FOSS Weekly #26.03: Torvalds Using AI, Dash to Dock, Linux Kernel Bugs, Pacman's Rust Replacement and More
2026 is the year of vibe coding?
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Philips Kid’s Kit Revisited
[Anthony Francis-Jones], like us, has a soft spot for the educational electronic kits from days gone by. In a recent video you can see below, he...
Read moreMaking Code a Hundred Times Slower With False Sharing
The cache hierarchy of the 2008 Intel Nehalem x86 architecture. (Source: Intel) Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This...
Read moreOrion Browser Releases Its First Linux Alpha
An alpha release of Orion for Linux, a new Webkit-based web browser from paid search engine Kagi, is out for testing – and early impressions are...
Read moreAnother RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0
Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon...
Read moreThe best e-reader to buy right now
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook...
Read moreX claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account’s ability to edit images of real people....
Read moreTwo Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.
Read more[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: SFC v. VIZIO; GPLv2 requirements; Debian and GTK 2; OpenZL; kernel scheduler QoS; Rust concurrent data access; Asciinema. Briefs:...
Read moreA British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces
History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the War of 1812 and lost his...
Read moreDad Makes Kid’s Balance Bike Into Electric Snow Trike Like a Boss
The balance bikes toddlers are rocking these days look like great fun, but not so great in the snow. Rather than see his kid’s favourite toy...
Read more2025: The Year of the Return of the Ada Programming Language?
In 2025, the Ada programming language made what might be considered a comeback. (But don’t call it one! Yet.) Last March, Ada broke into the TIOBE...
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