2026

In a nice bit of news for True Linux Patriots everywhere, Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency has dedicated €1.3 million of its Sovereign Tech Fund (about $1.5 million / £1.1 million) to the KDE free and open-source (FOSS) software community (via Phoronix). If you know KDE for anything, you likely know it for its Plasma desktop…

Hackers aren’t known for punching above the belt, but one recent scam feels so devious it’s made me even more wary of the next time IT tries to reach out to me. The scam uses hijacked Microsoft Teams account to pose as an IT helpdesk, which then convinces users to download malicious files. As noted…

There are few things more cathartic in this life than a videogame that just lets you smash a load of stuff up. In that regard, You Are the Monster is about as pure as it gets: pick a giant monster, get dropped into a city, and rampage across it. It’s a profoundly uncomplicated experience. Starting…

The war in Iran is causing supply issues globally, with constrained gas and oil supplies due to the closure of the strait of Hormuz being the ones that hits home for most people. But we’re also starting to see impacts on the supply of different materials which, on top of a memory shortage, aren’t looking…

World of Warcraft: Midnight has had some trouble with its class balancing—some of this is fair enough, given Blizzard completely redesigned the game’s specialisations (there’s close to 40 of them) to better suit a world without UI mods. This had, uh, some consequences. Consequences like, for instance, five bears rocking up to your dungeon and…