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Apple’s Budget iPhone 17e Gets a MagSafe Upgrade

Building on the iPhone 16e from 2025, Apple’s latest iPhone has a few noteworthy upgrades with the same $599 price.

Apple announces the iPhone 17E

Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 17E, its latest entry-level smartphone. The iPhone 17E starts at $599 with a higher 256GB of storage, and...

How Electrical Engineers Fight a War

Every time Russia attacks Ukraine’s power infrastructure, Ukrainian engineers risk their lives in the scramble to get electricity flowing again. It’s a dangerous job at best,...

It’s almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven

A new pair of EV siblings joins the Subaru lineup this year, each using a shared skateboard chassis developed in partnership with Toyota. Compared to the...

Automate Python Data Analysis With YData Profiling

The YData Profiling package generates an exploratory data analysis (EDA) report with a few lines of code. The report provides dataset and column-level analysis, including plots...

Apple launches a new iPad Air with an upgraded M4 processor

After updating its mid-level tablets last year, Apple has announced a new version of the iPad Air today now powered by the company’s M4 processor. That’s...

Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed

The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.

Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

A former NASA administrator says he is “encouraged” that the US Congress is considering legislation to prevent NASA from spending more than 50 percent of its...

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space

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. I checked out one...

How Quantum Data Can Teach AI to Do Better Chemistry

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named...

Pokémon Pokopia is an expansive adventure disguised as a cozy life sim

Nintendo has a history of fleshing out the larger Pokémon world through spinoffs. What games from the Pokémon Snap and Detective Pikachu series lacked in terms...

Supporting more identity providers on Ubuntu with the new Authd OIDC broker

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new generic OpenID Connect (OIDC) broker for Authd. With enterprises needing to centralise access management controls, the...

Cloudflare’s new Markdown support shows how the web is evolving for AI agents

I’ve always liked Markdown for both clarity and brevity, and now more LLM agents will appreciate it, too. In response to the growing number of LLM agents...

What Military Drones Can Teach Self-Driving Cars

Self-driving cars often struggle with with situations that are commonplace for human drivers. When confronted with construction zones, school buses, power outages, or misbehaving pedestrians, these...

Simple D-STAR Transceiver Uses Inexpensive Hardware

[Yeckel] recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver using some very accessible and...

Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio

In the Trump FCC’s latest series of attacks on TV broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has been threatening to enforce the equal-time rule on...

A Former Top Trump Official Is Going After Prediction Markets

As the battle over prediction markets rages on, Mick Mulvaney is leading a new coalition that calls these platforms illegal gambling.

Quiz: Automate Python Data Analysis With YData Profiling

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Automate Python Data Analysis With YData Profiling. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to generate and...

Quiz: How to Use Git: A Beginner’s Guide

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use Git: A Beginner’s Guide. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit the core Git workflow:...

Quiz: How to Use Note-Taking to Learn Python

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Use Note-Taking to Learn Python. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to take structured...

Best AirPods (2026): Which Apple Headphones Should You Buy?

From the AirPods Pro to the AirPods Max, these are the best headphones for your iPhone and beyond.

Oh great, here comes 6G

It’s like 5G, but one more. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It brings me no pleasure to say this, but friends: The...

Podcast: [Video Podcast] Frictionless DevEx with Nicole Forsgren

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the author of Accelerate and one of the most prominent and important minds in DevOps and...

Anthropic and Alignment

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.― Pericles This is not an Article about...

When the Internet Goes Dark, the Truth Goes With It

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever.

What is Disaster Recovery Testing? Explained with Practical Examples

Most teams are confident they can recover from a major outages until they actually have to. Backups exist, architectures are redundant and a recovery plan is...

Getting Started With The Popover API

Tooltips feel like the smallest UI problem you can have. They’re tiny and usually hidden. When someone asks how to build one, the traditional answer almost...

The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle

As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy.

Tumbleweed Monthly Update – February 2026

Software package updates during the second month of 2026 for openSUSE Tumbleweed have been consistent totalling 17 snapshots in the 28 days of the month. Tumbleweed...

Cloud-native Android™ infotainment: your CI pipeline shouldn’t depend on hardware

More and more often, infotainment systems are being developed and delivered like software, yet often they are still tested and validated using hardware-centric processes. This is...

What is context engineering?

The mechanics of context engineering and how it enhances AI-assisted development. The post What is context engineering? appeared first on LeadDev.

Presentation: Busting AI Myths and Embracing Realities in Privacy & Security

Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure,...

Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive....

Tecno’s latest concept phone is lit by neon

The Neon supposedly includes actual neon lighting in the rear. | Image: Tecno After teasing a magnetic, modular smartphone concept the other day, Tecno has followed...

How to Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu 24.04

TeamViewer is a cross-platform remote access and support solution that allows you to connect to and control remote computers over the internet. It supports remote control,...

AMD Ryzen AI 400 chips will bring newer CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to AM5 desktops

AMD has been selling “Ryzen AI”-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU...

Vivo’s next phone will launch with a professional camera rig

Look closely and you might spot a phone in there somewhere. | Image: Vivo Vivo rarely has a presence at MWC, but this year it bucked...

January 2026 Baseline monthly digest

Read about various happenings with Baseline during January 2026

Mattress Firm Coupons and Discounts: Save Up to $500

Use a Mattress Firm promo code to save on top mattresses, score a free adjustable base, and unlock up to $300 in instant credits.

Teardown of Dangerous Fake Wago Connectors

Everyone loves Wago connectors for how versatile and effective they are for quickly and securely connecting conductors, but it can be tempting to buy a bag...

Modernizing with agile SASE: a Cloudflare One blog takeover

Return to office has stalled for many, and the “new normal” for what the corporate network means is constantly changing.  In 2026, your office may be...

Beyond the blank slate: how Cloudflare accelerates your Zero Trust journey

In the world of cybersecurity, “starting from scratch” is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you have a clean slate; on the other, you face a...

The truly programmable SASE platform

Every organization approaches security through a unique lens, shaped by their tooling, requirements, and history. No two environments look the same, and none stay static for...

Electric Vehicles

Making a 286 Think It’s Alive Again

[Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built...

Java News Roundup: Lazy Constants, TornadoVM 3.0, NetBeans 29, Quarkus, JReleaser, Open Liberty

This week’s Java roundup for February 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEP 531 Candidate, Lazy Constants; GA releases of TornadoVM 3.0 and NetBeans 29; point...

Hackaday Links: March 1, 2026

We’ll start this week off with a bit of controversy from Linux Land. Anyone who’s ever used the sudo command knows that you don’t see any...

2025 State of Rust Survey Results

Hello, Rust community! Once again, the survey team is happy to share the results of the State of Rust survey, this year celebrating a round number...

Valhalla’s Things: A Pen Case (or a Few)

Posted on March 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing For my birthday, I’ve bought myself a fancy new expensive1 fountain pen. Such a fancy pen, of...

Linux Release Roundup (February 2026)

February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered...

Lenovo’s Latest Wacky Concepts Include a Laptop With a Built-in Portable Monitor

At MWC 2026, the company also showed off a dual-screen Yoga Book with 3D capabilities, and the Legion Go Fold—a gaming handheld with a folding screen...

Turning a Cast-Iron Radiator into a Water-Cooled PC

Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing. (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube) Water-cooled PCs generally have in common that there’s a radiator somewhere in the...

IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance

Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers. The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its...

Benjamin Mako Hill: Pronunciation

Had a discussion about how to pronounce the name of Google’s chatbot. Turns out, we were all wrong.

The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran

The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career.

Voting Is Now Open for the openSUSE Board Election 2025

Voting for the 2025 openSUSE Board election starts today. All openSUSE Members have the right to vote and should have received their personal ballot link by...

New to Linux? These 4 systemd Tools Help You Fix Common Issues

Stop guessing, start investigating. Here are 4 systemd tools that make Linux troubleshooting easy.

What Happens If Iran Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz?

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most sensitive pressure points in the global economy. Conflict in Iran could put it at risk indefinitely.

Honor claims its Robot Phone will launch later this year

I saw the camera arm unfold from this demo phone, though it didn’t do much else. Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone...

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts

In 2024, a backdoor was discovered hidden inside XZ Utils, a compression utility woven into many popular Linux distributions. This backdoor could have handed hackers full...

Honor’s Magic V6 is the first foldable with an IP69 rating

The Magic V6 is just slightly more water-resistant than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. For the third year running, Honor has announced what it says is...

Resident Evil Requiem leans too much on the series’ past

Leon Kennedy, one of the game’s protagonists. Resident Evil turns 30 this year. The series is full of history – the new Resident Evil Requiem is...

How MLB can make baseball relevant on a fast-changing internet

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the contemporary attention economy, follow Mia Sato....

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch

There’s never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and...

Recteq Flagship 1600 Review: An Upgraded Smoker

The Recteq Flagship 1600 pellet smoker asks a little more of you, but rewards you with deeply smoked flavor.

The strange animals that control their body heat

In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he wrote,...

Video Doorbell Advice and Settings for Opting Out of the Surveillance State

Video doorbells are handy, but they’re a threat to privacy. I spoke to experts about why you might ditch your doorbell, and how to safeguard your...

Color Mixing Spray Paint On The Fly

One of the problems with being a graffiti artist is that you have to carry around a different spray can for each color you intend to...

ASUS Linux HID Driver Preparing To See Support For Newer Devices

There’s been a recent lull in activity around the open-source Linux driver for ASUS devices with the HID interface used for supporting various features. But developer...

Best Laser Printers I’ve Tried (2026): Brother, HP, and More

Looking for fast printing at a relatively affordable cost? You probably want a laser printer.

Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February

During the last month on Phoronix there were 289 original open-source/Linux-related news articles and another 20 featured articles as in Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark...

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support “Soon”

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is “almost there” with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline “The 64-bit...

Intel’s Clear Linux Website No Longer Online

Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux...

Letting Machines Decide What Matters

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will have smashed billions of particles together. In all likelihood, it...

Make the Most of Chrome’s Toolbar by Customizing It to Your Liking

There are plenty of ways to customize Chrome to make it easier to navigate the web, manage your tasks, and make your workflow more efficient.

The Piracy Problem Streaming Platforms Can’t Solve

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, a patchwork of sanctions, payment failures, and licensing gaps pushes people into piracy networks.

Computer Terminal Replica Inspired By 70s Hardware

Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers, interacting with this new technology through...

Vend-o-Vision: Trading Quarters for Watching TV in Public

The timer mechanism of the Vend-o-Vision. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) There was a time before portable TVs and personal media players when the idea of putting...

Junichi Uekawa: The next Debconf happens in Japan.

The next Debconf happens in Japan. Great news. Feels like we came a long way, but I didn’t personally do much, I just made the first...

This LED Strip Clock Aims to Make Your Next One Easier, Too

At first glance, it may look like [Rybitski]’s 7-segment RGB LED clock is something that’s been done before, but look past the beautiful mounting. It’s not...

Have you ever used a Tick Stick?

Picture this: you have an irregular opening you need to fabricate a piece to fill. Maybe it’s the stonework of a fireplace; maybe it’s the curved...

Argo CD 3.3 Brings Safer GitOps Deletions and Smoother Day‑to‑Day Operations

The application deployment and lifecycle management tool Argo CD has reached a new milestone with the release of version 3.3, extending the capabilities of the popular...

Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs

Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew Halaney Imagine this — you click play on Netflix on a Friday night and behind the scenes hundreds of containers spring to action in a...

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israeli Attack on Iran

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Running a Desktop PC off AA Alkaline Cells

Everyone is probably familiar with the concept of battery-powered devices, but generally, this involves a laptop with a beefy battery pack and hardware optimized for low...

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on...

Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI tools. The move comes after Anthropic...

The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night

That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s automated alert system is online and already bombarding...

Xiangyi Cheng Is Bringing AR to Classrooms and Hospitals

When Xiangyi Cheng published her first journal paper as a principal investigator in IEEE Access in 2024, it marked more than a professional milestone. For Cheng,...

Mike Gabriel: Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 – Project Report (Q3/2025)

Debian Lomiri for Debian 13 (previous project) In our previous project around Debian and Lomiri (lasting until July 2025), we achieved to get Lomiri 0.5.0 (and...

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was actually...

The Only Snail You Want In Your Garden Is a Seed-Starting Hack

As temperatures warm up in the Northern Hemisphere, one’s mind naturally turns to the outdoors and the garden — even if some of our gardens are...

I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)

There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.

You can still grab great deals on Bose headphones and Astro Bot this weekend

Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next...

NASA Is Making Big Changes to Speed Up the Artemis Program

America’s journey back to the moon has run into a few missteps. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is banking on a new approach.

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware

Physical AI, also known as embodied AI, is purported to be the next evolution in the quest to build autonomous systems that behave in the real...

Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon

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 Joys of 3D Printing

Al and I were talking on the podcast today about a sweet 3D printed wide-format camera build, and we got to musing on why we 3D-print....

Review: Xiaomi 17 Ultra and Leitzphone Pack Leica Magic Into a Flagship Phone

The latest Xiaomi flagship is a beast and comes in a specially co-designed Leica edition that’s picture-perfect.

Xiaomi’s tracker doesn’t need a case to clip to your keys

The Xiaomi Tag is a bit larger than Apple’s second-gen AirTags. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag...

Xiaomi’s Leica Leitzphone mostly earns the name

The Leitzphone has just launched internationally alongside a regular version of the 17 Ultra. Xiaomi and Leica’s long-running phone partnership just got a little closer. Alongside...

Xiaomi 17 is a small(ish) phone with a big(ish) battery

The Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra are launching together, but there’s no sign of the Pro. Xiaomi has just given a global launch to two of...

This Power Grid Pioneer’s EV Prediction Came 100 Years Too Soon

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered...

The Witcher is a perfect fit for Reigns’ Tinder-like roleplaying

I never knew how easy it was to die in an orgy. But that’s just one of the many threats facing Geralt of Rivia in his...

top Command in Linux: Monitor Processes in Real Time

top is a command-line utility that displays running processes and system resource usage in real time. It helps you inspect CPU usage, memory consumption, load averages,...

A legendary weather app makes a comeback

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, please send Android...

Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought

More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.

14 Best Travel Toiletry Bags, Tested Over Many Miles (2026)

Our team evaluated a ton of toiletry bags to find the best storage, organization, and design options for all your essentials.

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet....

The Best MicroSD Cards for Your Camera, Switch, and More

Everything you need to know about memory cards for cameras, video game systems, and more.

The Best Laptop Cooling Pad and Why You Should Buy One

Most laptop cooling pads are useless, but if you get the right one, it can make a huge impact on how long your gaming laptop lasts.

Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums

Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more.

EveryPlate’s Meal Kit Offers Affordable Vegetarian Options

HelloFresh’s budget subsidiary surprised me with its basic but tasty vegetarian meal selection.

Which Water Filter Pitchers Filter PFAS? How to Check

Checking up on the claims of water filter makers can be a discomfiting maze. Here’s how to verify independent water filter certifications.

This Ruroc Helmet Ruined My Ski Holiday

Branded intimidating and scary, this full-face Ruroc headgear for the slopes made me a pariah on the piste.

US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran

US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown.

NaCl Casting Technique Really Earns Its Salt

Sodium Chloride has a melting point of 801 C (1,474 F), putting it comfortably between commonly-cast materials like aluminum and bronze. Which led to [Robinson Foundry]...

Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Blooming flowers, longer days, milder temperatures — with March just around the corner, the world is slowly but surely awakening from its winter slumber, fueling us...

Meet the wildlife conservation AI 5G hotspot at MWC Barcelona 2026

From March 2-5 in Barcelona, Canonical will present a working wildlife conservation platform that combines open source 5G, AI, and cloud-native infrastructure in a travel friendly...

MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling

MySQL is changing the way foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the...

Tenways nearly perfects the shareable city e-bike

The CGO Compact electric bike twists and folds to create a wall-hugging profile. Good electric bikes are expensive. So why not buy one and share it?...

Evolved Nerf RC Tank Now Leaves Welts

[Joshua Clay] recently unveiled his newest RC Nerf Dart Robot and talks through his design choices, pointing out that in his aim to have it launch...

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in February 2026

Here’s my monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the FOSS world. Debian Whilst I didn’t get a chance to do much, here...

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

Philco Bet the Farm on The Predicta… and Lost

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

US President Donald Trump (R) looks on as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela | AFP...

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a...

Storyteller: A Medium For Guiding Others Through Code

As a computer science instructor, I have long wished that there was a better way to guide others through my code. When I was first learning...

The Air Force’s new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it

DENVER—The US Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week. But no...

GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs

If you are cloning from a GNOME repository on their GitLab and now finding your Git traffic being redirected to GitHub, you are not alone. GNOME’s...

AI Assistant Uses ESP32

Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with...

18 Best Wireless Chargers, All Tested and Reviewed (2026)

Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch.

NASA is pushing back its plans for a Moon landing

NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it’s delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission,...

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

Netflix has dropped out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), making Paramount Skydance the expected owner of WBD. A Paramount-WBD merger remains subject...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that. As usual, you can also use this squid...

Opus 4.5 changed everything

Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We...

These Deals Can Have You Zipping Around on a New E-Scooter This Spring

With spring just around the corner, now’s the smart time to snag an electric scooter.

Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance’s merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that...

MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting

The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category.  The shortlisted...

Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government

President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to “STRONG-ARM” the Pentagon and directing federal agencies...

Petter Reinholdtsen: Free software toolchain for the simplest RISC-V CPU in a small FPGA?

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a presentation organized by the Norwegian Unix Users Group on implementing RISC-V using a small FPGA. This project...

Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity

Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t require exotic refrigeration to...

Video Game Archive Myrient to Shut Down on March 31

Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of reasons, but primarily the skyrocketing...

Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform

Red Hat has been deploying AI in the enterprise for some time. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now comes ready to do AI work;...

The Best Roku Is $20 Off

The Roku Ultra isn’t just speedier, it also offers some advanced features that some viewers will find really handy.

What’s an E-Bike? California Wants You to Know

Cities want to stop kids from getting hurt. A lawmaker thinks warning them away from legal gray-area “e-motos” could help.

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Xeon 6 SoCs “Granite Rapids D”

Catching me by surprise today was a new Intel CPU microcode drop “20260227” for Linux users/administrators outside of their typical Patch Tuesday alignment for CPU microcode...

Let Hauntimator Steer Your Next Animatronic Display

Animatronic displays aren’t just for Halloween, and hackers today have incredible access to effective, affordable parts with which to make spectacles of light, sound, and movement....

How to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities in Next.js API Routes

Imagine this situation: A user logs in successfully to your application, but upon loading their dashboard, they see someone else’s data. Why does this happen? The...

The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset

The HTC U24 Pro may not be gold, but its design is otherwise awfully similar to the Trump phone’s. | Image: HTC Where’s the Trump phone?...

Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border

The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone...

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by...

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

We haven’t had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies,...

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control If Paramount Buys Warner Bros.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

Hyprland 0.54 Released As A “Massive” Update To This Wayland Compositor

Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what’s described as a “a massive update with no understatement” to this Wayland compositor…

AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association,...

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77. Simmons, who worked...

FedEx will refund customers for Trump’s tariffs — if there ever are any refunds

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court’s ruling that some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “illegal.” In a statement on...

cat Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core cat command forms. Command Description cat FILE Print a file to standard output cat FILE1 FILE2 Print multiple files in sequence cat...

Video Friday: Robot Dogs Haul Produce From the Field

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...

2026.09: This Was an Xbox

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

ONLYOFFICE 9.3 makes document editing easier than ever

A new version of ONLYFFICE Desktop Editors, a open source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux, is out with a fresh set of features and...

How strong is New York’s “illegal gambling” case against Valve’s loot boxes?

For years now, Valve fans have been making jokes about the company’s slow transition from game maker to glorified digital hat and knife paint marketplace. This...

Hackaday Podcast Ep 359: Flying Squids, Edible Passwords, and a CAD Automaton

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the...

What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More

Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community...

[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

The Python bitwise-inversion (or complement) operator, “~“, behaves pretty much as expected when it is applied to integers—it toggles every bit, from one to zero and...

And the award for the most improved EV goes to… the 2026 Toyota bZ

The world’s largest automaker has had a somewhat difficult relationship with battery-electric vehicles. Toyota was an early pioneer of hybrid powertrains, and it remains a fan today,...