This Week In Security: Stealing Email With AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, The World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, And GPSD Bugs

Firefox recently added integrated AI support — a generally poorly received move among many Firefox users — that includes an AI chatbot integration for interacting with web pages. Florian Port …read more

Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 872: I’m Not Satoshi

This week Jonathan chats with Tristan Sherliker about the Craig Wright case, Open Source and the law, and Tristan’s own Open Source project, BunTool. How did Open Source help win …read more

The Trains With Rubber Tires

The train was one of the game-changing inventions that defined the Industrial Age. No more would humanity rely on tempestuous animals to haul goods and passengers great distances across the …read more

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more

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GPU-Accelerated Autorouter Handles Monstrous PCB Designs

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By Donald Papp | July 1, 2026

[Brian] had an absolute monster of a PCB with thousands of nets to be routed, the kind of design that stopped traditional routers in their tracks. It would take months …read more
No-Drill Sailing Kit For A Canoe

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 1, 2026

The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the …read more
Positioning Without Satellites Or Base Stations

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By Jenny List | July 1, 2026

We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference transmitters and super-accurate timing information can be …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 873: Wait, That’s Not Open Source!

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By Jonathan Bennett | July 1, 2026

This week Jonathan chats with Andy Gryc and Aaron Basset about QNX, and the interesting Open Source history and future of that embedded OS. Why does QNX Everywhere feel more …read more
Review: The Tanmatsu, A Year On

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By Jenny List | July 1, 2026

About 18 months ago, we brought you a sneak peek at a handheld that started life in the Dutch conference badge scene. At the time it showed promise, but its …read more
Engineering Micro-Submarines To Replace Fish

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By Maya Posch | July 1, 2026

Everybody loves aquariums. There’s something soothing about watching the lil’ critters inside them swimming, crawling and wriggling about. But at the same time few people are up to the task …read more
UDP Broadcasting And Easily Finding Network Services

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By Maya Posch | July 1, 2026

Local area networks (LANs) that use technologies like Ethernet and Wi-Fi are incredibly useful for letting devices talk with each other. Yet a core problem here is knowing which devices …read more

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