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The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of AI and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. From a report: British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% -- the highest rate among other leading economies including the US, Japan, Germany and Australia, according to a study by the investment bank Morgan Stanley. The research surveyed companies using AI for at least a year across five industries: consumer staples and retail, real estate, transport, healthcare equipment and cars. It found that British businesses reported an average 11.5% increase in productivity aided by AI. US businesses reported similar gains, but created more jobs than they cut. It suggests UK workers are being hit particularly hard by the rise of AI, as higher costs and taxes also weigh on the job market. Unemployment is at a four-year high, as rises in the minimum wage and employer national insurance contributions squeeze hiring.

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Stop wrestling with Windows 11: 5 reasons Linux is finally the simpler choice  How-To Geek

Patch Proposed To Allow Toggling Linux Kernel VT Support At Boot Time  Phoronix

The video game industry is experiencing something that most consumer-facing businesses would consider remarkable: organized online campaigns from players are actually forcing studios to cancel projects or publicly walk back any association with AI-generated content. Running With Scissors, the publisher behind the Postal shooter franchise, recently scrapped a title after players accused its trailer of containing AI-generated graphics. Goonswarm Games, the developer behind the canceled project, subsequently shut down entirely and cited six years of lost work alongside what it described as a flood of threats and accusations. Sandfall Interactive's "Obscur: Expedition 33" had its Indie Game Awards Game of the Year honor rescinded after the developer said it had considered AI-generated images, even though the final release contained none. Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur's Gate 3, faced immediate backlash after CEO Swen Vincke mentioned in an interview that the company was using generative AI to "explore ideas" for an upcoming release. Vincke later clarified on X that artists use AI only for reference images the way they would use "art books or Google," and Larian executives eventually stated on Reddit that AI would play no role in final artwork.

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Hardcore: Programmer Spends 6 Months Building 486 Motherboard from Scratch, Runs Linux, DOOM, and Win3.1 Successfully  36氪

I ditched my favorite to-do app for a Linux terminal—here's what surprised me  How-To Geek

Proton VPN reveals major Linux makeover – both for GUI and CLI users  TechRadar

Friday 72-year-old Richard Stallman made a two-hour-and-20-minutes appearance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talking about everything from AI and connected cars to smartphones, age verfication laws, and his favorite Linux distro. But early on, Stallman also told the audience how "I despise DRM...I don't want any copy of anything with DRM. Whatever it is, I never want it so badly that I would bow down to DRM." (So he doesn't use Spotify or Netflix...) This led to an interesting moment when someone asked him later if we have an ethical obligation to avoid piracy.. First Stallman swapped in his preferred phrase, "forbidden sharing"... "I won't use the word piracy to refer to sharing. Sharing is good and it should be lawful. Those laws are wrong. Copyright as it is now is an injustice." Stallman said "I don't hesitate to share copies of anything," but added that "I don't have copies of non-free software, because I'm disgusted by it." After a pause, he added this. "Just because there is a law to to give some people unjust power, that doesn't mean breaking that law becomes wrong.... "Dividing people by forbidding them to help each other is nasty." And later Stallman was asked how he watches movies, if he's opposed to DRM-heavy sites like Netflix, and the DRM in Blu-ray discs? "The only way I can see a movie is if I get a file — you know, like an MP4 file or MKV file. And I would get that, I suppose, by copying from somebody else." "Sharing is good. Stopping people from sharing is evil."

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The Unbreakable Desktop: How Vanilla OS Is Engineering a Safer, Simpler Linux for the Masses  WebProNews

Mesa 25.3.4 released with more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers  GamingOnLinux

How To Install NPM Linux  About Chromebooks

AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics  Phoronix

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  [H]ard|Forum

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  [H]ard|Forum

Linux Kernel Contributors And Lines of Code Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Banjo-Kazooie gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

GE-Proton 10-29 released with updates to FEX, Wine, DXVK and a few game fixes  GamingOnLinux

ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  Phoronix