Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository that includes everything a budding modder might need, and then some. Want t…

Although the asking price of $209 plus shipping seems high for the Radxa Dragon Q8B, featuring the Qualcomm SC8280XP and 8 GB of LPDDR4X, this is 2026, and amid the RAMpocalypse, even the 8 GB LPDD…

Small displays are affordable and easy to use, but their size can present a challenge. To help address this, [mcer12] created PixelFonts, a family of condensed fonts designed specifically for low-r…

Nur wenige kennen sie, fast alle brauchen sie: Screenbars. Wir zeigen die zehn besten Monitorlampen aus fast 25 Tests. | heise online bestenlisten

Das russische Internetunternehmen Yandex erleidet massive Ausfälle. Das macht sich für örtliche Internetnutzer bemerkbar.

Flatpaks haben sich neben Distributionspaketen als feste Größe im Linux-Ökosystem etabliert. Das gilt im Besonderen für Immutable-Distributionen. Ganz wartungsfrei ist die Alternative jedoch nicht.

Despite the recent leaps forward in other forms of computer-driven design, the reliability of PCB autorouters remains questionable; on the positive side, though, the lack of massive training data m…

Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips. Labelled only with a date code of the 47th week of 1985 and a mysterious F1-10-…

Atomic clocks are super accurate. But, unsurprisingly, some atomic clocks are better than others, depending on your definition of better. Researchers at Vienna University claim to have a superior t…

Sent out today as part of this week's input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux.

Drgn is the open-source project out of Meta developing a very versatile debugger with the intent being a debugger focused on programmability with it striving to 'make scripting as natural as possible so that debugging feels like coding.' Drgn 0.3 released…

The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension

Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle

Aktuelle Fälschungen der Geforce RTX 4090 setzen auf täuschend echte GPU- und Speicherchips. Das erschwert die Prüfung gebrauchter Grafikkarten erheblich.

AMD soll die Preise für GDDR6-Speicher angehoben haben. Die Anpassung gilt Berichten zufolge seit Oktober und könnte die Kosten für Radeon-Partner erhöhen.

Ubuntu 26.10's new Add-ons page in App Center can now install restricted media codecs as well as hardware drivers. The new flow should make things simpler

Vor 15 Jahren starb Dennis M. Ritchie, Miterfinder von Unix und C. Ein Rückblick auf sein Leben, Wirken und die nie eingereichte Doktorarbeit.

Der Open-Source-Passwortmanager Bitwarden hat der Community im laufenden Jahr genügend Anlass für Kritik geliefert. Die jetzt angekündigte Doppellizensierung höhlt das Vertrauen weiter aus.

Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived. The owner of the Zilog name – Littelfuse – recently sent out …

Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, usually a weekend.  [Hoani] entered one where the aim was to write a game…

Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the reality is that we’re nerds who want to do all sorts of thin…