Battery management systems (BMS) play a key role in ensuring the safety, performance, and lifetime of modern rechargeable batteries. To maximize battery longevity, individual cells must be monitored and controlled within a narrow operating window. This requires highly accurate measurement of cell voltages and temperatures, as well as advanced balancingContinue Reading
comemso electronics has introduced Easy Chester Ultimate, a mobile test system for EV charging infrastructure that combines functional testing, charging communication analysis and electrical safety testing in a single unit. The company says it consolidates jobs that previously often needed several separate instruments, different operating concepts and separate documentation processes.Continue Reading
The next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is likely to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you’re looking at, i.e., the workspace row and dashContinue Reading
Anthropic will begin labeling AI-generated content created by Claude, Claude Code, and the company’s API, as well as Claude models via third-party services, according to The Register. Text generated by future Claude models will be given an invisible watermark. According to Anthropic, the watermark is embedded directly into the generatedContinue Reading
IT purchasing is being hit by a double-whammy: Enterprises want to ensure their hardware is good enough to support AI, even as memory shortages caused by AI deployments are driving steep price increases for Macs, iPhones, iPads, tablets, Android devices and Windows PCs. The root cause is widely known. JPContinue Reading
Support us on Patreon » If you know anything about Techdirt, you know we’re big fans of the EFF and its decades of advocacy for digital rights and the open internet. Recently, the organization went through a big change in the form of a new executive director: legal expert and long-timeContinue Reading
Southwest Airlines closed the first quarter of 2026 with six in ten passengers paying more than the fare shown at the top of the search results, according to figures tied to the carrier’s Q1 2026 results, mentioned by Yahoo Finance. That statistic sits behind Southwest’s swing to a $227 millionContinue Reading
Since launching in May, the Simple Flying Flight Trackerhas established itself as an essential tool for aviation enthusiasts, frequent flyers, and industry professionals seeking real-time global airspace data. Built to provide a clean, informative window into global flight movements, the platform bridges the gap between complex transponder data and anContinue Reading
Xbox Game Pass has never really worked on Linux beyond laggy cloud streaming, but an open source project called Xodus is trying to change that. Earlier this week, replying to a thread on Reddit, Paweł Lidwin (imLinguin), project lead of Xodus, confirmed that the hardest parts of running those gamesContinue Reading
Welcome to the first issue of Local AI Weekly. A lot of It’s FOSS readers have been curious about local AI but didn’t want it mixed into FOSS Weekly. So here we are. A separate space for people who want to explore AI but the open source ones. I’ll beContinue Reading
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in buildingContinue Reading
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches “The Grain Goddess Provides” mission for the Japanese company iqps from New Zealand on Aug. 6, 2026. (Image credit: Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called “GHOST.” GHOST — short for “Global Hypersonic & OrbitalContinue Reading
Space Verdict A must-have for fans of Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi adventure, though I wish it were a little bigger and more detailed. It does not feature any stickers (thankfully). Pros + Excellent replica of the ship from the movie + Fun to build + The spinning mechanism is awesome + Rocky minifig + No stickersContinue Reading