Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, has decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project which been inactive since 2022. Collabora, a company that was a major contributor to the original LibreOffice Online, is not pleased with this development. After the original project went dormant, Collabora forked the code and created its own product, Collabora Online.
Collaboras Michael Meeks, who also sits on the TDF board, reacted to the TDFs decision by saying that a fully supported, free online version already exists in the form of Collabora Online, and that resurrecting a dead repository makes little sense when an active, open community around the online suite already exists.
For now, The Document Foundation plans to reopen the old repository for new contributions. The organization has issued a warning that the code is not ready for live deployment and users should wait until the development team confirms it is stable.
A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platformInterview Ideally, you shouldn’t have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don’t live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.…
In a library in Florence, Italy, historian Ivan Malara noticed handwritten notes on a book printed in the 1500s — and recognized the handwriting as Galileo’s. The finding “promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science,” writes Science magazine — since the book Galileo annotated was a reprint of Ptolemy’s second-century work arguing that the earth was the center of the universe.
Galileo’s notes, perhaps written around 1590, or roughly 2 decades before his groundbreaking telescope observations of the Moon and Jupiter, reveal someone who both revered and critically dissected Ptolemy’s work. And they imply, Malara argues, that Galileo ultimately broke with Ptolemy’s cosmos because his mastery of the traditional paradigm’s reasoning convinced him that a heliocentric [sun-centered] system would better fulfill Ptolemy’s own mathematical logic.
Samsung’s newly minted Galaxy S26 series is up for preorder and instead of an early adopter tax, there are actually some nice pre-release offers up for grabs, including a free storage upgrade and up to a $200 Amazon gift card. The best offer is tied to the top dog, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, but there are preorder deals to be had across the entire
While Honor has already made plenty of product announcements, with tablets, foldables and more, its most interesting device at MWC 2026 is the Robot Phone — and maybe the humanoid robot that came alongside it.
After briefly showing off a model at CES, Honor isn’t quite ready to launch its Robot Phone. However, we got more specs, tech demos and a closer look following the company’s MWC press event in Barcelona. The Robot Phone is currently set to launch later this year.
Image by Mat Smith for Engadget
Honor has put a lot of effort into ensuring its camera gimbal is highly mobile, to the point of creating a tiny personal robot that is, dare I say, adorable? The Robot Phone’s pop-up camera can cock its head, shake to say no, nod to agree, and even “flip” – or at least rotate 360 degrees. According to Honor’s presentation, it can even bop along to songs. A spokesperson told me that it’s got five songs in its repertoire, so it’s not clear whether they’re programmed for these kind of demos, or will be a feature of the final retail device.
Another demo here at MWC showed how you could make the Robot Phone “sleep” by covering its gimbal eye, though it’s odd that the camera is still exposed rather than folded away. My main concern with the Robot Phone is the robustness and durability of its robotic mechanisms. We’ve lived through several waves of smartphones that attempted much simpler mechanical camera functions and the threat of dust or heavy-handed users can’t be ignored.
Image by Mat Smith for Engadget
The company says it’s taken what it learned from foldables, regarding high-performance materials and simulation accuracy, and applied it to shrinking the camera module. On stage, Honor CEO James Li revealed what he calls the industry’s smallest micro motor, much smaller than a 1-euro coin and, he added, 70 percent smaller than existing micro motors.
As this component has been reduced substantially, the Robot Phone’s gimbal will be the industry’s smallest 4-degrees-of-freedom gimbal system. That’s a spec – we finally got a spec! It’ll also offer three-axis stabilization in this tiny camera package, with the primary camera using a 200-megapixel sensor.
The fold-away panel that the primary camera tucks into also reveals more typical cameras, so you’re not forced to use the gimbal if you don’t need it. Still, that’s one very thick camera unit:
Image by Mat Smith for Engadget
Honor has already started building out camera modes and features, with a Super Steady Video mode that enhances stability while swinging the Robot Phone around to capture video. AI Object Tracking will apparently intelligently follow subjects, while AI SpinShot supports intelligent 90-degree and 180-degree rotational movement for more cinematic transitions. We’ve seen these sorts of pre-programmed movements and functions in full-size phone gimbals and action cams. If Honor can nail it in such a tiny form, it’ll be impressive.
Other specifications during Honor’s press event were sparse, although the company announced a collaboration with ARRI Image Science to bring its cinematic smarts to the Robot Phone’s gimbal camera.
In a press release, Honor’s Li said the collaboration would bring ARRI’s “cinematic standards and professional workflows” into mobile imaging. It’s apparently the first time elements of ARRI Image Science are being integrated into a consumer device. Dr. Benedikt von Lindeiner, VP at ARRI, said the goal is to bring a true cinematic aesthetic, such as “natural color, gentle highlight roll-off, and a sense of depth,” to shooting with an Honor smartphone.
Image by Mat Smith
Honor also made a humanoid robot companion for its Robot Phone. The bot took to the stage alongside the Robot Phone, danced alongside human dancers, did a backflip and shook hands with CEO James Li. It didn’t say a thing, but fortunately, during some on-the-rails banter between the robot, Robot Phone and Honor’s CEO, the Robot Phone was particularly chatty.
Like the many humanoid robots we’ve reported on and seen in person, Honor hopes to put it to work in both industrial and domestic settings, pitching it as a central part of the company’s multi-million-dollar push into AI. For now, it’s being called Honor Robot.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/a-closer-look-at-honors-robot-phone-145935198.html?src=rss
A big set of kernel patches look like they will be submitted for the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle this spring to optimize the scheduler HRTICK timer and in turn allowing it to be enabled by default…
Honor launched the Magic V5 in August 2025 and yet its successor is being announced just seven months later. Speak to Honor’s representatives, and you can imply that it’s racing to push the envelope against both its real competition (Samsung) and its anticipated one (Apple). With so little time between launches, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that little has changed. The only other real reason this device has been pushed out so swiftly is because it’ll help Honor retain the title of making the world’s thinnest foldable. I’ll leave you to decide if you think that’s a valid enough reason to release a whole new smartphone so soon.
Last year, just one of the four Magic V5 colorways measured in at 8.8mm folded and 4.1mm open while the rest clocked in at 9mm and 4.2mm respectively. This year Honor is marking its own homework with a similarly generous spirit, with the white version of the Magic V6 measuring 8.75mm folded and 4.0mm open. The black, gold and red colorways will have to settle for the indignity of measuring 9mm folded and 4.1mm open. Now, I appreciate the engineering savvy necessary to make a device this slim, but this push for more thinness needs to stop. Last year’s Magic V5 crossed the millimeters-wide rubicon from slender to dainty, to the point where, while holding it, I was worried about how durable it was. After all, foldables are regularly put through mechanical stresses that regular phones never have to deal with in normal duty.
Honor says the phone is well built to withstand the rigors of normal life, including a scratch-resistant display cover. The screen is impact-resistant, there’s a far stronger hinge and it’s rated for IP68 and IP69 dust and water resistance. Claims that, I’m sure, will be tested to its limits by sceptical reviewers when the device goes on sale. The company has also been scraping away at the V6’s weight, with the white model weighing in at 219 grams, while the other three colorways are 224 grams. That’s lighter than an iPhone 17 Pro Max (233 grams), and you can bet Honor mentioned that fact in its briefings to the press more than once.
Honor has also seen fit to make some massive design changes to the inside of the V6 to help shrink many of its components. This redesigned internal structure includes a new antenna, speaker chamber, vibration motor, NFC module, SIM card slot and USB-C housing. All of the space vacated by those components has been filled by a new 6,660mAh battery with 25 percent silicon content. Honor says you should expect to be able to play a video on the primary display for 24 hours with that beefy battery.
It’s worth noting only the international version is equipped with this 6,660mAh cell, while the China-only variant gets an even better model. Honor said its domestic edition will have a CATL-manufactured battery with 32 percent silicon content and a rated capacity of more than 7,000mAh.
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“And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.” The quote comes from Die Hard — although it’s an urban myth that film coined the phrase entirely — but the sentiment applies to much of the rest of this handset. The rest of the spec sheet is more or less the same as found on the Magic V5, which itself was a modest revision of its predecessor. Essentially, there aren’t too many more worlds to conquer even at the highest end of smartphone components, so grab your weepin’ tissues.
Dab at the corners of your eyes when you see the cameras are more or less identical both in the main setup and for selfies. There are two 50-megapixel lenses paired with a 64-megapixel telephoto, and up front on both the cover and internal display, there’s a 20-megapixel f/2.2 selfie lens.
You’ll find similarly-meager fare in the list of changes made to the displays, since the primary screen remains the same size and resolution as before. The bezels on the cover screen have been trimmed, so it now measures in at 6.52-inches, up from the 6.43-inch on the V5. But in most of the other ways in which it matters, you’ll find that here it’s business as usual.
The V5 shipped with a Snapdragon 8 Elite, 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, and that was plenty fast enough. The V6 can boast that it’s the first foldable to ship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (paired with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage). While it is an upgrade on the older SoC, it’s not transformative. Let’s be honest, it’s hard not to see Honor’s desire to shuffle a new handset out the door with some marketing claims comes at the cost of any meaningful substance.
On the software side, it’s business as usual, although one thing caught my eye enough to be worth comment. At several points during Honor’s briefing, the company went hard on the idea that its devices play wonderfully well with Apple’s. If you install Honor Connect onto your iPhone and Mac, you’ll be able to share files, extend your desktop and even control your AirPods. This was something the company has been pushing for a while now, but it surprised me how much it was brought up here.
On one hand, it makes sense that any would-be Apple challenger would offer a friendly way in for iPhone diehards. Tell them that your Android handset will integrate with your existing devices and then hope to show them what you’ve got to offer. On the other, if you’re so eager to tag your gear onto another company’s ecosystem, it doesn’t suggest a lot of confidence in your own. Especially when you’re marketing your pricey, ultra-premium flagship foldable as “an ideal macOS companion” in your own marketing materials. Still, being able to use the V6 as an extended display for your Mac is a cool idea, no matter the broader narrative.
At first blush, Honor’s Magic V6 looks like a phone that exists to satisfy a marketing demand rather than out of necessity. (I’m sure someone will point out that’s the case for a lot of new phones these days, but I’m sure you take my meaning.) To stay ahead of its rivals, it’s nipped and tucked every corner of this phone to within an inch of its life, and the end result is more or less the same handset we saw less than a year ago. That’s not to say it’s a bad phone, the V5 was a lovely piece of kit, but I can’t help but wonder if holding this device back until Honor had more meaningful improvements wouldn’t have been better.
At the time of publication, Honor hasn’t shared pricing and availability information, which we will update here when it’s announced.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/honors-magic-v6-doesnt-have-a-new-rabbit-to-pull-out-of-its-hat-130048729.html?src=rss
Apple’s satellite features are designed for situations where cellular and Wi-Fi coverage are unavailable. In supported regions, compatible iPhone 14 or later models can connect directly to a satellite to send messages, access Emergency SOS and share location data. Location sharing via satellite is particularly useful when traveling in remote areas, hiking or driving through regions with limited network coverage. This guide explains what is required to use location sharing via satellite on an iPhone, how to prepare the feature in advance and how to send your location when no signal is available.
How to share your location via satellite
When there is no cellular or Wi-Fi signal available, open the Find My app. If satellite connectivity is possible, the app will prompt you to connect to a satellite. Onscreen instructions will guide you to point the iPhone toward the sky and adjust its position to maintain a connection.
Once connected, select the option to share your location. The iPhone will record your current location and send it via satellite to the selected contact. During this process, it is important to keep the device steady and follow the visual guidance until the transmission is complete.
After the location is sent, the contact can view it in their Find My app. The shared location represents a specific moment in time rather than ongoing movement.
What you need before using satellite location sharing
Location sharing via satellite is available on iPhone 14 models and later that are running iOS 18 or newer. The feature is supported only in specific countries and regions, and its availability may vary by local regulations. Satellite services also require a clear view of the sky, which means dense tree cover, buildings, mountains or being indoors can interfere with connectivity.
Apple offers satellite features free of charge for two years with the activation of an iPhone 14 or later, although this policy may change over time. It is important to confirm that satellite services are active on the device before relying on them in a remote setting.
Location sharing via satellite works through the Find My app. Unlike Emergency SOS, it is not intended for urgent situations and does not contact emergency services. Instead, it allows trusted contacts to see your current location when standard connectivity is unavailable.
Preparing your iPhone for satellite use
Before heading somewhere with limited coverage, it is important to confirm that location services and Find My are properly configured. On the iPhone, open the Settings app and tap Privacy & Security, then select Location Services and ensure the feature is turned on. Scroll down to Find My and confirm that location access is set appropriately.
Next, open the Find My app and make sure location sharing is enabled. If location sharing has not been set up, the app will prompt you to choose contacts who are allowed to view your location. Only contacts added in advance can receive location updates via satellite. If you are somewhere without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage, you’ll need to use Apple’s Connection Assistant. Open Settings, then tap Satellite and choose a satellite feature.
Apple also recommends reviewing the satellite connection demo, which is available within the Find My app and other satellite features. This demo shows how to hold the iPhone and move it to maintain a satellite connection. Practicing this step ahead of time can make the process quicker and less stressful when it is actually needed.
Viewing shared locations and managing access
Contacts who receive a satellite location update can see it in the same way as standard Find My location sharing. The location appears on the map with a timestamp indicating when it was sent. If additional updates are needed, the process must be repeated, provided satellite connectivity is still available.
Location sharing permissions can be managed at any time. In the Find My app, users can add or remove contacts and adjust how long location sharing remains active. These settings apply to both standard and satellite-based sharing.
How location sharing via satellite works
When an iPhone loses access to cellular and Wi-Fi networks, the Find My app can switch to satellite mode. This allows the device to send limited data packets to a satellite, which then relays the information to Apple’s network and on to the selected contact.
Because satellite bandwidth is limited, location updates are not continuous — the iPhone sends a snapshot of the user’s location rather than live tracking. Updates may take several minutes to send, depending on conditions and satellite availability.
Battery level can also affect satellite performance. Apple recommends ensuring the iPhone is sufficiently charged before relying on satellite features, especially during extended outdoor activities.
Important limitations to keep in mind
Satellite location sharing is not a replacement for Emergency SOS. In situations involving immediate danger, Emergency SOS via satellite should be used instead, as it connects directly with emergency services.
Environmental factors can significantly affect satellite connectivity. Cloud cover, terrain and obstructions can slow or prevent successful transmissions. The feature also works best outdoors with a clear view of the horizon.
Finally, satellite services are designed for occasional use rather than frequent messaging or tracking. Location updates may take longer than expected and should not be relied on for real-time navigation or coordination.
Sharing your location via satellite can provide peace of mind when traveling beyond the reach of traditional networks. By setting up the feature in advance and understanding its limitations, iPhone users can make better use of Apple’s satellite tools when they matter most.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/how-to-share-your-location-via-satellite-on-iphone-130000085.html?src=rss
Jayco-AlUla rider, Amaury Capiot, miraculously avoided injury despite ending up with a rear wheel in tatters thanks to the cobbled roads in yesterday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Although it’s not clear exactly what caused the failure, Capiot was spotted by photographer, Tim de Waele, walking along the race course with his Cadex rear wheel in tatters, trying to reach a team car for a spare bike.
Not only was Capiot’s tyre completely separated from the rim, but the entire rim and all of the spokes were separated from the hub – which remained fixed in the rear dropouts of his Giant Propel Advanced SL via the thru-axle.
Despite the state of his rear wheel, Capiot thankfully appeared unhurt by the failure and went on to finish the race almost ten minutes behind race winner Mathieu van der Poel.
What we know so far
Amaury Capiot appeared unijured despite the failure of his rear wheel on the cobbles. Tim de Waele/Getty Images
Capiot’s rear wheel failure is the latest in a string of high-profile incidents in pro cycling involving tyres separating from rims.
Unfortunately, the inciting incident appears to have happened off the race’s video feed, meaning we’re unable to analyse exactly what happened to cause such a complete failure.
According to Cyclingnews, a team spokesperson claimed the failure occurred as “the result of riding for too long on the cobbles with a flat tyre after puncturing”.
This doesn’t provide a full explanation of why the rim and spokes have separated from the hub, however.
The Cadex rim appers to be badly damaged up top (at around 11 o’clock), and there looks to be a number of missing spokes on the lower half of the rim.
Although we can’t be certain, it appears a number of the wheel’s carbon spokes have failed – as there seems to be some missing from the lower half of the wheel.
Perhaps as a result of these failures, the rest of the intact spokes may have lost tension and were therefore no longer securely held in the hub.
Many of the remaining spokes appear intact, so it doens’t seem to be the case that all of the carbon spokes have simply shorn off the hub.
Are hookless rims to blame?
Liv AlUla Jayco and Jayco-AlUla were using Cadex Ultra 50 wheels and Cadex Cotton Aero tyres at Omloop, generally in a size 30c. Simon von Bromley / Our Media
In recent years we’ve seen a number of professional cyclists crashing or standing by the side of the road because of tubeless tyres dismounting rims.
Thomas De Gendt suffered a high-speed crash at the 2024 UAE Tour as a result of a rock strike that damaged his Zipp rim and caused the tyre to dismount.
More recently, Fabio Jackobsen suffered a similar fate at this year’s UAE Tour, and we’ve seen a number of examples of wheel failures at Paris-Roubaix – the toughest cobbled classic on the pro cycling calendar.
Many have pointed the finger of blame at ‘hookless’ or ‘Tubeless Straight Side’ rims, claiming their lack of tyre bead hooks (that traditional ‘Tubeless Crochet’ rims have) increases the chances of tyre blow-offs.
The Cadex Aero Cotton tyres are designed to work with the hookless Cadex Ultra 50 rims. Simon von Bromley / Our Media
The brands involved dispute this, however. Following De Gent’s 2024 crash, both Zipp and Vittoria (De Gendt’s wheel and tyre sponsors) claimed the failure was due to his rim breaking due to a rock strike, and was “unrelated” to the fact the rims were hookless.
De Gendt was also using 28mm Vittoria tyres on a Zipp 303 NSW rim with a 25mm internal width. This was a combination approved by both Vittoria and Zipp at the time, but wasn’t according to the latest ISO standards, which stated that 29mm was the minimum tyre size for 25mm-wide rims.
In Jakobsen’s case, he was riding so-called ‘mini-hook’ rims from Picnic PostNL’s team sponsor, Ursus.
Despite ‘mini-hook’ having gained prominence as a marketing term in recent years, it isn’t actually a new rim standard, as defined by the European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation (ETRTO) or the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Instead, these are Tubeless Crochet, or ‘hooked’ rims that meet or go just beyond the minimum requirements for that standard – meaning they must have tyre bead hooks at least 0.5mm in depth.
In that case, then, hookless rims were not to blame.
Giant and Cadex say their hookless safety testing goes above and beyond the minimum standards. Simon von Bromley / Our Media
In Capiot’s case, his Cadex Ultra 50 rims were hookless, but as far as we can tell his setup fell well within the approved standards. Giant and Cadex have also previously detailed that their hookless testing goes above and beyond the required standards.
Given Omloop is a race featuring many cobbled sectors, it’s easy to imagine him striking a particularly sharp cobble at high speed, and catastrophically damaging his rim and some of the spokes.
It may be possible Capiot’s tyre would have dismounted the rim under such duress even if he’d been on hooked / Tubeless Crochet rims.
As mentioned earlier, though, this doesn’t explain why the rest of the undamaged spokes were able to completely detach from the hub.
Does Cadex’s Ultra 50 hub design simply not have sufficient ‘redundancy’ built in to guard against this type of failure?
We’ve contacted Giant / Cadex and will update this article when we receive a response.
In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he wrote, “than it was formerly thought any living creature could bear.”
Many people may have been appalled by this offer, but Blagden was delighted by the opportunity for self-experimentation. He marveled as his own temperature remained at 98° Fahrenheit (approximately 37° Celsius), even as the temperature of the room approached 200°F (about 93°C).
Today, this ability to maintain a stable body temperature—called homeothermy—is known to exist among myriad species of mammals and birds. But there are also some notable exceptions. The body temperature of the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, for example, can fluctuate by nearly 45°F (25°C) over a single day.
There’s been a recent lull in activity around the open-source Linux driver for ASUS devices with the HID interface used for supporting various features. But developer Denis Benato who has worked on the ASUS Armoury Linux driver and the like is working on advancing the ASUS HID driver for Linux systems…
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blogIt’s FOSS:
Greg Kroah-Hartman has updated the projected end-of-life (EOL) dates for several active longterm support kernels via a commit. The provided reasoning? It was done “based on lots of discussions with different companies and groups and the other stable kernel maintainer.” The other maintainer is Sasha Levin, who co-maintains these Linux kernel releases alongside Greg. Now, the updated support schedule for the currently active LTS kernels looks like this:
— Linux 6.6 now EOLs Dec 2027 (was Dec 2026), giving it a 4-year support window.
— Linux 6.12 now EOLs Dec 2028 (was Dec 2026), also a 4-year window.
— Linux 6.18 now EOLs Dec 2028 (was Dec 2027), at least 3 years of support.
Worth noting above is that Linux 5.10 and 5.15 are both hitting EOL this year in December, so if your distro is still running either of these, now is a good time to start thinking about a move.
During the last month on Phoronix there were 289 original open-source/Linux-related news articles and another 20 featured articles as in Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting software and hardware happenings the past month but standing out the most was the Linux 7.0 merge window developments and the ramp of Intel Panther Lake Linux testing…
After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is “almost there” with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline “The 64-bit Hurd is Here!” GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development…
Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux performance innovations and was consistently the fastest out-of-the-box Linux x86_64 distribution until Intel ended the Linux distribution without any advanced notice for its users. Intel had kept up the ClearLinux.org website online to download the final releases and access other technical content and forum discussions, etc. Sadly, that too was recently taken offline…
PorteuX 2.6 has been released today as the latest snapshot of this Slackware-based distribution inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable.
Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant “jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple’s chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday,” reports CNBC:
The rise in popularity suggests that Anthropic is benefiting from its presence in news headlines, stemming from its refusal to have its models used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons… OpenAI’s ChatGPT sat at No. 1 on the App Store rankings on Saturday, while Google’s Gemini was at No. 3… On Jan. 30, [Claude] was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it bounced between the top 20 and the top 50 for much of February, according to data from analytics company Sensor Tower… [And Friday night, for 85.3 million followers] pop singer Katy Perry posted a screenshot of Anthropic’s Pro subscription for consumers, with a heart superimposed over it.
Friday Anthropic posted “We are deeply grateful to our users, and to the industry peers, policymakers, veterans, and members of the public who have voiced their support in recent days. Thank you. “
Incus 6.22 introduces vsock support for the Windows VM agent, direct backup streaming, disk-only snapshot restore, and expanded cluster and storage improvements.
