FOSS Weekly #26.12: GNOME 50 Release, Fedora for Apple, New Ageless Linux, Manjaro Drama and More
In the previous newsletter, I discussed how various distros are handling the age verification laws. At the end of the article, I speculated that we
Category: Tech
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Arrives with Mac Pro Support and Beats Fedora to a Key Upgrade
Fedora Asahi Remix is a collaboration between the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project that has brought Fedora Linux to Apple Silicon Macs.
OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral
OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv
Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all
The dream of the metaverse may have died for now, but Meta has decided it’s not completely giving up on the VR experience in Horizon Worlds
AI analytics agents need guardrails, not more model size
Picture a VP of finance at a large retailer. She asks the company’s new AI analytics agent a simple question: “What was our revenue last
Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal
The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami
Music giant BMG sues Anthropic over AI training
Music giant BMG has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the popular chatbot Claude, alleging it trained its AI models using copyrighted song
Microsoft shuffles more of its senior AI leadership
The senior leadership shuffle at Microsoft continued on Tuesday when company CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company is unifying the commercial and consumer Copilot
The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.
Silicon Valley’s young coders are getting creative with this new technology. They also worry they’re not spending enough time with it.
Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be
There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what
Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data
The TACEO Network, already live inside World ID’s biometric verification system for more than 18 million users, lets organisations share digital infrastructure without sharing sensitive
AI Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in ‘As Deep as the Grave’
Kilmer’s estate collaborated with the filmmakers to make a digital likeness of the actor, who died of cancer last year.
A.I. Bots Can Act as Personal Digital Assistants, but There Are Serious Risks
New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble.