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Linus Torvalds Allows AI Coding, Lenovo’s Inkjet-Printed OLED Laptop, EU Forces Google to Open Android + more!
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prime, the father of the Linux kernel, has descended from the mount to declare that AI assisted coding is welcome on Linux and that any AI haters can go fork themselves. I'm Linus Sebastian, this is techlinked and the decree came on the kernel mailing list during a fight over whether developers should dodge reviews from an AI bot called Sashiko. In his response, Torvalds stated that Linux is not an anti AI product and that AI is a useful aid for programmers. To be clear, what Torvalds is describing here is not the widely penned concept of vibe coding, which is the idea that the AI just does all the programming for you and you don't think, but rather he's describing using it as a tool, which is quickly becoming the norm among developers. A recent Jetbrains survey found that 90% of devs use AI at work now, but in a limited capacity where they still review and fix its outputs. Torvalds also added that the kernel has never been a social warrior project and its decisions come down to technical merit, not fear of new tools. And from one Linus to another, I gotta say, pretty based take Lenovo just announced the Legion R9000P, the world's first laptop with an inkjet printed OLED display that people will actually be able to buy. And no, it won't smell like an office supply store. So what does that mean? Well, here's the thing. While OLED prices have been slowly declining over the years, they're still pretty pricey, largely because manufacturing them involves expensive vacuum chambers and finicky metal masks that are slow, imprecise and waste a ton of material. Well, According to TCL CSOT, their inkjet method is 30% faster and 20% cheaper than the traditional method, and should keep getting cheaper as production scales. Now, usually cheaper means worser, but not here because they claim that this 16 inch panel still hits 240Hz, covers 99% of the DCI P3 color space, and that inkjet printing can actually improve brightness, a historical weak spot for OLEDs. These panels won't be Lenovo exclusive either. MSI just unveiled their first inkjet OLED monitor that they're calling the Pro Max. While no prices for either have been announced, for once, a printer is reversing the natural order of things in which printers normally exist. Solely to find new ways to bleed you dry, the EU Commission has just issued binding measures that will force Google to share search data and open up Android to third party AI assistance for its European users. These measures are meant to ensure that Google complies with its obligations under the Digital Markets Act. The first ruling guarantees that Android users can activate their preferred AI assistant with a voice command the same way that, hey, Google would currently summon Gemini. As for the search side, the commission is requiring Google to share its search data with competitors with the goal of giving competing search services a leg up. Google, understandably, is pretty peeved, claiming that this new decision risks undermining privacy and security guardrails for European users. This is pretty rich coming from the company that lets its AI just rifle through your emails without asking. Just like I'm not gonna ask you before I segue to our sponsor Wolfbox.
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So the speedy tiny things are a lot like the 95 Chicago Bulls. They've got great offense, better defense, and one of them is Dennis Rodman. Coca Cola's U.S. fairlife dairy facilities just got hit with a ransomware attack that was so bad that they had to stop making milk. The company told the SEC that a third party gained access to the fairlife production systems, so it pulled US Production offline in order to contain the breach and rebuild the compromised systems. It's currently unclear when U.S. production will come back online, though luckily FairLife's Canadian operations remain unaffected. So all you beefy American boys who are missing your muscle Milk. You can head north if you want to keep milk and gains. Meanwhile, the specs for Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 leaked a week before Samsung's annual unpacked event, and it looks like it's basically a flip 7 but with a newer chip, 45 watt wired charging, and it weighs 8 fewer grams. A separate leak also revealed images of the Fold 8 and the Fold 8 Ultra, confirming the Fold 8's wider passport body that in theory should make the COVID screen easier to gesture and type on. Oh really? I never felt like what I needed for better typing was a wider screen, but okay. Another okay thing Chinese company Moonshot AI has released Kimik3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open weight model that is apparently nearly on par with Claude, Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 SOL on most benchmarks, even beating Fable 5 in some cases. While you will not realistically be able to run something like this locally, Moonshot is releasing the full weights on WoW July 27th and the open source community loves taking things like this and shrinking them down for consumer use. It's truly a delightful day for consumers and therefore the world Use it or
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Torvalds will kill you.
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23andMe is paying an $18 million settlement to 43 attorneys. Oh typical. Over its 2023 data breach that exposed the genetic data of 6.9 million users, with even some of them being listed for sale on the dark web. This deal also imposes new data safeguards and I guess this is great considering that after 23andMe went bankrupt, that data was bought by a non profit that was run by the company's own co founder. You know, because they like keeping it in the family. Finally, OpenAI is now selling a $70 ChatGPT branded basketball for reasons that the company has not meaningfully explained. The OpenAI store page describes the basketball as part of a pause play prompt campaign that serves as a reminder that creativity doesn't just live on our screens. There is no AI in the ball. It's just a ball with a logo. Which goes to show that even OpenAI is is sick of us jamming AI and everything. Speaking of jamming AI and everything, come back on Monday for some more tech news or you'll never be able to shoot a ball into a hoop again. Yeah, the AI wrote that outro. That's why it makes no sense. Terrible. Get out of here.