[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window
The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of writing, there have...
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What if riders don’t close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash.
Autonomous vehicles have a lot of potential. As long as you program them right, they won’t speed, won’t break traffic laws, and won’t get drunk, high,...
Read moreWhat’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK (aka me), who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting:...
Read moreWhy is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, does not often post on the social media site owned by his rival Elon Musk. But on Monday, Bezos did, sharing...
Read more[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response
At FOSDEM 2026 Petya Kangalova, a senior tech partnership and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) spoke about how the project helps people map...
Read moreEvaluating The Performance Cost To AMD SEV-SNP On EPYC 9005 VMs
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a...
Read moreBuilding Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
Imagine a user opening a mental health app while feeling overwhelmed with anxiety. The very first thing they encounter is a screen with a bright, clashing...
Read moreI spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn’t make a single cent
I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash...
Read moreSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gcc-toolset-14-binutils, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, php:7.4, and python3.12), Debian (haproxy, nginx, postgresql-15, and postgresql-17), Fedora (libssh), Oracle (glib2, libsoup,...
Read moreGitHub’s Agentic Workflows bring “continuous AI” into the CI/CD loop
A lot of the hype around agents has been around writing code, but what if you could have an agent watch for events in your GitHub...
Read moreWhy 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%)
The agentic AI race is on, and most organizations are at risk of losing it. Not because they lack ambition, but because they’re fighting three wars...
Read moreShedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare
ecdysis | ˈekdəsəs | noun the process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods). How...
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