Category: General

Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here’s What It Means for You

If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing.

The War Over Prediction Markets Is Just Getting Started

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and advocates over their legality.

Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists

House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.

The Olympics and Politics Are More Intertwined Than Ever. Maybe That’s a Good Thing

The Olympics often provide a moment of unity and celebration during times of geopolitical uncertainty. But blind nationalism didn’t win at the 2026 Winter Games.

Measles cases are rising. Other vaccine-preventable infections could be next.

There’s a measles outbreak happening close to where I live. Since the start of this year, 34 cases have been confirmed in Enfield, a northern borough...

Presentation: How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions

Alex Radovici explains the shift from C-ABI and scripting to the Wasm Component Model (WASI Preview 2). He shares how to build secure plugin systems that...

Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pulls

The Podman team and the Fedora Quality Assurance team are organizing a Test Week from Friday, February 27 through Friday, March 6, 2026. This is your...

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. 13...

Eliminating the Impossible

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe

Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried...

JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 10 new features, in the form...

Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve

Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. Besides a handful of fixes and clarifications,...