Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Did you place it in the sun? We only got 15°C today.

Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology
Microsoft warned that an advanced Chinese hacking group is waging a campaign of supply-chain attacks. From a report: The company’s threat intelligence division said in a blog post Wednesday that the group, known as Silk Typhoon, was targeting remote management tools and cloud applications in order to spy on a range of companies and organizations in the US a … ⌘ Read more

Hi everyone,
I’ve drafted a Request for Comments (RFC) to improve how threads work in twtxt:
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/18

I’d love your feedback! Please share your thoughts on anything that could be better explained, check if the proposed dates work for everyone, and I invite you to join the discussion…

I have released new updates to the twtxt.el client.

• New feature: View and interact with threads.
  
• Optimisation of ordering for long feeds.
  
• Minor fixes.
  

In the next version you will be able to see all your mentions.

Enjoy!

#emacs #twtxt #twtxtel

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Oh my god! 😵

OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents
OpenAI is preparing to launch a tiered pricing structure for its AI agent products, with high-end research assistants potentially costing $20,000 per month,

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Toowoomba! I love that name. LOL. Sorry, digressing big time.

Apple Refreshes MacBook Air With M4 Chip, Lower Pricing
Apple has refreshed its MacBook Air lineup with the M4 processor, adding a new sky blue color option and reducing prices across the board. The 13-inch model now starts at $999, while the 15-inch begins at $1,199. Both models are available to order immediately and will ship on March 12.

The updated MacBook Airs feature the same thin design as previous generations … ⌘ Read more

Demorou demasiado, mas a próxima versão do yt-dlp vai voltar a suportar a RTP! Quer isto dizer que já podem facilmente aceder aos conteúdos diferidos da RTP, bastando para isso usar o yt-dlp. Enquanto a nova versão (com esta e outras alterações) não sai, podem já usá-lo através da versão git, disponível em https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp .

Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations
The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor… ⌘ Read more

Google Urges DOJ To Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company
Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, citing national security concerns, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the discussions. From the report: Representatives for the Alphabet unit asked the government in a meeting last week to take a less … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Ouch, that’s heading right towards you, eh? 🙈

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Boom. 24°C. No spring? I think my thermometer is wrong.

@prologic@twtxt.net stay safe, close windows, have sand sacks ready, check flashlights, make sure to have some canned food, and bottled water, fill up the bathtubs, etc., and enjoy the ride! :-)

AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance
Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards. ⌘ Read more

Turing Award Winners Sound Alarm on Hasty AI Deployment
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI systems

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today’s embargo lift, I’ve also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute benchmarks of the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, mostly on cross-vendor OpenCL benchmarks, and a few words on the GPU compute stack support for the Radeon RX 9070. ⌘ Read more

Apple M3 Ultra
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266453

Points: 510

# Comments: 524 ⌘ Read more

NASA Uses GPS On the Moon For the First Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: On March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost made history, becoming the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface. The groundbreaking lander is wasting no time in getting to work. According to NASA, the joint public-private mission has already successfully demonstrated the ability to use Eart … ⌘ Read more

Making Vulkan More Of A “Joy To Use” Discussed At Vulkanised 2025
In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month’s Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware… ⌘ Read more

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration
The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration… ⌘ Read more

More Apple SoC DeviceTree Additions Being Upstreamed For Linux 6.15
Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window… ⌘ Read more

World’s First ‘Synthetic Biological Intelligence’ Runs On Living Human Cells
Australian company Cortical Labs has launched the CL1, the world’s first commercial “biological computer” that merges human brain cells with silicon hardware to form adaptable, energy-efficient neural networks. New Atlas reports: Known as a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI), Cortical’s CL1 system was officially launch … ⌘ Read more

Hope you stay safe mate!

China May Be Ready to Use Nuclear Fusion for Power by 2050
China plans to commercialize nuclear fusion for emissions-free power generation by 2050, with its first operational project expected around 2050 after a demonstration phase starting in 2045. Bloomberg reports: China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) last year formed an industry alliance and set up a new national fusion company, the China Fusion Corp. It has a … ⌘ Read more

this is epic!

RK3566 Credit Card-Sized SBC with M.2 Expansion and 4K Video Support
The RK3566 Single Board Computer is designed for a range of applications, combining processing power with multiple connectivity options. Built with an 8-layer PCB design and featuring a compact form factor, it is powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 processor and includes an M.2 2242 slot for expansion. The SBC features the Rockchip RK3566, a quad-core

Users Report Emotional Bonds With Startlingly Realistic AI Voice Demo
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has … ⌘ Read more

Torizon and Texas Instruments Collaborate on Cybersecurity Compliance for Embedded Systems
Torizon and Texas Instruments have announced a collaboration aimed at simplifying cybersecurity compliance and development for industrial and medical embedded systems. The partnership integrates Torizon’s software platform with TI’s Arm-based, Linux-capable processors, addressing increasing security requirements such as those outlined in the EU Cyber Resilience Ac … ⌘ Read more

Cult Text-Based Zombie MMO ‘Urban Dead’ Is Shutting Down After 20 Years
The long-running text-based zombie MMO Urban Dead is shutting down on March 14, 2025, after nearly 20 years. The reason: compliance concerns with the UK’s Online Safety Act. Games Radar+ reports: “The Online Safety Act comes into force later this month, applying to all social and gaming websites where users interact, and especially t … ⌘ Read more

TwtAttrs
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/pulls/17

Actually it was your old feed on eapl.mx

TwtAttrs
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/pulls/17

Actually it was your old feed on eapl.mx

@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I saw a few a while back.

TCL Overtakes LG To Become Second-largest Premium TV Brand
“TCL has emerged as a dominant force in the premium TV market, surpassing LG in global shipments and solidifying its position as a key competitor to Samsung,” writes Slashdot reader jjslash. “According to Counterpoint Research, TCL’s premium TV shipments more than doubled year-on-year in Q4 2024, capturing 20% of the market, while LG’s share fell to … ⌘ Read more

Firefox 136 Released With Vertical Tabs, Official ARM64 Linux Binaries
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Linux: Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 136 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the March 4th, 2025, official release date, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and changes. Highlights of Firefox 136 include official Linux binary pack … ⌘ Read more

really? I think I haven’t seen it being used in the wild

YouTube Warns Creators an AI-Generated Video of Its CEO is Being Used For Phishing Scams
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt … ⌘ Read more

Um texto em uma lingua estranha que poucos entenderão

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

Opera Adds an Automated AI Agent To Its Browser
king*jojo shares a report from The Register: The Opera web browser now boasts “agentic AI,” meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions. The AI agent, referred to as the Browser Operator, can, for example, find 12 pairs of men’s size 10 Nike socks that you can buy. This is demonstrated in an Opera-made video of the process, r … ⌘ Read more

Yeah so disappointed. Brother was one of the last good ones.

Brother Accused of Locking Down Third-Party Printer Ink Cartridges Via Forced Firmware Updates
Fabled RepairTuber and right-to-repair crusader Louis Rossmann accuses Brother of implementing forced firmware updates that block third-party ink cartridges and remove older firmware versions from support portals. These updates also prevent color calibration with aftermarket ink, ren … ⌘ Read more

oetkenpurveyorofcode.github.io

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Succession - ‘I Don’t Want To Pass It To a Committee’
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said on a podcast he aims to eventually hand over leadership to a single successor rather than “a committee,” amid growing calls for him to step down following his legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. On a recent episode of Lenny’s Podcast, Mullenweg discussed h … ⌘ Read more

Judges Are Fed Up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: After a group of attorneys were caught using AI to cite cases that didn’t actually exist in court documents last month, another lawyer was told to pay $15,000 for his own AI hallucinations that showed up in several briefs. Attorney Rafael Ramirez, who represented a company called HoosierV … ⌘ Read more

AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs
Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 “Turin” processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

LLVM/Clang 20.1 Released With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2, AMD GFX950 & Much More
LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler… ⌘ Read more

Citi Copy-Paste Error Almost Sent $6 Billion to Wealth Account
Citigroup nearly credited about $6 billion to a customer’s account in its wealth-management business by accident. From a report: The near-error occurred after a staffer handling the transfer copied and pasted the account number into a field for the dollar figure, which was detected on the next business day, the report added. The wealth division’s near-m … ⌘ Read more

Australia, With No Auto Industry To Protect, is Awash With Chinese EVs
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is rapidly gaining market share in Australia, with sales rising 65% last year as nearly one in four EVs sold in the country was a BYD, according to EVDirect CEO David Smitherman. Chinese EVs now comprise roughly one-third of electric vehicles sold in Australia, which has no domestic auto industry to pr … ⌘ Read more

Apple Launches Legal Challenge To UK ‘Back Door’ Order
Apple is stepping up its fight with the British government over a demand to create a “back door” in its most secure cloud storage systems, by filing a legal complaint that it hopes will overturn the order. Financial Times: The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that examines complaints against the UK se … ⌘ Read more

Apple Launches Legal Challenge To UK ‘Back Door’ Order
Apple is stepping up its fight with the British government over a demand to create a “back door” in its most secure cloud storage systems, by filing a legal complaint that it hopes will overturn the order. Financial Times: The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that examines complaints against the UK se … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Damn! :-( Yeah, I won’t build that into my client. Not worth it for the many things that are still undetectable and the low frequency it happens.

After Exam Fiasco, California State Bar Staff Recommend Reverting To In-person Exams
After California’s bar exams were plagued last week with technical problems, the State Bar of California is recommending that the agency return to in-person tests as it scrutinizes whether the vendor behind the new testing system met the obligations of its contract. From a report: “Based on the administration … ⌘ Read more

@bmallred@staystrong.run Oh, I hear you! It’s always after carefully proofreading and publishing that a typo suddenly pops up. :-) Not sure if amending your edit implementation is really worth it, but happy hacking in case you do.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, they’re not made of steel as I would not have made it home with such heavy weights. :-D

Firefox 137 Beta Now Available With VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC On Linux
With Firefox 136 released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck! So there aren’t any non-criminal printer vendors out there anymore. Very sad. I really don’t understand why this is not highly illegal in the entire world.

Scientists Create ‘Woolly Mice’
EmagGeek shares a report: Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger – the woolly mammoth. This “woolly mouse” marks an important step toward achieving the researchers’ ultimate goal – bringing a woolly mammoth-like creature back from extinction, they say.

“For us, it’s an incredibly big deal,” says Beth Shapiro, chief science officer a … ⌘ Read more

Apple Unveils iPad Air With M3 Chip
Apple today announced a significant update to its iPad Air lineup, integrating the M3 chip previously reserved for higher-end devices. The new tablets, available in both 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) configurations, deliver substantial performance gains: nearly 2x faster than M1-equipped models and 3.5x faster than A14 Bionic versions.

The M3 brings Apple’s advanced graphics architecture to the Ai … ⌘ Read more

Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues
Intel has been running an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development… ⌘ Read more

Europe’s Biggest Battery Powered Up In Scotland
AmiMoJo shares a report: Europe’s biggest battery storage project has entered commercial operation in Scotland

ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App
There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package… ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 09

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Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
Hey HN,

I built a wireless, split, ultra-low profile keyboard from scratch called Bayleaf. As a beginner I learned all things electronics, PCB-building, designing for manufacturing, and many other hardware-related skills to put this together.

This case study dives into the build process and of course the final result, hope you enjoy!

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255529](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325552 … ⌘ Read more

China’s Supreme Court Calls For Crack Down on Paper Mills
China’s highest court has called for a crack down on the activities of paper mills, businesses that churn out fraudulent or poor-quality manuscripts and sell authorships. Nature: Some researchers are cautiously optimistic that the court’s guidance will help curb the use of these services, while others think the impact will be minimal. “This is the first time … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Got you bro.

Realme Charts Path To 10,000mAh Phone Batteries by 2026
Realme plans to double smartphone battery capacity to 10,000mAh within its three-year strategic roadmap, the company said at tradeshow MWC on Tuesday. Current flagship devices typically offer 5,000mAh, while Realme’s latest models already ship with 6,000mAh cells. The company expects to implement 7,500mAh batteries next year before reaching the 10,000mAh target, … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I’ve been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share. ⌘ Read more

Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially “save billions of dollars” in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net What the heck. 🫠

Google Releases SpeciesNet, an AI Model Designed To Identify Wildlife
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google has open sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps – digital cameras connected to infrared sensors – to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide … ⌘ Read more

A depressing video about the current state of printers that just ends with “fuck this, I’m gonna talk about my cat now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE

Linux’s AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi “RDNA1” GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming… ⌘ Read more

Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API… ⌘ Read more

I’ve written before about the use of US cloud services within EU and how that goes against the GDPR, even with all the attempts to create exceptions. The latest exception was being challenged, but hinged on a few things that the new US administration is tearing down.

EuroActiv has a nice new article about all of this:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/deafening-commission-silence-with-no-credible-eu-us-data-oversight-left/

The most important thing there, for me, is at the end:

“if the EU executive does scrap the deal, it will undoubtedly be seen as a political move against Washington. Better to say and do nothing in the meantime, seems to be the policy.

But silence can’t last forever.

On 5 February, 19 MEPs from across the political spectrum called on the Commission to address the question of whether the DPF is still viable. The Commission has until 19 March to respond in writing.

On 6 February, the chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee wrote to Commissioner McGrath asking whether the DPF still meets the essential equivalence requirement established by the ECJ after the PCLOB shootings and whether this affects the validity of the DPF.

Schrems told Euractiv that the Commission’s silence could leave companies in the legal limbo of an invalidated DPF.

“My biggest worry… is that there is no fucking contingency plan,” he said.”

Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That’s culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lyse, the man with feet of steel. 🦾

@eapl.me@eapl.me Sounds like a great idea! 👍

CISA Tags Windows, Cisco Vulnerabilities As Actively Exploited
CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies about active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco VPN routers and Windows systems. “While the cybersecurity agency has tagged these flaws as actively exploited in the wild, it has yet to provide specific details regarding this malicious activity and who is behind it,” adds Bleeping Computer. From the report: The … ⌘ Read more

Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a stable lunar landing without crashing. The craft is carrying various NASA-funded experiments, including a “vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet (3 meters) below the surface,” reports the … ⌘ Read more

MayQueen Introduces a 2.13″ Four Color E-Paper Display for Embedded Applications
MayQueen has introduced the PIXPAPER-213-C, a 2.13-inch prototype electronic paper display developed with Triangle Alien Studio. Featuring a four-color display and an SPI interface, it is designed for low-power, high-contrast embedded applications. The PIXPAPER-213-C supports black, white, yellow, and red colors with a resolution of 250×122 pixels and a density of 130 DPI. The active … ⌘ Read more

Adafruit Metro RP2350 is Available for $24.95 with Arduino Form Factor Compatibility
The Adafruit Metro RP2350 is designed for projects that require Arduino form-factor compatibility, multiple GPIO options, and debugging capabilities. Built around the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, this board provides various connectivity features and programming support, making it a flexible choice for embedded development. As its name suggests, the Metro RP2350 feature … ⌘ Read more

ADLINK and LIPS Introduce 3D Perception DevKit for Autonomous Mobile Robots
ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, it is designed for smart manufacturing and

Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI … ⌘ Read more

NASA Photo Captures Sound Barrier Being Broken
NASA used specialized Schlieren photography to capture an image of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft breaking the sound barrier on February 10, 2025 and producing shock waves as it exceeded Mach 1. The flight produced no audible sonic boom, marking progress toward the goal of quiet supersonic travel. CNN reports: “This image makes the invisible visible,” said Blake Sc … ⌘ Read more

Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month… ⌘ Read more

Google Play Is Going To Start Highlighting Apps With Widgets
Google Play on Android devices is being updated to include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. The Verge reports: With the search filter, users will be able to more easily search for apps with widgets. The badge “eliminates guesswork for users and highlights your widget … ⌘ Read more

US To Halt Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine. The reported order to halt U.S.-launched hacking operations against Russia was authorized by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Heg … ⌘ Read more

Taking a shortcut home