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Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch

Has work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite...

30% Off Canon Promo Codes | January 2026

Save an extra 10% or 30% with Canon coupon codes, plus up to $1,600 on cameras, printers, and more this January.

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Save on streaming with the latest Paramount+ promo codes and deals, including 50% off subscriptions, free trials, and more.

This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard to Fix

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977...

Vitamix Promo Codes and Deals: $25 Off + Free Shipping

Score discounts on blenders, food processors, immersion blenders, and more with our selection of Vitamix coupons and deals.

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Intel is planning a custom Panther Lake CPU for handheld PCs

Intel announced yesterday that it’s developing an entire “handheld gaming platform” powered by its new Panther Lake chips, and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is...

Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since...

Lenovo is building an AI assistant that ‘can act on your behalf’

While most attention in the AI race is focused on model builders and cloud platforms, Lenovo sits closer to millions of users than most companies. As...

Linux’s Old Mount API Code On The Chopping Block For The 7.0 Kernel

The Linux kernel’s “new mount API” that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man...

A Developer’s Guide to Proxy Servers

Every time you open a website, your device talks directly to another server on the internet. Your IP address, location, and basic network details are visible...

Samsung and Intel’s OLED tech makes HDR easier on laptop battery life

Samsung Display and Intel have teamed up on laptop technology called SmartPower HDR that they claim can minimize power usage while you’re watching HDR content on...

Motorola reveals the Razr Fold, a book-style foldable launching this summer

Motorola is no stranger to foldables, having revived the Razr as a flip-style foldable phone in 2020. Now that it has a few iterations of modern...

Motorola Razr Fold Book-Style Foldable: Specs, Details, Release Date

At CES 2026, the company also announced a new smartwatch, stylus, Bluetooth tracker, and even a weird AI pendant.

Lenovo’s Legion Pro Rollable Gaming Laptop Goes Ultrawide at the Press of a Key

Lenovo brought a Legion gaming laptop to CES this year with a rollable OLED display that expands horizontally by six inches.

Lenovo’s joining the bandwagon with concept AI glasses

Lenovo is the latest tech company to get bit by the smart glasses bug. The company just showed off a pair of concept AI glasses at...

Lenovo’s new All-in-One PC can sync its lighting to your notifications

If you prefer to have your notifications on silent but don’t want to miss anything, Lenovo’s new All-in-One (AIO) PC might have a solution. The Yoga...

This ThinkPad laptop concept has a rollable display that wraps around its lid

Watching this thing in action is pretty fun, thanks to that windowed lid. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing yet another new concept laptop with a...

Lenovo’s new concept rollable could be the ideal gaming laptop

Wider is better. Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop....

The new Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i laptop has a super-bright tandem OLED and magnetic stylus

Yes, that nice big stylus is included. Lenovo’s new pair of Yoga laptops for CES 2026 are its most powerful and most lightweight models. The flagship...

Lenovo’s Auto Twist laptop is going from concept to real product

Got me all twisted up. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept, the 14-inch thin-and-light...

Motorola’s latest smartwatch promises 13-day battery life and Polar-powered health tracking

The Moto Watch will be available on January 22nd. At CES, Motorola announced its latest smartwatch, the Moto Watch. According to Motorola, the Android watch offers...

The Many Questions and Challenges with DIY Hydroelectric Generators

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which...

Bazaar Flatpak Manager Gets New Icon, Permission Warnings + More

Bazaar Flatpak manager adds permission warnings showing app safety, Flathub account sync, verified-only filtering, and a neat new ‘market stall’ app icon. You’re reading Bazaar Flatpak...

The Math Behind Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to AI Foundations [Full Book]

“To understand is to perceive patterns.” – Isaiah Berlin This is not a math book filled with complex formulas, theorems, and concepts that are hard to...

Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD

The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to...

HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard

As a Windows system built inside of a functioning membrane keyboard, the HP EliteBoard G1a announced today is a more accessible alternative to other keyboard-PCs. The...

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers...

Building materials are getting closer to doubling as batteries

Concrete already builds our world, and an MIT-invented variant known as electron-­conducting carbon concrete (ec3, pronounced “e c cubed”) holds out the possibility of helping power...

Listening to battery failure

Lithium-ion batteries produce faint sounds as they charge, discharge, and degrade. But until now, nobody could interpret those sounds to detect when a battery might be...

Under 10% of an earthquake’s energy makes the ground shake

Earthquakes are driven by energy stored up in rocks over millennia—energy that, once released, we perceive mainly in the form of the ground’s shaking. But a...

Secrets of the sleep-deprived brain

Nearly everyone has experienced it—after a night of poor sleep, your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention....

Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health,...

Investing in the promise of quantum

As MIT navigates a difficult and constantly changing higher education landscape, I believe our best response is not easy but simple: Keep doing our very best...

Hands-on engineering

Jaden Chizuruoke May ’29 worked with teammates Rihanna Arouna ’29 and Marian Akinsoji ’29 to design the chemically powered model car whose framework he is building...

Dennis Whyte’s fusion quest

Ever since nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930s, scientists have wondered if we could somehow replicate and harness the phenomenon behind starlight—the smashing together of...

Starstruck

Few people, if any, contemplate stars—celestial or cinematic—the way Aomawa Shields does.  An astronomer and astrobiologist, Shields explores the potential habitability of planets beyond our solar...

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps...

With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades

For the first time in years, Nvidia declined to introduce new GeForce graphics card models at CES. CEO Jensen Huang’s characteristically sprawling and under-rehearsed 90-minute keynote...

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

A Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state and local prisons jam contraband cell phones has support from Republican attorneys general and prison phone companies but...

Fewer Wires, More Qubits: D-Wave Tackles Quantum Computing’s Cable Problem

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave today announced an industry breakthrough in its approach to building and controlling its upcoming gate model quantum computer. One issue that the...

Tired of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning the Hot Glue Gun

Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn...

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV

New televisions from Amazon, Hisense, TCL, and others are designed to display fine art and look like a painting when they’re switched off. It’s all thanks...

What It Takes To Scale AI Agents in Production

With the release of “reasoning” models capable of multistep, test-time compute, the intelligence required to solve complex problems is accessible via a standard API. For the...

The 57 Best Shows on Disney+, WIRED’s Picks (January 2026)

The End of an Era, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and The Beatles Anthology are just a few of the shows you should be watching on...

Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad

After making the obviously poor decision to kill its XPS laptops and desktops in January 2025, Dell started selling 16- and 14-inch XPS laptops again today....

These Luxurious Headphones Are Almost Half Off

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 feature premium materials and luxurious sound.

PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience

[AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a MiniMig — a recreation...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to...

From Pets to Cattle: The New Mindset for Managing VMs

This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations,” a new ebook by acclaimed research analyst...

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of...

Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

One of the first signs of what would become an ongoing attack on scientific research came when the Trump administration ordered the National Institutes of Health...

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing...

Serverless Cloud Architecture Is Failing Modern AI Agents

For nearly a decade, cloud architecture has been shaped by a simple rule: Keep everything stateless. AWS Lambda and other serverless platforms encouraged teams to carve...

When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?

This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to...

Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level

It’s been almost exactly two years since Nvidia announced G-Sync Pulsar, its new backlight strobing technology designed to limit display motion blur caused by old images...

How to Build Agentic AI Workflows

Learn how to build agentic AI workflows. We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that provides a comprehensive overview of agentic AI, defining...

[$] Questions for the Technical Advisory Board

The nature and role of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is not well-understood, though a recent LWN article shed some light on its role...

[$] The difficulty of safe path traversal

Aleksa Sarai, as the maintainer of the runc container runtime, faces a constant battle against security problems. Recently, runc has seen another instance of a security...

OAuth 2.0 Course for Beginners

OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authorization framework allowing third-party apps to access user data on another service (like Google or Facebook) without sharing passwords, instead using...

Learn Music Production with FL Studio

We just posted a comprehensive music production course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that bridges the gap between basic theory and professional execution. Miguel guides you...

The Hidden Engineering Cost of ‘AI Everywhere’ Product Roadmaps

AI has quietly shifted from a differentiator to a default expectation. Product roadmaps now arrive with “AI-powered” stamped on nearly every feature, whether it makes sense...

Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver

The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver…

The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think

Happy New Year! I’m done with the newsletter hiatus and am going to try updating weekly again. To ease into things a bit, I’ll try to...

Manjaro 26.0 released

Version 26.0 (“Anh-Linh”) of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution has been released. Manjaro 26.0 includes Linux 6.18, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, Xfce 4.20, and more.

The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect...

A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela

We don’t have many details: President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that the U.S. used cyberattacks or other technical capabilities to cut power off in Caracas during...

Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly

Did Kubernetes break up Amazon Web Services cloud party? As the co-founder and CTO of cloud native hardware company Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill isn’t one...

Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze

Ørsted is seeking a court injunction against the Trump administration’s decision to suspend its work on a major wind farm project off the US northeast coast....

Magneto, Xavier reunite in new Avengers: Doomsday teaser

Marvel Studios continues to dribble out brief teasers promoting Avengers: Doomsday, which is slated for a December 2026 release—first playing in cinemas prior to Avatar: Fire...

Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to “madvise” Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to “always”, you may...

Red Hat Customizes RHEL for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI Platform

Building on continual partnership work with the chip company, Red Hat has pledged to offer “Day 0” support for Nvidia’s newly-announced Vera Rubin Platform, when it...

‘Industry’ Takes on the Age Verification Wars

In the HBO show’s fourth season, Industry proves to be more prescient than it’s ever been.

Meta Applies Mutation Testing with LLM to Improve Compliance Coverage

Meta applies large language models to mutation testing through its Automated Compliance Hardening system, generating targeted mutants and tests to improve compliance coverage, reduce overhead, and...

Installing GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu Linux (Because I Like it)

GitHub Desktop is not officially available for Linux. But there are alternative ways to install GitHub Desktop fork on Ubuntu.

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, ruby, and thunderbird), Debian (libsodium and ruby-rmagick), Fedora (gnupg2 and proxychains-ng), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, rsync, tar, and thunderbird), Red...

Pre-Compiled Headers Being Debated For LLVM/Clang To Speed-Up Build By 1.5~2x

LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers “PCH” as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler...

Data in 2026: Interchangeable Models, Clouds, and Specialization

Current attempts to centralize the increasingly fragmented data ecosystem — which is distributed across vendors, infrastructure, architectures, and tooling — are as vast as they are...

Steve Jobs’ Early Apple Items Are Going Up for Auction—Along With His Bow Ties

Some of the objects came from Steve Jobs’ childhood bedroom. They’re being made available by his stepbrother, John Chovanec.

Ring and Watch Duty Team Up to Keep a Closer Eye on Wildfires

In a move to help alert people to the spread of nearby blazes, Ring is partnering with Watch Duty to let users share their videos on...

DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2, a family of open-source reasoning and agentic AI models. The high compute version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs better than GPT-5 and comparably to Gemini-3.0-Pro on...

Tips for Using the AI Coding Editor Cursor

Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Visual Studio Code codebase. It comes with a multi-agent interface and the Composer model for...

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from...

Spot the difference: Sony’s electric car gets a crossover version

Six years after Sony announced its automotive ambitions, everything is looking a lot more concrete. Production of the Afeela 1, the electric sedan developed by Sony...

How the Dictaphone Entered Office Life

Thanks to Hollywood, whenever I think of a Dictaphone, my imagination immediately jumps to a mid-20th-century office, Don Draper suavely seated at his desk, voicing ad...

Private equity deal shows just how far America’s legacy rocket industry has fallen

If you are a student of space history or tracked the space industry before billionaires and venture capital changed it forever, you probably know the name...

Winter Bird Feeding Tips for the Peak of Bird Watching Season (2026)

Winter is often the best time for bird-watching at bird feeders—here’s what ornithologists recommend to get the most out of the season.

Slack Enhances Chef Infrastructure to Improve Safety and Reduce Blast Radius in Deployments

Slack’s engineering team has published an in-depth look at recent improvements to its Chef-based configuration management system, aimed at making deployments safer and more resilient without...

An X11 Thing! Your Favorite Middle-Click Paste is Likely to be Disabled in Future GNOME Releases

Proposals for both GNOME and Firefox would disable the feature by default, but the final decision is still pending.

Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver...

Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale talks about Elon Musk, political resistance, and why she still has hope...

The Newest Health Trend Is Tracking Your Pee

Ready, aim, fire—the latest health trackers use sensors to check your urine for proper hydration, ketone levels, and possible kidney stones.

AMD Releases GAIA 0.15 – Positioning It As A Framework/SDK For Building AI PC Agents

Last year AMD announced GAIA as short for “Generative AI Is Awesome”. It started off as a Windows-only AI demo but over time added Linux support...

Intel Core Ultra X7 358H + 32GB RAM Laptop Around ~$1300 USD

Yesterday when Intel formally introduced Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 with pre-orders set to begin today and available globally later this month, one...

13 Best Tablets (2026), Tested and Reviewed

We’ve tested all the top slates, from Apple’s iPads to Android and Windows devices, and rounded up our favorites.

Nvidia and Groq, A Stinkily Brilliant Deal, Why This Deal Makes Sense

Nvidia is licensing Groq’s technology and hiring most of its employees; it’s the most potent application of tech’s don’t-call-it-an-acquisition deal model yet.

GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components

On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is...

6 Best Gym Bags for Every Workout and Commute (2026)

New year, new gym bag. I put over 20 models to the test in 2025 so you can start 2026 with the best.

The Best Ventless Fireplaces for Cozy Vibes (2026)

No chimney? No problem. LED and gel fuel fireplaces are excellent alternatives for those who can’t or don’t want to burn wood. We tried one of...

The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump’s Retro Coup in Venezuela

This weekend’s invasion was both a throwback to the last century and a new, uniquely Trumpian nightmare—one that’s just beginning.

Linux Kernel 6.19 RC4 Released: Linus Confirms RC8

Linus Torvalds released the fourth release candidate (RC4) for Linux Kernel version 6.19. Learn what’s new in Kernel 6.19-rc4 release. The post Linux Kernel 6.19 RC4...

Podcast: 2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products

In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what...

Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance

Docker has launched Kanvas, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between local development and cloud production. By automating the conversion of Docker Compose files...

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

As news unfolds surrounding the U.S. capture and arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, a cybersecurity newsletter examined Cloudflare Radar data and took note of a...

Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy

If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who...

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps

Nvidia’s RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service is now complete, so it’s ready to announce some additional features for subscribers. In the...

Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors automatically adjust brightness just like a laptop

Nvidia is bringing a new set of G-Sync Pulsar monitors to the market this week that will automatically adjust brightness and color based on the ambient...

Nvidia announces DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation and improved image quality

Nvidia is announcing its next major update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature at CES today. DLSS 4.5 includes Nvidia’s second-generation Super Resolution transformer...

Emerson’s SmartVoice devices follow verbal instructions without Wi-Fi or a hub

The SmartVoice Air Fryer responds to over 1,000 voice commands. | Image: IAI Smart A new line of small appliances and devices from IAI Smart, billed...

Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process

Intel will formally launch its first Core Ultra Series 3 laptop processors later this month, the company announced at its CES keynote today. Codenamed Panther Lake...

AMD reheats last year’s Ryzen AI and X3D CPUs for 2026’s laptops and desktops

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and other chip companies usually have some kind of news to announce at CES to kick off the year, but some of those...

AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips

The GPD Win 5. AMD’s Strix Halo, aka “Ryzen AI Max,” is a hugely expensive chip that includes some of the most powerful integrated graphics ever...

AMD Ryzen AI 400 official: Will these laptop chips maintain AMD’s lead?

We were rightly skeptical of AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” laptop chips in 2024. Now they’re in some of the very best laptops you can...

AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9850X3D makes the best gaming CPU even faster

AMD is introducing an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor today at CES. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D offers up the same 8-core...

HP crammed an entire desktop computer into this keyboard

There’s a whole computer in there. This kind of rules? HP is announcing a new mini desktop computer at CES 2026, and the whole thing is...

Alienware is working on new slim and cheaper gaming laptops

These renders of the ultra-slim (left) and entry-level (right) models are our only glimpse of Alienware’s unnamed laptops. Dell-owned Alienware is looking to reach a wider...

AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D, New Strix Halo SKUs & Ryzen AI 400 Series

Lisa Su’s keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD’s first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI...

Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed

Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stuff will...

The Vivoo FlowPad turns menstrual pads into an at-home hormone test

The FlowPad will measure follicle-stimulating hormone. | Image: Vivoo Wellness tech companies are increasingly interested in bodily fluids like blood, urine, sweat, and saliva. At CES...

Tying up Loose Ends on a Rope-based Robot Actuator

One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this,...

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console: Your questions answered

Managing a hybrid environment can feel like a balancing act between disparate sets of fragmented tools used for all the different platforms you interact with. If...

Red Hat’s commitment to the EU Cyber Resilience Act: Shaping the future of cybersecurity standards

As our reliance on connected devices and software deepens, the need for robust, transparent, and consistent cybersecurity practices is increasingly critical. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience...

New Dell XPS 14 and 16 Announced, Ubuntu Version Coming This Year

Dell revives XPS brand with redesigned 14 and 16-inch laptops. Ubuntu 24.04 support coming to XPS 14 later this year. Details and specs inside. You’re reading...

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” & Arc B390 Graphics

Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs…

Canonical announces Ubuntu support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform

Official Ubuntu support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems, announced at CES 2026 CES 2026, Las Vegas. – Canonical,...

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

The chip giant says Vera Rubin will sharply cut the cost of training and running AI models, strengthening the appeal of its integrated computing platform.

Isoken Ibizugbe: Thinking About My Audience

Thinking about who I am addressing is a challenge, but it is an important one. As I write, I realize I’m speaking to three distinct groups:...

NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all

In June, the White House released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 that slashed funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent. Then, in...

Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials on Monday announced a sweeping and unprecedented overhaul of federal vaccine recommendations, abruptly paring down...

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the...

Putting the M in a UNI-T MSO

[Kerry Wong] points out that the Uni-T MSO oscilloscopes have a logic analyzer built in — that’s the MSO, or Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, part — but...

Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem

You know the drill: Each month your organization’s cloud bill comes in, higher than the month before, despite all your efforts to minimize overprovisioning and shutter...

Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.

Intel DeepMath Introduces a Smart Architecture to Make LLMs Better at Math

Intel has announced DeepMath, a lightweight agent built on Qwen3-Thinking that specializes in solving mathematical problems. To address common limitations of LLMs in math reasoning, DeepMath...

Radeon Linux Driver Patches For Next-Gen Hardware Point To New NPU Integration

Back in November AMD began posting open-source Linux graphics driver patches for some next-gen graphics IP. Those IP block patches were for MMHUB, PSP, and other...

Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

The primary domain of Shadow library Anna’s Archive was taken offline, with annas-archive.org being put under the serverHold status. While Anna’s Archive recently made waves with...

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age...

Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

Anyone can now try Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI assistant, through a free early access program at Alexa.com. The website frees the AI, which Amazon released via...

The move faster manifesto

Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s multi-agent...

SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives

In late 2023, storage company Western Digital announced plans to split itself into two companies. One, which would still be called Western Digital, would focus on...

Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be...

BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable

We’ll admit that we weren’t paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare’s troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA’s July announcement that it was planning...

These On-Ear Beats Headphones Are Marked Down by $70

What these headphones lack in active noise canceling, they make up for with big, bold sound.

WASI 1.0: You Won’t Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026

WebAssembly made huge strides with the release of Wasm 3.0 and the component model. However, the last lap in the race to WebAssembly’s true fruition is...

Global Giants Are Investing in Clean Tech Despite Politics

The Trump administration has given corporations plenty of convenient excuses to retreat from their climate commitments, with its moves to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, roll...

Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to...

Hellen Chemtai: Starting out on Open source: Try the OpenQA Debian Image Testing Project

Hello world . I am an intern at Outreachy and contributing to the Debian Images Testing project since October 2025. This project is Open Source and...

Nick Lucchesi Takes Helm at The New Stack

Happy first Monday of 2026 to The New Stack (TNS) readers! It is with great pleasure that I introduce you to Nick Lucchesi, our new editor-in-chief...

[$] Predictions for the new year

The calendar has flipped over to 2026; a new year has begun. That means the moment we all dread has arrived: it is time for LWN...

Hands On WIth The Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero

We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a...

The Next Era of AI: From Single User to Team Collaboration

Most interactions today follow a familiar pattern: You open a chat interface, describe your problem and wait for a response. Because the AI has no context...

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: “An X11’ism…Dumpster Fire”

Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default…

Google TV’s big Gemini update adds image and video generation, voice control for settings

Soon, even loafing around on the couch won’t help you steer clear of AI. TV makers are busily integrating AI models into the experience, and Google...

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

It seems that instead of updating Grok to prevent outputs of sexualized images of minors, X is planning to purge users generating content that the platform...

Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025

A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD’s Marek Olšák...

Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper published in the journal Science Advances,...

Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)

Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few...

Why Your Dashboards Are Obsolete in the Age of AI

Walk into an Amazon distribution center right now and you can feel the future humming. Thousands of robots glide across the floor, coordinating themselves like an...

Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2

Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0...

Providers dropping common anesthesia drug that’s also a climate super pollutant

Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant. Now, several decades after the drug was first introduced,...

Popular Science Experiments in Sound During the 19th-Century

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as...

5 Linux Resolutions to Level Up Your Skills in 2026

Actually, these are mostly based on my New Year resolutions, and not all of these will be applicable to you, but you will surely find one...

Why So Many AI Pilots Fail and How To Beat the Odds

In mid-2025, a widely publicized report claimed that almost all AI pilots fail. While there’s been some debate around the reported failure rate, there are obvious...

The overlooked driver of digital transformation

When business leaders talk about digital transformation, their focus often jumps straight to cloud platforms, AI tools, or collaboration software. Yet, one of the most fundamental...

How to Build an Embeddable AI Chatbot Widget with Cloudflare Workers

Have you ever wanted to add an AI-powered chatbot to your website, like Intercom or Drift, without paying high monthly fees? In this tutorial, you’ll learn...

In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything

Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and — applying some science-fiction...

Ars readers gave over $42,000 in our 2025 Charity Drive

Last month, we asked readers to donate to a couple of good causes in our 2025 Charity Drive sweepstakes. And boy, did you deliver. With the...

JEP 525 Brings Timeout Handling and Joiner Refinements to Java’s Structured Concurrency

JEP 525, a highlight in the upcoming JDK 26, refines structured concurrency for clearer, safer task management. This iteration introduces a timeout callback for custom joiners,...

Tech Hiring in 2026: The Rise of the Specialist

I once worked with a boss who would refer to hiring job candidates as “getting married.” Are we ready to marry this candidate? Is that one...

Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Hands-On: This Is the Phone-Tablet Hybrid You’re Looking For

At CES 2026, we went hands-on with the three-panel Samsung tablet that folds up to the size of a (large) phone.

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats

The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power...

First Good News of 2026! COCOS 4 Game Engine Goes Open Source

Previously proprietary, this game engine is now fully open source.

GNU ddrescue 1.30 released

Version 1.30 of the GNU ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive with...

Meet Canonical at CES 2026: A trusted foundation for your device lifecycle

CES 2026 is here, bringing together the technologies defining the next generation of connected devices. With thousands of exhibitors showcasing everything from software-defined vehicles to industrial...

Presentation: Thinking Like a Detective: Solving Cloud Infrastructure Mysteries

Brendan McLoughlin shares a detective’s framework for solving cloud infrastructure failures. He explains the “usual suspects” in the network stack – from DNS to API gateways...

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tar), Debian (curl and gimp), Fedora (doctl, gitleaks, gnupg2, grpcurl, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, and usd),...

Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1...

Hands off! An on-the-road demo of Mercedes’ advanced new driver assist

Mercedes-Benz provided flights from Washington to San Francisco and accommodation so Ars could drive the CLA, as well as receive a demonstration of Drive Assist Pro....

Kepler: OpenAI’s Internal Agent Platform for Synthesizing Data

For OpenAI employees, asking a question even as seemingly simple as how many ChatGPT Pro users it has in one particular country can be surprisingly difficult,...

Learn From 2025’s Most Popular Python Tutorials and Courses

As we welcome 2026, it’s time to look back on an exciting year for Python. Python 3.14 arrived with a wave of developer-focused improvements, from lazy...

Intel Xe Driver Preps THP Support For “Significant” SVM Performance Gains

Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the...

The Download: Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley, and the AI terms that were everywhere in 2025

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. Welcome to Kenya’s Great...

Colin Watson: Free software activity in December 2025

About 95% of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. Python packaging I upgraded...

The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.

If a data center is moving in next door, you probably live in the United States. More than half of all upcoming global data centers—as indicated...

How to Create Scatterplots and Model Data in R Using ggplot2

You can use R as a powerful tool for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical modelling. In this guide, you’ll learn how to load real-world data...

Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market

Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram. The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Telegram have now grown...

Our annual power ranking of US rocket companies has changes near the top and bottom

Which US rocket companies achieved the most during 2025? Once again, Ars Technica is here to provide some answers in the form of our annual power...

Magnesium Supplements Crash Course (2026): Benefits and Side Effects

Promises of better sleep—and better poops—are driving the magnesium supplements craze.

‘Shogun’ Creator Says Season 2 ‘Defies Expectations’

The historical series Shogun was an international hit that won a record 18 Emmy Awards. With production on season 2 starting, the writer and executive producer...

9 Best Cat Water Fountains, WIRED-Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Ensuring your cat is drinking enough water is one of the best ways to keep your pet healthy. We tested nearly two dozen models to find...

AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations

Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations.

Linux Kernel AES Library Seeing Improvements For Better Performance & More

A set of 36 patches sent out overnight is making big improvements to the Linux kernel’s AES library. The patches allow for making use of the...