Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords. Starting with the upcoming LTS release, every keystroke at a sudo password prompt will echo an asterisk — a small UX fix that has ignited one of Linux's fiercest debates in years.

More stuff about calendars, some of which I should have written about last week.

A high-level architecture overview to start with FFmpeg.

Create and manage Fujifilm camera profiles, with ease and speed. Connect your camera and you are good to go! - eggricesoy/filmkit

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....

But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.

I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer…

Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve ​Feinberg’s order is a significant win for Palantir, which has landed a growing ​stream of contracts with the U.S. government.

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet

Open source Baltic Sea shadow fleet tracker. 1200+ vessels, live AIS, cable proximity alerts. No cloud, no subscription, runs locally - FormerLab/shadow-fleet-tracker-light

A new release is out! v18.13 is probably the biggest set of changes we have released in a good while, read on to find out more.


Much faster and better search with the daemon

The daemon has existed for a long time, and has been marked as "experimental"…

Damage to a major gas production facility could take five years to repair, QatarEnergy’s CEO told Reuters.

Learning platform to improve your padel tactical skills

Paris has become greener and easier to explore for tourists under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, but her car-cutting policies have divided locals as she prepares to leave office.

The A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.

Michael Smith, 54, admitted to inflating streaming numbers for hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs by deploying thousands of fake accounts across major platforms, including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music.

The Chinese automaker is racing ahead of global competitors—but don't expect to see those gains in the US anytime soon.

Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say

In India, China and several other nations, Novo Nordisk is on the verge of losing patent protection for its blockbuster weight loss drug, opening the door for cheaper competing versions.

Advances made through No Language Left Behind (NLLB) have demonstrated that high-quality machine translation (MT) scale to 200 languages. Later Large...

The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can "continue with their life"