185899524
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BrianFagioli writes:
Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The release includes wslc.exe for managing containers, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune. Microsoft also claims up to twice the performance when Linux environments access files stored on Windows.
Docker Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Rancher Desktop are not going anywhere, but developers who only need basic container functionality now have another option built around WSL. One notable feature is still missing: Compose support. Microsoft says adding it is now a priority.
185836628
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BrianFagioli writes:
Canonical is changing how Ubuntu kernel security updates are delivered as the number of reported Linux vulnerabilities continues to grow. The company says AI tools including large language models and specialized agents are helping researchers discover bugs faster. The Linux kernel becoming a CVE Numbering Authority has also increased the number of assigned CVEs.
Ubuntu is moving from separate four week regular and two week security kernel update cycles to overlapping two week cycles. The result will be a kernel release every week. Canonical says it will retain hardware certification and regression testing while organizations willing to test release candidates themselves can access fixes earlier through the proposed pocket.
The shift highlights an interesting consequence of AI assisted security research. Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster.
185734670
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BrianFagioli writes:
For years, students were told that learning to code was one of the safest paths into a lucrative technology career. New data suggests that message may be losing some of its pull. Nova Learning says the share of surveyed middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their primary academic interest fell from 42.3 percent in 2025 to 27.9 percent in 2026, while Engineering rose from 11.9 percent to 23 percent. The biggest gains came from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, while Software and Data Science saw a steep drop.
The survey is not nationally representative, but broader enrollment data points in the same direction. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported declines in Computer and Information Science enrollment at four year institutions, even as Engineering grew. AI coding tools are not proven to be the cause, but as software development changes and AI handles more coding tasks, students may be starting to rethink what a future in technology should look like.
185680036
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BrianFagioli writes:
A new J.D. Power study suggests traditional cable and satellite TV may not be dying as quickly as many expected. Overall customer satisfaction with cable and satellite providers increased 18 points year over year on a 1,000 point scale, while satisfaction with live TV streaming declined three points to 627. Verizon Fios ranked highest among traditional providers with a score of 586, while YouTube TV led live TV streaming with 643.
Streaming still has a big advantage on price. J.D. Power found live TV streaming costs $41 less per month on average, and it holds a 99 point advantage for value satisfaction. Still, rising streaming prices and increasingly fragmented services may be changing the equation. The study surveyed 33,137 customers between August 2025 and July 2026. Is cord cutting still the obvious choice it once seemed to be?
185605320
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BrianFagioli writes:
Linux Mint is expanding its collection of homegrown software with Xepub, a new EPUB reader, and Clockenstein, a new calendar application supporting Google Calendar and CalDAV. The projects were revealed in the Linux Mint August monthly update, which was published on September 11.
NERDS.xyz argues that this growing collection of apps raises a bigger question about Linux Mint priorities. With Mint already based on Ubuntu, which itself is based on Debian, should its developers spend resources creating more applications that duplicate existing Linux software, or concentrate on Cinnamon, Wayland, hardware compatibility, upgrades, and the operating system experience itself?
185471396
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BrianFagioli writes:
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has published an unusually stark warning about the direction of artificial intelligence. Pachocki says internal results give him a strong expectation that todayâ(TM)s pace of AI progress could continue into recursive self-improvement, with increasingly capable systems helping drive their own development. He warns that nobody is prepared for a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence and says AI is becoming increasingly difficult to fully understand as capabilities grow.
Pachocki also warns that AI models are becoming superhuman at breaking into and out of computer systems, while future agents could bargain with, trick, or blackmail people while pursuing objectives. His conclusion is particularly striking: he currently believes no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to responsibly continue scaling at maximum speed for much longer. He expects voluntary slowdowns and argues that international coordination on AI development should become a top government priority.
185403546
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BrianFagioli writes:
Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording support to official Windows builds, while bringing major changes to recording, playback, plugins, and project handling.
The overhaul comes with some tradeoffs. Audacity 4.0 currently lacks several features found in Audacity 3, including Time Tracks, Note and MIDI tracks, Mixer, Macro Manager and scripting pipe, VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting, and play-at-speed. The developers say they plan to bring the missing functionality back in future releases.
185380838
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BrianFagioli writes:
Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither PyTorch nor MLX in its execution path. Perplexity says Lily averaged 23 percent faster prompt processing and 35 percent faster token generation than MLX-LM on an M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB of unified memory.
Lily is more specialized than MLX-LM, which supports a much wider range of models and architectures. Perplexity says it plans to release Lily as open source, but the code is not available yet, leaving its performance claims dependent on internal testing for now.
185321260
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BrianFagioli writes:
SNICKERS has launched Digital SNICKERS, a promotion that asks users to feed a virtual candy bar to an AI chatbot when it starts hallucinating, becoming overly agreeable, or otherwise acting strangely. The joke goes considerably deeper than an image of candy. The Digital SNICKERS directs the AI to a lengthy set of instructions for a one-turn role-play game, including looking back at the previous conversation, reconsidering its last answer, adopting a temporary personality, and answering again after supposedly taking a bite.
The campaign is essentially a user-initiated form of prompt injection turned into advertising. Mars even includes an extensive safety gate and acknowledges that its instructions cannot override an LLMs existing policies. It is a strange example of an AI security concept entering mainstream marketing, complete with free physical SNICKERS bars available through a related promotion.
185285740
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BrianFagioli writes:
Debian developers have rejected proposals that would have banned or strongly discouraged the use of artificial intelligence within the project. Instead, members selected a proposal called Responsible Use of Generative AI, which says Debian neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI for software development, packaging, documentation, and other project work.
Under the new policy, contributors remain responsible for the quality, correctness, maintainability, licensing, and legal compliance of anything they submit, including AI-assisted work. Human review and testing are expected, while disclosure of AI use is encouraged but not required. The ballot included several more restrictive alternatives, including proposals to ban LLM contributions through the Debian Social Contract and to declare that Debian is created by humans.
185167374
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BrianFagioli writes:
Microsoft is deepening its AI ties with Saudi Arabia through HUMAIN, a state-backed AI company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The partnership could bring HUMAINs Arabic-language ALLAM models into Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot. HUMAIN engineers will also work alongside Microsoft engineers to help organizations deploy AI systems.
The relationship deserves scrutiny. Human rights groups have previously raised concerns about Microsofts Saudi expansion, including privacy, surveillance, and government access to data.
Microsoft says its technology can meet enterprise and public-sector security and governance requirements. But as the company gets closer to a Saudi state-backed AI operation, questions remain about what happens when those requirements collide with Microsofts privacy and human rights commitments.
185148230
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BrianFagioli writes:
Citrix has introduced a dual boot capability for UniconOS that installs a separate Linux based recovery environment alongside Windows. If ransomware, a failed update, or operating system corruption leaves Windows unavailable, an employee can reboot into UniconOS and reconnect to company applications through Citrix DaaS and SecurAccess. The feature is available with Citrix UniconOS Release 7 2607.
The recovery environment sits on its own partition and remains isolated from the Windows filesystem. It does not repair Windows, and it cannot help with failed hardware, missing network access, or unavailable Citrix infrastructure. However, it could give enterprises a faster way to keep employees working while IT investigates or repairs affected Windows installations.
185120614
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BrianFagioli writes:
An OpenAI product leader has somehow become a rockstar among Codex users. Thibault Tibo Sottiaux has more than 500,000 followers, and his repeated usage resets have become such a big part of Codex culture that some developers actually plan their AI usage around his promises.
I am one of them. I have notifications turned on for his posts, and his resets have helped me keep building with Codex while staying on ChatGPT Plus instead of paying for Pro. Here is how the guy with the reset button became one of the most recognizable faces in the Codex community.
185105460
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BrianFagioli writes:
DHH has launched the Omacom Foundation with $8 million from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Tobi Lutke, Patrick Collison, Matthew Prince, Brendan Iribe, Jason Fried, and DHH himself. The nonprofit is meant to support Omarchy, fund infrastructure, hold trademarks, promote the project, and back the open source software it depends on.
The foundation is already putting money to work by becoming the exclusive sponsor of Hyprland creator Vaxry under a three year deal with an option for two more years. Omarchy is an Arch Linux based operating system built around Hyprland and Quickshell, with a keyboard driven workflow aimed heavily at developers and power users.
185057700
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BrianFagioli writes:
PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans
PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. Future production will depend on component pricing after mid 2027, while existing PineNote and PineTab2 inventory could run out in roughly three months.
The company says PineTime, PineVoice, and Pinecil production will continue as usual, but the outlook for its Linux hardware is much less certain.
