AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead
GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now. We covered this back in December when GNOME added a rule to its EGO reviewContinue Reading
Dropbeat is yet-another slick music controller for GNOME Shell
Dropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t do anything that different to onesContinue Reading
Alibaba takes aim at OpenAI and Anthropic with Qwen3.8-Max launch
Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, expanding its enterprise AI portfolio with an open-weight model designed for software engineering, multimodal reasoning, and other knowledge-intensive business workloads. In a blog post announcing the launch, Alibaba described Qwen3.8-Max as a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that activates only aboutContinue Reading
How AI is killing smartphone apps in China
Chinese smartphone makers have been followers in the global market, embracing the concepts and paradigms set in the past 20 years by Apple and Google. But AI may be giving the Chinese an opportunity to break away and set their own path forward. Specifically, Chinese companies are integrating AI moreContinue Reading
AerynOS February 2026 Update Brings Fresh Features
AerynOS has dropped its latest project update. This February release brings a wave of refinements to the Linux distribution, sharpening its edges for smoother daily use. AerynOS is a modern, independent Linux operating system built from scratch – not based on Ubuntu, Fedora, or any other distro. It focuses onContinue Reading
More than 250,000 acres burned as wildfires rage on in eastern Washington
Wildfires in eastern Washington state have forced tens of thousands from their homes and scorched more than 250,000 acres. A total of about 390 square miles has burned across the state, and some of the fires, including those in the Spokane area, have not been contained. More: https://tinyurl.com/ycxbmuy4 #wildfires #washingtonContinue Reading
Ross Coulthart: “We have a problem in the Congress”
Ross Coulthart says the real fight in ufology isn’t about grainy UFO videos, it’s about whether the public has a right to know the government is aware of a non-human intelligence. He argues Congress is comfortable releasing blurry footage but will not reveal the full scope of the alleged retrievalContinue Reading
Russia reportedly turns to coercion as voluntary military recruitment slows
Russia is increasingly struggling to replace troops in Ukraine as casualties mount and voluntary recruitment slows. The Wall Street Journal reports military recruiters in some Russian towns and cities are increasingly using detentions, threats and intimidation to push fighting-age men into military service. Lawyers, rights activists and eyewitnesses say menContinue Reading
The US has a nuclear waste problem. Five states want to help with the cleanup
For decades, America’s nuclear waste problem has been buried — both literally and politically. That could be changing, at least in the short term. Several states have now agreed to take a large part of America’s nuclear waste. At the same time, a government office says the country could beContinue Reading
Nigeria busts $300M meth empire: How West Africa became a drug hub
Nigeria’s anti-drug agency has dismantled a major Nigerian-Mexican cartel, seizing 2.5 tons of meth-making chemicals worth over 300 million dollars. The bust exposes West Africa’s growing role in the global drug trade, raising questions about how international cartels are expanding into new territories. #drug #nigeria #mexico #raid #africa #dwafrica ForContinue Reading
The Traitor says Pirro ‘folded like an umbrella’ in bid to drop charges in Reflecting Pool vandalism
President Traitor 47 says U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/homeContinue Reading
Editor’s Note: Smoking Mirrors
A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on our national hypocrisy.Continue Reading
Why Did 60,000 Migrants Cross from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta? Moroccan Dutch Professor Explains
An estimated 60,000 people from Morocco crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in an unprecedented mass movement last week. At least 72 people died during the attempt. The sudden influx of migrants overwhelmed the city’s residents, leading to a humanitarianContinue Reading