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California diesel prices have shattered records. The statewide average climbed to $8.21 a gallon this week. That’s according to the latest data from AAA. Nationally, the figure crossed $6.28 for the first time ever. Some pumps in the Bay Area and San Diego now flash $9.99. Digital displays simply can’t go higher. Truckers watch their

Microsoft has updated its code of conduct for developers working with its artificial intelligence models, a move that reflects growing concerns about responsible AI deployment across the technology sector. The changes, detailed in a recent Barron’s article, come as the company faces increased scrutiny over how its tools are used in real-world applications. The revised

Target is handing its store employees a stylish upgrade. The retailer announced Tuesday it will offer them an exclusive 16-piece apparel collection designed by Isaac Mizrahi. The items, all in the company’s trademark bull’s-eye red known as Pantone 186, start at $10 before discounts. They become available October 5. Call it Collection 186. The name

Airports test patience daily. Long lines. Confusing rules. Questions that pile up. The Transportation Security Administration now turns to an artificial intelligence agent named Ace to ease some of that friction. Built by Salesforce on its Government Cloud, Ace went live during the peak summer travel period. It fields routine inquiries about liquids in carry-ons,

Shotwell has long served as the default photo manager for many Linux distributions built on GNOME. Its clean interface and straightforward tools for importing, organizing and basic editing made it a staple. Yet the application had grown dated. The last major version arrived three years ago. Now that wait ends with Shotwell 33.0. The release

The BFS filesystem, a component of the Linux kernel for many years, is scheduled for removal in an upcoming kernel release. According to a report from Phoronix, the decision stems from the filesystem’s minimal ongoing use and the growing maintenance burden it places on kernel developers. This move reflects the kernel community’s ongoing efforts to

Usama Arif keeps finding speed hidden in plain sight inside the Linux kernel’s Zstandard implementation. Last month he exposed an embarrassing repeated CPUID check that wasted cycles on every compression and decompression operation. Now he has followed up with two small patches that eliminate another pointless initialization step. The changes target the crypto subsystem’s Zstd

A one-line change in the memory management code has closed a bug that quietly discarded user data under common production conditions. The fix arrived this week in the Linux 7.3 development cycle, three years after the offending commit first appeared. Developers discovered the problem early in September 2026. A short C program reproduced it reliably.

Developers compiling the Linux kernel day after day know the drill. Hours slip by as make commands grind through millions of lines of code. Even on powerful servers the process drags. Single-threaded sections in the build system create choke points that extra cores cannot touch. Now a new set of changes promises real relief. Lorenzo

Arnd Bergmann has spent years steering the ARM side of the Linux kernel. Now his latest work promises to strip away a quarter million lines of code that almost no one uses anymore. The change marks another step in a long pattern of shedding support for hardware that has faded from relevance. Just days ago