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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

Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip. According to Microsoft, the new chip will be optimized to handle the latest reasoning AI models and agents, which should result in lower operating costs. “We expect Maia 300 to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt compared to leadingContinue Reading

A file manager is one of the most basic tools a Linux distribution comes with, and desktop environments ship their own, such as Nautilus on GNOME, Dolphin on KDE Plasma, and Nemo on Cinnamon. It is where people browse folders, move and rename files, preview what is inside them, andContinue Reading

For most of its life, Linux has been built around one simple assumption. There’s a box; it has CPUs, memory, and devices, and the kernel manages them. Clusters exist, of course, but they’ve mostly been a problem for the layers above the OS, i.e., schedulers, orchestrators, distributed frameworks. AI infrastructureContinue Reading