Will the US or China Return to the Moon First?

Will the US or China Return to the Moon First?

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Will the US or China Return to the Moon First?

The US and China are in a race to return to the moon. While national pride pushes for a quick US return, the question remains: should the US prioritize lunar infrastructure over being first? #MoonRace #SpaceExploration #NASA #ChinaSpace

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Big changes coming to KDE & GNOME, tons of apps & services getting Linux clients – Linux Weekly News

Big changes coming to KDE & GNOME, tons of apps & services getting Linux clients - Linux Weekly News

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Big changes coming to KDE & GNOME, tons of apps & services getting Linux clients - Linux Weekly News

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Sponsor: SquareSpace
02:07 GNOME Shell might evolve quite a bit
06:47 New KDE Goals look interesting
10:03 Epic Games Store will get a Linux client soon
11:22 ChatGPT official app is on Linux now
12:24 Geforce Now is stable on Linux, available as Flatpak
13:54 Playstation Game Streaming and PC Game pass on Linux
16:18 KDE 6.6 will become an LTS version
18:25 GPU acceleration coming to Windows VMs and Winboat
21:43 Mint adds even more GUI system tools
24:25 Proton might work on a web browser
28:07 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

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GNOME Shell might evolve quite a bit
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/

New KDE Goals look interesting
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-goals-last-call-for-submissions/

Epic Games Store will get a Linux client soon
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon/

ChatGPT official app is on Linux now

OpenAI Launches Official ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux in Preview

Geforce Now is stable on Linux, available as Flatpak

GeForce NOW’s Linux app exits beta, gets official Flatpak repo

Playstation Game Streaming and PC Game pass on Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/
https://itsfoss.com/news/xodus-xbox-gamepass-linux/

KDE 6.6 will become an LTS version

What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

GPU acceleration coming to Windows VMs and Winboat
https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
https://github.com/winboat-org/winboat/tree/gpu-accel

Mint adds even more GUI system tools

Monthly News – July 2026

Proton might work on a web browser
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/privacy-giant-proton-may-be-building-a-web-browser-but-its-community-turns-cold

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Linux After Dark – Episode 128

Linux After Dark – Episode 128

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Linux After Dark – Episode 128

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It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-128/

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron Lightning: Shockingly FAST & Accurate AI! #shorts

NVIDIA's Nemotron Lightning: Shockingly FAST & Accurate AI! #shorts

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NVIDIA's Nemotron Lightning: Shockingly FAST & Accurate AI! #shorts

I was stunned! NVIDIA’s new Nemotron Lightning model, running on a single Spark, outperformed competitors like Flash and Qwen by over 2x, making zero mistakes. An open-weight marvel. #NemotronLightning #NVIDIA #AIModels #TechInnovation

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Europe’s Digital ID Has a BIG Linux Problem (LOCKED OUT?)

Europe's Digital ID Has a BIG Linux Problem (LOCKED OUT?)

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Europe's Digital ID Has a BIG Linux Problem (LOCKED OUT?)

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On April 15th, the European Commission declared its new age verification app "technically ready." By the very next day, a security researcher had hacked it — in under two minutes. But the hack isn’t the real story. Buried in the technical specification is a single sentence about hardware attestation that could quietly lock Linux users, custom Android ROMs, and de-Googled phones out of Europe’s digital identity future.

In this deep dive, we break down the EU age verification app and the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet it’s built on: zero-knowledge proofs that reveal nothing but your age, the Secure Enclave / StrongBox secure-hardware mandate, Google Play Integrity and why GrapheneOS fails the "strong" level despite being more secure, the Remote WSCD option that could fix desktop Linux but was never implemented, and Switzerland’s vendor-neutral Hardware Attestation API that proves a better path exists. We also look at the global picture — the UK’s VPN surge, Australia’s under-16 social media ban, and the California and Colorado open-source carve-outs that prove community pushback actually works.

To be precise: the EU is NOT banning Linux. But its trust architecture defaults to hardware and app stores run by two companies — and the disadvantage that creates for desktop Linux, Linux phones, and custom ROMs is structural, not stated. Here’s what that means for you, and the three things to watch as this gets decided.

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Timestamps:
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0:59 What the EU Actually Built
3:11 Theme Studio
4:25 The Fine Print
6:59 Who Gets Left Out
8:55 The Bigger Picture
9:52 My Thoughts

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Quick guide: Set up a project list for reporting

Quick guide: Set up a project list for reporting

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Quick guide: Set up a project list for reporting

Make project reporting faster with saved project list views.

In this quick guide, see how Daphne configures a project list view, saves it to favorites, and exports project data as a PDF to make monthly reporting faster and easier.

#Reporting #ProjectLists #OpenProject

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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

“There’s an old adage that performance can be a feature because when something becomes fast enough, it changes behavior.”

Today we’re previewing Ultrafast mode, a new service tier in the OpenAI API for GPT‑5.6 Sol. Powered by Cerebras, Ultrafast runs up to 14x faster than Standard processing and generates up to 750 output tokens per second.

OpenAI technical staff are already seeing what that speed changes. One security investigation workflow that once took one to two hours now takes 10–15 minutes, sometimes approaching real time. In other workflows, staff use Ultrafast to investigate root causes, search systems in parallel, and stay in flow while coding.

Ultrafast is available to a select group of API customers, with access expanding as capacity grows.

Learn more: https://openai.com/index/previewing-ultrafast/

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Predictive AI and GenAI, Side by Side | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

Predictive AI and GenAI, Side by Side | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

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Predictive AI and GenAI, Side by Side | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

Fraud detection, demand forecasting, document intelligence, and retrieval-augmented generation all run on the same platform, under the same governance model.

This lesson maps what you can actually build on H2O.ai Managed Cloud. The platform is structured around three pillars: modelling and automation, where models get built and refined; AI applications and data engineering, where models become systems people can use; and deployment, monitoring, and governance, where AI runs reliably in production.

Within that structure, predictive AI answers what is likely to happen, and generative AI answers how you can generate, reason, and automate knowledge. Both work across structured data like transactions and time series, and unstructured data like text, images, and audio.

Covered in this video:
The three platform pillars and what each one is responsible for
Predictive AI use cases: fraud detection, demand forecasting, credit risk, churn prediction, anomaly detection
Generative AI use cases: enterprise assistants, document intelligence, summarization, RAG, agentic workflows
How operationalization is built in, covering secure deployment, scalable infrastructure, monitoring, and governance

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H2O.ai builds the platform enterprises use to develop, deploy, and operate AI on their own private data, across predictive machine learning and generative AI.

#GenerativeAI #PredictiveAnalytics #H2Oai

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ChatLoopBackOff Episode 80: Inspektor Gadget with Vyom & Qasim

ChatLoopBackOff Episode 80: Inspektor Gadget with Vyom & Qasim

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ChatLoopBackOff Episode 80: Inspektor Gadget with Vyom & Qasim

In this episode, CNCF Ambassador Vyom Yadav explores Inspektor Gadget for the first time, with CNCF Maintainer Qasim Sarfraz live on stream to navigate obstacles and elaborate on features encountered during the demo.

Inspektor Gadget is a CNCF Sandbox project designed to inspect and debug Kubernetes applications and infrastructure.

Core Capabilities
* Resource Inspection: Monitors and inspects running
* Kubernetes resources directly within the cluster environment.
* Application Debugging: Helps identify and troubleshoot application and system behaviors in real time.
* Live Event Tracing: Captures system events to support operational observation and troubleshooting.
* Kubernetes Context Mapping: Links system-level insights directly to Kubernetes pods, nodes, and namespaces.

Join us for this practical, live dive into Inspektor Gadget!

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