Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19, moving legacy AMD Radeon GPUs to the modern amdgpu driver and enabling larger block sizes in ext4 for improved storage performance. The AMD driver switch brings native Vulkan support to the Radeon R9 290 and HD 7000 series GPUs, while the ext4 filesystem breaksContinue Reading
The Mobility House North America has unveiled a new vehicle-to-grid integration platform for utilities. Cascade EV Aggregator is an EV load aggregation tool that enables charging and discharging optimization across a variety of charger and vehicle asset classes, from home chargers to electric school bus fleets. “Electric vehicle batteries canContinue Reading
JetBrains has announced that native Wayland support will be enabled in its IntelliJ-based IDEs starting with version 2026.1, allowing Linux developers to work without X11 compatibility layers. Making the development suite work without depending on X11 is increasingly a priority now that major desktop environments and distributions (such as Ubuntu)Continue Reading
The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals, Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2021, the attacks on Section 230 were coming fast, with a Columbia law professor spewing blatantly false information in the Wall Street Journal and Joe Lieberman calling for its repeal, followed by the Democrats introducing the dumpster fire that was the SAFE TECH Act,Continue Reading
Clear out some space from your Google services. Image: Brett Jordan/Unsplash Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. If Google keeps bothering you to pay for cloud storage, it’s not just you. You only get a relatively measly 15GB of storage free of charge with aContinue Reading
A time lapse exposure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX successfully sent another batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday (Feb. 7), just five days after standing down in the wakeContinue Reading
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Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, planetary scientists derived Jupiter’s shape with an order-of-magnitude reduction in uncertainty, finding polar, equatorial and mean radii smaller than previous estimates made with NASA’s Pioneer and Voyager missions. The post Jupiter is Smaller and MoreContinue Reading
Planetary scientists have identified a previously unrecognized pathway for water loss on Mars — observed, for the first time, during the opposite season. The post Even Local Dust Storms Can Drive Water Loss on Mars, Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom has agreed to a face-to-face meeting with pilot union representatives following significant pressure from its pilot workforce. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) recently sent an open letter to the carrier, blasting its lagging performance and lack of a clear turnaround strategy.Continue Reading
Few carriers are truly as iconic to passengers as Fort Worth-headquartered American Airlines, an airline that stands as the world’s largest in terms of a number of metrics related to flights and passengers carried. The airline, in its current form, has existed for around 100 years, and the company’s operationalContinue Reading
China’s EV giant, BYD, has emerged as a formidable player in the European electric vehicle market. With a staggering 2.3…Continue Reading