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The third, and potentially final, monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is available for download. There were no monthly snapshots of the ‘Stonking Stingray’ in August or July – no reason has been given – and the Ubuntu 26.10 beta release is scheduled for release on 24 September. Thus, this couldContinue Reading

Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark? This became a very real scenario on Thursday, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and SpaceXAI’s Grok near-simultaneously, and somewhat mysteriously, experienced significant, prolonged outages. Beginning in the morning, Eastern time, severalContinue Reading

I’ve been writing about Apple and how it benefits the enterprise for so long it’s easy to forget that the company doesn’t make enough noise about its accomplishments.  Sure, it has pursued and won the argument about Total Cost of Ownership, proving that while initial costs might be higher, dollar for dollar MacsContinue Reading

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe sat down with more than a dozen auto reporters for a lengthy Q&A session during the R2 launch drive event. What follows are his comments on a few topics, each of which bears on the R2’s prospects. They have been edited for clarity andContinue Reading

Commercial vehicle electrification is moving faster than the low-voltage architectures underneath it. As power demand on the LV side rises and 400 V / 800 V HV networks become the norm, OEMs increasingly find that a stand-alone HV/LV DC/DC converter is no longer sufficient. Fragmented LV architectures drive up cost,Continue Reading

“Basically what ended up happening with this is that a company is actually preying upon young people to make some bad decisions.”, “Basically what ended up happening with this is that a company is actually preying upon young people to make some bad decisions.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

One hour into the descent, they called the sheriff’s dispatch for directions and eventually got lost., One hour into the descent, they called the sheriff’s dispatch for directions and eventually got lost., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

Audacity 4.0 has been released with a new Qt user interface, a new clip editing model and project file format – as well as a swathe of smaller improvements. The Qt port of Audacity is more than a superficial – some would say much-needed – facelift, as the toolkit switchContinue Reading

Microsoft’s text suggestion feature will now be turned off by default in both Word and Outlook, reports The Register. The text suggestions attempt to predict which words or phrases the user intends to type in advance. According to Microsoft, some users appreciate the feature, while others find the suggestions distracting.Continue Reading

A serious vulnerability was recently discovered in Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE). The vulnerability is designated CVE-2026-62911 and can be exploited by hackers to gain full access to affected systems, according to Bleeping Computer. Microsoft has released security patches to address the vulnerabilityContinue Reading