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The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when you rip it off a surface -- that fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise most people try not to think about -- is produced by shock waves from micro-cracks that travel across the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in Physical Review E. Researchers led by Sigurdur Thoroddsen of King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia used simultaneous high-speed imaging and synchronized microphones to capture both the propagating fractures and the sound waves they generate in the surrounding air. The team's earlier work, in 2010, had identified a sequence of transverse cracks racing across the width of the adhesive during peeling, and a 2024 follow-up established a direct correspondence between those cracks and the screeching sound, but neither study pinpointed a mechanism. The new findings show that a partial vacuum forms between the tape and the surface as each crack opens, and because the crack moves faster than air can rush in to fill the void, the vacuum travels along until it reaches the tape's edge and collapses into the stationary air outside, producing a discrete sound pulse.

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systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported  Phoronix

Nvidia is hiring Linux gaming experts  PCWorld

Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether it improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using rival cloud services, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The source said Japan's antitrust authorities would also be seeking clarification from Microsoft's parent company in the United States. Microsoft Japan is suspected of setting conditions that effectively shut out other services by limiting access to popular services on other cloud platforms, the source said.

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These 4 TUI apps will convince you to actually use your Linux terminal  How-To Geek

An anonymous reader shares a report: Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of an expected launch in Dubai later this year. The inaugural Uber Air program will let travelers book Joby Aviation's electric air taxis through a familiar process in the Uber app. The experience of booking an air taxi will be much like reserving a four-wheeled Uber. In the app, after entering your destination, Uber Air will appear as an option for eligible routes. The Uber app will book a flight and an Uber Black to pick you up and drop you off at a Joby "vertiport." Joby's air taxis, built exclusively for city travel, can accommodate up to four passengers and luggage. (Uber says size and weight guidelines will be announced closer to launch.) The interior is about the size of an SUV and has "comfortable seating" with panoramic windows. They can travel up to 200 mph and have a range of up to 100 miles. Four battery packs and a triple-redundant flight computer are onboard for safety purposes.

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Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat)  It's FOSS

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series  Phoronix

NVIDIA starts listing jobs for Linux gaming with Valve's Proton in mind  Windows Central

PCLinuxOS Makes Comeback for Windows Switchers  findarticles.com

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Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others  Phoronix

Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequate. "We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments ... if competitors are blazing ahead," chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME. The overhauled policy, approved unanimously by CEO Dario Amodei and Anthropic's board, instead commits the company to matching or surpassing competitors' safety efforts and to delaying development only if Anthropic considers itself to be leading the AI race and believes catastrophic risks are significant. The company also plans to publish detailed "Risk Reports" every three to six months and release "Frontier Safety Roadmaps" laying out future safety goals. Chris Painter, director of policy at the AI evaluation nonprofit METR, who reviewed an early draft, told TIME the shift signals that Anthropic "believes it needs to shift into triage mode with its safety plans, because methods to assess and mitigate risk are not keeping up with the pace of capabilities."

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The once beloved PCLinuxOS is back - and it's still a great Windows escape  ZDNET

'Linux is going to prime time for PCs. This is just a clue': Nvidia looks set to make its GPU drivers better in Linux  TechRadar

'Linux is going to prime time for PCs. This is just a clue': Nvidia looks set to make its GPU drivers better in Linux  TechRadar

'Linux is going to prime time for PCs. This is just a clue': Nvidia looks set to make its GPU drivers better in Linux  TechRadar

'Linux is going to prime time for PCs. This is just a clue': Nvidia looks set to make its GPU drivers better in Linux  TechRadar

Why Ubuntu is a frustrating choice for desktops but great for laptops  How-To Geek