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Linux Finally Cracks the Mac Backlight Code: A Long-Awaited Fix for Apple Silicon Display Brightness  WebProNews

KDE Plasma 6.6 Sharpens Its Edge: Fingerprint Authentication Overhaul and Desktop Polish Signal Linux Desktop Maturity  WebProNews

KDE Plasma 6.6 Sharpens Its Edge: Fingerprint Authentication Overhaul and Desktop Polish Signal Linux Desktop Maturity  WebProNews

KDE's Bold New Bet: A Dedicated Hardware Lab to Crush Linux Desktop Performance Bottlenecks  WebProNews

Linux 6.19: The Kernel Release That Rewrites the Rules for Performance, Security, and Hardware Support  WebProNews

Wine Staging 11.2 Arrives: The Quiet Revolution Bringing Windows Software Closer to Native Linux Performance  WebProNews

I used a single open-source tool to clean my Mac, Windows, and Linux drives  MakeUseOf

Linux 7.0: Linus Torvalds Signals a Historic Version Leap as Rust Gains Ground in the Kernel  WebProNews

Linux 7.0: Linus Torvalds Signals a Historic Version Leap as Rust Gains Ground in the Kernel  WebProNews

The Quiet Crusade: Inside GNU Linux-Libre 6.19 and the Relentless Effort to Purge Proprietary Code From the Kernel  WebProNews

The Quiet Crusade: Inside GNU Linux-Libre 6.19 and the Relentless Effort to Purge Proprietary Code From the Kernel  WebProNews

Intel’s Panther Lake Arrives — And Linux Is Already Beating Windows at Its Own Game  WebProNews

Installing AlmaLinux over a network with no interaction  Adafruit

Linux 6.19 Update Enhances AMD Performance with HDR Support for ROG Ally and Steam Deck Handhelds  Technetbook

To mark Safer Internet Day in the UK, we’re highlighting the ways students, parents and educators can work together to ensure safe, effective learning.From setting scree…

To mark Safer Internet Day in the UK, we’re highlighting the ways students, parents and educators can work together to ensure safe, effective learning.From setting scree…

Around the world, people of all ages — including young people — are using AI to learn. A few easy steps can help you do so more safely.

OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers in the United States, the company said. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education tiers remain ad-free. Ads are matched to users based on conversation topics, past chats, and prior ad interactions, and appear clearly labeled as "sponsored" and visually separated from ChatGPT's organic responses. OpenAI says the ads do not influence ChatGPT's answers, and advertisers receive only aggregate performance data like view and click counts rather than access to individual conversations. Users under 18 do not see ads, and ads are excluded from sensitive topics such as health, mental health, and politics. Free-tier users can opt out of ads in exchange for fewer daily messages. Further reading: Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think'.

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Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures. The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees. Each instance operated inside its own Docker container, independently claiming tasks via lock files and pushing completed code to a shared Git repository. No orchestration agent directed traffic. The compiler achieved a 99% pass rate on the GCC torture test suite and can compile major open source projects including PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, FFmpeg and Doom. But it lacks a 16-bit x86 backend and calls out to GCC for that step, its assembler and linker remain buggy, and it produces less efficient code than GCC running with all optimizations disabled. Carlini also invested significant effort building test harnesses and feedback systems to keep the agents productive, and the model hit a practical ceiling at around 100,000 lines as bug fixes and new features frequently broke existing functionality.

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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization  GamingOnLinux