If you like super light gaming mice, I’ve found one of the best we’ve ever tested with $30 off in the pre-Prime Day sales
Despite being light, it's very sturdy too.
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This proper-spec RTX 5060 gaming laptop offers a beefy 16-core AMD chip for reasonable cash in the pre-Prime Day sales
Reasonable by current standards, anyway.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)
Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to...
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Neutrons, Rotating Black Holes, and a Galactic PeVatron at the Center of the Milky Way
Supermassive black holes generate tremendous amounts of energy through their accretion disks and jets. But they can also generate energy through the magnetic Penrose process. A...
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AMD attempts to get ahead of expected RTX Spark launch with Gorgon Halo benchmarks
AMD is getting ahead of an expected RTX Spark launch later this week with a few benchmarks for its flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI...
Read moreAuto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...
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Building a Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand
Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces...
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NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety
NASA is leveraging its expertise and enhancing its test facilities to help address a rare but persistent aviation hazard: icing that occurs when aircraft encounter unusually...
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Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or missing the point, says Banjo Kazooie: Recompiled developer
The software developer behind an unofficial PC version of N64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie has posted an impassioned screed about the usage of generative AI tools for rush-job...
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Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
Read moreRustConf recordings
The Rust Foundation has posted the recordings from RustConf 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Photos of the event are also available. LWN covered four talks from RustConf...
Read more[$] An update on the Sashiko patch-review system
Patch review has long been one of the limiting constraints for the kernel project (and most others); there just aren't enough people to properly review all...
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