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Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal  It's FOSS

Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban modders when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added  PC Guide

Celebrate the Year of the Horse! Discover new Google features for Lunar New Year across Play, TV, and more.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it had disabled "built-in artificial intelligence features" on corporate tablets after its IT department assessed it couldn't guarantee the security of the tools' data. "Some of these features use cloud services to carry out tasks that could be handled locally, sending data off the device," the Parliament's e-MEP tech support desk said in the email. "As these features continue to evolve and become available on more devices, the full extent of data shared with service providers is still being assessed. Until this is fully clarified, it is considered safer to keep such features disabled."

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KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

LockBit Ransomware Unleashes Devastating 5.0 Version Targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi  Cyber Press

😎 First made 20 years ago, last updated in 2026! Zero AI used! 😜

Thinking about moving your cash to a different bank account with a higher interest rate? Each month, I research the high interest rates available on cash. Big banks and corporates earn billions of dollars on your idle cash when it earns you nothing.

For example, you might have $10,000 in a savings account earning 3.00% APY and you want to know if it’s worth moving to one earning 4.00% APY. Use this handy calculator to find out how much more money you could earn by switching, which you then can weigh against the time and effort required.

My Money Blog Ultimate Rate Chaser Calculator

How much money are you going to move? (no commas) $ Enter the current interest rate (APY):   % Enter the new interest rate (APY):   % How many days of lost interest will you have? (Usually 0-3 business days)   day(s) The approximate number of days you must keep your money at the new rate to break even money-wise is:   days Assuming the rate difference remains the same,
in 1 month you’ll have earned an extra (estimated):    After 6 months, you’ll have earned an extra (estimated):   

Notes

1. This calculator is based on a rate-chasing breakeven time formula developed here a long, long, long time ago (2006!) which takes into account the “days of lost interest”, or the time in between transfers where the money is not earning interest in either account.
2. The formula actually uses APR, not APY. APY takes into account compounding frequency. The overwhelming majority of online savings accounts compound interest daily. I also made a APY to APR calculator. Nowadays, I just assume daily compounding so that you can just input the APY instead of having to convert. A small minority of savings accounts do compound monthly, but most of those are the megabanks paying you 0.01% APY anyway.
3. Usually, there can be between 0-3 days of lost interest when going from one bank to another. This depends on the policies of either bank and also which bank initiates the transfer. This value can significantly affect the break-even time when the difference is small.
4. The 6-month value (182 days) isn’t simply 6 times the 1-month value (30 days), as the calculator takes into account the time needed first to “break-even”.
5. Another factor to consider is how likely the current rate difference will persist. Interest rates on savings accounts can change at any time, whereas certificates offer a fixed rate over the guaranteed period.

Last updated 2/16/26.

Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive. From a report: Stats compiled by market watcher Context show sales of refurbished PCs via distribution climbed 7 percent in calendar Q4 across five of the biggest European markets -- Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain, and France. Affordability is the primary driver in the secondhand segment, the analyst says, with around 40 percent of sales driven by budget-conscious users shopping in the $235 to $355 price band for laptops. The $355 to $475 tier is also expanding -- representing 23 percent of the refurbished market, up from 15 percent a year earlier -- indicating some buyers are prepared to spend a bit more for improved specifications.

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REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit  Help Net Security

Gentoo begins its exodus from GitHub as it settles into Codeberg  XDA

The music industry's long romance with an ever-expanding catalog of songs appears to be souring, as streaming platforms and rights holders confront a daily deluge that now includes 60,000 wholly AI-generated tracks uploaded to Deezer alone -- roughly 39% of the French service's daily intake, a statistic the company shared during Grammys week last month. Streaming services now host 253 million songs, according to Luminate's most recent annual report, after adding 51 million tracks over the course of 2025 at an average pace of 106,000 uploads a day. Spotify has already responded by requiring songs to hit at least 1,000 plays in the previous 12 months to qualify for royalties, and Luminate reported that 88% of tracks received 1,000 or fewer plays in 2025. The distribution layer is in flux too: Universal Music Group is trying to acquire Downtown Music, owner of DIY distributor CD Baby, TuneCore's head recently stepped down without a planned replacement, and DistroKid is reportedly up for sale.

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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot  Phoronix

Samsung has all but confirmed that its upcoming Galaxy S26 will feature a built-in privacy display, releasing an ad that demonstrates a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle capable of blacking out on-screen content for anyone peering over the user's shoulder. The underlying technology is reportedly Samsung Display's Flex Magic Pixel OLED panel, first shown at MWC 2024, which adjusts viewing angles on a pixel-by-pixel basis -- and leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of the feature selectively hiding content in banking and messaging apps using AI. Samsung's Unpacked event is scheduled for February 25th.

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Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature  Phoronix

Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage supply to feed their AI infrastructure buildouts. The company has firm purchase orders from its top seven customers and has signed long-term agreements stretching into 2027 and 2028 that cover both exabyte volumes and pricing. Cloud revenue now accounts for 89% of Western Digital's total, according to the company's VP of Investor Relations, while consumer revenue has shrunk to just 5%.

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Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime  Phoronix

Human software engineers and AI are currently in a "centaur phase" -- a reference to the mythical half-human, half-horse creature, where the combination outperforms either working alone -- but the window may be "very brief," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast. He drew on chess as precedent: 15 to 20 years ago, a human checking AI's moves could beat a standalone AI or human, but machines have since surpassed that arrangement entirely. Amodei said the same transition would play out in software engineering, and warned that entry-level white-collar disruption is "happening over low single-digit numbers of years."

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Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs  9to5Linux

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux  Phoronix

Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option  Phoronix