Collaborate Disseminate
The Register looks at exactly why “It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it’s worth.”
OOXML, developed by Microsoft and first standardi… Continue reading Is There a Way to Promote Open Document Formats Instead of ‘MS Office’ Format?
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, “and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.”
Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and th… Continue reading Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
“When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia’s famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours,” reports SFGate.
“Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group… Continue reading Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster.
“A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better,” reports ABC News:
The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 stu… Continue reading Does Eating Less Protein Produce Healthier Aging and Metabolism?
“Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere,” reports CNN, “making it potentially suitable for life.”
Called LHS 1140b, the object is about five times the mass … Continue reading In a First, ‘Super-Earth’ Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere
The blog Linuxiac reports:
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter’s latest figures for July 2026. The result places… Continue reading Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policie… Continue reading Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers’ Trust in Workplaces?
New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minor… Continue reading As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide ‘SCREEN’ Act
CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, “founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold Aschenbrenner when he was in his early 20s.”
Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, founded the hedge fund on the premise that “AI will be t… Continue reading How ‘Situational Awareness’ Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout
“A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin,” writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and “the whole point is that an attacker would need to physically hold it to steal anyt… Continue reading Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken