An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier, users were stuck with the default toggle orContinue Reading
The idea that Wayland has worse input lag than X11 has been floating around Linux gaming circles for years. Some numbers backing the claim did come up back in 2025, when a developer measured GNOME’s Wayland session against X11 and reported some considerable extra latency. More recently, Marco Nett decidedContinue Reading
Who could have foreseen last week’s news that the Volkswagen Group planned to slash vehicle production, or the more recent announcement that 50,000 more workers might be let go? Well, anyone who has been following the EV transition over the past decade foresaw it, or should have. As the NewContinue Reading
Vishay Intertechnology has narrowed the body of its SOP-5 optocoupler package from 4.4 mm to 3.6 mm. The VOMHA43A is an automotive 1 MBd optocoupler that’s rated for a maximum repetitive peak isolation voltage (VIORM) of 707 Vpeak, which meets the requirements of 400 V battery systems. Competing devices reachContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional’ focus flip meant you could no longer hit enter to action file deletion for Trash sinceContinue Reading
The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network…Continue Reading
The suit, filed in a federal court in Texas Tuesday, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts using false identifies to create and distribute explicit material., The suit, filed in a federal court in Texas Tuesday, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts usingContinue Reading
The rural district on the Seneca Nation reservation will be among the first to place a humanoid robot in a classroom., The rural district on the Seneca Nation reservation will be among the first to place a humanoid robot in a classroom., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option. And Wayland is not really as slow asContinue Reading
I recently bought an external Dell keyboard that came with a dedicated Copilot key. Since I don’t use Microsoft’s Copilot, the key was doing nothing useful. My new Dell Keyboard comes with a CoPilot key So, I decided to map it to the YouTube Music web app. There is noContinue Reading
Maaya Sakamoto stars in July 7 anime…Read MoreContinue Reading
In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by the lack of change in it all. We’ve spilled much ink complaining that this clearly anti-consumer practice needs toContinue Reading
US critical materials producer Energy Fuels has signed a definitive agreement to acquire permanent magnet maker Vacuumschmelze (VAC) in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.9 billion. Energy Fuels says the acquisition combines its rare earth mining and processing assets with VAC’s magnet manufacturing to create a fully integrated “mine-to-magnet”Continue Reading