The Federal Aviation Administration did away with a rule that had required an off switch for the sign even though smoking on U.S. flights ended years ago. The days of airplane cabins hazy with cigarette smoke are long gone, but a reminder of that era is still visible inside commercial jets. Smoking ...

Denver, CO—October 22, 2024—System76, the leading US-based manufacturer of Linux computers, has collaborated with chipmaker Ampere to create Thelio Astra, an arm64 developer desktop for autonomous vehicle (AV), automotive safety systems (ADAS), and software-defined vehicle (SDV) development. Sof...

A followup to More questions than answers: another post about the Social Web Foundation and the fediverses – and to Steps towards a safer fediverse. Originally published as a draft Octover 16; see the update log below for details. There's a lot to say about the new Social Web Foundation (SWF). Th...

By migrating to Node.js and Next.js, which natively support async calls, as well static rendering of pages, load times improve significantly. Javascript has ranked as the most used programming language. Take advantage of a plethora of developers who want to work on Javascript. ...

OVault is completely open source, you can view, contribute to, or fork the source at the projects GitHub repository. OVault is built to be simple, so the project will never expand in scope beyond what it is today: an interface to store OTP secrets in your Keychain, and calculate T...

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IBM SWE-Agent 1.0 from IBM Research is the first set of software engineering (SWE) agents of its kind powered by open LLMs that can autonomously resolve GitHub issues efficiently. IBM SWE-Agent 1.0 from IBM Research is the first set of software engineering (SWE) agents of its kind powered by open LL...

The United States is squandering its best opportunity to compete in the global battery race. China jumped to a commanding lead in the last decade, controlling the supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from cell phones, to military drones, to electric vehicles (EVs). By passi...

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Experts believe the Akira ransomware operation is up to its old tricks again, encrypting victims' files after a break from the typical double extortion tactics. That's according to James Nutland and Michael Szeliga, security researchers at Cisco Talos, who noted that the decision to revert to old wa...