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Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming  Windows Central

YouTube has added a new Shorts feature that makes it easier to manage how much time you're spending watching videos. From a report: Mobile users can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds, aiming to help viewers better manage their time instead of endlessly scrolling. When a user reaches their time limit, they will receive a notification saying Shorts has been paused for the day. This notification is dismissible, however, so it's on the user to honor these self-imposed restrictions.

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5 pitfalls of dual-booting Windows and Linux that I wasn’t prepared for  XDA

Linux 6.19 To Support The XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro Drawing Tablet  Phoronix

Air pollution in New Delhi hit a five-year high this week, as Diwali fireworks combined with farming fires to shroud the city in a toxic haze. From a report: The annual spike has become something of a tradition in the megalopolis, with some parts of the city this week recording an air-quality index reading of 1,800 -- 20 times higher than levels the World Health Organization deems healthy. The news points to the challenge facing Indian authorities as they look to combat pollution and cut carbon emissions: The country has made huge progress in deploying renewable energy, but will still need up to $21 trillion in new investments in order to meet its 2070 net-zero target, according to government plans reported by Bloomberg.

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ROG Xbox Ally X runs faster on Linux than Windows, early testing reveals  TechSpot

Google and Apple face enforced changes to how they operate their mobile phone platforms, after the UK's competition watchdog ruled the companies require tougher regulatory oversight. From a report: The Competition and Markets Authority has conferred "strategic market status" (SMS) on the tech firms after investigating their mobile operating systems, app stores and browsers. It means Apple and Google will be subjected to tailormade guidelines to regulate their behaviour in the mobile market. The CMA said the two companies have "substantial, entrenched" market power, with UK mobile phone owners using either Google or Apple's platforms and unlikely to switch between them. The regulator flagged the importance of their platforms to the UK economy and said they could be a bottleneck for businesses. [...] Changes under consideration by the CMA include allowing users to be "steered" out of app stores to make purchases elsewhere, like on a company's own website. App developers have long taken issue with Apple and Google taking a cut from purchases made via apps. The CMA also wants both companies to ensure users have a "genuine choice" over the services they use on their devices, like digital wallets on Apple.

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Lingmo OS 3.0: Stable and slim macOS clone for old PCs  Notebookcheck

An anonymous reader shares a report: Social media platform Reddit sued AI startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity's AI-based search engine. Reddit said in the complaint that the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures in order to steal data that Perplexity "desperately needs" to power its "answer engine" system.

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Today with the City of The Dalles, Oregon, we’re celebrating the completion of a new aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) system — a new water infrastructure project set t…

Meta removed a deepfake video from Facebook that falsely depicted Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Ireland's presidential election. The video was posted to an account called RTE News AI and viewed almost 30,000 times over 12 hours before the Irish Independent contacted the platform. The fabricated bulletin featured AI-generated versions of RTE newsreader Sharon Ni Bheolain and political correspondent Paul Cunningham announcing that Connolly had ended her campaign and the election scheduled for Friday would be cancelled. Connolly responded in a statement that she remained a candidate and called the video a disgraceful attempt to mislead voters. Meta confirmed the account violated its community standards against impersonating people and organizations. Ireland's media regulator Coimisiun na Mean contacted Meta about the incident and reminded the platform of its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act. An Irish Times poll published last Thursday found Connolly leading the race with 38% support.

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Learn more about Gemini on Wear OS features like Raise to Talk and Personal Context, all accessible on Google Pixel Watch 4.Learn more about Gemini on Wear OS features like Raise to Talk and Personal Context, all accessible on Google Pixel Watch 4.

An anonymous reader shares a report: As it rushes to meet its pledge for "100 percent" of trips in electric vehicles by 2030, Uber is offering grants of $4,000 for drivers to swap their gas-guzzlers for zero-tailpipe emission vehicles. The company is also dropping its "Uber Green" branding in favor of the more simple "Uber Electric." Uber has said it will be completely carbon neutral in North America and Europe by 2030 and in all global markets by 2040. But when it first announced this pledge in 2020, it said it wouldn't directly pay drivers to ditch their gas-burning vehicles in favor of EVs. Now, the company is reversing that decision in the hopes that direct payments can help accelerate EV adoption.

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