3-reasons-to-host-a-docathon-for-your-open-source-project

Your open source project’s documentation is essential to your customers. Your target audience must understand the purpose of your project and how to use it, and documentation is what bridges that gap. A project is rarely ever truly done, so it’s equally important for resources to be maintained and updatedContinue Reading

proton-drive-client-is-(finally)-coming-to-linux

Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web (ratherContinue Reading

Kaleidoscopic meteorite could be a piece of a ‘lost world’ from the early solar system — Space photo of the week

When imaged with cross-polarized light the angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shimmers like a rainbow kaleidoscope. A new study suggests that the space rock, first discovered in 2019, could be a fragment from a long-lost protoplanet from the early solar system. (Image credit: CU Boulder/John Kashuba) Quick facts What it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454Continue Reading

funniest/most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment offering a theory about ICE’s addiction to masks: Let me suggest a different reason… Let’s say that all of those J6 dumbfucks who livestreamed their crimes, and who now have received pardons for acting like trailerContinue Reading

handbrake-fixes-2-pass-encode-crashes,-webm-on-linux

A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible withContinue Reading