cinnamon-6.4-brings-visual-overhaul:-key-features

A polished and revamped desktop experience arrives with Cinnamon 6.4 desktop. For months, the Linux Mint team has been steadily improving their flagship – Cinnamon 6.4, a desktop environment update that’s not just incremental, but transformative. This release isn’t just a collection of tweaks; it’s a refined experience designed toContinue Reading

scania-to-acquire-bankrupt-northvolt’s-off-highway-and-heavy-industry-battery-systems-division

Scania, a major Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer and a unit of Volkswagen, has announced that it will acquire bankrupt Northvolt’s Industrial Division, which manufactures battery systems for off-highway and heavy industrial vehicles. The acquisition will include production capabilities, a research and development center and approximately 260 employees, with operations inContinue Reading

ubuntu-25.04-release-now-available-for-download

Pull the party poppers and unpack the cake as today is Ubuntu release day — and Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is now available to download. Ubuntu 25.04 is arguably the most polished & performant release to date! The latest short-term release of the world’s best-known desktop Linux operating system, UbuntuContinue Reading

Haircut on high: Getting a trim in space | Space picture of the day for April 17, 2025

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers gave Takuya Onishi, her JAXA crewmate, a haircut on board the International Space Station on April 13, 2025. (Image credit: JAXA/Takuya Onishi) What is it? A month into his second long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 73 commander Takuya Onishi received a haircut from his crewmate Nichole Ayers. OnishiContinue Reading

ctrl-alt-speech:-why-can’t-we-de-friend

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up ofContinue Reading