Technology

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

Materials company Toray has tested an inverter at 150° C using a prototype film capacitor made with a proprietary heat-resistant dielectric film. The film is designed to enable air-cooled power control units for electric vehicles and flying cars. The heat resistance of the film capacitors that stabilize power in invertersContinue Reading

“We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices.”, “We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said. Police in the western city of Cologne responded after the incident overnight Saturday toContinue Reading

Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and losslessContinue Reading

There’s growing talk of digital sovereignty as enterprises rethink past consolidation decisions made in the name of simplicity. Mozilla, developer of Firefox, argues that a “very specific, very important layer” has been mostly missing from that conversation: The browser. To that end, the company has unveiled Firefox Enterprise in aContinue Reading