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Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal  It's FOSS

Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban modders when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added  PC Guide

Celebrate the Year of the Horse! Discover new Google features for Lunar New Year across Play, TV, and more.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it had disabled "built-in artificial intelligence features" on corporate tablets after its IT department assessed it couldn't guarantee the security of the tools' data. "Some of these features use cloud services to carry out tasks that could be handled locally, sending data off the device," the Parliament's e-MEP tech support desk said in the email. "As these features continue to evolve and become available on more devices, the full extent of data shared with service providers is still being assessed. Until this is fully clarified, it is considered safer to keep such features disabled."

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KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

AsteroidOS 2.0 Launches: A Community-Driven Linux Revival for Smartwatches  Linux Journal

LockBit Ransomware Unleashes Devastating 5.0 Version Targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi  Cyber Press

😎 First made 20 years ago, last updated in 2026! Zero AI used! 😜

Thinking about moving your cash to a different bank account with a higher interest rate? Each month, I research the high interest rates available on cash. Big banks and corporates earn billions of dollars on your idle cash when it earns you nothing.

For example, you might have $10,000 in a savings account earning 3.00% APY and you want to know if it’s worth moving to one earning 4.00% APY. Use this handy calculator to find out how much more money you could earn by switching, which you then can weigh against the time and effort required.

My Money Blog Ultimate Rate Chaser Calculator

How much money are you going to move? (no commas) $ Enter the current interest rate (APY):   % Enter the new interest rate (APY):   % How many days of lost interest will you have? (Usually 0-3 business days)   day(s) The approximate number of days you must keep your money at the new rate to break even money-wise is:   days Assuming the rate difference remains the same,
in 1 month you’ll have earned an extra (estimated):    After 6 months, you’ll have earned an extra (estimated):   

Notes

1. This calculator is based on a rate-chasing breakeven time formula developed here a long, long, long time ago (2006!) which takes into account the “days of lost interest”, or the time in between transfers where the money is not earning interest in either account.
2. The formula actually uses APR, not APY. APY takes into account compounding frequency. The overwhelming majority of online savings accounts compound interest daily. I also made a APY to APR calculator. Nowadays, I just assume daily compounding so that you can just input the APY instead of having to convert. A small minority of savings accounts do compound monthly, but most of those are the megabanks paying you 0.01% APY anyway.
3. Usually, there can be between 0-3 days of lost interest when going from one bank to another. This depends on the policies of either bank and also which bank initiates the transfer. (It also may depend on if you straddle a weekend with the money earning no interest.) This value can significantly affect the break-even time when the difference is small.
4. The 6-month value (182 days) isn’t simply 6 times the 1-month value (30 days), as the calculator takes into account the time needed first to “break-even”.
5. Another factor to consider is how likely the current rate difference will persist. Interest rates on savings accounts can change at any time, whereas certificates offer a fixed rate over the guaranteed period.

Last updated 2/16/26.

Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive. From a report: Stats compiled by market watcher Context show sales of refurbished PCs via distribution climbed 7 percent in calendar Q4 across five of the biggest European markets -- Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain, and France. Affordability is the primary driver in the secondhand segment, the analyst says, with around 40 percent of sales driven by budget-conscious users shopping in the $235 to $355 price band for laptops. The $355 to $475 tier is also expanding -- representing 23 percent of the refurbished market, up from 15 percent a year earlier -- indicating some buyers are prepared to spend a bit more for improved specifications.

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REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit  Help Net Security

Gentoo begins its exodus from GitHub as it settles into Codeberg  XDA

The music industry's long romance with an ever-expanding catalog of songs appears to be souring, as streaming platforms and rights holders confront a daily deluge that now includes 60,000 wholly AI-generated tracks uploaded to Deezer alone -- roughly 39% of the French service's daily intake, a statistic the company shared during Grammys week last month. Streaming services now host 253 million songs, according to Luminate's most recent annual report, after adding 51 million tracks over the course of 2025 at an average pace of 106,000 uploads a day. Spotify has already responded by requiring songs to hit at least 1,000 plays in the previous 12 months to qualify for royalties, and Luminate reported that 88% of tracks received 1,000 or fewer plays in 2025. The distribution layer is in flux too: Universal Music Group is trying to acquire Downtown Music, owner of DIY distributor CD Baby, TuneCore's head recently stepped down without a planned replacement, and DistroKid is reportedly up for sale.

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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot  Phoronix

Levittown, NY, a post-WWII suburban single-family sprawl

Gen Z is conservative. Not culturally, but in how they respond to collapse. They grew up inside system collapse—financial crisis, institutional failure, pandemic, climate instability—and they’re responding the way post-crisis generations always do: by seeking constraint.

The Gen Z choices that confound us most are those that decrease opportunity: living with parents longer, delaying or rejecting children, choosing stable jobs over ambitious ones, preferring workplace protections over flexibility.

These aren’t signs of disengagement. They’re preparation for a correction that’s already underway.

Post-crisis generations don’t rebel, they stabilize

When large systems break, the next generation doesn’t tear them down. They stabilize them by making certain failures costly.

People who lived through the Great Depression and World War II built suburbs full of predictable single-family homes—stability at any price. But when isolated families led to spiking divorce rates, society didn’t ban divorce. It made abandonment expensive: child support, alimony, wage garnishment. You can leave, but you can’t externalize the damage.

We’re approaching the same moment with children.

Care is cheap because children pay the bill

Care looks cheap right now because children absorb the cost. Inconsistent parental presence means rotating caregivers, which harms development. But children have no enforceable rights, so the system treats this damage as free.

This isn’t a moral failure. It’s a price-signal failure. The market thinks care is cheap because no one is billing for the damage.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

Molly Jong-Fast reports: “My mother was a famous feminist writer known for her candor and wit who couldn’t be bothered to spend time raising me.”

Her mother, Erica Jong, would likely agree. In an op-ed she wrote: “My travel schedule could not have been more divergent from my daughter’s schedule, so I hired nannies.” Then she showed a photo of herself cuddling her dog while her daughter leaned into the frame.

Jong writes about her parenting with impunity because children have no enforceable rights. The system treats the damage as free.

Children’s rights are coming

We can’t make parents more virtuous. But we can give children enforceable rights: consistent caregiving, adult presence, and relational continuity. The basics they need to develop without absorbing adult chaos.

Those rights will expose that jobs demanding total availability are incompatible with children. Someone other than children has to pay the cost.

Enforcement won’t target families. It will target employers. The same way payroll systems enforce child support, work structures will have to comply with care minimums. Jobs that require total availability will have to redesign roles, pay for compliant care, or accept that some positions can’t be paired with caregiving.

This is the same logic that governed divorce: don’t ban it, make abandonment costly. Applied to careers: you can have a demanding job, but you can’t externalize the cost onto children.

The TIME 100 proves care disqualifies you

In the list of TIME 100 Most Influential Women, almost none of them have children. Movie stars are the partial exception—they can buy continuity of care. But writers, activists, executives, academics? Overwhelmingly childless.

That’s selection pressure. The idea of productivity came from factories where the assumption was that time is infinitely extractable. Right now, influence is defined the same way: sustained, uninterrupted availability. Care disqualifies you by definition.

The system has already decided that care and power are incompatible. We’ve just been pretending otherwise.

Gen Z is planning for constrained time

Once children’s rights make time genuinely constrained—not just “hard to balance” but legally protected—fewer people will be able to have children. Declining fertility is capacity planning. Gen Z can feel that care is about to become structurally expensive, so they’re refusing to organize their lives around a system that only works by letting children absorb the failure.

Once children’s rights force the cost into the open, the outcomes are predictable because everything reorganizes around constraint rather than aspiration. Rather than asking How can I have it all? we ask What arrangement actually works?

Fewer children are better supported. Stable jobs overtake greedy jobs because they’re more compatible with care. Influence detaches from sheer availability. Living with parents becomes coordinated care capacity. Grandparents realize if they want grandkids they have to show up.

We are failing children today because we price them at zero. The people still chasing influence through uninterrupted availability are optimizing for a world that’s already gone. Gen Z isn’t giving up. They’re reading the future correctly.

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Samsung has all but confirmed that its upcoming Galaxy S26 will feature a built-in privacy display, releasing an ad that demonstrates a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle capable of blacking out on-screen content for anyone peering over the user's shoulder. The underlying technology is reportedly Samsung Display's Flex Magic Pixel OLED panel, first shown at MWC 2024, which adjusts viewing angles on a pixel-by-pixel basis -- and leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of the feature selectively hiding content in banking and messaging apps using AI. Samsung's Unpacked event is scheduled for February 25th.

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