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Improved Upstream Kernel Support For TUXEDO Laptops Being Worked On  Phoronix

An anonymous reader shares a report: Solid-state drives sitting unpowered in drawers or storage can lose data over time because voltage gradually leaks from their NAND flash cells, and consumer-grade drives using QLC NAND retain data for about a year while TLC NAND lasts up to three years without power. More expensive MLC and SLC NAND can hold data for five and ten years respectively. The voltage loss can result in missing data or completely unusable drives. Hard drives remain more resistant to power loss despite their susceptibility to bit rot. Most users relying on SSDs for primary storage in regularly powered computers face little risk since drives typically stay unpowered for only a few months at most. The concern mainly affects creative professionals and researchers who need long-term archival storage.

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Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software  Blocks and Files

The Laptop That Wasn't: TUXEDO Computers Shelves Linux ARM Notebook Plans  It's FOSS

Linus Torvalds, software engineer: “Using AI for this could be a terrible idea”  Diario AS

Linus Torvalds, software engineer: “Using AI for this could be a terrible idea”  Diario AS

An anonymous reader shares a report: Singapore's police have ordered Apple and Google to prevent the spoofing of government agencies on their messaging platforms, the home affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The order under the nation's Online Criminal Harms Act came after the police observed scams on Apple's iMessage and Google Messages purporting to be from companies such as the local postal service SingPost. While government agencies have registered with a local SMS registry so only they can send messages with the "gov.sg" name, this does not currently apply to the iMessage and Google Messages platforms.

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Life’s not bad on Bazzite.  The Verge

In the latest Windows Insider beta update, Microsoft has announced that it is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to improve launch performance. The feature will load File Explorer silently before users click on it and can be toggled off for those who prefer not to use it. Microsoft introduced a similar capability earlier this year for Office called Startup Boost that loads parts of Word in the background so the application launches more quickly. The company is also removing elements from the File Explorer context menu in the same update.

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SUSE vision: AI assists Linux infrastructure via voice  Techzine Global

SUSE’s MCP Server tech preview lays foundation for AI-assisted Linux infrastructure  SiliconANGLE

I built my dream developer setup — and it's not on Linux  MakeUseOf

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Lenovo is stockpiling memory and other critical components to navigate a supply crunch brought on by the boom in artificial intelligence. The world's biggest PC maker is holding on to component inventories that are roughly 50% higher than usual, Chief Financial Officer Winston Cheng told Bloomberg TV on Monday. The frenzy to build and fill AI data centers with advanced hardware is raising prices for producers of consumer electronics, but Lenovo also sees opportunity in this to capitalize on its stockpile. "The price is going very, very high, of course, and I think it's been unprecedented in terms of this rate driven by the AI demand," Cheng said. His company has long-term contracts in place and the benefit of scale, he added, and "those that have the supply actually would be able to have a position in the market." Beijing-based Lenovo will aim to avoid passing on rising costs to its customers in the current quarter, as it wants to sustain this year's strong sales growth, according to the CFO. He said the company will strike a balance between price and availability in 2026. Lenovo said last week that it has enough memory chips for all of 2026 and it can navigate any shortages better than its competitors.

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Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber?  EEJournal

This Linux OS has got a million downloads since Windows 10 support ended – should Microsoft start worrying now?  TechRadar

This Linux OS has got a million downloads since Windows 10 support ended – should Microsoft start worrying now?  TechRadar

This Linux OS has got a million downloads since Windows 10 support ended – should Microsoft start worrying now?  TechRadar

How I finally unlocked Linux’s find command  How-To Geek

Fedora-Based Ultramarine 43 Is Now Available with Pinebook Pro Support  9to5Linux

Fedora-Based Ultramarine 43 Is Now Available with Pinebook Pro Support  9to5Linux