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Google announced today that NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, is being renamed Gemini Notebook. The move drops the awkward “language model” suffix and explicitly folds the product into Google’s flagship Gemini brand — while promising deeper capabilities and a broader…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has once again drawn a firm line: the Linux kernel is not an anti-AI project, and he’s willing to “put my foot down as the top-level maintainer” to defend developers who want to use AI tools.…
GitHub’s June 2026 update for Copilot in Visual Studio is here — clearer usage tracking, a new security layer for MCP servers, and the first C++ scenarios of the modernization agent hitting general availability. Here’s the rundown. Usage Tracking and…
Google is continuing the gradual global rollout of Gemini in Chrome, and the latest stop is the United Kingdom. Starting today, UK desktop users get the AI assistant baked directly into their browser, with mobile support to follow. How It…
A newly disclosed vulnerability in RabbitMQ, the widely used open-source message broker, lets unauthenticated attackers steal the broker’s confidential OAuth client secret — and from there, take full control. Discovered by security firm Miggo, the bug is a serious threat…
OpenAI has quietly opened a sign-up page for a native ChatGPT desktop app on Linux — a long-standing request from the developer community that has, until now, gone unanswered. The page is a simple “notify me” form, but its existence…
Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a memory-safe Rust rewrite of the Network Time Protocol, to become Ubuntu’s default time synchronization client and server. To push that goal along, Canonical has become a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation — the non-profit…
There is a interesting project called pgrust which used AI coding agents to rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust — and the latest in-development version reportedly passes 100% of Postgres’s own regression test suite. It’s an impressive technical stunt that has also…
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” has officially reached end of life, cutting off the security patches and software updates that kept it safe. If you’re still running it, your system will no longer receive fixes — and the recommended path forward…
When Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman posted the first-half-2026 CVE statistics to social.kernel.org, the headline number was striking: Linux led every other vendor by a wide margin. But his point wasn’t that Linux is the least secure software on the…
