Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes withContinue Reading
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by $12.50 (£12) from 1 October, 2026: Model Launch price Old price New price Raspberry PiContinue Reading
US President Traitor 47’s rebranding of artificial intelligence (AI) as super intelligence (SI) has already caused a flurry of activity for one internet domain registry. SI is the international country code for Slovenia, and in the 24 hours following The Traitor’s executive order, Slovenia’s .si domain registry recorded 9,780 newContinue Reading
Samsung users are still digesting big price increases on the Galaxy S26 series, particularly as they mean some models are now more expensive than equivalently capable iPhones. That’s bad news for everyone, of course, but this is unlikely to get any better for some time to come, with memory giant Micron warning that theContinue Reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four launches from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. John Raoux/AP Photo/John Raoux CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour expressContinue Reading
Elon’s 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts per satellite, 10 terabits per second in both directions, and a path to more than 100 terabits per second. I detailed the 250 kilowatt per Starlink satellite as beating the Space Station in myContinue Reading
We round up the best new features of GNOME 51 desktop environments. GNOME 51 brings a calmer, more practical desktop. One of the major highlights is smoother motion under load. Mutter’s reworked frame scheduling and screen frame delivery help animations stay smooth when the system is busy. Screen recording isContinue Reading
United Airlines has quietly rolled out a new feature on its mobile application that allows users to track their history of flying with the carrier. Known as ‘My Flight Journey,’ the feature details every sector that a given passenger has flown on with the Chicago-based US legacy carrier.Continue Reading
Upgrading to first class is a most common question that passengers ask themselves during the check-in process. Whether standing at an airport kiosk or scrolling through an airline’s mobile app, passengers often notice an upgrade offer and wonder if the price is worth it. The appeal is obvious – aContinue Reading
The Hugging Face hack was the first in a series of incidents in which AI agents have breached other firms., The Hugging Face hack was the first in a series of incidents in which AI agents have breached other firms., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The two facilities are projected to create about 9,800 American jobs., The two facilities are projected to create about 9,800 American jobs., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
UK-based EV battery repair and remanufacturing specialist Autocraft Solutions Group has won the Green Award at the Automechanika Frankfurt Innovation Awards 2026 for its REVIVE workshops, which diagnose, repair and remanufacture failed EV battery packs. The Green Award is a newly created category, and an international panel of judges choseContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 ships with a Rust-based OpenPGP implementation ahead of plans to phase out GnuPG in a future release. Sequoia PGP is included in the default seed (i.e., preinstalled) for the ‘Stonking Stingray’, and Canonical has moved the rust-sequoia-sq package to the main repo in order to provide official supportContinue Reading