During wars and crises, publicly available information is essential for the documentation of violations of international ...

We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.

Another great update for FFmpeg.

At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases ...

Apple's 2026 MacBook Air is largely unchanged on the outside, but its exceptional build pairs up with an even faster M5 chip ...

Apple's MacBook Neo all but resets expectations for what a budget laptop should be, with a higher-quality build, a sharper ...

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HandBrake, the free and open-source video transcoder, has dropped its first major release of 2026 – with new professional ...

AI Hasbro CEO still has 'so much AI-based' grist in his own D&D games 'it would floor you', but he's not putting it in MTG cards or D&D books because people 'just don't want it' AI Brendan Greene says ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...