Tech Currents: From PCBs to AI – Navigating Innovation, Security, and Change

Open Source News Elements · Feb 3, 2026 · 7m

Join John as he unpacks this week’s pivotal developments in technology and open source. From the Internet Archive’s addition of the comprehensive Printed Circuit Handbook to dramatic shifts in PayPal’s executive leadership, a look at New York’s contested 3D printing regulation, and performance leaps with Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor, we traverse the issues shaping tomorrow’s tech. Explore China’s surge in open-source AI, Microsoft’s controversial encryption key policy, user empowerment in Firefox’s AI features, the advancement of Rust Coreutils, and the security challenges facing…