Google just wrapped its Made by Google event. The Pixel 11 series landed with four models and a clear message. The days of the base Pixel feeling like a compromise are over.
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Developers working on Apple Silicon support just dropped a new set of patches. They target NVMe storage access on the M4 chip. The work comes from Yureka Lilian. It builds directly on months of quiet progress inside the Asahi Linux project and related kernel efforts.
Storage sits at the heart of any usable system. Without reliable NVMe, even a booting kernel offers little value. These changes make that piece functional on Apple’s latest silicon. But don’t expect production laptops anytime soon. The path from patch to polished desktop remains long.
NVIDIA has moved its native Linux client for GeForce NOW from beta to full release. The announcement landed on August 13, 2026. It comes after seven months of testing that began in January. And the timing feels deliberate. Back-to-school season is here. The company wants Linux desktops and Chromebooks to become viable gaming machines without expensive local hardware.
Linus Torvalds prepares to ship Linux 7.2. The kernel stands at more than 43 million lines. That figure comes straight from Phoronix’s feature overview. And the code keeps growing. Even as old sections get removed.
Kubuntu Focus sells hardware tuned for one Linux distribution above all others. That focus just produced something the KDE community long lacked. A genuine long-term support commitment with teeth.
Search professionals have long chased followed links from high-authority domains. Yet the rules shifted years ago. Backlinks still carry weight. Their dominance has faded.
According to data compiled by Search Atlas, backlinks now account for about 45 percent of off-page ranking influence in 2026, down from 80 percent in 2012. Brand mentions and entity signals make up the remaining 55 percent. The change reflects how Google and AI-powered answer engines weigh reputation.
DeepSeek just made a sharp turn. The Chinese AI lab that built its name on rock-bottom pricing for powerful models has quadrupled the cost of its flagship V4-Pro. At the same time it released a preview of an open harness designed to take on Anthropic’s Claude Code. The moves come days apart. And they signal a company shifting from volume play to margin focus as it eyes an IPO.
Houston welcomed Tim Cook on a humid August morning. The Apple CEO stood alongside U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Senator Ted Cruz, and local leaders as the company officially opened its Advanced Manufacturing Center. The 20,000-square-foot facility sits inside a larger plant already building AI servers and preparing to assemble Mac minis later this year. This marks more than a ribbon-cutting. It signals Apple’s accelerated push to anchor high-tech production stateside.
The Caroline Bezengi sits broken on the seabed off Oman. Its hull has leaked Russian crude for weeks. Now the slick laps against mainland beaches. This isn’t some distant accident. It’s a slow-motion catastrophe playing out in a protected marine zone.
General Motors and its partner LG Energy Solution are bringing battery production back to life in northeast Ohio. After seven months of silence, the Ultium Cells joint-venture plant in Warren will resume making cells next week. The move returns roughly 1,400 workers to the factory floor. Yet the restart tells only part of a larger story about hesitation in the American electric-vehicle supply chain.
