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Microsoft Windows Insiders have one week to update their PCs before test builds start expiring Windows 11 Runs Perfectly With 8GB Of RAM And Other Amusing Musings By Microsoft Apple Is Opening the iPhone Clipboard to Windows, Because Microsoft Made It a Legal Matter Microsoft says it leverages Windows 11 to push Edge, Bing, and Copilot, Google-backed browser group calls it out Windows 11 retired Control Panel but forgot to move these 5 essential features Windows 11 User Experience and Legacy Support: A Conversation with Microsoft's Marcus Ash Microsoft pushes a new OneDrive Photos app to Windows 11 users 'If you choose to install a spyware OS, expect to be spied on': Windows 11 process sparks controversy and user accusations of 'spying' which are false — but Microsoft must still do better with privacy Microsoft paid $20 million to security researchers in biggest-ever bug bounty payout Windows 11 received a bunch of new improvements in July, and these are the ones worth knowing	Apple Apple expands Messages features ahead of iOS 27 release AirPods Pro, AirPods Max get another iOS 27 beta firmware release Apple Releases New AirPods Beta Firmware With iOS 27 Features AirPods Pro 3 just got new firmware release in beta, more models too Signal’s latest iOS update expands multi-device feature for iPhone users Spotify reaches huge subscriber milestone as Apple Music readies iOS 27 upgrades Steinberg HALion Sonic Play: workstation instrument with 2000+ sounds for iOS iOS 27 gives FaceTime huge upgrade with this powerful new feature Today’s iOS app deals and freebies: Merchant of the Skies, Art of Rally, Northgard, more Domu Moves Up Its Android Launch After iOS Downloads Outpace Projections	Linux The only 5 Linux distros I recommend for laptops—after 10 years of using Linux Bottles 65 Released with Over 100 Changes for Windows Apps on Linux NVIDIA now supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as a premier sponsor Linux's Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series Ubuntu is still the distro everyone recommends first, and it all boils down to 4 reasons NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) NVIDIA Becomes A Premier Sponsor Of LVFS / Fwupd AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency Linux Foundation and NVIDIA Champion Open AI Security The Linux community has developed a new policy regarding AI-generated code.
AI When Everyone Has the Same A.I., Leadership Becomes the Moat AMD forecasts upbeat revenue on AI data-center demand, beats quarterly estimates The EU AI Act after the Digital Omnibus AI, Music, Rights, and the Future of Creative Agency - Nine Questions for Industry Leadership Buy the Firm, Then Rebuild It With AI Which skills can AI not replace? Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw. Dow, S&P 500 close at record on AI-linked earnings, Mideast deal hopes Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity's AI shopping tools	Google SpaceX doubles revenues on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth One hospitalized after being entrapped in elevator at Google data center in Council Bluffs Teads Sues Google, Claiming Some Disputed Ad Practices Were Never Really Retired Google donates millions to fight racial injustice in US Amae Health Collaborates with Google Health Enterprise to Drive Precision Psychiatry Google Removes Nano Banana after People Use it to “make misleading images” on Google Earth White House to meet Meta, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic on AI safety testing after Hugging Face incident Here's the Pixel 11's new notification "HiLight"—it might only do two things Google eying Iowa plot of land for data center Malware on your device can access Google passkeys and use them as its own	Raspberry Pi How our tiny computers learnt to count sheep (and spot hi-vis jackets) Bird Identification Comes to Raspberry Pi The RecreateDSKY project lets you remake Apollo's guidance computer with a Raspberry Pi Zephyr on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W bare metal ChronoWatch X2040 – A DIY watch with off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi RP2040 round display, 3D printed case, and custom firmware Defra harvests green benefits from Raspberry Pi I stopped carrying USB drives after building this Raspberry Pi project This Raspberry Pi automatically steals photos from my phone (with my permission) I ditched the cloud by running these 5 apps on a Raspberry Pi with Tailscale This open-source app and Raspberry Pi helped me identify every bird in my neighborhood

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