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OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More  9to5Linux

Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Project Vend, and the experiment ended in financial ruin after journalists systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free. The AI, nicknamed Claudius, was programmed to order inventory, set prices, and respond to customer requests via Slack. It had a $1,000 starting balance and autonomy to make individual purchases up to $80. Within days, WSJ reporters had convinced it to declare an "Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All" that dropped all prices to zero. The bot also approved purchases of a PlayStation 5, a live betta fish, and bottles of Manischewitz wine -- all subsequently given away. The business ended more than $1,000 in the red. Anthropic introduced a second version featuring a separate "CEO" bot named Seymour Cash to supervise Claudius. Reporters staged a fake boardroom coup using fabricated PDF documents, and both AI agents accepted the forged corporate governance materials as legitimate. Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, said the chaos represented a road map for improvement rather than failure.

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NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has held preliminary talks with some investors about raising funds at a valuation of around $750 billion, the Information reported on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker could raise as much as $100 billion, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the discussions. If finalized, the talks would represent a roughly 50% jump from OpenAI's reported $500 billion valuation in October, following a deal in which current and former employees sold about $6.6 billion worth of shares.

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Looking Ahead: What 2026 Holds for the Linux Ecosystem  Linux Journal

The UK Met Office projects that 2026 will see global temperatures rise between 1.34C and 1.58C above preindustrial levels, placing it among the four hottest years since records began in 1850 and continuing a streak of extreme warming that has pushed the planet into unprecedented territory. The central forecast is slightly cooler than the 1.55C recorded in 2024, the warmest year on record. But climate scientist Adam Scaife, who led the forecast, noted that "the last three years are all likely to have exceeded 1.4C" and 2026 would be the fourth consecutive year to do so. "Prior to this surge, the previous global temperature had not exceeded 1.3C," he said. The forecast suggests another temporary exceedance of the 1.5C threshold set by the Paris Agreement is possible in 2026, following the first such breach in 2024. The 1.5C target is measured as a 30-year average, so it remains technically achievable even as individual years cross the line. EU scientists said last week that 2025 is "virtually certain" to rank as the second or third-hottest year on record.

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