Collaborate Disseminate
Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis “wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software,” according to his entry on Wikipedia, “and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any propriet… Continue reading How I Added an LLM-Based Grammar Checking + TeX Math Import To LibreOffice
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI “has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Bloomberg describes OpenAI as “failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible lega… Continue reading The Apple-OpenAI Alliance is Fraying, Setting Up a Possible Legal Fight
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”
The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has bee… Continue reading California Law Limits ‘Recyling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”
The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has bee… Continue reading California Law Limits ‘Recycling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste
“The vulnerability is simple in practice,” writes Tom’s Hardware: “run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine.”
And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a … Continue reading Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Build a Working macOS Exploit in Five Days
Variety reports:
Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned… The next James Bond film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the “Dune” franchise, “Arrival” and “… Continue reading The Search for the Next ‘James Bond’ Actor Has Begun
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”
The initi… Continue reading Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
USA Today reports:
Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. H… Continue reading Trump Phones Start Shipping – But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
What’s going on with the U.S. job market? “The economy is growing. Unemployment is low,” notes the Washington Post. “And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades,” with the hiring rate “wel… Continue reading Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads?
Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel’s 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip.
And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:
Supporting those … Continue reading Linux Kernel Starts Retiring Support for AMD’s 30-Year-Old K5 CPUs