An IT professional with 30 years of experience, who administers his own Ubuntu server, describes a ten-month experiment using AI, primarily ChatGPT, to assist with Linux administration. Initially usin…
Arduino has announced VENTUNO Q, a standard Ubuntu computer with up to 40 dense TOPS of AI compute, supporting models like Qwen 3 4B, Qwen 2.5 7B, Gemma 4, Whisper, and YoloX. The board features a dua…
Canonical and Arduino, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., announced that the VENTUNO Q dual-brain developer board for edge AI and robotics is now available for pre-order, pre-loaded with Ubu…
Perplexity has unveiled Portable Computer, a new version of its Personal Computer agent that runs AI models locally on Linux systems, offering faster performance, enhanced security, and no inference f…
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group to investigate whether large language models can translate C codebases comprising h…
A user reports running Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B, Qwen 3.6 27B, and Qwen 3.8 27B on a local machine with a 7800X3D, 64GB DDR5, and an RTX 3090 24GB, achieving about 70 tokens per second on Qwen 3.8 27B, an…
Canonical's Vice President of Engineering Jon Seager clarified that Ubuntu's growth rate on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is higher than its growth rate on native desktop installs, but only in ter…
Google's AI Overview feature continues to hallucinate basic facts, as demonstrated by a user's search for Python 3.12 dict union operator syntax, where the overview incorrectly implied that the '|' op…
Canonical's VP of engineering Jon Seager told ZDNET that Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will not outgrow native Ubuntu installs, clarifying that earlier comments about growth referred onl…
GEEKOM, a leading innovator in high-performance Mini PCs, has deployed DeepSeek V4 Flash across four GEEKOM A9 Mega systems, creating a distributed AI cluster that connects via USB4 instead of a data-…
A developer detailed how they built a sandboxed virtual machine to give their coding agent its own computer, eliminating the risk of destructive commands. The setup uses Apple's Virtualization.framewo…
Canonical's VP of Engineering Jon Seager said Ubuntu's user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing significantly faster than its native desktop user base, and he expects WSL to overt…
A 2013 Linux banking Trojan called Hand of Thief (HoT), priced at $2,000, was found by security researchers to be a poor investment due to its technical flaws, illustrating that security advantages of…
OpenAI shipped a Linux desktop app for ChatGPT on August 11, four years after macOS and Windows, bundling ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex in one installer for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Debi…
Debian developers began voting on 15 August on eight proposals to regulate AI-assisted contributions, with ballots closing on 28 August. The most restrictive option, proposed by Matthias Geiger and se…
OpenAI has released a preview version of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, supporting Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, Fedora 43 and 44, and both x64 and ARM64 architectures. The app includ…
OpenAI has released a preview of its ChatGPT desktop application for Linux, an Electron-based proprietary program that supports Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44 on x86-6…
An engineer argues that as AI agents write more code, developers must shift from reviewing the writing process to verifying results against contracts. The author warns that rules in prompts are reques…
OpenAI released a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on August 11, bundling ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex into native .deb and .rpm packages for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44 on x6…
Self-hosting n8n on a VPS in 2026 eliminates per-execution costs and provides full data control, according to a guide from VeerHost. The open-source workflow automation platform, n8n, now includes a n…