Category: Allgemein

[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust

The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of...

Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl....

X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s...

How to Use the Export Command in Linux

Everything you need to know about the export command in Linux: set variables, export functions, and manage your shell environment.

OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes

Database support provider Percona is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). For Kubernetes environs, the newly named...

First developer job at age 38 with lawyer turned software engineer Zubin Pratap [Podcast #203]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as a corporate lawyer, he taught himself...

“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet

The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing Internet pornography, from a Craigslist ad she responded to more than 15 years ago....

London called, and the world answered: creating a Summit without borders

When we announced that the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 would be a remote event, we knew we were taking a big step. We asked ourselves: how can...

Presentation: Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite...

General Motors writes down $6 billion as domestic EV sales plans change

American automakers who got overenthusiastic about electric vehicles continue to pay the price—literally. Yesterday, General Motors told investors that building and selling fewer EVs will cost...

Google Cloud: A Deep Dive into GKE Sandbox for Agents

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Agent Sandbox is a new Kubernetes extension designed to run workloads, such as AI agents, that execute untrusted or specialized code in...

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdfminer and vlc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and microcode_ctl), Slackware (libtasn1), SUSE (apptainer, curl, ImageMagick, libpcap, libvirt, libwget4, php8,...

The Download: the case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

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. How I learned to...

Why GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are a leap forward for coding

It feels different this time. The post Why GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are a leap forward for coding appeared first on LeadDev.

Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords

Palo Alto’s crosswalk signals were hacked last year. Turns out the city never changed the default passwords.

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #279: Coding Python With Confidence: Beginners Live Course Participants

Are you looking for that solid foundation to begin your Python journey? Would the accountability of scheduled group classes help you get through the basics and...

Conservative Lawmakers Want Porn Taxes. Critics Say They’re Unconstitutional

Alabama passed a 10 percent porn tax last year, as Utah and Pennsylvania eye similar bills. Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors...

‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car

What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.

Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA

There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of...

QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support

The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good…

Burtran Nano-Oxy Smart Air Purifier: Safe Sleep?

This negative-oxygen-ion-generating purifier claims to create a “forestlike atmosphere” in your bedroom.

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light...

Mini book: The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

This special edition of The InfoQ eMag, contains a comprehensive collection of our popular InfoQ Trends Reports from 2025, a year with both evolution and revolution...

Crispr Pioneer Launches Startup to Make Tailored Gene-Editing Treatments

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.

A new CRISPR startup is betting regulators will ease up on gene-editing

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech breakthrough of the century. Yet so...

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver

Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT synchronization primitives…

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors

The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from...

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would...

60 Must-Have Free and Open-Source Linux Tools for 2026

The post 60 Must-Have Free and Open-Source Linux Tools for 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . It’s time once again to...

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Repairing Brittle Plastic Retro Computer Cases

Using UV resin as glue for new case clips. (Credit: More Fun Making It, YouTube) As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic...

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Planetary Alignment

NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station

NASA officials said Thursday they have decided to bring home four of the seven crew members on the International Space Station after one of them experienced...

Ubuntu’s New ARM Steam Snap is Available for Testing

Canonical’s ARM64 Steam Snap brings x86 gaming to Ubuntu ARM systems via FEX emulation. Early testing shows 200+ FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. You can help test...

Russell Coker: LEAF ZE1 After 6 Months

About 6 months ago I got a Nissan LEAF ZE1 (2019 model) [1]. Generally it’s going well and I’m happy with most things about it. One...

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony

Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by...

The Staggering Complexity and Subtlety of Concurrency

If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you’re gonna have to deal with concurrency....

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX

Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers...

Xbox’s Towerborne is switching from a free-to-play game to a paid one

Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of...

M8SBC-86 is an FPGA-Based “Kinda PC Compatible” 486

Given the technical specs of the FPGAs available to hobbyists these days, it really shouldn’t be a shock that you can implement a 486 core on...

The best Apple Watch to buy

If you have an iPhone, the Apple Watch is the best smartwatch for you. But there was only one Apple Watch when the smartwatch launched in...

Friday Five — January 9, 2026

Red Hat Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA to Pair Enterprise Open Source with Rack-Scale AI for Faster, Production-Ready InnovationRed Hat and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration to...

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 310 released

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 310. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Reference the...

Code And Let Live

The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral...

How to Build and Deploy an AI Agent with LangChain, FastAPI, and Sevalla

Artificial intelligence is changing how we build software. Just a few years ago, writing code that could talk, decide, or use external data felt hard. Today,...

Pioneer Sphera is bringing Dolby Atmos in cars to the people

The Pioneer Sphera can be installed into a single-DIN space in your dash. I fully believe that once someone hears Dolby Atmos music in their car,...

Qwen3 vs GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 Pro: Which Should You Use and When?

A few years back, choosing an AI model was simple. You pick the most capable one you can afford and move on. But today, that approach...

Dima Kogan: Meshroom packaged for Debian

Like the title says, I just packaged Meshroom (and all the adjacent dependencies) for Debian! This is a fancy photogrammetry toolkit that uses modern software development...

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of...

UK Prime Minister says ‘we will take action’ on Grok’s disgusting deepfakes

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that the platform’s Grok AI chatbot is generating sexualized deepfakes of...

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in December 2025

Welcome to the December 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project! Our monthly reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of...

How AI Accelerates PMUT Design for Biomedical Ultrasonic Applications

This whitepaper provides MEMS engineers, biomedical device developers, and multiphysics simulation specialists with a practical AI-accelerated workflow for optimizing piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs), enabling you...

Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal

In 2002, Bryan Fleming helped to create pcTattletale, software for monitoring phone and computer usage. Fleming’s tool would record everything done on the target device, and...

The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2026

It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a...

How to Build Your First Shopify App: A Beginner’s Guide

Shopify powers more than a million online stores around the world. Many store features you see every day, such as discounts, bundles, and order fulfillment are...

Why a Chinese Robot Vacuum Company Spun Off Not One but 2 EV Brands

The pivot doesn’t look out of place at CES, where Chinese electronics companies are increasingly applying their manufacturing prowess to new industries.

Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices

The Federal Communications Commission plans to authorize a new category of wireless devices in the 6 GHz Wi-Fi band that will be permitted to operate at...

Electric Snowblower Clears the Way With Hobby Parts

If you live in snow country and own a home, you either have a snowblower or wish you did. The alternatives are either an expensive and...

Honeycomb’s ‘Private Cloud’ Is Largely About OpenTelemetry, AI and AWS

The observability provider Honeycomb has named its recent offering for private cloud — eponymously called Private Cloud. It is largely designed to accommodate the explosion of...

High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers

Supply shortages and big price increases for RAM and storage have been a major drag for enthusiasts and PC builders in recent months. And while we...

RFK Jr.’s dietary guidance: Food funnel features slab of red meat, butter

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins unveiled the delayed 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for America Wednesday, which is already drawing criticism...

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue...

The coolest laptops we saw at CES 2026

Gamers, roll up! CES is always jam-packed with new laptop announcements, acting as a barometer for the year’s upcoming releases. The proofs of concept at the...

Mesa 26.0 RADV Merges The Big Ray-Tracing Improvement For UE5 Lumen

The RADV ray-tracing improvement covered earlier this week for some big performance gains for Unreal Engine 5 titles running under Linux thanks to Steam Play has...

The Pulse #158: new ways of coding with AI tools

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

MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

The federal government’s narrative of the Minneapolis shooting conflicts wildly with video footage of the incident shared online.

A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy?

After 20 years in software, full-stack developer Yaniv Soussana is tired of complexity in React-based JavaScript frameworks. So the creator of the app conversion tool Wappaa...

The 70 Best Movies on Disney+, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

Tron: Ares, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour—The Final Show are just a few of the movies...

Best Bird Feeders With Cameras, Tested and Reviewed (2026)

These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.

The Full-Sized 32-Wheeled, Articulated Bus Built for a 1976 Movie

Regardless of what your opinion is on cult-classic movies that got mixed-to-negative box office reviews when they were released, you have to admire the ones that...

YouTube will now let you filter Shorts out of search results

As part of a few changes to its search filters, YouTube is going to allow you to search specifically for Shorts or longform videos. Right now,...

Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again?

Last year, Tesla defied its critics by boldly launching a robotaxi service that, by the end of the year, required no human supervision and was available...

Few pairs of budget earbuds deliver like Nothing’s Ear (a), which are down to $59

Nothing’s Ear (a) come in a bright yellow color, though you can also buy them in black and white. The new year has brought a wave...

Unify the Data Stack for AI With Incremental Cloud Migrations

Even as AI offloads repetitive tasks and accelerates learning and productivity, you hear more anecdotes every day about AI systems that weren’t quite ready for production....

These Bose Noise-Canceling Earbuds Are $50 Off

With top-quality noise reduction and advanced spatial audio support, these earbuds might come for your AirPods.

These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words

When it comes to cognitive ability, not all dogs are created equal. Most dogs can learn simple action cues like “sit” or “down.” But so-called “gifted...

AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the...

The best deals on 4K TVs

Sony’s Bravia 8 II remains one of the best OLED TVs you can buy, and Super Bowl deals will likely make in an unbeatable value. Things...

Logitech MX Anywhere 3S Mouse With Linux 6.19 Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling

For those that happen to have a Logitech MX Anywhere 3S mouse connected via Bluetooth, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel release is enabling HID++ support for...

ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated section of the AI chatbot designed for “health and wellness conversations” intended to connect a user’s health and...

Why Most APIs Fail in AI Systems and How To Fix It

Over the past few years, I’ve reviewed thousands of APIs across startups, enterprises and global platforms. Almost all shipped OpenAPI documents. On paper, they should be...

TanStack Releases Framework Agnostic AI Toolkit

Introducing TanStack AI: a revolutionary, framework-agnostic toolkit empowering developers with unparalleled control over their AI stack. This open-source release features a unified interface across multiple providers...

Mesa 26.0 Now Supports GPU Hardware Replay With The Intel Xe Kernel Driver

The Intel Mesa graphics drivers have supported a GPU hardware replay feature for making it easier to reproduce issues. But until now that functionality has only...

Fedora Linux 43 election results

The Fedora Project has announced the results of the Fedora 43 election cycle. Five seats were open on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the winners...

Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets

Nintendo’s Switch 2 was an unmitigated market success for Nintendo following its launch last June, selling a record-setting 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four...

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research

The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday, the US’s federal health agency upended...

3 Ways Enterprises Can Scale AI Gains in 2026

Most organizations are ending 2025 with tangible AI wins. Developers are shipping code faster, costs are down and leadership is thrilled that everyone is embracing AI....

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

It’s Not a Leica, It’s a Lumix

There’s an old adage in photography that the best camera in the world is the one in your hand when the shot presents itself, but there’s...

Gentoo looks back on 2025

Gentoo Linux has published a 2025 project retrospective that looks at how the community has evolved, changes to the distribution, infrastructure, and finances for the Gentoo...

How to Not Be Overwhelmed by AI – A Developer’s Guide to Using AI Tools Effectively

If you’re a developer, you’ll likely want to use AI to boost your productivity and help you save time on menial, repetitive tasks. And nearly every...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppCCTZ 0.2.14 on CRAN: New Upstream, Small Edits

A new release 0.2.14 of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN, in Debian and built for r2u. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is...

[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd,...

[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements

On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom...

How to Optimize React

React makes it easy to build UIs, but building fast React apps is a different skill altogether. We just posted a hands-on, real-world React Performance Optimization...

Bose SoundTouch End of Life Gets Less Painful With Public API Release

The API documentation opens the door for developers to build their own control apps (hopefully open source ones).

Two new stable kernels

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.4 and 6.12.64 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Autonomous, Resilient Workflows: How Close Are They to Reality?

As enterprises push deeper into AI-driven automation, the conversation is moving from simple task automation to truly autonomous, resilient workflows. These systems observe, decide, adapt and...

Linux 6.18 LTS vs. Liquorix Kernel On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstation Performance

It’s been a while since running benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel as an enthusiast-tailored downstream version of the Linux kernel focused on responsiveness for gaming, audio/video...

The Time Clock Has Stood the Test of Time

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish...

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, httpd, kernel, libpng, mariadb, mingw-libpng, poppler, python3.12, and ruby:3.3), Debian (foomuuri and libsodium), Fedora (python-pdfminer and wget2),...

Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty

Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the world’s most important climate treaty, as well as from dozens of other international organizations, as the...

Linux Kernel Bugs Hide for 2+ Years on Average

Study of 20 years of kernel history finds bugs hide for 2+ years on average, some for decades.

How to Merge PDF Files in Linux with pdfunite Command (2026 Guide)

Learn how to merge PDF files in Linux using pdfunite command. Step-by-step tutorial with examples, scripting tips, faq and troubleshooting. The post How to Merge PDF...

Intel Panther Lake Laptops For Pre-Order Scarce So Far

On Monday at CES Intel announced Panther Lake as Core Ultra Series 3 with the initial laptop designs to be available for pre-order starting the following...

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above....

ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI chatbots. Researchers discover a vulnerability and exploit it to do something bad. The platform introduces a guardrail...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.24 on CRAN: New Upstream

Version 0.0.24 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN today, has been been uploaded to Debian, and also been built for r2u. This follows an upstream release on...

My favorite musical discoveries of 2025

My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a unique male vocalist. more…

Fragments: January 8

Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in...

NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings

A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller “memcg” statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for...

The Download: mimicking pregnancy’s first moments in a lab, and AI parameters explained

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. Researchers are getting organoids...

Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox

Gmail made us all rethink how email could work when it debuted more than 20 years ago. Google thinks we’re in the process of another email...

AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse

In recent months, I’ve noticed a troubling trend with AI coding assistants. After two years of steady improvements, over the course of 2025, most of the...

Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail That Summarizes Emails

New Gmail features, powered by the Gemini model, are part of Google’s continued push for users to incorporate AI into their daily life and conversations.

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Enterprises are sitting on vast quantities of unstructured data, from call records and video footage to customer complaint histories and supply chain signals. Yet this invaluable...

Mendix Cloud Private Connectivity powered by Tailscale now available in public beta

Mendix customers can now create private, secure connections between their Mendix Cloud apps and their own infrastructure—without the hassle of complex networking set ups and arduous...

Creatine Supplements Are Everywhere. Do I Need Them? (2026)

It’s the most studied supplement in sports medicine, but it’s not just for athletes anymore.

AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work

Leaders of many organizations are urging their teams to adopt agentic AI to improve efficiency, but are finding it hard to achieve any benefit. Managers attempting...

2026 Is the Year of the RGB LED TV

The crop of next-generation TVs arriving this year has more accurate colors than ever, thanks to a fancy new kind of backlighting.

What Testers Can Do to Ensure Software Security

A secure software development life cycle means baking security into plan, design, build, test, and maintenance, rather than sprinkling it on at the end, Sara Martinez...

Linus Torvalds: “The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation”

The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the “tools”, the main...

The Daring Attempt to End the Memory Shortage Crisis

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.

Linux Patches Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updating From Non-x86 Systems

The modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was designed from the start to be more broadly compatible with non-x86 architectures given their discrete graphics processors being...

Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware

Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM...

An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey About Building Power for AI

An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey about how AI labs and hyperscalers are leveraging demand to build out entirely new electrical infrastructure for...

How 4Patriots and My Patriot Supply Cashed In on Prepping for the Apocalypse

How two big names in mainstream disaster preparedness helped sell Americans on fear, anxiety, and a new generator.

What new legal challenges mean for the future of US offshore wind

For offshore wind power in the US, the new year is bringing new legal battles. On December 22, the Trump administration announced it would pause the...

Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026

To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64...

Sven Hoexter: Moving from hexchat to Halloy

I’m not hanging around on IRC a lot these days, but when I do I used hexchat (and xchat before). Probably a bad habbit of clinging...

This Is the Blood Glucose Monitor We’ve Been Waiting For

Makers of smartwatches and other wearables have spent years trying to measure blood sugar without pricking your skin. The PreEvnt Isaac does just that, and you...

AWS Previews Route 53 Global Resolver to Decouple DNS from Regional Failures

AWS previews Route 53 Global Resolver, using Anycast to decouple DNS from regional failures. It simplifies hybrid setups with unified public/private resolution, DoH/DoT, and Zero-Trust security....

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?

Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Article: Agentic Terminal – How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents

In this article author Sachin Joglekar discusses the transformation of CLI terminals becoming agentic where developers can state goals while the AI agents plan, call tools,...

Volvo says new EX60 has 400-mile range, charges up to 400 kW

Later this month, Volvo will unveil its new EX60 SUV. The Swedish automaker has adopted some of the latest trends in electric vehicle design for the...

Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows

This article is a sponsored by Penpot Imagine that your Penpot file contains a full icon set in addition to the design itself, which uses some...

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform

A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last year. Click-through for the notes or...

FOSS Weekly #26.02: Level Up in 2026, Liquorix Kernel, Open Source Apps from Web Browser and More

Keep on learning in, keep on Linux-ing. 2026 is your year of Linux.

Why AI is both the problem and the cure for legacy code 

AI may be the key to cracking legacy code. The post Why AI is both the problem and the cure for legacy code  appeared first on...

I Thought This Wikipedia App for Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong)

I don’t need to tell you that this application is for the people who enjoy the free and open knowledge provided by Wikipedia.

Co-Extrusion Carbon Fiber FDM Filament Investigated

After previously putting carbon fiber-reinforced PLA filament under the (electron) microscope, the [I built a thing] bloke is back with a new video involving PLA-CF, this...

Ubuntu 25.04 Support Ends Next Week (Jan 15th)

Support for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ officially ends on 15th January 2026 — which for those of you reading in a timely fashion is next week!...

A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS

A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station has been postponed due to a “medical concern” with one of the crew members aboard the orbital complex,...

Disney Plus is getting vertical video

Disney Plus will be getting a vertical video feed later this year, Disney announced as part of its Global Tech & Data Showcase for advertisers at...

How Neural Networks Work – Explained Using the Straight Line Equation y = ax + b

Did you know that every data scientist who builds a complex neural network starts with a fundamental question, “How does the output change when the input...

The best iPad deals you can get right now

Apple’s latest iPad Mini is on sale starting at $389.99 in select colors, including the cream-colored starlight shade. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge...

Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is currently raging in Las Vegas, and as has become traditional over the past decade, automakers and their suppliers now use...

DIY Grid Dip Meter Teardown

You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The idea...

Ford’s AI voice assistant is coming later this year, L3 driving in 2028

Ford’s new AI-powered voice assistant will be rolling out to customers later this year, the company’s top software executive said at CES today. And in 2028,...

A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a...

Smarter troubleshooting with the new MCP server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (now in developer preview)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administrators and developers have long relied on a specific set of tools to diagnose issues, combined with years of accumulated...

Navigating secure AI deployment: Architecture for enhancing AI system security and safety

In the previous articles, we discussed how integrating AI into business-critical systems opens up enterprises to a new set of risks with AI security and AI...

Chase is taking over Apple’s credit card

On Wednesday evening, Apple announced that JPMorgan Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, replacing Goldman Sachs, which has backed the company’s credit cards...

Blood for stonks

On December 31st, a brand-new account on Polymarket placed a bet: Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, would be out of office by the end of...

Bluetti now charges power stations at up to 1200W in your car

This cutaway shows how the Bluetti Charger 2 can be integrated into your vehicle. | Image: Bluetti Bluetti’s latest car charger can quickly charge power stations...

The best deals on MacBooks right now

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest...

Samsung’s Ballie home robot, once promised for summer 2025, gets grim update

Since 2020, Samsung has been dangling a yellow ball in front of us. That sphere is a robot named Ballie that Samsung has teased and demoed...

Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide and self-harm suits

Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI‘s chatbots, according to new court...

AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah

The state of Utah is allowing artificial intelligence to prescribe medication refills to patients without direct human oversight in a pilot program public advocates call “dangerous.”...

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 Are $50 Off

Snag a relatively rare discount on Apple’s finest earbuds at Best Buy.

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X

A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that...

Amazfit’s stylish budget tracker is nearly matching its best price to date

The Amazfit Active 2 is a solid fitness tracker that could easily be mistaken for a smartwatch. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazfit...

X’s deepfake machine is infuriating policymakers around the globe

X’s Grok chatbot hasn’t stopped accepting users’ requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the...

Graphing Calculator Gets USB-C Upgrade

Unlike Texas Instruments, whose graphing calculators have famously not made technological improvements in decades despite keeping the same price tag, HP has made a few more...

Facebook Survey Reveals Growing Adoption of Typed Python for Improved Code Quality and Flexibility

Conducted among over 1,200 respondents, Facebook’s 2025 Typed Python Survey highlights how and why Python developers have increasingly adopted the language’s type hinting system. The survey...

From GitLab to Kilo Code

We’re joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he...

Election Deniers Think the Venezuela Attack Is All About 2020

Conspiracy theorists claim the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

The Warner Bros. Discovery board has unanimously voted to rebuff Paramount’s $108.4 billion offer and urged shareholders to reject the hostile takeover bid. The board is...

Human Cognition Can’t Keep Up With Modern Networks. What’s Next?

IBM, the venerable tech company, has been on an acquisition binge in the last few years, buying Red Hat and HashiCorp, and it recently announced plans...

Gunnar Wolf: Artificial Intelligence • Play or break the deck

This post is an unpublished review for Artificial Intelligence • Play or break the deck As a little disclaimer, I usually review books or articles written...

Testing Laughing Gas for Rocket Propellant

Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket propellant. Since [Markus Bindhammer]...

What’s Going on With Smart Rings?

Ultrahuman smart rings currently can’t be sold in the US. We caught up with the company’s chief business officer to discuss what’s next for ring-based health...

Lessons Learned From Real-World NoSQL Database Migrations

In “Battle-Tested Tips for a Better NoSQL Migration,” I shared my top strategies for planning, executing and de-risking a NoSQL database migration. I discussed key steps...

Meet the IEEE Board-Nominated Candidates for President-Elect

The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Senior Member David Alan Koehler and IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler as candidates for 2027 IEEE...

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.

Aigars Mahinovs: Sedan experience (BMW i5)

Two years of midsize electric sedan experience This February (2026) marks a full 10 years since I started working for BMW, and a key employment bonus...

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home...

From Guesswork to Guardrails: Kubernetes Container Rightsizing

In a Kubernetes cluster, CPU and memory requests are both a cost dial and a reliability dial. They’re how you tell the scheduler what a pod...

Expired certificate completely breaks macOS Logitech apps, user customizations

If you’re a Mac user with Logitech accessories and you’ve noticed that your settings and customizations seem to have gone away this week, you’re not alone....

How Do PAL and NTSC Really Work?

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the...

Operations Shift: Assistants to Autonomous Multiagent Systems

AI assistants have become table stakes across modern enterprise operations. Drafting emails, summarizing interactions and surfacing next-best actions are no longer differentiators, they are expectations. But...

SteamOS continues its slow spread across the PC gaming landscape

SteamOS’s slow march across the Windows-dominated PC gaming landscape is continuing to creep along. At CES this week, Lenovo announced it will launch a version of...