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QNX releases new desktop-focused image: QNX 8.0 with Xfce on Wayland
Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December - that I missed - I'm calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present.
The team and I are beyond excited to share what we've been cooking up over the last little while: a full desktop environment runnin
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Computers should not act like human beings
Mark Weiser has written a really interesting article about just how desirable new computing environments, like VR, "AI" agents, and so on, really are. On the top of "AI" agents, he writes:
Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously ap
https://www.osnews.com/story/144033/computers-should-not-act-like-human-beings/
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Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill has published a very interesting blog post about the shortcomings of both sudo and doas, and offers a potential different way of achieving the same goals as those tools.
Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely on ambient authority: policy is centralized and errors in the policy con
https://www.osnews.com/story/144017/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities/
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COSMIC Desktop reaches first stable release
System76, creator of Pop!_OS and prominent Linux OEM, has just announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS - normally not something I particularly care about, but in this case, it comes with the first stable release of COSMIC Desktop. COSMIC is a brand new desktop environment by System76, written in Rust, and after quite some time in deve
https://www.osnews.com/story/144011/cosmic-desktop-reaches-first-stable-release/
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
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Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
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US government switches to Times New Roman because Calibri is “woke”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called a “wasteful” sop to diversity.
While mostly framed as a matter of cl
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OSNews needs your donations to survive
OSNews is funded entirely by you, our readers. There are no ads on OSNews, we are not part of a massive corporate publishing conglomerate like virtually every other technology news website, there are no wealthy (corporate) benefactors - it's just whatever funds you, our readers, send our way. As such, I sometimes need to remind everyone about this, and Decembe
https://www.osnews.com/story/143977/osnews-needs-your-donations-to-survive/
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APL9: an APL for Plan 9
This is the website for APL9, which is an APL implementation written in C on and for Plan 9 (9front specifically, but the other versions should work as well).
Work started in January 2022, when I wanted to do some APL programming on 9front, but no implementation existed. The focus has been on adding features and behaving (on most points) like Dyalog APL. Speed is poor, since many primiti
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment is reportedly unusual for Microsoft, and it comes after the company
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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one — but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that
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Micron is ending its consumer RAM business because of “AI”
You may have noticed that due to "AI" companies buying up all literally all the RAM in the world, prices for consumer RAM and SSDs have gone completely batshit insane. Well, it's only going to get worse, since Micron has announced it's going to exit the market for consumer RAM and is, therefore, retiring its Crucial
https://www.osnews.com/story/143954/micron-is-ending-its-consumer-ram-business-because-of-ai/
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Genode OS Framework 25.11 released
The release 25.11 wraps up our year of "rigidity, clarity, performance" with a bouquet of vast under-the-hood improvements. Genode's custom kernel received special tuning of its new CPU scheduler for Sculpt-OS workloads, and became much more scalable with respect to virtual-memory management. Combined, those efforts visibly boost the performance of Sculpt OS on perfor
https://www.osnews.com/story/143924/genode-os-framework-25-11-released/
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CDE 2.5.3 released
So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn't exactly a secret, so let's talk about the project's latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a rather minor release, containing only a few bug fixes. For instance, CDE's window manager dtwm picked up support for more mouse buttons, its file manager dtfile
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Moss: a Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust
Moss is a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly.
It features a modern, asynchronous core, a modular architecture abstraction layer, and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications (currently capable of running most BusyBox commands).
↫ Moss' GitHub pageI mean, hobby operating systems and kern
https://www.osnews.com/story/143918/moss-a-linux-compatible-kernel-written-in-rust/
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I work for an evil company, but outside work, I’m actually a really good person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting. Taking steps to reduce it leads to inconvenience and, with the present state of technology, even the most intrusive approaches are only partially effective. The data collected by fingerprinting is invi
https://www.osnews.com/story/143897/the-privacy-nightmare-of-browser-fingerprinting/
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LionsOS: an adaptable OS based on the seL4 microkernel
LionsOS is an operating system based on the seL4 microkernel with the goal of making the achievements of seL4 accessible. That is, to provide performance, security, and reliability.
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It is not a conventional operating system, but contains composable components for creating custom operating systems that are specific to
https://www.osnews.com/story/143878/lionsos-an-adaptable-os-based-on-the-sel4-microkernel/
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VMS/XDE: an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and Windows/WSL
VMS/XDE is an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and WIndows (via WSL). It provides a familiar user experience for OpenVMS developers working in Linux and Windows yet offers 100% binary and file system compatilibilty with OpenVMS.
VMS/XDE includes OpenVMS V9.2-3 user, supervisor
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Ironclad 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 released, adds RISC-V support
We've talked about Ironclad a few times, but there's been two new releases since the 0.6.0 release we covered last, so let's see what the project's been up to. As a refresher, Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel written in SPARK and Ada. Versions 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 improved support for block device caching
https://www.osnews.com/story/143737/ironclad-0-7-0-and-0-8-0-released-adds-risc-v-support/
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LXQt 2.3.0 released
LXQt, the other Qt desktop environment, released version 2.3.0. This new version comes roughly six months after 2.2.0, and continues the project's adoption of Wayland.
The enhancement of Wayland support has been continued, especially in LXQt Panel, whose Desktop Switcher is now enabled for Labwc, Niri, …. It is also equipped with a backend specifically for Wayfire. In addition, th
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bluetui and restterm: two beautiful TUI applications
There's something incredibly enticing and retrofuturistic about a well-designed TUI, or text-based user interface. There's an endless list number of these, but two crossed my path these past few days, and I found them particularly appealing. First, we've got bluetui, an application for managing Bluetooth connections on Linux systems
https://www.osnews.com/story/143704/bluetui-and-restterm-two-beautiful-tui-applications/
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Sculpt OS 25.10 released
In the light of this year's roadmap focus on "rigidity, clarity, performance", Sculpt OS 25.10 looks the same as the version 25.04 but might feel different as it includes countless under-the-hood improvements of the two preceding framework releases 25.05 and 25.08. User interaction on performance-starved platforms like the PinePhone has become visibly smoother thanks our recent CPU sched
https://www.osnews.com/story/143701/sculpt-os-25-10-released/
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“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
An extensive study by the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC highlights just how deeply inaccurate and untrustworthy "AI" news results really are.
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
https://www.osnews.com/story/143624/ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-content-45-of-the-time/
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Teenager detained at gunpoint by US cops because “AI” mistook a chips bag for a gun
If you're eating a bag of chips in an area where "AI" software is being used to monitor people's behaviour, you might want to reconsider. Some high school kid in the US was hanging out with his friends, when all of a sudden, he was being swarmed by police officers wit
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This is how much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
I can exclusively reveal today Anthropic’s spending on Amazon Web Services for the entirety of 2024, and for every month in 2025 up until September, and that that Anthropic’s spend on compute far exceeds that previously reported.
Furthermore, I can confirm that through September, Anthropic has spent
