Mozilla Axes its ‘Deepfake’ AI Detector Add-On
Mozilla is axing another add-on that few people used but which felt a perfect fit for a company whose founding mission statement was to make the web better. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which lets users vet con...
Mozilla Axes its AI-Generated Text Detector Add-On
Mozilla is axing another project that felt a perfect fit for a company founded on the idea of making the web better for everyone. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which let users vet content to gauge if it was writ...
Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6
As of July 2025, the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. These versions were first released nine or more years ago and over 99% of WordPress installations run a more recent version. Th...
Firecrawl: Easy web data extraction for AI applications
As organizations increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to process web-based information, the challenge of converting unstructured websites into clean, analyzable formats has become critical. Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling and data ...
Taking advantage of Microsoft Edge’s built-in AI
Large language models are a useful tool, but they’re overkill for much of what we do with services like ChatGPT. Summarizing text, rewriting our words, even responding to basic chatbot prompts are tasks that don’t need the power of an LLM and the ...
Flock to Fedora 2025 Recap: Streaming from Kenya
This is my recap of Flock to Fedora 2025, streamed live from Kenya! I would really like to thank the amazing team – speakers, volunteers as well, who made FLOCK possible this year! This recap is from a virtual attendee’s viewpoint, tuning in live...
Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Google has unveiled a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, a reasoning model optimized for cost and speed, and announced that two other Gemini models, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, are now generally available. Google made the announcements June 17...
Parasoft C/C++test adds AI assistant
Parasoft has released Parasoft C/C++test 2025.1, an update to the company’s automated testing solution for for C and C++ developers that introduces an AI assistant. The new release also adds nearly 70 static analysis rules, among other improvements....
UxPlay Control Extension Makes AirPlay Sharing Easier to Use
If you want an easier way to control UxPlay on Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution using GNOME Shell), there’s a new extension to help. The UxPlay Control GNOME Shell extension does exactly what it says it says: it gives you control over over UxP...
New GNOME Extension Simplifies iPhone Screen Sharing on Linux
A new GNOME Shell extension makes it easy to control the UxPlay AirPlay server on Ubuntu. Start and stop mirroring your iPhone or iPad screen with a click. You're reading New GNOME Extension Simplifies iPhone Screen Sharing on Linux, a blog post from O...
This GNOME Extension Simplifies iPhone Screen Sharing on Linux
A new GNOME Shell extension makes it easy to control the UxPlay AirPlay server on Ubuntu. Start and stop mirroring your iPhone or iPad screen with a click. You're reading This GNOME Extension Simplifies iPhone Screen Sharing on Linux, a blog post from ...
Liberux Nexx: a Linux smartphone built in Europe
With the possibility that Google is going to make some big changes to the open source status of Android, the importance of smartphones that don’t run either iOS or (some form of) Android is definitely increasing. Linux on smartphones is not as comple...
Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge
An AI security vendor on Tuesday published an analysis of the generative AI (genAI) coding differences between its retail and finance customers, revealing that the retail approach is much more aggressive, whereas finance has been working on the techno...
Resurrecting a dead Torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Kian Bradley was downloading something using BitTorrent, and noticed that quite a few trackers were dead. Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren’t being used. That got me thinking. What if I picked up ...
