Most Critical Minerals Aren’t Going to the Energy Transition

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and electric vehicles accounted for 26% of combined demand for copper…Continue Reading

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Gartner on Wednesday said that it expects 30% of the positions eliminated by AI-related layoffs to be refilled by 2029, suggesting that the initial terminations were ill-advised and excessive. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI era, they will realize their greatest mistake was believing thatContinue Reading

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KDE Frameworks 6.28.0 Released with Android Calendar Plugin, New Barcode Support, and KIO Improvements. KDE has released Frameworks 6.28.0, the latest monthly update to its set of over 80 libraries that form the foundation of Plasma and most KDE applications. This release brings several useful new features along with theContinue Reading

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Seeing all the hype surrounding AI in the Linux ecosystem, you might’ve asked yourself, What makes a Linux distro “AI-focused”? If you go looking for an answer, you will get all kinds of results depending on which project you look at. One wires an AI agent into first boot, rightContinue Reading