gnome-51-released-with-passkey-login-and-smoother-ux

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desktop Maps app gains offline area downloads and live transit data, Papers now lets you add visual signatures andContinue Reading

linkedin-fights-for-the-right-to-tell-customers-when-the-feds-want-their-data

Microsoft’s top lawyer argued Tuesday that legislators “must make secrecy [orders] the exception” in government subpoenas demanding information about LinkedIn users. LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is fighting what it calls overly broad subpoena demands from the US government, which sometimes come with secrecy orders that prevent LinkedIn fromContinue Reading

nextcloud-adds-desktop-app-for-euro-office-productivity-suite

Nextcloud has developed a desktop app for its Euro-Office-based productivity applications, filling a gap in the software suite that it pitches as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Nextcloud, one of the backers of the Euro-Office initiative, integrated the software into its Nextcloud Office suite in June. Until now, it’sContinue Reading

azl-commissions-jetblast-system-for-flame-and-hot-particle-testing-of-battery-casings

AZL Aachen has commissioned JetBlast, a test system that combines flame exposure with a heated, particle-laden blast to reproduce selected loads acting on battery-casing materials during cell venting and thermal-runaway events. Initial calibration trials have confirmed the benchmark operating point for the Joint Partner Project “Thermal Runaway Testing for BatteryContinue Reading

6-fighter-jets-that-are-still-overpowered-in-close-range-combat

Beyond-visual-range missiles and stealth coatings were supposed to make the dogfight obsolete, yet high off-boresight weapons still win if the engagement collapses inside visual range. Six fighter jets currently in production or front-line service are built, in whole or in part, around winning that merge. The question is which designContinue Reading

gnome-51-released,-this-is-what’s-new

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desktop Maps app gains offline area downloads and live transit data, Papers now lets you add visual signatures andContinue Reading

aws-bets-that-ai-agents-need-an-inbox,-not-another-chat-window

AWS is betting that AI agents need a different interface as they move beyond answering prompts and start working autonomously in the background. The company has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that gives users an inbox for managing work delegated to AI agents, with separate threads for ongoing tasksContinue Reading