Brad Smith was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, at 37., Brad Smith was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, at 37., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Your brain on a digital detox: Scientists say just two weeks can undo 10 years of damage., Your brain on a digital detox: Scientists say just two weeks can undo 10 years of damage., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Amazon is dropping support for Kindle older models from 20 May, 2026, meaning owners of pre-2013 models will be unable to download new books or set up a device that has been factory reset — deregistering a device will effectively ‘brick’ it. While no company can support all of theirContinue Reading
Yamageki suspenseful mountain story launches on Weekly Young Jump…Read MoreContinue Reading
Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many…Read MoreContinue Reading
In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware…ReadContinue Reading
Other concerns by readers: stricter immigration policies, rollback of electric vehicle mandates and interest rate cuts…Continue Reading
In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites…Continue Reading
White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.Continue Reading
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission faces the final hurdle—coming home After a hectic eight days in space, the Artemis II crew—and the many NASA personnel supporting their journey—are ready for the mission’s final milestone By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron The Artemis II crew on April 7. NASA NASA has launched four astronauts onContinue Reading
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. In this week’s roundup ofContinue Reading
Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git. Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers. But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are the best tools a writer can use. NotContinue Reading
Another morning, another moderately (but pleasantly) surprising move in the Linux development storyline. In the big 2026, Linux is definitively fixing its support for the GD-ROM driver, which is used by Sega Dreamcast. Sega what? For context, Sega Dreamcast is a gaming console made by Sega and released in 1999.Continue Reading