ubuntu-25.04:-the-best-new-features

The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release is set to ship with a plethora of new features, UI improvements and core changes that will be worth upgrading for. Feeling plucky, kid? In this post, I run through some of the best new features Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ takes under its wing. IfContinue Reading

“kidnapped”:-1,000+-protest-after-masked-ice-agents-abduct-tufts-phd.-student-rumeysa-ozturk

Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while sheContinue Reading

“first-they-shell,-then-they-hunt”:-dispatches-from-today’s-russian-attack-on-kherson

Russia’s terror against civilians in Kherson has now reached unprecedented levels. The terrifying “human safari” tactics, in which Russian killer drones target Ukrainian civilians across the Dnipro River, have now followed an artillery bombardment to create a deadly “double tap” combination. This calculated approach first drives civilians to take coverContinue Reading

earth’s-land-masses-are-drying-out-fast,-scientists-warn

Researchers comparing satellite measurements of the planet’s water with the wobble in its rotation identified a steady loss of global soil moisture. By Bob Berwyn Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planet’s spin and shift the location of the North Pole, accordingContinue Reading