Ever notice how some AI voice assistants feel unnatural?
It’s often not what they’re saying—it’s when they’re saying it.
Rebecca Evanhoe of Slang AI explains that natural conversation depends on timing, pacing, and smooth turn-taking. When an LLM takes too long to respond, the entire interaction starts to feel robotic.
That’s why voice AI teams obsess over latency, model size, and response timing—not just intelligence.
The future of voice AI isn’t just smarter responses. It’s more natural conversations.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act enforcement deadline is approaching, and new research shows awareness has not improved. Seventy-two percent of North American organizations surveyed still know little or nothing about their legal obligations, even as reporting requirements activate in September 2026.
In this exclusive interview with Swapnil Bhartiya at TFiR, Christopher "CRob" Robinson, Chief Security Architect at OpenSSF, breaks down who is actually liable under the CRA, what open source maintainers and commercial manufacturers each owe, and what CTOs need to do immediately to avoid regulatory and financial exposure.
Key Topics Covered:
– Why CRA awareness has remained flat at 66% unknowing despite a year of community education, and why North America lags Europe and APAC significantly
– How liability flows through the supply chain: manufacturers, distributors, importers, and why "I did not write the code" is not a legal defense
– The $250,000-per-release cost of maintaining private forks, and why passive reliance on upstream fixes is a documented business risk
– What OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation provide to developers and manufacturers: CRA-compatible project checklists, SBOM tooling, and open source project security baseline frameworks
– Why CTOs must generate software bills of materials and apply a security evaluation methodology across every component they ship, starting now
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PostgreSQL is a powerful open source database, but scaling it for massive concurrent workloads remains a challenge. This talk introduces PolarDB, a cloud-native PostgreSQL-compatible database designed to overcome traditional scalability limitations.
Learn how PolarDB’s shared-storage architecture separates compute and storage, enabling rapid elasticity, massive scalability, and efficient high-concurrency performance. We’ll explore how this design reduces replication lag, eliminates data duplication, and supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads.
Perfect for DBAs, DevOps engineers, and system architects, this session provides a practical overview of how cloud-native database architectures can unlock the next level of PostgreSQL scalability.
FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org
The Untitled Linux Show covers the week’s hottest Linux news for desktop, gaming, and even enterprise. ULS is the weekly update you don’t want to miss, from the latest kernel development to the updates on your favorite apps! Each episode finishes with a killer command line tip from each host.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Sponsor: SquareSpace
02:21 EU parliament ditches Google for Qwant
03:47 EU unveils their plan to ditch Big Tech
07:12 Brave launches debloated version for $60USD
09:33 Canonical takes over the maintenance of Flutter on Desktop
11:08 Ubuntu has a big desktop roadmap
16:00 X11 disappears in 5 months on Plasma
17:56 Acer launches Debian based handheld
19:16 Microsoft adds the Linux core utilities to Windows
20:34 Microsoft will de-activate older Office suites people bought
22:09 Steam machine and Frame planned for summer release
23:26 Proton Drive gets faster + Linux client in the works
24:49 UK orders Google to have attribution and opt-outs for AI summaries
28:03 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
Links:
EU parliament ditches Google for Qwant
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/
EU unveils their plan to ditch Big Tech
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plots-long-game-against-us-digital-supremacy/
Brave launches debloated version for $60USD
https://brave.com/blog/brave-origin/
Canonical takes over the maintenance of Flutter on Desktop
X11 disappears in 5 months on Plasma
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
Acer launches Debian based handheld
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/acer-nitro-blaze-link-remote-play-handheld-acers-computex-launches/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/acer-launching-streaming-only-handheld-gaming-pc
Microsoft adds the Linux core utilities to Windows
https://itsfoss.com/news/windows-coreutils/
Microsoft will de-activate older Office suites people bought
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)#cite_note-ms-learn-cert-1
Steam machine and Frame planned for summer release
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/716780409378048028
Proton Drive gets faster + Linux client in the works
https://proton.me/blog/drive-sdk-june-2026
UK orders Google to have attribution and opt-outs for AI summaries
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/google-ordered-to-put-clearer-links-in-ai-search-and-let-uk-publishers-opt-out/
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Sites in Codex lets anyone on your team turn an idea into a secure application and publish it in minutes. Build internal tools, mini apps, and shareable resources with hosting, authentication, storage, and database support included.
See how teams can use Sites to prepare for executive business reviews, upcoming events, and internal investment decisions, and more and then share and refine those apps across their workspace.
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