Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. This may prove useful when you don’t want to open to a new tab or a calculator app. I’ve often narrowed my eyes at an online checkout pageContinue Reading
James Giordano said the “acute” effects of a directed energy attack can snowball., James Giordano said the “acute” effects of a directed energy attack can snowball., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Despite being in the name of the act, Flock — a prominent ALPR company — would not be the only company affected., Despite being in the name of the act, Flock — a prominent ALPR company — would not be the only company affected., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant…Continue Reading
To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether that sort of thing is good or bad, natural or otherwise, nor the moral implications of it all. Whatever youContinue Reading
Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto Debian 13, with more than 2,200 industrial computers and embeddedContinue Reading
Kōhei Kadowaki, NOTHING NEW’s film opens in Japan on September 25…Read MoreContinue Reading
A quiet shift unites two different computing worlds…Read MoreContinue Reading
Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000…Continue Reading
The third, and potentially final, monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is available for download. There were no monthly snapshots of the ‘Stonking Stingray’ in August or July – no reason has been given – and the Ubuntu 26.10 beta release is scheduled for release on 24 September. Thus, this couldContinue Reading
Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark? This became a very real scenario on Thursday, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and SpaceXAI’s Grok near-simultaneously, and somewhat mysteriously, experienced significant, prolonged outages. Beginning in the morning, Eastern time, severalContinue Reading
I’ve been writing about Apple and how it benefits the enterprise for so long it’s easy to forget that the company doesn’t make enough noise about its accomplishments. Sure, it has pursued and won the argument about Total Cost of Ownership, proving that while initial costs might be higher, dollar for dollar MacsContinue Reading
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe sat down with more than a dozen auto reporters for a lengthy Q&A session during the R2 launch drive event. What follows are his comments on a few topics, each of which bears on the R2’s prospects. They have been edited for clarity andContinue Reading