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>The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer ...

2026-05-26T03:58:22Z

>The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.

>The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after ...

2026-05-10T23:05:11Z

>The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it.

>Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is ...

2026-05-10T16:36:26Z

>Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.
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>An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.

>A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could ...

2026-04-30T02:49:35Z

>A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

>The registry trick came with caveats, though. Third-party SSD ...

2026-03-24T01:29:37Z

>The registry trick came with caveats, though. Third-party SSD management tools like Samsung Magician and Western Digital Dashboard were not compatible with the new driver, and BitLocker could trigger recovery prompts after the driver swap.

>Altman’s remarks in [his ...

2026-03-18T02:06:24Z

>Altman’s remarks in [his tweet](https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2033935276079510011) drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.
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>“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
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>Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”
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>“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

>KB5077181 was released about a month ago as part of the ...

2026-03-14T17:53:24Z

>KB5077181 was released about a month ago as part of the February Patch Tuesday rollout. When the update first arrived, users reported a wide range of problems, including boot loops, login errors, and installation issues.
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>Microsoft has now acknowledged another problem linked to the same update. Some affected users see the message “C:\ is not accessible – Access denied” when trying to open the system drive.

>New York just proposed the most invasive state-level age ...

2026-03-10T01:54:49Z

>New York just proposed the most invasive state-level age verification bill the US has seen. Senate Bill S08102 would extend age verification requirements down to the device itself: internet-connected devices, operating system providers, and app stores would all be required to implement what the bill calls “age assurance” before users can access their own hardware and software ecosystems.

Edit:

Meta is one of the lobbyists for the age verification bill.

[Into the Metaverse: The Money and Motivations Behind Meta’s App Store Gambit](https://actonline.org/2025/05/23/into-the-metaverse-the-money-and-motivations-behind-metas-app-store-gambit/)

>In May 2025, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative John James (R-MI) introduced the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA), a bill that would require app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for users under 18. Meta has bankrolled a wildly expensive lobbying campaign to enact ASAA and its state-level analogs, and instead of recoiling in horror at taking kid privacy advice from Meta, some lawmakers are credulously going along with it.

Confirmed by Bloomberg : [Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Age Check Legislation](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/meta-clashes-with-apple-google-over-child-age-check-legislation)

>The struggle has pitted Meta Platforms Inc. and other app developers against Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the world’s largest app stores. Lobbyists for both sides are moving from state to state, working to water down or redirect the legislation to minimize their clients’ risks.
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>This year alone, at least three states — Utah, Texas and Louisiana — passed legislation requiring tech companies to authenticate users’ ages, secure parental consent for anyone under 18 and ensure minors are protected from potentially harmful digital experiences. Now, lobbyists for all three companies are flooding into South Carolina and Ohio, the next possible states to consider such legislation.

in addition, there are [Over 50 Child Advocacy Groups Unite to Demand App Store Accountability](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/over-50-child-advocacy-groups-unite-to-demand-app-store-accountability-302385162.html)

- Bank of America struggled with adopting Nvidia's AI ...

2026-01-27T15:08:37Z

- Bank of America struggled with adopting Nvidia's AI software, internal emails showed.
- Its challenges with Nvidia AI Factory highlight difficulties for regulated industries like banking.
- AI deployment hurdles are common across sectors, experts say.

>Federal immigration authorities from the Department of ...

2026-01-27T14:36:13Z

>Federal immigration authorities from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are set to be deployed around Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, ahead of the championship game on 8 February 2026.
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>According to FOX News, officials have confirmed that ICE agents will be a visible presence in and around Levi's Stadium, where the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will compete.

>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit on Monday ...

2025-12-16T23:56:40Z

>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit on Monday against Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL, and Hisense, claiming in a press release that they "have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition ("ACR”) technology."
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>Paxton goes on to label ACR as "an uninvited, invisible digital invader," and in one of the five separately filed suits, he calls Samsung TVs "a mass surveillance system."

>Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali ...

2025-12-13T18:11:46Z

>Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
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>Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.

>The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, ...

2025-12-10T16:48:41Z

>The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

>For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian ...

2025-12-02T04:23:58Z

>For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.
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>New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

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2025-11-19T16:55:12Z

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>Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine ...

2025-09-23T16:39:15Z

>Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.