From Hardspace to Clearspace: How space salvage games compare to real debris removal

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(Image credit: Blackbird Interactive / Clearspace) While Hardspace: Shipbreaker does an excellent job of capturing the dystopian perils of unchecked hypercapitalism, the real fun in this space game comes from carving up massive capital ships with space lasers and explosives. Floating in zero gravity, players slice derelict spacecraft into salvageable chunks, while also contending withContinue Reading

curl-dropped-from-ubuntu-26.04-minimal-cloud-images-by-mistake

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install scripts, CI pipelines and one-liners you’ve no doubt pasted into yourContinue Reading

anthropic’s-ai-models-accidentally-hacked-three-companies

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Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked. The company was testing how well Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal test model could find hidden information about fictional companies in simulatedContinue Reading

and-folks,-we-have-a-vibe-coded-linux-desktop!

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Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager. Don’t think of this as a themed shell bolted onto GNOME orContinue Reading

linux-kernel-6.18:-key-feature-highlights

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We round up the key feature sets of Linux Kernel 6.18. Linus Torvalds released Linux Kernel 6.18 on November 30, 2025. This is the last mainline kernel of the year and is expected to become the 2025 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel. It brings many new features and hardware updatesContinue Reading

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Times are literally changing and Ubuntu’s keeping pace – well, kinda. In November, most of Canada will turn its clocks back an hour, but the Western Canadian province of Alberta won’t. It’s decided to stay on daylight saving time permanently rather than fall back to standard time. Meanwhile, in September,Continue Reading

linux-app-release-roundup-(july-2026)

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Check in for a roundup of the hottest Linux app release that landed in July 2026 (and not just hot because of the temperatures last month). Major updates last month included the Firefox 153 release, with container tabs confusing those who’ve had them for ages. It also finally rounded windowContinue Reading