Xubuntu 26.04 LTS is here – a fast, lightweight, and beautiful release featuring Xfce 4.20 and special 20th anniversary wallpapers. Xubuntu 26.04 LTS codenamed ‘Resolute Raccoon’ released on April 23, 2026. This lightweight flavour of Ubuntu brings the stable Xfce 4.20 desktop along with three years of support until AprilContinue Reading
New York (AP) — Amazon on Wednesday reported strong increases in profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. The e-commerce and technology company said that sales in its cloud computing unit were up 28% in the January-March period,Continue Reading
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville plans to deploy nine electric trucks, including a refuse truck that will be used to collect recyclable materials. The Volterra electric refuse truck is built by McNeilus (a subsidiary of Oshkosh) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, using aluminum from Alcoa, which is not far from the UTContinue Reading
Electric city buses have reached critical mass in Europe, Transport and Environment reports. Sixty percent of new EU city buses ordered in 2025 were electric (56% battery-electric and 4% fuel cell). At the current rate of growth in sales, all new city buses are expected to be electric by 2028.Continue Reading
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AxCrypt, a global provider of file encryption and data protection solutions, today announced the official release of AxCrypt for Linux, introducing native support for one of the world’s most widely used operating systems…Read MoreContinue Reading
One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday detailing plans to add AI features to the Linux distro over the next year…Read MoreContinue Reading
China’s top automakers unveil cutting-edge models and technology at the Beijing auto show, highlighting advances in intelligent driving, ultrafast charging and electric vehicles. More than 1,450 vehicles are on display, including 181 global debuts. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors…Continue Reading
It’s the end of April. If we were living in less chaotic times, we might be testing out a new Super variant of an Nvidia graphics card right about now, or seeing if we can squeeze it into an upgrade budget. Alas, it is 2026, there are no new cards…Continue Reading
Messier 104, or the Sombrero galaxy. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)) The Sombrero galaxy looks like a work of science fiction in a stunning new image showcasing its hat-shaped appearance in stunning detail. What is it? Messier 104, nicknamed the SombreroContinue Reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, on Jan. 15, 2025 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. (Image credit: SpaceX) Earth’s moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August – the leftovers from a SpaceX Falcon 9 launchContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dropped the Software & Updates utility from default installs and added Ubuntu Pro settings to the Security Center app. But is the setup experience any better? The short answer is yes, mostly. The range of options still mirrors what was found in the old Software & Updates> Ubuntu Pro tab, but theContinue Reading
As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model toContinue Reading