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GeekWire
Here’s how AI graded President Trump’s inauguration speech
Meet the ‘technological optimist’ helping set Washington state’s tech, energy, and climate policy
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 12, 2025
Amazon pauses drone deliveries for software changes; Oregon test crash ‘not the primary reason’
The documents that help Amazon think: Inside the tech giant’s process for strategic planning
Tech Moves: ExtraHop’s new CEO; Gates Foundation shuffles its C-suite; Amazon vet joins CreatorsAGI
Meet the Seattle-based CEO leading Mozi, a new social app she launched with Twitter co-founder
Seattle-area firm launches program to back ideas for space ventures with million-dollar bets
Augmented writing startup Textio lays off more employees, will invest in ‘different mix of roles’
Microsoft increases price of Microsoft 365 bundle for consumers — the first bump in 12 years
Amazon cuts about 200 jobs in stores division
AI2 Incubator moving offices to Seattle waterfront at the former home of MTV’s ‘Real World’ show
Canadian startup giving EV batteries a second life lands $15M from Amazon and others
Cannabis resource company Leafly will be delisted from Nasdaq
Can a bear hug thaw the ‘Seattle Freeze’? Civic group tests theory in the wild around Amazon HQ
Technical talent evaluation startup Karat makes third acquisition, swooping up Byteboard
Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time, marking a milestone for Jeff Bezos
Biden’s executive order on AI data centers could benefit Amazon and Microsoft
Book lovers get a read on new Barnes & Noble as they flock to chain’s Bellevue, Wash., store opening
UW initiative ‘Society + Technology’ aims to foster broad collaboration at critical intersection
Beanless coffee maker Atomo raises $7.8M to fuel collaborations with new partners
New bills aim to create framework for AI transparency in Washington state
WellSaid’s new AI voice tech will introduce ‘emotional directing’ for inflection and tone
Seattle creates downtown climate innovation hub to bolster clean energy sector
Reddit Linux sub
The EU is trying to implement a plan to use AI to scan and report all private encrypted communication. This is insane and breaks the fundamental concepts of privacy and end to end encryption. Don’t sleep on this Europeans. Call and harass your reps in Brussels.
Do you think the EU might push for an in-house Linux OS?
8,3% of 7108 Computerbase already readers use Linux!
Linux 6.13 released: includes a new lazy preemption model; fine-grained file timestamps; lightweight guard pages; support for storage with atomic writes; support for NAPI suspension during idle periods; ARM user-space shadow stacks; and a more scalable referenced counting mechanism for files
Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Linux Kernel 6.13 has been released...
Disabling VT-d improves Intel Arc GPU Linux performance on Meteor Lake and newer SoCs
Why Linux foundation funded Chromium but not Firefox?
National nonprofit shares new article on open-source software projects
Clapper 0.8.0 released, with support for resizing matching aspect ratio, plugins, and Windows
TidesDB - Library for fast persistent embedded key value storage
I made the switch and I'm so happy
kew - a tiny terminal music player - type what you want to hear and playlists are created automatically - now feature complete!
Television 0.9
Plank Reloaded: Still Stupidly Simple
Find and run Linux commands using Ollama
xbar/swiftbar equivalent
I just added an interactive console to my 3D viewer
Rhino Linux 2025.1 Releases + Rhino Linux at FOSDEM
Potential CERN Debian proposal
For those using Geany or interested in using Geany for love2d/tic80/pico8
Unpopular opinion. ARM is a cancer of modern hardware.
I have been daily driving a Linux smartphone for 18 months, AMA
Today is Y2K38 commemoration day T-13
Planet Debian
Steinar H. Gunderson: Migrating away from bcachefs
Divine Attah-Ohiemi: Progress Report: First Half of My Outreachy Internship
Jonathan Dowland: dsafilter 20th Anniversary
Jaldhar Vyas: Happy Martin Luther King Day!
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppMsgPack 0.2.4 on CRAN: Maintenance
François Marier: Blocking comment spammers on an Ikiwiki blog
Petter Reinholdtsen: 121 packages in Debian mapped to hardware for automatic recommendation
Petter Reinholdtsen: What is the most supported MIME type in Debian in 2025?
C.J. Collier: Security concerns regarding OpenSSH mac sha1 in Debian
Russell Coker: Systemd Hardening and Sending Mail
Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 285 released
Michael Ablassmeier: sshcont
Adnan Hodzic: How I replaced myself with a genAI chatbot using Gemini
Sergio Talens-Oliag: Command line tools to process templates
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastFloat 0.0.5 on CRAN: New Upstream, Updates
Thomas Lange: FAI 6.2.5 and new ISO available
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.23 on CRAN: Mulitple Updates
Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2024 edition
Kentaro Hayashi: Stick to boot from 6.11 linux-image
Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2024 (by Roberto C. Sánchez)
Divine Attah-Ohiemi: My 30-Day Outreachy Experience with the Debian Community
Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.0.14 on CRAN: Regular Semi-Annual Update
Bastian Venthur: Investigating the popularity of Python build backends over time (II)
Sahil Dhiman: Prosody Certificate Management With Nginx and Certbot