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America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the...

Create space to experiment with AI in your team

Without impacting immediate velocity The post Create space to experiment with AI in your team appeared first on LeadDev.

Article: Borrowing from Kotlin/Android to Architect Scalable iOS Apps in SwiftUI

Building iOS apps can feel like stitching together guidance from blog posts and Apple samples, which are rarely representative of how production architectures grow and survive....

journalctl Command in Linux: Query and Filter System Logs

journalctl is a command-line utility for querying and displaying logs collected by systemd-journald, the systemd logging daemon. It gives you structured access to all system logs...

ps Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core ps command forms. Command Description ps Show processes in the current shell ps -e Show all running processes ps -f Show full-format...

Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is...

New to the web platform in February

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during February 2026.

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. 20...

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals. From the famous...

The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like a Sunburn

Way, way back in the days when men wore beards and wide-lapelled suits in exotic colors, only NASA had access to photovoltaics and ‘solar’ meant solar...

Typhoon weather app clears up with Qt6 port

The forecast is looking Qt for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon, the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt...

Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today…

b4’s Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: New flags for clone3(); Discord replacements; virtual swap spaces; BPF memory protection keys; PostgreSQL’s lessons in attracting contributors; 7.0...

Adding a Panadapter to a Classic Receiver

There was a time when only the richest ham radio operators could have a radio with a panadapter. Back in the day, this was basically a...

The nervous system gets a soul: why sovereign cloud is telco’s real second act

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain...

Streamline your network operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management...

AI in telco – the catalyst for scaling digital business

If you aren’t currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved...

Showtime video player edges closer to Ubuntu debut

Those testing Ubuntu 26.04 daily builds or monthly snapshots may have noticed that Showtime, GNOME’s spiffy new video player, is not preinstalled in the ‘extended selection’,...

New York sues Valve, alleging its loot boxes are ‘quintessential gambling’

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for “illegally promoting gambling” through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike...

Cilium at Ten Years: Stronger Encryption, Safer Policies, and Clearer Visibility for Large Clusters

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead,...

How the new Galaxy S26 phones stack up against each other on paper

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones introduce a slate of new AI-powered features, including some new photography tools. | Image: Samsung Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy...

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI...

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th

The Drop Mythic Journey keyboard from 2022. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair...

The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

There used to be countless companies making flagship Android phones, but a combination of factors has narrowed the field over time. Today, Samsung is the undisputed...

An Exploit … in CSS?!

Ok, take a deep breath. We’ll have some fun understanding this vulnerability once you make sure your browser isn’t affected, using the table below. Chromium-based browser...

Roundtables: Why 2026 Is the Year for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is finally making its way into...

Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise

Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built...

LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale

LM Link is the easy and more secure way to share LLMs between devices you control, unexposed to the public Internet.

Everyone Speaks Incel Now

After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Judge doesn’t trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter

A federal court will conduct a search of devices seized from a Washington Post reporter after a magistrate judge decided yesterday that the Department of Justice...

The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative,...

The Ultimate Web Developer Job Search Handbook

Getting a web developer job today is hard. In 2021, I got my first developer job by sending one direct email and then doing a single...

Trump claims tech companies will sign deals next week to pay for their own power supply

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech – and now we’re learning that the...

How to Build an LLM Market Copilot MVP with LangChain, APIs, and Streamlit

In fintech or wealthtech products, people constantly need quick market context. They need to know why a particular stock moved, what changed recently, or what they...

Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series…

Here’s how the new Samsung Galaxy S26 compares with last year’s S25

Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S26 lineup at its recent Unpacked event in San Francisco. As expected, the new series consists of the baseline S26, which starts...

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

With yesterday’s stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn’t take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year...

Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI...

Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multistep tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car,...

Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

The stated support periods for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels has been extended. The 6.6 kernel will be supported with stable updates through the end...

Stop Ironing 3D Prints

If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer. This causes the head...

Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger.

While lifesaving vaccines face a relentless onslaught from the Trump administration—with fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the charge—scientific literature is building a wondrous...

Preorders for Samsung’s S26 phones come with up to $200 in gift cards

As expected, Samsung has taken the wraps off its flagship lineup for 2026. Introduced during the company’s recent Unpacked event, the new Galaxy devices – which...

WebAssembly is everywhere. Here’s how it works

If you’re familiar with building web applications in the last few years, you’ve probably heard of WebAssembly (Wasm). And if not, you’ll leave this article with...

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

VAST Data tackles the enterprise AI trust gap

The biggest obstacle to shipping AI agents in the enterprise isn’t model quality. It’s trust. Or at least that’s the argument VAST Data is making this...

2026 Lexus RZ 550e review: Likable, but it needs improvement

Sometimes you drive a car you just don’t gel with. The original Lexus RZ was such a case. It was Lexus’ first battery EV, and I...

The AirPods Pro 3 Are $20 Off

It’s not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight...

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

In an illustration of the severity of the current memory shortage, HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill said that RAM has gone from accounting for “roughly 15...

The Linux Foundation reveals the “ugly” secret of how open source is draining your budget

Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical debt. Here is the tech industry’s...

Kalshi says it fined a MrBeast editor and a politician for insider trading

Kalshi, the prediction betting market, has disclosed its first fines for insider trading, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to handing down...

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings PDF Editor Upgrades With New Signing and Editing Tools

You get a range of improvements across the other editors too.

Building An Interactive Climbing Wall

Climbing is a cool sport. With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs. To that end, [Superbender] worked...

Google Gemini can book an Uber or order food for you on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26

Gemini can now prep a rideshare or grocery order, though you’ll have to submit the order yourself. | Image: Google Google’s Gemini AI is getting one...

Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date

Samsung’s new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

How to Thrive as a Remote Worker

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech...

Warper: Rust Powered React Virtualisation Library

Warper 7.2 is a cutting-edge open-source React virtualization library utilizing Rust and WebAssembly for unmatched performance. With zero-allocation hot paths and O(1) circular buffer operations, Warper...

Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter’s Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing...

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code

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...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes “a masterpiece” appears to be run by a White House staffer,...

Control Your Smart Home With Trek-Inspired Comm Badge

One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system...

The Man Who Stole Infinity

When Demian Goos followed Karin Richter into her office on March 12 of last year, the first thing he noticed was the bust. It sat atop...

systemd 260-rc1 Released: New “mstack” Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported

The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to...

React Is No Longer Meta's Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation

Meta has contributed React, React Native, and JSX to the newly formed React Foundation.

How to Create REST API Documentation in Node.js Using Scalar

A REST API documentation is a guide that explains how clients can make use of the REST APIs in an application. It details the available endpoints,...

AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientists Write Them

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers...

Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1

While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there’s an interesting feature on track:...

MAGA Is Raging Over the Epstein Files. But They’re Not Mad at Donald Trump

Trump supporters are angry at the lack of arrests after the latest Epstein file dump but have targeted their ire at Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and...

Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading

Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces...

Trump’s MAHA influencer pick for surgeon general goes before Senate

Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, will appear before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday and is likely to face scrutiny over her qualifications...

Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer

3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record...

In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

Google wants to give developers a comprehensive, functional AI software development toolkit. As such, this month the company has added a new automated review feature to...

[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs

On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel’s BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access...

Fragments: February 25

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things. But some talks are worth a watch,...

A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets

You’re surely no stranger to bookmarks. The ability to favorite, save, or “bookmark” web pages has been a staple browser feature for decades. Browsers don’t just...

Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat)

A small community project is building immutable Fedora images for tablets and phones.

Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to cut Anthropic from his department’s supply chain unless it agrees to sign off on its technology being used...

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released: Speed, Stability, and Smarter Apps

System76 releases COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8! Experience a faster COSMIC Store, reduced VRAM usage, and key fixes for the Terminal and Files apps. The post COSMIC Epoch...

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take...

MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye

The MetaBrainz Foundation has announced the unexpected passing of its founder and executive director, Robert Kaye: Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MetaBrainz and left a lasting...

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 “Sorano” Series

The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana and grafana-pcp), Debian (gnutls28), Fedora (chromium and yt-dlp), Oracle (389-ds-base, kernel, munge, and openssl), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins,...

Arm & Linaro Launch New “CoreCollective” Consortium – With Backing From AMD & Others

The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium… CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to...

How to Run Your Python Scripts and Code

Running Python scripts is essential for executing your code. You can run Python scripts from the command line using python script.py, directly by making files executable...

From DHCP to SZTP – The Trust Revolution

By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group The Dawn of Effortless Connectivity In the transformative years of the late 1990s, a quiet revolution took place, fundamentally altering how...

Sahil Dhiman: Publicly Available NKN Data Traffic Graphs

National Knowledge Network (NKN) is one of India’s main National Research and Educational Network (NREN). The other being the less prevalent Education and Research Network (ERNET)....

GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support

Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME’s GTK toolkit…

The Download: introducing the Crime issue

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Crime issue...

What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent

In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on how well they helped architects create...

Poisoning AI Training Data

All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The...

Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars

If you’ve ever wanted to bounce ideas off your favorite historical figure, Ailias gives you the chance.

Kubuntu Focus Zr Gen 1 Review: A Powerhouse Linux Laptop

Need the power of a Linux desktop in a laptop? Kubuntu Focus’ latest laptop is perfect for developers, video editors, and anyone who needs serious computing...

Best Wireless Headphones (2026): I Compare Bose, Apple, Sony, and More

From workout-ready earbuds to gaming over-ears, these WIRED-tested picks sound like a million bucks.

Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI

Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer...

Xbox Replaces Head of Gaming, Xbox History, Whither Xbox

Xbox has a new head, who isn’t a gamer; I suspect Microsoft is doing what it should have done a decade ago: get out of the...

This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

There’s a good way to throw out the ISS. And then there’s a really bad way.

Listen to Earth’s rumbling, secret soundtrack

The boom of a calving glacier. The crackling rumble of a wildfire. The roar of a surging storm front. They’re the noises of the living Earth,...

3 things Juliet Beauchamp is into right now

The only reality show that matters The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is one of the best shows on television right now. Not one of...

Now is a good time for doing crime

Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience. My iPhone suddenly shut down. When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a...

OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a...

Joachim Breitner: Vibe-coding a debugger for a DSL

Earlier this week a colleague of mine, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, shared a demo of something he built as an experiment, and I felt the desire...

FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client

For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in...

Vantrue E1 4K Pro Review (2026): Tiny and High-Definition

The Vantrue E1 4K Pro is the smallest dashcam I’ve seen with high-resolution video and great daytime license plate capture. But the night, it comes.

Google Brings Its Developer Documentation Into the Age of AI Agents

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a...

cp Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for copy operations. Command Description cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE DEST Copy one file to destination cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DIRECTORY Copy multiple...

How AI Helped One Developer Build a MacBook WiFi Driver for FreeBSD

Learn how a developer used AI agents to build a native FreeBSD WiFi driver for the MacBook BCM4350 chip. Explore the “vibe coding” workflow and AI-led...

How Mexico’s ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the...

Presentation: Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams

Fabien Deshayes discusses the strategies behind Monzo’s Developer Velocity squad. He explains the “Platform as a Product” mindset, emphasizing the need for engineers with product acumen...

On Running Is Finally Ramping Up Production of Its ‘Hyper-Foam’ Spray-On Shoes

Swiss shoemaker On’s newest kicks—the LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper—are laceless shoes with a single-piece, stretchy, sprayed-on toe box.

Deno 2.7: Temporal API, Windows ARM, and npm overrides

Deno 2.7 stabilizes the Temporal API, adds Windows on ARM builds, npm overrides in package.json, brotli compression streams, self-extracting compiled binaries, deno create, and dozens of...

Little Red Dots

TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again

While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable...

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) walks with Emil Michael (R), Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering, while touring an exhibit of Multi-Domain Autonomous...

AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation

It’s quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs)...

Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve’s Latest Steam Runtime

Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in...

Apple’s new age verification tools block underage app downloads where required by law

Apple, like many others, has had to launch age verification features in response to new requirements for age checks in many regions, and on Tuesday, the...

The AI Coding Loop: How to Guide AI With Rules and Tests

Building great software isn’t about perfect prompts, it’s about a disciplined process. In this guide, I’ll share my workflow for shipping secure code: defining clear goals,...

Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper...

AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders....

Elongating a BMX For Drag Racing

BMX bikes are a unique frame geometry, essentially forgoing all travel efficiency for maneuverability and sturdiness. For how much abuse these bikes are designed to take,...

Refactoring isn’t just technical—it’s an economic hedge

Refactoring is not a technical clean-up activity. The choice to refactor is an economic decision about how you allocate human effort. Refactoring in this sense goes...

MCP security: The current situation

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather...

Apple’s touchscreen MacBooks might also have a Dynamic Island

Apple’s OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros set to launch this fall will get a Dynamic Island feature like what’s available on iPhones, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman....

Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

Restarting LibreOffice Online

LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybody’s infrastructure. This project was put into stasis back in 2022,...

Dynamic Music Pill puts a slick media controller in your GNOME panel

Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel. It shows album art, artist name and track...

OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit

OpenAI won a victory Tuesday in one of its legal battles with xAI, which involved allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets. The former company’s...

WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix’s

Paramount Skydance increased its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) from $30 per share to $31 per share, WBD said today. Amid a competing offer from...

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news...

Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play

When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it launched a set of new connectors...

Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g., what just happened), long-term memory, similarity...

Recent books from the MIT community

Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupBy Lita Nelsen ’64, SM ’66, SM ’79, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and Maureen StancikBoyce,...

A boost for manufacturing

Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist offered a thought that...

Using big data for good

A photogenic green-eyed Russian Blue named Petra might just be the world’s most sequenced cat. Petra was rescued from an animal shelter in Reno, Nevada, by...

Innovation on the move

The Massachusetts Bay Trans­portation Authority moves hundreds of thousands of people across Greater Boston each day—thanks to a vast system of buses, trains, and ferries that...

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can spring up from a flat sheet of interconnected tiles with a single pull...

A retinal reboot for amblyopia

In the vision disorder amblyopia (or “lazy eye”), impaired vision in one eye early in life causes neural connections in the brain’s visual system to shift...

A new way to rejuvenate the immune system

As people age, their immune function weakens. Owing to shrinkage of the thymus, where T cells normally mature and diversify, populations of these immune cells become...

A I-designed proteins may help spot cancer

Researchers at MIT and Microsoft have used artificial intelligence to create molecular sensors that could detect early signs of cancer via a urine test. The researchers...

Reformulated antibodies could be injected for easier treatment

Antibody treatments for cancer and other diseases are typically delivered intravenously, requiring patients to go to a hospital and potentially spend hours receiving infusions. Now Professor...

Vine-inspired robot fingers can reach out and grab someone

In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with enough force to pull down fences...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal’s Debian & Stuff – February 2026

Our Debian User Group met on February 22nd for our first meeting of the year! Here’s what we did: pollo: reviewed and merged Lintian contributions: salsa...

RCCLX: Innovating GPU communications on AMD platforms

We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully...

Learn Notion in 12 Hours

Stop treating Notion like a digital notebook and start using it as a high-level operating system. We just posted a massive Notion course on the freeCodeCamp.org...

DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones

DJI, the most popular consumer drone maker, is suing over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s import ban against new, foreign-made drones, which has been in effect...

Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet

Age verification is a reality on a growing number of social media platforms, requiring an ID or facial scan for full access to everything from YouTube...

Peltier Fridges Have Early Death

If you know about Peltier modules, a solid-state fridge seems like an easy project. Pump 12V into the module, include a heat sink and a fan....

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

*This post was updated at 12:35 pm PT to fix a typo in the build time benchmarks. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt...

My Favorite Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $50 Off Right Now

JBL’s fabulous Flip 7 speaker is on super sale for $100. Grab this go-anywhere companion on the cheap before the nice weather hits.

UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough

A UK regulator today fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) for not verifying the ages of users. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) alleged that the...

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements

While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn’t slowed down their software work. Today they shipped COSMIC Epoch...

A TV Transmitter From An STM32

Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV sets around that could receive it....

Save $20 on Our Favorite Gaming Headset

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 have excellent compatibility and a comfortable, lightweight fit.

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

Discord won’t roll out age verification globally on its platform next month as previously announced, and says in a blog post that it’s delaying the launch...

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing number of organizations in need of...

This Physics Professor Credits Collaboration for Her Success

For Cinzia DaVià, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the approach she applies to all her professional endeavors. From her contributions to the development of a...

Apple Researchers Introduce Ferret-UI Lite, an On-Device AI Model for Seeing and Controlling UIs

Apple’s Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text,...

Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale....

In a replay of 2019, Apple says a single desktop Mac will be manufactured in the US

Apple plans to start manufacturing the Mac mini in the United States later this year, the company announced today, as part of its $600 billion commitment...

1Password is going up in price

1Password is increasing its prices on March 27th, 2026. In an email sent to users, the password manager says it will raise the price of its...

Life in Cuba Under Trump’s Pressure Campaign: No Electricity, No Oil, and Impossible Choices

As the United States takes new steps against the regime that has ruled the island since 1959, the Cuban people face 20-hour blackouts, decreased internet access,...

Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it...

How to Build an LLM Market Copilot MVP with LangChain, APIs, and Streamlit

In fintech or wealthtech products, people constantly need quick market context. They need to know why a particular stock moved, what changed recently, or what they...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Uni-body That Does the Splits

Personally, I love a monoblock or uni-body split. You’ll pry this Kinesis Advantage from under my cold, dead hands. But on the go, I really like...

You can still get $30 in Samsung credit when you reserve a Galaxy S26 phone

Samsung is set to introduce its new Galaxy S26 lineup at its next Unpacked event on February 25th, potentially alongside a new pair of earbuds and...

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux

D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as...

PlayStation’s Wolverine game hits PS5 in September

Marvel’s Wolverine, the next superhero game from Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, will be released on PS5 on September 15th. Insomniac announced that it would be...

Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game

Despite being regarded as one of the greatest role-playing games of all time, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind disappointed some fans upon its release in 2002 because...

Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it

There is a failure mode so common in platform engineering that it barely gets mentioned anymore. A team ships a self-service workflow — environment provisioning, policy...

The Future of Software Engineering with AI: Six Predictions

Two weeks ago, I hosted The Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, a few days after attending a 50-person workshop entitled The Future of Software Development in...

50 mpg in a Nissan crossover? Testing the new E-Power hybrid system.

While Toyota and Honda’s showrooms are littered with electrified offerings, Nissan hasn’t had much to counter. Globally, Nissan offers a series hybrid system called E-Power, but...

The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

Separating AI hype from engineering reality

Why leadership, not models, determines AI impact. The post Separating AI hype from engineering reality appeared first on LeadDev.

Real-time Shader, Running on a Game Boy Color

[Danny Spencer] has a brilliant graphical demo that, like all great demos, flexes a deep understanding of the underlying system: a real-time 3D shader on the...

GNU Awk 5.4.0 released

Version 5.4.0 of GNU awk (gawk) has been released. This is a major release with a change in gawk’s default regular-expression matcher: it now uses MinRX...

Firefox 148.0 released

Version 148 of Firefox has been released. The most notable change in this release is the addition of a “Block AI enhancements” option that allows turning...

[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the...

Lamborghini cancels electric Lanzador as supercar buyers reject EVs

For the last few years, Lamborghini has been in a quandary: What to do about an electric vehicle? Among the supercar brands, Lamborghini has always stood...

Railguns: Making Metal Go Fast Using the Lorentz Force

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more...

Your Watch Will One Day Track Blood Pressure

Your smartwatch can track a lot of things, but at least for now, it can’t keep an accurate eye on your blood pressure. Last week researchers...

Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance

Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A...

Knowledge Priming

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants – lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He’s noticed five...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and munge), Debian (openssl), Mageia (gegl), Oracle (firefox, freerdp, gnupg2, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libpng15, munge,...

John Goerzen: Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console

I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because...

Building quantum-safe telecom infrastructure for 5G and beyond

coRAN Labs and Canonical at MWC Barcelona 2026 At MWC Barcelona 2026, coRAN Labs and Canonical are presenting a working demonstration of a cloud-native, quantum-safe telecom...

Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

Meta has struck a multi-billion dollar chip deal with AMD that could lead to the Facebook owner taking a 10 percent stake in the group, sending...

Scientists crack the case of “screeching” Scotch tape

Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted...

Start Building With FastAPI

FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python. It leverages standard Python type hints to provide automatic validation, serialization, and interactive documentation. When you’re...

Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod

Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.

PHP Error Reporting: Enable, Display, and Log Errors

PHP error reporting controls which errors are shown, logged, or silently ignored. Configuring it correctly is essential during development — where you want full visibility —...

Australia's Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Repository

Think of it as a searchable, automated knowledge base for malware.

FreeBSD Q4 2025 Status Report: Laptop Support, Rust in Kernel, OSV Migration, Bhyve Improvements, Plus More

The FreeBSD 2025 Q4 report details Rust in the kernel, OSV migration, reproducible builds, Wi-Fi 6 drivers, and major Bhyve improvements. The post FreeBSD Q4 2025...

AMD’s HIP Moves To Using LLVM’s New Offload Driver By Default

A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD’s HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with...

6 Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026), WIRED-Approved and Tested

These 2-in-1 computers upgrade the norm with touchscreen displays, 360-degree hinges, and detachable keyboards.

Fellow Series 1 Espresso Machine Review (2026): Excellent, but a Work in Progress

Fellow’s new espresso machine offers capabilities previously seen only in commercial machines. Some of those are still being fleshed out.

Is AI Good for Democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country,...

Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think

Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to production every Thursday. It was written...

Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure,...