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Ubuntu Linux 26.10 beta goes all in on Rust as Stonking Stingray nears release
Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray has entered beta with a bigger embrace of Rust, updated developer tools, expanded RISC-V…
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Nitrux 7.0.0 is the kind of ambitious Linux desktop release I love to see
Nitrux 7.0.0 is here with an ambitious new Workspace Environment, first-party desktop components, Linux kernel 7.2.6, and a…
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OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 goes big on local AI and Linux performance
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 is finally here with Linux kernel 7.2, a huge collection of local AI tools, better…
AI and Security
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Sam Altman is worried people are starting to treat AI like God
Sam Altman is uncomfortable with people giving AI religious authority or surrendering human judgment to chatbots. He says…
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OpenAI safety leader quits and says the company culture is ‘broken’
OpenAI safety leader David Robinson has resigned after three and a half years, warning that the company’s culture…
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Meta just turned your old Raspberry Pi into a Muse AI gadget
Meta’s open source Muse Gadget SDK lets hackers turn a Raspberry Pi or Linux computer into a physical…
Hardware
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ASUS supercomputer lets local AI agents trade real money without the cloud
ASUS and Poesis tested autonomous AI agents that researched investments, managed risk, and traded real money in live…
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OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock turns your laptop into a dual 8K workstation
OWC’s new Thunderbolt 5 Dock packs dual HDMI, 140W laptop charging, 2.5GbE, USB-C, SD, microSD, and support for…
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GEEKOM A5 2027 Edition is a tiny Ryzen 7 PC starting at $479
GEEKOM A5 2027 Edition squeezes an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 processor, upgradeable memory and storage, 2.5Gb Ethernet, and…
Recent stories
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Apple says AI agents are making Full Disk Access on your Mac too dangerous
Apple is preparing tighter controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, warning that increasingly capable and autonomous AI…
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Amazon is pushing AI data center propaganda
Amazon says misinformation and outright lies are fueling opposition to data centers. Its response includes more than $1…
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Cloudflare Basin takes aim at AWS with serverless analytics and zero egress fees
Cloudflare Basin is a new serverless data platform built on Apache Iceberg and R2. With zero egress fees…
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Google AI just beat the CDC at predicting flu hospitalizations
Google’s AI-powered flu forecasting model finished first in a CDC evaluation, outperforming the agency’s own FluSight ensemble at…
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Google is using Gemini 4 Argon to rewrite C and C++ in Rust
Google is putting Gemini 4 Argon to work on massive C and C++ migrations to Rust, including more…
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OpenAI wants GPT-Synopsys to help design the chips that power AI
OpenAI and Synopsys are developing GPT-Synopsys, an AI model that can operate EDA tools to help engineers design…