React Is No Longer Meta's Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation

How to Create REST API Documentation in Node.js Using Scalar

A REST API documentation is a guide that explains how clients can make use of the REST APIs in an application. It details the available endpoints,...

AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientists Write Them

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers...

Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading

Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces...

MAGA Is Raging Over the Epstein Files. But They’re Not Mad at Donald Trump

Trump supporters are angry at the lack of arrests after the latest Epstein file dump but have targeted their ire at Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and...

Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1

While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there’s an interesting feature on track:...

Trump’s MAHA influencer pick for surgeon general goes before Senate

Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, will appear before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday and is likely to face scrutiny over her qualifications...

Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer

3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record...

In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

Google wants to give developers a comprehensive, functional AI software development toolkit. As such, this month the company has added a new automated review feature to...

[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs

On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel’s BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access...

Fragments: February 25

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things. But some talks are worth a watch,...

A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets

You’re surely no stranger to bookmarks. The ability to favorite, save, or “bookmark” web pages has been a staple browser feature for decades. Browsers don’t just...

Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat)

A small community project is building immutable Fedora images for tablets and phones.

Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to cut Anthropic from his department’s supply chain unless it agrees to sign off on its technology being used...

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released: Speed, Stability, and Smarter Apps

System76 releases COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8! Experience a faster COSMIC Store, reduced VRAM usage, and key fixes for the Terminal and Files apps. The post COSMIC Epoch...

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take...

MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye

The MetaBrainz Foundation has announced the unexpected passing of its founder and executive director, Robert Kaye: Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MetaBrainz and left a lasting...

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 “Sorano” Series

The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is...

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana and grafana-pcp), Debian (gnutls28), Fedora (chromium and yt-dlp), Oracle (389-ds-base, kernel, munge, and openssl), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins,...

How to Run Your Python Scripts and Code

Running Python scripts is essential for executing your code. You can run Python scripts from the command line using python script.py, directly by making files executable...

Arm & Linaro Launch New “CoreCollective” Consortium – With Backing From AMD & Others

The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium… CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to...

Sahil Dhiman: Publicly Available NKN Data Traffic Graphs

National Knowledge Network (NKN) is one of India’s main National Research and Educational Network (NREN). The other being the less prevalent Education and Research Network (ERNET)....

GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support

Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME’s GTK toolkit…

The Download: introducing the Crime issue

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. Introducing: the Crime issue...

What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent

In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on how well they helped architects create...

Poisoning AI Training Data

All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The...

Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars

If you’ve ever wanted to bounce ideas off your favorite historical figure, Ailias gives you the chance.

Best Wireless Headphones (2026): I Compare Bose, Apple, Sony, and More

From workout-ready earbuds to gaming over-ears, these WIRED-tested picks sound like a million bucks.

Kubuntu Focus Zr Gen 1 Review: A Powerhouse Linux Laptop

Need the power of a Linux desktop in a laptop? Kubuntu Focus’ latest laptop is perfect for developers, video editors, and anyone who needs serious computing...

Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI

Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer...

Now is a good time for doing crime

Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience. My iPhone suddenly shut down. When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a...

3 things Juliet Beauchamp is into right now

The only reality show that matters The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is one of the best shows on television right now. Not one of...

Listen to Earth’s rumbling, secret soundtrack

The boom of a calving glacier. The crackling rumble of a wildfire. The roar of a surging storm front. They’re the noises of the living Earth,...

This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

There’s a good way to throw out the ISS. And then there’s a really bad way.

Xbox Replaces Head of Gaming, Xbox History, Whither Xbox

Xbox has a new head, who isn’t a gamer; I suspect Microsoft is doing what it should have done a decade ago: get out of the...

OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a...

Joachim Breitner: Vibe-coding a debugger for a DSL

Earlier this week a colleague of mine, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, shared a demo of something he built as an experiment, and I felt the desire...

FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client

For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in...

Vantrue E1 4K Pro Review (2026): Tiny and High-Definition

The Vantrue E1 4K Pro is the smallest dashcam I’ve seen with high-resolution video and great daytime license plate capture. But the night, it comes.

Google Brings Its Developer Documentation Into the Age of AI Agents

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a...

cp Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core command forms for copy operations. Command Description cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE DEST Copy one file to destination cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DIRECTORY Copy multiple...

How AI Helped One Developer Build a MacBook WiFi Driver for FreeBSD

Learn how a developer used AI agents to build a native FreeBSD WiFi driver for the MacBook BCM4350 chip. Explore the “vibe coding” workflow and AI-led...

How Mexico’s ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the...

Deno 2.7: Temporal API, Windows ARM, and npm overrides

Deno 2.7 stabilizes the Temporal API, adds Windows on ARM builds, npm overrides in package.json, brotli compression streams, self-extracting compiled binaries, deno create, and dozens of...

On Running Is Finally Ramping Up Production of Its ‘Hyper-Foam’ Spray-On Shoes

Swiss shoemaker On’s newest kicks—the LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper—are laceless shoes with a single-piece, stretchy, sprayed-on toe box.

Presentation: Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams

Fabien Deshayes discusses the strategies behind Monzo’s Developer Velocity squad. He explains the “Platform as a Product” mindset, emphasizing the need for engineers with product acumen...

Little Red Dots

TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again

While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable...

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) walks with Emil Michael (R), Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering, while touring an exhibit of Multi-Domain Autonomous...

AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation

It’s quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs)...

Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve’s Latest Steam Runtime

Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in...

Apple’s new age verification tools block underage app downloads where required by law

Apple, like many others, has had to launch age verification features in response to new requirements for age checks in many regions, and on Tuesday, the...

The AI Coding Loop: How to Guide AI With Rules and Tests

Building great software isn’t about perfect prompts, it’s about a disciplined process. In this guide, I’ll share my workflow for shipping secure code: defining clear goals,...

Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper...

AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders....

Elongating a BMX For Drag Racing

BMX bikes are a unique frame geometry, essentially forgoing all travel efficiency for maneuverability and sturdiness. For how much abuse these bikes are designed to take,...

MCP security: The current situation

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather...

Refactoring isn’t just technical—it’s an economic hedge

Refactoring is not a technical clean-up activity. The choice to refactor is an economic decision about how you allocate human effort. Refactoring in this sense goes...

Apple’s touchscreen MacBooks might also have a Dynamic Island

Apple’s OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros set to launch this fall will get a Dynamic Island feature like what’s available on iPhones, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman....

Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

Restarting LibreOffice Online

LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybody’s infrastructure. This project was put into stasis back in 2022,...

Dynamic Music Pill puts a slick media controller in your GNOME panel

Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel. It shows album art, artist name and track...

OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit

OpenAI won a victory Tuesday in one of its legal battles with xAI, which involved allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets. The former company’s...

WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix’s

Paramount Skydance increased its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) from $30 per share to $31 per share, WBD said today. Amid a competing offer from...

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news...

Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play

When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it launched a set of new connectors...

Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g., what just happened), long-term memory, similarity...

Innovation on the move

The Massachusetts Bay Trans­portation Authority moves hundreds of thousands of people across Greater Boston each day—thanks to a vast system of buses, trains, and ferries that...

Using big data for good

A photogenic green-eyed Russian Blue named Petra might just be the world’s most sequenced cat. Petra was rescued from an animal shelter in Reno, Nevada, by...

A boost for manufacturing

Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist offered a thought that...

Recent books from the MIT community

Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupBy Lita Nelsen ’64, SM ’66, SM ’79, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office, and Maureen StancikBoyce,...

Vine-inspired robot fingers can reach out and grab someone

In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with enough force to pull down fences...

Reformulated antibodies could be injected for easier treatment

Antibody treatments for cancer and other diseases are typically delivered intravenously, requiring patients to go to a hospital and potentially spend hours receiving infusions. Now Professor...

A I-designed proteins may help spot cancer

Researchers at MIT and Microsoft have used artificial intelligence to create molecular sensors that could detect early signs of cancer via a urine test. The researchers...

A new way to rejuvenate the immune system

As people age, their immune function weakens. Owing to shrinkage of the thymus, where T cells normally mature and diversify, populations of these immune cells become...

A retinal reboot for amblyopia

In the vision disorder amblyopia (or “lazy eye”), impaired vision in one eye early in life causes neural connections in the brain’s visual system to shift...

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can spring up from a flat sheet of interconnected tiles with a single pull...

Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal’s Debian & Stuff – February 2026

Our Debian User Group met on February 22nd for our first meeting of the year! Here’s what we did: pollo: reviewed and merged Lintian contributions: salsa...

RCCLX: Innovating GPU communications on AMD platforms

We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully...

Learn Notion in 12 Hours

Stop treating Notion like a digital notebook and start using it as a high-level operating system. We just posted a massive Notion course on the freeCodeCamp.org...

DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones

DJI, the most popular consumer drone maker, is suing over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s import ban against new, foreign-made drones, which has been in effect...

Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet

Age verification is a reality on a growing number of social media platforms, requiring an ID or facial scan for full access to everything from YouTube...

Peltier Fridges Have Early Death

If you know about Peltier modules, a solid-state fridge seems like an easy project. Pump 12V into the module, include a heat sink and a fan....

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

*This post was updated at 12:35 pm PT to fix a typo in the build time benchmarks. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt...

My Favorite Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $50 Off Right Now

JBL’s fabulous Flip 7 speaker is on super sale for $100. Grab this go-anywhere companion on the cheap before the nice weather hits.

UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough

A UK regulator today fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) for not verifying the ages of users. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) alleged that the...

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements

While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn’t slowed down their software work. Today they shipped COSMIC Epoch...

A TV Transmitter From An STM32

Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV sets around that could receive it....

Save $20 on Our Favorite Gaming Headset

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3 have excellent compatibility and a comfortable, lightweight fit.

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

Discord won’t roll out age verification globally on its platform next month as previously announced, and says in a blog post that it’s delaying the launch...

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing number of organizations in need of...

This Physics Professor Credits Collaboration for Her Success

For Cinzia DaVià, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the approach she applies to all her professional endeavors. From her contributions to the development of a...

Apple Researchers Introduce Ferret-UI Lite, an On-Device AI Model for Seeing and Controlling UIs

Apple’s Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text,...

Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale....

In a replay of 2019, Apple says a single desktop Mac will be manufactured in the US

Apple plans to start manufacturing the Mac mini in the United States later this year, the company announced today, as part of its $600 billion commitment...

1Password is going up in price

1Password is increasing its prices on March 27th, 2026. In an email sent to users, the password manager says it will raise the price of its...

Life in Cuba Under Trump’s Pressure Campaign: No Electricity, No Oil, and Impossible Choices

As the United States takes new steps against the regime that has ruled the island since 1959, the Cuban people face 20-hour blackouts, decreased internet access,...

Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it...

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...

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Uni-body That Does the Splits

Personally, I love a monoblock or uni-body split. You’ll pry this Kinesis Advantage from under my cold, dead hands. But on the go, I really like...

You can still get $30 in Samsung credit when you reserve a Galaxy S26 phone

Samsung is set to introduce its new Galaxy S26 lineup at its next Unpacked event on February 25th, potentially alongside a new pair of earbuds and...

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux

D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as...

PlayStation’s Wolverine game hits PS5 in September

Marvel’s Wolverine, the next superhero game from Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, will be released on PS5 on September 15th. Insomniac announced that it would be...

Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game

Despite being regarded as one of the greatest role-playing games of all time, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind disappointed some fans upon its release in 2002 because...

Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it

There is a failure mode so common in platform engineering that it barely gets mentioned anymore. A team ships a self-service workflow — environment provisioning, policy...

The Future of Software Engineering with AI: Six Predictions

Two weeks ago, I hosted The Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, a few days after attending a 50-person workshop entitled The Future of Software Development in...

50 mpg in a Nissan crossover? Testing the new E-Power hybrid system.

While Toyota and Honda’s showrooms are littered with electrified offerings, Nissan hasn’t had much to counter. Globally, Nissan offers a series hybrid system called E-Power, but...

The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

Separating AI hype from engineering reality

Why leadership, not models, determines AI impact. The post Separating AI hype from engineering reality appeared first on LeadDev.

Real-time Shader, Running on a Game Boy Color

[Danny Spencer] has a brilliant graphical demo that, like all great demos, flexes a deep understanding of the underlying system: a real-time 3D shader on the...

GNU Awk 5.4.0 released

Version 5.4.0 of GNU awk (gawk) has been released. This is a major release with a change in gawk’s default regular-expression matcher: it now uses MinRX...

Firefox 148.0 released

Version 148 of Firefox has been released. The most notable change in this release is the addition of a “Block AI enhancements” option that allows turning...

[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the...

Lamborghini cancels electric Lanzador as supercar buyers reject EVs

For the last few years, Lamborghini has been in a quandary: What to do about an electric vehicle? Among the supercar brands, Lamborghini has always stood...

Railguns: Making Metal Go Fast Using the Lorentz Force

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more...

Your Watch Will One Day Track Blood Pressure

Your smartwatch can track a lot of things, but at least for now, it can’t keep an accurate eye on your blood pressure. Last week researchers...

Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance

Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A...

Knowledge Priming

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants – lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He’s noticed five...

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and munge), Debian (openssl), Mageia (gegl), Oracle (firefox, freerdp, gnupg2, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libpng15, munge,...

John Goerzen: Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console

I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because...

Building quantum-safe telecom infrastructure for 5G and beyond

coRAN Labs and Canonical at MWC Barcelona 2026 At MWC Barcelona 2026, coRAN Labs and Canonical are presenting a working demonstration of a cloud-native, quantum-safe telecom...

Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

Meta has struck a multi-billion dollar chip deal with AMD that could lead to the Facebook owner taking a 10 percent stake in the group, sending...

Scientists crack the case of “screeching” Scotch tape

Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted...

PHP Error Reporting: Enable, Display, and Log Errors

PHP error reporting controls which errors are shown, logged, or silently ignored. Configuring it correctly is essential during development — where you want full visibility —...

Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod

Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.

Start Building With FastAPI

FastAPI is a web framework for building APIs with Python. It leverages standard Python type hints to provide automatic validation, serialization, and interactive documentation. When you’re...

Australia's Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Repository

Think of it as a searchable, automated knowledge base for malware.

FreeBSD Q4 2025 Status Report: Laptop Support, Rust in Kernel, OSV Migration, Bhyve Improvements, Plus More

The FreeBSD 2025 Q4 report details Rust in the kernel, OSV migration, reproducible builds, Wi-Fi 6 drivers, and major Bhyve improvements. The post FreeBSD Q4 2025...

AMD’s HIP Moves To Using LLVM’s New Offload Driver By Default

A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD’s HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with...

6 Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026), WIRED-Approved and Tested

These 2-in-1 computers upgrade the norm with touchscreen displays, 360-degree hinges, and detachable keyboards.

Fellow Series 1 Espresso Machine Review (2026): Excellent, but a Work in Progress

Fellow’s new espresso machine offers capabilities previously seen only in commercial machines. Some of those are still being fleshed out.

Is AI Good for Democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country,...

Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think

Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to production every Thursday. It was written...

Salsa Wanderosa Electric Bike Review: Full-Suspension Drop-Bar Gravel Ride

It’s a drop-bar electric mountain bike! It’s a full-suspension electric gravel bike! It’s everything at once, and it’s awesome.

Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure,...

The Best Laptop Tote Bags to Buy (2026), WIRED-Tested and Reviewed

From travel days to board meetings, these laptop totes are designed to protect your valuables, and then some.

Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects

Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday…

LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source...

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

Following last week’s Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes…

College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are...

AI Will Never Be Conscious

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

Another Viral AI Doomer Article, The Fundamental Error, DoorDash’s AI Advantages

Another AI doomer article has gone viral, and like many in the genre, it lacks an appreciation for dynamism and markets. Then, why DoorDash is going...

Making the Case for a Modern Synaptic-Style Package Manager on Linux

The Linux desktop has evolved, and it’s high time for the “advanced package manager” experience to evolve with it.

CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for...

Ladybird Browser Just Ported C++ Code to Rust in 2 Weeks Thanks to AI

Turns out AI is pretty handy when you need to port C++ code.

AI “Vibe Coding” Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL’s bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to...

chown Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chown. Command Description chown USER FILE Change file owner chown USER:GROUP FILE Change owner and group chown...

Master the Essential Keyboard Shortcuts in Linux Mint to Feel Like a Pro User

I am sharing some essential shortcuts to get you started. I will also briefly share how you can set custom shortcuts for all actions.

Article: Virtual Panel – Culture, Code, and Platform: Building High-Performing Teams

In this virtual panel, we’ll focus on performance improvement through platform engineering and fostering developer experience, to increase productivity, quality, developer well-being, and more. We’ll also...

Quesma Releases OTelBench to Evaluate OpenTelemetry Infrastructure and AI Performance

Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle...

Java News Roundup: JDK26-RC2, Payara Platform, Hibernate, Quarkus, Apache Camel, Jakarta EE 12

This week’s Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February...

Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests...

X-Ray a PCB Virtually

If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it.  But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a...

Migrate your VMs faster with the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11

Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload...

Predictable AI: Announcing the January and February validated model batches

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model...

Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging the gap from experimentation to production scale

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the...

Firefox 148 released with AI kill switch + more

The Firefox 148 update sees its stable release today, bringing with it a much-request ‘AI kill switch’ to easily disable all AI-powered features within the browser....

Start Your Surround Sound Journey With $50 off This Klipsch Soundbar

This soundbar is just the beginning, with the option to add wireless bookshelf speakers or a subwoofer.

The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem

The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed tomorrow, how hard would it be...

6 Best Duffel Bags We Tested While Traveling (2026)

Need to schlep some stuff? Consider these field-tested duffel bags. The Eastpak Duffel Pack S Tarp Black2 is our top pick.

GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This major release contains many new and improved functions. Among other things, it brings...

Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging

DALLAS—The Space Force officer tasked with overseeing more than $24 billion in research and development spending says the Pentagon is more interested in supporting startups building...

Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades...

Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was...

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

Panasonic, once revered for its plasma TVs, is giving up on making its own TV sets. Today, it announced that Chinese company Skyworth will take over...

The mythical agent-month

Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new...

Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer – just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year’s biggest anti-monopoly...

Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is

The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious...

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on...

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel’s accelerator “accel” subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver…

AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands Labs, where teams...

[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of...

Antoine Beaupré: PSA: North america changes time forward soon, Europe next

This is a copy of an email I used to send internally at work and now made public. I’m not sure I’ll make a habit of...

ATABoy is an Open Source USB Bridge For Old IDE Drives

You can get an IDE to USB bridge from all the usual sources, but you may find those fail on the older drives in your collection–...

Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown...

Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know.

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from...

Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview of Weston 15.0, which was released on February 19. Weston is the reference implementation of a...

MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix

Avneesh Saluja, Santiago Castro, Bowei Yan, Ashish Rastogi Introduction Netflix’s core mission is to connect millions of members around the world with stories they’ll love. This requires...

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes?

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Intel’s open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today’s OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM)...

Apple’s newest AirTags are already on sale if you’re looking to upgrade

The second-gen trackers look similar to the originals but come with a few welcome upgrades. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Less than...

Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks

You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner...

New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”

Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years...

The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions

Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. | Image: Acme Weather Corporation After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some...

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s...

The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade

Mazda provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Diego and accommodation so Ars could drive the CX-5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENCINITAS, Calif.—Its...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way...

Wouter Verhelst: On Free Software, Free Hardware, and the firmware in between

When the Free Software movement started in the 1980s, most of the world had just made a transition from free university-written software to non-free, proprietary, company-written...

New Blog Post: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote

Now that I’m not spending all my time on Logic for Programmers, I have time to update my website again! So here’s the first blog post...

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

Lamborghini is the Latest Automaker to Pull the Plug on Luxury EVs

The CEO of the supercar company says demand for high-end full electric cars is “almost zero.” Could this mean Ferrari’s Luce will be dead on arrival?

Nuclear Waste Remediation by Proton Beam

One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at...

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. In an emailed statement to The Verge,...

Kohler’s new shower reuses dirty water to get you clean

A giant main floor window next to Kohler’s new recirculating shower system isn’t required. | Image: Kohler Kohler claims its new Anthem EvoCycle smart shower system...

Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake

While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds’ versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in...

Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images As 2025...

How to Build and Deploy a Multi-Agent AI System with Python and Docker

You wake up and open your laptop. Your browser has 27 tabs open, your inbox is overflowing with unread newsletters, and meeting notes are scattered across...

Yep, it’s fast: Donut Lab’s solid-state battery gets its first test result

Since announcing earlier this year that it was on the cusp of a major battery breakthrough, Finnish startup Donut Lab has faced a lot of questions,...