Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.

Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Mario Tennis, Sony’s great new buds, a wild time-travel movie, and much more.

See 10 good vs bad ChatGPT prompts for 2026, with examples showing how context, roles, constraints, and format produce useful answers.

How Linux Mint turns your mouse’s right-click button into the most productive tool.

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Finding a python in your pool changes your morning fast. This video documents an unexpected encounter and how it was handled safely. Wildlife doesn’t follow property lines. Preparedness matters more ...

Accelerate your tech game Paid Content How the New Space Race Will Drive Innovation How the metaverse will change the future of work and society Managing the ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Platforms that developers use to format their input unintentionally share “thousands” of secrets, according to new research. Researchers from watchTowr captured a dataset of more than 80,000 saved ...

The NASCAR championship format may very well look different in 2026 and beyond. Joey Logano, a staunch supporter of the playoff system used from 2014-25, is OK with any potential changes. “I liked ...