06 Feb 2026
Linuxiac
Calibre 9.2 E-Book Manager Released With ZIP Output Changes
Calibre 9.2 introduces security fixes, ZIP output changes, and multiple bug fixes across the e-book viewer and bookshelf.
06 Feb 2026 8:04am GMT
Slashdot
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades
The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, one of its oldest and most recognizable public-facing intelligence publications, ending a run that began as a classified reference document in 1962 and evolved into a freely accessible digital resource that drew millions of views each year. The agency offered no explanation for the decision. Originally titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, the publication first went unclassified in 1971, was renamed a decade later, and moved online at CIA.gov in 1997. It served researchers, news organizations, teachers, students and international travelers. The site hosted more than 5,000 copyright-free photographs, some donated by CIA officers from their personal travel. Every page now redirects to a farewell announcement.
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06 Feb 2026 8:01am GMT
Hacker News
Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
06 Feb 2026 5:29am GMT
Systems Thinking
06 Feb 2026 5:24am GMT
Slashdot
Google Confirms AirDrop Sharing is Coming To Android Phones Beyond Pixels
Google's Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability, which has been exclusive to the Pixel 10 series since its surprise launch last year, is headed to a much broader set of Android devices in 2026. Eric Kay, Google's Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed the expansion during a press briefing at the company's Taipei office, saying Google is "working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem" and that announcements are coming "very soon." Nothing is the only OEM to have publicly confirmed it's working on support, though Qualcomm has also hinted at enabling the feature on Snapdragon-powered phones.
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06 Feb 2026 5:01am GMT
Hacker News
Generative Pen-Trained Transformer
06 Feb 2026 4:28am GMT
Slashdot
The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams. Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.
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06 Feb 2026 2:00am GMT
05 Feb 2026
Ars Technica
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
05 Feb 2026 10:47pm GMT
The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.
05 Feb 2026 10:14pm GMT
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."
05 Feb 2026 9:47pm GMT
Linuxiac
Darktable 5.4.1 RAW Released With Extensive Bug Fixes
Darktable 5.4.1, an open-source raw photo editing tool, is out with many bug fixes addressing export issues, RAW processing errors, crashes, and metadata inconsistencies.
05 Feb 2026 5:28pm GMT
Ardour 9.0 Arrives as a Major DAW Update
Ardour 9.0 DAW is out, introducing clip recording, pianoroll windows, region FX, and major MIDI and audio workflow improvements across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
05 Feb 2026 4:30pm GMT