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California's age verification law could regulate every Linux command  Boing Boing

California's age verification law could regulate every Linux command  Boing Boing

Gentoo-based MocaccinoOS 26.03 now available with the 6.12.74 kernel and various other updates  Notebookcheck

At MWC 2026, Motorola announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to bring the hardened, Google-free Android variant to future devices. Until now, the OS had been designed exclusively for Google Pixel phones. "We are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS's industry-leading privacy and security-focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone," a GrapheneOS statement reads. "This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security." GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility developed as a non-profit open source project. It's often referred to as the "de-Googled OS" because Google apps are not available by default. However, users can install them via a sandboxed version of Google Play Services.

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NebiOS Unveils Linux Desktop Google Workspace Alternative  findarticles.com

NebiOS Unveils Linux Desktop Google Workspace Alternative  findarticles.com

Omega Linux Revives Old PCs With Arch Efficiency  findarticles.com

Omega Linux Revives Old PCs With Arch Efficiency  findarticles.com

Omega Linux Revives Old PCs With Arch Efficiency  findarticles.com

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter's name is paired with the words "Advance Local Express Desk." It means: This article was drafted by artificial intelligence. "This article was produced with assistance from AI tools and reviewed by Cleveland.com staff," reads a note at the bottom of each robot-penned piece, differentiating it from those still written primarily by journalists. The disclosure has done little to stem the backlash that caromed across the news industry after the paper's editor, Chris Quinn, published a Feb. 14 column lamenting that a fresh-out-of-college job applicant withdrew from a reporting fellowship when they found out the position included no writing -- just filing notes to an AI writing tool. "Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It's the future of them," Quinn wrote, adding that "by removing writing from reporters' workloads, we've effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week." [...] Quinn, for his part, says his paper's use of AI to find, draft and edit stories is a success story that others must emulate if they want to survive. "It's a tool," he said in a phone interview last week. "If AI can do part of our job, then why not let it -- and have people do the part it can't do?" He added that the paper's embrace of technology -- including using AI to write stories summarizing its reporters' podcasts and its readers' letters to the editor -- is already boosting its bottom line, helping it retain staff at a time when other newspapers are shrinking or even shutting down. Just 130 miles east of Cleveland, the 240-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said in January that it will close its doors this spring. Quinn, who has led the Plain Dealer's newsroom since 2013, said its newsroom has shrunk from some 400 employees in the late 1990s to just 71 today. Over the past three years, Quinn has implemented a suite of AI tools with various purposes: transcribing local government meetings, scraping municipal websites for story leads, cleaning up typos in story drafts, suggesting headlines and helping reporters draft follow-ups to articles they've already written. He said he is particularly pleased with an AI tool that turns podcasts by the paper's reporters into stories for the website, which he said generated more than 10 million page views last year. He has documented those efforts in letters to readers and sought their feedback. But the paper's latest experiment -- using AI to turn reporters' notes into full story drafts -- has aroused indignation online and anxiety within the paper's ranks.

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NebiOS turns your Linux desktop into a Google Workspace alternative - with one caveat  ZDNET

Live distro Oreon 10-2603 intros the Centrio installer while switching from XFS to Btrfs  Notebookcheck

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET