(Image credit: NASA) Imagine orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth and seeing your home planet below — up in smoke. That was the reality recently for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) who captured this image of the volcano Mount Rainier covered in smoke from nearby wildfires. What is it? This past July, hundredsContinue Reading
Back in April, Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, spoke with The Pragmatic Engineer (paywalled), telling them that Ubuntu inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing faster than native Ubuntu desktop installs. He expects WSL to pull ahead within months. Jon was speaking on the topic of how AIContinue Reading
Whether you’re a developer, system administrator, or simply someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal, juggling multiple terminal sessions can be messy and frustrating. A terminal multiplexer helps you keep everything organized, letting you manage several sessions from a single interface while making your workflow much moreContinue Reading
Para Light Electronics has launched ThermaFlat, a family of SiC MOSFETs in 650 V and 1,200 V ratings built around what the company calls its ultra-low RDS(on) drift technology. In benchmark testing of a 650 V, 21 mΩ TO-247 device, on-resistance changed by roughly 8% as junction temperature swung fromContinue Reading
Munich Electrification has introduced the ME SSR, a solid-state battery disconnect unit that replaces the mechanical contactors and pyrotechnic fuses used in the high-voltage systems of electric trucks and buses. The unit is the central high-voltage switch between the battery and the vehicle, connecting the battery to the drivetrain inContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration’s anti-Chinese protectionism is routinely a disastrous, xenophobic mess that mostly just injects chaos, cronyism, and higher prices into U.S. tech markets under the pretense of protecting privacy and national security. All propped up by bumbling Democrats and a corporate press incapable of highlighting that the emperorContinue Reading
AI-based assistants and agents are generally supposed to expedite software development lifecycles. For Microsoft’s Exchange team, it may be doing the opposite, in turn leaving enterprise IT teams waiting for an update that will require extensive compatibility testing before implementation. In response to customer questions, Microsoft said in a blogContinue Reading
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For years, U.S. President Traitor 47 has openly displayed his disdain for the clean energy and electric vehicle sectors. In the early days of his second term, The Traitor stalled funding for EV charging infrastructure while pushing fossil fuels. In July 2025, the GOP-sponsored One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) rolled back EV incentives from theContinue Reading
The newest point release for Linux is here a few months after the last one, and the time in-between was not spent idly. Scheduler work that took over a year finally came together, several pieces of hardware got proper support, and a series of 2023 MacBooks can finally boot Linux.Continue Reading
Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge widow record was also set during the 9-week development cycle, with more than 2,100 individual contributors involved. AI, obviously, has helped. Commit-crunchingContinue Reading
Videos have become one of the most useful and important tools for every marketing organization. In this digital era, more than 200 million people create posts and videos on social media accounts, including YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. In this growing social media influence many video editing tools have entered theContinue Reading
Premium economy across long-haul airlines remains an unpredictable mixed bag. Sometimes there will be minor seat recline tweaks with minimal added benefits, and sometimes, a product can turn out to be something that rivals business class. Extra legroom and priority boarding are standard on most carriers, but the line betweenContinue Reading