When Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino in October 2025, the tinkerer and maker community watched nervously. Large corporate acquisitions rarely end well for open platforms after all, and enshittification is something that often follows. And now, what’s followed is unsettling. Adafruit Industries, makers of popular development boards and aContinue Reading
The Snap packaging system makes it easy to install and update software on any Linux distribution that supports them. However, if you’ve ever had to reinstall your system, you’ve probably been burned by the fact that Snap, like most other packaging systems, doesn’t provide any built-in means for exporting yourContinue Reading
Motiv Electric Trucks builds medium-duty electric trucks and buses. Now the company’s products will be available to public sector agencies through Sourcewell, thanks to a partnership with National Auto Fleet Group (NAFG). Source well, a self-funded governmental organization established in 1978, administers a program that harnesses the collective purchasing powerContinue Reading
EV charging provider Blink Charging has been awarded a Sourcewell contract for EV charging equipment and related services. Sourcewell, a self-funded governmental organization established in 1978, administers a program that harnesses the collective purchasing power of more than 50,000 participating agencies. By streamlining procurement with pre-negotiated, competitive pricing contracts, SourcewellContinue Reading
Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have investigated the structure of Bas63, a bacteriophage of the subfamily Ounavirinae and the Felixounavirus genus which targets Escherichia coli, to explore its evolutionary relationships and functional adaptations. The post Scientists Explore Structure of Bacteriophage appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down In History, I Parry Everything anime; Kingdom, D.N.Angel New Edition manga ship…Read MoreContinue Reading
Ken Paxton’s bullshit lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, built on The Traitor and RFK Jr.’s bullshit press conference in which they pretended that science says acetaminophen causes autism, is off to a predictably bad start. I had a bit of a laugh shortly after this turd was filed, mainlyContinue Reading
The company, famous for its datacentre AI acceleration, is focused on delivering better performance per watt to fuel the AI boom…Continue Reading
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view — representing 0.1% of the full sky around theContinue Reading
NASA named astronaut Scott Tingle as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, effective Nov. 10. A decorated spaceflight veteran and former captain in the United States Navy, Tingle has logged more than 4,500 flight hours in 51 different aircraft and served as a flight engineer aboard the InternationalContinue Reading
Using Apple AirPods Pro on Linux is easy enough, right? You pair them over Bluetooth and listen away – except, not quite. Many features of these gleaming white buds only work on macOS and iOS, meaning that using AirPods Pro on Linux comes with functional limitations: no active noise cancellationContinue Reading
We round up the best new features of the Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) release. Ubuntu 25.10, released on October 9, 2025 (supported until July 2026 for 9 months), is the final interim release before the next long term version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. This release prioritizes modernization through Rust-based componentsContinue Reading