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Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and...

Apple says it has “a big week ahead.” Here’s what we expect to see.

Excepting the AirTag 2, so far it’s been a quiet year for Apple hardware. But that’s poised to change next week, as the company is hosting...

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is rewiring how...

Dirk Eddelbuettel: x13binary 1.1.61.2 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance

The x13binary team is happy to share the availability of Release 1.1.61.2 of the x13binary package providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau which...

Aventon Soltera 3 Electric Bike Review: A Fun Hybrid Single-Speed

Aventon’s latest single-speed hybrid bicycle is light, looks cool, and is the most bikey electric bike on the market right now.

Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s...

Phishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs

This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are...

Rocket Report: Vulcan “many months” from flying; Falcon 9 extends reuse milestone

Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon from Rocket Lab on the timing...

Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor Review: Cuffless BP Tracking

The Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor is the first cuffless monitor to be cleared by the FDA. It’s discreet, highly accurate, and simple to use

Huxe Will Give You a Personalized, Daily Audio Summary Powered by AI

The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but...

Kubernetes Introduces Node Readiness Controller to Improve Pod Scheduling Reliability

The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by making the API...

The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Podcast interview with Internet of Bugs [Podcast #209]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and...

Quiz: Dependency Management With Python Poetry

Test your understanding of Dependency Management With Python Poetry. You’ll revisit how to install Poetry the right way, create new projects, manage virtual environments, declare and...

The Real Python Podcast – Episode #286: Overcoming Testing Obstacles With Python’s Mock Object Library

Do you have complex logic and unpredictable dependencies that make it hard to write reliable tests? How can you use Python’s mock object library to improve...

Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026

2025: From RISC-V enablement to real execution  2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began...

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere

A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.

Mesa Developers Trying To Reach A Consensus On AI Policy

If all goes well, Mesa developers are hoping to reach a consensus or at least some common ground on an AI policy in March. Mesa is...

Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2

Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday…

MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act

MidnightBSD has modified its license to exclude California residents from desktop use starting January 1, 2027 due to Digital Age Assurance Act. The post MidnightBSD Excludes...

Genode OS 26.02 Halfway Done Migrating From GitHub To Codeberg

Genode OS 26.02 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source operating system framework that also serves as the basis for their Sculpt general...

Bond Strength, Biocompatibility, and Beyond

Designing a medical device? This whitepaper helps you evaluate adhesive options for biocompatibility, sterilization resistance, and manufacturability — so you can make the right material decision...

Tin Can Is a Dumb Phone for Kids. Can Someone Teach Them How to Use It?

With its twirly cord and landline-like features, the Tin Can is giving kids a crash course in phone etiquette. For example: Talk!

Best Red Light Therapy for Hair Growth: WIRED-Approved (2026)

After 16 weeks of daily use, our WIRED testers saw visible hair regrowth with these red light therapy devices.

AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think

Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for...

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost...

6 Great Power Bank Deals for Your Thirsty Phone Battery

We’ve tested dozens of portable power banks, and several of our top picks are on sale right now.

Presentation: Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code

Jim Gough discusses the transition from accidental architect to API program leader, explaining how to manage the complexity of secure API connectivity. He shares the Common...

Preorder Google’s Newest Phone and Get a Free $100 Gift Card

If you’re planning on upgrading to the newest midrange Pixel phone, this deal is worth your while.

How to justify AI investments

With Workato CTO, Adam Seligman. The post How to justify AI investments appeared first on LeadDev.

sort Command in Linux: Sort Lines of Text

sort is a command-line utility that sorts lines of text from files or standard input and writes the result to standard output. By default, sort arranges...

Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents

Microsoft’s Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios, datasets,...

Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

At 3 AM, a single IP requested a login page. Harmless. But then, across several hosts and paths, the same source began appending ?debug=true — the...

Fixing the Damage of a Botched SNES SuperCIC Mod

Not what you want to see when testing that ‘repaired’ SNES. (Credit: Skawo, YouTube) The good part about older game consoles like the Super Nintendo is...

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure

Internet traffic relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to find its way between networks. However, this traffic can sometimes be misdirected due to configuration errors...

Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security

Cloudflare Radar already offers a wide array of security insights — from application and network layer attacks, to malicious email messages, to digital certificates and Internet...

The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

You’ve seen it. Maybe you didn’t register it consciously, but you’ve seen it. That little widget asking you to verify you’re human. That full-page security check...

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

Handling data in streams is fundamental to how we build applications. To make streaming work everywhere, the WHATWG Streams Standard (informally known as “Web streams”) was...

Dental Formulas

Wind Power Is Taking Off In China– All The Way to 2000 m AGL

2000 m above ground level (AGL), winds are stronger and much, much more consistent than they are at surface. Even if the Earth were a perfect...

Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4 is now available to download

Canonical’s engineers have announced the fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04, ahead of next month’s all important beta release. Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4, like...

LXD 6.7 Released With AMD GPU Passthrough Support

Canonical today released LXD 6.7 as the latest feature update to this system container and virtual machine manager commonly used in Ubuntu Linux environments…

The Latest Repair Battlefield Is the Iowa Farmlands—Again

A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere.

These Are Our Absolute Favorite Android Earbuds, and They’re Below $200

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have great ANC and long battery life, and they’re marked down in several colors.

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 4 Released

The fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” is now available for testing. This alternative to the Ubuntu 26.04 daily ISOs is a...

Hands-On With Nano Banana 2, the Latest Version of Google’s AI Image Generator

Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.

Robot Looks Exactly Like a Roll of Filament, If Filament Had Eyes

[Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament;...

From operations to outcomes: The business value of automation

In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 6)

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages...

Allocating on the Stack

The Go Blog Allocating on the Stack Keith Randall 27 February 2026 We’re always looking for ways to make Go programs faster. In the last 2...

Friday Five — February 27, 2026

SDTimes – Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from...

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense’s demands for unrestricted access to...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in a substantial...

Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs...

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company...

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running...

Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

Ubuntu 26.04 will show asterisks when you type your sudo password, as Canonical adds a patch to its Rust-based sudo-rs. Here’s what changed and why. You’re...

xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

For miles around xAI’s makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, neighbors have endured months of constant roaring, erupting pops, and bursts of high-pitched whining from 27...

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

Jack Dorsey’s Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by “nearly half” and axing more than 4,000...

Lenovo leak reveals a foldable gaming handheld that’s also a Windows laptop

Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo’s next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld...

Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains

Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat...

The physics of squeaking sneakers

We’re all familiar with the high-pitched squeak of basketball shoes on the court during games, or tires squealing on pavement. Scientists conducted several experiments and discovered...

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default

On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters...

Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ default wallpaper unveiled

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ has a new default wallpaper. It keeps the purple gradient but drops the sharp geometric angles. Download a high-res copy. You’re...

Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That’s according to the...

Driving WS2812Bs With Pure Logic

The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about any microcontroller you can think of....

Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher price tag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are “more of the same for more money,” my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming...

This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue

The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.

FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children’s online privacy law against certain websites...

Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all

In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers...

Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability

Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to...

From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological advancement forced his hand. The developer...

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.

Building the Haxocorder

The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist...

This Startup Makes Access to Rehabilitation Facilities Easier

When doctors in the United States refer patients to specialty or post-acute medical care such as physical therapy or long-term nursing care, nearly half never complete...

Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era?

Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should...

AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions

At re:Invent 2025, we introduced a completely re-imagined AWS Security Hub that unifies AWS security services, including Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Inspector into a single experience....

Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool

Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes me lean back and go, “Wooo, that’s cool!” Well, I recently had that very...

The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it.

Agentic workflows are rapidly accelerating the volume of pull requests, and validation is quickly becoming the most critical bottleneck. Teams using service meshes like Istio are...

Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly entertaining creatures. YouTube and...

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic...

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

Today’s issue of The Pulse focuses on a single event because it’s a significant one with major potential ripple effects. On Tuesday, Cloudflare shocked the dev...

CORPGEN advances AI agents for real work

At a glance Today’s AI agent benchmarks test one task at a time, while real workplace productivity requires managing dozens of interdependent tasks at once. To...

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results

Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Nano Banana image generation model, which promises to improve upon last November’s Nano Banana Pro and the...

New Path to Battery-Grade Lithium Uses Electrochemistry

As electric vehicles roll off assembly lines, a bottleneck sits upstream: lithium refinement. Turning raw lithium into the compounds needed for batteries is expensive, messy, and...

Ford is recalling 4.3 million trucks and SUVs to fix a towing software bug

Last year, Ford set a new industry record: It issued 152 safety recalls, almost twice the previous high set by General Motors back in 2014. More...

Bionode is Hand Truck Transformed into Mobile Computing Lab

[Steven K. Roberts] is the original digital nomad, having designed and built mobile computing for his own use since the 80s. His latest project is Bionode,...

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office

The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent...

Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn

For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all...

New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

It’s hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life. The organization that shepherds the wireless protocol says that more than...

Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit

Observability platform migrations are rarely simple. You’re still balancing risk (don’t break on-call), scope (don’t try to move everything at once), and organizational change (getting teams...

[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF (“triple-eye eff”), is a small set of standards that form a basis for serving, displaying, and reusing image data...

Learn Python and Build Autonomous Agents

The future of software is code that reasons. We just posted a new course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel designed to take you from Python fundamentals...

Master Kubernetes Through Production-Ready Practice

Stop memorizing isolated commands and start building like a platform engineer. We just posted comprehensive Kubernetes course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel. This hands-on course is...

Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformation

For years, Industry 4.0 transformation has centered on the convergence of intelligent technologies like AI, cloud, the internet of things, robotics, and digital twins. Industry 5.0...

The Curse of the Everything Device

In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving a lot of space, time and money....

FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird's Rust Move, Super Productivity and More

What One Year of AI Has Already Changed

Pinterest’s CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes,...

New York sues Valve for enabling “illegal gambling” with loot boxes

New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amount...

A non-public document reveals that science may not be prioritized on next Mars mission

The US space agency has released a “pre-solicitation” for what is expected to be a hotly contested contract to develop a spacecraft to orbit Mars and...

From Headsets to Hearing Aids

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Audio Precision. Bluetooth started as a simple wireless connection between a phone and a headset. Since its...

15 state attorneys general sue RFK Jr. over “anti-science” vaccine policy

Scientists have long warned that a warming world is likely to hasten the spread of infectious diseases, making vaccination even more critical to safeguard public health....

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp), Debian (firefox-esr and libstb), Fedora (389-ds-base, chromium, firefox, munge, opentofu, python3-docs, python3.14, and vim), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp,...

NXP Posts New Linux Accelerator Driver For Their Neutron NPU

The Linux kernel continues seeing more open-source kernel drivers emerge for supporting different AI accelerators / NPUs. The newest open-source driver breaking cover today is from...

Badge engineering could be worse than this: The 2026 Subaru Uncharted

Much of the Subaru Uncharted makes very little sense. The “new” EV clearly resembles the Solterra, upon which Toyota and Subaru jointly developed the Uncharted and...

How Stupid Would It Be to Put Data Centers in Space?

What’s the difference between a stupid idea and a brilliant one? Sometimes, it just comes down to resources. Practically unlimited funds, like limitless thrust, can get...

ULA isn’t making the Space Force’s GPS interference problem any easier

DENVER—The Global Positioning System is one of the few space programs that touches nearly every human life, and the stewards of the satellite navigation network are...

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts… and it only costs a couple of dollars.

The Download: how America lost its lead in the hunt for alien life, and ambitious battery claims

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. America was winning the...

Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality

While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won’t debut as stable until April, there are already features...

Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation

A recent study from MIT’s NANDA initiative highlights a persistent challenge in enterprise AI adoption. Despite heavy investment and experimentation, roughly 95% of corporate AI efforts...

Best Tested Ski Clothes (2026): Shells, Jackets, Wool Socks

From weatherproof jackets and pants to puffers, gloves, and socks, WIRED’s winter sports experts have got you covered.

Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support

Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems…

High-profile AWS outages highlight the risks of AI agents

A recent outage to AWS services has put the spotlight on AI agents and their access controls. The post High-profile AWS outages highlight the risks of...

LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords

LLMs are bad at generating passwords: There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily: All of the passwords start with...

Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI

We are at an inflection point in enterprise IT. For the last decade, “modernization” has been synonymous with containerization — essentially packaging applications so they can...

Who’s Your Daddy? A Chatbot

More people are turning to AI to explore their BDSM fantasies, but some in the community feel it’s a cop-out.

ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1 Brings New Blazor Components, Improved Navigation, and WebAssembly

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row...

Quiz: Hands-On Python 3 Concurrency With the asyncio Module

This quiz sharpens your intuition for Python’s asyncio module. You’ll decide when async is the right tool, see how the event loop schedules work, and understand...

The Best Headphones I’ve Tried (and Why I’d Buy Them All)

The portable listening revolution is fully underway. From open earbuds to noise cancelers and wired headphones, I can find a reason to love them all.

ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains

Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver “NVK” is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to...

Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team

Thiago Ghisi explained how he guided managers and senior ICs to build a resilient leadership group beneath him in his talk Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations...

Achieving Micron-Level Tolerances: CAD Optimization for Sub-10µm 3D Printing

Achieve successful micro-scale 3D prints by optimizing tolerances, wall thickness, support strategies, microfluidic channels, and material selection in your CAD models from the start. What Attendees...

This company claims a battery breakthrough. Now they need to prove it.

When a company claims to have created what’s essentially the holy grail of batteries, there are bound to be some questions. Interest has been swirling since...

Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die

For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.

An Interview with Bill Gurley About Runnin’ Down a Dream

An interview with long-time (retired) VC Bill Gurley about his new book about building a career you love, Uber, and the modern state of VC.

Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱

We’ve been passionate about design & UX for years. We’ve published articles on design systems and usability, inclusive design and product design, UX research and enterprise...

Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux

Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on...

CoreCollective is a New Consortium Bringing the Arm Software Ecosystem Under One Roof

The likes of AMD, Canonical, Google, Huawei, Qualcomm, Red Hat, and others are on board.

AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week

AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In...

GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

Building off January’s GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to...

Factor Offers High-Protein Meal Delivery Options (2026)

Even if you’re incredibly busy, you can maintain your gains by eating the equivalent of the microwavable chicken in The Fifth Element.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the...

Create space to experiment with AI in your team

Without impacting immediate velocity The post Create space to experiment with AI in your team appeared first on LeadDev.

journalctl Command in Linux: Query and Filter System Logs

journalctl is a command-line utility for querying and displaying logs collected by systemd-journald, the systemd logging daemon. It gives you structured access to all system logs...

Article: Borrowing from Kotlin/Android to Architect Scalable iOS Apps in SwiftUI

Building iOS apps can feel like stitching together guidance from blog posts and Apple samples, which are rarely representative of how production architectures grow and survive....

ps Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core ps command forms. Command Description ps Show processes in the current shell ps -e Show all running processes ps -f Show full-format...

New to the web platform in February

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during February 2026.

Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is...

Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 20...

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the actions of various animals. From the famous...

The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like a Sunburn

Way, way back in the days when men wore beards and wide-lapelled suits in exotic colors, only NASA had access to photovoltaics and ‘solar’ meant solar...

Typhoon weather app clears up with Qt6 port

The forecast is looking Qt for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon, the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt...

Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today…

b4’s Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: New flags for clone3(); Discord replacements; virtual swap spaces; BPF memory protection keys; PostgreSQL’s lessons in attracting contributors; 7.0...

Adding a Panadapter to a Classic Receiver

There was a time when only the richest ham radio operators could have a radio with a panadapter. Back in the day, this was basically a...

AI in telco – the catalyst for scaling digital business

If you aren’t currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved...

Streamline your network operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management...

The nervous system gets a soul: why sovereign cloud is telco’s real second act

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain...

Showtime video player edges closer to Ubuntu debut

Those testing Ubuntu 26.04 daily builds or monthly snapshots may have noticed that Showtime, GNOME’s spiffy new video player, is not preinstalled in the ‘extended selection’,...

New York sues Valve, alleging its loot boxes are ‘quintessential gambling’

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for “illegally promoting gambling” through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike...

Cilium at Ten Years: Stronger Encryption, Safer Policies, and Clearer Visibility for Large Clusters

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead,...

How the new Galaxy S26 phones stack up against each other on paper

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones introduce a slate of new AI-powered features, including some new photography tools. | Image: Samsung Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy...

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI...

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th

The Drop Mythic Journey keyboard from 2022. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair...

The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

There used to be countless companies making flagship Android phones, but a combination of factors has narrowed the field over time. Today, Samsung is the undisputed...

An Exploit … in CSS?!

Ok, take a deep breath. We’ll have some fun understanding this vulnerability once you make sure your browser isn’t affected, using the table below. Chromium-based browser...

Roundtables: Why 2026 Is the Year for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is finally making its way into...

Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise

Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built...

LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale

LM Link is the easy and more secure way to share LLMs between devices you control, unexposed to the public Internet.

Everyone Speaks Incel Now

After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Judge doesn’t trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter

A federal court will conduct a search of devices seized from a Washington Post reporter after a magistrate judge decided yesterday that the Department of Justice...

The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative,...

The Ultimate Web Developer Job Search Handbook

Getting a web developer job today is hard. In 2021, I got my first developer job by sending one direct email and then doing a single...

Trump claims tech companies will sign deals next week to pay for their own power supply

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech – and now we’re learning that the...

How to Build an LLM Market Copilot MVP with LangChain, APIs, and Streamlit

In fintech or wealthtech products, people constantly need quick market context. They need to know why a particular stock moved, what changed recently, or what they...

Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series…

Here’s how the new Samsung Galaxy S26 compares with last year’s S25

Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S26 lineup at its recent Unpacked event in San Francisco. As expected, the new series consists of the baseline S26, which starts...

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

With yesterday’s stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn’t take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year...

Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI...

Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multistep tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car,...

Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

The stated support periods for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels has been extended. The 6.6 kernel will be supported with stable updates through the end...

Stop Ironing 3D Prints

If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer. This causes the head...

Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger.

While lifesaving vaccines face a relentless onslaught from the Trump administration—with fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the charge—scientific literature is building a wondrous...

Preorders for Samsung’s S26 phones come with up to $200 in gift cards

As expected, Samsung has taken the wraps off its flagship lineup for 2026. Introduced during the company’s recent Unpacked event, the new Galaxy devices – which...

WebAssembly is everywhere. Here’s how it works

If you’re familiar with building web applications in the last few years, you’ve probably heard of WebAssembly (Wasm). And if not, you’ll leave this article with...

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

VAST Data tackles the enterprise AI trust gap

The biggest obstacle to shipping AI agents in the enterprise isn’t model quality. It’s trust. Or at least that’s the argument VAST Data is making this...

2026 Lexus RZ 550e review: Likable, but it needs improvement

Sometimes you drive a car you just don’t gel with. The original Lexus RZ was such a case. It was Lexus’ first battery EV, and I...

The AirPods Pro 3 Are $20 Off

It’s not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight...

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

In an illustration of the severity of the current memory shortage, HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill said that RAM has gone from accounting for “roughly 15...

The Linux Foundation reveals the “ugly” secret of how open source is draining your budget

Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical debt. Here is the tech industry’s...

Kalshi says it fined a MrBeast editor and a politician for insider trading

Kalshi, the prediction betting market, has disclosed its first fines for insider trading, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to handing down...

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings PDF Editor Upgrades With New Signing and Editing Tools

You get a range of improvements across the other editors too.

Building An Interactive Climbing Wall

Climbing is a cool sport. With that said, like everything, it’s even better if you integrate lots of glowing colorful LEDs. To that end, [Superbender] worked...

Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date

Samsung’s new phones all get AI enhancements, and the flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra has a Privacy Display that can block the screen from nosy neighbors.

Gemini Can Now Book You an Uber or Order a DoorDash Meal on Your Phone. Here’s How It Works

Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google’s Gemini can automate tasks in popular mobile apps. We got a live demo of the new feature in action.

Google Gemini can book an Uber or order food for you on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26

Gemini can now prep a rideshare or grocery order, though you’ll have to submit the order yourself. | Image: Google Google’s Gemini AI is getting one...

How to Thrive as a Remote Worker

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech...

Warper: Rust Powered React Virtualisation Library

Warper 7.2 is a cutting-edge open-source React virtualization library utilizing Rust and WebAssembly for unmatched performance. With zero-allocation hot paths and O(1) circular buffer operations, Warper...

Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter’s Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing...

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code

Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes “a masterpiece” appears to be run by a White House staffer,...

Control Your Smart Home With Trek-Inspired Comm Badge

One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system...

The Man Who Stole Infinity

When Demian Goos followed Karin Richter into her office on March 12 of last year, the first thing he noticed was the bust. It sat atop...

systemd 260-rc1 Released: New “mstack” Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported

The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to...