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Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check
23+ hour, 2+ min ago (754+ words) Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that shows people what their AI chatbot conversations reveal about them. It runs on Lumo (partner link), the company's privacy-focused AI assistant, and works by digging through exported ChatGPT or Claude…...
Nitrux Shows Off a New Desktop Approach Other Distros Might Want to Take Note of
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (574+ words) Don't think that this move came out of the blue. Nitrux has been busy building this up since last year, when it swapped out KDE Plasma for Hyprland and told everyone that they were headed towards 'a new beginning' that…...
LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (607+ words) There's something satisfying about watching a Linux project everyone assumed had quietly died come back with a fresh commit. It happens more often than people expect, and it's usually worth celebrating when it does. One of those revivals has been…...
FOSS Weekly #26.33: Mint Kernel, PDF Editing, VLC Drama, Omarchy Quattro and More Linux Stuff
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1045+ words) Linux Mint is getting automatic old kernel cleanup in the next release, a feature Fedora has handled through DNF's installonly_limit for years. And I did not even know that Mint doesn't do it. The Document Foundation has put up a write-up…...
VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (537+ words) It all started with a tweet by video game designer Jonathan Blow. Blow is the developer behind games like Braid and The Witness. He mentioned that he had stopped using VLC on Windows because it took about 33 seconds to start…...
SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (718+ words) The world is in a messed-up state where surveillance and eroding people's rights are rewarded, and those who oppose are labeled unpatriotic, anti-national, radicals, criminal sympathizers, and what not. Yet, that doesn't stop people from investing time and money in…...
Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (592+ words) The Linux Mint project regularly puts out monthly news that gives us a look at what the developers are working on and where the overall project is headed towards. Their July update has shown us how the distribution intends to…...
These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for Linux
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (564+ words) Xbox Game Pass has never really worked on Linux beyond laggy cloud streaming, but an open source project called Xodus is trying to change that. Earlier this week, replying to a thread on Reddit, Paweł Lidwin (imLinguin), project lead of…...
CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (547+ words) CachyOS is one of those options that has been only getting more popular as the days go by. Offering a rebuilt Arch package stack with CPU-specific optimizations and a custom kernel tuned for responsiveness, it is a distro that delivers…...
openJiuwen’s Agent Swarm: When AI Agents Finally Work as a Team
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (569+ words) Over the past two years, the AI agent space has gone through wave after wave of "engineering paradigm shifts". From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering, and on to Harness Engineering, each iteration has focused on making individual agents smarter and…...