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The Australian government is preparing to extend its regulatory reach well beyond social media companies, signaling that app stores, search engines, and artificial intelligence platforms could soon face stringent new competition rules. The move represents one of the most aggressive postures any Western democracy has taken toward the handful of technology giants that dominate how

Google has taken a significant step toward standardizing how merchants, platforms, and AI agents interact around commercial transactions — and the implications for the search and e-commerce industries could be enormous. The company recently published a help page for what it calls the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to create a common

The Mesa 3D graphics library, one of the most critical pieces of open-source infrastructure powering Linux graphics on everything from desktop PCs to Android phones to cloud servers, has formally adopted a policy restricting the use of AI-generated code contributions. The decision, which has been months in the making, reflects a growing tension across the

Apple has spent billions building sophisticated machine-learning systems designed to filter unwanted messages from the inboxes of its users. Yet despite all of that investment in artificial intelligence and automated detection, the company still relies heavily on an unglamorous, decidedly human input: your spam reports. The reason says as much about the nature of spam

When Sam Altman sat down for an Ask Me Anything session in late March 2026, the OpenAI CEO offered a window into a company that has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis — from a nonprofit AI research laboratory into a sprawling commercial enterprise now courting the Pentagon and reshaping its corporate identity at breakneck speed. The

In technical interviews at companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta, few questions expose the gap between junior and senior engineers as reliably as this one: “Should we use SQL or NoSQL for this system?” The answer, as experienced architects know, is never a simple binary choice. It depends on a web of trade-offs involving data

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is preparing to make RISC-V a first-class citizen in its next long-term support release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The move, which would elevate the open-source instruction set architecture from an experimental curiosity to a fully supported platform alongside x86 and ARM, represents one of the most significant endorsements RISC-V has

The Linux desktop has long been a battleground of competing visions, philosophies, and technical approaches. Among the most polarizing entrants in recent years is Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that has attracted a fervent community of enthusiasts while simultaneously courting controversy over its governance and development practices. With the release of version 0.54, Hyprland

In a move that underscores the open-source community’s ongoing tension between convenience and sovereignty, the GNOME project has implemented automatic redirects from GitHub to its self-hosted GitLab instance. The change, which has been rolling out in recent weeks, sends a clear signal about where the venerable desktop environment project wants its development activity to live

The KDE Project is preparing one of the most visually significant updates to its flagship desktop environment in years. Plasma 6.7, expected to arrive in the coming months, will introduce rounded corners and modernized styling across virtually every widget and interface element — a change that sounds cosmetic on the surface but represents a deep