Friday Five — April 3, 2026
Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, PremiumRed Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, offering a...
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Swift spacecraft reorientation buys time for reboost mission
NASA modified operations of an astrophysics spacecraft in a decaying orbit to buy more time for a mission later this year that will attempt to raise...
Read moreThe Artemis Generation Begins! Artemis II Launches for the Moon
At 06:25 p.m. EDT (03:25 p.m. PDT) on April 1st, the Artemis II mission lifted off from the historic Launch Pad-39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
Read moreWeakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta
Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they offered. And a New Mexico jury...
Read moreA former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his ‘forever job,’ but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being ‘a passing phase’
This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!
Read moreCtrl-Alt-Speech: Age Old Questions
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts,...
Read moreMega Crit co-founder says he wasn’t bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2’s beta balance patch: ‘It’s difficult for players to feel like they’re heard’
Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they’re given.
Read moreThe Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool’s joke from Games Workshop, and I don’t care if it’s a day late because it’s just that good
“Just because there is only war, doesn’t mean there can’t also be music.”
Read moreLinux App Release Roundup (March 2026)
March 2026 meted out a sizeable set of Linux software releases, including updates to FOSS stalwarts GIMP, digiKam, Krita and Blender. Major new releases were covered...
Read moreWarren Spector’s Thick as Thieves gets a bit less interesting as it ditches PvPvE for solo and co-op play
In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, “we don’t play...
Read moreRevisiting the last truly great Call of Duty
Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again.
Read moreSmarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events
By Renata Teixeira, Zhi Li, Reenal Mahajan, and Wei Wei On January 26, 2026, we flipped an important switch for Live at Netflix: all Live events are...
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