Behind AI doomsday prophecies, US and China jockey for lead in tech race

Suvi Auvinen huomasi, että Storytel teki tekoälytiivistelmiä hänen kirjastaan

Storytelin mukaan tiivistelmät helpottavat äänikirjan kuuntelua, jos ajatukset harhailevat. Kirjailija Suvi Auvisen mielestä tekoäly ei palvele kuuntelijaa.…

Distro With an Expiry Date?Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon

Its first alpha targets the M4 Mac mini and runs on a Fedora base, with all driver work aimed at the upstream Linux kernel.…

[$] Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convin…

Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics

Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direc…

Local AI Weekly #3: The Token Rug Pull

Cheap frontier tokens won't last. Plus an email client on the edge, an inbox for background agents. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter.…

Systemd v262 released

Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the ability to build systemd as a single statically linked binary for small containers,…

Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27

With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I en…

Local AI Jargon Quiz: Do You Know All These Buzzwords?

Token, harness, quantization, open weight, you've seen these words everywhere in local AI discussions. Take this quiz and see if you really know these "buzzword…

Critical security vulnerabilities in the Radicle network protocol

The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes. The first flaw is …

NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes

NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support...…

PeppermintOS Is Moving From Xorg to XLibre to Avoid Wayland

The lightweight distro will ship the XLibre display server in its upcoming Debian and Devuan ISO refreshes, and it says it has no plans to switch to Wayland for…

Critical WordPress RCE vulnerability announced

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress's get_page_template() function for page-template resolution that could allow remote-code execution (RC…

Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement

Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adr…

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (coreutils, postgresql18-postgis, and postgresql:16), Debian (memcached), Fedora (chromium, cyrus-imapd, dotnet10…

AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24

In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of ye…

AI leaders to brief UN amid warnings the technology could slip beyond human control

Altman plans to urge world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and ​assessing the safeguards companies put in place as they develop the te…

Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered

Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. T…

Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support

The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...…

Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo

Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state…