Linus Torvalds just used AI to help fix a Linux kernel bug. Let me tell you that this is a rare event. Not because Torvalds is using AI. Last Christmas holidays, Torvalds used AI for the first time for a personal, hobby
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Proton Mail (partner link), the service people turn to for escaping Big Tech, has rolled out “Categories” as a new inbox view that automatically sorts incoming email into six groups: Primary, Social, Promotions, Newsletters, Transactions, and Updates. When you receive a new
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Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set
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The open hardware manufacturer recently posted an update on its Mastodon account, and it’s not great news if you were hoping to grab new Linux-powered PINE64 hardware. The disruptions in DRAM and eMMC supply are to blame, as PINE64 says its Linux
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LightDM 1.33.0 is out after a four-year gap, now under community maintainership rather than Canonical’s. Two new maintainers, one behind Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and the other a long-time Fedora and openSUSE contributor, have stepped up. Nitrux has given a name to what
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▶️ Warp has introduced Factories, infrastructure for running your own cloud software factory with fleets of agents.▶️ Agents handle triage, specs, implementation, and review; humans step in only when needed.▶️ Works with any model or harness, and all runs are tracked via
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Even Linus Torvalds is fine with AI being used in Linux kernel development these days, and it’s everywhere else in the Linux and tech world too. The time has come to stop ignoring AI and start using it as a tool and
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We are used to seeing Murena roll out new devices every now and then. Their whole sales pitch revolves around a de-Googled, privacy-focused Android experience. Not everyone is sold on that approach, sure, but the company has managed to stick around for
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Atomic distros work differently from the Fedora or Ubuntu install you’re probably used to. Instead of layering individual packages on top of each other, the entire base system ships as one image, and updates land as a whole swap rather than a
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One thing that always comes up in the GNOME vs KDE debate is how easy it is to customize KDE. You can surely customize GNOME but not to the extent of KDE. But that doesn’t deter us GNOME users from trying new
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