Retrotechtacular: Mr. Wizard Jams with IBM
You may not remember [Mr. Wizard], but he was a staple of nerd kids over a few decades, teaching science to kids via the magic of...
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All the Claw things
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the...
Read moreApple’s Podcasts app will let you ‘seamlessly’ switch between audio and video shows
Apple is upgrading its Podcasts app to let users “seamlessly” swap between audio and video podcasts using its HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. While listening to...
Read more[$] Open source security in spite of AI
The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel...
Read moreRISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly
The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note…
Read moreKeebin’ with Kristina: the One With the NEO With the Typewriter Shell
Isn’t this glorious? If you don’t recognize what this is right away (or from the post title), it’s an AlphaSmart NEO word processor, repackaged in a...
Read moreByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art”
ByteDance says that it’s rushing to add safeguards to block Seedance 2.0 from generating iconic characters and deepfaking celebrities, after substantial Hollywood backlash after launching the...
Read moreLinux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers
Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel...
Read moreA fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
Heating accounts for nearly half of the global energy demand, and two-thirds of that is met by burning fossil fuels like natural gas, oil, and coal....
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises...
Read moreFour stable kernels to fix problematic commit
Greg-Kroah Hartman has released the 6.19.2, 6.18.12, 6.12.73, and 6.6.126 stable kernels. These kernels each contain a single change; Kroah-Hartman has reverted one problematic commit that...
Read moreHow Volunteers Saved a Victorian-Era Pumping Station From Demolition
D-engine of the Claymills Pumping Station. (Credit: John M) Although infrastructure like a 19th-century pumping station generally tends to be quietly decommissioned and demolished, sometimes you...
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