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Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux at Build 2025  BleepingComputer

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source  The Verge

Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux at Build 2025  BleepingComputer

Microsoft is open-sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux  XDA

Microsoft is open sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux  Windows Central

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, is now deploying Google's Gemini chatbots to more than 105,000 high school students -- marking the largest U.S. school district AI deployment to date. This represents a dramatic reversal from just two years ago when the district blocked such tools over cheating and misinformation concerns. The initiative follows President Trump's recent executive order promoting AI integration "in all subject areas" from kindergarten through 12th grade. District officials spent months testing various chatbots for accuracy, privacy, and safety before selecting Google's platform.

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New submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting students' voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams feature called 'voice and face enrollment' by default, which creates biometric profiles to enhance meeting experiences and transcriptions via its CoPilot AI tool. The NSW department learned of the data collection a month after it began and promptly disabled the feature and deleted the data within 24 hours. However, the department did not disclose how many individuals were affected or whether they were notified. Despite Microsoft's policy of retaining data only while the user is enrolled and deleting it within 90 days of account deletion, privacy experts have raised serious concerns. Rys Farthing of Reset Tech Australia criticized the unnecessary collection of children's data, warning of the long-term risks and calling for stronger protections.

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LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NBER Macro Annual Conference, founded in 1986. This paper reviews the evolution of mainstream macroeconomics since then. It presents my views, informed by a survey of a number of researchers who have made important contributions to the field. I develop two main arguments. The first is that, starting from strikingly different positions, there has been substantial convergence, in terms of methodology, architecture, and main mechanisms. Methodology: Explicit micro foundations, explicit treatment of distortions, with, at the same time, an increased willingness to deviate from rational expectations, neoclassical utility and profit maximization. Architecture: The wide acceptance of nominal rigidities as an essential distortion, although with mixed feelings. Mechanisms: The wide nature of the shocks to both the demand and the supply side. The second is that this convergence has been, for the most part, good convergence, i.e. the creation of a generally accepted conceptual and analytical structure, a core to which additional distortions can be added, allowing for discussions and integration of new ideas and evidence, rather than fights about basic methodology. Not everything is right however, with too much emphasis on general equilibrium implications from the start, rather than, first, on partial equilibrium analysis of the phenomenon at hand.

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GE-Proton 10-2 brings some essential fixes for Windows games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 10-2 brings some essential fixes for Windows games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux