Today, you get not one but two articles! The second, a long, detailed essay debating the architectural software choices in the Linux distro world and their implication for the future of the Linux desktop, including Canonical's deprecation of Unity and selection of Gnome 3, paradox of technical superiority and defeat of Canonical's solutions over the decades, Google business model and ill-fated ongoing trend and attempt to turn the Linux desktop into a copy of Chromebook, community store model and severe problems with availability and reliability of software in the Linux stores - Snap Store and Flathub, lack of product understanding, Valve Steam example of success and product completeness, Steam focus on backward compatibility and game support, SteamOS details, recent changes in the X11 session support in Ubuntu flavors and dire implications thereof, reduced freedom and choice in the Linux space, possibility of Ubuntu running a Plasma desktop session, some other observations, and more. Have fun.

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I don't believe in a fast take-off for evil AI because it's gonna take at least a few weeks to get the human-grinders up and running.

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The average weekly spending by 18-24 year-old Americans on video games has dropped sharply year-over-year, according to data provided by Circana in a new report.

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There is a growing buzz in the astronomy community about a new object with a hyperbolic trajectory that is moving toward the inner Solar System.

Early on Wednesday, the European Space Agency confirmed that the object, tentatively known as A11pl3Z, did indeed have interstellar origins.

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's Operations account shared on Blue Sky. "ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world."

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