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The modern electric vehicle promises a cleaner, quieter, more technologically advanced driving experience. But a growing chorus of drivers, industry analysts, and automotive journalists is raising an uncomfortable question: Have automakers gone too far in digitizing the automobile? As touchscreens replace physical buttons, software updates alter vehicle behavior overnight, and subscription models gate features that were once standard, the relationship between driver and machine is being fundamentally rewritten — and not everyone is pleased with the new terms.

The KDE Project has released Plasma 6.6.1, the first maintenance update to the Plasma 6.6 series, delivering a substantial batch of bug fixes and refinements across its desktop environment. The release, which landed just weeks after the Plasma 6.6.0 debut, addresses dozens of issues spanning the core desktop shell, window management, system settings, and peripheral components.

Intel Corporation, once a sprawling contributor to open-source software across dozens of programming languages and platforms, has quietly archived or abandoned its Go programming language projects on GitHub. The move, first reported by Phoronix, is the latest sign that the chipmaker’s aggressive cost-cutting under CEO Pat Gelsinger’s successors is reaching deep into the company’s software engineering ranks — and raising questions about Intel’s long-term relevance in the open-source community.

For nearly 150 years, ADT has been synonymous with home security — the yard signs, the keypads, the monitoring centers staffed around the clock. But the company’s latest move signals a dramatic rethinking of what home protection looks like in the wireless age. ADT is partnering with Origin Wireless AI to deploy a technology that turns ordinary Wi-Fi signals into a motion-detection system, effectively transforming every router into a silent, invisible sentry.