An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers
Whether they’re into feeders, field guides, or games, these tried-and-tested picks are sure to land perfectly.
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The Mother’s Day Gifts Our Editors Love (2026)
From smart rings and everlasting flowers to weighted vests and LED masks, there’s a gift for every kind of mom.
Read moreBen Hutchings: FOSS activity in April 2026
Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Bugs: replied to #1132448: firmware-mediatek: Wifi perf degraded a lot after upgrade firmware-mediatek from 20250410-2 to 20260221-1~bpo13+1 and 20260309-1 Merge requests: merged !142:...
Read moreWhy Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?
For the past week, a photo of me has been plastered on the CEO of Snap’s Wikipedia page. No one, not even Spiegel, seems to care.
Read morePrunt Board 3 3D printer control board offers smoother and quieter operation (Crowdfunding)
Prunt Board 3 is a 3D printer control board with six TMC2240 stepper drivers, two 15A heater outputs, four fan outputs, four thermistor inputs, and four...
Read moreDebugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine...
Read morenetstat Command in Linux: Network Connections and Statistics
When something on a server is holding port 80, a connection is refusing to close, or a service is not reachable from the outside, the first...
Read moreWhat are we all playing this weekend?
Due to work and a press trip, I am still only half way through redecorating the kitchen. The walls are now a lovely shade of terracotta,...
Read moreWhat we’ve been playing – “Meanwhile, Lara Croft and Breaking Bad’s Walter White have just had their first child”
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we’ve been playing. This week, Victoria falls in love –...
Read moreDuckLake 1.0: Data Lake Format with SQL Catalog Metadata
DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than across many files in object storage....
Read moreTrellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access
Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source code. It said it “recently identified”...
Read moreRust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console
These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However,...
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