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Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-06 11:00:20

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways If you need to up your Linux skills, play a game. There are several games, each focusing on a different skill. These games are free to play as often as you need. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source. For many, the idea of learning Linux is a task best left to the geeks. The good news is that desktop Linux has become so easy to use that you don't have to worry about the challenges that may have kept you from div

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Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-07 12:35:30

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have evolved similar traits: they’ve lost most or all of their teeth, grown long sticky tongues, and learn

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Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 12:45:04

Grammarly is expanding beyond its grammar-checking roots. The company has announced the launch of several specialized AI "agents" and a new writing tool called Grammarly Docs, designed to help students and professionals with everything from drafting essays to polishing workplace emails. It's another example of generative AI expanding beyond general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini into more specialized domains. Other examples of gen AI in educational circles include Google's NotebookLM

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How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 06:15:25

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment directly on Windows. This is particularly useful for web development where you can develop and test applications in a Linux environment without leaving Windows. You can even run freeCodeCamp locally with it! But managing disk space can be a quite a challenge, as WSL uses virtual hard disks that do not automatically free up unused space. This tutorial will guide you through the process of manually compacting your WSL virtual har

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Free up space (effortlessly) on WSL2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:15:25

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment directly on Windows. This is particularly useful for web development where you can develop and test applications in a Linux environment without leaving Windows. You can even run freeCodeCamp locally with it! But managing disk space can be a quite a challenge, as WSL uses virtual hard disks that do not automatically free up unused space. This tutorial will guide you through the process of manually compacting your WSL virtual har

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AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures That Date Back to Napoleon

gizmodo.com Benjamin Jensen 2025-11-13 14:30:45

Benjamin Jensen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as

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Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-13 22:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Grammarly is launching several new AI agents for specific writing challenges, from educators trying to detect plagiarism and AI-generated text to students looking to gauge reader reaction to their paper, needing help with citations, and even seeing their predicted grade. The specialized AI agents are available in docs — which is Grammarly’s new “AI-native writing surface,” according to the company’s press re

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Grammarly's new AI agents can detect AI text and find citations for you - automatically

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-14 04:00:18

Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Grammarly's new AI agents are designed to provide assistance without prompting. They're geared toward students and professional development. Grammarly says agents will become a major focus for the company. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Professional writers have long relied on literary agents to help with the publication and sale of their wor

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Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-14 04:00:00

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder. The new interface adopts a block-first approach, letting you insert tables, columns, separators, lists and headers. You can also add rich text blocks to highlight information, add tips, or alerts. A sidebar ho

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Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 10:00:05

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics A rare genetic mutation that causes a deficiency in an immune regulator called ISG15 is known to make people more vulnerable to some bacterial infections and cause persistent inflammation — but it can unlock some unexpected antiviral "superpowers" as well. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a team of scientists led by Columbia University professor of pediatric immunology, Dusan Bogunovic, has developed a new an

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Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 17:04:22

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. Google released its first Gemma 3 open models earlier this year, featuring between 1 billion and 27 b

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Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-18 03:21:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google’s DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or more parameters of many frontier LLMs (parameters being the number of internal settings governing the model’s behavior). While more parameters

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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 00:08:36

Today, we're adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M , a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already trained in. The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT , delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announce

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Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 12:08:36

Today, we're adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M , a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already trained in. The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT , delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announce

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I'm a Linux expert, and here are 6 commands I can't live without

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-24 08:04:00

ogeday çelik/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways There are certain Linux commands I consider essential. These commands range from networking, troubleshooting, and file viewing. They're also easy enough for new users to learn. Even though I've been using Linux for decades and am perfectly at home with the command line, I often tell those who are thinking about trying the open-source operating system that it isn't necessary. It's not. Truly. If I wanted to, I could give up the command line altogeth

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I hate Google Search’s AI overviews, so I replaced them with Brave

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 22:00:39

Megan Ellis / Android Authority A few months ago, I switched from Google to Brave on my Android phone. While I initially did this to force dark mode on my mobile browser and remove ads, I discovered plenty of benefits to using Brave over Chrome. One of these is access to Brave’s search engine, which prioritizes higher quality results with fewer ads and sponsored results compared to Google Search. But as I’ve continued to use Brave Search across devices, I also realized something else: AI summa

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Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

news.ycombinator.com Tomer Yanay 2025-11-25 09:05:59

We’re excited to announce that Qodo Command, our CLI agent, achieved a scored of 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified (submission pending review), the leading benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world software engineering tasks. This achievement is a strong signal that Qodo’s agents are built for the realities of production development. For use cases like reviewing code, writing tests, fixing bugs, and generating features, our CLI agent goes beyond autocomplete to deliver thoughtful, context-awar

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Matter enhancements enable cheaper HomeKit devices and slicker control

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-27 17:53:06

The Matter standard – which brings HomeKit compatibility to a far broader range of devices – is getting a significant upgrade. The latest version will enable the production of lower cost HomeKit-compatible smart home devices, as well as slicker control over your existing ones … A quick recap on Matter and HomeKit Originally, brands wanting to offer HomeKit compatibility had to comply with an Apple-specific standard, and submit their devices for approval. The Matter standard eliminates both st

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Cursor CLI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:53:54

Use it in your IDE or any terminal. Same commands, any environment. Plug into your setup anywhere.

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Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things most of the time)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-02 02:53:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things 99% of the time)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-02 08:53:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-05 03:21:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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5 command line backup tools every Linux user should use for desktops and servers

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-05 08:47:00

Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images I use Linux for both desktop and server. My preference for a server OS is one without a GUI, which means I have to turn to a lot of command-line tools. In some cases, I prefer to use the same command-line tools for both desktop and server, because it simplifies everything. After all, I don't want to have to learn two different tools for the same job. On top of that, the command-line tools I've included in this list are very powerful and flexible enough to m

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Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:35:17

Built on Git, works like Git Uses standard Git repositories and Git-like CLI commands. If you know Git, you’ll feel right at home with Kart.

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GNOME's new AI assistant can even run Linux commands for you - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-07 22:29:57

Pakpoom Makpan/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Newelle is an AI assistant for the GNOME desktop. It's capable of standard chats and even running commands. However, Newelle does require Flatseal to run commands on Linux. There's a new AI assistant available for the GNOME desktop, and it just reached version 1.0 status. That new AI assistant is called Newelle, and it's already proven to be a worthy contender for your desktop. Newelle isn't just another large language model manager, but a full-bl

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What to Know About, and Where to Find, Apple Intelligence Summaries on Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 08:00:06

Apple is set to release iOS 26 this fall, and the update will bring a new Liquid Glass design, Games app and more to your iPhone. But when Apple released iOS 18.1 in October, it gave people with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max or a device from the iPhone 16 lineup access to some Apple Intelligence features, like AI-generated summaries across the device. With Apple Intelligence and a compatible iPhone, your device can provide you with a summary of a lengthy email, a webpage, Message notifications

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New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-11 17:05:20

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use. Canadian AI company Cohere is banking on its models, including a newly released visual model, to make the case that Deep Research features shoul

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Linux PC acting up? How to check for bad blocks on a hard drive - before it's too late

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-18 17:33:00

synthetick / Getty Images I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard driv

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Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 12:40:44

A vulnerability in Google's Gemini CLI allowed attackers to silently execute malicious commands and exfiltrate data from developers' computers using allowlisted programs. The flaw was discovered and reported to Google by the security firm Tracebit on June 27, with the tech giant releasing a fix in version 0.1.14, which became available on July 25. Gemini CLI, first released on June 25, 2025, is a command-line interface tool developed by Google that enables developers to interact directly with

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Exploit available for critical Cisco ISE bug exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 22:29:23

Security researcher Bobby Gould has published a blog post demonstrating a complete exploit chain for CVE-2025-20281, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). The critical vulnerability was first disclosed on June 25, 2025, with Cisco warning that it impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.3 and 3.4, allowing unauthenticated, remote attackers to upload arbitrary files to the target system and execute them with root privileges. The issue stems fr

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Latest Tech News

Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL

Free up space (effortlessly) on WSL2

AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures That Date Back to Napoleon

Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper

Grammarly's new AI agents can detect AI text and find citations for you - automatically

Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features

Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

I'm a Linux expert, and here are 6 commands I can't live without

I hate Google Search’s AI overviews, so I replaced them with Brave

Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

Matter enhancements enable cheaper HomeKit devices and slicker control

Cursor CLI

Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things most of the time)

Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things 99% of the time)

How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

5 command line backup tools every Linux user should use for desktops and servers

Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

GNOME's new AI assistant can even run Linux commands for you - here's how

What to Know About, and Where to Find, Apple Intelligence Summaries on Your iPhone

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

Linux PC acting up? How to check for bad blocks on a hard drive - before it's too late

Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

Exploit available for critical Cisco ISE bug exploited in attacks

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