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Asahi Linux now officially supports Apple M3 Macs… sort of
Asahi Linux has officially added support for Apple M3 Macs, including M3 Pro and M3 Max models. But…
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Audacity 4 is a massive open source audio editor overhaul, but some features are missing
Audacity 4 is a huge overhaul of the open source audio editor, bringing a rebuilt Qt interface, improved…
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Debian Linux developers just rejected a ban on artificial intelligence
Debian developers have rejected proposals to ban artificial intelligence from the project, choosing a responsible-use policy that allows…
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EndeavourOS Titan Nova Linux arrives as a bridge to its Wayland future
EndeavourOS Titan Nova is now available with Linux 7.1.8, updated NVIDIA support, installer fixes, and a temporary goodbye…
AI and Security
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Perplexity will open source its faster Lily AI engine for Apple silicon
Perplexity says its Lily AI engine runs Qwen faster than MLX-LM on Apple silicon. The specialized local inference…
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Palo Alto Networks buys Console to let AI agents take action on security threats
Palo Alto Networks has acquired AI-native platform Console as it pushes Cortex toward security agents that can investigate…
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Wyze Stories uses AI to turn security camera footage into a social media feed
Wyze Stories uses AI to connect activity across multiple security cameras, summarize what happened, and present private security…
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Cloudflare Adaptive Intelligence wants to make cyber attacks too expensive to bother
Cloudflare Adaptive Intelligence continuously retrains its bot detection system and will eventually generate disposable rules designed to keep…
Hardware
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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…
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Lexar Muse puts a super-thin magnetic SSD on the back of your iPhone
Lexar’s slim Muse portable SSD offers up to 1TB of storage and a magnetic iPhone mounting sleeve, but…
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ACEMAGIC F9A mini PC packs 192GB of memory for local AI
ACEMAGIC’s F9A mini PC fits an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processor, Radeon 8065S graphics, and up…
Recent stories
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Surfshark recruits Windows and Android users to find bugs before public releases
Surfshark has opened an updated beta testing program that lets Windows and Android users try unfinished features and…
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Cloudflare uses OpenAI GPT-5.6 Cyber to find vulnerabilities and block attacks before developers fix them
Cloudflare is combining its live Internet security data with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Cyber to prioritize vulnerabilities, block active attacks…
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ACEMAGIC F9A mini PC packs 192GB of memory for local AI
ACEMAGIC’s F9A mini PC fits an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processor, Radeon 8065S graphics, and up…
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Audacity 4 is a massive open source audio editor overhaul, but some features are missing
Audacity 4 is a huge overhaul of the open source audio editor, bringing a rebuilt Qt interface, improved…
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NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion dollars and promises to keep it open
NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, giving the AI chip company control of a platform used…
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Perplexity will open source its faster Lily AI engine for Apple silicon
Perplexity says its Lily AI engine runs Qwen faster than MLX-LM on Apple silicon. The specialized local inference…
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CDW is spending $525 million to push deeper into AI consulting
CDW’s $525 million Lovelytics acquisition shows it wants to become much more than a technology retailer, but customers…
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Dell 14S promises 21-hour battery life but keeps the price secret
Dell says its new Dell 14S can stream Netflix for up to 21 hours, but controlled testing, a…
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Palo Alto Networks buys Console to let AI agents take action on security threats
Palo Alto Networks has acquired AI-native platform Console as it pushes Cortex toward security agents that can investigate…