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This Open-Source Project Brings the Best Part of Linux to Windows  How-To Geek

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" -- meaning AI -- during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta's LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. From a report: Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft's code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.

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Want to run your favorite local AI models on Linux? This app makes it easy  ZDNET

Peridio’s Avocado OS Simplifies Secure Boot, Updates, and Debugging for Embedded Developers  Embedded Computing Design

Peridio’s Avocado OS Simplifies Secure Boot, Updates, and Debugging for Embedded Developers  Embedded Computing Design

Finland has passed legislation to restrict the use of phones and other mobile devices during the school day amid fears over their impact on student wellbeing and learning. From a report: Under the changes, which were approved by the Finnish parliament on Tuesday and will come into effect on 1 August, mobile devices will be heavily restricted during lesson times. Pupils will be allowed to use them only with the teacher's permission for healthcare or learning purposes. Finland is the latest European country to impose legal restrictions on the use of phones and other mobile devices in schools amid growing evidence of their impact on children and young people, including attention and self-esteem. Earlier this year, Denmark said it would ban mobile phones from all schools. The chair of the country's wellbeing commission, Rasmus Meyer, told the Guardian the measure was necessary to stop schools from being "colonised by digital platforms" and urged the rest of Europe to follow suit.

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be a "de facto" divestiture of the company's search engine. From a report: If Google were required to share both its search data and the information on how it ranks results, rivals could reverse engineer "every aspect of our technology," Pichai testified on Wednesday. "The proposal on data sharing is so far reaching, so extraordinary," Pichai said. It "feels like de facto divestiture of search" and its entire intellectual property and technology over 25 years of research, he said. During testimony in federal court in Washington, Pichai asserted that a package of antitrust remedies proposed by the government is too extreme and will undermine Google's ability to compete in the market.

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Wikipedia will employ AI to enhance the work of its editors and volunteers, it said Wednesday, also asserting that it has no plans to replace those human roles. The Wikimedia Foundation plans to implement AI specifically for automating tedious tasks, improving information discovery, facilitating translations, and supporting new volunteer onboarding, it said.

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Proton 10 Beta Brings More Steam Games to Linux  How-To Geek

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

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Electronic Arts is laying off hundreds of workers and canceling a Titanfall game that was in development at its Respawn Entertainment subsidiary. From a report: Between 300 and 400 positions were eliminated, including around 100 at Respawn, according to a person familiar with the cuts. The company had about 13,700 employees at the end of March 2024. "As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we've made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources in service of driving future growth," Justin Higgs, a spokesman for the Redwood City, California-based company, said in a statement. The canceled project, code-named R7, was an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe, according to people familiar with its development. It was not close to being released.

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The openSUSE project has announced the availability of openSUSE 16.0 beta, a development snapshot previewing features coming in the next version of the project's stable Leap branch. Many of the key changes focus on removing legacy packages. "Leap 16.0 with its fresh fork brings a renewed foundation and....