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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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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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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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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…
Hardware
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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…
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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…
Recent stories
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OpenAI chief scientist warns humanity is not ready for what comes next
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has issued an ominous warning about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, saying nobody is…
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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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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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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…