Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark
2026-10-07
Yes, it’s just a premium laptop. But it sure looks pretty…Continue Reading
Artemis II Crew Moon Photo Annotations
2026-10-07
HQ Web Team Oct 07, 2026 A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun is marked with handwritten notes in this April 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member’s tablet. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (in blue) and Victor “Ike” Glover (in green) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Jeremy Hansen (in red) observedContinue Reading
NASA’s Webb finds signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together
2026-10-07
Scientists think one of the most important events in the early solar system was a colossal collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body known as Theia. The impact likely vaporized huge quantities of rock and hurled material into space. Some of that debris eventually came together to form the Moon, where NASA’s ArtemisContinue Reading
Alaska Airlines Testing An East Coast Fix With Breeze Airways
2026-10-07
Alaska Airlines has quietly begun selling selected Breeze Airways flights, an unusual tie-up that looks far more significant on a route map than it currently is in practice. Alaska has confirmed to Cranky Flier that it has an interline agreement with Breeze, but the initial test is limited to standaloneContinue Reading
5 Reasons Why Private Jets Almost Always Cruise Above Airline Traffic
2026-10-07
Private jets often cruise above the traffic used by commercial airlines, but the reason is not simply that business aviation has access to a higher layer of sky. The aircraft themselves are optimized for a different mission. A Gulfstream G650, for example, can climb to an initial cruise altitude ofContinue Reading
Some guardrails on ChatGPT for Teens don’t work as promised, watchdog group says
2026-10-07
Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media. The watchdog group urged OpenAI to restrict the chatbot to adults “until it can offerContinue Reading
Chick-fil-A CEO says restaurants will not utilize AI in drive-thru
2026-10-07
“From our experience, we really want that hospitality to be human to human.”, “From our experience, we really want that hospitality to be human to human.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS /boot with Secure Boot
2026-10-07
Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process. Ubuntu 26.10’s signed build of GRUB, which is only used on systems if Secure Boot is turned on, no longer supports /boot on Btrfs, XFS,Continue Reading
Cisco brings collaborative agents and Claude into Webex chats
2026-10-07
Cisco is adding AI agents to Webex group chats so colleagues can assign them work and share the results, part of a wider revamp of the Webex app. Announced at the WebexOne conference Wednesday, users will soon be able to @mention agents in Webex “spaces” to help schedule meetings, takeContinue Reading
LibreOffice 26.8: Best New Features
2026-10-07
Learn what’s new in the LibreOffice 26.8 release across Writer, Calc, Impress and the rest of the suite. LibreOffice 26.8 was released on 26 August 2026 for Windows, macOS and Linux. The updates are heavier on Writer than on Base or Draw, which is the usual pattern. The useful workContinue Reading
Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU
2026-10-07
How does an operating system that isn’t proprietary or powered by the Linux kernel manage to run Docker, you ask? Well, it would need features like namespaces and cgroups. That’s exactly what Vinix did, adding its own implementations of those plus overlayfs and seccomp, allowing the stock Alpine Linux DockerContinue Reading
Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program
2026-10-07
Since 2022, Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) has been the path for outside researchers to get paid for reporting security flaws in the company’s open source code, including projects like Flutter, Angular, Go, and Fuchsia. With an announcement on X, they have now decided to discontinueContinue Reading
The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599
2026-10-07
Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000Continue Reading