Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used
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Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers. Proxmox has built a name
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Greg Kroah-Hartman just deleted a Linux driver that hasn’t mattered to anyone in years. The reason for removal wasn’t a bug report or a user complaint. It was AI agents poking around dead code and turning up findings nobody asked for. That
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For years I thought I had strong opinions on Linux distros. Ubuntu was too heavy or it felt. Arch was too fiddly. Kali was surprisingly practical (don’t judge me). Looking back at nearly a decade of distro hopping, I realize I had
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The entire debate in the Linux and open source world these days is if AI generated code should be used or not. As Linus told AI critics to fork the project or walk away, GKH took a more surgical approach. AI patches
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Office suites have changed a lot since the first ones landed on desktops decades ago. What began as basic tools for typing letters and totaling numbers has turned into sprawling software loaded with templates, cloud sync, and now, AI. It’s 2026, and
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Greg Kroah-Hartman’s “clanker” branch started as his own experiment, where an AI-assisted fuzzing tool turned up real bugs in the ksmbd and SMB code. These days, he isn’t the only one using it, as other contributors have started sending in patches of
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I have argued this in the past as well. RSS feeds are the simplest way to get out of the algorithm’s web. Every platform wants to decide what they think you should read. RSS feed is the resistance. You have a list
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Rhythmbox is one of those applications that you will find lurking on a GNOME-equipped desktop. If you are someone who has fully moved on to streaming music/podcasts online, then it doesn’t have much purpose for you. Even with the rise of streaming,
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The lone developer behind GNOME Boxes, Felipe Borges, has shown off a complete rewrite of the app as a Flatpak-only beta, featuring a modern interface foundation. Balancing his day job at Red Hat and his usual GNOME Settings maintenance duties, Felipe says
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