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LWN.net

Marknote 1.5 released
Debian Project Leader election underway
GIMP 3.2 released
[$] A safer kmalloc() for 7.0
Security updates for Monday

 

Hackaday

Polyphonic Tunes On The Sharp PC-E500
A Voltage Regulator Before Electronics
Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA
Recycled Plastic Compression Molding With 3D-Printed Molds
Every Ham Shack Needs a Ham Clock

Phoronix

Meta Renewing Investment Into The jemalloc Memory Allocator
Canonical Plans To Integrate NVIDIA DOCA-OFED Into The Ubuntu Archive
GNU C Library Lands x86_64 FMA'ed cosh For A ~35% Improvement
FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration
Linux 7.1 sched_ext To Add "SCX_ENQ_IMMED" For Tighter Control When Tasks Land On A CPU

Engadget

Denon's DP-500BT turntable combines premium design with Bluetooth streaming for $899
Boox's new Go E Ink tablet includes a 10-inch display and runs Android 15
Android tablets and foldables are getting a Chrome bookmark bar
NVIDIA and Bolt team up for European robotaxis
Sony's enhanced PSSR upscaling arrives on PS5 Pro today

Slashdot

Hydropower Line From Quebec Could Power a Million NYC Homes
New 'Vibe Coded' AI Translation Tool Splits the Video Game Preservation Community
'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images
Nvidia Bets On OpenClaw, But Adds a Security Layer Via NemoClaw
Polymarket Gamblers Threaten To Kill Journalist Over Iran Missile Story

Linux.com

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Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure
From DHCP to SZTP – The Trust Revolution
Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship
Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two

CNET

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, March 17
AI Toys Can Pose Safety Concerns for Children, New Study Suggests Caution
Death by Tariffs: Volvo Discontinuing Entry-Level EX30 EV in the US
3 Things From Nvidia GTC 2026 Keynote: NemoClaw, DLSS 5 and Vera CPU
'The Housemaid': When to Stream Sydney Sweeney's Thriller Movie

CNX Software

Thin Raspberry Pi CM5 fanless mini PC offers HDMI video output, 2.5GbE + GbE, dual USB, M.2 Key-M socket
Rabbit-Labs Flipper Zero ESP32-C5 multi-board features CC1101, GPS, and dual-band Wi-Fi 6
Industrial Wi-Fi 7 access point with redundant 12V – 48V DC inputs targets autonomous systems
SparkFun OpenScale IoT – An ESP32 board with HX711 ADC for smart scales with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity
M5Stamp C6LoRa tiny (18×15×2.3 mm) SMD module pairs ESP32-C6 with SX1262 LoRa chip

 

Gizmodo

Aqara’s New Matter Smart Home Camera Hub Will Have No Compatibility Caveats
The Most Valuable Company in the World Welcomes You to Its Conference with ‘Veggie-Tales’-Adjacent Slop
Nvidia Expects Agentic AI To Drive $1 Trillion In Revenue
Trump Advisors Warn of Nuclear Spiral in Iran, Push to Nuke a New Canal for Shipping
Timothée Chalamet Looks Messed Up in the First Look at ‘Dune: Part Three’

Anandtech

Is the cost of RAM going up everywhere?
Jesus's middle name is Hume! Caution: Some NSFW images within!
RDNA 5 / UDNA (CDNA Next) speculation
The "I just bought..." thread.
P&Ns middle name is and

Arduino

Building a controller for tiny Z scale model trains
Your Arduino Nano Matter board is now a professional Zephyr development platform
Introducing Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q: your new AI, robotics, and actuation platform!
Turn your smartphone into a real-time vision input for Arduino® UNO™ Q
Doomscroll without walking into poles with this handy device

Adafruit

Turn your Pico into a camera with our PiCowBell Camera Breakout – Wide Angle 120 Degree Lens, currently on sale!
I read a 2,000-page textbook about myself – A book review: Introduction to Machine Learning Systems
Visual reference lets you trace every major LLM architecture decision from GPT-2 to today
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display @kenshirriff
UPDATED GUIDE: Adding a Single Board Computer to Blinka #AdafruitLearningSystem #Blinka @Adafruit @CircuitPython @raspberrypi @MakerMelissa

Makezine

Plasma Toroid Generator
Hands-On with the Matter and Form Three 3D Scanner
Make: Live – Volume 96 Show & Tell
Beyond the Shortcut: How Generative AI is Reshaping Engineering Education
Make: comes to Substack

Sparkfun News

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Sparkfun Tutorials

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MagPi

Full-Colour ePaper Display HAT+
2.13-inch Flexible E-Paper Display
Orb of radiance
Artie the AI assistant
Counter-rotating clock

Ted Talks

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MIT Technology Review

Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran
Nurturing agentic AI beyond the toddler stage
The Download: glass chips and “AI-free” logos
Securing digital assets against future threats
Why physical AI is becoming manufacturing’s next advantage

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 Linux Magazine

Latest Linux Kernel RC Contains Changes Galore
Nitrux 6.0 Now Ready to Rock Your World
Linux Foundation Reports that Open Source Delivers Better ROI
Keep Android Open
Kernel 7.0 Now in Testing

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 NCLUG

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Techmeme

Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being "very profitable", its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)
Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks like document editing, currently in beta (Reuters)
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)

 Wired Ideas

Greener Is Getting Going
Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous