The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out
The 2026 edition of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 4-6 in Zagreb, Croatia. The call for proposals has gone...
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EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM machine!
EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s...
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.25 on CRAN: Mostly Maintenance
A new maintenance release 0.4.25 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization...
Read moreThat time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda
In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the...
Read moreLinux Consulting Firm Linutronix Recently Began A New Chapter
Some news that slipped under the radar prior to the holidays… Linutronix as the Linux consulting firm that has led the real-time “PREEMPT_RT” work and more...
Read moreGoogle pulls AI overviews for some medical searches
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to...
Read moreHere are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions
It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation....
Read moreWhen To Use GenAI: A Practical Decision Framework
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities evolve, software architects and developers face critical decisions about when to use GenAI-based solutions versus traditional programming approaches. A systematic,...
Read moreA New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass
At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in...
Read moreInstagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails
If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue....
Read moreGameStop is kicking off 2026 by shutting down over 400 stores in 42 states
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion market cap....
Read moreFour stable kernel updates
The 6.18.5, 6.12.65, 6.6.120, and 6.1.160 stable updates have been released. They all contain a small patch set fixing a scheduling regression associated with idle balancing;...
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