A federal court in Michigan has tossed out a pioneering antitrust lawsuit brought by the state of Michigan against four major oil and gas companies and their largest U.S. trade association that alleged a conspiracy to forestall the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles in order to maintain market dominance of fossil fuels…Continue Reading

ubuntu’s-minimal-cloud-images-lost xxd –-by-accident

Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading

8-cool-things-copilot-can-do-in-word

We all know by now that Copilot can help you write and rewrite text in Word, often with mediocre results. But there’s more to Microsoft’s generative AI tool than just slopping out words. In fact, Copilot’s most useful features in Word have more to do with editing, formatting, and researchContinue Reading

Hubble Spots Chaotic Secret in Galaxy

HQ Web Team Sep 25, 2026 A chaotic secret hides within this seemingly serene image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698 taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and released on Sept. 18, 2026. As a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that curl around within a thin disk ofContinue Reading

SpaceX Beating Bull Case

SpaceX will have FIVE Giant AI data centers completed by the end of 2026. The LEAD. SHOCKING NEWS. They are serial producing 450 MW AI data centers taking 4 months to build from start to finish with chips installed. They will work at four at time to complete one a month. This is the paceContinue Reading

future-of-ai-in-ubuntu:-thoughtful-integration-via-snap

Canonical is bringing thoughtful, local-first AI to Ubuntu – enhancing accessibility, enabling intelligent agents, and keeping user privacy and open source values at the core. As we move through 2026, large language models (LLMs) and AI tools have become ubiquitous across the tech industry. Adoption varies widely – some projectsContinue Reading

openshot-is-now-officially-available-as-a-snap

The OpenShot video editor is now available on the Canonical Snap Store. An official snap package of the Qt-based editing tool went live today (22 September). The new snap is already available to install via App Center on all supported Ubuntu releases, though a Deb package is carried in theContinue Reading

google-plans-gemini-4-release-before-year-end

Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda LiveContinue Reading