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Trump signs funding bill to end shutdown after package clears House

President Trump signed a massive funding bill to end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, bringing an end to the standoff after four days with a new fight over immigration on the horizon. The ...
Hackaday

KDE Binds Itself Tightly To Systemd, Drops Support For Non-Systemd Systems

The KDE desktop’s new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.6 will mark the first time that KDE requires that the ...
OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Release Roundup (January 2026)

VLC 3.0.23, GIMP 3.0.8 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 were among January's Linux app releases, slipping alongside an open-source video ...
Yahoo

Appleton orders shutdown of tourist rooming house for code violations

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A downtown Appleton tourist rooming house that was ordered to cease and desist operation due to code violations is continuing to ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones. Storage room 3495 at his ...
Android Authority

Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

The operating system that powers every Android phone and tablet on the market is based on AOSP, short for the Android Open Source Project. Google develops and releases AOSP under the permissive Apache ...
Variety

MTV Didn’t Shut Down on New Year’s Eve, Despite Social Media Posts — but the Music Left a Long Time Ago

You’ve probably seen a variation of this news on social media over the past few days: MTV officially shut down on New Year’s Eve, ending their final broadcast the same way the network started: With ...
Phys.org

Bacteria reveal second 'shutdown mode' for surviving antibiotic treatment

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not just the classic idea of dormancy. The paper is published in the journal ...
TechSpot

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...
ZDNet

AI is already part of Linux's plumbing - whether developers like it or not

Linux kernel developers are using AI to support project maintenance. Writing kernel code with AI remains an open question. Copyright and open-source licensing ...
ZDNet

Linus Torvalds is 'a huge believer' in using AI to maintain code - just don't call it a revolution

Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers. Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable. Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy. At Open ...