How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) using the LCARS in Star Trek: The Next Generation. | Image: CBS via Getty Images One of my pandemic hobbies that...
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GuliKit’s tiny USB dongle lets you connect your PS5 controller to your Switch 2
Dongles have a well-earned reputation for being a nuisance. They’re often costly and annoying to deal with, but for gamers, there’s one that I love to...
Read moreVincent Bernat: Fragments of an adolescent web
I have unearthed a few old articles typed during my adolescence, between 1996 and 1998. Unremarkable at the time, these pages now compose, three decades later,...
Read moreA Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 — Or Linux 7.0
With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely...
Read moreSection 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set...
Read moreThorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2026
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian (as the LTS-...
Read moreBest Wireless Earbuds (2026): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More
Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.
Read moreDigital car keys are getting more sophisticated
Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo Alto, California, for the 16th annual “Plugfest,” hosted by the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC)...
Read moreNetflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming wars, follow Emma Roth....
Read moreIntel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset “On Demand” Software Defined Silicon
Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a “Software Defined Silicon” feature for activating extra licensed hardware features....
Read moreWine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux
Building off Friday’s release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to...
Read moreUpgrading The E-mu Audity 20 Years After Factory Support Ended
If you purchased an E-mu Audity 2000 ROMpler back in 1998, you almost certainly got a rig with the 1.00 firmware. It was fine, if a...
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