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As the world prepares for the next era of human spaceflight, ensuring the health of astronauts on missions to the Moon and Mars is a top priority. However, it presents a significant challenge for missions the farther away from Earth we go: providing high-quality medical care when real-time communication with Earth-based doctors could be limited or impossible.Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) to meet this challenge. Powered by RamaLama for local AI inference, this clinical decision support system is designed t

AI coding assistants are transforming software development. The debate is no longer about whether to adopt them, but how to integrate them without compromising platform security, code quality, or operational compliance.AI has changed the economics of code productionWhether you're developing software in a proprietary enterprise or open source environment, you've witnessed a fundamental shift over the past year. Your developers are using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, etc.) to accelerate development. Productivity gains are real—features can ship faste

This past March, the community gathered for Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam. As the "zero day" kickoff to KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, there was no shortage of innovative presentations and discussions, but one session stood out, "Sit, Stay, Deploy: Teaching a Robot Dog with Red Hat OpenShift." Figure 1., ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathering in Amsterdam.Presented by ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist, t

COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements  9to5Linux

System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...

Brave Gives Linux Users Its Stripped Down Origin Browser for Free  Linuxiac

3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux  ZDNET

Lutris Setup: Run Windows Games on Linux in 12 Steps [2026]  tech-insider.org

I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer  MakeUseOf

The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...

Whatever happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux smart TVs are now  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents  Linux Foundation

Bazzite vs SteamOS vs ChimeraOS 2026: 8,637 Stars  tech-insider.org

While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...

Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano  Phoronix

4K USB Camera for Windows and Linux Systems | Vadzo  ACCESS Newswire

Vadzo Validates Falcon-821CRS as a Linux USB Camera for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11 with Native UVC Support  newswire.com

Over the years while working at Red Hat, Hans de Goede was known for driving many wonderful Linux laptop improvements benefiting AMD/Intel x86_64 hardware. Hans left Red Hat last year and ended up joining Qualcomm to advance their open-source/Linux support. Today he is out with a significant new patch series for consideration that has the potential of significantly improving the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series laptop Linux support and also important indicators for better Snapdragon laptop support on Linux moving forward...

DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 Removes String-Copying Function Strncpy After Six-Year Cleanup  WinBuzzer