Anthropic donates "Model Context Protocol" (MCP) to the Linux Foundation making it the official open standard for Agentic AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
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Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Canonical to distribute AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in Ubuntu
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-amd-rocm-ai-ml-hpc-libraries
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Canonical to distribute AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in Ubuntu | Canonical
Canonical is pleased to announce an expanded collaboration with AMD to package and maintain AMD ROCm™ software directly in Ubuntu. AMD ROCm is an open software ecosystem to enable hardware-accelerated AI/ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct™ and AMD Radeon™…
[Final Update, probably] I'm glad to announce that the Wi-Fi issues are finally gone with v6.17.10
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This smartphone adds a microSD slot, removable battery, and more, but removes… Android?
https://www.androidauthority.com/new-jolla-phone-3623421
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This smartphone adds a microSD slot, removable battery, and more, but removes... Android?
It's rare to find a smartphone with a microSD card, removable battery, and notification LED. But this phone combines all three, with a catch.
The SSL certificate for the Manjaro forum has expired... again. Right as Stable drops.
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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.
"Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay."
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The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]
Is there a compelling reason for Fedora to perform updates in this Windows-style manner? Why can’t the system apply updates while it’s running, so that the reboot doesn’t involve any waiting because everything has already been completed?
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Age verification bills & KOSA being voted on in committee this Thursday
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that oversees these age verification bills are voting THIS THURSDAY aka tomorrow to pass these bills onto the full committee, and then the full House. We need to drive as much opposition as we can on these bills, specifically KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and honestly any age verification bill which many of these are.
This is how to do it and how you can fight back on age verification
1) Call the house representatives in the committee. Use a call noscript if you don't know what to say
You can do it two ways. You can either go to the subcommittee site and call each one here: [https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce](https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce)
(scroll down, click their names, phone number is under their picture)
or you can use this call noscript to connect to members here: [www.badinternetbills.com](http://www.badinternetbills.com/)
you can use this call noscript too: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai\_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai\_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0)
2) Spread the word! We need as much mass opposition as we can right now. So many stakeholders, policymakers, and politicians etc are looking at public opinion on these bills. We were able to stop them before because of the mass opposition, we need that again. Let everyone you know know. Spread the word!
Link to see the bills for Subcommittee Markup: https://x.com/BenBrodyDC/status/1998516632176775647
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The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that oversees these age verification bills are voting THIS THURSDAY aka tomorrow to pass these bills onto the full committee, and then the full House. We need to drive as much opposition as we can on these bills, specifically KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and honestly any age verification bill which many of these are.
This is how to do it and how you can fight back on age verification
1) Call the house representatives in the committee. Use a call noscript if you don't know what to say
You can do it two ways. You can either go to the subcommittee site and call each one here: [https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce](https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce)
(scroll down, click their names, phone number is under their picture)
or you can use this call noscript to connect to members here: [www.badinternetbills.com](http://www.badinternetbills.com/)
you can use this call noscript too: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai\_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai\_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0)
2) Spread the word! We need as much mass opposition as we can right now. So many stakeholders, policymakers, and politicians etc are looking at public opinion on these bills. We were able to stop them before because of the mass opposition, we need that again. Let everyone you know know. Spread the word!
Link to see the bills for Subcommittee Markup: https://x.com/BenBrodyDC/status/1998516632176775647
https://redd.it/1pj744o
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.
Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
https://www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-c-for-rust-and-your-privacy-benefits/
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Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
Switching from Win11 to Ubuntu 24.04.3
Hi folks! Writing my experience here about switching from Win11 to Ubuntu for my personal laptop.
I have been using the Zenbook S14 UX5406SA for almost a year. I was running Windows 11 on it because it was serving my needs pretty fine. I use my laptop for my personal chores (web browsing), light gaming and watching videos online.
As I started traveling and started using my laptop more and more, I noticed that the standby battery was absolutely terrible. It would easily drain >5% per hour. I messed with Windows power settings to limit the CPU %age usage, killing all background processes and uninstalling all the programs I don't need. I did see a slight bump in the battery life, but it was still a far cry from being satisfactory.
I did some research on how Ubuntu compares to Windows in terms of battery life, and it was mostly mixed. Instead of going all in I decided to split my 1 TB partition into two halves, keeping the Windows Boot Manager in case I would need it in future for Windows-specific tasks.
Installing Ubuntu was the standard affair. Getting the USB drive ready, booting into the installer, the installation process itself, was very fast and hassle-free. I was installing on a separate partition on the same drive, for which I had to turn off the Bitlocker encryption first. Slight annoyance, but worth the effort.
Launching Ubuntu desktop made me realize how clean and utilitarian the UI is compared to Win11. There are some shortcuts that I had to get used to, but overall I absolutely love it. I moved the dock to the bottom because I use MacOS extensively at work.
I decided to start installing the necessary apps, starting with Steam, Spotify and Chrome. I got to know that there are multiple ways to install the applications. Either you install it from Snap, if it is published at all, or you get the Debian package. It's a slight bit confusing, but okay.
Throughout the entire affair I noticed one thing, the battery usage was **amazing**. I managed to get full 8 hours of heavy usage on a full charge compared to 4-5 on Win11. In addition to that, the standby battery usage is phenomenal. I barely see any dip in the battery after I put the laptop on standby. This is the closest I have seen this laptop perform when compared to to MacOS.
With all that, everything is just snappy. Apps launch instantly, wake up from standby is insanely fast, all actions are very responsive.
Here comes the headache part. I was noticing that Steam and Spotify were blurry. I looked this problem up and it turned out that Ubuntu 24.04 switched to Wayland display server as it's default option. Apps that were written with X11 in mind, like Steam and Spotify, do not scale to HiDPI screens in Wayland mode.
Upon switching to XOrg from the login menu, everything looked crisp. But there was a problem, some games in Steam didn't have audio output. After some tinkering here and there, I found a very hidden post about how PulseAudio driver had problems with multiple audio sources. After almost a day of debugging, I found this samaritan posting a fix about increasing the buffer size here. Rebooted, and voila. That did the trick! All games are working perfectly with audio intact.
For the folks who are on the fence:
1. Ubuntu is extremely lean and fast. If your primary concern with Windows is the bloat and you want to trim it out, Ubuntu is a no brainer.
2. It's still an OS with programmers in mind. If you have zero programming experience, and do not wish to spend the time to figure the problems out, stay away. Ubuntu has come a far way, but it still needs some commitment from the users to configure the drivers as per your hardware. It doesn't work out of the box as well as Windows.
3. It's the closest thing to MacOS you can have on a Windows machine. If you want a good balance between regular desktop OS and a programming environment, it's the best choice you have in market.
4. App compatibility **may** be a problem, do research if the
Hi folks! Writing my experience here about switching from Win11 to Ubuntu for my personal laptop.
I have been using the Zenbook S14 UX5406SA for almost a year. I was running Windows 11 on it because it was serving my needs pretty fine. I use my laptop for my personal chores (web browsing), light gaming and watching videos online.
As I started traveling and started using my laptop more and more, I noticed that the standby battery was absolutely terrible. It would easily drain >5% per hour. I messed with Windows power settings to limit the CPU %age usage, killing all background processes and uninstalling all the programs I don't need. I did see a slight bump in the battery life, but it was still a far cry from being satisfactory.
I did some research on how Ubuntu compares to Windows in terms of battery life, and it was mostly mixed. Instead of going all in I decided to split my 1 TB partition into two halves, keeping the Windows Boot Manager in case I would need it in future for Windows-specific tasks.
Installing Ubuntu was the standard affair. Getting the USB drive ready, booting into the installer, the installation process itself, was very fast and hassle-free. I was installing on a separate partition on the same drive, for which I had to turn off the Bitlocker encryption first. Slight annoyance, but worth the effort.
Launching Ubuntu desktop made me realize how clean and utilitarian the UI is compared to Win11. There are some shortcuts that I had to get used to, but overall I absolutely love it. I moved the dock to the bottom because I use MacOS extensively at work.
I decided to start installing the necessary apps, starting with Steam, Spotify and Chrome. I got to know that there are multiple ways to install the applications. Either you install it from Snap, if it is published at all, or you get the Debian package. It's a slight bit confusing, but okay.
Throughout the entire affair I noticed one thing, the battery usage was **amazing**. I managed to get full 8 hours of heavy usage on a full charge compared to 4-5 on Win11. In addition to that, the standby battery usage is phenomenal. I barely see any dip in the battery after I put the laptop on standby. This is the closest I have seen this laptop perform when compared to to MacOS.
With all that, everything is just snappy. Apps launch instantly, wake up from standby is insanely fast, all actions are very responsive.
Here comes the headache part. I was noticing that Steam and Spotify were blurry. I looked this problem up and it turned out that Ubuntu 24.04 switched to Wayland display server as it's default option. Apps that were written with X11 in mind, like Steam and Spotify, do not scale to HiDPI screens in Wayland mode.
Upon switching to XOrg from the login menu, everything looked crisp. But there was a problem, some games in Steam didn't have audio output. After some tinkering here and there, I found a very hidden post about how PulseAudio driver had problems with multiple audio sources. After almost a day of debugging, I found this samaritan posting a fix about increasing the buffer size here. Rebooted, and voila. That did the trick! All games are working perfectly with audio intact.
For the folks who are on the fence:
1. Ubuntu is extremely lean and fast. If your primary concern with Windows is the bloat and you want to trim it out, Ubuntu is a no brainer.
2. It's still an OS with programmers in mind. If you have zero programming experience, and do not wish to spend the time to figure the problems out, stay away. Ubuntu has come a far way, but it still needs some commitment from the users to configure the drivers as per your hardware. It doesn't work out of the box as well as Windows.
3. It's the closest thing to MacOS you can have on a Windows machine. If you want a good balance between regular desktop OS and a programming environment, it's the best choice you have in market.
4. App compatibility **may** be a problem, do research if the
applications you use on a regular basis are available on Ubuntu and work as expected.
Hope this post helps!
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FLOSS Shop (Germany) sells Librem 5 for only 599€ (+shipping)
https://www.floss-shop.de/en/electronics/devices/78/librem5-mobil-phone
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Librem5 - Mobil phone
Librem5 Linux Smartphone Smartphone completely based on Free & Open Source Software - no Android or iOS. Operating system can be Mobian Linux…
Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases?
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Is Linux becoming mainstream now?
I noticed how many people are starting to change their preferences from Windows to Linux due to latest news about Microsoft's ending of Windows 10 support. An how Windows 11 is bad. I'm also impressed how Gabe Newell is developing so fast Linux Gaming. Steam Deck is great portable console. I used virtual machines to try various versions of Linux. I liked Ubuntu and Manjaro.
So, I believe Linux's situation may soon improve well. I remember times when anime culture in Russia was heavily marginalized and felt so alien for ordinary citizens. Now Russian streaming services are gaining more profits from Japanese animation, especially due to western sanctions. It became mainstream here. So, I bet Linux may get such attention in future. I'm impressed how Linux community improved very well and made a great work. I heard that Linux could now run videogames at more FPS than Windows.
If this so, maybe it's time for Windows to leave throne for a retirement. After all, back in times, old Mac Os was the #1 operating system back in 80s and 90s.
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I noticed how many people are starting to change their preferences from Windows to Linux due to latest news about Microsoft's ending of Windows 10 support. An how Windows 11 is bad. I'm also impressed how Gabe Newell is developing so fast Linux Gaming. Steam Deck is great portable console. I used virtual machines to try various versions of Linux. I liked Ubuntu and Manjaro.
So, I believe Linux's situation may soon improve well. I remember times when anime culture in Russia was heavily marginalized and felt so alien for ordinary citizens. Now Russian streaming services are gaining more profits from Japanese animation, especially due to western sanctions. It became mainstream here. So, I bet Linux may get such attention in future. I'm impressed how Linux community improved very well and made a great work. I heard that Linux could now run videogames at more FPS than Windows.
If this so, maybe it's time for Windows to leave throne for a retirement. After all, back in times, old Mac Os was the #1 operating system back in 80s and 90s.
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