SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation
The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all nations zooming around the Earth. One-third of them will soon move to lower altitudes....
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Kubernetes v1.35: New level of efficiency with in-place Pod restart
The release of Kubernetes 1.35 introduces a powerful new feature that provides a much-requested capability: the ability to trigger a full, in-place restart of the Pod....
Read moreAdvice for People (Still) Entering the Tech Industry in 2026
In the face of AI-driven constant change, what advice would you give to those entering the tech industry next year? Despite 2025 having been another year...
Read moreVideo Friday: Watch Scuttle Evolve
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...
Read moreJailbreaking the Amazon Echo Show
As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as...
Read moreLinux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems
A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory “OOM” killer...
Read moreFinal reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
If you’ve been too busy replaying all of Ars’ top games of 2025 to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry....
Read moreHackaday Podcast Ep 351: Hackaday Goes To Chaos Communication Congress
Elliot was of at Europe’s largest hacker convention: Chaos Communication Congress. He had an awesome time, saw more projects than you might think humanely possible, and...
Read morexAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”
For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual...
Read moreTesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
Tesla published its final production and delivery numbers this morning, and they make for brutal reading. Sales were down almost 16 percent during the final three...
Read moreIn 2026, AI Is Merging With Platform Engineering. Are You Ready?
If there’s something we realized in 2025, it’s that AI is an amplifier of human-led software development teams — not a replicant or replacement of human...
Read moreKroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work
Greg Kroah-Hartman has written an overview of how the kernel’s security team works. The members of the security team contain a handful of core kernel developers...
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