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Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features  Phoronix

How to make your Linux laptop more secure in 7 steps  How-To Geek

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, which launched last fall and is available on WordPress.org, runs in the background scanning posts for dead links, checking for existing archived versions, and requesting new snapshots when none exist. It also archives a site's own posts whenever they are updated. If the original link comes back online, the plugin stops redirecting. Pew Research has found that 38% of the web has disappeared over the past decade, and WordPress powers more than 40% of websites online.

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Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes  Anthropic

ShadowHS: Fileless Linux Framework for Post-Exploitation  socprime.com

Intel Xe Linux Driver Will No Longer Block D3cold For All Battlemage GPUs  Phoronix

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, its most capable model yet, at a moment when the company's AI tools have already spooked markets over fears that they are disrupting traditional software development and other sectors. The new model improves on Opus 4.5's coding abilities, the company said -- it plans more carefully, sustains longer agentic tasks, handles larger codebases more reliably, and catches its own mistakes through better debugging. It is also the first Opus-class model to feature a 1M token context window, currently in beta. On GDPval-AA, an independent benchmark measuring performance on knowledge-work tasks in finance, legal and other domains, Opus 4.6 outperformed OpenAI's GPT-5.2 by roughly 144 Elo points. Anthropic also introduced agent teams in Claude Code, allowing multiple agents to work in parallel on tasks like codebase reviews. Pricing remains at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens.

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Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip  How-To Geek

Learn how Google's NAI framework uses AI to make technology more adaptive, inclusive and helpful for everyone.Learn how Google's NAI framework uses AI to make technology more adaptive, inclusive and helpful for everyone.

Western Digital this week laid out a roadmap that stretches its 3.5-inch hard drive platform to 14 platters and pairs it with a new vertical-emitting laser for heat-assisted magnetic recording, a combination the company says will push individual drive capacities beyond 140 TB in the 2030s. The vertical laser, developed over six years and already working in WD's labs, emits light straight down onto the disk rather than from the edge, delivering more thermal energy while occupying less vertical space -- enabling areal densities up to 10 TB per platter, up from today's 4 TB, and room for additional platters in the same enclosure. WD's first commercial HAMR drives arrive in late 2026 at 40-44 TB on an 11-platter design, ramping into volume production in 2027. A 12-platter platform follows in 2028 at 60 TB, and WD expects to hit 100 TB by around 2030.

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Amazon plans to use AI to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry. From a report: At the Amazon MGM Studio, veteran entertainment executive Albert Cheng is leading a team charged with developing new AI tools that he said will cut costs and streamline the creative process. Amazon plans to launch a closed beta program in March, inviting industry partners to test its AI tools. The company expects to have results to share by May. [...] Amazon is leaning on its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, for help and plans to work with multiple large language model providers to give creators a wider array of options for pre- and post-production filmmaking.

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Google Cloud built an industry-first AI tool to help U.S. Ski and Snowboard athletes.Google Cloud built an industry-first AI tool to help U.S. Ski and Snowboard athletes.

GNU/Linux or Just Linux? Between Purism and Everyday Usage  Linuxiac

I added these 3 applets to Linux Mint, and now its a productive workstation  How-To Geek

4 reasons Windows 11 is still a better choice than Linux for most people  Windows Central

Spotify is planning to let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks directly through its app starting this spring, partnering with Bookshop.org to handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment. The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader and jump to the exact spot in the audiobook edition. Spotify will earn an undisclosed affiliate fee on each purchase.

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Intel Arc B390 Graphics Performance On Linux With Panther Lake Review  Phoronix

Learn more about Google’s new ad that will run during football’s Big Game on February 8.Learn more about Google’s new ad that will run during football’s Big Game on February 8.

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available  OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available  OMG! Ubuntu