NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon
A consequential debate that has been simmering behind closed doors at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, must soon come to a head. It concerns the selection...
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AMD EPYC 9755 Delivers Decisive Performance Leadership Over Xeon 6 Granite Rapids With Nearly 500 Benchmarks
Back in December I carried out some fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC 9755 for these competing 128 core server processors using...
Read moreThe Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Daniel Stenberg, the recipient of last year’s Award for Excellence in Open Source from the European Open Source Academy, presented that award to this year’s recipient:...
Read moreWhy WhatsApp Migrated to Rust from C++ (And What It Fixed)
WhatsApp migrated 160,000 lines of C++ to Rust to eliminate memory-safety bugs. Here’s how compiler-level security changed its threat model. The post Why WhatsApp Migrated to...
Read moreWhy the forward-deployed engineer is tech’s hottest job
Your LinkedIn is suddenly filled with posts and job ads for the forward-deployed engineer (FDE) role. What does that even mean? The term FDE was coined by...
Read moreForget VMware and VirtualBox: This should be your new VM manager
For decades, I used VirtualBox for all my virtual machine (VM) needs. I could use it as a graphical user interface (GUI), or I could run...
Read moreBuilding Natural Seawalls To Fight Off The Rising Tide
These days, the conversation around climate change so often focuses on matters of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events. While they no longer dominate the discourse,...
Read moreWhat’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear not because leading this issue of What’s !important is...
Read moreTips from a 20-year developer veteran turned consultancy founder – Tapas Adhikary interview [Podcast #206]
Today Quincy Larson interviews Tapas Adhikari. He’s a software engineer who runs a firm of 20 developers who build projects for companies around the world. He’s...
Read moreThree stable kernel updates
The 6.18.8, 6.12.68, and 6.6.122 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Read moreSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (curl, gimp:2.8, glibc, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, osbuild-composer, php:8.3, python-urllib3, python3.11, and python3.12), Debian (chromium), Mageia (ceph, gpsd, libxml2, openjdk,...
Read more6 Best Beard Trimmers (2026): Full Beards, Hair, Stubble
WIRED has been testing beard trimmers for six years. Our favorite is compact, reliable, ridiculously adjustable, and offers a five-year warranty.
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