Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?

Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great promise for real-world applications: batteries, super capacitors, antennas, water filters,...

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GNU C Library 2.43 released

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2() system calls, experimental support for building with the...

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Crazy Old Machines

Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made up of a...

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Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse

Of course ad agencies love AI commercials, this Kalshi ad only cost $2,000 to make. I’ll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads....

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Environmental Monitoring on the Cheap

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power for such a project are a solved...

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The end of the Sony era in TVs

There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the...

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GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the Guix daemon without...

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Two new stable kernels for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

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Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

On January 22, 2026, an automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefixes unintentionally from a router at our...

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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (bind9, chromium, osslsigncode, and python-urllib3), Fedora (freerdp, ghostscript, hcloud, rclone, rust-rkyv0.7, rust-rkyv_derive0.7, and vsftpd), Mageia (avahi and...

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Open Props @custom-media Recipes

The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn’t find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle’s on the beat noting that it’s behind...

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Embedded TPM: Watch Out!

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having a recent TPM to even...

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Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Jan. 16...

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Vacuum Fluorescent Displays Explained

After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays...

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A 1970s Electronic Game

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming company in 1978, the result...

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Friday Five — January 23, 2026

Register today to unlock what’s next at Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing...

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The era of the Small Giant

Damien Tanner (founder of Pusher, now building Layercode) is back for a reunion 17 years in the making. Damien officially returns to The Changelog to discuss...

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Forza Horizon 6 launches in May

Forza Horizon 6 will launch on Xbox Series X / S and PC on May 19th, Xbox and developer Playground Games announced during Thursday’s Developer Direct...

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ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves

The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS  and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat...

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Why nobody’s stopping Grok

Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly...

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