Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions
Running out of disk space on Ubuntu? Before you start uninstalling applications or clearing caches, you might want to check your snap revisions. I’ve been getting...
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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Digitize Your Documents?
Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of...
Read moreUber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage
Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s...
Read moreSecuring npm is table stakes
As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and...
Read moreWhat Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question
They finally set this in stone.
Read moreTesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead
Yesterday afternoon, following the end of trading on Wall Street for the day, Tesla published its financial results for 2025. They weren’t particularly good: Profits were...
Read moreLibgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5
Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email...
Read moreTrump Admin’s Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers
The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of...
Read moreSecurity updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-25-openjdk, openssl, and python3.9), Debian (gimp, libmatio, pyasn1, and python-django), Fedora (perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper, python-tinycss2, and weasyprint), Mageia (glib2.0), Oracle (curl,...
Read moreStates want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds
Illinois lawmakers plan to introduce a climate change superfund bill in the state legislature this session, the latest in a growing number of states seeking to...
Read moreNVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form
Following NVIDIA’s announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today’s the day. The GeForce...
Read moreIntroducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
The Internet woke up this week to a flood of people buying Mac minis to run Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), an open-source, self-hosted AI agent designed to...
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