapsing reality” that involved a series of violent missions,...

AMD EPYC Achieves Performance Leadership In New OCUDU Project For 5G/6G RAN

Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access...

How Federal Agencies Got Caught Up in Trump’s Anti-Immigration Crusade

WIRED spoke with workers across seven government agencies—from the IRS to HUD—about how their work has been contorted to support ICE and other immigration efforts.

Google’s Pixel 10 is the best Android phone available, and it’s $200 off

The Google Pixel 10 is $200 off, bringing it closer in price to the Pixel 10A. Google’s Pixel 10a is set to arrive on March 5th,...

Here’s where you can preorder Apple’s budget-friendly MacBook Neo

The MacBook Neo is Apple’s newest, most affordable laptop. Although the MacBook Air has been known to occasionally drop by a couple of hundred dollars —...

BenQ’s new Mac monitor could be a cheaper alternative to Apple’s new Studio Display

It was first announced last month without pricing or availability details, but BenQ has now shared all the specs for its new 27-inch 5K display designed...

Eclipse Foundation reports Open VSX hits 300 million monthly downloads

The Eclipse Foundation this week announced that Open VSX, the open source extension registry for tools built on the VS Code extension API, has surpassed 300...

Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez...

Linux Mint Ready With Its Wayland-Compatible Cinnamon Screensaver

Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that...

How to Build MCP Servers for Your Internal Data

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing how AI applications connect to external tools and data. While some tutorials stop at “connect to GitHub” or “read...

Monthly News – February 2026

Hi everyone, First of all, thank you for your support and your donation! And many thanks to all the people involved in helping Linux Mint. Here’s...

New Artemis Plan Returns to Apollo Playbook

In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have told you years ago — humans won’t...

Taara Brings Fiber-Optic Speeds to Open-Air Laser Links​

Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light. Its newest product, debuting this week...

Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off

Traditional Web Application Firewalls typically require extensive, manual tuning of their rules before they can safely block malicious traffic. When a new application is deployed, security...

The Colorful MacBook Neo Is Apple’s Cheapest Laptop Ever

At $599, Apple’s entry-level MacBook Neo is the most affordable laptop the company has ever made.

Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

Big Tech is set to agree to build its own power plants for data centers and shield consumers from rising electricity costs, but companies face daunting...

Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself

While traditional penetration testing relies on manual or point-in-time assessments, often delivered weeks after software has already shipped, software security solution provider Aikido has introduced Infinite,...

Moltbook is the agent security wake-up call for engineering leaders

Agent security is identity security The post Moltbook is the agent security wake-up call for engineering leaders appeared first on LeadDev.

Where to preorder the new iPhone 17E before it hits stores on March 11th

Apple’s week of product announcements kicked off with the iPhone 17E, a phone designed for those who don’t want to spend north of $700 on their...

All the news about Apple’s MacBook Neo, iPhone 17E, and more

An image of Apple’s new MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro or M5 Max chip. | Image: The Verge, Apple Apple is kicking off March with...

The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple’s long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook

Most of Apple’s announcements this week have been fairly straightforward internal updates to existing products, give or take some big architectural changes to its high-end processors....

Seven new stable Linux kernels

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.6, 6.18.16, 6.12.75, 6.6.128, 6.1.165, 5.15.202, and 5.10.252 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, go-rpm-macros, kernel, kernel-rt, mingw-fontconfig, nginx:1.24, thunderbird, and valkey), Debian (gimp), Fedora (apt, avr-binutils, keylime, keylime-agent-rust, perl-Crypt-URandom, python-apt,...

[$] Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control

Jujutsu is an increasingly popular Git-compatible version-control system. It has a focus on simplifying Git’s conceptual model to produce a smoother, clearer command-line experience. Some people...

systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes

Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new “mstack” feature, a new “FANCY_NAME” field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and...

Unleash raises $35M, launches Impact Metrics to govern feature rollouts at AI speed

Four years is a long time in technology. But in AI, it’s more like an eternity. When Unleash last raised funding in March 2022, ChatGPT had...

Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login

One of our favorite ask-me-anything questions for company meetings or panels at security conferences is the classic: “What keeps you up at night?” For a CISO,...

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

One of the quickest ways to call multiple AI models from a single Python script is to use OpenRouter’s API, which acts as a unified routing...

Bridging the operational AI gap

The transformational potential of AI is already well established. Enterprise use cases are building momentum and organizations are transitioning from pilot projects to AI in production....

Linux Preps IBPB-On-Entry Feature For AMD SEV-SNP Guest VMs

Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD...

The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran

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. Listen to...

Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026

How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book is evolving for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications has become known as the bible...

The Best Linux Laptops (I Install Linux on Every Laptop I Test) (2026)

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

I Ranked 30 Energy Drinks, From Celsius to Ghost (2025)

The future is here, and it is jacked up on B vitamins, red dye, and taurine. These are the best energy drinks to get from tired...

Marshall Kilburn III Review: A Classic Rock Bluetooth Speaker

Prepping for warmer weather? Marshall’s midsize portable Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks.

Manipulating AI Summarization Features

Microsoft is reporting: Companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory...

Presentation: What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT

Ludi Akue discusses how the tech sector’s rising emissions impact our global climate goals. Drawing from her experience as a CTO, she explains seven key lessons...

Creating an Ultra-Stable Lunar Clock With a Cryogenic Silicon Cavity Laser

Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical oscillators are used in e.g. atomic clocks and many...

Quiz: Build Your Weekly Python Study Schedule: 7 Days to Consistent Progress

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Build Your Weekly Python Study Schedule. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to set specific weekly...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: tidyCpp 0.0.9 on CRAN: More (forced) Maintenance

Another maintenance release of the tidyCpp package arrived on CRAN this morning. The packages offers a clean C++ layer (as well as one small C++ helper...

16 Best Air Purifiers (2026): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir

Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED.

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

AMD Engineer Leverages AI To Help Make A Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver

AMD’s VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently...

Anthropic’s Skyrocketing Revenue, A Contract Compromise?, Nvidia Earnings

Anthropic’s enterprise business is reaching escape velocity, which increases the importance of finding a compromise with the government. Then, agents dramatically increase demand for Nvidia chips,...

How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and...

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026

The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it’s still...

Linux Kernel 7.0 RC2 Released: Why This Update Is Unusually Large

Linus Torvalds released the second release candidate (RC2) for Linux Kernel 7.0. Here’s what’s new in Linux 7.0-rc2. The post Linux Kernel 7.0 RC2 Released: Why...

Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California’s Digital Age Assurance Act

The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California’s latest insanity: the Digital Age...

Best Theraguns and Therabody Tools for Smarter Recovery (2026)

From massage guns to compression boots and LED face masks, these are the top performers in Therabody’s wellness lineup.

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years

No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He’s still finding new ways to use it.

How I got a performance-driven team to care about security

A culture of security testing requires persistence, empathy, and a shared vision of reliability. The post How I got a performance-driven team to care about security...

Neither Android nor iOS: DIY Smartphone Runs on ESP32!

You may or may not be reading this on a smartphone, but odds are that even if you aren’t, you own one. Well, possess one, anyway...

Vue Router 5: File-Based Routing Into Core with No Breaking Changes

Vue Router 5.0 has integrated unplugin-vue-router into its core, enhancing file-based routing and TypeScript support. This transition release boasts no breaking changes, simplifies dependencies, and introduces...

Podcast: [Video Podcast] AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries Now Matter Most

This conversation explores why generative AI is not just another automation layer but a shift into autonomy. The key idea is that we cannot retrofit AI...

These Official ChromeOS Flex USB Sticks Can Give Your Old Mac or Windows PC a Second Life

Google is partnering with Back Market to sell USB sticks that let you install ChromeOS Flex on older Windows and Intel-powered Macs collecting dust.

uniq Command in Linux: Remove and Count Duplicate Lines

uniq is a command-line utility that filters adjacent duplicate lines from sorted input and writes the result to standard output. It is most commonly used together...

Old Desk Phone Gets DOOM Port

Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun to hack on, as...

Barkbox Promo Codes and Discounts: Up to 50% Off

Save on Barkbox subscriptions, including monthly themed collections of plush toys, tough chews, and healthy snacks designed to keep your pup’s tail wagging.

Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats

Trust is the most expensive vulnerability in modern security architecture. In recent years, the security industry has pivoted toward a zero trust model for networks —...

Moving from license plates to badges: the Gateway Authorization Proxy

We often talk about the “ideal” state, one where every device has a managed client like the Cloudflare One Client installed, providing deep visibility and seamless...

Stop reacting to breaches and start preventing them with User Risk Scoring

Most security teams spend their days playing a high-stakes game of Whac-A-Mole. A user’s credentials get phished, or they accidentally download a malicious file, and suddenly...

Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

There’s been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the...

Solar Warning

Xournal++ adds tablet-friendly toolbar mode

If you take handwritten notes on Linux, chances are Xournal++ is something you’ve tried as its solid feature set and stylus support has earned it a...

Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

Entering SKALA codes during RBMK operation. (Credit: Pripyat-Film studio) Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to...

Using KMSCON As The Default VT Console Delayed To Fedora 45

For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44....

Open data and the AI resilience premium

For many large companies, AI is on every agenda, yet many leaders are still trying to make sense of what to do next. A big reason...

New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

The latest updates to Red Hat OpenShift bring significant enhancements to monitoring and troubleshooting directly within OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift observability has evolved into a highly...

Memerist is a new desktop meme generator for Linux

Is the classic image meme dead, or buried under an avalanche of AI slop? Memerist, a new(ish) native meme generator for Linux, emerged on Flathub recently...

No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

NASA has fixed the problem that forced it to remove the rocket for the Artemis II mission from its launch pad last month, but it will...

Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

IT consultant and services provider Accenture has agreed to buy Speedtest and Downdetector owner Ookla from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Accenture plans to...

FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger “a lot cleaner” than defunct Netflix deal

Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has a notable supporter in Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. The FCC boss told CNBC...

How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility

The integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) into the Helm ecosystem streamlines the orchestration of WASI-compliant binaries across disparate environments, including OCI containers and virtualized infrastructure. By leveraging...

Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked

Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.

AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds

A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface...

How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla

There will come a time when you need to not only back up your data, but also create an image of a machine so that you...

This Offshore Wind Turbine Will House a Data Center Underwater

As data-center developers frantically seek to secure power for their operations, one startup is proposing a novel solution: Build them into floating offshore wind turbines. San...

Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle

Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week...

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes

Forget “eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY scientists than...

Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets

Internal access management (IAM) is seeing compounded growth in demand and adoption as a key component in zero trust and security in general, expanding across cloud...

Google Launches Automated Review Feature in Gemini CLI Conductor

Google has enhanced its Gemini CLI extension, Conductor, by adding support for automated reviews. The company says this update allows Conductor “to go beyond just planning...

There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV

Last time we looked at the used electric vehicle market, it was to see what the options are if you’re spending $10,000 or less. Two solid...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Instant promises to dial down the cringe

On the same day Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, OpenAI also launched a faster version of its GPT-5.3 family on Tuesday. GPT 5.3 Instant is the...

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the...

Countdown to IEEE’s Annual Election

This year’s annual election, which begins on 17 August, will include candidates for IEEE president-elect and other officer positions up for election. To see who is...

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally,...

Our Favorite Upgraded Gaming Headset Is $20 Off

The Razer BlackShark V3 Pro has excellent noise-canceling and spatial audio for focused gamers.

Confluent adds A2A support, anomaly detection, and Queues for Kafka in major platform update

Confluent recently unveiled support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for inter-agent communication. The platform’s implementation of the popular protocol allows users to employ...

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest Gemini 3 model yet

Two weeks after launching Gemini 3.1 Pro, its most capable AI model yet, Google on Tuesday launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest model in the Gemini...

Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake’s Xe3 B390

Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel’s new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its...

Google’s Chrome browser moves to a two-week release cycle

Google on Tuesday announced that its Chrome browser will move to a faster release cycle later this year, with a new major version launching every two...

Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server Over “Microslop” Posts

Microsoft banned “Microslop” on its Copilot Discord community, locked the server, and then blamed spammers.

OpenClaw rocks to GitHub’s most-starred status, but is it safe?

OpenClaw is in the ascension. This open source autonomous AI agent has this year surpassed Linux on the GitHub all-time star leaderboard. The project has now...

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements (404 Media)

This 404 Media article looks at how the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) is using location data from phones to track the location of...

Free Books

Spinning a lot of plates this week so skipping the newsletter. As an apology, have ten free copies of Logic for Programmers. These five are available...

A Look Inside the Creative MB-10 MIDI Blaster

Before it became viable to distribute and play music tracks on home computers, the use of FM and Wavetable synthesis was very common, with MIDI Wavetable-based...

GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR

There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release...

AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026

Which AI tools are software engineers using, and what do they really think of them? We asked The Pragmatic Engineer subscribers, and nearly a thousand of...

Apple’s website leaks MacBook ‘Neo,’ which could be its new cheaper laptop

During Apple’s week-long product launch event on Tuesday, a listing for the “MacBook Neo (Model A3404)” appeared on a regulatory compliance page on Apple’s website under...

EA continues to ‘evolve’ The Sims 4 with new virtual currency and a ‘maker’ program

EA is adding some big changes to The Sims 4: Later this month, it’s introducing an in-game marketplace where users can buy creator-made items using a...

New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

Most of Apple’s laptop lineup is getting refreshed today—the high-end MacBook Pros are getting M5 Pro and M5 Max chip refreshes, and the MacBook Air is...

MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel

Unihertz’s new QWERTY phone is even more like a Blackberry

Everybody’s trying to get in on Cosmic Orange. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Unihertz, known for its slab phone alternatives, has unveiled an evolution...

Tired of Google's Tracking? Motorola's GrapheneOS-Powered Phones Are Coming

You won’t need to pay Google for using GrapheneOS soon.

Sovereign Tech Fellowship Opens Up To Community Managers, Technical Writers

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS...

Developers are coding to a moving target, and nobody knows where AI lands next

In Barcelona this week, a bit of tension is in the air for certain attendees at the annual Mobile World Congress: How can technology companies get...

How Open Source Can Grow Your Tech Career: A Handbook for Beginners

Hi everyone. In this handbook, you will learn about the growing world of open source, and how it can shape your career as a developer. Open...

Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and...

Apple Announces “Fusion Architecture” With M5 Pro & M5 Max

Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU…

All of Amazon’s kid-friendly Kindles are on sale, including the color version

Let me let you in on a little secret: Amazon’s kid-friendly e-readers are a better deal than the standard models. Each so-called “Kids” device is identical...

[$] Free software needs free tools

One of the contradictions of the modern open-source movement is that projects which respect user freedoms often rely on proprietary tools that do not: communities often...

OSS Pull Request Therapy: Learning to Enjoy Code Reviews with npmx

For years, I thought Open Source Software (OSS) just wasn’t for me. I had no plans to join any OSS communities on top of my existing...

This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Protestors stood in the snow outside the offices of Ohio’s utility regulator in January to say they were fed up with rising electricity rates. Even...

From Central Control to Team Autonomy: Rethinking Infrastructure Delivery

Adidas engineers describe shifting from a centralized Infrastructure-as-Code model to a decentralized one. Five teams autonomously deployed over 81 new infrastructure stacks in two months, using...

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester”

The Moon has received a lot of attention in recent months, particularly the surface of Earth’s cold and dusty companion. This has largely been driven by...

Back to Basics: Hacking on Key Matrixes

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an...

Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams

Good UX research is at the root of great products. It takes the guesswork out of our designs and helps us solve problems before they grow....

We played Pokémon Pokopia, ask us anything

Pokémon‘s 30th anniversary is here and Nintendo (and The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Omega Force) are kicking things off with a surprisingly excellent life simulation...

Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley on taking ‘another run’ with new game

It’s been a busy few years for Scott Pilgrim. Following a live-action film and the conclusion of the comics in 2010, the series has slowly been...

Apple’s New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Have New Chips, More Storage, and Higher Prices

Apple seems to be saving the entry-level MacBook for its March 4 event, but instead we have two new pricey Studio Display computer monitors.

Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

Matthew Garrett examines the factors that go into the decision about whether to install a firmware update or not. I trust my CPU vendor. I don’t...

The 6G, modular, robot phones of the future

Year after year, we mostly know what to expect from our smartphone upgrades. Galaxy, iPhone, Pixel, or whatever else, everything seems to get slightly better (and...

Xiaomi, unlike Google and Samsung, thinks camera hardware comes first

Xiaomi’s new Leica Leitzphone has new hardware tricks including continuous zoom and a LOFIC sensor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge When it launched the...

Blue Prince headlines Nintendo’s lineup of Switch 2 indie games

Following a Direct in February and a Pokémon-focused event last week, Nintendo returned today with a showcase focused on indie games. And it ended with a...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (containernetworking-plugins, gnutls, kernel, libpng, and skopeo), Debian (firefox-esr, php8.2, and spip), Fedora (erlang and python-pillow), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang,...

Introducing the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report

Today’s threat landscape is more varied and chilling than ever: Sophisticated nation-state actors. Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Deepfakes and fraudsters interviewing at your company. Even stealth attacks...

Evolving Cloudflare’s Threat Intelligence Platform: actionable, scalable, and ETL-less

For years, the cybersecurity industry has suffered from a “data gravity” problem. Security teams are buried under billions of rows of telemetry, yet they remain starved...

What Does Python’s __init__.py Do?

Python’s special __init__.py file marks a directory as a regular Python package and allows you to import its modules. This file runs automatically the first time...

Google Publishes Scaling Principles for Agentic Architectures

Researchers from Google and MIT published a paper describing a predictive framework for scaling multi-agent systems. The framework shows that there is a tool-coordination trade-off and...

pkill Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core pkill command forms. Command Description pkill process_name Send SIGTERM to matching process names pkill -f "pattern" Match against full command line pkill...

Intel Adapting Linux’s LAM In Preparing For ChkTag

Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows...

Shark UV Reveal Review (2026): UV Light Mode

The UV light built into Shark’s newest robot vacuum is on a quest to embarrass me with how many stains it’s spotted.

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

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. This startup...

How to Set Battery Charge Thresholds on Linux with TLP

Learn how to extend your Linux laptop’s battery lifespan by setting charge thresholds with TLP. Step-by-step config for major Laptop brands. The post How to Set...

Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure

The medical journal The Lancet did not pull any punches in a scathing editorial on Robert F. Kennedy Jr, calling the anti-vaccine activist’s first year as...

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel

Intel yesterday sent out their first “drm-xe-next” pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into...

Trailer: The Shape of Things to Come

Technical advances are moving at such a rapid pace that it can be challenging to define the tomorrow we’re working toward. In The Shape of Things...

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching...

The Best Ergonomic Keyboard I’ve Tried (and Other Comfortable Typing Options)

I’ve tested a ton of keyboard options to make your typing life easier, and a couple I’d avoid.

On Moltbook

The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral...

Meta gave React its own foundation. But it’s not letting go just yet.

Open source has long been shaped by the tension between community ideals and commercial reality. This past week highlighted just how distinct those two forces remain....

Building a Hackerspace Entry System

A hackerspace is a place that generally needs to be accessed by a wide group of people, often at weird and unusual hours. Handing around keys...

With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy

It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android, which the company described as the first “truly open” mobile operating system, setting Google-powered phones apart from...

How to Run and Customize LLMs Locally with Ollama

In the long history of technological innovation, only a few developments have been as impactful as Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are advanced AI systems trained...

Quiz: Duck Typing in Python: Writing Flexible and Decoupled Code

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Duck Typing in Python: Writing Flexible and Decoupled Code. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit what duck...

Google Cloud Brings Full OpenTelemetry Support to Cloud Monitoring Metrics

Google Cloud recently unveiled broad support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in Cloud Monitoring, marking a step toward unifying telemetry collection across its observability stack. By...

How to Monitor Your Blood Pressure at Home (2026)

There have never been so many ways to check for hypertension. Here’s what’s available and how to use them.

How Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last...

AMD Makes rocprof-trace-decoder Open-Source

AMD open-sourced the ROCprof Trace Decoder “rocprof-trace-decoder”, a tool useful for developers targeting the AMD GPU compute stack…

ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux

A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM...

Optimizing a Battery Electric Vehicle Thermal Management System

This webinar looks at a Battery Electric Virtual Vehicle Model of a mid-size BEV, and uses Simulink and Simscape to facilitate design exploration, component refinement, and...

Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.

Why government is not the primary customer for tech companies, and is Netflix relieved that they were outbid for Warner Bros.?

The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

Apple turns 50 on April 1. In his new book, Apple: The First 50 Years, David Pogue chronicles the secrecy-laden environment in which Steve Jobs willed...

Best Pajamas for Women (2026), WIRED Tested and Reviewed

After testing 100-plus sets, these are the sleepwear brands that earned permanent spots in my closet and my bed.

AWS Launches Agent Plugins to Automate Cloud Deployment

AWS launched Agent Plugins for AWS, providing AI coding agents with specialized deployment skills. The initial deploy-on-aws plugin transforms workflows by accepting commands like “deploy to...

Why Missile Alerts and War Updates Trigger Doomscrolling

A combination of war alerts, breaking news updates, and algorithmic feeds are trapping users in a threat-monitoring loop.

This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires

On June 1, 2023, as a sweltering heat wave baked Quebec, thousands of lightning strikes flashed across the province, setting off more than 120 wildfires. The...

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet

After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside...

Building a Dependency-Free GPT on a Custom OS

The construction of a large language model (LLM) depends on many things: banks of GPUs, vast reams of training data, massive amounts of power, and matrix...

You can’t verify all the AI-generated code

More code + the same number of engineers = problems. The post You can’t verify all the AI-generated code appeared first on LeadDev.

ln Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core ln command forms. Command Description ln TARGET LINK_NAME Create a hard link ln -s TARGET LINK_NAME Create a symbolic (soft) link ln...

Google Enhances Node Pool Auto-Creation Speed for GKE Clusters

Google Cloud has optimised GKE’s node pool auto-creation, significantly cutting “Time to Ready” for massive clusters. By improving control plane communication and request batching, GKE now...

GitHub’s Points to a More Global, AI-Challenged Open Source Ecosystem in 2026

GitHub has released its yearly look at open-source trends. They used data from the Octoverse 2025 report to help the open-source community get ready for the...

L.L.Bean Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 75% Off Outdoor Gear

Find the best L.L.Bean promo codes and coupons for 10% off your first order, major sale discounts, free shipping on $75+, and extra savings for select...

C64 Gets A Modern Interactive Disassembler

If you want to pull apart a program to see how it ticks, you’re going to need a disassembler. [Ricardo Quesada] has built Regenerator 2000 for...

How Cloudy translates complex security into human action

Today’s security ecosystem generates a staggering amount of complex telemetry. For instance, processing a single email requires analyzing sender reputation, authentication results, link behavior, infrastructure metadata,...

From reactive to proactive: closing the phishing gap with LLMs

Email security has always been defined by impermanence. It is a perpetual call-and-response arms race, where defenses are only as strong as the last bypass discovered...

See risk, fix risk: introducing Remediation in Cloudflare CASB

Starting today, Cloudflare CASB customers can do more than see risky file-sharing across their SaaS apps: they can fix it, directly from the Cloudflare One dashboard....

Design-First Collaboration

Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development. This pattern describes a structured conversation that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair:...

GIMP 3.2 issues third release candidate with fresh fixes

GIMP 3.2 RC3 is now available for testing, giving users an opportunity to try the image editor’s upcoming features ahead of the stable release. As this...

Matthew Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

A lot of hardware runs non-free software. Sometimes that non-free software is in ROM. Sometimes it’s in flash. Sometimes it’s not stored on the device at...

NASA Uses Mars Global Localization as GNSS Replacement for the Perseverance Rover

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the Perseverance Mars...

Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API

By Harshad Sane Ranker is one of the largest and most complex services at Netflix. Among many things, it powers the personalized rows you see on the...

What Is That Mysterious Metallic Device US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia Is Using?

Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device...

The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and...

GIMP 3.2 RC3 Released In Preparation For The Stable GIMP 3.2

Ahead of the stable GIMP 3.2 release hopefully happening soon, GIMP 3.2 RC3 was released this evening for testing…

Summon This AI Agent by Speaking Its Wake Word Mid-Phone Call

Deutsche Telekom, the German cell provider—which holds a majority stake in T-Mobile—is partnering with ElevenLabs to enable an AI assistant on all of its network’s calls...

Pan-Tilt Head For Camera Motion Control

Historically, moving and pointing a camera while filming was the job of a highly-skilled individual. However, there are machines that can do that, enabling all kinds...

Michael Ablassmeier: pbsindex – file backup index

If you take backups using the proxmox-backup-client and you wondered what backup may include a specific file, the only way to find out is to mount...

What’s new with Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 UI: Moving from pilot to production

With our previous release of Red Hat OpenShift AI, we established a solid foundation for your enterprise AI infrastructure. Today, with the release of OpenShift AI...