Google is switching off Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 student accounts by default. They stay off until a school admin turns them on, and each service can be manually enabled on its own. But Search is where
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The story starts when Linus Torvalds opened the Linux 7.4 merge window more than two weeks ago when he was headed out for his annual family vacation, resulting in some temporary disruptions to his work. He warned that his schedule would be
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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, said it’s “quite terrible” that so much of the world’s limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe 5% of the time. In his view, it would do more work in a data center. My
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My homelab runs on 5 machines with around 30 Docker containers. For a long time, the way I reached them was a bookmarks folder full of entries like http://100.101.12.4:8096. Tailscale took care of getting me into my network from anywhere, but once
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Building a Fedora release means tracking an enormous amount of formal change proposals planned for each release cycle on a public Change Set page, where every entry carries an owner and a status. These proposals undergo community review and require approval from
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Personally, I have never owned an Apple device, mostly due to its pricey nature and how the brand loves to lock people in their walled garden. But that’s just me ranting there for a bit. There are many who do like what
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Adobe charges $60 a month. Microsoft 365 keeps raising its price. Salesforce will take $150 per user without blinking. These are not tools you own. They are subscriptions that expire the moment you stop paying, often taking your files and workflows with
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govdigital eG has awarded IONOS a four-year framework contract under KoDaS, the abbreviation for a collaboration and file storage system. The service delivered under it is built on Nextcloud and sold as Nextcloud Workspace. It is meant for schools and school authorities
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Yet another new Linux distribution has landed on Arch Linux as its foundation of choice. This one is called Pond, and it is Butterfly Interaction Inc.’s vision of how a desktop should look and behave. For its desktop interface, it uses Niri,
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Okay, killed by Ubuntu is an exaggeration, as Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro doing this. Still, the big news is that Linux Mint is bringing hibernation back. In a recent blog post, the Mint team previewed a new Sleep Modes
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