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One of the best bulwarks against monopoly is interoperability—that is making a new product or service work with an existing product or service. Interoperability allows users, and not the manufacturers of their devices or largest player in a market, to decide what application best serves them. Unsurprisingly, companies like Apple have worked hard to resist interoperability requirements.

AppImages are designed to be simple. Download one, make it executable and run it. On Ubuntu, though, there’s an extra step: Ubuntu ships FUSE 3 by default, but many AppImages still rely on FUSE 2, so one has to install libfuse2t64 first. Not so with AppManager, a new(ish) GTK4/Libadwaita app.

The meeting is now broken. Even if you were actually engaging with the attendees before, it’s over. You took a new medium and stuffed an old one into it, changed the dynamic and ruined it. Zoom is a device that eliminates physical distance and enables a synchronized conversation. Interactions in real time.

After decades in secure jobs, a new generation of Chinese retirees is entering later life with pensions, spare time, and an appetite for new experiences.

Today, Forever Healthy announces the launch of a set of new tools to make it easier than ever for AI agents, research pipelines, and AI environments […]

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress.

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use.

OpenAI has replaced its Mac apps with a confusing 1.45 GB amalgamation, killed its ChatGPT Atlas Web browser after less than a year, and boosted ChatGPT Voice by backing it with more capable models.