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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs. The Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows increasingly nasty, but officials are also worried about the consequences of losing access to its industry-leading model, Claude. "The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting. Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.

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5 Clever Uses For Your Old Gaming Consoles  bgr.com

Some Thoughts About Alternative (Computing) Lifestyles ⭐  Thurrott.com

Linux Boot Time Statistic (2026)  commandlinux.com

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

1. NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp
2. Nvidia is also hunting for Linux developers to help advance gaming on FOSS  XDA
3. Nvidia hiring for engineers to work on Linux/Arm gaming projects  PC Gamer

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux  TechPowerUp

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 -- neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it. The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in 2024 alone putting laptops and tablets in classrooms, and Horvath cited PISA data from 15-year-olds worldwide showing a stark correlation between time on school computers and worse scores. A 2014 study of 3,000 university students found they were off-task on their machines nearly two-thirds of the time. Fortune reported back in 2017 that Maine's own test scores hadn't budged in the 15 years since the program launched, and then-governor Paul LePage called it a "massive failure." Horvath framed the generation's eroding capabilities not as a personal failure but a policy one, calling them victims of a failed pedagogical experiment.

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Clonezilla Live 3.3.1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Improved BitLocker Support  9to5Linux

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux  Phoronix

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1  PC Gamer

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1  PC Gamer