I stopped dual-booting Linux, and a virtual machine covers everything I actually used it for
2026-09-13
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Shotwell 33 goes stable with its long-awaited GTK4 port
2026-09-13
Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. It’s the first big toolkit port the image tool has since since it migrated to GTK3 in 2012 (v0.12.0). YetContinue Reading
MAKERphone 2.0 Lets You Build a 4G Phone and Vibe-Code Its Apps
2026-09-13
Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what’s actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill. The Croatian company CircuitMess, founded by Albert Gajšak, ran itsContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
2026-09-13
Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions. Continue Reading
On this day in space! Sept. 13, 2007: Japan launches Kaguya spacecraft to the moon to map the lunar surface in HD
2026-09-13
On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, it was Japan’s second moon mission. Kaguya launched from Tanegashima Space Center on a Japanese H-IIA rocket and looped around the Earth twice before heading to the moon.Continue Reading
James Webb Space Telescope discovers the rings of tiny solar system body Chariklo are changing
2026-09-13
(Main) Illustration of the small solar system body Chariklo (Inset) artist’s impression of the JWST (Image credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris/NASA/ESA) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew. The object in question is CharikloContinue Reading
Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb
2026-09-13
Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214 cities and counties have dropped Flock since 2021. More than 90Continue Reading
The Traitor downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn’t want to cede edge to China
2026-09-13
DUBLIN (AP) — President Traitor 47 on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help would address the risks from the advancing technology. While acknowledgingContinue Reading
Lawmakers push for urgent AI action after alarming warnings from researchers
2026-09-13
AI researchers are sounding new alarms, and some lawmakers want Congress to cut its recess short to respond., AI researchers are sounding new alarms, and some lawmakers want Congress to cut its recess short to respond., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Bridgestone offers 4th EV tyre free for World EV Day
2026-09-13
Electric vehicles are awesome, their ongoing costs are dramatically cheaper than ICE vehicles, but there’s one maintenance cost you can’t avoid.. tyres which are rarely cheap. Typically EVs weigh more than comparable-sized vehicles thanks to their high capacity battery packs, and combined with instantaneous torque from the electric motor(s…Continue Reading
University at Buffalo commissions 8 new electric buses
2026-09-13
The University at Buffalo, a New York State flagship university with 30,000 students, recently added eight new 40-foot battery-electric transit buses to its UB Stampede fleet, which serves some 16,000 passengers each day. The university undertook the project in collaboration with campus transportation provider WeDriveU and fleet electrification specialist Zenobē.Continue Reading
Ten-Nine Technologies moves its TENIX cathode additive to commercial-scale production in Oklahoma
2026-09-13
Ten-Nine Technologies is scaling up production of TENIX, a cathode additive designed to stop the chemical decomposition that saps a battery’s performance as it ages. The additive is blended into cathode material during manufacturing at 0.5–2% of the cathode’s weight. That works out to roughly 0.5–2 kg for every 100Continue Reading
Beijing bans drone possession in the city after earlier moves to tighten rules
2026-09-13
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its regulations on drones, which already include a May ban on sales of the devices. The ban on possession will come into effect in mid-November. Beijing has barred unauthorizedContinue Reading