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GNOME 51 makes Linux desktop much better
GNOME 51 is here with offline maps, smoother performance, better accessibility, visual document signatures, and plenty of practical…
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Fedora Linux 45 Beta is here with big security and desktop changes
Fedora Linux 45 Beta is now available with a new console, tighter security defaults, updated developer tools, and…
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Linux Foundation is building an open security stack for the AI era
The Linux Foundation is bringing companies and researchers together to build an open defensive stack for securing AI…
AI and Security
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Americans ask AI for financial advice but only 23 percent trust it enough to act
Americans increasingly use AI for financial questions, but most aren’t ready to trust a chatbot with their money…
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The Gates Foundation could help decide your AI future
The Gates Foundation is getting involved in agentic AI. As the first philanthropic member of AAIF, it will…
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Microsoft rejects the race to build uncontrollable superintelligence
Microsoft AI says it rejects the race to create an all-purpose superintelligence that could escape human safeguards, laying…
Hardware
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OWC USB4 Hub gives your Mac or PC some much needed ports
The $129.99 OWC USB4 Hub expands a single connection with 40Gb/s USB4, HDMI 2.1, two 10Gb/s USB-C ports,…
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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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US government gives IBM company $1 billion to build America’s quantum future
The US government has finalized a $1 billion CHIPS Act award for IBM company Anderon as it builds…
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Someone bought LimeWire
Someone bought LimeWire. BabyDoge has acquired the resurrected file-sharing brand and plans to push it further into crypto,…
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Trump declares war on AI guardrails
President Donald Trump is attacking calls for stronger AI guardrails, taking aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and…
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Talos Linux takes aim at VMware with open source hypervisor
Sidero Labs is expanding Talos Linux beyond Kubernetes with native hypervisor support and standalone containers, potentially giving organizations…
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NASA and IBM built an open source AI that could help humans live on the Moon
NASA and IBM have released an open source AI foundation model trained on massive amounts of lunar data.…
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Sorry, Dario, but you cannot unring the AI bell
Dario Amodei deserves credit for urging caution on AI. But his proposed slowdown depends too much on keeping…