Valve enters the console wars https://www.theverge.com/games/818622/valve-console-wars-price-sony-microsoft-nintendo-windows

Learn how governments are able to read certain text messages, and how to ensure your messages are end-to-end encrypted on Digital Rights Bytes, our site dedicated to helping break down tech issues into byte-sized pieces. https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/can-the-government-read-my-text-messages

dug up some photos from our 2017 visit to the white house — back when the theme was we are all makers. it was about celebrating the people who build and create, not just the ones who fund. looking back, it still feels right: keep making, keep shipping, keep teaching. inventors over investors. founders over funders. the kids are watching... https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/10/27/adafruit-goes-to-the-white-house-2017-we-were-there-the-maker-movement-then-and-now/

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal-aws-outage-meredith-whittaker

VirtualBox has been packaged as a Flatpak

https://lemmings.world/post/36068917

25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
From the makers of Apollo in Real Time comes a site with 500 times more data.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/25-years-one-website-iss-in-real-time-captures-quarter-century-on-space-station/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social