Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements
While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media...
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Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents
Vercel has launched “react-best-practices,” an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers,...
Read moreBlock lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools
Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by “nearly half” in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping...
Read moreSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, buildah, firefox, freerdp, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana-pcp, kernel, libpng15, munge, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, podman, protobuf, python-pyasn1, runc, and skopeo), Debian (chromium,...
Read moreBlock’s massive AI-driven layoff is a warning
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Read moreCanonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and...
Read moreApple says it has “a big week ahead.” Here’s what we expect to see.
Excepting the AirTag 2, so far it’s been a quiet year for Apple hardware. But that’s poised to change next week, as the company is hosting...
Read moreThe Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery
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. AI is rewiring how...
Read moreSelf-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)
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Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: x13binary 1.1.61.2 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance
The x13binary team is happy to share the availability of Release 1.1.61.2 of the x13binary package providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau which...
Read moreAventon Soltera 3 Electric Bike Review: A Fun Hybrid Single-Speed
Aventon’s latest single-speed hybrid bicycle is light, looks cool, and is the most bikey electric bike on the market right now.
Read moreWhy Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous
Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s...
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