Thomas Ward has published an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a 26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in April:
There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to help take over flavor management. They haven't formally introduced themselves yet, but I can safely say that other developers HAVE stepped up for the future of the MATE…
Let’s acknowledge this up front: It’s good to see that Senate Republicans have—for the time being, anyway—forced Donald Trump to back off plans for a $1.8 billion slush fund for allies and insurrectionists. Trump suspended the idea after Republicans made it clear that they won’t pass funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement without legislative language starkly limiting the fund or…
The president’s increasingly erratic behavior may be a sign of his rapid aging.
Donald Trump has always been loud and unfiltered; his figure, at six foot three inches tall and 224 pounds, is imposing. His penchant for drawing attention has not waned, even as he approaches his 80th birthday. By all means, Trump appears, perhaps more than ever, to be everywhere.
Yet over the last several months,…
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday took exception to the Indian army chief’s recent provocative remarks and cautioned New Delhi against pushing South Asia towards another conflict with “devastating” consequences for the region.
“Indian COAS gave a provocative statement during a recent interview that ‘Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history’,”…
Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition is showing visible elite fractures over Iran, Epstein files, and “America First” pledges, but polling suggests his core base remains resilient.
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If you’ve decided to fully immerse yourself in AI development, then you’ve probably noticed how resource-demanding it is. Like, your Mac can never sleep because you need to keep your AI agents running. So, what do you do if you’re using a MacBook and you need to move from one spot to another? You can do what I do and walk around with an open MacBook. (I’m not even doing AI development,…
In the olden days, my friends and I used to sit around and talk about sports or vacations or politics. Now we talk about medical appointments, medications and maladies.
Sometimes, it is like watching water circle a drain — around and around and around.
There is a real hazard we face as we age. It’s not how our home is arranged or how we drive or where we live or even our own health; it is…
In Ohio, the state legislature’s GOP super-majority has been busy, populating the legislative slate with ruinous bills that test the outside bounds of common sense and basic constitutional rights. There is a bill that would require medical personnel to file a “certificate of life” for every fetus in Ohio, after detection of a heartbeat. There’s Ohio’s version of the SAVE Act; a separate bill…
On November 5, 2008—the nadir of that year’s eponymous financial crisis—Queen Elizabeth II visited the London School of Economics to celebrate the opening of a new building. In a moment that made headlines around the world, she asked her hosts about the market crash: “Why did no one see it coming?”
To historians, at least, the answer appeared to be that few had been looking. Whereas the study of…
“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…
Sending ground troops to Iran is the first step toward exactly the kind of quagmire every US president since George W. Bush has tried to avoid.…
The hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban government escalated dramatically this week after an air strike in Kabul…
Nigel Farage has declared Reform UK to be ‘the party of workers’. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
When Nigel Farage insists that Reform UK is ‘the party of workers’, this is more than just a rhetorical flourish. It is a conscious attempt to present the far right as the only political outlet for the working class, at a time when they are drastically under-represented in parliament. This…
Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. (Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images)
The offices…
A powerful take on the Book of Joshua from Daniel Delgado
Microsoft has added agentic AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot to improve its usefulness for office workers — including its own version of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork.
Microsoft’s AI assistant has, so far, failed to attract significant business demand since launching more than two years ago, at least compared to its other products. Only 3% of the Microsoft 365 customer base is subscribed to…
We all know the feeling: You walk through the front door after a long day, or slam your laptop shut, and the weight of the world slides off your shoulders. Your overworked brain, desperate to relax, entices you to collapse onto the couch and scroll through your phone until it's time to sleep.
But is this the best way to recharge? By doing nothing? Experts say no.
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