KDE Plasma 6.8 has been released, arriving on the 30th anniversary of the free, open-source desktop environment’s founding. Changes are, as you’d expect, varied across the stack. A new backup tool, Kup, is included as part of Plasma 6.8 to make automated backups to external media easier, while Spectacle, theContinue Reading
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has now begun using AI to write code for the operating system’s kernel. In a new coding project, he has used Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude Code, to develop eight code changes to resolve a performance issue in Linux, reports ZDNet. “The code, the test programs, theContinue Reading
The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews reports. In one case, an AI agent from OpenAI managed to break out of its test environment and hack the AI platform Hugging Face. InContinue Reading
Can a Radeon RX 9070 XT really beat Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090? We tested 11 games at 1440p and 4K to see when driver overhead matters, and when an ordinary CPU bottleneck is actually to blame.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
Gerelle Q. Dodson Oct 14, 2026 NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live Participants in the briefing include: NASA Administrator JaredContinue Reading
NEW YORK — Set your phasers to back-to-school, space fans. Star Trek is going back to Starfleet Academy for season 2, and we finally have a release date. The sophomore season of ” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy ” will warp back to the small screen in March 2027 when the limited series returns for itsContinue Reading
This week, AI went to the “office”. Linus Torvalds says he actually likes using AI, and his new kernel branch credits Claude Code for the code, the tests and even a draft of the commit message. Office suites are being rebuilt so agents can edit your documents. And Big TechContinue Reading
In the project’s September monthly update, Linux Mint lead, Clement Lefebvre (clem), says that the distro’s version number now reflects the upcoming year and that point releases aren’t a thing anymore. Releases will come once a year, so 28 follows this one, and users upgrade from the current year’s toContinue Reading
Ukraine is raising alarm that air defense operations are being impacted by unannounced limitations with SpaceX satellites., Ukraine is raising alarm that air defense operations are being impacted by unannounced limitations with SpaceX satellites., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Oracle announced Tuesday proposals to help offset electricity costs for El Paso Electric customers in New Mexico, committed $1 million to Doña Ana County flood recovery, and released an updated analysis projecting more than $13 billion in economic activity from its Project Jupiter data center development., Oracle announced Tuesday proposalsContinue Reading
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger coding performance and advanced reasoning with an introductory pricing model that doubles after November 30. The model “excels at deep work in complex, real-world tasks,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, seniorContinue Reading
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers,Continue Reading
As a growing flood of off-lease EVs hits the market, and gas prices are at all-time highs, buyers are eager for used EVs—and prices have risen. A previously overlooked corner of the EV market is suddenly having its moment in the sun. But the new kid on the block is…used?Continue Reading