Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments...
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Redis 8.6 Released With “Substantial” Performance Improvements & Memory Reduction
The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought “substantial” performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features...
Read moreSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, fontforge, freerdp, kernel-rt, keylime, libsoup, libsoup3, nodejs22, nodejs24, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, python3.12-wheel, qemu-kvm, resource-agents, thunderbird, and util-linux), Debian...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Block Changes Land, Bounce Buffer DIO For Stable Pages
In addition to the BPF filtering support for IO_uring that was merged on Monday, the other block device changes and IO_uring updates were also merged for...
Read moreHow and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End
If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the...
Read moreThe Best TVs We’ve Reviewed in 2026: Sony, Samsung, LG, and More
From LEDs to fancy OLED models, these are our favorite televisions at every price.
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Improving Your Tests With the Python Mock Object Library
When you’re writing robust code, tests are essential for verifying that your application logic is correct, reliable, and efficient. However, the value of your tests depends...
Read moreDiscord Announces Global Expansion of Teen Safety to Build a Safer Digital Future
Starting in March 2026, Discord is rolling out “teen-by-default” safety settings and advanced age assurance systems globally. The post Discord Announces Global Expansion of Teen Safety...
Read moreExperimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments
After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones “xx-zones” implementation...
Read moreThe Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
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. A first look at...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring
The wonderful IO_uring for the Linux kernel for high performance asnyc I/O has picked up a new capability with Linux 7.0: BPF filtering…
Read moreQCon Previews 20th Anniversary Conferences: Production AI, Resilience, and Staff+ Engineering
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, QCon’s 2026 conferences in London and San Francisco will focus on the engineering realities of agentic AI, resilient architectures, and platform ROI....
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