No Starch Press is one of my favorite indie tech publishers. I am a fan of their Linux titles like How Linux Works and System Programming in Linux. This is why I get excited when I see a new book from them. I am telling you all this because HumbleContinue Reading
Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux isn’t short of VPN providers, but Obscura, founded by former Bitcoin Core contributor Carl Dong, has a different pitch to most. Rather than your traffic being routedContinue Reading
Googlebook, Googlebook, Googlebook. Google’s mysterious new Android- and ChromeOS-combining laptops have been the talk of the town here in the land o’ Googley matters for much of this year already — and their name also makes for an incredibly challenging tongue-twister to say, as an added layer of intrigue. (Seriously:Continue Reading
Kim Lowe Human Systems Standards Integrator Sep 22, 2026 The purpose of this working group was to assemble a panel of experts to review the most recent data related to extravehicular activity (EVA) prebreathe testing and decompression sickness (DCS) events, venous thromboembolism (VTE) in-flight occurrences, and patent foramen ovale (PFO) implication as they relate toContinue Reading
Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station. After retiring as an astronaut, he headed Spain’s Ministry of Science, InnovationContinue Reading
US charge point operator PowerUp America has been selected to receive four new funding awards through the North Carolina DOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The company will use the funding to bring public DC fast charging stations to Chocowinity, Plymouth, Wadesboro and Whiteville, communities located along North Carolina’sContinue Reading
Cabot will use a modified $50 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to expand domestic production of battery conductive additives at its existing plants in Franklin, Louisiana, and Pampa, Texas. The company plans to invest about $75 million of its own alongside the grant. The grant originallyContinue Reading
A theme going on many years here at Techdirt has been the idea that separating content and advertising, as was the traditional model, makes far less sense in the modern era. Audiences are no longer captive in the way they used to be, with many ways to skip advertising. EntertainmentContinue Reading
“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” the president said., “The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake,” the president said., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
“The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system,” Beyer said Monday., “The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system,” Beyer said Monday., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The OpenShot video editor is now available on the Canonical Snap Store. An official snap package of the Qt-based editing tool went live today (22 September). The new snap is already available to install via App Center on all supported Ubuntu releases, though a Deb package is carried in theContinue Reading
A Linux distro that’s as close to a Windows replacement as possible…Read MoreContinue Reading
MSI details new compact desktop PC with 128 GB RAM and Nvidia RTX Spark A few months have passed since MSI presented the EdgeMesa N AI+. Unveiled during Computex 2026, the mini-PC is one of several that leverage Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform. As we discussed at the time, the EdgeMesa N AI+ also boastedContinue Reading